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Chapter 52: Preliminary Round (6)

  The third 10-game winning streak, the score reached 356.5 points, now 30-game winners, suddenly reduced to 52 people, these people must be future opponents.

  As it is a virtual network, in order to buffer the player's game, the scene is transferred, and the most standard environment is that a black and narrow corridor appears in front of your eyes.

  Once a scene is selected, a door appears at the entrance of the Yongdao and emits some bright light.

  Wore to his own half-plane, the virtual half-plane's flower tree, still stood tall and upright, adorned with golden grains, fragrant light like the sea, small building snow-white and delicate, faintly visible in it rising and falling.

  Fang Xin pushed open the door, and the lights in the spacious hall automatically lit up, with a comfortable softness that was just right.

  He sat down in a chair in the room, opened the web system, and searched for Qingteng Cup and Qingyu Hu Lu. Sure enough, he found reports about himself.

  The reporter is a beautiful woman in her twenties, with a tall and full figure, wearing a light blue top and a knee-length skirt, with a white pearl necklace around her neck. Although she's not stunningly beautiful, she has a unique charm that only mature women possess. She's reporting: "Ladies and gentlemen, the third day of the Qingteng Cup Swordsmanship Competition is underway, but some contestants have already completed ten matches and achieved victory. Let's take a look at their names."

  On the screen, some people occupied small squares, and Fang Xin was one of them. Later, she also mentioned: "Here, we discovered three teenage prodigies, all under the age of 18. Let's take a look at their names - Cao Dongpei, Fang Xin, Xie Bai, and their ages are 15, 16, and 17 respectively!"

  Below that, Fang Xin didn't look anymore, and he relied on the Jade Like Intention to achieve such accomplishments. And here came out three, truly extraordinary.

  However, the kendo competition had just begun, and naturally, not many people were paying attention to Fang Xin yet. Fang Xin looked for a while longer before closing it and falling into thought.

  From the various information gathered from all aspects, as well as the materials provided by Xiao Bing, it can be inferred that interdimensional travel is highly valued and prioritized by the empire and various parties, which is why they spare no effort in promoting and disseminating skills that were originally not necessary to promote.

  What is this all for? For merit? Perhaps in part, but at least Fang Xin has not yet felt any signs of this aspect, and he does not want to think that the empire has many items similar to Yu Ruyi - it's really too exaggerated.

  What's the point of all this? It's still a mystery. Fang Xin thought for a moment, then suddenly let out a bitter laugh. This was not something he could understand right now.

  Fang Xinxin sneered in his heart and shifted his thoughts to the conditions and skills required for space travel.

  Thinking about this aspect, I gained a lot, from my own experience, going to other dimensions. It's a soul journey. All skills based on the soul are valuable.

  In this way, although the empire is strong, its vast material strength cannot directly affect other planes.

  But a traveler, although unable to bring inner breath and the like with him, still possesses sword techniques, yin spirits, and magical powers, including magic and divine connections.

  Magic is Europe's strong suit, the Empire has researched it, but thinking about it, it's not possible to thoroughly research it, far inferior to Europe. This can be seen from the fact that the Empire does not have widespread magical education. Moreover, although this world is full of spiritual energy, it still lacks a lot of energy saturation compared to what is needed in a magic world - Xian techniques are the essence, but they are also limited here.

  Religious power, although strong, was obviously unreliable as a basis for government in an empire, so it was neither propagated nor persecuted.

  From this perspective, the imperial spread of martial arts including swordsmanship and the transmission of qigong with little or no religious context is a far-sighted national policy.

  Fang Xin began searching for information about Europe and the Americas, and the results made him nod his head in satisfaction.

  Indeed, within the Western white cultural sphere, martial arts are also being promoted. It is said that the Knight Academy's curriculum is very popular, and even semi-public, semi-hidden magic schools have begun to emerge.

  After all, coming alone or in small groups to other planes - let's not talk about traveling across the four seas, the energy characteristics of the projection plane greatly enhance the power of magic, sorcery, immortality, and Taoism, so people who immigrate there without modern technology are just weak.

  Taking Fang Xin himself as an example, if it wasn't for the extremely small probability of encountering a small-sized plane and meeting the Plane Lord Dark Earl, he would have died several times even with the Jade Like Intent.

  So power is the most important thing, and the value of a fourth-level sword hand increases with demand, which is why the empire invests heavily in research on nutrition warehouses, virtual technology, and promoting swordsmanship competitions.

  Everything's victory, first based on information, Fang Xin knew not a few, but also not many, however, having had the experience of being in a similar situation before, and then reversing to deduce and ponder, it is indeed possible to analyze and summarize many things.

  In fact, many people just don't understand that theoretically speaking, there are no real secrets in the world, everything can be inferred from other aspects, after all, nothing exists in isolation.

  No one is all-knowing and all-powerful, but every organization and individual should strive for it. Whoever can take a step closer to it will be the stronger one.

  It's said that on Earth, when it comes to stocks, some people can find a way to win just by relying on a large amount of publicly available information, while many others don't even have the ability to read financial reports. If the former is considered cheating, then Fang Sima hopes to be the mastermind behind the cheat!

  His swordsmanship had reached the fourth stage, and he had already reached the pinnacle of human skills. The next step would be to infuse his spirit into the sword, a step that had begun to transcend human limits. Fang Xin did not want to continue down this path.

  Of course, the gap between the fourth stage and the fourth peak is still quite large. This depends on the accumulation of daily practice, more fighting, more grinding, and more experience absorption - all of which take time and cannot be rushed. As for this competition, it was also an important process of tempering and training.

  What about other skills? Let's not mention high-level ones for now. For low-level ones, in terms of martial arts, there are horse riding, archery, knife fighting, and spear techniques, etc. However, these actually all belong to the same category as swordsmanship - brute force. With Fang Xin's current abilities at 4th rank, spending some time to improve other related skills wouldn't be difficult.

