67: Everyone: What? Su Bai broke the record again?!

"World Tree branch?"

Su Bai reacted quickly, using his psionic power to directly retrieve the World Tree branch.

The data card appeared:

"Name: A Section of World Tree Branch (Young Plant)"

"Effect: Contains a trace of World Tree power. Any tree-type life form that absorbs it can break through its life limit."

"Description: Legend has it that this section of World Tree branch came from a young World Tree. It accidentally fell while drifting in the void until it was obtained by a Coiling Dragon Ancient Tree..."

Seeing this,

Su Bai suddenly understood.

No wonder the Coiling Dragon Ancient Tree was so weak. Besides the suppression of the tree of life's status, there was an even more important reason:

it itself had forcefully advanced to peak Silver using a tree of life branch.

Having figured this out,

Su Bai tossed the World Tree branch to the tree of life, which was already eagerly awaiting it. The moment they touched, the tree of life emitted a joyful thought.

Subsequently,

the World Tree branch was instantly absorbed completely.

The tree of life's originally very active consciousness also fell into a deep sleep, beginning to digest the immense energy within it.

"Congratulations! You have received an S-rank evaluation! Obtained a wonder of creation 'heaven and earth fetal membrane Fragment' * 1"

The fragment of the heaven and earth fetal membrane fell into his palm.

The Origin Realm had basically returned to its peak state. Su Bai did not linger and stepped into the light gate of the next stage.

At the same time,

as the battle ended, the simulation effect disappeared, and the live broadcast resumed.

However, when everyone looked,

what they saw was not a fierce battlefield, but Su Bai's gradually blurring figure in the teleportation light gate.

And,

in mid-air, a line of large characters that had not yet completely dissipated:

"Candidate 'Su Bai', took 30 seconds, perfectly cleared the special plane 'Forest Sea'!"

"Received S-rank evaluation!"

"Broke the World Tower's record for this item!"

Everyone: ???

"No,"

"We just blinked, and you, kid, cleared it?"

"And broke another record???"

"Is there no justice left!!"

Everyone roared in their hearts. Only Principal Nanshan's face was almost beaming with smiles, like a sunny big boy, chuckling as he watched this scene.

This was fine,

but the most important thing was that this old guy even sighed with a touch of humblebragging:

"Oh, actually, I didn't teach him much normally. I can only say that Su Bai is a naturally gifted child..."

"It's just breaking a record, no big deal~"

"Why are you all so surprised?"

Looking at his smug face, everyone wished they could spit in his face.

"Your sister!"

"What do you mean 'just breaking a record'?"

"Is this thing so casual?"

"Bro, if you keep this up, are you really not afraid of everyone ganging up on you?"

Amidst everyone's resentful gazes,

Principal Nanshan's laughter became even more unrestrained, truly a 'smug little man'!

...Inside the World Tower,

above was a deep and lonely starry sky, with meteors streaking across from time to time. Below, it seemed to be a vast ocean, but what flowed within it were not drops of water,

but actual planets!

The World Sea!

This was the true appearance of the World Tower. Named the World Tower, it actually contained over ten thousand layers of worlds. Each layer contained different extraordinary races and civilizations... It was all-encompassing and endless!

More importantly, this was one of the few self-condensed heaven and earth secret realms on Blue Star, ranking among the top-tier Grotto-heavens!

Not to mention ordinary Grotto-heavens,

even the divine domains of some rulers paled in comparison to it. It was one of the Human Alliance's most important foundations!

Boom—

A white beam of light landed, and Su Bai's body materialized.

A line of text appeared before him:

"Please wait a moment, candidate. The next stage is a group assessment stage!"

"The examination scope will cover the entire country. Only by leading your city to break through the encirclement will you be eligible to compete for the top scholar of Jinghai Province, and even the top scholar of great xia!"

The meaning of this sentence,

Su Bai understood after a brief thought.

Simply put,

this was a screening stage.

Only by securing the position of the top city in one's own province would one be eligible to compete for the upcoming Great Xia Championship!

"Winning first place in the province already makes one the provincial top scholar."

"And next, there will be another round of point screening, and in the end, only the provincial top scholar with the highest points will remain!"

"At that time, this year's top scholar of great xia will be born!"

The rules were simple,

and the elimination method was also clear and easy to understand, merely based on the number of points.

Thinking of this,

Su Bai looked at his points:

"Current Points: 210,000!"

Among them were 130,000 from the Zerg Continent and 80,000 from the Forest Sea plane. At least within Jiangcheng's leaderboard, he was not just far ahead, but enough to leave others in the dust.

Su Bai no longer paid attention to Jiangcheng's leaderboard.

His gaze shifted,

looking at the higher-level Jinghai Province leaderboard.

This time, the positions on the leaderboard had changed, but compared to Su Bai's 210,000 points, the next highest was barely 70,000.

Su Bai, in a class of his own, was above all other candidates in Jinghai Province!

"Indeed, a perfect clear is rare even within the entire province, and might even only appear once every few batches."

"If someone had surpassed me, it would be strange instead."

Su Bai was not surprised by this result.

He continued to look up,

arriving at the national points ranking.

Just one glance caused a ripple in Su Bai's calm expression,

"Imperial Capital, Xia Qi, Current Points: 230,000!"

"National Points Leaderboard First!"

His previously unshakeable first place had been snatched away, and by a full 20,000 points more than him!

Such a change,

even Su Bai couldn't help but frown and began to ponder: "I've come all this way, with perfect clears plus two S-rank evaluations, and only reached 210,000 points."

"This Xia Qi not only didn't fall behind me but actually led me by 20,000 points..."

"Interesting."

Su Bai chuckled,

for the first time, on a peer,

he felt a sense of pressure, but this pressure did not make him yield. Instead, it ignited a long-lost excitement in his long-calm heart!

The path of a prodigy, slay gods if they block, slay buddhas if they block!

He was destined to be invincible among his peers.

Only by sweeping aside all geniuses could he forge an invincible path, ascend to the ninth rank, and become the master of a divine domain!

Excitement gradually transformed into fighting spirit.

Raising his eyes again, Su Bai's eyes were already deep, and his entire body radiated an aura like a sharp sword, soaring into the sky!

If the previous Su Bai was

like an ancient tree that had reined in its sharpness, one would only feel its terror if provoked.

Then,

at this moment, Su Bai was a divine sword with its sharpness fully revealed! His fighting spirit soared, making him impossible to look at directly!

...At the same time,

in the Imperial Capital, thousands of miles away from Jinghai Province,

a young man with sword-like eyebrows and starry eyes, like an exiled immortal, seemed to also sense the fighting spirit from afar.

Looking at the leaderboard before him,

his gaze lingered on Su Bai's name for a moment, then, he smiled slightly:

"Su Bai... It seems this batch isn't entirely made of trash."

His murmuring was heard by the girl behind him, who immediately said with some dissatisfaction:

"Let's go, let's go! The next round is about to start. I really don't know where you get your bad taste from, clearly you've already graduated, but you always secretly participate in the College Entrance Examination..."

"Isn't this bullying?"

Hearing the girl's words,

Xia Qi's expression became a bit awkward. He rubbed his nose and said somewhat unnaturally: "Isn't this to assess the quality of students each year..."

The girl rolled her eyes at this. "Oh, please, isn't it just that you're tired of no one in the academy being able to beat you?"

"Hahaha, my junior sister understands me best. Come on, give me a kiss~"

"I just put on my makeup!!!"

"Uh... I was wrong. Can you not hit my face?"

"No, take this!"

The girl bared her fangs and claws, pouncing fiercely towards Xia Qi...