91: Chapter 91 A Million Battle Power?!

As the boarding ramp finished docking with the airship hatch, a heavy figure stepped down from the vessel.

The man was a full two meters tall, wearing a deep black military uniform. His arm muscles stretched the cuffs tightly, and his boots made dull thudding sounds as he stepped onto the metal floor.

The aura radiating from him… was that of at least a War General Realm existence!

In Rong City, people at the Hua Hai Realm were already considered big shots. Someone at the War General Realm… the entire Rong City only had one, Xia Yunchi. Sending someone of this level to pick them up for the airship… it was enough to show how much the Alliance valued the Navigator Academy selection!

The burly man walked straight up to Instructor Qin Feng, swept his gaze over Lu Cheng, Su Wan, Xia Xi, and Qian Shuying, and spoke.

"Present your invitation letters."

The four of them took out their gold-stamped invitation letters.

After the burly man took them, the terminal on his wrist lit up, and a pale blue light scanned the surface of the envelopes, emitting a series of faint beeps.

A few seconds later, he handed the invitation letters back one by one.

"Identities confirmed, no errors."

After speaking, he raised his hand and gave Instructor Qin Feng a standard military salute, then stepped aside.

"Find your seats after entering, and do not cause any trouble inside the cabin."

Lu Cheng turned back and waved at Instructor Qin Feng.

"Instructor, we're off."

Instructor Qin Feng gave a grunt of acknowledgment, not saying much more, only adding one sentence as Lu Cheng turned around.

"Take it easy after you get in, don't beat them into depression…"

He suddenly felt a bit worried… for those geniuses.

"Don't worry, I know my limits!"

After saying this, the four followed the boarding ramp and walked into the airship.

It looked big enough from the outside, but the interior had a whole different space.

The top of the cabin was an arched, transparent alloy layer with circles of pale blue light flowing along the edges, and the floor was paved with silver-grey metal plates.

The seats on both sides were arranged in a tiered fashion, with small screens and fixtures embedded next to each position.

There were already about twenty people sitting in the cabin, all of them quite young.

Besides them, there were ten fully armed soldiers standing in various places, wearing black armor, carrying standard-issue rifles, with short blades and source energy grenades hanging at their waists; the aura radiating from every one of them was Hua Hai Realm!

Since when did Hua Hai Realm experts become a dime a dozen??

He couldn't help but mutter to himself.

For a local small county, the Hua Hai Realm was indeed enough to hold up the sky.

However… on the frontier battlefield, they were barely qualified to set foot on the front lines…

As soon as the four of them entered, many gazes in the cabin turned to look at them in unison.

This was the first time in so many stops that four people had boarded from a county-level city!

Many people in the cabin had their expressions change slightly.

However, before figuring out their background, no one took the initiative to come over and talk. Anyone who could obtain the qualification for the Navigator Academy selection had at least some brains.

Rushing up to strike up a conversation, in case they ran into someone with a strange temper, would just be asking for trouble.

After the burly War General Realm man followed them in, he turned to look at Lu Cheng and the others, his voice still cold and hard.

"Find any seat and sit down; do not move until you receive orders!"

The four of them exchanged glances, then walked toward the seats in the middle-back section.

Xia Xi had originally wanted to sit next to Lu Cheng, but Qian Shuying was faster and sat down directly to Lu Cheng's left.

Xia Xi immediately puffed out her cheeks and snatched the position on his right.

Su Wan's expression was calm as she sat on the side near the aisle.

As soon as he sat down, he could feel several gazes sweeping back and forth over him from nearby.

"What are you looking at?"

Xia Xi muttered softly and glared to the side. Several people nodded at Xia Xi in embarrassment, then sat upright, staring straight ahead!

At this moment, the burly man raised his hand to press the dial-type communicator on his chest and spoke in a deep voice.

"South No. 007 assembly complete."

The moment his voice fell, a faint mechanical sound emitted from the cabin.

All the windows around them closed simultaneously, and a semi-transparent light screen immediately covered the transparent layer.

Immediately after, virtual windows popped up all around the cabin, blue light intertwined, and data streams scrolled past rapidly.

The next second, a pink-haired girl popped out from the screen, her hair tied in short twin-tails, with delicate facial features.

She was wearing a white and gold uniform with the academy emblem, floating in mid-air, with a standard business-like smile on her face.

"Welcome, students, to the Navigator Academy selection. I am your intelligent guide, Avril."

Her voice was crisp, with a hint of electronic synthetic softness.

"Navigator Academy was established in the core area of the Federal border war zone, under the joint management of the Supreme Council and the Federal Military Department, and is one of the highest-standard genius training institutions in the Federation."

Many students in the cabin quieted down and listened attentively.

Avril waved her hand, and a miniature map and a 3D image of a giant fortress immediately appeared behind her.

"The academy is responsible year-round for training frontier geniuses, reserving personnel for special missions, and screening seeds for frontline command."

"The fact that you all received an invitation letter already proves that you possess extremely high potential in your respective regions."

"Of course, potential is just an admission ticket."

"The upcoming selection will determine whether you are qualified to truly step into Navigator Academy."

"We are currently three thousand kilometers away from Navigator Academy, with an estimated arrival time of two hours. The registration deadline for the Navigator Academy selection is before 23:59 on April 5th. Please register promptly upon arrival. After this time, you will not be able to participate in the selection registration for any reason."

"The airship has taken off smoothly; you are now free to move about."

The soldiers around them, who had been tense all along, finally dispersed to go about their own business.

