Published: February 19, 2025
Hell, the soul is absent (seeking monthly votes)
When Chen Chu first entered school for cultivation, his talent was displayed as upper-middle in spirit, while his physical body was only low-grade due to innate weakness.
Overall, his talent was considered below average.
If it weren't for the first evolution feedback from his avatar, which compensated for the weakness of his innate physical condition, he wouldn't have been able to establish a foundation within half a month at all.
And he just barely made it within that half-month limit.
Despite subtly guessing that the earlier one established their foundation, the higher the potential recognition they might receive, he didn't use Zhang Xiaolan's savings of ninety thousand to buy resources for replenishing qi and blood.
Even if he spent that ninety thousand, it would only allow him to establish his foundation two or three days earlier, which wasn't significantly different from half a month.
Did Chen Chu care about his talent?
Of course, he did. No one wants to be the worst.
Back then, seeing his classmates rapidly progress, visualizing the ten petals a day and reaching the fifth and eighth transformations of blood qi, if he said he felt no disparity in his heart, he would be lying.
After all, everyone has two hands and two feet; why is there such a large gap?
However, because of the 'thinking' of adulthood, combined with his avatar and the existence of his attribute page, Chen Chu was able to appear so steady, neither anxious nor slow.
If it weren't for those factors, he might have barely established his foundation after one or two months.
Then, he would have had to watch those geniuses cultivating advanced techniques, far ahead of him, while he was stuck practicing low-level techniques, standing in the audience looking up at them.
He might even have shouted something like "Thirty years in the East River, thirty years in the West River, don't bully the young and poor."
Then it would turn into "Don't bully the middle-aged and poor, don't bully the elderly and poor," and eventually, the dead would be the greatest.
Because the gap in talent between people indeed exists.
This talent includes physical cultivation aptitude, spiritual comprehension talent, resilient will, and learning ability, so there is no situation of being too poor at the beginning but eventually achieving great success later on.
Because the ability to achieve great success also relies on having an advantage in some aspect.
Otherwise, if simply relying on effort could allow one to stand at the top, there would be no lower class in this world; everyone would be like a dragon.
Thus, today as Chen Chu swept away all the outstanding geniuses from all the schools in the South with his absolute power, he felt an indescribable sense of relief and excitement in his heart.
He is not a saint; he also has seven emotions and six desires of love, hate, anger, and obsession, but he usually restrains them and doesn't show them.
At this moment, his thoughts became increasingly active, and his understanding of martial skills and techniques deepened, reaching a state similar to that night when he fought bloodily on the clouds.
Yet this time, although the endless blood evil energy surrounded him, his consciousness did not plunge into madness again; he clearly sensed an invisible boundary.
Just a little more, just a bit more.
As long as he could break that invisible boundary, he could condense his willpower and touch the heavens and earth.
Huff, puff!!
Chen Chu let out a heavy breath, his eyes blood red, with strands of solidified blood-colored energy swirling around him, like a killing god from hell holding a spear.
That invisible bloody aura made the people from the Martial High in the distance take a sharp breath, and many students at the third and fourth levels of heaven turned pale.
Zhang Tianlong's expression became solemn: "Chen Xuedi, aren't you on the invincible path of condensing battle intent? What's going on now?"
Chen Chu's voice was low: "I'm in great shape right now, but the battle intent I'm condensing is related to the countless mutated beasts I've slain."