Chapter 189: Myriad Abilities, All Rivers Run into the Sea (Part 2)
Thirty thousand people.
Thirty thousand titles of "top academic achiever."
What a grand gesture this is!
And upon seeing the figure of Chen Yu, the thirty thousand humans beneath the fortress were immensely thrilled. They immediately erupted into mountainous and oceanic roars and cheers.
"Great Emperor!"
"Great Emperor! Great Emperor! Great Emperor!"
"Mom, I saw the Great Emperor..."
"Ahhhh!"
"You are my god..."
Under the inexplicable atmosphere, everyone at the scene seemed brainwashed, their eyes filled with tangible veneration.
"Quiet!"
The Elder, standing at the front, could not bear it any longer, unleashing his superpower and correcting loudly, "The Great Emperor is not here! This is Her Majesty the Queen!"
The shouting in the arena abruptly halted.
But just a second later, it reignited with fervor.
"Long live the Queen!"
"Truly worthy of the Great Emperor, so majestic!"
"The Great Emperor is awesome! A real man should indeed act like a man..."
"Long live! Long live!"
Chen Yu: "..."
Perhaps it was time.
Or perhaps he could no longer bear to listen.
Chen Yu slowly stretched out his hands and pressed downwards.
The cheers of thirty thousand people instantly ceased.
"Silence."
Clearing his throat, Chen Yu's voice carried across the fields: "Today, the sun is bright. Today, partly cloudy turns clear."
"On this very ordinary day, I am exceedingly honored to meet all of you, my compatriots."
"In our wars against the Holy Spirit Clan and the Divine Spirit Tribe, beyond a doubt, we have emerged victorious."
"Humanity has thoroughly risen!"
Chen Yu raised his hands high.
The scene instantly boiled over.
Those resounding roars.
Those cries.
Together, they vented millennia of human humiliation.
Ten or more minutes later, the noise gradually subsided.
Chen Yu's speech proudly continued.
"The development of civilization requires talents."
"All of you here are one in five miles selectees, truly the talents our race needs most!"
Below, thirty thousand people.
Each of them bursting with pride.
"Now, I announce..." Chen Yu took a deep breath, revealing his fangs, "your top academic results are all invalidated!"
"Ohh...oh?"
The crowd that was about to cheer suddenly fell silent.
All stared blankly at Chen Yu.
"Looking at me for what?" Chen Yu waved his hand and shouted, "A bunch of idiots who still copy the answers for 'what's one plus one' from the back page, and you still dare to call yourselves top achievers?"
Crowd: "..."
After a long silence.
A young girl in the front rows couldn't help but retort, "Your Highness, none of us copied the answers from the back pages."
"Not copying the answers when you have them, you're even worse than trash!" Chen Yu roared.
Crowd: "..."
Following this.
The titles of "top academic achiever" atop the heads of the entire thirty thousand people began to disappear and change en masse.
Simultaneously, each person's surroundings also manifested the "replicable skills" that only Chen Yu could see.
All were critical hits refresh!
Among them were not lacking "red" information bars.
Seeing this scene, Chen Yu's pupils suddenly dilated and he quickly raised his hand, shouting orders: "Quick! Bring in those with red!"
"Red? What?" The Elder in the distance finally came to his senses, looking puzzled.
"Oh, my bad." Chen Yu slapped his forehead and realized, immediately flying into the air, tapping quickly, "This one, this one, this one, and that one... this one..."
He tapped thirty-four people.
All were showing a "red" information bar.
And these red messages were all the same.
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[(Grade B) (Red) Seed of Superpower: A seed that might comprehend superpowers at any time.]
The thirty thousand people's formation.
After changing their titles, only about thirty individuals possessed the Seed of Superpower.
That is to say, among ordinary people with Transcendent talents, only one can be born out of a thousand.
And of these talented individuals, how many can awaken by chance?
According to some information Chen Yu had once heard.
The awakening conditions for the Seed of Superpower are extremely stringent, and each person's conditions are different.
Roughly estimating, to put it optimistically, out of every twenty individuals with the Seed of Superpower, only one can awaken.
Thus, relying solely on "natural awakening," out of eight million humans, only four hundred Transcendents can be born.
This perfectly matches the current scale of the human race.
"So."
"If there are no soul beads in the future, such a disproportionate birth rate of Transcendents is not enough to support the strength of the top clans."
