"Alright, now that everyone is here, the final project officially begins tomorrow. In two more days, it will be your assessment day. I hope each of you can pass the exam smoothly, become a member of our General Bureau, and contribute to the country, your family, and yourselves."
The man finished speaking and introduced himself.
"My name is Tai Yinglong. You can just call me Old Tai."
This was clearly said for Li Chonglou. Afterward, he officially returned to the course content.
"As I said before, to become a member of the Executive Department, mere realm is far from enough. Realm and strength often don't go hand in hand."
Li Chonglou noticed that when Tai Yinglong said this, everyone's reaction was a little too indifferent. They had probably heard it more than once.
Even Li Chonglou noticed the crowd's mood. As a teacher, Tai Yinglong naturally noticed it too. He said calmly, "Don't find me nagging. I emphasize this every year, but every year, executive members lose their lives due to carelessness. This is about your own lives, and I hope each of you can take it completely seriously."
Tai Yinglong suddenly looked over.
"You should know this best, newcomer."
Li Chonglou's expression froze, and then he realized that this was referring to the three people from the Commoners' Association.
Indeed, a seventh-level expert leading the team, accompanied by two veteran experts, suffered a great loss in a small company that didn't even have a sixth-level cultivator. After this incident spread, Yuan Bei and the other two became classic negative examples for many teachers.
Tai Yinglong didn't mean to mock Li Chonglou. He just used it as an excuse to bring it up before getting back to the main topic.
"A person's potential is far greater than what is shown. Even ordinary people can break through their perceived limits through training. For us cultivators, it's even more so."
"Everyone here has at least reached the fourth level. Combined with your age, it's no exaggeration to call you one in ten thousand geniuses. Yet, in just the preliminary test, someone broke a leg."
The man who had a minor misunderstanding with Li Chonglou earlier lowered his head in shame.
"Cultivators, many people think that realm is king. As long as they find a way to raise their realm, they can be one step ahead. This idea isn't wrong; it's fundamentally flawed!"
"Every acupoint, every cell in your body is your strength, your potential! Do you think you are truly a fifth-level expert just by reaching the fifth level? In a real battle between powerhouses, you might not even be able to defeat a third-level cultivator!"
Some faces showed defiance, while others were solemn, but almost no one truly took it to heart, except for Li Chonglou, whose eyes flashed with a different color.
Because he had, at that time, suppressed Qi Jing, who was at the peak of the sixth level, with his third-level strength. Regarding what Tai Yinglong said, he could be considered someone who had experienced it.
Tai Yinglong continued, "I know many of you are unconvinced and don't believe me. Before entering, you might have been freelancers, mercenaries, or even trained abroad. You encountered those lacking systematic training, making you feel that realm is king. Even a child who knows nothing, if given a seventh-level realm, could dominate."
Tai Yinglong's gaze suddenly turned cold.
"If you still can't change this mindset after joining the Executive Department, I advise you to leave. Don't regret it when death is at your doorstep."
The peak seventh-level strength suddenly erupted. Everyone present, including Li Chonglou, couldn't help but shiver.
The expressions of those who had some experience changed drastically, as they had felt the aura of other seventh-level experts. However, compared to the current Tai Yinglong, they were on a completely different level!
But in the next moment, all the terrifying auras suddenly disappeared, and Tai Yinglong's emotions returned to calm.
"Of course, I know that some things people are unwilling to believe if they haven't experienced them. I can't force everyone to completely believe me. I will continue to talk about the content. How much you can learn and comprehend depends entirely on your own ability."
Afterward, Tai Yinglong stopped paying attention to everyone's emotions and began to explain the true functions of the acupoints in the human body and how to develop one's potential.
Although Li Chonglou was here for the first day and had only sat down for less than half an hour, after listening to Tai Yinglong's lecture, he couldn't help but sigh that a great power was truly a great power.
Many of the knowledge points here were things he had learned at the risk of his life, but Tai Yinglong mentioned them casually.
For example, the reinforcement and application of acupoints. Things he had spent so much effort to understand, Tai Yinglong simply pinpointed the essence: if a person's strength were compared to a gun, then realm would be the material of the gun and the basic bullets.
And potential, that determines the upper limit and power of the gun's bullets!
Here, Tai Yinglong also gave an easy-to-understand example. If a person enters a realm, it is equivalent to unlocking ten percent of their potential.
With each increase in realm, the corresponding realm benefits would increase their potential by another ten percent.
But is this the limit of realm experts?
No!
"The true potential limit of the first level realm is twenty percent of the body, the second level is twenty percent, and so on!"
Li Chonglou never expected to learn knowledge that he might not have learned in a lifetime outside, just by coming here. According to Tai Yinglong, a tenth-level expert's true ultimate potential should be two hundred percent of the body's limit!
However, just by looking at the realm, a tenth-level expert only had one hundred percent of the body's limit. This meant a difference of nearly double in strength!
What did this mean? It was like you had clearly reached the peak realm of humanity, but suddenly you were being utterly defeated by someone of the same realm, and you were still confused as to why.
And this, Tai Yinglong called the difference between being systematically trained or not.
Tai Yinglong added a final remark: "In fact, the gap in reality is much larger than the data suggests. It involves cultivation techniques, movement techniques, and weapons, which cannot be quantified. There are no less than a dozen documented cases of third-level cultivators defeating fifth-level cultivators."
The crowd fell silent. This time, their expressions were consistent, but no one knew what they were thinking.
What puzzled Li Chonglou was that when Tai Yinglong spoke the last sentence, for some reason, he glanced at him, as if hinting at something.
This made Li Chonglou's heart skip a beat. He wondered if the incident where he suppressed Qi Jing, who was at the peak of the sixth level, with his third-level strength had gotten out. But he had clearly mentioned the aura of the fifth level later.
As long as Qi Jing didn't reveal it himself, outsiders would still assume that Li Chonglou had used his fifth-level strength to suppress Qi Jing at the sixth level. While this would still be shocking, that degree was within an acceptable range.