The students brought Lu Ren to the east end of the first floor of the freshman teaching building.
They stopped in front of a door, with a sign hanging above it that read: Physical Fitness Testing Room.
The leading student took a tag from his neck and waved it at a crystal-like circular disk on the door.
With a soft “beep,” the double metal doors slid open silently.
“Please, come in,” the student said, stepping aside to gesture.
Lu Ren walked in.
The room was not particularly large, about one hundred square meters, and was filled with many large spirit tools.
Unlike the common spirit tools outside, the structure of the equipment here was simpler, but the Soul Power fluctuations they emitted were quite formidable.
The student leading the way introduced it to Lu Ren:
“This is our academy’s Physical Fitness Testing Area.
Every student who enters the academy must complete a physical test here every year.”
“Don’t be too nervous; no matter which spirit tool testing instrument it is, it won’t cause any harm to your body.”
“Thank you, Senior,” Lu Ren nodded, his tone polite.
The student was clearly stunned for a moment.
The ruthless person who had just punched Wang Shaojie until his nose bled at the entrance was now being so polite?
He laughed dryly:
“It’s only right, it’s only right…
By the way, please put away all your spirit tools first, so as not to affect the data during the scan later.”
“Please also hand over your storage spirit tool to us for safekeeping; we must ensure you have no metal on your person.”
Lu Ren took out the storage spirit tool from his chest and handed it over.
“No problem.”
…
On the other side of the Physical Fitness Testing Room.
Behind a huge one-way mirror.
Hall Master Jing Hongchen stood with his hands behind his back, his gaze falling through the glass onto the youth who was cooperating with the examination.
Lin Jiayi stood half a step behind him, not daring to breathe loudly.
“Is this the kid?” Hall Master Jing Hongchen asked.
“Yes,” Lin Jiayi lowered his voice, “It is him, Lu Ren.”
Hall Master Jing Hongchen did not speak again, just watching quietly.
…
Inside the Physical Fitness Testing Room.
A middle-aged man wearing a teacher’s uniform walked over and pointed to a strangely shaped instrument in the center of the room.
It was a vertical cylinder, about two and a half meters high, with a crystal column running from top to bottom on the front, and a circular platform on the ground in front of it.
“Stand on it,” the teacher said, “Facing the crystal column.”
Lu Ren followed instructions and stepped onto the circular platform, standing still facing the crystal column.
Another teacher walked to the side of the instrument and pressed his palm into a palm-shaped indentation on the side.
Yet another teacher stood on the other side, holding a notebook and pen, ready to record.
“Relax your whole body.
Starting now.”
As soon as the teacher pressing on the instrument finished speaking, a rich fluctuation of Soul Power was suddenly released.
At his arm, a white halo flickered most noticeably.
Immediately after, a white light lit up at the top of the spirit tool testing instrument.
The light was fan-shaped, covering an area of about one square meter, slowly scanning down from the top.
The speed was not fast.
It took quite a while to scan from the head to Lu Ren’s chest.
The teacher responsible for recording on the side had already begun to report the data:
“Physical strength, unknown.”
Lu Ren’s eyelids twitched.
“Physical toughness, unknown.”
The teacher operating the machine frowned slightly.
“Soul Power fluctuation, Level 44.”
“Bone age, fourteen years old.”
“Height, one meter eighty-two.”
“Weight, eighty-one kilograms.”
“spirit ring configuration: First spirit ring, about one thousand years; Second spirit ring, about five thousand years; Third spirit ring, about ten thousand years; Fourth spirit ring, about fifty thousand years.”
As the words fell, the entire Physical Fitness Testing Room went silent for a second.
“Beep, beep, beep…!”
The spirit tool testing instrument suddenly emitted a harsh alarm, the light on the crystal column began to flicker wildly, and the numbers on the data panel jumped around like crazy.
The teacher responsible for recording was dumbfounded, his voice even trembling:
“Data disorder, the spirit tool testing instrument has malfunctioned…”
Inside the Physical Fitness Testing Room, everyone was stunned.
The teacher operating the instrument quickly withdrew his palm, the alarm sound on the instrument gradually subsided, but everyone’s gaze fell on Lu Ren.
Physical strength and physical toughness actually resulted in unknown data.
In other words, even the spirit tool testing instrument could not measure Lu Ren’s physical data!
This spirit tool testing instrument could accurately measure the physical data of even a Spirit Emperor, yet it couldn’t measure a Spirit Ancestor?
Either the instrument was broken, but unfortunately, this instrument had just been calibrated yesterday.
Or this kid’s body had already exceeded the instrument’s upper limit.
And that spirit ring configuration, the first spirit ring was already a thousand-year one; this had already exceeded the category of a Genius.
Not to mention the Heaven-Defying configuration of the subsequent second, third, and fourth spirit rings.
Is this something a normal person can have?
A fifty-thousand-year fourth spirit ring?
A Spirit Ancestor, having absorbed a fifty-thousand-year-level spirit ring?
Isn’t that something only a Spirit Saint level could consider?
The surrounding staff looked at Lu Ren with the eyes of someone looking at a monster.
Lu Ren stood expressionlessly on the circular platform, letting those gazes sweep over him.
His heart was completely calm.
The value he had displayed was already great enough.
…
Behind the one-way mirror.
Hall Master Jing Hongchen’s pupils contracted slightly.
“Fourth spirit ring, fifty thousand years…
fifty thousand years!”
He muttered, repeating, with a hint of trembling in his voice that even he hadn’t noticed.
Hall Master Jing Hongchen had seen countless Geniuses.
But such a Prodigy, let alone seen, he hadn’t even heard of one.
“This guy, he really is a Prodigy.”
