Yanjing, the underground Supreme Command Center.
The lights blazed brightly.
At the conference table, the old man watched the footage on the screen.
It was combat footage sent back from the Magic City front line. Five women, without using a single firearm, had torn a fifty-meter-long Core Formation False Flood Dragon apart with their bare hands.
Then the footage changed. Lieutenant General Li Jianye entered the frame, escorting a gray cloth Storage Bag. With a wave of his hand, thirty thousand steel longswords piled into an iron mountain, while a hundred printed copies of the Taiyin Breathing Technique were stacked in neat rows.
The conference room was deathly silent. The senior generals seated there breathed heavily.
The old man stood, bracing both hands against the table, his knuckles whitening slightly under the pressure.
"Advisor Chen has given us a ticket in. A ticket to survive the coming purge." His voice was low, carrying an unquestionable resolve. "Relay my orders. Activate the Hidden Dragon Plan. Effective immediately, overhaul the national education system!"
Three days later.
An official directive was issued to every province and city across the country.
"Notice on incorporating basic cultivation into the national education system."
The entire nation was shaken.
Primary and secondary school textbooks were completely rewritten. Class hours for core subjects were halved, and the Taiyin Breathing Technique, along with the fundamentals of meridians and acupoints, became the foremost core subject.
The total score for the college entrance examination was changed to one thousand points, with martial arts testing alone accounting for six hundred.
Physical education teachers and retired junior military officers became the most sought-after recruits at universities across the country. Every morning, from major cities to remote county towns, synchronized stance training and Breathing and Qi Circulation replaced broadcast calisthenics on every school field.