Tianbei Martial Arts College Entrance Examination Top Scorer!

"I don't know either, um... but Mom said I was born premature and my body was relatively weak. Practicing martial arts could help strengthen me," Lin Xuan said.

"..."

Director Huang was momentarily speechless.

But after thinking back, he realized that in his impression, little Lin Xuan did indeed seem rather frail.

When Li Xue had brought him here, he had even worried whether a two-year-old Lin Xuan, with such a weak constitution, could truly adapt to the kindergarten environment.

"This is damn strange..."

Director Huang muttered under his breath.

"What did you say, Director?" Lin Xuan asked curiously.

"Ah, nothing, nothing." Director Huang scratched his head awkwardly and smiled. "I was just asking."

"Director?" Duo Duo noticed Director Huang as well and hurried over. "Director, please don't blame Xuan Xuan Younger Brother, okay? It was Big Dog... Xiong Zhen and the others who insisted on competing with Xuan Xuan Younger Brother."

There was a hint of pleading in Duo Duo's voice.

She had clearly misunderstood, thinking Director Huang had come to criticize Lin Xuan for bursting all the sandbags.

Seeing Duo Duo, Director Huang immediately put on a kindly smile. "Duo Duo, you've misunderstood. I'm not blaming Lin Xuan. I was just chatting with him. You can ask him if you don't believe me."

Duo Duo immediately looked at Lin Xuan, who nodded as well. "Director was concerned about me. Don't worry."

"I knew you were the best, Director!" Only then did a smile appear on Duo Duo's face.

"Alright, go play now. Director still has some work to finish." Director Huang brushed off the dust that had gotten on him from leaning against the tree, then prepared to leave.

"Goodbye, Director."

Lin Xuan and Duo Duo waved to Director Huang in unison.

Only after Director Huang had gone far away did Lin Xuan let out a faint sigh of relief.

The facts proved that his extraordinary rate of development, along with the occasional display of some of his strength, would affect the effectiveness of his "premature baby" label.

He had actually noticed this before, though he had not paid much attention to it.

After all, as he grew older, many things could be attributed to talent. There was no need to keep deliberately pretending to be ordinary.

He had kept hiding himself before mainly because he was simply too young. Some things could not be explained away even with talent.

As for his eldest sister Lin Rou, her part was the Lin Family's greatest joy this year.

In the recently concluded Martial Arts College Entrance Examination, Lin Rou had successfully entered the nation's top ten!

First in Dragon River City!

First in North Heaven Province!

And an outstanding fourth place nationwide!

Ever since seeing that Lin Rou's true strength surpassed even Zhang Xinyin, who had graduated from Jinglong Academy, Lin Xuan had realized that his usually low-key eldest sister definitely did not merely intend to enter one of the Great Xia Five Great Academies.

However, Lin Xuan had guessed at the time that Lin Rou wanted to make a run for the nation's top hundred. The final result was far more astonishing than he had imagined.

The Martial Arts College Entrance Examination was truly a single-plank bridge crossed by countless troops.

Earth Origin Star's land area and population already far surpassed Blue Star's, while the Great Xia Ancient Kingdom alone had a total population of more than three billion!

Lin Xuan had once looked up the number of Martial Arts College Entrance Examination candidates out of curiosity and found that it had risen steadily over the past decade, breaking twenty million for the first time last year.

North Heaven Province alone had around four hundred thousand martial arts examinees.

Lin Rou had taken first among those four hundred thousand and defeated more than twenty million people, with only three people ranked ahead of her!

This was definitely far more intense than the college entrance examinations in his previous life. After all, most provinces did not even take a unified exam, and there were nowhere near this many candidates.

When the results of the Martial Arts College Entrance Examination were announced, media outlets from Dragon River City, North Heaven Province, and even neighboring provinces had swarmed over one another in an attempt to interview the Lin Family.

Fortunately, Lin Hai was now with Crimson Flame, and the Lin Family's information had long since been classified as confidential.

After those media outlets discovered that they could not find any information about Lin Rou's family, they realized that their interview subject might not be someone they should investigate too deeply, and only then did they stop searching.

Lin Rou had now officially begun her university life.

However, what surprised Lin Xuan was that Lin Rou had not chosen any of the Five Great Academies. Instead, she had chosen Beijiang Academy.

Looking across Great Xia, Beijiang Academy was naturally also considered a top-tier academy.

Though it was not among the Five Great Academies, it was still one of Great Xia's Thirty-Six Academies, as well as North Heaven Province's foremost academy!

Its national ranking had consistently hovered around the top ten.

For the vast majority of families in Dragon River City and even North Heaven Province, having their child admitted to Beijiang Academy was already a blessing worth burning incense for.

But for someone like Lin Rou, who ranked fourth nationwide, all Five Great Academies had been hers to choose from, and every one of them had offered her exceptionally generous terms.

Yet she still chose Beijiang Academy. When someone asked why she had made that choice, her answer was simple:

"Because it's closer to home."

That answer had once made it onto Zhong Bo's national trending list and been nominated as one of this year's top ten Versailles quotes.

Of course, quite a few jealous people had also viciously criticized Lin Rou over it, claiming that she was wasting her talent and lacked ambition.

Beijiang Academy was indeed located in Dragon River City, the provincial capital of North Heaven Province, and Lin Rou herself was from Dragon River City. Saying it was close to home was certainly not wrong.

But who would turn down the Five Great Academies for a reason like that?

Quite a few people had even secretly looked forward to the day Lin Rou regretted it, believing that she would sooner or later rue her immaturity.

Yet Lin Xuan, as a member of her family, knew very well that Lin Rou's answer was most likely her true reason. She really had chosen Beijiang Academy because of that.

Two of the Great Xia Five Great Academies were located in the capital, Imperial Capital, while the other three were scattered across three different regions.

In terms of distance, none of them were truly close to North Heaven Province.

Those who did not understand Lin Rou might make all sorts of guesses, but only her family knew that she had always been a straightforward person.

If she did not want to answer, she would simply ignore the question rather than make up an excuse.

Lin Xuan remembered clearly the utterly stunned expression on Zhang Xinyin's face when she and Duo Duo's mother had brought Duo Duo to the Lin Family to offer their congratulations.

Clearly, Zhang Xinyin had never imagined that someone would give up invitations from the Five Great Academies for a reason as seemingly absurd as being close to home.

"Still, Eldest Sister's shield is really useful..." Recalling his conversation with Director Huang just now, Lin Xuan could not help but sigh.

Though he had burst five sandbags in a row just now, kindergarten sandbags were specially made for little children to begin with. It was not difficult to burst them.

He had used only around thirty percent of his strength at most.

But for a two-year-old child, it was still rather earth-shattering strength. At the very least, it could make a small local news story.

Yet the moment he mentioned his eldest sister Lin Rou's name, Director Huang immediately stopped finding anything strange about it.

As the younger brother of the Tianbei Martial Arts College Entrance Examination Top Scorer, it was perfectly reasonable for him to be a little strong, right?