The Top-Grade Pseudo Spirit Root Has Arrived, Everyone Make Way!
"The Spiritual Qi Aptitude detector is an amateur..."
That morning, in the lecture building's grand ceremony hall at Mingyang City No. 1 Technical Primary School, five grades and twenty classes-
Excluding the previous sixth-grade class, which had already graduated, nearly two thousand students had all gathered for the new first-graders' opening ceremony.
Of course, the students officially enrolled in first grade this year were scattered among them as well.
The various factions within the primary school had also begun recruiting newcomers at this time.
And among them...
Sima Mingli, the Pseudo Spirit Root holder who had originally been the preselected first-grade head and possessed Embryonic Breathing Fifth Layer cultivation, trembled at the lips.
To the followers at his side who had advanced from the preparatory class with him, he expressed this heartfelt sentiment.
He was the same age as Lü Yuan, and had even started first grade at the same time. Why was his cultivation so high?
Of course, it was because he had a piece of driftwood, so his Spiritual Qi Aptitude had been tested at age five, and he had opened his apertures and entered the preparatory class!
Ever since he had been found to possess Pseudo Spirit Root-level talent, as the only Pseudo Spirit Root holder among his peers...
Sima Mingli had always believed that he would surely outshine everyone his age in the city, just like those predecessors in Mingyang City's records.
Unlike his peers at the other three primary schools, most of whom failed to reach the Embryonic Breathing Sixth Layer even after three years of preparatory classes and six years of compulsory cultivation education...
And ultimately could only attend ordinary middle schools, their futures visible from beginning to end at a glance-
He was destined to enter a key middle school in Mingyang City with ease!
And that wasn't all. After reaching Qi Refinement Perfection in the future, he could go on to the only high school in the forty-two Lower Cities.
There, he would compete against Pseudo Spirit Root geniuses from the other Lower Cities and the lucky ones who had seized opportunities and soared into the sky...
Together, they would vie for the exceedingly few junior college places!
Primary school would be the starting point on his road to junior college. Here, he would demonstrate his unparalleled dominance and use it to secure more investment!
As long as he had enough investment, his cultivation speed would surely keep increasing.
His dream of getting into junior college would draw ever closer, too.
But just after he had spent a month in seclusion, paying no heed to the world outside his window as he broke through to the Embryonic Breathing Fifth Layer, then left home and come to school, ready to shock his peers and seniors...
He had received a piece of unbelievable bad news and had been forced to accept that his dream had collapsed halfway to its goal.
In this year's standard Spiritual Qi Aptitude test for the orphanage's eight-year-olds...
A factory-recommended student the same age as him had actually been found to possess a Top-Grade Pseudo Spirit Root!!
The gap between a Top-Grade Pseudo Spirit Root with a Spiritual Qi Aptitude of 49 or above and a Pseudo Spirit Root like his, with a mere 46, was as vast as the distance between heaven and earth!
So even though he had started cultivating three years earlier, the eventual outcome would still be that the other person would run him over like a speed bump-
And so, at this very moment, Sima Mingli was railing against the fact that he, a dignified Pseudo Spirit Root holder, was about to have his dream shattered just like that in first grade!
Who could possibly accept that?
Wasn't this just heaven setting him up-
And plenty of people felt the same way. After all, setting aside those at the other three primary schools who had seized opportunities and overtaken others later on,
No. 1 Technical Primary School had gathered nearly all the top students in Mingyang City.
Students with Pseudo Spirit Roots were found here alone!
Throughout Mingyang City, from middle school down to primary school, every Pseudo Spirit Root holder whose age was within twenty years of Lü Yuan's
Would still have their expression darken at the thought of him, even now, a month after the test results had come out.
Because the appearance of a Top-Grade Pseudo Spirit Root like Lü Yuan meant that most of Mingyang City's resources would very likely be concentrated on him over the coming years.
So that he could successfully secure a chance to enter junior college.
This was good for Mingyang City, and even better for Lü Yuan, but for them, it was no less than a bolt from the blue...
After all, if Lü Yuan got all the resources, what would they have left to eat?
Yes, what would they eat!
But they had no way to stop it or compete. When competing with the people around them, they still had a chance if they resorted to a few underhanded tricks.
But how the hell were they supposed to compete with a Top-Grade Pseudo Spirit Root? Did the example from ninety years ago even need mentioning?
That person had sped through Embryonic Breathing in six years and obtained a Qi Refinement certificate, then reached Qi Refinement Perfection and obtained a Foundation Establishment certificate in just fifteen more years, advancing to high school.
The time it had taken that person to get into junior college afterward had also set a Mingyang City record. Countless successors with opportunities and Pseudo Spirit Roots could only gaze up at that person's retreating figure.
What need was there to compete?
In a few years, they would be treated like something by the roadside and kicked to death!
None of them looked happy, and their followers trembled with fear along with them, not daring to say much.
The opening ceremony, which should have been lively as it was in previous years, was unusually quiet today.
Only the factory-recommended students with decent talent in each grade shared in the glory.
Normally, having had three fewer years to cultivate, they ranked at the bottom and were scorned and shunned by their classmates.
But today alone, whenever they remembered that the Top-Grade Pseudo Spirit Root was also a factory-recommended student,
Even the factory-recommended students who ranked last in each grade puffed out their chests with shared pride.
"I really don't know what this bunch of non-recyclable trash is so proud of-" Looking at this scene of the Heavenly Gang turned upside down, one of Sima Mingli's followers muttered jealously.
He spoke quietly, but someone heard him all the same.
A fifth-grade Pseudo Spirit Root holder turned around and, in a rare instance of speaking up for the factory-recommended students, sneered coldly:
"What, you don't like it? If you don't like it, have your boss become a Top-Grade Pseudo Spirit Root too."
It had been years. Sima Mingli hadn't been subjected to that kind of sarcasm in years, even if he had been dragged into it by his underling.
Wasn't this guy jealous too? Presumably he was, but with nowhere to vent, he had turned his spearhead on Sima Mingli instead.
But just as Sima Mingli was considering whether to strike back...
He heard a commotion in the distance, sounding remarkably clear in the silent hall.
Everyone's attention turned to the hall's entrance, because such a commotion could only mean one thing...
"That person is here-"
"Can't be wrong. I just came across a video of the two of them..."
"Quick, quick, quick! Aren't you from East District too? Didn't you brag to me before that you knew Lü Yuan? Go say hello."
"Don't crowd together. The dean of students is coming over-"
"The Top-Grade Pseudo Spirit Root has arrived, everyone make way!"
With a shout from the factory-recommended student with the highest cultivation, a path suddenly opened in front of Lü Yuan as he entered the hall.
It was wide and orderly, with no one stepping a single foot over the line.
Students from the upper grades maintained order, while teachers sternly scolded those who stepped out of line.
The dean of students stood with the principal at the end of the path, smiling as they waited for Lü Yuan...
In a sense, it wouldn't have been an exaggeration to say that today's opening ceremony had been held for Lü Yuan alone.
Everyone else was just there to go through the motions-
That was how this comical scene had come about, making even Lin Qi, standing beside Lü Yuan, smile and feel a little envious.