My Ability Is Role-playing

Chapter 452 - 445: Unified Ranks! Invitation from the Game Main God!

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Ji Xiuyin’s face flushed, he scratched his head, opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but didn’t know where to start.

Young teachers are clearly much quicker to accept new things than older people.

At least, the language teacher on the podium was very open-minded.

During class, if students couldn’t concentrate, as long as they didn’t disturb others, it was allowed to silently focus their attention and cultivate Inner Qi.

After all, Inner Qi cultivation could provide extra points in the college entrance examination, and as time passed, the weight of these extra points increased.

Everything fears comparison, those traditional teachers stuck in their ways thought cultivation was an unorthodox path, just an excuse for poorly performing students who didn’t love learning to slack off, believing that cultural courses were the true righteous path.

With contrasting examples, all the students respected the language teacher on the podium.

Ji Xiuyin was no exception.

So, after interrupting the lecture, he wasn’t reprimanded, but instead, he felt a bit guilty.

Aside from the guilt, Ji Xiuyin also felt somewhat at a loss.

In China, because of the Super Bureau, "Burning Martial" has been thoroughly promoted, from first-year middle school students to eighty-year-old elders, almost everyone has a copy of "Burning Martial."

Almost everyone felt that when they first began cultivating Inner Qi, the future held infinite possibilities, and life would undergo an earth-shattering change because of it.

Especially some passionate teenagers and office drones mechanically working overtime day after day, all fantasized about reaching advanced stages of cultivation, turning their fate around, becoming masters of their own destiny, and starting a new life.

Sadly enough...

Life goes on, students still have to attend classes, white-collar workers still have to punch the clock and go to work.

Those who grasp the trends of the era and stand on the cusp of success are, after all, very few.

Ji Xiuyin considered himself somewhat clever, because he didn’t like studying, even harbored a bit of aversion to it, listening in class was just a casual formality to get by, and his exam scores weren’t bad, his monthly test scores hovered around the brink of second- and third-tier universities.

If the Extraordinary Era hadn’t arrived, in his future, he might have attended a mediocre university, graduated to find a banal job, marry a wife who was neither beautiful nor ugly, have an ordinary child, and lead a mundane and tedious life.

The emergence of the "Burning Martial" manual allowed Ji Xiuyin to see the possibility of a life full of unlimited excitement.

Yet unfortunately...

After actually starting cultivation, Ji Xiuyin sadly discovered his cultivation talent was even worse than his talent for academic courses.

Doubling the cultivation time, he could only barely keep up with his classmates, and after all this time, he had merely filled one Inner Qi Acupoint, not even having measured a second one.

In other words, Ji Xiuyin was still some distance away from the First Rank of Inner Qi.

They say interest and hobby are the best teachers, and Ji Xiuyin agreed with this statement.

If his interest in academic courses could reach even half of what he felt for "Burning Martial," he believed getting into a top university wouldn’t be a problem.

The crux is...

After cultivating for some time, Ji Xiuyin found himself easily distracted, lacking self-discipline.

Clearly knowing that staying up all night to cultivate was bad for long-term development and was very inefficient, yet he couldn’t resist cultivating overnight, only to wake up the next day yawning, with a blank mind.

Slapping himself in class was just a minor anecdote.

After getting the language teacher’s forgiveness, Ji Xiuyin started cultivating "Burning Martial" again.

Consuming enough food to ensure plentiful nutrition and energy, converting it into Inner Qi to fill the acupoints – this process wasn’t complicated, it just tested the concentration and endurance.

In Ji Xiuyin’s view, the hardest part of the "Burning Martial" system was the deduction of one’s own Inner Qi Acupoint location.

The position of acupoints within each person’s body is entirely different, no two humans are identical, so the acupoint positions of others have no reference value.

Recently, Ji Xiuyin discovered that his speed in deducing the acupoint positions struggled to keep up with the speed of refining Inner Qi.

He had once heard on the Earth Super Forum that many academic society members could deduce the positions of dozens of acupoints before even reaching the First Rank of Inner Qi.

Originally, Ji Xiuyin thought this was someone bragging.

However...

The poster, heavily criticized, provided evidence, with videos and truths, and was himself a Phase Two member of the Grass Hut Academy.

Data showed that the "Martial God" Su Qiangwei needed only about an hour to deduce one acupoint position.

As for the extraordinary-level "Prophet" Ma Ran, he deduced all five hundred and twelve acupoints in extremely short order.

Ji Xiuyin didn’t even want to compare himself with these extraordinary-level super talents.

It would just be self-inflicted humiliation.

However, even compared to other ordinary academy members, Ji Xiuyin felt like an idiot.

Having no advantage in deducing acupoints and finding it easy to lose concentration in refining Inner Qi...

