NOVEL SIMPLE Chapter 43: Zuo Tianyao
With the assessment over, students began leaving the combat arena in small groups.
Xu Luo was about to leave too, but after receiving a private message from Zhong Tianyue, he didn't leave with the others and instead went to the principal's office.
He was becoming a regular visitor there now.
"Make yourself comfortable," Zhong Tianyue said, pouring him a glass of water and handing it to him. His usually serious face now bore an irrepressible smile.
"Your performance today was excellent. You've really made me proud!"
After all, it was his own student. The better the performance, the more glory reflected on him as a teacher.
"You're too kind, teacher," Xu Luo replied, despite his curiosity about why he had been called here.
Seeing that Xu Luo didn't directly ask why he had been summoned, Zhong Tianyue inwardly called him a "little fox," but admired him even more.
"You should know that the Tianhai City high school league competition is coming up soon. Over a dozen high schools in Tianhai City will compete for qualifying spots to enter the subsequent regional league," Zhong Tianyue didn't hide his purpose.
Tianhai City was a metropolis and also the core of a region.
Now, there were no countries left on the ancestral planet. Everywhere was divided into regions. For example, the area where Tianhai City was located was the Eastern 11th District, with Tianhai City as the regional core city.
First, there was an internal selection to choose the most outstanding students from each school. Then they participated in the city-wide competition, followed by competing with representatives selected from the entire district. Finally, they competed with people from all districts globally, and the best among them could contend with talents from other planets in the entire human alliance.
Lastly, they would compete against alien races.
Over the years, a complete selection process had been established.
Xu Luo nodded. Everyone was discussing the high school league, so how could he not know about it?
"Our school hasn't had a student qualify in the city-wide high school league for many years. When people outside mention Tianhai City, they only know about First High, Third High, Eighth High, and the like!" Zhong Tianyue's expression turned somewhat melancholic.
"This year's second and third-year students are just accompanying the crown prince in his studies, with no hope of qualifying. As for the first years, you've seen their abilities are quite ordinary. So, I've placed my hopes on you."
"You must secure a qualifying spot for our Sixth High!"
"Teacher..." Seeing the light of hope in the middle-aged man's eyes, Xu Luo felt the weight of pressure settling heavily on his shoulders.
"Don't feel too pressured!" Zhong Tianyue laughed casually.
"I know it's difficult for you to qualify with your current strength, so I've secured an opportunity for you!"
"It's still difficult for me to qualify now?" Hearing this, Xu Luo's brow furrowed imperceptibly. His demonstrated strength was already considerable; how could it still be difficult to qualify?
"I know you still have hidden forces, and your units weren't replenished before. But let me tell you, even if your strength from the previous assessment doubled, it would still be hard to qualify," Zhong Tianyue looked at him, delivering a direct blow.
"You should understand that the high school league is a place to gain visibility across the entire alliance. Those with means will spare no expense for it. How do you think Xiang Xun's strength compares? Although he's a direct descendant of the Xiang family, their truly cultivated talents went to First High!"
"Let me put it this way: in last year's first-year high school league, Silver tier units were just the standard configuration. Basically, all those who qualified had two or more Silver tier Lord creatures, and some even had Monarch level creatures!"
"Monarch level?" Xu Luo was genuinely surprised this time.
Besides the tiers like Bronze, Silver, and Gold, creatures also had grades like Common, Elite, Lord, and Monarch.
Even in the elite class, few people had Lord creatures, let alone Monarch level ones.
"The importance those big families place on the high school league exceeds your imagination," Zhong Tianyue smiled faintly.
"Your idea of growing stronger through plundering isn't wrong, but it can only help you make up for the resource gap between you and the children of big families. Some things simply can't be compensated for."
Xu Luo fell silent, unable to refute this point.
For instance, rare units and rare materials were hard for him to obtain. If not for this, he wouldn't have gone so long without suitable materials to build a Zerg Hive.
"I've applied for you to become a seed student for our Sixth High in this competition!" Zhong Tianyue dropped a bombshell.
"Seed?" Xu Luo was puzzled; he had never heard this term before.
"You don't need to know what it is now. You'll understand when the time comes. Without the protection of seed status, I fear you might disappear one day!" Zhong Tianyue glared at him irritably.
"You're so impressive, destroying others' Divine Realms everywhere. But have you considered that your identity isn't a secret? Those alien races have ways to learn your information. I don't want you to end up like Zuo Tianyao, dying inexplicably!"
Zuo Tianyao?
Hearing this name and combining it with Zhong Tianyue's previous words, Xu Luo gained some understanding of the seed status.
Although he had only been in this world for two months, the name Zuo Tianyao was incredibly familiar.
This was humanity's first genius!
Every biological species had an advancement path, discovered through countless years of exploration by various civilizations.
Humans, of course, had no access to this.
Previously, among all creatures, humans existed within the primate category.
Ordinary humans were Bronze Tier 1!
And they had no advancement path.
So this was one of the most useless species.
But it was because of Zuo Tianyao that humans amazed countless civilizations.
In Zuo Tianyao's generation, he completely dominated all alien civilizations.
However, this also laid the groundwork for his later death.
Zuo Tianyao advanced the human species to Gold Tier 9, but this also made those alien races feel threatened. They bribed some human traitors to leak Zuo Tianyao's information.
Not only did they surround and kill Zuo Tianyao in the World of Gods, destroying his Divine Kingdom, but they also assassinated him in reality.
If not for this, Zuo Tianyao would have long since researched units beyond Gold tier, and humans wouldn't have been stuck as a Tier 1 civilization for so many years, constrained by surrounding alien civilizations in every aspect of life.
Zhong Tianyue's meaning was clear. Xu Luo's frenzied destruction of alien newcomers' Divine Realms could easily attract attention. The seed status could either hide his information or the Federation would provide him with some protection.
Whichever it was, it would be beneficial for him.
