Reborn as a tiger, he was chosen by the nation as its guardian beast.

Chapter 96 Nine Cauldrons Division

Wang Ziming had actually walked this road once before.

Hwaseong was flooded more than a month ago.

The neighborhood committee organized the family to take refuge in the mountains, and this was the route they took.

Back then, there wasn't even asphalt here; the ground was covered in yellow mud.

The rain was pouring down from the sky, and every step you took left a dent, making it impossible to stand.

He even slipped and fell flat on his face halfway through, getting covered in mud and water.

But he didn't feel tired at all at that time.

He even had the leisure to look around, and he even spotted a particularly large golden tiger halfway up the mountain, and secretly watched it for a long time.

I heard that it was a precious creature raised by the Extraordinary Research Institute, a true extraordinary being.

The road was repaired and paved with asphalt today, and it didn't rain.

But Wang Ziming felt that this road was ten thousand times more difficult to travel than the last time.

The wind carried a heavy, oppressive force, crashing straight down.

With every step I take, my bones ache.

He couldn't remember how long he had been walking.

They had no interest in looking at the scenery along the road.

The densely packed group that used to surround him had long since dispersed.

Some have already given up, while others have been left far behind by him.

Now, only a handful of people can keep up with him, all of them gritting their teeth and persevering.

"Thump!"

A young man walking directly in front of Wang Ziming suddenly collapsed to the ground, his legs giving way.

The young man was about twenty-five or twenty-six years old, wearing a designer tracksuit, and was slightly overweight; he looked like he came from a wealthy family.

But at this moment he was completely soaked in sweat.

"I can't go on anymore, I really can't walk anymore."

The young man gulped down air into his lungs, his chest heaving violently.

"I'll just sit down and rest for a bit, five minutes, then I'll get up and keep walking."

He muttered to himself, his words seeming more like an attempt to convince himself to stop.

Wang Ziming walked past him without even turning his head.

In this oppressive gale, the moment your knees buckle and your buttocks touch the ground, your breath dissipates completely.

It is absolutely impossible for him to stand up again.

He had seen far too many people fall behind like this along the way.

He, Wang Ziming, would never be such a coward.

He wanted to be a towering, extraordinary being.

He clenched his back teeth tightly.

He lifted his heavy right leg and moved forward another half meter.

Halfway up the mountain.

Wang Hu lay on a large blue stone by the roadside, feeling a bit tired after maintaining the strong wind all the time.

The spiritual energy in the Qi Sea was being consumed rather quickly, and the circulation speed of the Nine Aperture Divine Stone had also slowed down significantly.

This delicate work is indeed not easy to do.

The goal is to blow away those with weak wills, but not to actually unleash the wind blades and hurt them.

Controlling this balance is more difficult than fighting an alien mutant.

He raised his right forepaw and pulled two crystal cores out of the spatial conch shell hanging around his neck.

These are the crystal cores from the basket Zhang Shouzhou just delivered; he has now packed them all into his spatial conch.

Wang Hu opened his mouth wide and swallowed the two crystal cores directly into his stomach.

"Click-clack".

The hard crystal core was crushed by the sharp teeth, turning into two streams of pure spiritual energy that surged into the Qi Sea.

The parched sea of ​​qi instantly filled up.

Wang Hu stretched his limbs and stood up again.

He stared down the mountain path.

Almost half an hour has passed since he exhaled his first breath.

Those with weak will have long been eliminated.

The remaining thousand or so people have basically adapted to the current wind strength.

Although the pace is slow, they are steadily climbing upwards.

If this intensity continues, it will probably take until dark to filter out one-fifth of the people.

While secretly marveling at how tenacious these people were, Wang Hu activated the Nine Aperture Divine Stone within his body, subtly increasing its power, preparing to give the remaining guys a little something extra and a small surprise.

Meanwhile.

Conference Room No. 1, Qiyuan University.

The entire wall of the large screen was divided into dozens of smaller images.

The video clearly shows the surveillance footage of each section of the mountain road.

Zhang Shouzhou stood in front of the screen, looking at the images of the candidates gritting their teeth and persevering on the mountain path displayed on the screens. He put his hands behind his back and smiled, his face full of wrinkles.

He was amazed by Wang Hu's control over the wind and delighted by the students' resilience.

After all, Wang Hu is the vice president of Qiyuan University, and these students being assessed will all be his students in the future. If the students are excellent, the vice president will be even more excellent, so he is naturally overjoyed.

"I didn't expect that the big cat would actually have some skills."

Just then, an old but loud voice came from the side.

The speaker was an elderly man, wearing an old military uniform without epaulets, with gray hair, but his posture was ramrod straight.

The old man stared at the screen at the scene of Wang Hu exhaling wind, his eyes full of admiration.

"This risk control is absolutely brilliant."

"The force must be just right; too much and it will hurt someone, too little and it won't achieve the desired effect."

"Principal Zhang, you've made a brilliant choice in selecting candidates for evaluation."

Zhang Shouzhou's heart skipped a beat as he listened to the old man's lavish praise of Wang Hu.

This old man is named Cui Jiuyuan, the Director of the Nine Cauldrons Division of the Hua Kingdom.

The Nine Cauldrons Division is a special department established by China six months ago.

A special forces unit specifically responsible for external operations and handling extraordinary international disputes.

That centenarian former vice principal had previously served as a captain in the Nine Cauldrons Division.

Today, this former leader came specifically to observe the recruitment process, his intention being to select candidates.

After all, the more than 5,000 people who participated in this assessment were all geniuses, but because it was the first year of Qiyuan University's enrollment, only 300 students could be admitted.

It would be a pity if the remaining geniuses were sent back to live as ordinary people. He came here to select some who caught his eye and bring them back to the Nine Cauldrons Division for further training.

Today, there are many other leaders from extraordinary departments who have come with the same purpose as them, but most of them are not in this large conference room at the moment, but at the foot of the mountain.

After all, this is beneficial for contacting test takers and their parents.

But at this moment, Cui Jiuyuan's behavior became somewhat strange.

Instead of paying attention to the eliminated candidates or contacting their parents at the foot of the mountain, he kept staring at Wang Hu. This action immediately alerted Zhang Shouzhou. "Commander, Da Mao is a legitimate vice-principal of our Qiyuan University, and his position is already fixed."

"It's only natural for him to assess the candidates, and I'm just following the rules."

Zhang Shouzhou spoke with a humble expression.

Cui Jiuyuan naturally noticed the wariness in Zhang Shouzhuo's eyes.

He chuckled and waved to Zhang Shouzhou, his face beaming with a friendly smile.

"Don't be nervous, I just appreciate talent."

"Besides, if our patriarch from the Nine Cauldrons Division can be the vice president of Qiyuan University, why can't the vice president of Qiyuan University be seconded to our Nine Cauldrons Division to travel abroad?"