9: Nirvana Training Camp Incident

It takes time to gather information.

Everyone was no longer in a hurry and sat in the beverage shop, slowly waiting for news to arrive.

It wasn't just Lin Chen and his group who discovered the problem; many well-informed students also found out what was going on.

With fifty thousand students, one-tenth of whom were from influential families, spread across all forces in the thirteen cities, this matter simply couldn't be kept secret.

The most anxious about this matter were not the middle school students like Lin Chen, but the third-year high school students who were only half a year away from their college entrance exams.

Those third-year students, ranging from third-tier to fourth-tier, were the main force contending for the inner ring positions.

The third-year students suffered the greatest loss from the inner ring spots being encroached upon; students from other grades could still participate in the next training camp.

However, this kind of encroachment cannot be allowed to start; if there's one, there will be two. It must be suppressed as soon as it emerges, and those who break the rules must be dealt with severely.

Otherwise, future training camps will no longer belong to the thirteen cities but to the entire Federation.

By then, the training camps would be filled with those who have connections, and the top families in each city would simply send their descendants to enjoy the opportunities, a complete act of reaping without sowing.

A more serious consequence would be that commoners' children wouldn't even be able to enter, which completely violates the original intention of establishing the Nirvana Training Camp and is a trampling of the efforts made by the twelve cities.

Legally, the Nirvana Training Camp is a project jointly built by the thirteen cities, and it serves the citizens of the thirteen cities. The descendants of the citizens of the thirteen cities are entitled to enjoy the opportunities of the training camp.

This is a widely accepted principle: only with effort do you deserve to enjoy the rewards. You cannot appear only when the rewards emerge; this is completely immoral and unacceptable.

It is precisely because there are rewards for building new cities that whenever a dimensional fragment appears, nearby cities actively send people to conquer it and, under the leadership of the Federation, contribute labor and resources to build the new city.

If, after every new city is established, cities or individuals who did not contribute always come to reap the benefits, and this trend spreads, the consequences would definitely not be easily resolved in a short time.

Qingshan City is an example; after a hundred years of development, it is still stagnating or even regressing, while Feng City, established sixty years later, is more prosperous and ranks much higher.

(I am not alluding to anyone; everything is fictional content in the book. Dog head for self-preservation.)

Two hours passed, and still no specific information came. Lin Chen and his group no longer waited and returned to their dorms to prepare for rest.

Tomorrow, they would still have the ranking competition to earn higher-ranked individual training rooms through combat.

Within each ring, the higher-ranked training rooms offer better cultivation effects. At the same cultivation level, no one feels they are inferior to others, and even fighting above one's level is common.

Cultivation level cannot measure a person's strength; the superficial level is just a reference. To truly see one's strength, one must fight a real battle to find out.

The Federation's virtual reality technology is very advanced.

The Virtual Divine Realm, a virtual world built by the collective power of the entire Blue Star Human Race, has a similarity of 99.999% to reality, equivalent to a second world.

As long as one is human, at the age of twelve, one can register a Virtual Divine Account and enter the Virtual Divine Realm through a specific device.

For the protection of students, Virtual Divine users under the age of eighteen have fewer available functions, only three.

The Civilization Library, the Simulation Training Ground, and the 12-to-18-year-old stage Ladder Ranking Competition.

The Civilization Library collects all books that have existed on Blue Star Human Race from ancient times to the present, containing boundless knowledge. As long as you are willing to learn, there is endless knowledge to acquire.

The Simulation Training Ground, in custom mode, allows users to simulate various combat scenarios and opponents, and it includes information on all enemies encountered by humans.

The 12-to-18-year-old stage Ladder Ranking Competition, as the name suggests, is a competition where human youths in this age group compete for rankings through combat. The higher the ranking, the higher their potential and the broader their future.

Lin Chen's current ranking is in the 8 billion to 9 billion range.

The Blue Star Human Race numbers nine thousand trillion (9 followed by 23 zeros). The number of people in the 12 to 18 age group accounts for 15% of the total population. (In our country, this age group accounts for only about 8%, which is a bit structurally imbalanced.)

Lin Chen's ranking is already quite good, placing him in the top 1%. Among one thousand three hundred fifty trillion human youths, Lin Chen has at least entered the top ten billion.

The next morning.

Lin Chen awoke from his meditation, and several messages popped up on his wristband, from his grandfather Lin Yuan, second uncle Lin He, Zhou Heshan, and Oriental Red Sleeve.

Evidently, the pre-arranged quota incident had a resolution.

After reading the messages, Lin Chen understood the full story behind the incident and was very satisfied with the outcome.

