Chapter 1 2015, September 27th, 9:25 AM, Sunny, No Clouds

After a month of pure militarized management and training, the students of the various academies had changed their former lazy student habits. The students of the Combat and Exploration departments immediately gathered on the training ground upon hearing the order.

Within five minutes, three dark, dense formations had assembled on the giant training ground of the Qin Hang Academy, which was four times the size of an ordinary sports field. More than a thousand Awakened-level cultivators stood silently together, their spiritual pressure even distorting the surrounding air.

The three major cultivation academies were established to cultivate professionals to deal with extraordinary events in the country. The 'Combat Department' was specifically to cultivate the art of battle, suppress extraordinary criminals, and respond to extraordinary threats from foreign countries and even other worlds.

The Exploration Department cultivated explorers with independent action and combat capabilities, specializing in exploring other worlds, ancient ruins, and various places that ordinary explorers could not reach.

Only these two departments had practical combat assessments, and their daily training was more rigorous. But correspondingly, there were also relevant medicinal pill subsidies. They also had slightly more authority to browse cultivation methods than ordinary students, and could apply to learn some high-risk killing spells, as well as Yansheng curses and Gu insect poisons.

Of course, the study of such curses needed to be registered, because although such strange arts were useful, they would cause great harm if abused.

In Qin Hang Academy, the number of students in the Combat and Exploration departments was the largest of the three academies, with more than four hundred and sixty and more than seven hundred respectively, accounting for nearly one-third of the entire first batch of students in the academy.

In Zhi Zhi Academy in the magic capital, the Combat and Exploration departments had just over two hundred and eight hundred and eighty respectively.

Dao Ji Academy in the heavenly capital had even fewer, with no Combat Department and only an Exploration Department, with only a little over one hundred and eighty people.

This was a difference in division of labor—the predecessor of Qin Hang Academy was several special units of the former National Security Bureau and the Ministry of National Defense. The professors and lecturers here were all former employees of the National Security Bureau. The former director of the Security Bureau had now retired, and the deputy director was promoted to become the president of the academy, which was considered a promotion. The students who graduated from here would basically be directly transferred to the position of the Security Bureau based on their grades, so the demand for combat personnel here was the highest.

Zhi Zhi Academy was merged by the former Historical Bureau and the Cultural Relics Protection Bureau, along with some marine exploration units, so there were more exploration personnel, and even many museum units were merged into it. The exploration personnel here had to be proficient in archeology.

Dao Ji Academy goes without saying, it was a pure academic academy. Their Exploration Department was also different from the general Exploration Department, and specialized in outer space exploration.

After all, when reaching the extraordinary level, the cultivator's ability to withstand the environment would take a qualitative leap. Such superhumans, even if they didn't do research, were much more practical to send to explore outer space than ordinary people—the future lunar base would depend on these extraordinary people. They might not even need oxygen, and the food they eat would be greatly reduced, or even abstain from grains, which would save a lot of trouble.

This time, all the members of the Combat and Exploration departments were transferred to the Kunlun Mountain ruins. One was to cultivate students and provide practical internships. After all, their future work was to explore the ruins as assault teams or archeological teams, or to cooperate with the military to carry out peripheral security work.

The second was because the spiritual energy around the ruins was extremely high, and it was still in the plateau area, so the environment was just right. Continuing to train there could train the students' tolerance to abnormal environments.

Su Zhou was also in the team of professors leading the team, and was even among the leading group.

In front of a group of middle-aged and elderly men and aunts, was a big boy who looked like he could be their children or grandchildren—but no one found this strange, and even the students looked straight ahead, feeling very natural.

This was the majesty brought about by strength—it was not that no other professors had tried to compete with Su Zhou, who had suppressed his strength to the Awakening level. Most of them lost badly. Even the old people who had worked in the Security Bureau did not have as many battles in this world as Su Zhou, who had experienced the Divine Wood world.

After confirming that everyone was present, the students of Qin Hang Academy set off and took armored personnel carriers to the airport—there, a black flying machine, like a black giant bird, was waiting.

The 'Xuan Bird Class' super-giant supersonic cruise aircraft.

