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Master, You Will Be Beaten If You Do This
Tian Du City.
Sword Card Master Association.
The twenty disciples that they recruited had finally joined them.
Li Haoran was responsible for training the disciples, Xiaobai taught them the birth of the card spirit, Zhao Yunshan taught them the use of cards in replacement of the sword. The entire association was very harmonious. The disciples were also very serious in their cultivation.
At this time, Lu Ming could finally relax and begin to prepare for his breakthrough!
Goal: Five-star!
Buzzâ
Faint lights and shadows condensed.
The peak four-star aura around Lu Ming became stronger.
On the opposite side, a shadow that was like him worked hard on cultivation in the exact same posture as him. Faint energy was constantly transmitted to Lu Mingâs body!
Over by his side.
The Original Card was suspended in the air, a large amount of energy floating around it.
Yes.
Lu Mingâs cultivation had increased three times!
Lu Ming, the shadow and the Original Card were cultivating at the same time. This meant that even though their talents were the same, Lu Mingâs cultivation speed was about three times that of other people!
Buzzâ
Buzzâ
Lights and shadows circulated.
Three auras condensed together.
âBreak through!â
Lu Mingâs eyes were shining.
Bang!
A stream of lights suddenly burst. All the energy within Lu Ming exploded in that moment, rushing toward the peak, but it felt as if it had hit a towering mountain!
Click!
There was a crisp and clear sound.
All the energy disappeared without a trace.
The breakthrough⊠had failed!
âWhy canât I succeed?â
Lu Ming sighed.
It had been a long time since he worked so hard to break through. After leaving the World of Darkness and Shadows, he had already attained peak four-star!
After the fight with Yan Suya, he sensed that his bottleneck was about to be broken through.
HoweverâŠ
He was still unable to break through!
Once!
Twice!
Ten times!
He was unable to pass through the bottleneck!
âWhat is happening?â
Lu Ming frowned.
It was very strange.
Since he had one hundred thousand points of energy and he had the shadow and the Original Card to assist him in breaking through, it should not be difficult to reach five-star!
He felt thatâŠ
Something had gone wrong.
âPerhaps you will need ten times the amount of energy needed to break through as well?â
Xiao-Xiaojian made a guess.
âThat is possible.â
Lu Ming felt energized.
PerhapsâŠ
After breaking through, he would become an even stronger five-star!
HenceâŠ
He simply mobilized the energy of the entire association. After adequate preparation, he tried to break through once again. However, there was still no reaction!
The bottleneck still remained there!
Lu Mingâs head ached.
Given his combat capabilities, he should be able to break through a peak five-star bottleneck, notwithstanding a peak four-star!
Why was there no reaction?
HenceâŠ
Feeling helpless, Lu Ming decided to look for the most conventional help. Like other ordinary cultivators who were unable to break through, he sought help from an evaluation agency.
Test results: lacking talent, they have reached a limit.
The evaluator was dazed as well. How was this possible?
Lacking talents?!
He was a peak four-star talent who could withstand the attacks of a peak six-star. It was impossible that he was lacking talent! The evaluation agency could not believe it, let alone others.
âPerhaps there is a malfunction?â
The evaluator was also at a loss.
He was such a bullish talent and yet he was unable to break through to five-star as he was lacking talent?
He had heard about Lu Mingâs vocation as well as his recent situation. It was apt to describe him as having bullish talents. It was absolutely impossible that he was lacking talent!
As for the results that said he was lacking talent and had reached a limit at four-starâŠ
Who were they fooling?
âPerhaps the machine is brokenâŠ
âCome.
âLu Ming, we have the latest instruments here. This is a top-notch testing device that has yet to be released in the laboratory. It will have more accurate test resultsâŠâ
Shush!
Lu Ming stood on the machine.
Dingâ
âTalent testing is completed.â
âYour limit realmâPeak three-star.â
A pleasant female voice could be heard.
Shush!
There was total silence in the evaluation agency.
The evaluator turned sullen.
They squinted at Lu Mingâs current four-star realm and looked at the peak three-star results displayed on the machine and they remembered Lu Mingâs performance during the fight two days agoâŠ
âIâm sorry.â
The evaluator felt ashamed. âPerhaps the data is wrong. We will offer you ten tests for free.â
Lu Ming was speechless.
Despite having faulty tests, they still offered him ten tests for freeâŠ
The test result was inaccurate. What was the use of ten free tests? It was similar to making a purchase online and receiving a fake product!
In the endâŠ
The evaluation agency ended the testing, saying that the machine was faulty. Lu Ming had no other choice but to leave. He could vaguely hear the arguments in the evaluation agency.
âTo hell with the advanced machine. It is useless!â
âIt produced wrong results with the first test!â
âWe should ask for a refund!â
âHurry up. Cut the crap!â
âIf you dare give me ten of the fake machines, I will kill you!â
âŠ
At the entrance.
Lu Ming and Xiao-Xiaojian glanced at each other.
