"What are you yelling so loudly for?"
"What happened?"
"What's going on?"
Several people in the hall who knew him all asked.
"Janet!" The trainee pointed in shock toward the corridor leading to the Trial Room. "A friend of mine was checking the rankings at the Black Dragon Statue. He just told me Janet has climbed all the way to 46th place!"
Even trainees who were completely absorbed in their training had heard people talking about a peerless beauty like Janet. They couldn't help but hear the gossip whenever they went to the cafeteria.
"I remember she was only ranked somewhere in the sixties before, wasn't she?"
"She's climbed about twenty places. That's pretty crazy!"
"Uh, how did she manage that?"
As Janet's ranking shot up, many people called or messaged others on their phones or Communication Watches:
"Hey, go check Janet's ranking at the Black Dragon Statue for me!"
"Hey, where were you at the Black Dragon Statue just now? Is Janet's ranking real or not?"
News of Janet's skyrocketing ranking gradually caught the attention of the entire Training Camp. But her ranking was still changing.
As Janet continued to climb, she eventually reached 23rd place, sending the entire Elite Training Camp into shock!
What's more, the Elite Training Camp was one of the places most closely watched by the world's upper echelons. New recruits and ranking changes each semester always drew intense global attention.
By now, a large crowd of Elite Training Camp and Basic Training Camp trainees had gathered around the Black Dragon Statue at the Training Camp entrance. They stared at Janet's ranking, utterly unable to believe it!
"This is huge!"
"Was Janet really ranked only in the sixties before? Was she hiding her strength?"
"She came back from a life-or-death adventure and climbed more than forty places. That's ridiculous..."
"Unbelievable!!"
The entire Elite Training Camp was in an uproar!
"How is this possible? 23rd place!!"
Inside the Trial Room on the ninth floor of Ninefold Tower, disbelief filled Candice's deep-set eyes!
William, standing beside him, had his eyes wide open too. His hands trembled slightly, and he didn't even hear the announcement that it was their turn to enter the Trial Room.
"Luo Feng's teacher—my God, I never imagined Luo Feng's teacher could do something so incredible!" William clutched his head and cried out in astonishment.
Candice took a deep breath, but his heart remained unsettled. No wonder Luo Feng was so monstrous. He'd thought Luo Feng's talent was simply astonishing. He hadn't realized his teacher had so much to do with it.
"How is this possible? How is this possible..." Candice muttered.
If it had been an improvement in physical fitness, that might have made sense. After all, Dragon Blood and Spirits of Plants could rapidly boost a martial artist's physical abilities in a short time!
But in the Trial Room, everyone's physical fitness was set at Junior War General level, so there was no difference between them! What mattered was their Force Emission, blade techniques, movement techniques, combat experience, and so on.
None of those things could be rapidly improved in a short time with someone else's help. If you lacked talent or weren't perceptive enough, you simply wouldn't make it. Years of hard work and practice might improve your ranking somewhat, but they couldn't make you climb around forty places in half a month.
Every trainee admitted to the Elite Training Camp was a prodigy among prodigies, selected from a global population of billions. The true geniuses and monsters had already shown what they were capable of in their first month at the camp.
The news about Janet kept spreading!
The Training Camp, Limit Martial Arts Hall, and major powers across the world were all stunned by Janet's results. Then they launched a frenzied investigation into her!
They discovered that the only thing different about Janet was that she had visited Zhou Ze in Bright Moon District. After returning to the Elite Training Camp, she'd made this astonishing leap. They were completely stunned.
They hadn't expected, let alone believed, that anyone could achieve something like this. It shattered everything they thought they knew.
This miraculous ability to turn mediocrity into excellence was enough to make anyone covet it. It was the incredible power to create genius martial artists!
"Damn it! Why is this person from Huaxia Country again? Connect me to the president. I want to speak with him right away."
"Zhou Ze? Is Janet's improvement connected to him? Wasn't he Luo Feng's teacher before Luo Feng joined the Elite Training Camp?"
"Connect me to Director Jia Yi. We must secure this talent. He's one of our own, so we have a natural advantage!" ordered a middle-aged Huaxian man.
Thunder God Martial Arts School headquarters.
"Damn it, why is it someone from the Limit Martial Arts Hall again? No, we failed to recruit Luo Feng. We have to secure his teacher, or the Thunderbolt Martial Arts Hall will never recover!"
"No, this is even more serious than the Luo Feng situation. We have to ask the Hall Master to step in personally."
The middle-aged-looking War God Level powerhouse wore a grave expression.
Within just a few hours, military organizations, special government agencies, family conglomerates, and even the two major martial arts schools from countries around the world all sprang into action.
When Luo Feng joined the Elite Training Camp, he'd made the top ten in his first month, driving all the major powers into a frenzy. But no one had connected his success to his teacher. They'd simply rushed to recruit Luo Feng.
Of course, some powers had considered recruiting Zhou Ze so he could persuade Luo Feng to join them. But none of them had taken Zhou Ze himself seriously. They'd assumed Luo Feng's achievements were due to his own talent and had little to do with Zhou Ze.
But now, everything was different!
Luo Feng's achievements could still be attributed to his own talent. But there was no one who didn't know how much talent and potential Janet, that stunning trainee, possessed.
She'd made it into the Elite Training Camp and ranked around 60th, so she clearly had talent. But after two or three years, it was also clear that her potential had reached its limit.
She'd spent half a month with Zhou Ze, and after returning, she'd climbed into the top thirty. If people still couldn't understand what was going on, their brains must have short-circuited.
What would it mean to get Zhou Ze on their side?
He could produce genius martial artists in batches and turn geniuses into monsters!
What's more, he could greatly boost the combat strength of War General Level and War God Level martial artists! Even Councilors might improve their Force Emission, blade techniques, movement techniques, and more under Zhou Ze's guidance.
After all, even Janet, who had been ranked in the sixties at the Elite Training Camp, had made such tremendous progress. Just imagine what he could do for others.
By now, many people who'd heard the news still thought it sounded fake, like someone was deliberately trying to create a legend. How could a mere War General Level martial artist bring about such a transformation in a trainee like Janet, whose talent had already been established?
But the hard evidence was right in front of them. They had no choice but to believe it.
Limit Martial Arts Hall headquarters' airship.
Thunder God had arrived a few days earlier to seek Hong's guidance on understanding the domain. The two of them had been spending nearly every day together.
"Brother Hong, did you hear the news about Janet and Luo Feng's teacher, Zhou Ze?"
Thunder God, his bald head gleaming, opened the door and came in. An urgent call had just summoned him outside.
"Mm." A trace of surprise appeared on Hong's usually impassive face.
"Let's watch the footage of Janet's battles from before and this time."
Thunder God hurried over, put an arm around Hong's shoulders, and looked toward the screen in front of them. He grinned. "If it's true, it's incredible..."
"I'm finding it hard to believe too..."
"Play the footage of Janet's battles in the Trial Room," Hong ordered.
"Yes, Master." A prompt sounded, and a three-dimensional image appeared in front of Hong and Thunder God.
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