Chapter 44: The Uneasy Geng Qianxing

Puhai Martial Arts Plaza.

Today is the start of the second round of assessments, and there are far fewer people in the waiting area of the plaza.

Thirty thousand people are participating in the second round of assessments; compared to the two million in the first round, it is simply a fraction.

The area for the second round of assessments has been reduced significantly, and correspondingly, the area for the outside audience has become much larger.

Unlike participating in the first round of assessments, this time the waiting area of Yujiang University, where Geng Qianxing is with his three students, has become the focus of the entire venue.

It is still the No. 38 assessment area. This time is different from when they first arrived; when Geng Qianxing and the others came over, they received the attention of the entire venue.

Although after the first round of assessments ended, Li Wanran's score dropped to third and Fang Chong's score dropped to seventh, they are still the most eye-catching existence on the plaza.

The second round tests the gene growth level. The time for this round of assessment is slightly longer, and it is also an elimination system.

Compared to the first round, this second round is the true elimination round.

After two million people were eliminated in the first round, there are still thirty thousand people here.

The second round, however, has an elimination rate of thirty to one, meaning that after the second round ends, at most ten thousand people will be able to participate in the third round of assessments.

This fully reflects the cruelty of the admissions assessment for the ten major academies of Blue Star.

The elimination rate for the second round of assessments is so high also because the gene growth level is even more important than the gene fusion rate.

A high gene fusion rate only indicates that you can fuse with a certain type of gene; as for the growth height after fusing with this gene, no one knows.

Some people have a gene fusion rate close to S-rank, but after fusing with a foreign gene, there is no further progress.

That is to say, after fusing with a foreign gene, they cannot continue to let the fuser continue to grow.

Such people can only remain at the level of gene ability users and cannot become gene cultivators.

The students recruited by the ten major academies of Blue Star are to be cultivated at a huge cost; naturally, it is impossible to just let them stop at the level of an ability user.

Only those with high growth potential can become gene cultivators, and even cultivate to a level-nine gene cultivator.

High-level gene cultivators are the purpose of the ten major academies of Blue Star cultivating geniuses.

On Earth, a level-nine gene cultivator is the ceiling, equivalent to the peak of the martial arts innate realm.

This growth ability is different from the self-gene ability growth created by Ding Huan.

The growth ability recognized by the ten major academies of Blue Star or Earth's gene cultivation is the ability to continuously improve one's strength after fusing with a foreign gene.

This improvement does not include the improvement of the fused foreign gene ability, but simply refers to the improvement of one's own strength.

Of course, with the improvement of the gene cultivator's own strength, the fused foreign gene ability will also improve slightly.

This improvement is limited and was directly ignored by Ding Huan.

The growth Ding Huan believes in is not simply believing that after fusing with a foreign gene, one can continue to cultivate from a level-one gene cultivator to level two, level three...

This kind of growth is the most basic; if you can't even do this, why fuse with a foreign gene?

Besides this kind of growth, Ding Huan also believes that with the improvement of his own cultivation, the foreign gene attribute ability he possesses will also improve accordingly.

The so-called attribute ability is to turn the foreign gene skill into one's own ability after fusing with a foreign gene, which is called attribute ability.

The first round of assessment was twenty people at a time, and each time was only a few minutes.

The second round of assessment is ten people entering to participate in the assessment each time, and each assessment time is twenty minutes.

Because the first round of assessment scores belonged to the top few, Yujiang University was in the first batch of the second round.

"Teacher Geng, we are going in."

Fang Chong and the three were the first batch of candidates called. Although they all had S-rank fusion rate scores in the first round, they were still very nervous in the second round.

Geng Qianxing waved his hand, "You guys go quickly, relax your mindset. Think about what level you were at before; there is nothing to be nervous about."

Fang Chong complained in his heart, Teacher Geng's words are a bit heart-piercing; does he know how to comfort people?

If it were another mentor, if their students achieved such good results in the first round.

During the second round of assessments, their minds would definitely be entirely on their students.

Geng Qianxing is clearly an exception; his mind is not on these students at all, and he is even a bit absent-minded.

Now, besides worrying about Ding Huan, he is also worried about his endurance gene potion.

In the past few days, he has been repeatedly asked by big shots from all sides about Ding Huan's past, whereabouts, and usual behavior.

As for Ding Huan's background, to be honest, he only just found out.

He had never thought before that Ding Huan was the true legal heir of the Baiyu Group.

Ding Jie snatched the Baiyu Group; in fact, most people know it.

Who doesn't know that Ding Jie is Ding Baishan's adopted son? Ding Xiaotu is Ding Baishan's biological son?

An adopted son drove away the true heir and forcibly occupied the Baiyu Group. On the surface, no one says anything, but can they stop people's discussions behind their backs?

No wonder Ding Huan told him not to buy Seliu Gene back then. So it turns out that Seliu Gene really has problems.

Geng Qianxing cannot calm himself down; he worries about Ding Huan one moment and himself the next.

He regrets not listening to Ding Huan and clearing out all the data about the endurance gene potion in his notebook.

Now his notebook has been taken away; can the endurance gene potion still be kept?

