19: Chapter 19 Energy Crisis Emerges

After the first match of the weekly exam, the subsequent matches no longer held much suspense.

Wang Pingan defeated Wang Jincheng with zero casualties. With this result laid out there, it was enough for all the senior high school students in the school to re-evaluate his strength.

In the next few rounds of deduction, Wang Pingan still only sent out five hundred Immortal Martial citizens.

Shield armor was in the front, and Sword Qi was in the back.

When encountering an ordinary Combat Path, a single round of charge could pierce straight through.

When encountering a resource path and logistics path, the opponents could not even maintain a complete Formation.

By the final match, the one fighting against him was another A-grade evaluated student from Tianhai No. 1 High School.

The opponent took the fire magic path, and their citizens mastered the Elementary fireball Spell, possessing decent burst power.

However, when the fireballs smashed onto the Spiritual Qi shields and refined steel heavy armor, they could only burn out patches of black marks.

With an oracle from Wang Pingan, the five hundred Immortal Martial citizens advanced forcefully, suppressing with Sword Qi and crashing Formations with shield armor, ending the battle in less than a quarter of an hour.

The light screen finally froze.

[Weekly Exam Comprehensive Ranking First Place: Grade 3 Class 4, Wang Pingan.]

[Battle Record: Complete Victory.]

[Total Casualties: Zero.]

The auditorium fell silent for a moment.

Then, irrepressible murmurs surged up.

"Zero casualties again."

"After finishing the school-wide weekly exam without losing a single citizen projection, how can anyone chase after that?"

"Wang Jincheng didn't lose unjustly; it would be the same no matter who went up."

Zhao Yang sat in the Grade 3 Class 4 area, completely dumbfounded.

Staring at the name on the light screen, he muttered, "This is only the fifth day of Awakening, and while others are still chopping wood in the beginner village, he has already opened a legion dungeon."

Several classmates nearby wanted to laugh, but couldn't quite manage it.

The gap was too intuitive.

So intuitive that even jealousy felt powerless.

On the invigilation stage, Principal Zhou Mingyuan slowly stood up.

He was the principal of Tianhai No. 1 High School, a Tier 3 Deity at the Peak, only half a step away from Tier 4.

Zhou Mingyuan's gaze fell on Wang Pingan with eyes full of appreciation, raising his hand to signal: "Wang Pingan, come to the stage."

Wang Pingan stood up from in front of the deduction platform and walked towards the front of the auditorium.

Along the way, everyone's gaze followed him.

Before yesterday, many people still felt that he merely had high talent.

After today, no one dared to put the words "merely" on him anymore.

Zhou Mingyuan raised his hand, and a bronze-colored card emerged from his palm.

The surface of the card was engraved with sword Formation patterns, with faint traces of the Qi of weapons and slaughter circulating.

"For taking first place in this weekly exam, the school rewards you with an E-grade combat skill card."

"Army-Breaking Sword Formation."

As soon as these four words came out, low exclamations instantly sounded in the auditorium.

An E-grade combat skill card was already considered a heavy reward for newly awakened students.

Moreover, the Army-Breaking Sword Formation was a legion-type combat skill.

This kind of combat skill was not meant for individual citizens to show off their bravery, but specifically for well-organized legions to use.

It could connect the blood, Spiritual Qi, and sword momentum of multiple people into a whole to charge Formations and kill enemies, and its power far exceeded ordinary combat skills.

Zhou Mingyuan handed out the card.

"You walk the path of Immortal-Martial Dual Cultivation, which happens to suit this card."

"The school hopes you can make a name for Tianhai No. 1 High School in the Nova Assessment."

Wang Pingan received the card with both hands and bowed his head in greeting: "Thank you, Principal."

Zhou Mingyuan looked at him, with a bit more seriousness in his eyes.

"Your advantage is huge, but do not think that the Nova Assessment only involves students from Tianhai Star."

"Among the seventeen living planets in the Xuanyuan Star Region, there are quite a few true geniuses."

"Some start with special buildings, some have Family support behind them, and others have obtained federal key training quotas in advance."

"You won brilliantly today, but it is not yet time to relax."

Wang Pingan knew clearly that these words were not just polite platitudes.

The internal weekly exam of Tianhai No. 1 High School was only first place in a small pond.

The Nova Assessment was the true clash of the new generation in the Xuanyuan Star Region.

He solemnly agreed: "I will continue to prepare."

Zhou Mingyuan smiled with satisfaction.

"Go ahead."

When Wang Pingan returned to his seat, Zhao Yang immediately leaned over.

"The Army-Breaking Sword Formation! The school is really generous this time."

Wang Pingan glanced at the card in his hand: "This thing is very suitable for a legion."

Zhao Yang's eyes were full of envy: "It has to be usable by someone; if my vegetable-farming citizens took the sword Formation, they would probably first study how to use it to harvest spirit wheat."

Wang Pingan was amused and gave a slight smile.

After the weekly exam ended, the students left the auditorium one after another.

Along the way, discussions about Wang Pingan had spread throughout the entire campus.

Wang Pingan did not stay.

He refused the celebration invitations from several classmates, boarded Wang Tie's flying car, and returned directly to the main branch manor.

As soon as the flying car stopped, Wang Shoutian and Liu Yun were already waiting in front of the courtyard gate.

Obviously, they had also received the results of the weekly exam.

Liu Yun's eye sockets were slightly red, and her face was full of irrepressible joy.

"Pingan, first place in the whole school?"

"Mn."

Wang Shoutian rubbed his hands, smiling from ear to ear.

"Good, very good."

"When your mother and I were in the branch Family, how would we ever dare to think that one day we could hear this news."

Wang Pingan felt a slight warmth in his heart.

He took out the Army-Breaking Sword Formation rewarded by the school and showed it to his parents.

