Chapter 354: Perfect!

That day, besides Star Refining Marquis announcing this news, Absolute Distance Marquis immediately countered by publicly releasing his own announcement, promising all sorts of benefits.

Even though the recruitment deadline for the military departments of the various provinces was approaching, a huge number of people still began to sign up.

After all, among the powerful ones who traveled from the various provinces to this Star Refining Xianlian Shengxing, only seventy percent had originally intended to enlist; the remaining thirty percent, who perhaps had no such thoughts, were now tempted by the conditions offered by Star Refining Marquis and Absolute Distance Marquis.

Any Chaos Creature, even a low-level Chaos Creature, could sign up to join the army.

After Lin Qing signed up to join the Star Refining Military Department that day, he immediately applied to participate in the Star Refining Military Department's Elite Selection Trial.

"You want to participate in the Elite Selection Trial?"

The female auditor at the Star Refining Military Department couldn't help but glance at Lin Qing and confirmed again.

The strength of an army elite must be at least at the peak level among high-level Chaos Creatures; how dare a low-level Chaos Creature even dare to sign up?

"Yes." Lin Qing nodded. "There's no rule prohibiting low-level Chaos Creatures from participating, right?"

"Allow me to remind you of one thing."

That auditor warned: "The Elite Selection Trial has a preliminary stage; you must pass the preliminaries to be qualified for the trial. Furthermore, although you can surrender during the process, if the gap in strength during combat is too large, you won't have time to surrender."

Seeing Lin Qing nod calmly, she then submitted the file.

"You also participated in the Elite Selection Trial?"

Outside the Star Refining Military Department building, Lin Qing looked at the long-haired youth before him with some surprise; it was none other than an acquaintance, 'Su Lan'.

Immediately, Lin Qing suddenly scrutinized Su Lan from head to toe and exclaimed in surprise: "You broke through?"

Hundreds of years ago, the last time he saw Su Lan, they were both still low-level Chaos Creatures, and Su Lan hadn't even been confident about breaking through; now he had actually succeeded?

"Yes, I broke through not long ago, but my father insisted I participate."

Su Lan nodded helplessly and transmitted a voice: "Father advanced a drop of Star Spirit Marrow from Star Refining Marquis for me to consume, which allowed me to break through successfully, so he sent me to participate in the Elite Selection Trial to bring a drop of Star Spirit Marrow back to him."

He couldn't help but sigh, "I've only been broken through for a few hundred years; only my inner world and divine body had time to transform. I haven't had time to integrate the perfect mystery of space-time into my divine technique, nor have I had time to break through my secret arts. I don't even know if I can pass this Elite Selection Trial..."

"The improvement is already huge." Lin Qing shook his head.

As far as he knew, after transforming from a low-level Chaos Creature into a high-level Chaos Creature, the divine body would evolve from a Space-Time Divine Body into a 'World Divine Body'!

A Space-Time Divine Body wasn't particularly special, and the inner world was very crude, so low-level Chaos Creatures couldn't mobilize the power of their inner worlds at all.

However, the inner world of a high-level Chaos Creature already contained a perfect mystery of space-time; this World Divine Body could fully mobilize the power of the inner world. Not only did its own might contain the power of a whole world in every gesture, but crucially, it could also mobilize the great power of the River of Space-Time!

Therefore, once a high-level Chaos Creature broke through and its divine body transformed, its strength could instantly surge by two levels!

Once a divine technique integrated a perfect mystery of space-time, or a secret art was cultivated to its limit, the strength could rise another level.

Not to mention that low-level Chaos Creatures often lacked powerful bloodlines, whereas high-level Chaos Creatures could easily obtain the third-generation bloodline of Chaos Beings, and with gradual accumulation, even a Universe Treasure could transform to the limit of the Primordial level.

It could be said—

Once a high-level Chaos Creature accumulated strength for a period and stabilized, it could crush and kill tens of thousands of low-level Chaos Creatures with a mere flick of its fingers!

Of course, this did not include Lin Qing, who was abnormal in every aspect.

"The improvement is indeed huge."

Su Lan said excitedly: "Originally, even facing ordinary high-level Chaos Creatures, I could only barely hold them off; now, I might actually pass the Elite Selection Trial."

"Oh?" Lin Qing raised an eyebrow slightly.

It seemed Su Lan's original strength was quite formidable; his bloodline genes must have been extraordinary, perhaps the second-generation bloodline of a Chaos Being?

