Cultivation Aptitude: Lowest Grade! [Please Send Flowers, Bookmark, and Rate!]

"Holy shit!"

Seeing the scattered chunks of stone around him, speckled with sparks, and the palm-shaped shallow pit on the ground, charred black and still smoking, the usually word-poor Su Xiaobai could not help crying out in shock!

An Attribute Technique that was only at Beginner Level, and had only reached the initial stage, already possessed such power... What if it reached the intermediate stage, advanced stage, or even Highest Grade? Or if it were replaced by a Microscopic Level Attribute Technique?

Just thinking about it was terrifying!

Su Xiaobai finally understood what kind of horrifying power those experts on television wielded when they could overturn mountains and seas with a flick of their fingers... They had already transcended the realm of humans and become gods!

Su Xiaobai immediately checked his current status.

Human: Su Xiaobai

Realm Level: Senior Quasi-Warrior

Strength Level: Beginner Warrior

Endurance Level: Beginner Warrior

Agility Level: Beginner Warrior

Cultivation Aptitude: Lowest Grade

Mastered Techniques: Adamantine Body (initial stage), Soaring Transformation (initial stage), True Fire Hand (initial stage)

Unlocked System Functions: One-Click Cultivation Space (Level 2), One-Click Training Space (Level 2)

"Damn!!"

Su Xiaobai cried out again.

His Strength, Endurance, and Agility Levels had actually leaped straight past Senior Quasi-Warrior and reached the Beginner Warrior level!

In other words, with his current strength, he could already fight a Warrior!

Moreover, even Warriors might not have mastered as many techniques as he had... especially Attribute Techniques!

Perhaps even Warriors would not be his match!

"No wonder cultivation techniques are so expensive."

"No wonder so many Warriors train day and night just to cultivate techniques."

"The benefits of techniques are simply too terrifying!"

Su Xiaobai could not help sighing.

Just bringing three techniques to the initial stage had already given him such enormous benefits.

What if all three techniques reached the intermediate stage?

Then kept advancing, reaching the advanced stage, or even Highest Grade?

Wow... Just imagining it made Su Xiaobai tremble with excitement. By then, he might be able to cross several major realms and kill his opponents, right?

"If only I had money."

"If I upgrade the One-Click Cultivation Space and One-Click Training Space to higher levels... then I can cultivate even more techniques!"

What Su Xiaobai lacked most right now was still money!

Only with money could he obtain more techniques.

Only with money could he upgrade those heaven-defying system functions.

And only with money could he unlock more "new cheats"!

"Right, isn't it about time I paid the Zhang Family a visit?"

Suddenly, Su Xiaobai remembered the Zhang Family. "I'm now a Guest Elder of the Zhang Family. Asking for a few million shouldn't be a problem, right?"

The Zhang Family was wealthy and powerful.

They had handed over one million without batting an eye.

If he revealed just a little of his strength, they ought to give him even more!

"For my Automated Monster Hunting, for my techniques, and for my One-Click Cultivation and One-Click Skill Practice upgrades... I have to make a trip to the Zhang Family!"

That afternoon.

As a visitor, Su Xiaobai entered the Core Area for the first time.

"The houses here... are so imposing!"

Su Xiaobai was filled with envy.

Base No. 18 was divided into two areas: the outer civilian district and the inner Core Area.

The outer civilian district occupied ninety percent of the base, while the Core Area accounted for only ten percent. Yet the Core Area's defensive facilities, equipment, personnel, and everything else were far more formidable than those of the outer district!

Furthermore, to handle all kinds of emergencies, the Core Area had a complete internal ecosystem. Its purpose was to ensure that even if the outer perimeter of the base fell, the Core Area could still maintain proper living conditions.

Therefore, those who could live in the Core Area were either wealthy and influential families or high-ranking government officials... In short, there were no ordinary people here!

"Someday, I have to bring Ling'er here too and own a villa of my own!"

Su Xiaobai secretly thought.

Only after entering the Core Area could one truly be considered safe.

In the outer district, ordinary people's lives had no guarantee... Even if a Warrior killed you, the government would only symbolically punish the Warrior with detention or a fine. They would not choose to carry out an execution over the death of an ordinary person.

An ordinary person's life was not even worth one finger of a Warrior!

That was the cruel truth!

Only by entering the Core Area and becoming a resident here could you possess the noble "Noble status," even as an ordinary person, and receive the government's recognition and protection!

Before long, Su Xiaobai arrived outside Zhang Family Manor.

Not long after he announced himself, Zhang Hengxing came running out with an excited expression.

"Guest Elder Su, you've finally come!"

Zhang Hengxing said happily, "Come, come! My father and uncles are all waiting for you!"

"They're all waiting for me?"

Su Xiaobai's heart stirred.

He was just a nobody. There was no need to make such a grand fuss, was there?

Su Xiaobai had clearly underestimated what the words "Guest Elder" represented.

Among families, aside from the family's own strength, the strength of its Guest Elders was also an extremely important point of reference.

Whether your family had Guest Elders, how strong those Guest Elders were, how many powerful Guest Elders you had... all of these things indirectly proved the strength of your family!

Moreover, becoming a family's Guest Elder meant becoming that family's honored guest.

Even the family head had to show them considerable courtesy.

Naturally, they had to make a bigger occasion of it!

A moment later.

Su Xiaobai stood inside a grand hall.

In front of him and to his left and right stood all the powerful and influential figures of the Zhang Family.

Everyone's gaze swept over Su Xiaobai from head to toe.

"A Senior Quasi-Warrior... He isn't even a Warrior, yet they invited him to be a Guest Elder?"

"Don't underestimate him. I heard he has High Grade Cultivation Aptitude. His future achievements will at least reach the Martial General level... If he gets lucky, he might even become a Martial Marshal!"

"Heh, no matter how gifted a genius is, before he grows up, he amounts to nothing! Besides, we're currently locked in a standoff with the Yuan Family. What can a mere Quasi-Warrior possibly do to help?"

"..."

The crowd whispered among themselves.

Since they had compressed their voices with spiritual energy, Su Xiaobai could not hear what they were saying... But from their expressions, he could tell that they all regarded him with suspicion.

Su Xiaobai completely understood.

Almost everyone present was a Warrior or above, and several had even reached the Martial Master realm... Even from several meters away, Su Xiaobai could sense the mighty heat within those Martial Masters' bodies—evidence of surging blood vitality and powerful flesh!

"Mr. Su, I am Zhang Henglong, head of the Zhang Family."

"My son invited you to become a Guest Elder of my Zhang Family without obtaining the family's approval. Therefore, I cannot yet address you as Guest Elder. Please forgive me!"

Zhang Henglong's voice was calm as an ancient well. "Since this concerns the honor of my Zhang Family, I ask that Mr. Su first test your Cultivation Aptitude!"

After saying that, Zhang Henglong gave a meaningful look, and one of his subordinates carried a Sensing Stone before Su Xiaobai.

Testing his Cultivation Aptitude?

Su Xiaobai was speechless.

However, seeing everyone around him staring at him, Su Xiaobai curled his lip and casually placed his hand on the Sensing Stone.

The Sensing Stone lit up with a dim gray glow.

"Cultivation Aptitude: Lowest Grade."

The subordinate's judgment echoed throughout the entire hall.