24: Chapter 24 Qi and Blood Testing Device: I'm Cracked, Do Not Disturb

The cabin door closed.

The world instantly went quiet.

A blue beam of light fell from above, beginning to scan him up and down.

[Internal Chat Group]

[Skin (Stress Response)]:

"Eh? Is something peeping at me?"

"This wavelength of radiation... it's so itchy. It feels like countless ants are crawling on me."

"I don't like this feeling of being seen through. Stratum corneum encryption! Density increase! Bounce these rays back!"

[Brain]:

"Warning. This is an official test. In order to get the top scholar reward, we need to show a certain level of strength."

"But it can't be too exaggerated, otherwise we'll be sliced up for research."

"Suggestion: Control the Qi/Blood fluctuation and simulate a value of a peerless genius, around 50.0 should suffice."

[Kidneys (Anxious)]:

"50? Is that enough? What if someone is higher than 50? Won't my Origin Crystals fly away?"

"No! It must be stable! Max it out for me! Let this broken machine know what real quality is!"

[stomach]:

"I think so too! I just ate meteorite iron yesterday, and now my whole body is uncomfortably hard. It's perfect to clash with this machine!"

In reality.

The instrument emitted a "humming" sound as it operated.

The numbers on the display screen started to jump.

0.8... 1.0...

Just at this moment, the [Skin] inside Jiang You suddenly hardened completely, like an insulating black hole, directly blocking the scanning rays.

The value stuck instantly.

The operating teacher was stunned and patted the machine: "Is it broken? Why can't it read?"

He increased the power: "Scan again!"

Hum——!!!

This time, the machine released the highest intensity of spiritual pressure.

But this pressure was just like a gentle breeze to the current Jiang You.

Instead, his body, in order to resist this peeping, instinctively released a trace of magnetic field fluctuation from the extraterrestrial meteorite iron.

Sizzle!

A spark suddenly burst inside the glass cabin.

The screen of that five-million-value military-grade scanning cabin went black directly.

Immediately after, black smoke emerged from the base, accompanied by a burnt smell.

A spiderweb-like crack appeared on the hard bulletproof glass door.

The whole venue was dead silent.

The teacups in the hands of the university observers on the stands paused in mid-air.

The operating teacher opened his mouth wide, looking at the alarm still beeping in his hand, completely dumbfounded.

Jiang You pushed open the cracked cabin door, waved away the black smoke in front of him, and looked at the teacher with an innocent face:

"Um... teacher?"

"Didn't I say this thing didn't look sturdy?"

"I swear, I was just standing inside, with my hands in my pockets, and it just exploded by itself."

"Did this machine not get enough rest? Did it die from overwork? This... I don't have to pay for it, do I?"

The operating teacher swallowed, his hands shaking: "This... this is a machine that can withstand Tier 5 Grandmaster spiritual pressure..."

The chief examiner walked over quickly and examined the machine with a grave expression.

Finally, he wrote a line in his record book: [Abnormal value, instrument malfunction].

"Since electronic instruments can't measure it, then we will use the most primitive method."

The chief examiner waved his hand and shouted loudly:

"Go bring up the [Obsidian Strength Testing Monument] from the warehouse!"

Rumble.

Several staff members huffed and puffed as they carried up a two-meter-tall, completely pitch-black stone monument.

This was a target used by ancient martial artists to test their strength. The material was special, capable of withstanding extremely high impact forces, and would display colors based on the depth of the force received.

White is for Tier 1 martial artists, yellow for Tier 2, red for Tier 3, purple for Tier 4, and black for Tier 5.

The chief examiner pointed at the monument:

"Jiang You, use your greatest strength to punch it."

"Regardless of whether you are a true genius or a fake, this stone will not lie."

Jiang You looked at that pitch-black stone.

"Hit the stone? Won't my hand hurt?"

[Internal Chat Group]

[Right Hand (Trembling with excitement)]:

"Finally! Finally, I can legally smash and grab!"

"I've long found these stones unpleasant! Eating meteorite iron yesterday was the stomach's job, today it's my turn!"

"Kidneys! Give some energy support! I'm going to punch through this stone!"

[Kidneys]:

"Approved! 100% energy supply! For the Origin Crystals! Hit it hard! Show the style of a top scholar!"

Jiang You sighed and walked to the monument.

"Fine, I'll just go through the motions a little. I hope to get a passing score, don't want to be too embarrassing."

He raised his right hand, seemingly light and airy, without any charging action, not even twisting his waist.

It was just like greeting an old friend by patting them on the shoulder; he swung his fist out casually.

Lin Ya, who was offstage, shook her head and whispered to her best friend beside her: "No waist-horse unity, no mobilization of Qi/Blood. This punch is soft and weak; I'm afraid it won't even trigger the white color. He doesn't understand how to exert force at all."

