Chapter 318: Chapter 318

Lei Ming looked at the students who were getting off the bus, clapped his hands, and attracted everyone’s attention to himself. Then, with a smile, he said, "During this one month period, everyone has performed exceptionally. You have successfully completed exchange competitions with seventeen universities."

"In my eyes, you are the best, worthy of the title of excellent students from Iron Blood College."

"Now that the preliminary rounds of the Federation University Student Games are temporarily over, I hope everyone can continue to work hard, creating more outstanding achievements in the next few months."

"Alright, everyone is dismissed now. Return to your classes."

After Lei Ming finished speaking, he turned and left with the teacher who came to pick him up. He was fully in charge of this preliminary competition and needed to report the work to the aggressive Wang Jianfang.

After Lei Ming left, most of the students in the team also dispersed.

Just as Hang Jianshe and his group were about to leave, they suddenly saw a group of people approaching them.

Hang Jianshe murmured inwardly, but his face remained calm.

"Xiao Hang, do you know the star student of the freshman class—Lu Lin?"

Qin Shuang had a tall and upright stature, a handsome face, and wore a well-fitting tailored suit, looking elegant and graceful. His hair was slightly long, almost covering his eyes.

His fair skin gave him an air of somewhat sickly allure, with a touch of melancholy.

"Yes, Brother Qin, you wouldn’t know, during the entrance challenge competition before, we were bullied miserably by him."

Cong Xiaolong spoke up before Hang Jianshe could answer.

Qin Shuang’s lips curled into a smile, "I’ve heard he’s already reached the level of a Level 4 Star Core Warrior."

"Yeah, it seems to be even more than that."

Cong Xiaolong looked into Qin Shuang’s eyes, which, despite being obscured by hair, remained bright.

"Brother Qin, when he joins the competition team later, you must help us teach him well."

"Haha, no teaching necessary. We’re all classmates; we should meet each other and understand each other."

"Alright, you guys busy yourselves. I have some matters to attend to, so I’ll be off first."

Qin Shuang smiled at Cong Xiaolong and Hang Jianshe’s group, said nothing more, and turned to leave, followed by several of the third-year core elite students.

In Iron Blood College, fourth-year students generally don’t come out as often; they are busy with future work, and some are trying hard to complete the school’s assessment tasks, aiming to stay within Iron Blood College.

This year, Qin Shuang in the third year already has the highest level in Iron Blood College, having completed transforming the Five Evils. With good luck, he could certainly enter the realm of Level 5 refining five viscera before the University Games officially begin.

At that time, he would surpass the current fourth-year top master Zhang Lu and become the student with the highest Star Power level in the school.

Currently, Qin Shuang is also the Acting President of the Iron Blood College Student Council.

Everything is waiting for him to advance to Level 5.

But what puzzled Hang Jianshe and others was why such a top master would pay attention to a freshman like Lu Lin who just enrolled.

Though there were rumors saying Lu Lin reached Level 4, he shouldn’t pose any threat to Qin Shuang.

Hang Jianshe and his group, though not at the threshold of advancing to Level 4, understand the process of transforming the Five Evils. Apart from refining one’s own Life Killing, which is relatively safe, refining the other four evils can be said to be fraught with crises.

Lu Lin shouldn’t pose a threat to Qin Shuang within a short time.

And when Lu Lin advances to the Level 4 Peak, Qin Shuang might even have refined two or three out of his five viscera. Lu Lin certainly cannot catch up to him.

The group shook their heads and quickly headed toward Luse Alliance College.

On their way there, they had contacted Lu Lin and agreed to meet at the training ground.

Cong Xiaolong rushed forward first and hugged Lu Lin.

After being apart for over a month, he felt that Lu Lin had changed greatly, but to describe what changed, Cong Xiaolong couldn’t quite pinpoint it.

Hang Jianshe, Yao Zongheng, and Zhu Haolin also went forward one by one to hug Lu Lin.

Previously, they didn’t feel it when training together every day, but after being apart for more than two months, meeting again indeed felt different.

Lu Lin looked in surprise at the last person approaching, none other than Zheng Yulong.

Although he had known for a long time that Zheng Yulong replaced him in the competition team, he didn’t expect Zheng’s progress to be so fast.

When they first enrolled, Zheng Yulong couldn’t even rank within the top fifty freshmen, but now he emerged as one of the five final team members.

Obviously, during this long period, not only Lu Lin had made progress; everyone was diligently working in various ways.

Through perception, Lu Lin also realized the current cultivation levels of these people.

Hang Jianshe maintained the lead, his cultivation had already reached the middle stage of Level 3.

Cong Xiaolong, Yao Zongheng, and Zheng Yulong were all at Level 2 Peak, ready to break through to Level 3.

As for Zhu Haolin, he had surprisingly also reached Level 3.

"Lu Lin, long time no see, huh."

Zheng Yulong smiled and hugged Lu Lin with strength.

Having the identity of a former elementary school classmate with Lu Lin, his relationship with Lu Lin was naturally closer than others.

"By the way, how could you guys all improve your cultivation levels so quickly, aren’t you worried about unstable foundations?"

Lu Lin asked curiously.

Normally, martial artists advance once every half year to a year or so, which is considered normal. For geniuses, the time might be shorter, but not too short.

