Just as Chen Shu had expected—
Over the next few days, news of Jiang Lai's championship flooded every online information platform. Short Video served up one clip after another. Plenty of official media outlets jumped on the trend; after the big outlets had their turn, the small ones followed.
Everyone discussed it fervently.
It was not only because a martial artist from the Yi Nation had finally claimed the Martial King title again after several decades. It was also because of how Jiang Lai had won and what he had said afterward.
Anyone could see that Jiang Lai's strength had far surpassed the normal limits of a martial artist. If he had actually opened a Spirit Sea, or if he had not found a path to becoming a High-Segment Martial Artist that future martial artists could follow, martial artists across the world would surely be questioning whether he still counted as one.
A High-Segment Martial Artist...
How many martial artists who had reached their limits had dreamed of that? They had dreamed it for thousands of years.
Soon, several of the country's most important news outlets and several officially backed online media outlets reported the National Martial Artist Research Center's findings, along with its application procedures and requirements. They confirmed what Jiang Lai had said.
The world's top martial artists went wild.
Unfortunately, the Martial Artist Research Center was only accepting applications from top martial artists within the country for now, and it would conduct background checks.
That alone had set off a wave among the country's top martial artists. Just in the Short Video clips Chen Shu had seen over the past few days, several famous martial artists who had retired from the Arena said they had applied, hoping to do their part in breaking through the limits of