70: Long live Gu Chen! The Lord of the Manor is snatching him away!
"Gu Chen? He said his name is Gu Chen?"
Many people instantly recalled the Martial Arts Examinee who had received the most attention on the official platform a while ago. Wasn't he named Gu Chen?
"He hasn't been active for six days, right? I thought he had fallen! Even his name had been moved to the gray section of the star ranking list. Even the officials thought he had met with an accident in the Alien Star. I didn't expect him to appear and become even stronger!"
"Could he have had some kind of fortuitous encounter?"
"Two Star River Bodies, both insta-killed by him!"
"The Haoyu Civilization is claimed to be the most Advanced civilization, and the Star River Bodies are Innate Martial Artists they created. To think they would be wiped out so easily by Gu Chen?"
However, many people noticed that from the very beginning, the live stream seemed to have been blurred. Even with high frame rate display enabled, Gu Chen's face and detailed features could not be seen clearly.
"As expected, this is definitely the work of the officials!"
"Gu Chen's strength and talent are too terrifying. Xia Country's protection for these Geniuses is very well done."
Many people immediately realized the situation.
Meanwhile.
Inside the Gu family home.
These past few days, Gu Dongshan and Qin Yueru hadn't slept well. Especially when members of the War Preparation Department came to talk to Gu Dongshan and told him to prepare for the worst, his heart sank to rock bottom.
For parents...
No matter how much their son stood out...
Nothing compared to him being safe and healthy.
For six days, Gu Chen's score on the star ranking list hadn't changed at all, which almost certainly meant he had met with an accident.
"That's my brother! My brother is fine! This is great!!! Mom, Dad!!! Did you see that!! My brother killed all those Star River Bodies! The war machines of a high-level civilization were actually powerless against my brother!"
Once Gu Ling recovered from the shock...
And heard that familiar voice ringing out in the live stream room...
She was instantly overjoyed.
Extremely excited.
She began to chatter non-stop.
"Mom, Dad, do you know? These Star River Bodies don't treat our Xia Country's Martial Artists as human at all. They look down on us, thinking our Martial Artists are just a bunch of low-level civilization insects. These past few days, they've suppressed everyone in Xia Country so much that no one could hold their heads high. These people were way too arrogant!"
"Thankfully, they were all killed by my brother!"
"Hahahaha! Now, in all the groups I'm in, as long as there are Martial Artists, everyone is talking about this!"
Gu Ling had joined many groups.
After all, she was about to enter the Third Martial Artist High School.
And those groups were now absolutely exploding over this matter!
Gu Ling hadn't participated in any group discussions because she was worried her brother might have met with an accident and wasn't in the mood. But now, her face was flushed with excitement, and she waved her phone around as if showing it off.
It wasn't hard to see that most of the messages were variations of this:
"Gu Chen is invincible!"
"Long live Gu Chen!"
A massive wave of pleasant surprise swept over Old Gu's family of three.
Gu Ling proudly sent a message in a group.
"To tell you the truth, I am Gu Chen's biological younger sister."
Immediately, a series of replies flooded in.
"Oh, got it. Sister upstairs, you're already the thirty-eighth sister of Gu Chen I've seen today."
"Big Brother Gu Chen's family really is quite large!"
"You people are truly shameless. Seeing Gu Chen bring glory to our Xia Country by slaying the Haoyu Civilization's Star River Bodies, you just want to ride his coattails! Shamelessly riding them, huh? Telling everyone you meet that you know Gu Chen."
For a moment, Gu Ling was so angry her little nose almost went crooked... Back in the Alien Star.
Gu Chen listened as Jiang Feixuan and the others told him about the changes in the Alien Star during this time, and he finally gained a clear understanding of what had happened outside.
"Those high-level civilization Star River Bodies were truly too much. They thought we were insects, lowly cosmic trash. I don't know how many of our brothers they killed during this time."
At the mention of this...
Fire burned in everyone's eyes. This moment of shared hatred deeply affected Gu Chen.
He looked around and then spoke in a soft tone.
"Xia Country is currently only at the beginning stages of the martial path. It's like a seed that has just been planted in the Universe, containing infinite hope and potential."
"If a civilization that perished a thousand years ago could extinguish the flames of Xia Country's growth, how would we face the endless civilizations and nations in the cosmic starry sky in the future? This is a test—perhaps a test given to Xia Country by the Universe. We are the ones who will fight bloody battles on the front lines of the future."
Gu Chen's words...
Carried immense weight.
Making everyone involuntarily clench their fists.
"Let's wipe out Haoyu within this Alien Star. Everything should return to dust and earth."
Gu Chen's words were for the Martial Arts Examinees nearby.
But they were also for the people of Xia Country watching the live stream.
It was as if once Gu Chen spoke those words...
Everything would be settled.
It was a truly formidable feeling!
These past few days...
Through the live stream, they had seen footage of the Prodigies in the top 100 war zones defeating Star River Bodies, and those Prodigies had also said some inspiring words. But none were as stirring as what Gu Chen said now!
Perhaps it was because of the overwhelming power Gu Chen displayed when he defeated those two Star River Bodies just now!
It truly knocked the Star River Bodies of a high-level civilization off their pedestal!
Breaking everyone's fear of the Star River Bodies!
Gu Chen stood up and slowly walked away.
His back was as straight as a spear.
"Damn, I really want to follow him." At this moment, Jiang Feixuan and the others expressed such sentiments.
That guy...
Was clearly around the same age as them...
Yet he seemed to possess a special magic that made them want to follow behind him.
"In the future, on the battlefield, we will all be comrades-in-arms. At that time, we are destined to follow behind him anyway. Let's go!"
They hurriedly stood up, wanting to follow.
However, Gu Chen's figure was already nowhere to be found.
At this moment, Gu Chen...
Glanced at the star ranking list.
"I've dropped this far in the rankings. It looks like after dealing with the Haoyu Civilization's Star River Bodies, I need to grind points as quickly as possible. Otherwise, this performance will be too far behind."
Gu Chen was somewhat speechless.
However, what he didn't know was...
In Xia Country...
At the Purple Profound Pavilion...
Outside the old man's office, a series of knocks suddenly rang out.
"Pavilion Master, are you in?"
"Pavilion Master, are you there?"
The old man was stunned for a moment, as if he had thought of something. He then opened the door and saw a group of steady and mature faces outside, though they all looked somewhat anxious now.
"Academy Head Zhang? Academy Head Li? Academy Head Wang? Why are you all here?"
These three were actually the Academy Heads of the three highest Gene Academies in the capital of Xia Country!
"We want the student."
"This Gu Chen, if we're not mistaken, should be a Gene Warrior!"
"Although the results aren't out yet, we want to finalize this Martial Artist's school choice beforehand."
The three Academy Heads all had sharp, experienced eyes.
Even through the blurred footage of the live stream from the Alien Star, they could tell that Gu Chen's potential was absolutely terrifying!