After all, First to Third Level Star Core Warriors are meant to lay foundations for the future, even if you have ways to speed up cultivation, teachers would also advise you to slow down cultivation as much as possible, to attentively feel and experience the foundational cultivation.

It’s not possible for Lu Lin and the others not to know this truth, but why is everyone progressing so quickly?

Hang Jianshe advanced more than one level, while Lu Lin, Yao Zongheng, and others directly leaped from the First Stage to the Level 2 Peak.

Zhu Haolin even surpassed Level 2.

"There’s no choice, since you left, Teacher Lei has been adding extra training for us every day from dawn till dusk, either at the training ground or on the way there, and..."

Zhu Haolin also showed a wry smile on his face and continued.

"And I’m not sure what Teacher Lei said to the principal, but whenever we run out of Star Power during training, there’s a Star Power Recovery Potion ready for us..."

Lu Lin widened his eyes, was Lei Ming really that generous?

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The method of using Star Power Recovery Potions to aid cultivation was proposed two to three hundred years ago, but why hasn’t anyone used it since then?

Investing the same value of resources in a First Level Martial Artist to quickly advance him to the Fourth Level.

Compared to investing in a Fourth Level Martial Artist, which can quickly advance two or three Martial Artists to the Sixth Level, the return from this investment is completely unequal.

If you have resources and time, who would waste them on a First Level Martial Artist?

But this time, Iron Blood College made precisely this choice.

Lu Lin didn’t know that when Wang Jianfang learned about his disappearance, he was angry and unsure who to vent to, and when he saw Lei Ming’s "rapid rise of genius" plan, he agreed to it directly without much thought.

"Feels like I missed a hundred million," Lu Lin sighed.

But he was just joking because, at the moment, a hundred million really wasn’t a big number for him.

The few of them kept explaining the process of the preliminary matches of this month, and when Lu Lin heard them mention that other academies also had Level 2 and even Level 3 genius Martial Artists, he couldn’t believe it.

Everyone only awakened on June 1st, so how could anyone have reached Level 2 or Level 3 in just two months? It can’t be that everyone hacked, right?

Fortunately, Cong Xiaolong gave him an explanation, that these people were specially recruited from various stars in the federation by different academies for the purpose of competing with Iron Blood University in various competitions.

These talented students from other academies, some were naturally awakened long ago, some had undergone "Star Power Baptism" for artificial awakening at birth, and some were true geniuses.

Because Iron Blood College has always held a dominant position in the federation’s various competitions, other academies had to resort to this approach, recruiting students with exceptional talent from different regions and giving them special focus.

Upon hearing this, Lu Lin couldn’t help but recall the situation at the Saturn Green City Governor’s Mansion when he was guiding Star Skills for Li Yuyan and the other three.

These three were exceptionally talented, one with a sound talent, one with an information talent, and another with a frightening time talent.

If such individuals were admitted through regular college entrance exam procedures, they’d certainly choose Iron Blood College.

As the federation’s top school, it has the confidence and ability to teach them to reach even higher, better, and stronger levels.

Yet for such a long time, Lu Lin hadn’t heard anything about the three within the school.

"Lu Lin, among the federation’s top ten, almost every academy has genius special recruits, and even... in terms of those with top combat abilities, Iron Blood College cannot win against them."

"Those schools, to defeat our Iron Blood College, have all come out full force this time."

Cong Xiaolong shook his head and said.

Although Lei Ming encouraged them, the competition participants, they themselves knew that the top ten federation schools haven’t fully exerted their strength.

Basically, each school has three or four secret weapons.

Waiting for the official University Games to unleash a thunderous strike against Iron Blood College.

Just now, the reason Lei Ming hurriedly went to Wang Jianfang to report the situation was because of this.

This time at the University Games, Iron Blood College’s outlook isn’t optimistic.

Lu Lin smiled and didn’t say much, as he felt there was no need to worry too much when it came to such matters. If the school truly wanted to win the University Games’ first place, they could just send him to compete.

Although Lu Lin wasn’t a special recruit, defeating those Level 4 and Level 5 geniuses wasn’t a problem for him.

In the federation’s formed martial artist universities over so many years, no student has ever broken through to Level 6.

Anyway, as long as Lu Lin competes, it would be a breeze.

This is also what he likes to do most.

"By the way, Lu Lin, there’s one more thing I forgot to tell you."

"Do you know Qin Shuang?"

Lu Lin was slightly stunned, he seemed to have heard this name before, it should be the school’s current Student Union President.

But does this person have a problem?

"He seems to be targeting you."

Cong Xiaolong whispered, "Just after we got off the bus at Iron Blood College, he specifically approached me to inquire about you."

"Now you’re Level 4, he’s also Level 4, perhaps... he sees you as a threat."

Lu Lin was puzzled, then laughed. How could a Level 4 see Level 6 as a threat?

Now that Qin Shuang was at the Level 4 Peak, even if he quickly advanced to Level 5, he’d still be a whole level behind Lu Lin, how could he pose a threat to Lu Lin?

"Alright, let’s not talk about this for now. Lu Lin, tell me about your experiences on the Exotic Battlefield, I heard you even managed to curse three Alien Race Star Generals to death, that’s impressive!"

As soon as this was mentioned, Cong Xiaolong’s eyebrows danced with a curious and gossip-laden expression.