Listen to My Explanation!

"Why are you all looking at me?" Lin Wu asked guiltily.

"You little brat, getting cocky now, are you?" Lin Hai stepped forward and grabbed Lin Wu by the ear.

"Ow, ow, ow... Mom, save me!" Lin Wu howled.

"Old Lin, what are you doing?" Ye Hongyu shot Lin Hai a reproachful glance, then continued, "At least wait until we get back to the room before beating him. You're a member of Crimson Flame, after all. It would look bad if people saw."

"???"

Lin Wu felt that his young heart had been deeply wounded.

Whenever he messed up in the past, his dad was usually the hardliner who played the bad cop, while his mom was usually the moderate who played the good cop.

Yet this time, although his mom was still the moderate, she had become someone who thought the hardliner was being too moderate—and was even telling his dad to drag him back to the room before beating him.

If this kept going, wouldn't it turn into a mixed doubles beating?

Knowing when to yield, Lin Wu immediately begged for mercy. "I really didn't mess around! Listen to my explanation!"

Lin Hai laughed angrily. "Then go on, explain yourself!"

"The so-called Spark Program is actually a Great Xia genius training program spearheaded by the Tai Xia Research Institute and jointly launched by the Pioneering Legion, Crimson Flame Headquarters, the Great Xia Five Great Academies, and other forces."

After calming himself down, Lin Wu explained, "Anyone successfully admitted into the program will receive the highest-tier resources. And those resources include, but aren't limited to, powerful instructors, superfoods, heavenly treasures, and so on."

Lin Hai could not help but feel tempted when he heard that. "With such great treatment, couldn't the three of you give it a try?"

Lin Wu shook his head. "I don't know why the Tai Xia Research Institute suddenly took the lead in getting all these forces together to create the Spark Program, but its admissions cutoff is limited to those under fourteen. In our family, only Little Xuan meets the requirements."

"Is that so... Sigh, if only this had happened a few years earlier. Your sister definitely would've qualified." Lin Hai sounded regretful.

Deep down, he had always felt guilty that he could not provide Lin Rou with enough cultivation resources. He felt that he had held back his daughter's martial arts talent.

Fortunately, Lin Rou had been determined enough. Even under such circumstances, she had made a name for herself in the Martial Arts College Entrance Examination, becoming the Tianbei Martial Arts College Entrance Examination Top Scorer in one stroke!

As for Lin Wu and Lin Long, how could he, as their father, not know what was special about those two children?

Although their talents were not as eye-catching as Lin Rou's, they were clearly geniuses in their own respective fields.

Lin Hai had always had great confidence in his children.

Seeing that the recruitment cutoff for that genius program was set at fourteen, he naturally found it somewhat regrettable.

However, Ye Hongyu questioned, "Even if none of you can join that Spark Program, there's no need to insist on sending Little Xuan, right? He's only three years old. How is he supposed to compete with those geniuses?"

Lin Rou also furrowed her brows slightly. "Mom has a point. Minister Li just said that the youngest person currently recruited by the Spark Program is five years old, and that child was a Mutant who had innately awakened supernatural abilities... I know you mean well for Little Brother, but his safety is the most important thing."

What they did not notice, however, was that Lin Xuan's expression was now full of eagerness!

He truly had not known what the Spark Program was before, and his second brother Lin Wu had not told him about it. But after hearing the introduction just now, he decided that he absolutely could not miss this opportunity!

If it had been two years ago, no matter how tempted he was, he would not have dared to display such unusually mature intelligence at the age of one.

But things were completely different now. At three years old, even if he showed intelligence beyond his years, people would at most think he was precocious.

Hadn't Lin Wu known how to hide his talents when he was three too?

Besides, what Lin Wu had described was simply too tempting. Lin Xuan could not think of a single reason to give up this opportunity.

There was no need to say much about the Tai Xia Research Institute, the program's leading organizer. Within the Great Xia Ancient Kingdom, it was known to everyone.

The Tai Xia Research Institute's influence was almost everywhere.

Even the formula Lin Xuan drank was produced by the Agricultural and Food Institute, which was affiliated with the Tai Xia Research Institute. There were far too many examples of influence at that level in everyday life, making it easy to imagine the Tai Xia Research Institute's standing in the current Great Xia Ancient Kingdom.

As for the Spark Program's co-organizers, any one of them could shake the entire Great Xia with a mere stomp of the foot.

The Pioneering Legion, whose full name was the Great Xia Reclamation Legion, was one of Great Xia's military's three major legions!

At the same time, it was the "youngest" of the three major legions, having gradually taken shape only after the arrival of the Old Earth Era.

Its founding purpose was to reclaim and expand territory in the Old Earth World, carving out a place for Great Xia there.

Although countries around the world had successively halted their expansion into the Old Earth more than twenty years ago, the Pioneering Legion remained the legion most familiar with the Old Earth.

Most of Great Xia's powerful individuals in the military were in the Pioneering Legion.

Today, most of the Pioneering Legion was stationed in the Old Earth World, guarding the territories Great Xia had already acquired.

There was even less need to mention Crimson Flame Headquarters. His own father was now a member of Crimson Flame, so Lin Xuan was certainly no stranger to it.

As the only department within the Great Xia Ancient Kingdom responsible for handling supernatural incidents, Crimson Flame's strength and influence spoke for themselves.

And beyond those two official behemoths, the other co-organizers, including the Great Xia Five Great Academies, were likewise anything but ordinary.

With so many major forces jointly launching this program, one could easily imagine just how abundant its resources would be!

If I get selected by the program, won't I take off on the spot?

Lin Xuan's heart stirred wildly at the thought.

In truth, he did not think he would fail to get selected.

Since the Spark Program was Great Xia's genius training program, its admissions assessment certainly would not be a simple, indiscriminate comparison of strength.

Otherwise, how could the five-year-old Mutant Minister Li had mentioned, who had already been recruited by the Spark Program, possibly defeat a fourteen-year-old opponent?

As long as he, at only three years old, performed better than everyone else his age, the Spark Program presumably had no reason to reject him.

It was worth mentioning that his second brother Lin Wu clearly had great confidence in him as well.

Even when facing his mother and eldest sister's questioning, Lin Wu did not change his mind. Instead, as if making up his mind, he said:

"Mom, Big Sis... you're both underestimating Little Brother."

"Hm?" Ye Hongyu and Lin Rou were both puzzled.

"Actually, Little Brother is just like me. He's precocious too. He only acts silly all the time because he's afraid of scaring you."

Lin Wu decided to reveal the truth directly.

"..."

But once he revealed it, Lin Xuan became embarrassed.

Especially when he saw his mother and eldest sister looking at him at the same time, he did not dare meet either of their eyes.

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