"After all, every individual in the Ka Xiu clan is of Transcendent class..."
Soon, under the guidance of the elder and other superpowered beings, those thirty-four frightened yet excited lucky ones were selected and brought into the stone castle.
They didn't know.
What awaited them next was a new life they had never dared to imagine.
"OK."
Flying back to the top of the castle, Chen Yu waved his hand, "Send them away. From where they came, to where they return. Continue with the next batch."
Half an hour later.
The first batch of thirty thousand left reluctantly.
Then came the second batch of "top scholars" of the national exam.
Chen Yu repeated his trick.
Immediately stripped them of their "top scholar" status.
Again selected thirty-three people.
Next, it was the third batch.
The fourth batch.
That was it.
"Someone come!"
"Present!" A top warrior quickly appeared behind Chen Yu, "Your Highness, what are your orders?"
"The exam, it still needs to be done," Chen Yu ordered, "Make it big! A special big event! You have five days to bring me back a million 'top scholars,' can you do it?"
"If not, I'll answer with my head!" The warrior turned and left.
"Mmm." Chen Yu nodded in satisfaction, "Really reliable."
Watching the "warrior" walk away, he then said to the elder and others, "You also go wherever you need to go; from now on, no one is allowed into the castle."
"Yes!!"
The Transcendents agreed.
Chen Yu, with a hopeful stride and a filled bag of soul beads, headed back inside the castle, then went down to the lobby on the first floor.
Looking at over a hundred confused lucky ones in the hall, he displayed what he thought was a warm and friendly smile, "Kids, line up nicely and come here for some candy balls."
"Candy balls?"
People looked at each other in confusion.
But still, they obeyed Chen Yu, the great "princess's" command, and lined up willingly, one by one approaching.
"One each, no need to rush. Everyone gets one."
Opening the bag, he grabbed soul beads from inside and distributed one to each person.
It was quickly done.
People curiously pinched the soul beads, marveling at the beautiful and magical structure inside. All abuzz.
"This thing is so beautiful."
"There's a vortex inside..."
"Why do I have the urge to eat it?"
"Didn't the prince just tell us? These are candy balls, supposed to be eaten by us."
"Your Highness, can we eat them?"
The reaction of over a hundred people in the hall took Chen Yu by surprise.
He curiously also took out a soul bead, carefully observing it in front of his eyes. After a long pause, he asked, "You want to eat them?"
The crowd unanimously nodded.
Everyone's face showed eagerness to try.
"..."
Chen Yu frowned slightly.
Now he knew that his sudden inability to smell this morning was not a psychological effect.
It was these soul beads that had really undergone some kind of change.
They were becoming more and more like the soul beads from his memories, thousands of years later.
'Could it be that these things are the manifestation of human desires?' he thought.
'From the time I started...'
Pondering this, Chen Yu suppressed the doubts in his heart, looked around at everyone, and went straight to the point, "What I'm giving you here is called a soul bead. And you all have the potential to become superpowered beings."
"Now, I'm giving you an opportunity."
"By swallowing it, you can become a Transcendent. But the price..."
He hadn't finished speaking.
But the entire crowd of a hundred and thirty-plus people swallowed their soul beads without hesitation.
"Gulping" sounds filled the air.
Chen Yu: "..."
Chen Yu: "I haven't mentioned the price yet."
But the people could no longer respond to the princess's words.
The moment the soul beads were swallowed, their faces immediately turned red and their Dantians swelled.
Distinct superpower fluctuations, interfering and entangling with each other, burst forth.
At the same time.
A silent, out of nowhere, incredibly sharp and keen ice blade viciously cut open Chen Yu's back and pierced through his chest.
"Drip."
"Drip."
Blood gathered into a small river, flowing down Chen Yu's clothes, dripping onto the ground.
Yet he seemed to lose his sense of pain, unconcernedly grasped the ice blade at his chest, turned around, and with a smile watched the woman behind him already in tears.
"Hello, you stinky wench." Chen Yu grinned and bared his teeth, "I've been waiting for you for a long time."
"To think that the Great Emperor who leads mankind into the abyss was you."
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(ps: The chapter updated yesterday was under review for over a dozen hours due to the phrase in Ratatouille, "Even in the capital, shaking is not a good woman." It has now been changed to "not a good thing". It can be read normally now.)