If I let you practice martial arts, you'll compress your vital energy ten thousand times?

Starry Sky Training Camp, Central Plaza.

At this moment, the camp was in an atmosphere of unprecedented solemnity and tension.

Dozens of heavy armored vehicles lined up in a row, their dark cannons all locked onto the direction of the mutated forest. The chief instructor stood on the high platform, his face so gloomy it seemed as if water could drip from it.

Since the mysterious disappearance of the high-level red dots in the deep zones on the radar, several terrifying surges of true energy have erupted from the depths of the forest. The oppressive aura that faintly emanates outwards sends chills down the spines of all the instructors.

All the students who participated in the training exercise have been urgently recalled. Most of them came back empty-handed, and some were even injured. They sat slumped in the square like frightened birds.

"Reporting to the Chief Instructor! Of the expected 3,000, 2,998 are present!"

The adjutant, sweating profusely, ran over to compile the data.

"Who's missing?!" the head instructor asked sternly.

"Lin Yuan from Gaowu No. 1 High School, and... Su Qinghan, who was acting alone!"

The head instructor's heart sank.

Su Qinghan is the apple of the eye of the military bigwigs. If she were to perish in this sudden turn of events, his position as chief instructor would be over!

Just as the chief instructor was preparing to personally lead the team to venture into the forest to search,

"Look! Someone's coming out!"

Someone shouted, and instantly everyone's eyes turned to the camp gate.

All that could be seen was the edge of a dark forest.

Two figures, a man and a woman, were slowly crossing the police line and walking towards the square.

The girl, dressed in a black combat uniform, was pale but her stunning beauty was undeniable; she was none other than Su Qinghan. Walking behind her was Lin Yuan, carrying a worn-out backpack and dressed in ordinary sportswear.

"That's great! School beauty Su is alright!"

"That good-for-nothing Lin Yuan didn't die either? How come he's always so lucky? He probably just happened to run into School Beauty Su and was protected and taken out by her!"

A murmur of discussion immediately broke out among the crowd.

The head instructor breathed a sigh of relief, strode down from the platform, and came to the two men.

"Where did you two run off to?! Do you know how dangerous it is inside?!" Although the head instructor was scolding them, the concern in his eyes was undeniable.

"Sorry, Instructor, we got lost on the outskirts and were delayed a bit." Lin Yuan casually made up an excuse, his tone completely flat.

The head instructor glared at him, too lazy to bother arguing with this "barely passing" student.

"Now that everyone's here, let's begin calculating points!"

The head instructor turned around and announced loudly, "Although the field training has been terminated early, the assessment rules remain unchanged! Points will be calculated based on the crystal core level of the hunted beasts, and the top scorer will receive the military's ultimate reward!"

Students lined up in long queues at the checkout counter.

Because the event happened so suddenly, most people only managed to hunt one or two Tier 1 beasts. Currently, the one in first place is a Bone Forging Realm genius who was lucky enough to snag a Tier 2 Saber-toothed Boar.

Soon, it was Lin Yuan's turn.

He slowly walked forward, took the faded and even somewhat torn backpack off his shoulder, and casually tossed it onto the hard alloy appraisal table.

boom!

The backpack slammed onto the table with an unusually dull thud, causing the entire table to shake slightly.

The military quartermaster in charge of the assessment frowned.

"Lin Yuan, please empty your spoils."

Lin Yuan didn't say anything, but directly unzipped the bag, then pinched the bottom of the backpack and tilted it down.

Splash! ...

It was accompanied by a crisp, pleasant collision sound.

A dozen crystal cores emitting various dazzling halos, along with a large pile of neatly cut alien beast flesh and blood exuding intense high-level blood energy fluctuations, instantly filled the entire alloy table like a small mountain!

The once noisy square.

In that instant, absolute silence descended, as if on cue.

All the laughter and sarcasm were abruptly cut off in their throats!

The quartermaster in charge of the appraisal was staring wide-eyed, his hands trembling violently as he held up a yellowish-brown crystal core, his voice shrill and distorted:

"A...a third-tier Ironclad Bear core crystal?!"

Immediately afterward, he grabbed a piece of flesh radiating a violent lightning aura and exclaimed in utter shock, "A fourth-tier... a fourth-tier Earth-Splitting Demon Tiger's flesh?!"

boom!

