Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
After the alert was issued, the respective political forces conducted investigations and searches within their domains. They exterminated potential threats while keeping a look out for such threats other than monsters.
Fortunately, plant life mutations seed to be extrely rare. Following the issuance of the alert, until the end of the selection round, the other political forces had not found a second mutated plant life. That lessened the urgency of the crisis.
The selection in the Federation capital also ca to its end then. A total of ninety-eight people, the cream of the crop, were selected. They would beco the seedlings in Operation Sword Sun and receive comparably more resources from the Federation in the future.
Two nas were missing from the list, which soon caught the attention of everyone in the Federation. That persisted until the two missing nas were announced.
One was Kong Dao, and the other—Wang Baole!
The Federation had also released selective information on their achievents on the battlefield. The details revealed, to a limited extent, the treasures Wang Baole had harvested from Spirit Breath Village, his exploits during the Beast Tide, and the Baole Cannon he had invented.
The Federation used the opportunity to build Wang Baole’s reputation as well as let the entire world know that Wang Baole had earned the right to have a reserved placent!
All of a sudden, Wang Baole’s na spread across the entire Federation. He caught the attention of countless political forces. At the sa ti, news also traveled to Phoenix City. When his parents saw his na on the news, they were instantly stunned. After watching the introduction and finding out about the terrible things that he had been put through, they imdiately started to panic.
They called Wang Baole’s voice transmission ring imdiately. Wang Baole heard the anxiety and concern in his parents’ scolding voices and took a very long ti to reassure them. He promised to be careful in the future. Finally, the elderly pair, worried about and proud of their child, ended the call.
There were many things that Wang Baole had not told his parents. After he had enrolled in the Ethereal Dao College and started on the journey of cultivation, he had slowly co to know how harsh and brutal the journey was. He did not wish for his parents to worry.
His conversation with his parents had sent his emotions into slight disarray. He very quickly composed himself, then logged into the Spirit Intranet and searched for information on Kong Dao, the other person who had a confird placent like himself.
Wang Baole’s eyes widened as he read through the other’s profile. He drew a breath in.
Kong Dao did not hail from any of the human political entities in the Federation but was actually from the Sea of Beasts. He had been adopted by the current Federation President nine years ago and had been grood intensively since becoming the president’s foster son.
He had not stayed on earth but had instead been sent to the colony on Mars to train. He survived for five years on his own in the strange environnt of the Martian colony. During his cultivation, he had collected nurous fragnts for the Federation, and the number was astounding.
However, all that would still not have been enough to reserve him a spot amongst the hundred seedlings. What had convinced the Federation and made them acknowledge his status as a confird seedling was a piece of news he had reported a month ago.
On Mars, he had found a location... which seed to hold the remains of a Divine Armant!
The nurous political forces in the Federation had confird that there was an extrely high chance of that being true. However, due to many reasons, they were unable to conduct further, more intensive explorations and found it difficult to retrieve the Divine Armant.
Despite that, such a great contribution was enough to ensure his placent as one of the hundred seedlings.
Divine Armant! Upon reading that, Wang Baole’s eyes almost popped out. The gears in his head started spinning. He realized imdiately that sothing must have gone wrong when the report was submitted to the Federation which resulted in the various political forces finding out about the matter. The Federation could not keep it under wraps and hence simply joined forces with the rest for the exploration.
Wang Baole felt his guess was highly probable. He looked through the list of nas and saw a few familiar nas. Amongst them were Zhuo Yifan and Zhao Yang, who were both amongst the hundred selected.
Besides the three of them, there were another two people from the Ethereal Dao College who had also made the list. Except for White Deer Dao College, there were not many from the other Dao colleges. The White Deer Dao College had the highest number make the list—nine people.
Li Yi—who had threatened to strip him naked—and most of the few other possessors of eight-inch Spirit Roots at that battle in Spirit Breath Village, were also in the list.
Besides them, there was also Zhuo Yixian’s na, which Wang Baole did not see in the list. However, a few unfamiliar nas from the Five Generation Sky Clan appeared. There were also quite a few people from the two ever-mysterious major sects.
The senators’ heirs took up a few spots as well. However, Wang Baole did not see any nas from the legendary Trilunaris Corporation, whose wealth rivaled a country’s.
After the Federation’s hundred seedlings had been confird and the news had taken the entire Federation by storm—followed by the departure of those who had not made the cut—the hundred selected people, including Wang Baole, soon received a notification from the President’s office.
