121: Level 4 Clearance

Chapter 121: Level Four Authority

After Lu Qianyuan returned to Tianling Academy, he found Ye Yan and received a marked map from him.

The map was densely marked with over twenty locations, all indicating the positions of Materials, along with detailed information on the Materials, the guarding exotic beasts, and the beasts' weaknesses.

As long as one followed the rules on the map, the danger could be greatly avoided.

Lu Qianyuan memorized the map, then began to look for targets with stealth abilities.

Many people in Tianling Academy possessed the ability to become invisible, but not many had Advanced invisibility abilities.

After some investigation, Lu Qianyuan locked onto a suitable target.

The individual, named Liang Jing, was ranked seventy-fourth on the overall leaderboards, possessing extremely strong stealth abilities, making her preeminent in Tianling Academy.

Lu Qianyuan used his Spiritual Perception to search the entire Tianling Academy and quickly found her whereabouts.

After his Breakthrough to the fifth rank, his Spiritual Perception range had again received a significant enhancement.

Originally two thousand meters, now everything within a ten-thousand-meter radius centered on him was within his Perception.

Furthermore, the penetrating power of his Mental Energy had increased; the barrier of Wan Jing Garden, which had previously been able to block his Spiritual Perception, could now not block his Perception at all.

Everything in Wan Jing Garden had nowhere to hide from his eyes.

Currently, in the entire Tianling Academy, there were only two places Lu Qianyuan's Spiritual Perception could not enter.

The first was the Academy's treasury, filled with the Academy's accumulated Materials.

The treasury had two layers; Lu Qianyuan could see the outer layer, but not the inner.

The second was the Dean's office, the highest level of confidential area in the Academy, so it was normal for its stealth ability to be strong.

However, even if he couldn't investigate these two places, it was of no great consequence to Lu Qianyuan.

There were more than enough remaining areas; he could basically monitor ninety-nine percent of the Academy's area in real-time.

At this moment, Liang Jing was in the Academy, but she was currently in Wan Jing Garden, so he couldn't contact her.

There were still two days until the Mind Storm replication was complete; taking advantage of this time, Lu Qianyuan decided to visit the Source Soul Secret Realm to enhance his Soul level.

Also, the Soul Resonance Battle Skill, which he hadn't had time to Cultivate, also needed to be put on the agenda.

Currently, he was only short of fourth-rank strength or being in the top thousand of the overall leaderboards to achieve level four Authority; he just needed to defeat someone in the top thousand.

Lu Qianyuan was worried that testing his fourth-rank strength might reveal something, so he chose to challenge someone in the top thousand of the overall leaderboards.

To avoid trouble, Lu Qianyuan directly chose someone between the 900th and 1000th ranks.

Challenging an opponent was not an easy matter.

One needed to find the opponent, arrange a time, then find a mentor to notarize it, and finally, the two would duel to determine the ranking.

The process was somewhat cumbersome.

During this process, the opponent could accept or refuse, entirely based on their preference.

There would be a grand competition every month, and to maintain one's ranking, one needed to participate and achieve a certain position.

This could effectively prevent someone from continually refusing to ensure they remained undefeated.

However, having resources could accomplish many things.

Lu Qianyuan used his Spiritual Perception and quickly locked onto several targets.

He left his dormitory and then found the closest top-thousand ranked individual.

“I want to challenge you.”

Li Qingyuan looked at Lu Qianyuan in front of him, a hint of confusion in his eyes.

“I refuse.”

After a moment of thought, he shook his head and flatly refused.

There was no benefit in agreeing, and if he failed, he would lose resources, which was not worth it.

“I'll offer a fourth-rank Material; it's yours if you agree.”

Lu Qianyuan continued, taking out a fourth-rank Material from his spatial ring.

Seeing this, Li Qingyuan immediately began to ponder.

To be honest, being ranked in the 900s on the overall leaderboards, the resources one could obtain each month were not many.

He could only get one or two fourth-rank Materials a month.

With half the current month gone, it would be absolutely impossible for him to obtain a fourth-rank resource in the remaining time.

Facing this fourth-rank Material that Lu Qianyuan was offering, he naturally had no reason to refuse.

“It's mine if I agree?”

Li Qingyuan asked, somewhat incredulously.

“That's right.”

Lu Qianyuan nodded, handing the fourth-rank Material to the other party.

Li Qingyuan took the Material, still not quite reacting.

To obtain a fourth-rank Material so easily, it was a bit too easy.

“Cough, cough, even if you give me a fourth-rank Material, I won't go easy on you.”

Li Qingyuan put away the Material, coughed twice, then said.

During battles, a mentor would be present to observe, not only to prevent casualties but also to prevent the challenged party from going easy.

“Understood.”

Lu Qianyuan nodded.

“Let's find someone to notarize it now; I'm in a hurry.”

“What big talk.”

Li Qingyuan's tone was somewhat annoyed.

Lu Qianyuan's attitude, completely disregarding him, made him somewhat displeased; after all, he was also a fourth-rank, yet Lu Qianyuan treated him as if he were a random person on the street.

Perhaps he should go all out later to make Lu Qianyuan change his attitude.

The two quickly found a mentor for notarization; to be precise, Li Qingyuan found him.

Lu Qianyuan's attitude made him very unhappy, so he also wanted to engage Lu Qianyuan quickly.

The two arrived at the training grounds, and after the mentor's command, they immediately began to fight.

Li Qingyuan condensed Origin Qi and activated his Battle Skill.

However, in the next instant, Lu Qianyuan appeared before him.

This terrifying speed left Li Qingyuan with no time to react.

Li Qingyuan subconsciously took a step back, but in an instant, he felt a tremendous force hit his abdomen.

Then, Li Qingyuan was sent flying, finally crashing heavily against the wall, completely unconscious.

“The match is over; you win.”

The mentor, after confirming Li Qingyuan had fainted, immediately announced.

Lu Qianyuan deliberately controlled his speed, displaying only the normal level of a fourth-rank, specifically an upper-middle level fourth-rank, which would definitely not attract the mentor's attention.

With the match over, Lu Qianyuan immediately left.

Next, he only needed to wait for the mentor to upload the data to his wristband, and he would fulfill the last condition for level four Authority.

Lu Qianyuan returned to his dormitory, and after a while, a message came through his wristband, notifying him that he had officially become the 951st on the overall leaderboards, eligible to receive three hundred points weekly until his ranking changed.

Three hundred points were of little use to Lu Qianyuan; the Materials he needed could not be purchased with points.

Even if they could, it would require a great many points; three hundred points were merely a drop in the bucket.

However, the most important level four Authority could finally be upgraded.

Lu Qianyuan had already completed the task previously, and with this ranking, he had met the conditions for the upgrade.

He chose to upgrade, and his Authority directly increased from level three to level four.