I prayed to heaven, and only I answered

The office was already completely surrounded.

"Brother, today is the day you get your results, why do you look like you haven't slept yet?"

"It's nothing, I just had a nightmare last night and didn't sleep well," Lin Yuan yawned.

"Had a nightmare? Bro, were you scared by that deity yesterday?" Lan Xuanyu looked at Lin Yuan curiously, his voice slightly tense. "Bro, you mustn't pray to Him. You know how that person prayed to Him yesterday—it went out of control. Your talent is amazing; you really don't need to."

Lin Yuan:...

What does it mean for me to pray to myself?

Does my prayer to heaven only elicit a response from my own alternate account?

Lin Yuan smiled.

Just last night, Lin Yuan once again used the guise of bloodline reversion to help a person who desperately wanted to survive and become stronger, but had nowhere else to turn, revert to their ancestral bloodline.

That person's bloodline was that of a macaque, which Lin Yuan successfully reverted to its ancestral form as a [Titan Giant Ape]. This person was considered to have the worst bloodline among the people Lin Yuan had helped.

Unfortunately, that person also lost control.

Even so, this pseudonym once again topped the trending searches All-Federation.

Furthermore, people have begun to give this pseudonym various names, such as the more common Cihuai (Compassion, compassionate heart) or Xianzu (先祖, ancestor), and a small number of people even call themselves Calamity Ancestor, ancestor of calamity), not only blaming themselves for the root cause of the loss of control but also for the suffering.

However, speaking of the Calamity Ancestor...

Lin Yuan glanced at Liu Feng thoughtfully.

When Liu Feng heard Lan Xuanyu say these words, his eyes inexplicably became guilty.

'When Liu Feng revealed his true identity yesterday, he was actually praying.'

In the original story, Liu Feng seems to have sought out the Little Dragon God to stimulate his bloodline because he felt his own strength was too weak.

But this was ultimately just a minor incident.

Lin Yuan rubbed his eyes, walked towards Ji Hongbin and Mu Chongtian, and asked:

"Teacher, have the results been released yet?"

Ji Hongbin, sitting in a chair, crossed his arms and nodded slightly.

"It should be soon; the preliminary results for the entire Tianluo Planet will be announced directly."

Mu Chongtian, standing beside him, was far less composed than Ji Hongbin. He kept touching his nose, getting up to walk around, or taking a sip of tea. He looked at Lin Yuan and said with a wry smile:

"According to past practice, the preliminary selection is one of the most intense assessments. Only the top 100 groups out of thousands of candidates can advance to the next round. Lin Yuan, I really don't know what to say. Will Shrek invalidate our results?"

"No, it won't happen." Ji Hongbin shook his head and said calmly, "The preliminary selection isn't just this once. Even if all of them make it to the next round, so what? The candidates will still continue to fight until they truly enter a certain range."

"They're out!" Mu Chongtian's urgent voice rang out.

Ji Hongbin had been calm just moments before, suddenly sat up straight, his eyes fixed on the screen.

Mu Chongtian: So, your composure just now was all an act?

The first row that appears is the ranking from ninety-first to one hundredth.

Mu Chongtian recognized the familiar name at a glance.

"Ninety-ninth place: Lv Qianxun, Ye Lingtong, Chang Jianyi. Tianluo Academy. Points: 0"

Seeing this, Ji Hongbin's breathing became increasingly rapid. Could it be that Lin Yuan had really let everyone see through everything, just as he said?

Ji Hongbin flipped directly to the top, and when he saw the string of words following Lin Yuan's name, he felt dizzy and lightheaded.

[Runner-up in the Tianluo Planet selection: Lan Xuanyu, Qian Lei, Liu Feng; Tianluo Academy; Points: 0]

[Lin Yuan, champion of the Tianluo Planet preliminary selection, champion of the Douluo Federation, and the one who broke the ten-thousand-year record for preliminary selection time; Tianluo Academy; Points: ∞ (Special Note: Because the scores of the Smart Brain assessment were not tallied before Lin Yuan's assessment was completed, all candidates who participated in this assessment passed the first preliminary selection.)]

Infinity!

It's infinity!

And... they all actually passed the first round of auditions!

Mu Chongtian and Ji Hongbin were instantly petrified. They looked at each other in disbelief. Good heavens, this must be the least prestigious audition in Shrek Academy's history!

"Hahaha! Child of Stars is the champion, the champion!"

At this moment, everyone in the class became excited and looked at Lin Yuan with immense gratitude. You see, the uncertainty of this first round of selection was too great, and they preferred the kind of real head-to-head assessment.

If Lin Yuan hadn't ended the assessment early, many students who were clearly very strong but had bad luck might have been eliminated.