Using extraordinary technology to create the Xuan Bird Class aircraft which could achieve radar and physical dual stealth, was a giant monster with a wingspan of more than one hundred and thirty meters and a length of one hundred and twenty meters. Its maximum take-off weight exceeded one thousand tons, and its maximum load weight was unknown, but according to the official reports of the Zheng Nation military, it could exceed five hundred tons. Through the new technology of 'integrated spiritual weapon forging', the entire Xuan Bird Class aircraft was equivalent to a whole super-giant magical artifact, and its limit data would gradually increase with the spiritual energy recovery.

But even with the current basic data, it could still deploy a fully covered armed armored battalion in any region of the world within three hours.

Merely the Xuan Bird Class, which initially utilized extraordinary technology, easily broke the design limits of the past. Its existence meant that the combination of the extraordinary and science and technology was equal to the general trend of the future, and it was also a perfect example of the success of related experiments.

Many military fan students were wet with tears simply by seeing the existence of the Xuan Bird Class. Knowing that their operation this time was actually to take this aircraft to the Northwest Plateau, the small dissatisfaction that had arisen because 'the new student training had finally ended, and they hadn't enjoyed the academy life for long before they had to run to the plateau for training again' vanished like delicious food in front of a glutton.

"Wuwuwu, look at this coating, look at this streamline, look at this fuselage design, if the Xuan Bird Class became a spirit, it must be a black silk mature beauty!"

"Why are you so vulgar! And didn't the professor say that this is a magical artifact? How can a magical artifact become a spirit? It's called an artifact spirit!"

"People cannot, at least shouldn't..."

"Hahaha, Lao Ma and the others laughed at us in the Combat and Exploration departments for having so many things to do. If he knew that I could ride the Xuan Bird Class once, wouldn't he cry and shout to trade with me?"

"Heh, men."

A month of training could not suppress the students' instinctive exclamations. The professors present were not in a hurry to ask for silence. After waiting for ten seconds, the rapid discussion spontaneously subsided before they spoke, reiterating the purpose and mission objectives of this trip—this was a quasi-military operation, so from now on, everyone should use the strictest requirements to restrain themselves.

With the behemoth of the Xuan Bird Class aircraft as an example, the sense of reality and solemnity of the mission was extremely convincing. From this time until boarding the plane, there was no more noise in the team.

Su Zhou didn't have so many emotions, mainly because he had ridden it twice before. Once was with the entire team to the magic capital to cooperate with the fleet to capture the Lei Ze jellyfish—the facts proved that the fleet was not needed at all, as long as any extraordinary person who could discharge electricity could trick them around—and the second time was to go to the Dao Ji Academy in the heavenly capital to attend a meeting to report his thoughts and data on cultivating the Lei Ze Heart.

The specifications of that meeting were quite high. Dao Sheng, Shu Sheng, Jun Sheng, and Wen Sheng all attended in person, and seven Saint seats listened remotely via holographic projection. It was basically the highest-level meeting below the Central Committee Congress.

After learning that Su Zhou had directly condensed the four spiritual power organs of 'digestive system', 'eye', 'bone marrow', and 'heart' from the beginning of the year to September, one of which was the special-grade spiritual energy organ 'Lei Ze Heart', basically all the Saint seats who appeared in their true bodies almost couldn't hold back their expressions, and the corners of their eyes and mouths were slightly raised, while the projected Saint seats were silent for a long time.

——Are you really sure he is human? I mean, is it possible that he is a reincarnation of an old immortal god, such as a banished immortal or something?

——Although I thought his strength would improve quickly, I didn't expect it to be so exaggerated...

——Nine months to condense four organs, an average of two months and one week to reorganize the body's spiritual energy circulation and accumulate enough advanced spiritual power, even if we provided most of the resources, but this speed... is close to the theoretical fastest speed!

——The posture of an immortal is nothing more than this...

Even Jun Sheng, who was vaguely repelling Su Zhou in his heart, couldn't help but sigh: "The power of the dragon blood is terrifying! If the people of Zheng Nation all have dragon blood, then we don't have to worry about the problem of demonization and Dao imitation... I wish all the people could cultivate demonization and Dao imitation."

This one-eyed old man, who was injured in his early years and lost one eye, was the leader of the faction in the system that rejected the inheritance of demon blood, but even he gradually turned his gaze towards Su Zhou with his one eye, and gradually turned gentle: "Although I really want to say that the faster the cultivation speed of demon blood holders, the more hidden dangers... but his speed is really too fast."

"You are right, the new era is coming, spiritual energy is recovering, the ancient contradictions caused by resource problems over the past thousand years... should be put aside."