Although Lu Ming lamented that the test results were inaccurate, in fact, he knew very well of his cultivation journey. If he was not mistakenâŠ
âI am afraid you have really reached the limits of your talent.â
Xiao-Xiaojian sighed.
Lu Ming looked sullen.
He knew that he was lacking talent. but he did not expect that his cultivation limit would be a peak three-star! This was too damn low!
âLook on the bright side.
âMany people are one-star and two-star.â
Xiao-Xiaojian consoled him.
Lu Ming was speechless.
This did not sound like words of comfort!
In theory, as long as one had enough resources, even a dog could reach peak three-star! The reason why there were one-star and two-star cultivators was because they did not cultivate!
Or perhapsâŠ
The cultivators suffered injuries!
Therefore, there was no doubt that Lu Ming was really lacking talent.
No one was worse than him.
OhâŠ
It was no wonder it took him so much effort to break through last time!
Lu Ming was expressionless.
The last breakthrough was filled with difficulties. In the end, he had to use Xiao-Xiaojian to prop the space open. He barely broke through and Xiao-Xiaojian was almost squashed to death!
And this timeâŠ
Shush!
Lu Ming glanced at Xiao-Xiaojian.
âIf you use me again to prop the bottleneck open, I will definitely self-destruct.â
Xiao-Xiaojian shivered.
Lu Ming was silent.
This time, he could not make use of the Illusory Realm to help him. He had no chance of using the card.
What did talent limits mean?
They were a mountain!
He managed to break through previously as the time and place was right, and all the other conditions were perfect. He also had Xiao-Xiaojianâs help as well as the energy in the Illusory Realm!
This timeâŠ
If it was indeed the problem with his talent, what should he do to cross this mountain?!
UnlessâŠ
He changed his talents!
The Art of Equalization was the best solution now.
Everything that he had done was for this moment. However, initially he thought that he would only need to make this move when he was stuck at the seven-star bottleneck!
He returned to the association.
Shush!
Shush!
Lu Ming looked through the information that he had.
This was the testing data for his twenty disciples. He did a testing according to the method used in the Breeze Pavilion. All of them scored nine and above for their average talents!
Ye Liangfei and the rest even scored around 9.5 points!
Their standards were very high!
Back then when the thousand-year-old legacy had landed, the highest score was only nine points!
That was to say, any of the new disciples could trample the cultivators from Qing Ming City!
This was indeed The First Academy!
Oh.
If that was the caseâŠ
Lu Ming was tempted. Did it mean that he could use the Art of Equalization now?
The so-called Art of Equalization was for his talent to become the talents of the Sword Card Master Association. It would be the average talent of the entire Sword Card Master Association!
If the Sword Card Master Association became more talented in the future, he would become stronger!
If the Sword Card Master Association went downhill, at most he would go back to square one!
ThereforeâŠ
EssentiallyâŠ
The earlier he used the Art of Equalization, the better it would be!
Of course.
Although Lu Ming did not really understand the Art of Equalization, he knew the law of conservation of energy.
It was impossible to have an increase in oneâs talents for no reason. The so-called equalization was to take the talents of his disciples and average them out.
For exampleâŠ
Someone whose talents scored 9.52 points would become 9.51 points after taking the average.
There was minimal impact.
This was the reason why Lu Ming wanted to recruit thirty disciples who were highly talented!
If there was a difference of 3 points in the talents, after averaging it out with thirty disciples, that would be 0.1 points. If it was a difference of 2 points, the impact would be lower!
ThereforeâŠ
Perhaps he should give it a try now?
Although he only had twenty disciples, if he included Zhao Yunshan, Li Haoran and the rest, he would have twenty five disciples. It might be worth a try!
PerhapsâŠ
He was about to embark on the journey of becoming a talent.
Genius!
What was a genius!?
His sister and Yan Suya were good examples!
This was what a genius was like!
All along, Lu Ming had been relying on the advantage he had with the vocations and resources. He was very lacking in his talents and cultivation. If this could solve this problemâŠ
He would be able to break through to a five-star in no time!
Lu Ming felt excited at the thought of it.
He had decided that he would do just that!
HoweverâŠ
Xiao-Xiaojian sighed. âI would suggest that you recruit more disciples first. I may not be very good at mathematics. You should do your own calculation. What is the resultant score if we put someone who scored less than one for oneâs talents with twenty five people who scored nine points and average it out?â
Lu Ming was silent.
The Art of Equalization originated from the Breeze Pavilion. Therefore, the method of calculation was done according to that of the Breeze Pavilion. That was why his talent scoreâŠ
Was less than one!
He was the average type!!
If he used the Art of EqualizationâŠ
WellâŠ
The average score would be 8.6.
That would mean that everyoneâs score would decrease by 0.4 points!
âI guess it should be alright?â
Lu Ming did not think that it was too low.
âWhat do you think?â
Xiao-Xiaojian looked sullen.
Lu Ming coughed. âThere are a few people who are more than 9 points. Xiaobai even had ten points.â
âBut still, they cannot afford to average it out with you.â
Xiao-Xiaojian was contemptuous.
