155: The power of Hanhai Jue
After Luo Feng's breakthrough with the Hanhai Art caused a nationwide trending topic, Zhao Yuan, who had just finished exploring the mysteries of the body with a female classmate, took a deep drag from his Panda cigarette, contentedly picked up his phone, and began browsing the school's official website.
He was scouting for his next suitable target.
After injecting the Gene Serum, his overall capabilities had significantly improved.
As he scrolled, he suddenly felt something was off, because the school's official website was entirely filled with news about Luo Feng.
There were also many girls on the website's confession wall boldly expressing their affection for Luo Feng.
"Damn it, how shameless! To actively throw themselves at someone else, and it's that disgusting Luo Feng. How infuriating!"
Zhao Yuan angrily snuffed out his cigarette, so furious he nearly crushed his phone.
The girl beside him huddled under the blanket, trembling, not understanding why Zhao Yuan's mood was so unpredictable and volatile.
"What kind of crappy cultivation method! How can it allow someone as lowly as Luo Feng to break through? And what's this about 'Academy's Dual Pillars'?! Does he deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as me?!"
After reading the buzzing news on the official website, Zhao Yuan became even more enraged.
He had achieved his current status and superior position through his prominent family background.
His entire family, over generations, had worked hard for this.
What right did Luo Feng have?
Because he was poor?!
Because he was trying to steal his women?
Because he wanted to lord over him?!
A single cultivation method had allowed him to leap to F-rank, becoming one of only two F-rank students alongside himself.
Crucially, he also saw a message posted by Luo Feng on the official website.
He actually intended to challenge him a day later!
And this message had even been pinned by people who loved to watch drama unfold.
He couldn't even refuse!
Zhao Yuan was so annoyed that he wished he could rush over to Luo Feng right now and beat him up like before.
He snorted, "A mere broken cultivation method wants to challenge my family's century-old legacy and accumulation? Does he really think that broken cultivation method can contend with me?!"
An enraged Zhao Yuan directly accepted the challenge.
And after Zhao Yuan logged into his account and chose to accept the challenge, it immediately sparked a heated discussion on the school's official website.
Zhao Yuan was a well-known Gene Warrior, who had even participated in battles against fierce beasts, possessing great strength and extensive combat experience.
Luo Feng, on the other hand, had merely soared to success by relying on the Hanhai Art.
Compared to the deeply entrenched Zhao Yuan, he seemed to have no comparability whatsoever.
However, it was precisely because of this that everyone's attention was drawn to this duel.
After all, one was a Gene Warrior who had not cultivated the Hanhai Art.
The other was a human cultivator who practiced the Hanhai Art but had not injected genes.
They were very curious to know the extent of the difference between the two.
As the discussion about this duel grew more fervent on the academy's official website, even people outside the academy began to pay attention.
For the wealthy and those with substantial assets, this battle was even more captivating.
If the Hanhai Art proved to be much stronger than Gene Warriors.
Then they would naturally spare no expense in gathering resources to help their descendants reach higher realms of the Hanhai Art.
Conversely, if Gene Warriors were stronger, they would have to prepare for both possibilities.
They would have their ordinary disciples cultivate the Hanhai Art, while their true core family members would continue on the path of Gene Warriors, or perhaps cultivate both.
Although the critical point of the Spiritual Qi Revival had not yet arrived, as time progressed, they needed to make decisions quickly and allocate resources in advance.
This battle caused such a stir that even Lu Yu, who was in the Tianyu Sect, heard about it.
He simply knew too well the power of the Hanhai Art; Gene Serum simply couldn't compare to it.
He already knew the outcome without even needing a comparison.
However, this matter was not entirely unworthy of Lu Yu's attention.
In less than half a day, the discussion around this matter remained high among humanity.
It showed that in the face of unprecedented great changes, they were hesitant, wavering, and full of trepidation.
If Luo Feng could cleanly resolve Zhao Yuan.
It would undoubtedly cause a sensation within humanity.
The Hanhai Art would also be able to take root faster among humanity.
According to his current understanding and monitoring.
Although the Chinese government was doing its utmost to promote it, there were still many stubborn individuals who did not intend to cultivate the Hanhai Art.
They didn't believe he was that kind, nor did they believe the Hanhai Art was that powerful.
This group of people would only cry out for cultivation once they saw the harshness of the future and the power of the Hanhai Art.
Compared to the suspicion of those in China, and their heartfelt aversion to fierce beasts.
Other countries, after learning that Lu Yu had imparted a cultivation method to China, immediately acquired the Hanhai Art through various channels and translated it as quickly as possible.
Although they couldn't cultivate in a place with rich Spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth like the Tianyu Sect, they had already made full preparations for it.
They were just waiting for the Spiritual Qi Revival; that would be their time to improve their strength.
This was naturally something Lu Yu was very happy to see, as it meant the entire world would gradually come under the rule of his cultivation method's colonization!
Although no significant gains could be seen in the short term now.
However, the more those who cultivated the Hanhai Art progressed in their cultivation.
The benefits and rewards brought by the cultivation method would become more profoundly evident.
Therefore, Lu Yu was not in a hurry to cultivate during this period, but rather closely monitored the promotion of the cultivation method.
And the various cultural relics continuously sent by numerous countries.
These items, in the rich environment of the Tianyu Sect, had already begun to undergo various changes, massively devouring Spiritual Qi like fierce beasts.
Those ink paintings looked even more vivid; the ink on their surface, after absorbing ample Spiritual Qi, became lifelike, like irregular inky creatures wriggling on the paintings, gradually emitting an inexplicable aura.
And landscape paintings like these had already piled up like mountains in the warehouse specially built by Lu Yu.
Although most of the ink paintings had not undergone transformation, the cultural relics accumulated by Lu Yu had formed small mountains, and the transformed cultural relics were already an astronomical number.
Moreover, as time went on, the power of these cultural relics would continue to increase.
If these things were used properly, they would definitely be his greatest trump card, apart from the system.
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Time flowed swiftly, as if in a blink of an eye, the sun set, the moon rose, stars shifted, and then the red sun reappeared from the horizon.
Within the Gene Academy, due to the duel between Luo Feng and Zhao Yuan, it was packed to the brim, with onlookers and reporters everywhere.
Even some foreign reporters had rushed there.
Like China, they had developed Gene Serum, but they did not yet have a single cultivator, so they could only observe the advantages and disadvantages of both through duels like theirs.