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Chapter 23: Special Recruitment Qualification
Chapter 23: Special Recruitment Qualification
Starry Sky Combat Network, Personal Space.
Li Yuan's consciousness returned to his physical body.
Whoosh~ Countless lights converged, forming the figure of a girl in ancient blue attire.
"Guardian Yuan, congratulations on your ranking on the Bluestar Youth Rankings. Your status within the Starry Sky Combat Network has been elevated." The girl in blue smiled slightly, "Starting today, I will be your exclusive Smart Assistant in the Starry Sky Combat Network, serving you throughout your journey. You can give me a name."
"Exclusive Smart Assistant?" Li Yuan was slightly taken aback.
The AI technology of this era was already quite advanced.
According to Li Yuan's knowledge, one would often need to recharge their account on the 'Starry Sky Combat Network' to a certain amount and purchase many additional services to obtain an exclusive Smart Assistant.
Unexpectedly, being on this so-called Bluestar Youth Rankings also granted this privilege.
"Xiao Yu." Li Yuan said directly, as he had named his smart ring Xiao Yu.
Treating everyone equally.
"Xiao Yu is very happy to serve you." The girl in blue bowed slightly, her youthful appearance evident.
"I want to check the Bluestar Youth Rankings and the ranking order." Li Yuan stated directly.
"Yes." The girl in blue waved her green hand, and a light screen projection appeared before Li Yuan.
It contained a large amount of text descriptions, along with various images and videos.
Li Yuan quickly understood.
"The Bluestar Youth Rankings are compiled by the 'Starry Sky Combat Network'. Anyone who reaches 500 points in the Golden Rank is eligible to enter." Li Yuan thought to himself, "According to rumors, the Starry Sky Combat Network is backed by the Seven Star Alliance, the Three Great Martial Temples, and various countries... It not only hones the martial skills of warriors with high-intensity training but also serves as a means to select martial geniuses."
As it turned out, the rumors were not unfounded.
"The Bluestar Youth Rankings purely evaluate martial skills." Li Yuan nodded slightly, "That's right, the screening by the Starry Sky Combat Network doesn't consume many additional resources, making it relatively easy."
"If it's just about martial skills, and they also have to review physical qualities and talents... isn't that just the college entrance examination?" Li Yuan couldn't help but smile.
Whether it's the entire human civilization or a single country, they would spare no effort in screening out technological talents, martial geniuses... The college entrance examination is the largest-scale and comprehensive evaluation method.
The Starry Sky Combat Network, on the other hand, focuses on the single-item screening of martial skills.
"The Bluestar Youth Rankings cover the entire Bluestar, and the leaderboard is cleared on September 1st every year..." Li Yuan continued to browse.
"Any teenager who has not reached the age of 18 by September 1st of each year is eligible to enter the Bluestar Youth Rankings for the following year."
Li Yuan instantly understood that this so-called Bluestar Youth Rankings was not limited to minors.
The oldest on the list might be close to 19 years old.
For example, those born on September 2nd.
However, if one is truly a martial genius, reaching 500 points in the Golden Rank at the age of fourteen or fifteen, they might be able to enter the Bluestar Youth Rankings for four or five consecutive years.
"So, this current Bluestar Youth Rankings was updated less than a month ago?" Li Yuan thought to himself, "In less than a month, there are already 4,684 people on the list?"
And this was just within the Bluestar.
Looking at the seven major planets of human civilization, how many would be on the list?
If we wait until next year, by August, how many more would be added to the list?
This was just the number of martial geniuses that emerged within Bluestar in a single year.
"To reach 500 points in the Golden Rank, their martial skills shouldn't be worse than mine." Li Yuan shook his head slightly, "My martial skills, within the Guan Mountain District First High School, are now at the top."
"But in the global perspective? It's not that impressive." Li Yuan calmed down.
He felt his own insignificance.
The world was indeed vast.
"However, the journey is taken one step at a time. At least, I've made it onto the list." Li Yuan smiled again, "In the entire Jiangbei Province, including me, there are only 47 people, and most of them are likely to be seniors in high school."
Jiangbei Province had over a million high school seniors.
In terms of martial skills, Li Yuan had already surged to the forefront among these million seniors.
A year ago, Li Yuan wouldn't have dared to imagine achieving such results.
After browsing through all the content.
"Rank Rewards?" Li Yuan's gaze fell on the last page, and his eyes lit up slightly.
--- Rank Rewards (Before the age of 18):
1. Reaching 500 points in the Golden Rank, reward: 50,000 Blue Star Coins.
2. Reaching the Meteor Rank, reward: 500,000 Blue Star Coins.
3. Reaching the Bright Moon Rank, reward: 20,000,000 Blue Star Coins.
--- Rank Rewards (Ages 18 to 30):
1. Reaching the Meteor Rank, reward: 100,000 Blue Star Coins.
2. Reaching the Bright Moon Rank, reward: 2,000,000 Blue Star Coins.
3. Reaching the Sun Devouring Rank: reward: 5,000,000 Blue Star Coins.
...
"This is truly exaggerated." Li Yuan muttered to himself, "A reward of 20,000,000 Blue Star Coins?"
Twenty million!
Ordinary people would have to work for a hundred years to hope to earn that much.
But Li Yuan had to admit that the requirements were indeed challenging, asking to reach the Bright Moon Rank before the age of 18.
If one exceeded 18 years old, even reaching the Bright Moon Rank would only yield a reward of 200,000 Blue Star Coins.