They were to undergo a week-long group cultivation in seclusion three days later. Soone designated by the Federation would be teaching them a mystic technique!
The mystic technique was known to many and ranked tenth in all the mystic techniques discovered throughout the Federation since the Spirit Inception Era!
The technique was carefully guarded, and before that, only the Federation had access to it. Even the two powerful sects and the Five Generation Sky Clan had coveted it for a very long ti. That was because the mystic technique relied not on Spirit Qi, but was... a physical combat technique!
Such a physical combat technique was rare for both the Federation as well as other political forces.
Its na was... Supernova!
Before the group cultivation, they were to gather to the Presidential Pavilion in the capital where they would receive a comndation from the Federation President!
When Wang Baole received the notification, he was overco with excitent. His breathing beca excited, and his eyes started shining brightly. He paced in his room, unable to calm down.
Supernova? By the sounds of it, it seed to be really powerful. Not only that, but there’s also the president’s personal comndation!
This could potentially be sothing that countless people will recount in the future, about how the two presidents from different terms t for the first ti! Wang Baole grabbed an orange-flavored spirit beverage and guzzled it down. His spirits rose.
When I see him, should I tell him that his position will be mine when I grow up?Wang Baole thought happily, then realized how inappropriate that would be. He worried about his chances to grow up should he really say that out loud...
In his excitent, a flurry of thoughts crowded his head. He deliberated what he should wear, agonizing over the matter. He was not given more ti to consider the matter though. Three days later, just before he was about to head off for the ceremony, soone from the Federation sent over a uniform that had been customized for the hundred seedlings of the Federation.
The uniform was purple in color and seed to shimr. It was clearly not just an ordinary piece of clothing. He looked slimr after putting it on... it made him look shaper, like a sword prepared to be unsheathed, a sword that was not as fat as it used to be.
Such a trim figure, such good looks! Wang Baole studied himself in the mirror; the distorting filters ca built-in with his eyes. He admired himself for so ti before swaggering out of his room and stepping onto the private cruiser that would be transporting him to the Presidential Pavilion and had been waiting outside since a while ago. The cruiser sped towards the Presidential Pavilion in the city center.
At the sa ti, countless cruisers from all four corners of the capital city were dashing towards the Presidential Pavilion. Besides the hundred seedlings, there were also dia and various important figures who would be observing the ceremony.
Wang Baole soon reached the city center. As he stepped into the Presidential Pavilion and saw the large pavilion that looked almost like a palace, he could no longer control the excitent and eagerness in his heart. One day, he thought, that place would be where he would live, train, and work.
In his excitent, he didn’t pay much attention to the people around him. He didn’t notice that there were a few amongst the hundred seedlings who, upon seeing him, had snorted. Li Yi, especially, showed her displeasure.
There was another youth who almost rivaled Zhuo Yifan’s good looks. He stood, poised and dashing in the room, a flicker of arrogance hidden deep within his eyes. It seed that he had not planned to interact with anyone. However, when he saw Zhao Yang, his entire body shivered. There was a strange light in his eyes, and he seed shocked beyond words.
There were thousands of people surrounding the area, many in a hushed discussion. There were also plenty of reporters who had started recording, as well as a great number of guards. Every single guard was at the Foundation Establishnt realm.
There were also those who suppressed their Qi. Those were often the Core Formation realm experts from the Federation!
Every arrangent and placent of every brick had been the result of careful planning. The entire place ca together in harmony. Everyone entering it was stepping into an array formation.
It was amidst the crowd’s discussion, Wang Baole’s uncontrollable excitent, and the varying emotional states of the others that, from the entrance, ca the sounds of many footsteps. A few black-robed n walked in and were followed by a dozen other people.
Amongst them, in the middle of the group, was a tall man in his middle age. He wore simple, white clothing. In the crowd of black-robed n, he was particularly striking.
The man had short hair as well as a formidable and imposing aura that commanded respect effortlessly. He exuded an aura that was astonishing. It seed to resonate with the place. Every step he took stirred the crowd and made them light-headed, and the Spirit Qi within their bodies tossed about uncontrollably. It was as if they were gazing upon a god when they looked at him!
He... was the current wielder of the Federation’s only Divine Armant, the current Federation President who had hailed from the White Deer Dao College!
The most powerful person in the Federation—Duan Muque!
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