  Thinking of this, Fang Xin couldn't help but admire the Empire's division of wisdom through skill trees - skill trees that maximally divided out the foundation, connection, extension, branching, and various advancing directions of related fields.

  They grasp everything on the earth at once, and as a result, they learn nothing, or produce a lot of learning waste. Compared with the curriculum arrangement that has nothing to do with future advancement and use, in the eyes of the imperial people, the backwardness of education on the earth can be compared to the level of medieval people.

  If the earth learns from the empire, not only will it open up education, but also standardize and elitize all aspects of imperial professions. The phenomenon of university graduates who can't do anything and don't understand anything will absolutely not happen. Just this one item alone can make a country's soft power rise to another level, and its merits are boundless.

  Greed will lead to trouble, this is a famous saying, but the high-level insight of "touching categories and communicating" is still waiting for those with advanced skills.

  However, apart from military force, there should be many things that are universally applicable, such as faith, culture, and some folk skills. As Fang Xin thought of this, he suddenly had an epiphany and gained a great deal of insight.

  Fragmented knowledge is tolerable, but in a relatively mature world, there is no doubt that with relevant language and cultural knowledge, integration is relatively easy. The empire's promotion of classical literature teaching is undoubtedly a manifestation of traditional forces, but isn't it also accumulating necessary knowledge?

  In this case, perhaps ancient history research, social studies, classical literature learning, and calligraphy all need to be revised.

  Fang Xin smiled and began to exit the nutrition warehouse, preparing to meet the arriving person. At this time, he already had a clear understanding of the situation, not daring to say that everything was under control, but also having principles, clarity, and countermeasures in mind!

  When Zhou Huayu arrived, he saw a young man wearing casual clothes, watering and cleaning his garden, and pruning the overgrown branches.

  Carefree and composed, with a tranquil air, in the midst of summer without a single drop of sweat, when seen, there is a sense of clarity like moonlight on water.

  At this moment, Zhou Hua Yu was shocked, which not only reflected his temperament and character, but also his strength. The three stages of the Grand Heavenly Cycle were impervious to heat and cold, and he was carefree and at ease.

  "Excuse me, are you Mr. Fang?"

  "Oh, it's me. You must be Director Zhou. Sorry for not welcoming you properly. Please come in, the air conditioning inside is nice and cool." Fang Xin said this as he looked at Zhou Hua Yu and his secretary, who seemed to be only second-tier cultivators. They had already sweated through their thin clothes after walking a short distance under the scorching sun, but a man in his thirties was standing there without a single drop of sweat on him.

  Fang Xin washed his hands at the faucet by the door and then extended his hand to lightly shake with the guest, as a courtesy.

  Zhou Hua Yu quickly scanned the villa and then withdrew his gaze, saying, "Mr. Fang is indeed a man of leisure with refined taste, I admire him at first sight."

  "It's just a coincidence, I happened to come out and water the plants." Fang Xin put down his tools under the small tree in the garden, led the way forward, opened the door, and let Zhou Hua Yu and others sit down in the living room.

  "Sorry, there's only tea here." Fang Xin said as he brought out the tea to entertain.

  "Thank you!" Everyone hurriedly stood up and said thank you after getting a cup of tea.

  After thanking, Zhou Huayu's eyes swept around the living room. This villa is not very rare inside, but it's not bad either. Based on the environment he saw earlier, it's probably worth around three million yuan.

  Fang Xin should not be the most important son of the Fang family. Thinking of this, he felt a bit down in his heart. After some polite conversation, he said: "Mr. Fang, we have come this time to discuss something."

  "Oh, is it about my fourth stage thing?" Fang Xin took out a cup and drank a mouthful before raising his head to ask.

  "That's right, actually our company has been wanting to discuss with you..." Zhou Huayu was about to continue when Fang Xin made a gesture, he stopped and changed his words: "What does Mr. Fang have to say?"

  "If I'm being honest, I think I need to wait for someone, sorry about that, she should be on her way here. My matters still need to be discussed with her before a decision can be made." Fang Xin smiled calmly and slightly bowed: "Sorry about that, but some things really can't be decided by me alone."

  Zhou Huayu was taken aback for a moment, his heart sank, and he paused before asking: "Is it someone from your noble family or perhaps Mr. and Mrs.?

  "No, it's my girlfriend, her name is Xiao Bing."

  Xiao Bing, that Xiao Bing, Zhou Hua Yu was taken aback for a moment before connecting it to the eldest young lady of the Xiao family. He smiled and said: "So she's your girlfriend, is she coming?"

  "Yes, she said she'd come at noon, so by now she's probably already arrived in the city. She meant to wait until she arrives before talking, how about we all just wait a bit?"

  Zhou Huayu lowered his head to drink tea, covering up his disappointed expression, before saying: "Being able to meet Miss Xiao is also our honor, this time we didn't come in vain."

  As they spoke, it seemed that he had already lost hope for the recruitment. He had actually heard rumors about Xiao Bing and Fang Xin's relationship before, but he didn't quite believe them. Now it seemed that these rumors were true after all. In that case, recruiting him would be unlikely, as the Xiao family wouldn't be swayed by this point.

  He took another sip of tea, and his mood calmed down a bit. The tea was good, but unfortunately the water wasn't very good. He looked around again, and there were few decorations in the room, just a vase not far away with a few branches of flowers inserted into it. The flower trees outside half-concealed this villa, bringing a little heat with the gentle breeze, which immediately dissipated with the cold air.

  Just as they were sizing each other up for a moment, voices came from outside. Fang Xin smiled: "How timely, she hasn't kept you all waiting long, she's here." Ah!

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