Chapter 1180: Chapter 1180: Generally Outstanding
Li Jiu patted his head and said, "So you’re saying, since she’s in bad shape right now, the tester is mostly reading her potential?"
Wei Xiaoxiong replied carelessly, "Yeah."
Li Jiu was still confused and asked, "But— is her potential really that strong? I didn’t feel it at all."
Wei Xiaoxiong turned his eyes, glanced at Li Jiu, and said, "Do you know what it ans that she just ran the test four tis in a row?"
Li Jiu probed, "Good luck?"
—So she just failed to die?
Wei Xiaoxiong: "..."
Wu Jingyue couldn’t help raising a hand to his forehead and said, "Jiu, when you observe things in the future, don’t just look at the surface. You need to see the essence through the appearance."
Being talked to like that by his classmate and teammate made Li Jiu very unhappy. He knew Wu Jingyue was being tactful; in reality, wasn’t he just implying Li Jiu was stupid? That he couldn’t read the situation and had mush for brains?
On the screen simulating the Spiritual World, Ji You’s spiritual power was slowly, very slowly, crashing upwards. Her speed was like a turtle’s; it took a long ti to advance just a tiny bit.
One ter.
Two ters.
Three ters.
...
There was even half a ter, 0.3 ters, 0.2 ters and so on...
All the onlookers patiently waited for the result. Wei Xiaoxiong’s eyes never left the screen, but he keenly picked up on the emotional shift beside him from Li Jiu and said, "The fact she can test four tis isn’t the surprising part."
Li Jiu squawked, "Not surprising?"
Wei Xiaoxiong narrowed his eyes and said, "If it were , if I went all out, I could also test four tis."
Hearing that, Li Jiu’s lips moved a bit. "I thought about it carefully. Actually, I could probably manage about two tests."
Wei Xiaoxiong raised his hand to cut him off and continued, "It’s not just . Ayue, and you, and even that beast Shen Sheng, we can all test multiple tis. But none of us can do what she just did—make sure that each test result is higher than the last."
Li Jiu: "!!!"
Wu Jingyue said, "You get it now, right? That’s why we say she’s strong."
Li Jiu opened his mouth. "But... the amount she adds each ti isn’t that high."
Wu Jingyue said, "First ti 1099, last ti 8099. You’re calling that ’not high’?"
Li Jiu: "..."
Left speechless, Li Jiu could only shut up.
Wei Xiaoxiong said, "This machine from the Alliance Research Institute tests both current ability and future potential. Supposedly its accuracy at reading future potential hits 99%. Which ans the equipnt basically can’t be wrong. For her numbers to differ so much between runs, there’s only one reason—"
Li Jiu pricked up his ears and listened carefully.
Wei Xiaoxiong said, "Her current real strength is 8099!"
Li Jiu: "..."
Li Jiu said blankly, "That’s it?"
Wei Xiaoxiong laughed. "Those earlier 1099, 5099, 7099 were all just the fluctuation caused by her not exerting her full Strength. Her actual Strength data is 8099."
Li Jiu opened his mouth. "8099 isn’t high."
Wei Xiaoxiong rubbed his fist and grinned. "Compared to us, it really isn’t."
Wu Jingyue added, "8099 isn’t high in our eyes, but anywhere else, that’s a genius-level figure." At the Alliance First Military Academy, talents flock together, so 8099 is just ordinarily excellent. But over at Lanyue Star Military Academy, that’s a whole different story.
He didn’t spell that out, but Li Jiu and Wei Xiaoxiong both caught his aning. Li Jiu said, "But didn’t you say she was really strong?"
Wei Xiaoxiong said, "Think about it. Your Power Value is so much higher than hers, yet you can only grit your teeth and push through two tests. With conditions like hers—just so-so—she can test four tis. What does that tell you?"
At first Li Jiu was a bit puzzled, but he figured it out in a second. "Potential!"
Wei Xiaoxiong said, "Exactly, Potential."
Wu Jingyue said, "Her current max Power Value is 8099, but her future Potential is still huge. Just wait for her spiritual power test results to co out and then look at the comprehensive strength evaluation—you’ll see."
After Strength and spiritual power are fully tested, the system will give a comprehensive ranking. For so students, even if their current Strength is all that’s tested, if their future Potential is huge, it will give a future Potential prediction.
Hearing this, Li Jiu frowned slightly and said, "Then let’s wait a bit longer, until her Potential data cos out."
It was just that he was starting to feel worried. Sheng Qingyan, Chu Jiaojiao, and the yet-untested Shen Changqing from Lanyue Star were already big threats. Now there was this outlier Ji You on top of that. For their own school to win first place by a large margin and grab more Space Rift slots... the challenge had just gotten a lot more uncertain.
Thinking this, he turned his head and noticed that Wei Xiaoxiong and Wu Jingyue beside him didn’t look the least bit serious—in fact, they looked quite relaxed. He was stunned and asked, "Hero, Ayue, you’re not worried at all?"
Wu Jingyue asked, "Worried about what?"
Wei Xiaoxiong chuckled. "No need to worry. Even if her future Potential is enormous, right now her ability is only 8099. 8099, in our eyes, isn’t worth fearing."
Wu Jingyue also smiled and said, "She almost kicked the bucket just now. There’s no faking that. Which ans her Strength tops out at 8099 at most. Among the ten people representing our First Military Academy, you can pull out any random one and they could stomp her."
After their explanation, Li Jiu felt a bit more at ease, but he was still puzzled. "Then why did the instructor say our strongest rival this year is Lanyue Star Military Academy?"
Not second, not third... but the very bottom-ranked Lanyue Star Military Academy.
"Do you even need to ask?" Wei Xiaoxiong said with mild disdain. "Because this year, way too many geniuses from the Main Star side all went there." Chu Jiaojiao, Sheng Qingyan, Shen Changqing, Yue Qiguang, Yue Qiyuan...
Which one of them isn’t talent that bled off from the Main Star side?
Geniuses on the Main Star have always gone to the First Military Academy. Who knows what tricks Lanyue Star is pulling behind the scenes to scam people like Chu Jiaojiao and Shen Changqing... over to their side.
But a bottom-tier school is still a bottom-tier school. So what if you give it a few geniuses?
They’ll just turn into diocrities anyway.
Wei Xiaoxiong said, "We don’t need to compete with them on who can suck less. We just need to do our own best and challenge ourselves. That’s the greatest victory."
Li Jiu’s confidence instantly surged. He laughed and said, "Exactly. We don’t need to fixate on people weaker than us. The ones we should be challenging are always the strong, and the one we should always surpass is ourselves."
Speaking of this, Li Jiu even chuckled with a hint of schadenfreude in his tone. "Aside from those few who drifted over from the Main Star, Lanyue Star basically has no other students they can put on display. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have dragged Ji You, this wildly unstable perforr, out here just to pad their lineup."
A student who usually scores 0 but occasionally explodes and scores 100.
A student who usually scores 90 and stays steadily around 90.
Which one do you pick?
Of course you pick the 90.
And the First Military Academy is packed with talent. There are countless 90-point students to choose from, so there’s absolutely no need to bring an unstable perforr to compete.
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