Even if the endurance gene potion can't be kept, the key is whether he will be taken away by others, just like Ding Huan told him before?

At the same time, Ding Huan arrived in Puhai again.

Just as he expected, there are too many outsiders in Puhai this time; who would care who he is? It's even more impossible for anyone to investigate him.

Ding Huan didn't go directly to look for a gene laboratory. As long as he arrived in Puhai, it would be too simple to rent a gene laboratory.

For Ding Huan, the first thing to do now is to get money.

He still has a few million in his bank card, but Ding Huan is certain that as long as he dares to use the bank card, his tracks will be exposed under the nose of the Gene Alliance the next moment.

Ding Huan walked into a gene medicinal herb shop.

In the era of genetic mutation of various species, many mutated animals and plants have appeared, among which there are many rare varieties.

Therefore, gene medicinal herb shops have emerged. This kind of medicinal herb shop collects all kinds of mutated materials, whether it is mutated genetic beasts or mutated gene medicinal herbs.

After the medicinal herb shop collects these things, some gene laboratories, gene experiment enthusiasts, or universities will come to buy them away.

Ding Huan is carrying a large bag. As soon as he enters this kind of medicinal herb shop, people know that he is here to sell gene medicinal herbs.

With the coming of troubled times, most medicinal herb merchants come in this attire.

"What medicinal herbs are you selling?" the young man watching the shop asked with a smile.

He understands that this kind of lone medicinal herb merchant is not a simple person.

Ding Huan remembered the few precious medicinal herbs in his bag, especially the mutated pomelo that hadn't been used up yet.

That piece of pomelo is worth a fortune.

Ding Huan quickly realized that this is not the Changyi Continent; if he takes these medicinal herbs out, the other party might not even recognize them, nor would they know their preciousness.

Thinking of this, Ding Huan said, "I have a very precious medicinal herb. Is the boss in?"

"Boss, a guest wants to see you." The young man outside shouted to the inside.

Hearing the young man's shout, a woman around thirty years old walked out. She looked at Ding Huan and said with a smile, "Let's go inside and have some tea."

Ding Huan carried the large bag into the backyard. A man and a woman were already sitting there drinking tea.

The woman was very enthusiastic. After greeting Ding Huan to sit down, she took the initiative to pour a cup of tea for Ding Huan and asked with a smile, "Big brother, do you have any good things to sell?"

Ding Huan took out a piece of cloth and placed it on the table, "Boss, take a look at this."

Seeing Ding Huan's casual manner, the few people, including the female boss, didn't care.

The female boss opened the cloth. When they saw what was inside, all three were shocked. After a while, the man said excitedly, "Is this a beast core?"

The other two women didn't speak, all fixing their eyes on Ding Huan.

Especially the female boss; she had been in the medicinal herb business for some years and had never seen anyone take out a genetic beast core.

"Are you selling this beast core?" The female boss's tone was trembling with excitement.

Even if Ding Huan asked for a high price, she would have to take this beast core.

Ding Huan immediately knew that he had underestimated the value of the beast core.

It's not that he didn't know the value of the beast core, but he knew that beast core was just the name on Earth; this could only be considered a beast nucleus, and calling it a beast core was really overestimating that level-three black ape.

Real beast cores do exist on the Changyi Continent, even if he had only seen one from afar at an auction, and hadn't even touched one.

On Earth, it is recorded as a beast core, so he just treated it as a beast core.

Originally, he intended to sell this beast core, but now he changed his mind.

It's not because the beast core is too precious, but because he saw from the performance of these people that this beast core is worth at least ten million and up.

He couldn't let the other party transfer the money to his card; right now, he could only take cash.

Ten million in cash? He was afraid he couldn't take it away.

"No, I'm a bit short of capital recently. I want to mortgage this beast core and come back to get it in a while. How about that?" Ding Huan said sincerely.

Mortgage?

The few people were shocked by Ding Huan's words. If he wanted to mortgage it, why not go to a pawnshop?

Ding Huan smiled awkwardly, "It's like this, the procedures in the pawnshop are too cumbersome. I actually have some things that are not convenient to disclose..."

Speaking of this, Ding Huan gritted his teeth, as if he had decided something, "I lost a large sum of money doing medicinal herb business, and now I still owe the bank money, and I'm being watched by the bank."

"If I mortgage this thing to a pawnshop today, the bank will take it away tomorrow."

So that's it; the few people understood Ding Huan's concerns.

At this time, there are countless people who have gone bankrupt, and countless people who owe the bank money and can't pay it back.

"How do you want to mortgage it?" Hearing that Ding Huan didn't intend to sell this beast core, the woman was a little disappointed.

Ding Huan said, "You write something for me, just to prove that I left this beast core with you. Also, give me 500,000 in cash. As for the fees, do it according to your ideas."

"If you are willing to trust me, then there is no problem." The woman said without hesitation.

Ding Huan owes the bank money, so wanting cash is normal.

As for this beast core, even if it's not hers, as long as it is placed in her shop, the value of her shop will immediately rise by several grades.

(The update for today ends here, good night friends!) ===== CHAPTER 45 =====