The whole class rushed towards Lin Yuan, especially a few of the bolder girls who, blushing, gave Lin Yuan a big hug.

"Lin Yuan, thank you, thank you so much."

Ji Hongbin and Mu Zhongtian looked at each other and smiled, and they both saw emotion in each other's eyes.

"Aww! Let go of me! Let go of me! Come at me if you dare!"

"Lan Xuanyu, calm down, calm down!"

Qian Lei and Liu Feng held Lan Xuanyu back tightly.

At this moment, Lan Xuanyu was held back by Qian Lei and Liu Feng. He could only watch helplessly as Lin Yuan was surrounded by people, and several goddesses even took the opportunity to hold Lin Yuan's hand. Lan Xuanyu couldn't help but shed a tear.

Let him go!

You guys... how come you're not even as reserved as those two women from Tiandou Planet!

After Ji Hongbin and Mu Chongtian and ended the farce, Lin Yuan ignored the Little Dragon God next to him and looked at the message sent by the Soul Tool Lan Mengqin. On the last day before leaving Tiandou Planet, Lin Yuan exchanged Soul Tool with Lan Mengqin and Dong Qianqiu. As long as it's not a phone call across planets, it's just sending a message and it won't cost much.

[Mengqin]: Lin Yuan, you have no heart!

[Yueyue Yuan Fish]:?

[Mengqin]: You finally replied to me! Our whole class got zero!

[Yueyue Yuan Fish]:...

Just then, Dong Qianqiu sent him a video.

[Dong Qianqiu]: Video. mp4.

Lin Yuan opened it and took a look.

Except for Lan Mengqin, who had her head buried in her arms as if she wanted to sleep forever, all the students who participated in the audition raised their hands and jumped up, cheering with joy.

"Thank you, Lord Lin Yuan! I knew you hadn't forgotten us at the Tianluo Academy!"

The scene shifts, Dong Qianqiu's face appears, she smiles at the camera, and the film ends.

[Yueyue Yuan Fish]: Where's Auntie?

[Dong Qianqiu]: You mean Teacher Nana? Well, thanks to you, Teacher Nana has turned all her Ancient Martial Arts insights into a mental projection during this time. She shows us the projection every time we have an Ancient Martial Arts class. Meanwhile, she's been leading some of the best Soul Master Glory students in the class to compete in the city tournament.

[Yueyue Yuan Fish]: Then please wish Auntie success.

Not long after, Yang Hui called. As soon as the call connected, Yang Hui's hearty laughter came through:

"Hahaha, congratulations, Lin Yuan! Your uncle has really made me proud. I've finally been able to hold my head high in front of the Speaker and Old Wang. Tell them that it's okay if they fail the next assessment. They can just come to our military after they graduate or finish the assessment."

Lin Yuan:...

Good heavens, they're blatantly trying to promote me, Uncle...

Three more days passed.

Just as the next round of auditions was about to begin, the long-awaited roulette draw finally arrived.

"Brother, shall we go into the exam room first?" Lan Xuanyu waved to Lin Yuan from another Simulation Pod.

"Good."

The lottery draw was still conducted in the Simulation Pod.

Lin Yuan entered the Douluo World and went straight to the training room.

Ling Yiyi had been waiting there for a long time, and she looked at Lin Yuan with a smile:

"Congratulations on achieving first place in the preliminary rounds, and undisputed first place in the All-Federation. This is a record that has been broken since the Shrek Tryouts began. You have a total of six chances to draw prizes. Alright, get ready to draw."

She pressed her right hand into the air, and a pink portal of light appeared.

Lin Yuan followed Ling Yiyi into the portal of light.

Inside the portal, space is overhead, and a massive, rapidly spinning wheel forms the base of the spacecraft.

"You can now choose your position. In a moment, the roulette wheel will stop spinning, and the prize will appear."

Ling Yiyi was explaining to Lin Yuan, but when she saw Lin Yuan's expressionless face, she couldn't help but feel a little strange:

Was it because I didn't explain it clearly?

"Um?"

"Aren't you excited?"

"What's there to be excited about?"

Lin Yuan sighed. In the original story, the rewards from this roulette wheel were incredibly generous for ordinary Soul Master, but they held no Gravity for Lin Yuan.

Yes, there are Soul Bone in this roulette wheel. And according to the original work, for Soul Master, the importance of Soul Bone even exceeds that of Soul Ring, because they can be passed down and come with a Soul Skill.

But these Soul Bone are at most two thousand years old, and they are artificial Soul Bone, and they are all not very powerful Soul Bone.

Lin Yuan felt that equipping this type of Soul Bone would be a waste of his time...

But since we're on the topic, and I've now mastered [Supernova Explosion], I can wait until I'm proficient and then collapse these Soul Bone into one. Wouldn't that be great?