At this time, Zhao Tai, who was also offstage, sneered: "Pretending to be a ghost, let's see how you explain this one!"

However.

Just at the second Jiang You's fist contacted the surface of the monument.

[Right Hand] instantly entered overclocking mode.

[Right Hand]:

"A light touch? That doesn't exist!"

"All-in! Spit out all the energy from last night's midnight snack for me!"

"For me... explode!!!"

The muscle fibers performed thousands of micro-tremors in an instant, gathering all the blood Qi of the whole body onto a single point of the knuckles.

"Boom!!!"

A loud noise.

Not the sound of stone shattering.

But a roar similar to a tank's main gun firing right next to one's ear.

The terrifying sound wave instantly swept through the entire enclosed Gymnasium.

Everyone in the venue only felt a "hum" in their Brains, as if someone had stuffed a screaming chicken into their heads and then squeezed it hard.

The originally noisy Gymnasium fell into an eerie silence in this instant.

It wasn't that there was no sound, but everyone was temporarily deafened by the huge noise, and only a sharp ringing sound remained in their ears.

A special police officer in the front row was so scared that the walkie-talkie in his hand dropped. He subconsciously covered his ears, opened his mouth wide, and shouted: "WTF! Who fired? Enemy attack?"

But from others' perspective, he was just opening his mouth to perform a mime.

And the chief examiner, who was closest, was even more miserable; he felt his dentures had been shaken loose.

He covered his ears, looked around with a terrified face, and roared loudly:

"Who? Which bastard brought a grenade into the examination hall!"

"Security! Security! There are terrorists bombing the school!"

Just in this atmosphere of battlefield chaos where everyone had tinnitus.

That incredibly hard Obsidian Strength Testing Monument, which claimed to be able to withstand a full-strength blow from a Tier 5 Grandmaster, didn't even have time to light up any color representing a tier.

Because it... disappeared.

To be precise, the upper half directly exploded into black powder filling the sky, like a black rain falling.

As for the lower half, because it couldn't withstand the terrifying impact, it was directly driven deep into the foundation of the Gymnasium like a nail, with only the head showing!

The smoke and dust dissipated.

Hearing gradually recovered.

People finally heard the sound; it was the rustling sound of powder falling to the ground.

At this moment, Jiang You, who was squatting on the ground, also came back to his senses.

Jiang You widened his eyes, pointed at that hole, and shouted at the top of his lungs to the chief examiner:

"Teacher! What is this situation!"

"Did you hide explosives in the stone?"

"Is this testing the examinees' stress response? This is too hardcore! Do I count as passing?"

The chief examiner looked at Jiang You's expression of "I am a victim" and "I am terrified," and was completely dumbfounded.

He opened his mouth, wanting to say that you were the one who broke it.

But he looked at the stone stake driven into the foundation, and then glanced at Jiang You's truly innocent appearance, and he himself wavered.

Could it be... really a quality issue with the stone?

Was there a high-pressure gas explosion inside? Otherwise, how to explain a student being able to make such a commotion?

The smoke and dust dissipated.

Hearing gradually recovered.

Jiang You was still there patting his chest, looking shaken, and explaining to the classmates around who were stunned:

"Everyone saw it! It exploded just as my hand touched it!"

"This is definitely a setup! This is a trap!"

"Um... teacher, I have some tinnitus, does this count as a work injury? I don't have to pay for that stone, do I?"

"Teacher, I want to report this. I highly suspect that this matter was done by Zhao Tai from the next class. He has a grudge against me. Go check their family!"

All teachers and students present: "..."

Zhao Tai: "Jiang You, you f*cking..."

The mineral water bottle in Lin Ya's hand dropped to the ground, water spilling all over her shoes, but she was completely unaware, just staring blankly at the stone stake driven into the ground.

Only one thought remained in her mind:

Jiang You just lightly... touched it?

Directly beat the obsidian into powder?

And even created a sonic boom?

Just when the whole venue was plunged into this absurd silence.

The homeroom teacher, Baldy Wang, was the first to come back to his senses.

Regardless of whether it was explosives, this commotion was caused by Jiang You!

He jumped up violently, let out a screeching scream that broke the silence:

"Awakened!!!"

"This is definitely an awakened Strength-type Supernatural Ability!!!"

"Or a physical mutation!!!"

"Top scholar! This is our class's top scholar!!!"

Following Baldy Wang's screeching scream, the originally dead-silent Gymnasium instantly turned into a noisy marketplace.

At the highest point of the stands, those university observers who were originally sitting like big shots with their legs crossed drinking tea, at this moment, as if there were springs under their butts, all jumped up in unison.

Some even overturned the table in front of them because the movement was too big.