The cause of the incident came from an internal spy on Blood City's side. This faction of spies, without the knowledge of the Blood City Lord's Mansion and the twelve cities' supervisory forces, sold one thousand inner ring quotas.

The resources obtained from selling the quotas were pocketed by the spy faction. The spy faction knew that such a matter would inevitably be exposed, but they held a lucky (chance/hope of getting away with it).

They simply wanted to drag it out until the training camp opened and the one thousand quota buyers arrived, making it a fait accompli.

At that time, the forces behind the one thousand quota buyers would inevitably unite and contend with the thirteen cities that jointly built the training camp.

The party that pre-arranged the quotas had paid resources and naturally wanted to secure the quotas. The thirteen cities, having received nothing but suffered actual losses, would naturally not let the matter rest.

As for the spy faction, their outcome would merely be dismissal and exile, but the resources obtained from selling the quotas would be truly pocketed. On average, it would be enough for everyone in the spy faction to advance one tier.

Subsequently, the thirteen cities officially formed an alliance, centered around the Nirvana Training Camp, to construct a loose alliance organization, mutually supporting each other and developing together.

The forces behind the one thousand quota buyers were ultimately a mixed bag. Even if they were subjectively united in their stance, their distribution was too scattered to contend with the mutually supportive and unified thirteen cities alliance.

In just one night, all members of the spy faction were apprehended and dealt with to the fullest extent of the law. All resources from the sale of quotas were recovered; eighty percent of these resources were returned to the forces who bought the quotas, and the remaining twenty percent were invested in the training camp for student cultivation.

The forces who bought the quotas were naturally unwilling, but the thirteen cities alliance was firm enough: either accept the returned resources, or they would remain in a stalemate, as the thirteen cities alliance was not the one in a hurry.

If the Nirvana Training Camp didn't allow those one thousand people in, they had no recourse. Pressure was even less effective, as this was a completely unreasonable matter, and no high-level Federation expert or major force was willing to stand up for such an unethical act.

Finally, they could only accept the outcome of the returned resources, considering the twenty percent loss as a lesson learned.

The adults did not tell Lin Chen and the other children the specific inside story, but the general process was as such. The final result was good: the Nirvana Training Camp maintained its purity, and from then on, it was legally co-owned by the thirteen cities alliance, with its quotas co-owned by the thirteen cities.

The pre-arranged quota incident concluded, and the training camp officially launched and became operational.

Day one: Ranking Challenge.

The training camp would initially assign a training room number based on the student's cultivation level.

Lin Chen, being at the early stage of a Third-tier Martial Master, was initially assigned to training room 1020 in Ring 6.

The Ranking Challenge consisted of two stages.

From 8 AM to 12 PM: In-ring Challenge, where students could only challenge others within the same ring.

During this stage, Lin Chen could only challenge the 1019 students in Ring 6 who were ranked above him.

From 2 PM to 6 PM: Cross-ring Challenge, where students could bypass their current ring and challenge students in the inner rings.

During this stage, Lin Chen could challenge students occupying training rooms in Ring 5 and above. If he succeeded in the challenge, they would swap room numbers.

After breakfast, Lin Chen returned to his dorm. It was 7:30 AM, and he didn't waste any time, entering the Virtual Divine Realm via his wristband.

In the Virtual Divine Realm, within the Nirvana Training Camp area, each student had a personal preparation space, and they could also apply to join a class preparation space.

In the Nirvana Martial High Junior High Department, Class 1's preparation space, the thirty students of Class 1 gradually arrived, waiting for the challenges to officially begin at 8 AM.

"Students, act within your capabilities. Your primary goal is to maintain your current position. If you have energy to spare, challenge the students ranked above you to achieve a better ranking."

The homeroom teacher, Zhou Xingchen, reminded them before the challenges began, ready to comfort any students who were successfully challenged.

He had many more tasks to do today. He needed to arrange suitable opponents for each student based on internal information, aiming to maximize their rankings and secure better cultivation environments for them.

As a homeroom teacher, there was much to be done.

While monitoring students' academic performance, he also had to pay attention to their psychological well-being, guide them appropriately, cultivate their tenacious will, and refine their martial arts spirit.

This was the first time his students participated in an inter-city level competition. Teenagers aged 12 to 18 from across the thirteen cities gathered to determine their rankings through competition.

This was somewhat cruel.

A genius in a small area might be just average when placed in a larger area.

This is where Zhou Xingchen's role became evident.

Accepting one's mediocrity and still striving forward is more difficult than accepting that one is a genius.