The tension in the cabin eased up quite a bit.

The students, who had originally been speaking in hushed voices, gradually started to become active.

Lu Cheng had just breathed a sigh of relief when he felt his back being patted.

He turned his head and saw a sneaky-looking face almost pressed against his, with very bright eyes and a familiar, overly friendly smile on his lips.

"Buddy, I'm Zhou Jinan. What do you call yourself?"

Lu Cheng leaned back to give himself some breathing room.

"Lu Cheng?"

Zhou Jinan was stunned for a moment, then frowned and thought seriously for a few seconds.

"Lu Cheng… Lu family… Rong City is in South District 7…"

A few seconds later, he raised his head with a sincere expression.

"It is my ignorance, I have not heard of any particularly famous Lu family in South District 7."

Lu Cheng smiled slightly; this guy was quite interesting.

"You'll know in the future."

Zhou Jinan's eyes lit up instantly, and he lowered his voice, asking mysteriously:

"Buddy, could it be that you're not a disciple of a big family?"

Lu Cheng was also paused by his question.

"Isn't that very normal?"

Zhou Jinan immediately patted his own mouth.

"Hey, Brother Lu, it's me making a fuss."

"It's just that in previous years, the number of martial artists who could enter the selection without any background was basically no more than fifty."

"And these people are usually very fierce."

As he said this, his eyes became much more serious.

"In every batch of twenty-four Navigator Academy spots, at least six are from humble backgrounds, and these six are all ranked extremely high."

"Those who weren't selected mostly ranked in the top two hundred."

Lu Cheng was a bit surprised to hear this, but he wasn't in a rush to ask.

Zhou Jinan had already continued speaking.

"That's why I'm so surprised. I wonder… Brother Lu, what is your current combat power?"

He asked cautiously, his tone carrying a hint of probing.

Lu Cheng was stunned. "Combat power has a numerical value?"

Zhou Jinan nodded, instantly perking up.

"This is a relatively popular calculation method on the internet recently, but it's limited to students in the Body Refining Realm and Source Gathering Realm."

"The formula is roughly: Qi and blood value plus source energy, multiplied by the highest martial technique proficiency, multiplied by the level of enemies defeated across realms."

Lu Cheng raised an eyebrow as he listened.

"This thing wouldn't be accurate, right?"

"It's just a folk method." Zhou Jinan chuckled, "Although it's not completely accurate, everyone gets to know each other a bit, and it's just for fun."

As he spoke, he began to explain.

"The weight of martial technique proficiency depends on the technique grade and level of proficiency."

"D-grade is 1, C-grade is 2, B-grade is 4, A-grade is 6, S-grade is 8, SS-grade is 10."

"Entry level is 1, Proficient is 2, Mastery is 4, Perfection is 6, God-like is 8."

"Multiplying the two numbers gives the coefficient for this item."

"As for the level of enemies defeated across realms, for every minor realm they are higher than you, this number adds 10 points."

Lu Cheng was quite interested in his calculation method.

He asked casually.

"Then how is the Qi and blood of the Extreme Realm calculated?"

Zhou Jinan answered quickly.

"Multiplied by the compression multiplier."

After speaking, he patted his chest quite proudly.

"Let me say first, I've reached one hundred thousand!"

One hundred thousand?

When this number came out, the few people around who heard them talking all quietly cast their gazes over.

It was already rare for students to have this kind of combat power value.

According to this algorithm, this guy had at least defeated an opponent in the high stage of the Source Gathering Realm, and his own martial techniques and foundation were not weak either.

Lu Cheng also quickly started calculating in his mind.

Source Gathering Realm has three minor realms, Meridian Opening Realm has nine minor realms, Hua Hai Realm… Lu Cheng didn't know…

What realm was that black-clad man again?

Let's just count it as the lowest, early stage of the Hua Hai Realm.

"Hmm…"

Lu Cheng nodded, then said:

"I'm roughly… one million six hundred thousand or so?"

The air went quiet for a moment.

The smile on Zhou Jinan's face froze directly.

"How… how much??"

Zhou Jinan was somewhat suspicious that he had misheard.

It wasn't just him; the few students around who had been pricking up their ears to listen to them were also stunned, their expressions stiffer than the last.

Lu Cheng didn't answer him directly, but turned to look at Su Wan.

"Su Wan, what's your rough figure?"

Su Wan glanced at him.

Although she was a bit unwilling in her heart, she still had to admit that she seemed to have lost by a margin this time.

"Half of yours." She paused, then said calmly, "Eight hundred and thirty thousand."

Once these words were out, the surroundings became even quieter.

The corners of Zhou Jinan's mouth twitched slightly, and the way he looked at the two of them changed.

"You two… are both monsters…"

Qian Shuying also sighed softly, her tone carrying a bit of helplessness.

"I only have two hundred thousand."

In contrast, Xia Xi very naturally did not participate in this topic, just standing to the side as if watching the fun, with a faint, elusive smile on her face.

And at this moment, the expressions of those around them were completely wrong.

Shock, suspicion, absurdity—just at this moment, a mocking voice suddenly rang out.

"In this day and age, do people not even need to draft their lies when bragging?"

The person speaking was a red-haired teenager.

He leaned back in his seat, arms crossed over his chest, with an undisguised sneer on his lips and eyes full of contempt.

"One opens his mouth and says over one million six hundred thousand, another says over eight hundred thousand, and there are actually people who believe it?"

He scoffed and swept a glance at Zhou Jinan and the others.

"Were your brains eaten by pigs?"