Chapter 348: The Elites From Earth (2/2)

Lu Yin’s eyes lit up. They’re making preparations? Are they going to give me a lot? These large organizations are amazing. He became very excited, because having a lot of money meant that he’d be able to cultivate at an even faster rate. This also meant that he would also be able to roll his die after gathering more natural treasures from Bushtree Planet. The thought of such a future made him even more excited. “I’m going to get a lot stronger now, monkey!”

The Ghost Monkey was confused. “What do you mean by that?”

“Nothing special. I’m just going to break Arbiter Lan’s record!” Lu Yin declared haughtily.

Lu Yin remained in San Dios, waiting for Yue Xianzi and An Shaohua to send money over. Meanwhile, on Zenyu Star, a large spacecraft docked on the planet’s space station. A bunch of youths looked outside the spacecraft in excitement. These youths were all from Earth and were the first batch of elites who had been selected to be formally educated at Yu Academy.

They might be considered elites, but that was only with Earth’s standards. In the Great Yu Empire, any random student would be more powerful than these Earthlings. Earth was still too weak, and even the strongest cultivator from Earth’s trials, Zhou Shan, had only reached the Melder realm. And even that was after receiving help from the Great Yu Empire.

Inside the space station, Tianming waited quietly and watched as the spacecraft docked. Behind him, a member of Yu Academy had an annoyed expression. “It’s just a planet from the border regions, Hall Master. Is it really necessary for us to come out and personally welcome some Sentinels or even Seekers?”

Tianming smiled. “They’re from Earth.”

“I know,” the Yu Academy student responded.

Tianming gave him an odd look. “You’ve never heard of Earth?”

That member frowned. “It sounds pretty familiar. Let me think.” Soon enough, his eyes went wide. “Earth? The Astral Combat Tournament? Is that the Royal Regent’s home planet!?”

Tianming nodded. “Yes, Earth is the Royal Regent’s home.”

The student sucked in a cold breath and his gaze towards the spacecraft dramatically changed. A person’s hometown would always be very important to them, and the two people with the most authority within the Great Yu Empire were the Royal Regent and Wendy Yushan. It was a symbolic matter that people from the Royal Regent’s home planet were arriving. It was no wonder why these cultivators had been considered important enough for Hall Leader Tianming to welcome them himself.

After the spacecraft finished docking, the hatch opened and a battalion lined up in two rows. After that, an Explorer walked out. It was obvious that he was a member of the military from his stern expression as he exited the spacecraft.

Behind the Explorer was Zhao Yu.

Two years had passed, but Zhao Yu had barely changed. She had become a bit more sullen, but that was in part due to her battle technique. As one of the Three Snowgirls under Bai Xue, she had crossed a doomed land on her own to arrive at Jinlin. This woman was very strong-willed in a way that few were able to match. She’d only been a Sentinel at that time, which was also called the Realm of Earth back on Earth. Now, she had managed to become a Seeker.

Behind Zhao Yu stood Feng Hong, the instructor for new troops back at Jinlin. He had a pretty good relationship with Lu Yin and had also become a Seeker.

Behind Feng Hong was Luo Yi, who had once tried to seduce Lu Yin and who had also suffered horrendously on doomsday. She was even more beautiful than before and had become a Seeker as well.

Behind Luo Yi was Qin Xuan. She was from Jinlin as well and had only met Lu Yin a few times. Like the rest, she was now a Seeker.

After her was Huan Sha, who was from Beijing. She had helped Zhang Dingtian stabilize the chaotic aftermath of the trial and hadn’t originally wanted to leave Earth. However, after hearing that Zhang Dingtian had gone missing, she’d made the difficult decision to leave Earth and search the universe for him.

These five were all people whom Lu Yin knew. Feng Hong and Luo Yi, in particular, had a pretty good relationship with him.

Behind Lu Yin’s five acquaintances were quite a few other young people from Earth, and most of them were Sentinels, though there were some Seekers as well.

The mutations that had occurred during the trials on Earth meant that becoming a Seeker was not as difficult as it had been before, but it still wasn’t easy to become one, either.

In the distance, Tianming glanced at his gadget. Information on all of the cultivators from Earth was displayed there, and there were only a few who were worth mentioning. Huan Sha had awakened the innate gift of imitation and analyzing, Qin Xuan had an innate gift of dissolving, Fu Xiaoshu had an innate gift of illusion, Zhen Tong had an innate gift of flowers, and Song Shi had an innate gift of wind.

All five of them had awakened innate gifts, which was rather surprising to Tianming. Awakening an innate gift by chance was a one in a million event, and any cultivator who managed to do so was always welcome to join the Universe Youth Council. That showed just how highly the universe thought of cultivators with innate gifts.

There were very few cultivators in the Great Yu Empire who had awakened innate gifts, but five had emerged from a backwater planet like Earth. It was simply inconceivable, and even the captain of the twelfth squadron, Ban Jiu, was investigating Earth to look into this anomaly.

As Feng Hong gazed at the huge Zenyu Star and the three massive rings that were clearly visible above them, he sighed ruefully. “This is the view that Lu Yin saw two years ago. We’re finally able to see the same sight now.”

Luo Yi had a grim look in her eyes. “He was just a Troop Leader back then, but now, he’s a genius powerhouse who’s known across the universe. We’re way too far behind, Feng Hong.”

Feng Hong burst into laughter. “Don’t compare us with him. Everyone is weak compared to him, haha!”

Huan Sha glanced around. What she saw was very different from what her peers saw. She was analyzing the space station, but no matter how hard she looked, the defense of the space station seemed to be completely invulnerable to attacks from someone with her power level. This was the Great Yu Empire’s Zenyu Star.