Back then when there were talks about using the Art of Equalization, it did not include Xiaobai and the rest!
That was to say, if he did not want to affect the normal cultivation of the disciples as well as their original talents, at the very least, Lu Ming needed to recruit more than thirty disciples! That way, with the amazing talents of Xiaobai and the rest, as well as a few very talented disciples, the drop in the talent score would be less than 0.2 points.
Only then, would it be considered successful.
This was the minimum standard for using the Art of Equalization!
0.4?
This would definitely not work.
The entire association would be affected by the small difference and the score would be lowered due to Lu Ming.
âFurthermoreâŠâ
Xiao-Xiaojian said, âYour score is less than one. It may not mean one or zero. Have you thought of the possibility that it might be a negative scoreâŠâ
Shush!
Lu Ming locked his gaze on Xiao-Xiaojian.
It was full of murderous intent.
âI feel thatâŠâ
Lu Mingâs countenance darkened. âYou seem to be humiliating me.â
Negative value?!
Damn!
He was not that lacking talent!
That was not right.
Was there anyone who had a negative score for their talents?!
âHaha.
âThis is an academic exchange. We must make sure that we conduct a rational discussion.â
Xiao-Xiaojian was very happy. âI merely offered this possibility. After all, your cultivation talent is at peak three-star. That is to say, there are all kinds of possibilities.
âSoâŠ
âIf you really have a negative valueâŠ
âHmmâŠ
âThe entire association will be dragged down by you.
âThink about it!
âOnce the Art of Equalization is activatedâŠ
âAll the disciples of the Sword Card Master Association will be deemed useless⊠tsk tsk. The sceneâŠâ
Xiao-Xiaojian sighed.
Lu Ming was silent.
He knew that if he used the Art of Equalization and the talents were averaged out with his disciples, he would be able to reach five-star anytime!
However⊠if like what Xiao-Xiaojian saidâŠ
If anything happened to the association and they could not recruit new disciples, his plan of reversing the talents would be uselessâŠ
His hope was that everyone would become stronger. He did not want to harm his disciples!
Although the possibility was very lowâŠ
HoweverâŠ
In order for the plan to be foolproof, he had to put up with it for now!
HenceâŠ
Lu Ming chose to compromise.
He decided that he would only consider using the Art of Equalization when the decrease was less than 0.1! Therefore, the priority was to recruit more disciples!
The more the better!
The problem was there were not that many talented disciples.
The on-campus job fair of The First Academy had ended. They had almost recruited the most talented students from the entire batch. However, there were no more than twenty of them!
Where else could he look for new disciples?!
After thinking about it, Lu Ming beckoned Li Haoran over.
âHaoran.
âDid anyone apply to join the Sword Card Master Association today?â
Lu Ming asked.
âThere are many applications.â
Li Haoran nodded. âWe have become famous after the battle at the on-campus job fair. Right now, we are quite popular in Tian Du City. Many students want to join us, howeverâŠ
âYou should know the outcome.
âTalented students are highly sought afterâŠ
âNone of the students who applied qualified!â
Li Haoran was helpless.
Among the new applicants, none of them had real combat capabilities.
âAlright.â
Lu Ming was somewhat disappointed. He paused briefly before he blurted. âHow about you ask around to see if there are any talented young children? I will pay them a visit.â
Li Haoran was dumbstruck.
Pay them a visit?
How could that be possible?
The foundation of cultivation was that one needed to complete basic education. These well-known young geniuses must come from powerful family backgrounds and be supported by big associations!
It would be impossible to visit them and recruit them as disciples!
Master, you will be beaten up if you do thisâŠ
Lu Ming felt very helpless too.
What should he do?
The only solution he could think of was to search for well-known geniuses!
SuddenlyâŠ
He looked toward the window.
Over there.
In the distance on the street, some young ladies were out on the streets dressed in thin layers of clothes. The young men were drenched in perspiration, but they seemed happier.
âHaoran.
âDo you think there will be anyone who is talented among them? How about we trick them into doing the tests?â
âMasterâŠâ
âYes?â
âYou seemed to be becoming p-pervertedâŠ
âThey are still students. They are still taking their basic education. They have yet to cultivateâŠâ
Li Haoran sighed.
âOh.â
Lu Ming came to his senses and wondered. âIf they were students, why didnât they go to their lessons?â
AfterwardâŠ
Without waiting for Li Haoran to answer, he seemed to realize something.
Shush!
A screen popped up.
Time was fixed on a familiar dateâ5 June! It was only two days away from the âNational Cultivation College Entrance Examinationâ!
This was the real admissions assessment!
So as to speakâŠ
Lu Mingâs eyes lit up. A group of adorable and young students were about to be admitted to universities!
OoâŠ
UniversitiesâŠ
Lu Mingâs heart stirred slightly.
âHaoran.â
âYes.â
âWhat do you think about setting up a university?â
âAh?!â
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