Chapter 8

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

When he woke up the next day, Qin Ming realized that the soreness from last night had alleviated a lot. Only the muscles in his limbs still hurt a little, but it was not unbearable.

He carefully sensed the changes in his body.

The first thing he discovered was that his strength had indeed improved significantly. It did not take much effort to move the big freezer in the kitchen.

It had to be known that this freezer weighed at least 100 kilograms. Ordinary people could not lift it easily, let alone an ordinary high school student like him.

His strength alone had more than doubled.

The greatest change was in the strength of Qin Ming’s limbs. Even his jumping power and explosive power had increased in varying degrees.

This also proved that the ant’s constitution he obtained yesterday had indeed strengthened his body.

Although he did not seem like a real Sand Ant that could lift a heavy object a hundred times its weight, Qin Ming was already very satisfied.

After all, the body structures of humans and ants were completely different, so the effects of this physique were naturally different.

“What an amazing thing!”

After the test, Qin Ming muttered to himself. He was shocked by the various magical features of the monster login device.

This is only an F-grade reward. If I can obtain a reward with a higher rating in the future, won’t that be…

He looked at himself in the mirror. He had a head of black hair. Although his facial features were not particularly outstanding, when put together, he did not look annoying. Instead, he looked like a scholar.

His body, which was not very strong at first, had become a little more robust. Clearly, it was one of the changes brought about by the ant constitution.

His eyes were filled with joy.

The hope in his heart that had long been hopeless gradually reignited after the magical performance of the monster login device.

Perhaps I still have a chance of getting into a Martial Academy…

If one wanted to enter a Martial Academy’s cultivation department, other than cultural class results, the most important thing was their own indicators.

The size of his initial Qi Sea, his initial mental strength, the tempering of his muscles and bones, and so on.

In the cultivation system of a Great Martial Artist, the first level was the Qi Sea Realm, also known as the Qi Refinement Realm.

In fact, everyone had a closed Qi Sea in their bodies. As long as they opened this Qi Sea, they could embark on the path of cultivation.

This was also the first key step in the cultivation of a Great Martial Artist.

In the eyes of martial artists, the size of one’s initial Qi Sea often determined one’s future cultivation potential.

Most people’s initial Qi Sea was not big. An ordinary person’s Qi Sea was the size of a soybean.

In that case, those who were truly talented would basically have Qi Sea the size of a date. It might be several times or even dozens of times larger than ordinary people’s Qi Sea.

As for the students that the Martial Academy wanted to recruit, their Qi Seas had to be at least larger than ordinary people’s. This was almost equivalent to the hard conditions.

As for Spirit Nurturing Masters and Weapon Spirit Warriors, they were also better than ordinary people in terms of mental strength.

According to the ratio, cultural classes accounted for 30% of the admission criteria of the various colleges, and the tempering of the muscles and bones accounted for 20%.

As for the initial cultivation talent, it was either one’s Qi Sea or mental strength.

In fact, if one’s cultivation talent was especially outstanding, one could even be specially recruited into a Martial Academy as long as the degree of tempering of one’s muscles and bones was not too bad.

It was obvious how much martial academies valued students with cultivation talents.

It was not that there were no late-developer students who were not thought highly of when they were young but soared and became famous later on.

However, that was an extremely small number after all. Most people still believed that the greater the initial potential, the further one could go in the path of cultivation in the future.

At the thought of his Qi Sea, Qin Ming shook his head, and his eager heart gradually calmed down.

Although his strength and various physical attributes had increased a lot, he was still an ordinary person when it came to his Qi Sea or mental strength.

To get into a Martial Academy, one’s physical fitness only accounted for 20%. Admission mainly depended on one’s Qi Sea and mental strength.

These two did not meet the requirements. There was still no possibility of him gaining admission.

I wonder if this login device can expand my Qi Sea or mental strength, Qin Ming thought.

After a simple breakfast, he prepared to go to school.

When he passed by the stone bridge, he could not help but think of the siblings from last night.

If he remembered correctly, their surname was Gu. He could check if there was an instructor with the surname Gu in Gulan Academy.

After all, that girl could become a Weapon Spirit Warrior at such a young age. She should be quite famous in Gulan City.

The instructor from Gulan Academy who had spoken to him on the phone had also left a deep impression on him.

…

At noon, in a large classroom in school, Qin Ming and his classmates gathered together.

In the middle of the classroom, two large devices were placed neatly.

The form teacher, Zhang Yu, stood beside the devices with a log sheet.

“Next, I’ll call out the students’ names for the test. Everyone, remember to calm down during the test. Don’t be too nervous. This will affect the result of your mental test.”

“The first is Zhao Qiang.”

A muscular student walked to the devices with a faint smile on his face.

“Is the first tester Zhao Qiang? I remember that the potential value of his Qi Sea was 85 the last time,” a student commented.

“It might be higher this time. After all, it has been a month since the last test.”

“…”

“Zhao Qiang is moving up. With the Qi Sea value that this guy tested last time, he has a good chance of getting into a Martial Academy,” Ma Zhiwen said with a smile.

Qin Ming glanced at the guy beside him.

“Then doesn’t that mean that your own chance of getting into a Martial Academy is steady?”

“No, one has to be more humble. I can only say that there’s a little hope, hehe.” Ma Zhiwen pretended to be humble.

After sitting in the same class for three years, Qin Ming had some understanding of this guy and knew that he was probably feeling smug.

However, he did have the right to be smug. In the previous Qi Sea test, Ma Zhiwen had measured a value of 97, the highest in the class.

This was already quite a good result. Even in the entire grade level in school, he ranked among the top few.

According to the admission situation in the past years, this fellow was indeed confident of entering a Martial Academy as Qin Ming had said.

For students who were about to graduate, the school organized a round of physical assessments every month, hoping to unearth more students with potential to enter a Martial Academy.

The two devices in this classroom tested the students’ Qi Sea and mental strength.

Everyone’s initial Qi Sea’s size and mental strength were not completely fixed.

They would change according to the situation, either increasing or decreasing.

For example, if a person suddenly fell seriously ill, his Qi Sea would definitely be much weaker. If his body was weak, his Qi Sea might also shrink greatly.

On the contrary, if a person knew meditation techniques and persisted in tempering his mental strength every day, he would improve.

His Qi Sea would expand with the strengthening of his physique. Of course, because it was a closed initial state, this expansion would be very limited.

However, to those students who were aspiring to enter a Martial Academy, it was good enough to expand their Qi Sea a little.

The more talented a student was, the more obvious the subsequent expansion of his Qi Sea.

Some super geniuses could even expand their Qi Sea even when they were eating and drinking every day.

As for ordinary people like Qin Ming, even if they persevered every day, the expansion of their Qi Sea was quite limited, and they might not even improve.

He had no choice. The truth was infuriating.

Sometimes hard work was useful, but sometimes it was useless.

The key was where to channel his hard work and strife. Blind effort was useless.