Hall Master Jing Hongchen took a deep breath, turned his head to look at Lin Jiayi behind him, his tone carrying a rare trace of approval:
“You did well on this.”
Lin Jiayi was overjoyed, quickly bowing: “It is my duty as your subordinate.”
“Report this matter upward, and there will surely be rewards for you,” Hall Master Jing Hongchen said.
“Thank you, Hall Master!”
Lin Jiayi’s voice was trembling with excitement.
This was the most correct decision he had ever made in his life.
Bringing such a Prodigy Genius into the academy, if those old guys at Shrek knew about it, they would probably be so angry they’d vomit blood, right?
However, Hall Master Jing Hongchen’s gaze had already fallen back on Lu Ren, his eyes becoming deep.
“However…”
He spoke slowly, the approval in his tone fading, replaced by calm scrutiny:
“We still have to investigate his background, identity, and purpose clearly.”
Lin Jiayi was stunned:
“Does the Hall Master mean…”
Hall Master Jing Hongchen stood with his hands behind his back, his voice low:
“Such a Heaven-Defying Genius, even at Shrek Academy, would be of the highest level.”
“Those old guys at Shrek would absolutely be willing to pay any resources to forcefully nurture him to grow; the treatment would definitely not be lower than ours, only higher.”
He paused, his eyes locked tightly on the youth on the other side of the glass:
“So, why would he give up the better Shrek and come to us instead?”
This question was sharp.
Hall Master Jing Hongchen was not someone who belittled himself.
The Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy was indeed strong, but strong in the field of spirit tools.
If they wanted to train Soul Engineers, they were the best on the entire continent.
But if they wanted to train pure Spirit Masters, Shrek was the true Holy Land.
And this youth before him, from his spirit ring configuration, one could tell that he was mainly a Spirit Master.
A Prodigy Genius who was mainly a Spirit Master, not going to the Spirit Master Holy Land Shrek, but instead running to the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy which focused on Soul Engineers?
Either he had other plans.
Or he was a spy sent by Shrek.
However…
if he really was a spy, then Shrek was too generous.
Such a level of Prodigy, willing to send him as a spy?
Weren’t they afraid of him turning against them?
“Yes.” Lin Jiayi put away the joy on his face, saying sternly, “This subordinate will send people to investigate immediately.”
“Go.” Hall Master Jing Hongchen waved his hand.
Lin Jiayi bowed and left quickly.
Hall Master Jing Hongchen stood in place, his gaze passing through the one-way glass, falling on that tall, straight figure for a long time.
Inside the Physical Fitness Testing Room, Lu Ren was walking down from the circular platform, his expression as usual, as if those shocking data points had nothing to do with him.
He even smiled at the staff member next to him and said something.
Hall Master Jing Hongchen narrowed his eyes.
This kid…
Who exactly is he?
…
Inside the Physical Fitness Testing Room.
Lu Ren took back his storage spirit tool and asked the senior next to him casually:
“The data is out, am I qualified?”
The senior opened his mouth but couldn’t say a word.
If this data wasn’t qualified, there would be no qualified people on the entire continent!
“Cough…
well, Student Lu Ren, right?” The teacher responsible for operation gave a dry cough and walked over, “Your test is already complete.
The specific results will be discussed with you by the Dean of Education personally.”
Lu Ren nodded and didn’t press for more.
Before the voice fell, a steady and heavy voice rang out slowly, clearly enveloping the entire Physical Fitness Testing Room:
“Director Lin still has important tasks to attend to; as for subsequent matters, I will discuss them with him personally.”
The moment the voice fell, the temperature in the Physical Fitness Testing Room seemed to drop by a few degrees.
All the teachers and students turned their heads in unison, only to see the side door of the one-way glass being pushed open.
Hall Master Jing Hongchen walked in slowly, his eyes as sharp as an eagle’s, and he did not release a single bit of Soul Power from his body, but the majestic Aura of someone who had been in a high position for a long time made everyone present instantly fall silent and bow in salute.
“Greetings, Hall Master!”
“Hall Master!”
Hall Master Jing Hongchen nodded slightly, his gaze crossing everyone and falling directly on Lu Ren, a deep smile curling at the corners of his mouth, and he walked forward slowly.
“Little friend, your physical test data has truly left me startled.”
Lu Ren raised his eyes to meet his gaze, his expression still calm and relaxed, without the slightest bit of unease, just nodding slightly to indicate:
“The Hall Master is too kind; these are just ordinary Aptitude.”
A sentence of “ordinary Aptitude,” made the surrounding teachers’ eyelids twitch wildly.
If this was ordinary Aptitude, then all the Spirit Masters on the continent would be trash!
Hall Master Jing Hongchen secretly praised this child’s mind for being steady and unflustered, but on the surface, he remained calm, turning to the side to gesture an invitation, his tone peaceful but carrying unquestionable weight:
“It’s noisy here, not a place for detailed conversation.
How about you accompany me to my office for a chat?”
“Regarding your enrollment benefits, cultivation resources, and the promise you mentioned to help us defeat Shrek in the competition, I would like to carefully consider them with you.”
Lu Ren understood in his heart; Hall Master Jing Hongchen wanted to personally test his background and finalize the bargaining chips for cooperation.
He agreed readily:
“To be personally received by the Hall Master is exactly what I desire.”
A flash of approval passed through Hall Master Jing Hongchen’s eyes; he said no more, turned, and took the lead to walk out:
“Please.”
Lu Ren followed closely behind, and the two walked out of the Physical Fitness Testing Room side by side.
Not until those two figures disappeared at the end of the corridor did the people in the Physical Fitness Testing Room dare to breathe heavily, the looks they exchanged still full of unbelievable shock.
A freshman who could be treated with such courtesy by Hall Master Jing Hongchen; since the founding of the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy, this was the first one!
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