One in a million! Nine hundred geniuses gather at Mount Taibai!

As the countdown hit zero, the list of all students nationwide who had passed the assessment was immediately rushed by local chief instructors and ultimately consolidated at Taibai Mountain Base.

Lin Xiyue and the others, who were stationed far away at Mount Taibai, received this weighty data report almost the moment the list was generated.

At this moment, in the office of the head of Taibai Academy.

"Has the personnel screening been completed?"

"Nationwide... there are only nine hundred and seven people who meet the criteria?!"

Lin Xiyue looked at the list that had just been printed out, completely dumbfounded.

She rubbed her eyes in disbelief and counted the names on it again.

It was correct; there were exactly nine hundred and seven.

Not even a thousand people!

"This isn't right..."

"There are tens of millions of college students nationwide!"

"In the end, only this many stood out?"

Lin Xiyue slapped the list onto the table, feeling that this number was truly pitiful.

Originally, according to her expectations, given the large population base of Great Xia, no matter how difficult it was, she thought they could at least screen out several thousand, or even tens of thousands, right?

The reality, however, gave her a rude awakening.

After the list came out, there were only a mere nine hundred people!

If this small group were scattered into the vast Taibai Academy, they probably wouldn't even make a splash; she reckoned they wouldn't even be able to find anyone on a normal day!

"Good grief!"

"This is truly one in tens of thousands!"

Li Zhanjun, who was standing to the side, also gasped, looking at that thin sheet of paper, feeling quite shocked.

He had originally thought they could pull together an army of Cultivators, but in the end, they could barely scrape together the strength of a single battalion.

This gap was indeed quite large.

"I actually think this number is already quite high."

Just as the two were complaining that the number was too small, Sikong Yang, who had been sitting to the side, revealed a look of slight shock.

He stroked his beard, looking at the list, his eyes filled with admiration.

"After all, your world was previously one without any Cultivators."

"And the Spiritual Qi between heaven and earth is so thin it is almost negligible."

"Yet, in such an extremely harsh environment, you can still produce so many Geniuses who, relying on their own Aptitude, successfully sensed their blood and Qi and stepped into the Body Tempering Realm within a mere ten days."

"In my view, this is truly incredible!"

Sikong Yang's tone was very serious.

"You might not know this, but to be able to Cultivate from a Mortal to the Body Tempering Realm on one's own within ten days—such Aptitude would definitely fall into the category of a Genius, even in the Cangxuan Great Realm where Spiritual Qi is abundant!"

"As long as they don't perish midway and continue to Cultivate properly in the future, it wouldn't be difficult at all for these people to at least achieve the Nascent Soul or Soul Transformation realm!"

"In other words..." Sikong Yang pointed to the names on the list and said in a deep voice: "The future of these nine hundred-plus people is very bright!"

"Oh, this..." Hearing such a professional evaluation from Sikong Yang, both Lin Xiyue and Li Zhanjun were stunned for a moment.

"Uncle Sikong, the way you put it, it really does seem to be the case." Lin Xiyue nodded thoughtfully.

"Fine, anyway, we are just starting out."

"Quality is better than quantity!"

"Having this many Geniuses is indeed not bad."

She quickly accepted this reality and became optimistic again.

"Since the personnel have been screened!"

"Then there is no time to lose; let's hurry up and bring this batch of promising seedlings over!"

Li Zhanjun was already somewhat impatient; his eyes flashed with intensity as he waved his hand and immediately shouted:

"Kunlun Squad, mobilize everyone!"

"And Daoist Zhang, please take all the Daoists of the Qi Refining Realm and move out together!"

"You are responsible for acting as the 'Reception Envoys' for this mission; you must bring this batch of students back safely without missing a single one in the shortest time possible!"

"Yes!" Captain Chen Gang, Zhang Qingfeng, and the others, who had long been waiting outside, responded in unison, their voices shaking the roof tiles.

Just like that, in the dead of night at Taibai Mountain Base, as bursts of huge engine roars tore through the sky, supersonic fighter jets with sci-fi designs soared up like arrows released from a bowstring.

They carried this newly appointed group of "Reception Envoys" and flew to all parts of the country to welcome that batch of Geniuses who were about to change the fate of Great Xia!

For those nine hundred and seven students, this night was destined to be a sleepless one.

And for the entire Great Xia, it was also a night that would go down in history!

Until the sky turned slightly bright and the first glimmer of dawn appeared on the eastern horizon, under the terrifyingly high-efficiency transport of the fighter jets, those nine hundred and seven young students, who came from all corners of the country and had eyes filled with excitement, nervousness, and longing, finally crossed mountains and rivers and successfully arrived at the foot of the cloud-shrouded, fairyland-like Taibai Academy!