Wang Shoutian looked at the E-grade combat skill card and nodded repeatedly.

"This thing is of great use to you. Go into secluded cultivation quickly and don't delay."

Liu Yun chimed in from the side: "I'll keep the food warm for you; eat it when you come out."

Wang Pingan nodded and turned to enter the secret room.

The stone door closed, and the Formation lit up.

All the hustle and bustle of the outside world was blocked outside the door.

Wang Pingan sat cross-legged, placed the Army-Breaking Sword Formation by his side, and sank his consciousness into the Divine Kingdom.

...

Ten years of time were enough for the first generation of citizens to move from young adults to maturity, and also enough for the new generation to grow rapidly.

The village had expanded into a small town.

Wooden and stone houses connected into large areas, and the main roads were paved with flat stone slabs.

At the foot of the Small Spirit Vein mountain, the scale of the cultivation area expanded, with the breathing-in ground, Spell ground, and Spirit Medicine field clearly partitioned.

Near the Mysterious Blood Pool, the martial arts area was even more lively.

Rows of citizens wearing refined steel heavy armor drilled every day, and as their sword blades swung, their blood surged endlessly.

The population also broke the mark of four thousand.

The effect of the Elementary fertility card was very obvious in the early stage.

The number of newborns continued to increase, and the adolescent generation began to come into contact with basic breathing-in and Body Forging movements when they reached twelve or thirteen years old.

The route of universal military mobilization had been thoroughly implemented by Wang Mu and Wang Shan.

As long as physical conditions permitted, all citizens must learn the Green Wood Breathing Technique or the Savage Bull Body-Forging Fist.

Those with good talent entered the combat sequence.

Those with ordinary talent were responsible for planting, breeding, construction, and transportation, but still retained basic training.

Wang Pingan watched the panel data continuously refresh.

[Divine Kingdom Population: 4,362.]

[Body Refining Realm Citizens: 1,120.]

[Body Forging Realm Citizens: 1,275.]

[Body Refining Tier 3: 168.]

[Body Forging Tier 3: 191.]

[Body Refining Tier 4: 27.]

[Body Forging Tier 4: 33.]

Placed among newly awakened students, this data was already ridiculously exaggerated.

But Wang Pingan did not only look at the pleasant aspects.

He quickly discovered the problem.

The Spiritual Qi around the Small Spirit Vein had become thinner.

The fruits of the Purple Cloud Peach Forest were still hanging full on the branches, but their maturation speed was obviously a notch slower.

At the edges of several spirit fields, the rice leaves turned yellow, and the Spiritual Qi supply began to fail to keep up.

The red mist beside the Mysterious Blood Pool was no longer thick either.

The growth of the ginseng seedlings on the outermost periphery of the Red Blood Ginseng Field deteriorated, and some red soil even showed traces of cracking.

Wang Shan was drilling the citizens on the martial arts field.

After several hundred Body Forging citizens finished practicing a set of the Savage Bull Body-Forging Fist, their recovery speed was much slower than before.

Some people had hollow qi and blood, and had to withdraw from training early.

The situation on Wang Mu's side was similar.

When Cultivation Citizens performed breathing-in, it often took much longer to accumulate a round of Spiritual Qi.

Citizens above Body Refining Tier 3 had a demand for Spiritual Qi that far exceeded when they first started.

Surging population, cultivation advancement, equipment and training—all of them were swallowing resources.

Wang Pingan's brows twitched slightly.

The situation most feared by the pure Combat Path had appeared.

Non-production cultivation meant that the proportion of producing citizens declined.

A large number of combat citizens consumed spirit rice, Purple Cloud Peaches, and Red Blood Ginseng every day, and also absorbed the energy of the Small Spirit Vein and the Mysterious Blood Pool.

In the early stage, relying on B-grade spirit objects to prop it up, it looked very affluent.

However, once the Divine Kingdom's population broke four thousand and practitioners exceeded two thousand, this consumption began to outweigh production.

Wang Pingan brought up the Divine Kingdom's resource panel.

[Spiritual Qi Production: Decreased by 23%.]

[Qi and Blood Production: Decreased by 19%.]

[Spirit Planting Maturation Cycle: Extended by 31%.]

[Combat Citizens Daily Sustenance Pressure: High.]

[Risk Warning: If high-intensity non-production training continues, spirit plant yields will experience a fault line in three years.]

Wang Pingan stared at the last line, instantly making a judgment in his heart.

Three years, which was three years inside the Divine Kingdom.

Converted to outside time, it was barely more than a day.

If this problem was not resolved, his Immortal Martial Legion would be dragged down by resources before even waiting for the Nova Assessment.

The Combat Path was not just shouting slogans.

Without sufficient energy supply, cultivation speed would drop, training intensity would drop, and spirit plant yields would drop.

Ultimately forming a vicious cycle.

This was the true difficulty.

If resources were not smashed hard enough, universal military mobilization would simply be asking for trouble.

Wang Pingan did not hesitate, withdrawing his consciousness from the Divine Kingdom.

In the secret room, he opened his eyes and raised his hand to tap open his watch.

The Federal Mall interface lit up.

He directly skipped the F-grade and E-grade resource areas.

Low-tier cards could no longer fill the current gap.

He needed a higher-tier, more stable energy source that could long-term sustain the Divine Kingdom.

Wang Pingan's gaze fell on the search bar, typing a few words.

"C-grade, spirit vein, qi and blood, Origin fragments."

The list refreshed instantly.

High-priced resources popped out one by one.

Looking at those price tags that easily reached tens of millions, Wang Pingan's expression did not have a trace of hesitation.

The energy crisis had emerged.

If it could not be resolved, all previous advantages would be dragged down.

Once resolved, his legion could continue to soar wildly.