After asking Mentor Yoda a few more questions, Wang Yu thanked him. The two drank for a while longer before Mentor Yoda departed.
So ordinary Universe-level people don't even have a way to join? Wang Yu thought helplessly.
The Virtual Universe Company had branches throughout its territory. The higher-ranking members were internal members, while there were also external members of much lower rank.
Yet even Mentor Yoda, who held the title of Giant Axe Warrior and possessed a status close to that of an ordinary Domain Lord Level expert, knew nothing about how to become an external member of the Virtual Universe Company?
That was somewhat unexpected, though it did not surprise him too much.
He had known from the beginning that the Giant Axe Dojo and the Virtual Universe Company were Humanity's true rulers.
The Ganwu Universe Country was powerful, but at most it showed the five great behemoths some respect.
Even the Qian Wu Country Lord would be terrified upon hearing their names!
He himself was merely a member of the Virtual Universe Company, and an ordinary Venerable who could not enter the direct faction of a Universe Master!
It seems joining the Virtual Universe Company truly won't be easy, Wang Yu pondered.
Perhaps they really don't accept applications from ordinary outsiders. Their members are either elite geniuses cultivated by their branches or people invited and recommended by insiders...
In any case, the five great powers have no shortage of their own people. Countless people are fighting desperately just to gain an identity within one of them. Unless some truly exceptional talent emerges, there is indeed no need for them to recruit externally.
Forget it. Since there's no path for now, I'll put it aside and see what opportunities arise later.
Wang Yu shook his head slightly and did not dwell on it.
The Virtual Universe Company's threshold was undoubtedly high, but in this universe, once one's strength reached a certain level, everything else would follow.
He possessed the Lord System. In the future, he would nurture one genius powerhouse after another. That aligned with the interests of Humanity's upper echelon, and one day, the five great powers would surely take the initiative to contact him.
Wang Yu's consciousness withdrew from the Virtual Universe.
With the matter of joining the Ganwu Dojo settled, he had nothing else to do for the moment, so he began studying the System Shop and planning how to nurture geniuses in the future.
After looking through it for a while, Venina suddenly requested an audience.
"Lord."
Venina entered the great hall and bowed. Her large white tail swayed gently behind her, making her look quite pleased.
"The selection process has been preliminarily completed. This subordinate dispatched one million personnel and established one million testing sites across fifty planets at the same time. Generous rewards were offered to ensure that no one with potential was overlooked."
"Based on the combined results of multiple tests, including physical fitness, Gene Force, psychic power, and willpower, we ultimately selected one hundred million people with the most outstanding talent and potential from among the 162.7 billion citizens of the territory."
Venina gave her report respectfully. Wang Yu nodded in satisfaction after hearing it. "Very good."
"In only three days, you selected one hundred million people from over a hundred billion, and the testing categories were so comprehensive. This Lord greatly appreciates your capabilities."
"Thank you for your praise, my lord!" Delight flashed through Venina's eyes, and the tail behind her wagged even more happily.
The management team dispatched by the Imperial Administrative Office had originally consisted of only one hundred Star-level experts and one hundred thousand Planetary-level experts. However, Wang Yu had provided far too much funding. Since he demanded the greatest possible speed, she had fully let herself go.
With a wave of her hand, at the cost of 100 Universe Coins, she had Blue Silver Empire immediately send nine emergency management teams over.
That extravagant spending, that domineering attitude, that bold move immediately turned her, once an insignificant nobody, into a prominent figure within the Administrative Office!
Everyone was incomparably envious. She had clearly followed a wealthy lord!
Especially the nine teams that had rushed over in an emergency. Those old hands who had once treated her as a nobody now fawned over her one after another.
Venina felt as though her tail was about to rise into the sky!
Secretly delighted, Venina became even more respectful toward Wang Yu and said with extreme humility:
"This is merely this subordinate's duty. I dare not claim credit. Besides, my lord provided such ample funding. If this subordinate still failed to do well, that would truly be negligence of duty!"
"Lord, according to the usual process, after selecting these one hundred million people, we should conduct a second and third round of more detailed testing, along with practical-combat elimination tournaments. In the end, we would select a very small number of true genius seeds for focused cultivation."
"May I ask whether you have a specific target number in mind? Or what standards you would like to use for the subsequent selection? What type of geniuses would you primarily prefer to select?"
Wang Yu folded his hands together and looked at her calmly.
"You have a mature system for selecting geniuses. Briefly tell This Lord: after selecting these one hundred million people, what would you do next according to your methods?"
"Reporting to my lord, after completing the first large-scale preliminary selection, we would conduct two more rounds of screening."
"The second round would use more detailed tests to select one million people from the one hundred million."
"The third round would be a practical-combat test. The one million would participate in elimination matches, and ten thousand people with both talent and practical combat ability would be selected."
"The ten thousand selected through these successive rounds would all be true geniuses worthy of cultivation."
"Select ten thousand?" Wang Yu mused. That seemed a little too few.
"Yes, my lord," Venina replied respectfully.
"The final ten thousand selected would all be elite seeds requiring focused investment of resources in the future. Based on their overall performance across the three rounds, we would also roughly divide them into three tiers."
"The top one hundred would be designated First-Class Elites. They would enjoy the most generous allocation of resources and receive personal guidance from Ninth-Order Star Level experts. An estimated ten million White Dragon Coins would be invested in each person."
"The next nine hundred would be designated Second-Class Elites. They would receive slightly fewer resources and be guided by ordinary Star-level experts. An estimated one million White Dragon Coins would be invested in each person."
"The final nine thousand would be designated Third-Class Elites. They would form the basic training echelon, receiving standardized resource support and foundational training. An estimated one hundred thousand White Dragon Coins would be invested in each person."
"Our goals for these three tiers of elites are..."
"No. No need to continue. This is completely unacceptable!" Wang Yu waved his hand, stopping her from going on.
Venina had been speaking enthusiastically when Wang Yu suddenly interrupted her. She froze on the spot.
Seeing Wang Yu shake his head slightly and sigh, her heart abruptly skipped a beat. She hurriedly said in panic:
"L-Lord... This subordinate is dull-witted and does not know what has dissatisfied you. Please make it clear, and this subordinate will immediately revise the plan!"
"What dissatisfied me?" Wang Yu chuckled.
"You work quickly, and This Lord appreciates that. But your vision is too narrow, and your spending is far too stingy. This Lord is very dissatisfied!"
"My vision is too narrow? My spending is too stingy?" Venina was stunned.
"Those things you just mentioned—ten thousand people, three tiers of elites, and only ten million White Dragon Coins invested in the very best?" Wang Yu looked down at her.
"For this selection alone, I gave you a budget of ten thousand Universe Coins, yet the combined investment in nurturing these ten thousand people amounts to only a few hundred Universe Coins?"
"This..." Venina did not know what to say for a moment.
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