Moreover, his Universe Treasure must have long been cultivated to the limit of the Primordial level.

"Your father is still willing to cultivate you." Lin Qing said.

"Don't talk about me."

Su Lan looked at Lin Qing. "At least I came to participate in the selection trial because I broke through; you haven't broken through, yet you still dare to come?"

"Just trying it out." Lin Qing said.

"You're really bold." Su Lan shook his head. "If I hadn't broken through, I wouldn't dare to come and join this excitement."

Lin Qing shook his head and said nothing.

Seeing him so calm, as if he truly had some confidence, Su Lan couldn't help but start wondering.

"So confident?"

"If it's just the second-generation bloodline of a Chaos Being and a Primordial Treasure cultivated to the limit, that's definitely not enough... What else? Supreme Secret Arts? Combined Divine Techniques and Treasure Sets? That's not enough either..."

Su Lan couldn't help but guess silently.

As far as he knew, for the top talents truly valued by the supreme powers of the King Realm, having bloodline genes reaching 999 times the universal limit was just the baseline, and cultivating a Treasure to the Primordial limit was very normal.

Moreover, they were either former Star Gods or even Chaos Gods capable of forging a Personal Treasure.

Or they relied on treasures like 'Personal Origin Spirit' to transform a Chaos Divine Artifact into a Personal Divine Artifact, which could then be cultivated into a Universe Treasure.

These peerless geniuses almost all possessed Combined Divine Techniques, Treasure Sets, and their secret arts were all Supreme Secret Arts!

Therefore, even during their low-level Chaos Creature phase, they could suppress many high-level Chaos Creatures!

But even so, they might not necessarily pass this Elite Selection Trial.

Su Lan couldn't help but become curious; where did this mysterious Brother Jialin get his confidence from?

The next day.

The area where the Star Refining Military Department building was located had already been arranged with a battle platform, serving as the preliminary location for the Elite Selection Trial.

The space-time within the battle platform had been adjusted by the Eternal Existence to be a full million kilometers in length and width, enough for high-level Chaos Creatures to fight freely.

When Lin Qing arrived at the preliminary waiting area, the members participating in the Elite Selection Trial had already occupied more than half the seats in the waiting zone; at a glance, there were at least tens of thousands of people.

"The attraction of the Star Spirit Marrow is indeed strong enough..."

Lin Qing shook his head silently.

As far as he knew, the number of people who signed up for this Elite Selection Trial exceeded fifty thousand.

You must know that there are only over three hundred thousand high-level chaotic beings on the entire Xianlian Shengxing.

Although the Star Refining Military Department is merely one of the military departments from the fifteen provinces participating in this war, in reality, because the conditions offered by the Star Refining Military Department were good enough, nearly sixty thousand high-level chaotic beings joined the Star Refining Military Department.

That is to say, the vast majority of high-level chaotic beings in the Star Refining Military Department have signed up for the Elite Selection Trial.

This is naturally due to the allure of the Star Spirit Stone Marrow.

"Brother Jialin, over here."

A familiar voice transmission rang out; in the distance, Su Lan could be seen waving at him.

Sitting beside Su Lan was a man in blue robes whose appearance bore some resemblance to Su Lan's, who was regarding Lin Qing with great interest.

Since Lin Qing knew no one, he simply walked straight over.

One by one, the high-level chaotic beings in the waiting area looked at him with some astonishment.

"How is it that another low-level chaotic being has appeared?"

"Isn't this the third one?"

"What is their background? Do these low-level chaotic beings dare to participate in the Elite Selection Trial?"

"They are probably just here to try; anyway, I don't believe they can pass."

"Indeed, even we have no confidence in passing the preliminary selection, let alone some low-level chaotic beings."

Within a gathering composed almost entirely of high-level chaotic beings, the aura of low-level chaotic beings, though relatively faint, was simply too conspicuous.

One by one, the high-level chaotic beings could not help but look over, their conversation revealing undisguised shock.

Lin Qing did not care, merely thinking to himself: "Besides me, there are actually two other low-level chaotic beings?"

A short while later, after he sat down in the seat beside Su Lan, Su Lan smiled and said, "You really are quite conspicuous; among tens of thousands of high-level chaotic beings, there are only three low-level chaotic beings."

Lin Qing asked curiously, "What are the backgrounds of the other two?"

As he spoke, he also noticed those two distinctly very faint auras.

A beautiful maiden with a human upper body and a snake tail for a lower body was sitting alone, coiled upon a seat in the corner.