Chapter 73: Lingren Score! The Qualified!

Here it comes!

The real showstopper!

Su Ming's heart hammered uncontrollably.

Three Legendary-level series equipments are already sky‑high riches!

But that's not enough!

Who would ever complain about having too many good things?!

Then that blood‑red pillar of light that thundered down from the heavens.

Overbearing and ruthless, it treated the three Legendary-level golden rays as nothing and pierced them all with a single spear!

Myth-level, no escape!

"But, descending from the sky…"

"It never happened before…"

Su Ming suppressed his ecstatic joy, held his breath, and approached cautiously.

Where the faint light flickered, there was a painting skin as thin as a cicada wing.

Eye of Truth activates.

Name: Lingren Score (Pure Series Items 1/7)

Quality: Myth

Function: Pure Deterrent Heart (passive ability)! After wearing it, anyone whose gaze meets it feels fear, and battle spirit wanes.

A single painted stroke outlines a firm bone; half a pure surface steadies void evil!

"Alright, alright, alright!"

Su Ming burst into loud laughter!

This Pure Deterrent Heart, strong!

Strong in the literal sense!

What's more terrifying…

This Pure series actually has seven pieces!

"If the seven‑piece set were all Myth-level…"

Su Ming's throat went dry, and he dared not think further.

Once gathered, what a scene that will be?!

"Tsk…"

"The moon tonight is really round!"

Su Ming looked up, gazed at the still cool round moon, feeling much more at ease.

He turned back to glance once more at the stage fading into haze again.

Finally not lingering, he lowered his posture and vanished into the boundless Night Color Bar.

……

The unspeakable place.

A lazy silhouette leaned on a soft couch, fingertips lightly tapping the armrest, savoring endlessly.

Suddenly, a hunched old man carrying a dim yellow lantern appeared silently at his side.

"Judge!"

The old man's voice was hoarse, without a hint of humanity.

"You threw that stage's theatrical props down."

"This… broke the rules of your workshop."

"And broke that rule even more, right?"

The figure called Judge did not turn around.

"Rules?"

He let out a light laugh.

"Those scripts, for millennia, in a single tone, make people want to nod off."

"Today, after much trouble, someone finally came who doesn't follow the script, daring to write a play on their own, a rogue path!"

He paused, seeming to recall that crazy piece, his smile deepening.

"I was delighted, got excited, my hand slipped, I didn't hold it steady, it just fell."

"Blame me, huh?!"

Behind him, the old man was silent.

Finally, it turned into a wisp of black wind and vanished.

Judge slowly opened his eyes, the light in his pupils swirling, full of amusement.

"Orphan's Hate…"

"Well sung!"

……

At the same time.

Jiangcheng, Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau, secret conference room.

Lin Wan pushed open the door, breath catching.

Such a suppressive atmosphere!

Inside the conference room, besides Group Leader Qin Feng and Professor Zhou Yan.

The main seat and the sides still held a few figures she had never seen before.

Unangry, yet imposing!

A big shot from Headquarters?!

But why call her in a setting like this?

"Comrade Lin Wan, sit."

Qin Feng pointed to the empty seat opposite, his expression solemn.

Lin Wan felt a jolt in her heart, pulled out a chair and sat down.

Something's off!

It's terribly off!

"I called you here to reconfirm something."

Qin Feng's gaze burned.

"How exactly did you obtain your 【Energy Reversal】?"

Hearing that, Lin Wan was stunned.

This?!

Doesn't everyone already know?!

"Report to Commander Qin, I have a record in my files!"

"On the first day the altar appeared, I offered the necklace my mother gave me as a sacrifice; the altar returned a blue fruit, and after I ate it, I got it!"

Qin Feng nodded and reached out to point at the big screen.

"Is this it?"

The screen lit up.

Displayed above was a wholly blue fruit covered with strange patterns.

"Yes! That's it!"

Lin Wan immediately nodded.

"I remember it clearly—sour and sweet, and... quite tasty."

But before she could finish, she keenly noticed...

At the moment she nodded in confirmation.

Qin Feng and Professor Zhou Yan's expressions both turned extremely strange.

What's wrong?

"Comrade Lin Wan."

Qin Feng let out a sigh.

"The General Office has now collected eight identical fruits from across the country."

"It also confirmed that all users experienced a significant boost in mental power."

"But..."

He paused.

Lin Wan felt uneasy.

But what?

This fruit has side effects?!

"Not a single person has gained the 【Energy Reversal】 ability from it."

Boom!!!

Lin Wan's mind buzzed, turning completely blank.

"How... how could this be possible?!"

She sprang up abruptly, the chair behind her scraping the floor, the noise harsh.

"Are you saying... I'm lying?!"

"I didn't! Why would I deceive you with this!"

"Comrade Lin Wan, calm down first."

A middle‑aged man wearing gold‑rimmed glasses, with a refined and easygoing demeanor, lifted his head and gave her a gentle smile.

"My name is Fang Tian, from Headquarters!"

"According to the investigation, you truly have no suspicious aspects!"

"Your ability is most likely genuine! The fruit is also probably no different!"

The man crossed his ten fingers, his calm gaze piercing the lenses.

"But precisely because of that..."

"The problem becomes even more serious!"

"After countless discussions and dialectics, we proposed a hypothesis capable of overturning everything."

"What?"

Lin Wan asked nervously.

"If... that fruit..."

"Has never been the key to granting you the ability?"

The man's voice was very gentle.

Yet in an instant, it made the entire conference room feel like a frozen cavern.

"It may only be a prelude, a 【Key】."

"And your body, your genes, are that one-of-a-kind 【Lock】!"

"Key?"

"Lock?"

Lin Wan was completely stunned.

"You used this 【Key】 to open the 【Lock】 inside your body, and thus your innate talent was released."

The man's voice continued.

"Even, we can speculate further…"

"The opening of this 【Lock】 may have nothing to do with the fruit at all!"

"It is merely because the arrival of the 【Altar Era】 activated the dormant genes in your body, allowing that power to awaken on its own!"

"You simply attribute all this to that fruit!"

In the conference room, the sound of a falling needle could be heard.

This conclusion…

Too subversive!

Too terrifying!

This means…

Some people have been different from birth!

They are innate transcendants!

"In the past, because there was no suitable environment or stimulus, you were no different from ordinary people."

"But now, the times have changed."

"This is, for now, the most defensible explanation we have for your 【Energy Reversal】 ability!"

The man took a deep breath, suppressing the swirling emotions.

"If the facts truly match our speculation…"

"You are… the Unique discovered innate transcendent within the Dragon Nation!"

"We ultimately name this extremely special group—"

"【Qualified Person】!"