Chapter 129: Dongchuan Province Is the Lagging Behind

Screen No. 1 is positioned at the top‑left corner, very inconspicuous.

Basically everyone glances at it once and then stops paying attention.

Dongchuan Province's results have been at the bottom for years, which truly fails to spark any interest.

Moreover, on the other screens, various talents surge from time to time, creating a grand spectacle.

Only the No. 1 screen belonging to Lu Jing is dim and seems to have no activity.

Then, at that moment, the middle screen suddenly flashed with golden light, almost illuminating the whole display.

The sudden golden flash drew everyone's gaze.

In the Third Stage, Fan Kong holds a seemingly ordinary wooden staff; his monk robe has vanished, revealing an upper body that glitters with golden light.

He looks like a blazing sun, dazzling and radiant, his aura of dominance and nobility makes it hard to look directly at him.

Not far from Fan Kong, a three‑meter‑tall beast wielding a bone knife trembles in the corner.

"If I don't descend into hell, who will? Today I willingly bear the evil fruit and send you to bliss..."

Fan Kong presses his palms together, places the staff on his elbows, and chants, "Amitabha."

In the next instant, he raises his hand abruptly.

The golden aura surrounding his body merges into the staff in his hand.

Immediately, the staff suddenly transforms, its tip taking the shape of a Zen staff with a golden ring hanging on it.

He grips the golden Zen staff as if holding the truth of the world.

Whoosh—!

As the staff swings, the surrounding air seems torn and stretched, bearing endless pressure as it slams toward the beast.

When the golden light fades, everyone turns to look at the screen.

The beast on the screen turns into a pile of charred coal, billowing thick smoke.

Fan Kong's figure has already vanished from the Third Stage.

Situjun instantly becomes interested, pointing at the screen and asks, "Which province's prodigy is on Screen No. 30?"

"Report, Lord Seat, this is Fan Kong of Zang Province!"

The adjutant beside them quickly reports, grabs a stack of documents from the conference table and hands them over, "Here are his detailed records!"

Situjun takes the files and reads them with keen interest.

Upon seeing Fan Kong's tragic childhood, he can't help but furrow his brow.

"Where is the instructor of Zang Province? Has his talent become fully controllable now?"

In the back row of the conference room, a sweating elder stands, lowers his head and says, "Lord Seat, Fan Kong still cannot fully control his beast‑transformed self, but he can already distinguish friend from foe…"

"Still can't control his own talent?"

A flash of disappointment passes through Situjun's eyes; then he stops watching Fan Kong and turns to another screen.

The boy on Screen No. 10 is Jian Ying, who reached the Fourth Stage even earlier than Fan Kong!

The guardian beast of the Fourth Stage is covered in fur and leopard spots, smooth as silk under the dim light.

"Roar—"

The beast lets out a howl at Jian Ying and then charges at him.

It moves at lightning speed, arriving in front of Jian Ying in the blink of an eye.

It's a fourth‑level beast; against a regular fourth‑realm warrior it can easily kill in an instant!

Jian Ying remains calm; without any visible move, a mass of black qi suddenly appears before him, forming a silhouette.

Bang!

The silhouette tightly embraces the beast, rendering its struggles futile.

Immediately, another black shadow appears, conjuring a long blade in its hand and slowly advancing toward the beast.

Sizzle!

The beast's head hits the ground and Jian Ying kicks it aside casually.

"Too easy, next one."

"This is Jian Ying from the capital, the youngster is impressive…"

Situjun watches with relish and can't help but praise, "Ping Zhilei, you've trained him well; you also taught the previous Dragon Imperial New Star, didn't you?"

Ping Zhilei stands, a barely contained smile on her face, "Yes, Lord Seat, the previous Dragon Imperial New Star was also brought forth by my subordinates!"

"This time, Jian Ying's personal strength far exceeds that of the previous trainee; at nineteen his Blood Qi is already approaching the Fifth Realm, and his talent is an extremely rare mutated spiritual type!"

After saying that, all the provincial instructors present look at Ping Zhilei with envy.

Why do such prodigies always end up before Ping Zhilei?

"Hmm, I have high hopes for this kid!"

Situjun smiles, nods, and waves his hand, signaling Ping Zhilei to sit.

Ping Zhilei receives affirmation from a Martial Lord‑realm strongman and is gazed at enviously by other instructors, giving her a light, buoyant feeling.

She provocatively looks at Dong Ningxue beside her, proclaiming her victory.

Dong Ningxue still ignores her, staring blankly at Screen No. 1.

Lu Jing doesn't know what happened, lingering so long in the Third Stage…

But as soon as that thought arises, Lu Jing breaks through two stages in a row and reaches the Fifth Stage!

The oddity on Screen No. 1 catches Situjun's attention.

He taps the conference table and asks, "Which province is Screen No. 1 from? It just breezed through the Third and Fourth Stages, quite interesting—it even caught up with the first‑tier group of Jian Ying and others."

Dong Ningxue hears this, quickly stands, and formally says, "Report, this is our Dongchuan Province prodigy, Lu Jing!"

"Oh? Dongchuan Province comes prepared this year. Do you have this trainee's file? Hand it over so I can look."

Situjun said with great interest.

The aide beside him hurriedly rummaged in the document bag and handed over Lu Jing's data.

"Lu Jing, 18 years old, when he first entered the genius training camp, he had 61.38 of Blood Qi, Perfection Realm Fist Intent..."

As he flipped through, Situjun looked puzzled; this data just doesn't match his strength at all.

Only the Perfection Realm Fist Intent is a highlight; the rest, whether Blood Qi or age, can only be described as average.

Dong Ningxue looked at Situjun frowning, her heart skipped a beat; she suddenly remembered that Lu Jing's data hadn't been updated in time.

Consequently, the information about his Talent Endowed status and Master-level fist power wasn't added.

Dong Ningxue was about to speak when the signal light on screen number one where Lu Jing was flashed again, and the number below changed from 5 to 6.

"Hiss—"

"That Lu Jing just reached the Fifth Stage, how did he go to the Sixth Stage?"

"Can we replay it? It couldn't be a system bug, could it?"

The conference room instantly became lively, everyone chattering.

Even Jian Ying is still fighting in the Fifth Stage; how could Lu Jing rush so fast?

Situjun set down the data in his hand, seeing the number 6 below screen number one, his face remained calm but his heart was stirred.

"Enlarge screen number one, replay how he passed the Fifth Stage!"

"Received!"