"Not to mention the Bright Moon Rank, even reaching the Meteor Rank before the age of 18 would be difficult, I suppose." Li Yuan shook his head and casually asked, "Xiao Yu, how many people on the Bluestar Youth Rankings have reached the Meteor Rank?"
"As of today, there are 44 people," the girl in the blue dress, Xiao Yu, said, "But I can't reveal the specific names."
Li Yuan nodded.
When he tried to check earlier, he found that he could only see general statistics on the leaderboard.
But the specific names? Who made it onto the Bluestar Youth Rankings?
He couldn't search for that.
"Perhaps, this is a form of protection," Li Yuan thought to himself, "In a way, those who make it onto the rankings are all future Martial Daoists, but they haven't fully grown yet."
Although he could find a lot of information through various countries' school exam results, college entrance exam scores, and so on...
But the difficulty of collecting information for both was clearly not on the same level.
"Rewards," Li Yuan looked at the three Rank rewards on the page, deep in thought.
"Bright Moon Rank? That's too far-fetched and unrealistic."
"But Meteor Rank?"
"My birthday is August 29th, so I still have about eleven months to hone my Martial Skills."
"Even if I don't reach it before the college entrance exam, it's not a big deal. I can continue working hard after the exam."
"As long as I reach Meteor Rank, I'll get a reward of 500,000 Blue Star Coins." Li Yuan set a goal in his heart.
He was full of anticipation and motivation.
Because this was a goal he truly had hope of achieving.
As long as he could break through to Golden Rank and reach 500 points, then through the Promotion Match, he could attain Meteor Rank.
"Let's try a few more matches." Li Yuan couldn't help but click on 'Rank Match'.
Six minutes later.
"Lost!"
"Lost!"
"Three matches in a row, all against opponents with over 600 points, and I lost every single one." Li Yuan returned to his personal space, feeling rather helpless.
Not only did his points not increase, but he dropped back down to 491 points.
Li Yuan also calmed down.
"Looks like 500 points is indeed a threshold. With my strength, my win rate against opponents below 500 points is over 80%." Li Yuan reviewed his battles today, "When facing opponents with 500 points, especially those above 600 points, my win rate is less than 30%."
"This shows that my Martial Skills are still far from being able to dominate in Golden Rank."
If he couldn't achieve near-invincibility in Golden Rank, then reaching Meteor Rank would be like a pipe dream.
Each Rank level on Starry Sky Combat Network had a huge gap, making it basically impossible to surpass.
"Xiao Yu, my points dropped below 500, but it won't affect my reward, right?" Li Yuan asked.
"It won't affect it."
"For the Blue Star Coin reward, they look at the highest historical points. A reward of 50,000 Blue Star Coins will be directly deposited into your bank account after the unified audit on Monday."
"Okay." Li Yuan nodded.
Starry Sky Combat Network, as the largest game in the virtual network and backed by the official authorities, was trustworthy.
"Exit." Li Yuan's mind moved.
He left the virtual network.
...
Li Yuan walked out of his room.
"Brother, come here. I've cut up some fruit for you." His younger sister, Li Qianqian, called out from the sofa.
"Okay." Li Yuan smiled, "What are you watching on the projection? What show is this?"
"Brother, it's not a TV show. It's a documentary, 'Exploring the Robo Sea Star Realm'. It's about our country's first explorer entering the Robo Sea for the first time..." His younger brother, Li Muhua, explained enthusiastically, as if he knew it all.
"Oh?" Li Yuan nodded and sat down, watching the documentary with his younger siblings.
Many technological devices would malfunction inside the Star Gate.
Plus, with countless Star Gate creatures roaming around, danger lurked everywhere... After decades, human civilization had been engaged in constant battles, but information and footage about the depths of the Star Gate weren't abundant.
"These explorers are all Martial Artists. They leaped onto a platform that was dozens of meters high with just a light jump." Li Muhua couldn't help but exclaim.
"Without Martial Artist's strength to enter the Star Gate is like asking for death?" Li Yuan laughed, "Moreover, they aren't ordinary Martial Artists."
At the very least, their physical qualities must be above level 20!
...
After watching the documentary for half an hour, Auntie came out of the master bedroom and urged everyone to go to sleep.
After washing up, Li Yuan returned to his room.
Regarding the news of him breaking through to Golden Rank with 500 points, Li Yuan didn't rush to tell Auntie.
"Let's wait for the money to actually arrive." Li Yuan said.
"I spent the whole day in the virtual network."
"I can't slack off on my basic cultivation technique."
"First, I'll cultivate the Boulder Cultivation Technique for two hours, then I'll cultivate the Great Sun Sky Scripture." Li Yuan quickly made his decision.
For Li Yuan, being able to eat some food with his younger siblings and watch a projection show was a rare moment of relaxation.
There were no shortcuts in Martial Dao cultivation.
It was a repetitive process day after day.
...
In the late night, when Li Yuan quietly left home and headed to school at 3 AM.
Jiangbei Province, Martial Hall.
The smart system and the on-duty staff had received an inconspicuous file for review.
"Bluestar Youth Rankings 2042-2043, 4684th person on the list, name 'Li Yuan', place of residence 'Jiangbei Province, Jiang City, Guan Shan District'... Please conduct a comprehensive assessment of this individual within 10 days to confirm whether they possess the qualifications for special recruitment as a Martial Artist."
(End of Chapter)
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