The quartermaster's two exclamations were like two bombshells, exploding in the crowd!

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

"He's just a piece of trash at the first level of the Qi and Blood Realm, unable to even defeat a first-tier mutated wolf. How could he possibly have third-tier or even fourth-tier materials!"

"These are overlord-level alien beasts that only exist in the deepest areas! Cheating! He's definitely cheating!"

The students went crazy, their eyes practically bleeding with envy.

The head instructor's expression changed drastically, and he strode to the table. He stared intently at the pile of high-level materials, then at Lin Yuan, his eyes sharp as knives.

"Lin Yuan! Explain yourself! Where did these things come from?!"

If it's stolen or illegally brought in through the black market, that's a serious crime punishable by a military court!

Faced with the head instructor's questioning and the doubts of the entire audience.

Lin Yuan's expression remained calm, and he didn't even lift his eyelids.

Just as he was preparing to use a pre-prepared excuse to fool them.

"Instructor."

A clear, firm voice, utterly unquestionable, came from the side.

Su Qinghan stepped forward and stood directly in front of Lin Yuan.

Her beautiful eyes swept across the room, and her cold gaze silenced the students who were clamoring about cheating.

"I can testify that Lin did not cheat."

Su Qinghan took a deep breath and repeated the "excuse" Lin Yuan had told her earlier in a tone of utmost reverence:

"In the mutated forest, we encountered a peerless master who happened to be passing by."

"That senior casually killed a high-level alien beast in the deep zone. He took a liking to Lin Yuan, so he gave these third and fourth-level spoils of war to Lin Yuan as... as pocket money."

The entire venue fell into an even deeper silence once again.

A peerless master?

Slaying high-level beasts with ease?

Giving a student valuable third- or fourth-tier materials as pocket money?!

This sounds more absurd than a fairy tale!

But the person who said those words was Su Qinghan! She was the granddaughter of a military bigwig, and the ice queen of the school who never lied!

more importantly.

The moment the head instructor heard these words, it was as if a thunderbolt had struck his mind!

Those third- and fourth-order red dots that disappear instantly on the radar!

The "unknown terrifying entity frantically clearing out the deep zone" deduced from the monitoring room!

Everything at this moment formed a perfect logical loop!

"hiss--"

The head instructor gasped, and a fine layer of cold sweat instantly appeared on his forehead.

That's it!

It turns out that the anomaly in the deep zone was indeed the work of an unparalleled expert with extraordinary strength! And Lin Yuan, that kid, actually got incredibly lucky and received a reward from that senior!

"So it was that senior..." the head instructor murmured to himself, his eyes revealing unprecedented awe.

He immediately turned around and loudly announced, "The spoils were legally obtained! There were no violations!"

"After tallying the points, Lin Yuan won first place in this special training camp assessment with an absolute crushing advantage!"

The audience was silent.

No matter how jealous or unwilling everyone was, they could only grit their teeth and swallow the truth in the face of the head instructor's authoritative judgment and the mountain of high-level materials.

Seeing the disgusted expressions on those people's faces, as if they had swallowed a dead fly.

Su Qinghan sneered inwardly.

"A bunch of frogs in a well! You have no idea how terrifying the legacy behind Lin Yuan is. You think it's luck, but in reality, it's the confidence his master gave him!"

Su Qinghan was completely convinced of Lin Yuan's identity as a "grandmaster successor".

"In accordance with the highest regulations of the special training camp!"

The head instructor looked solemnly at Lin Yuan and loudly announced the ultimate reward that made all the geniuses green with envy.

"The top performer will be granted the opportunity to cultivate for one hour in the heavily guarded core secret area—the [Source Energy Pool]!"

"I will personally take you there tomorrow morning!"

Hearing this reward...

Lin Yuan, who had been expressionless the whole time, finally unleashed a burst of suppressed ecstasy from the depths of his dark, deep pupils!

Source Energy Pool!

That is the ultimate treasure trove, which was purified by the military from dozens of underground high-purity spiritual veins and gathered a massive amount of liquid primordial energy!

This is also the core essence of the Starry Sky Training Camp!

"Finally, it's here."

Lin Yuan slowly clenched his fists in his heart.

With this wave of high-purity liquid energy provided by the military.

Reaching the 200,000-time mark and fully unlocking the [Second-Tier Extreme Battle Body] is definitely just around the corner!