Chapter 253 - 183: Breaking the Record

Chapter 253: Chapter 183: Breaking the Record

Of the four sections, Yu Fei had already completed Human General Education, Knowledge of Other Races and Realms, and The Yu Kingdom’s Military System and Conventional Superpowered Weapons. Only the final section, Interdimensional Warfare, remained.

These 187 courses detailed over two thousand wars fought across realms and in the Exotic Origin Realm over the past millennium. Yu Fei was already more than halfway through, but the more he learned, the more solemn his expression became.

Throughout history, humanity’s strategy had shifted from passive defense to proactive offense, but Yu Fei discovered that the alien races had only grown larger in number and stronger in power.

Yu Fei estimated that if the alien races had committed their full strength from the very beginning, humanity would have stood no chance in the early days of the war. Yet, they consistently employed piecemeal tactics, sending forces in bit by bit. This made no sense. After all, the course on Other Races and Realms had stated they were intelligent lifeforms, which made their strategy all the more baffling.

After his [Super Speed Reaction] upgraded to [A Fleeting Moment], his neural reaction speed was enhanced fifteen-fold. Yu Fei set the course playback speed to 14x. At such a pace, an ordinary person wouldn’t be able to make out a single word, but he handled it with ease, even having enough time for in-depth contemplation.

With the help of [A Fleeting Moment], it took Yu Fei a full fifteen days to pass all the courses, making him the first to complete the initial assessment after entering the university.

A notification appeared from the university’s academic system.

[Congratulations, Yu Fei. You have completed the theoretical studies for all 309 general education courses with outstanding results.]

[Congratulations, Yu Fei. You have completed the curriculum ten days faster than the previous school record, earning you a bonus of 5,000 Merit Points. You will also receive 100 Merit Points for each course passed, for a total of 35,900 Merit Points. This will be distributed next month.]

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[Congratulations, Yu Fei. You will now proceed to the next stage of your freshman curriculum. Please monitor the academic system for notifications. The relevant course information will be sent to you within the next 48 hours. Be sure to check for it!]

[Congratulations, Yu Fei. You have taken first place in the first assessment for first-year prodigies, thereby fulfilling the conditions to renew your S+ tier resource allocation...]

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The moment Yu Fei submitted his completion of the general education courses, the academic system sent a flurry of messages. Two, in particular, caught his attention.

The first was the Merit Point reward. With the help of [A Fleeting Moment], he had broken the school record, finishing his theoretical studies a full ten days ahead of schedule. Yu Fei estimated that if his [Super Speed Reaction] hadn’t upgraded, he would have taken about twenty days, still breaking the record by five days.

Previously, he had been studying at eight times the normal neural reaction speed. Even if he hadn’t invested much time each day, his efficiency was still far beyond that of an ordinary person.

This suggested that some of the upperclassmen at Shenhan likely possessed similar talents for enhancing neural reaction speed. He probably wasn’t the only one.

However, his new record would be difficult for anyone to break. Theoretical study, unlike practicing a Cultivation Technique, required genuine reading and comprehension. It wasn’t as if someone could just tap a memory drive and instantly absorb its contents.

After completing his theoretical studies, Yu Fei had a much deeper understanding of the world of martial arts, and his craving for power grew even more urgent.

Shenhan University laid the full extent of humanity’s plight and the threats it faced bare for all to see. No prodigy could possibly ignore it. They enjoyed the honor, resources, and benefits of being prodigies, so what about their duties?

The predecessors of the martial arts world didn’t offer heartfelt pleas or patiently try to persuade them about what they should do. Instead, they simply showed them what had been done: the victories won, the number of people sacrificed, and what was planned for the future.

The university didn’t preach about how hateful the alien races were. It simply presented the human Warriors, Martial Saints, and Grandmasters who had been sacrificed over the millennia as a single, staggering figure. How could one not be moved by such a thing?

Armed with this knowledge, the prodigies had to confront a single question: what would they do? Would they carry on the strategies of their predecessors?

But no matter what they thought, their current strength was still far too weak. They were still growing within their ivory tower, sharpening their claws, waiting for the day they could contribute their own power.

Then there were the Merit Point rewards. The combined total for breaking the record and completing the courses came to 35,900—a truly generous sum.

After his expenditures over the past half-month, his Merit Point balance had dropped to around 120,000. Now, it was back up to 150,000. It was more than he could spend.

He remembered that the document his instructor, Shui Yiqiu, had sent him—"One Hundred Efficient Methods for Obtaining Merit Points"—had mentioned rewards for completing academic tasks. He hadn’t paid it much mind at the time and never imagined the payout would be so substantial.

This reward, after all, was available to all students, not just prodigies. Anyone who completed the courses would be rewarded. The theoretical courses weren’t particularly difficult, either; they were mostly general education. As long as one put in the effort to memorize and understand the material, passing the assessments wasn’t hard.

It was essentially a benefit for the entire student body, designed to help them get through the financially lean early days and integrate more easily into the world of martial arts.

Since his talent’s enhancement, Yu Fei’s Qi Blood had surged. His cultivation speed for the [Circulation Divine Vein Scripture] had skyrocketed, and he had already finished strengthening all the traditional meridians and acupoints. His practice had now advanced to the stage of reinforcing the derived extraordinary acupoints and meridians.

He still had plenty of Qi Blood to spare. In fact, he had only used about thirty percent of his total reserves. At this rate, he estimated he had enough to finish strengthening all his acupoints and meridians.

Of course, Yu Fei had also purchased a large quantity of high-efficiency cultivation resources during this period. If not for other plans he had in mind, he could have broken through to the Inner Qi Realm right then and there, entering the fourth realm of martial arts and becoming a mid-rank Martial Artist.