Isn’t that why they say that an effortfully talented person is still a kind of talent?

Ji Xiuyin felt that someone like himself, seemingly working hard but in reality spending most of the time in a daze, and achieving very little after a whole day of cultivation, was nothing more than a self-deluded fool.

Recently, it seems that a lot has happened.

Neptune suddenly exploded, leaving only seven major planets in the Solar System, which is the biggest news.

Although experts say it won’t affect the daily lives of Earthlings, many conspiracy theorists and Doomsday Cult believers are spreading statements unfavorable to social stability.

The second biggest news is probably the sudden disappearance and reconstruction of Grass Hut Academy—the entire academy’s premises have been hollowed out and rebuilt. It is said that the academy members experienced an extremely bloody battle in space, with an average of being beheaded or cut in half once. If it weren’t for the Martial God and Prophet, the entire Grass Hut Academy might only have a few left.

Then there’s the "Guanlan Country," the system reform pushed by the Profound Immortal.

It is said that Zhao Guanlan is collecting Life Span Tax en masse. To strengthen the populace, he seems to be establishing something similar to the Super Bureau on the islands.

In short, such arbitrary reforms are usually mixed with praise and criticism, but ninety-nine percent of the island’s people are grateful to Zhao Guanlan, with few criticizing him.

Thinking of this, Ji Xiuyin instinctively took out his phone, unlocked it with fingerprint, and opened the Earth Super Forum app, beginning to browse the [Extraordinary News] section.

The hottest pinned post was made by someone with the ID "Jiang Tai."

"Unification! From today onwards, the standards for measuring the levels of Extraordinary Ones within China are unified!"

Oh?

Big news indeed...

Ji Xiuyin clicked into the post and began skimming through its contents.

The author was brief and to the point, with no wasted words, so after a quick read-through, Ji Xiuyin read it again from the start.

In simple terms, from today, the standards for measuring the levels of Extraordinary Ones within China have appeared unified.

The reference is the "Burning Martial" system, created single-handedly by Prophet Ma Ran!

Currently, it is divided into twenty tiers from low to high.

Tiers one to four correspond to Tier One Superpower Users, mech masters who have undergone initial training, sword cultivators of the First Realm of Seven Vortex Swordsmanship, and genetic modifiers after initial modification.

Tiers five to ten correspond to Pillar Level Superpower Users, veteran mech masters with battle experience, sword cultivators of the Second Realm of Seven Vortex Swordsmanship, and deeply genetically modified Transformers.

Tiers eleven to fifteen correspond to National Guardian Level Superpower Users, sword cultivators of the Third Realm of Seven Vortex Swordsmanship.

Tiers sixteen to twenty align with the top-level national guardians such as God, Martial God, Prophet, Profound Immortal, and correspond to sword cultivators of the Fourth Realm of Seven Vortex Swordsmanship.

Seeing this, Ji Xiuyin realizes that the "Burning Martial" system, superpowers, and Seven Vortex Swordsmanship are currently the most promising extraordinary routes with the highest upper limits.

The mech master and gene evolution routes clearly have somewhat lower upper limits.

Nevertheless, the few words from Jiang Tai, the post’s author, seemed to hint at something.

The mech and gene evolution routes also have substantial potential, with both the nation and the academy making efforts to modify them.

Looking at the replies below, Ji Xiuyin suspects that the author might be hiding some important information.

For example...

In the Grass Hut Academy’s space battle, one mecha stood out, clearly surpassing the constraints of Tier Ten, demonstrating performance of a higher tier.

In the thread, some IDs suspected to be members of Grass Hut Academy replied that Prophet Ma Ran disappeared for a while after the space battle, possibly to demand war reparations from the Zhang Heng Civilization, likely related to the gene evolution route.

So, above veteran mech masters, there might be Ace Mecha Masters.

And above Advanced Genetic Modifiers, there might soon be new higher-tier genetic modifiers corresponding to Tiers Eleven to Fifteen of Burning Martial.

Ji Xiuyin casually browsed the posts in the Earth Super Forum, with most focusing on mechas.

"After [Xingtian], the second model mecha, [Flame Emperor·Prototype], crafted with high-speed flexible titanium steel exterior buffer armor, powered by a micro thorium element fission reactor, wielding a scaled replica of the Prophet’s straight-blade Tang Blade..."

"My [Burning Martial] talent is too poor, if I could have a mecha of my own and take the path of a mecha master, that would be great."

The class bell awakened Ji Xiuyin.

Coming back to his senses, Ji Xiuyin looked sullen, wishing he could slap himself again.

An entire class period wasted!

No progress in cultural studies.

Not much growth in Inner Qi.

Inner Qi Acupoints were not deduced.

Aside from scrolling the phone, nothing was done!

Just as Ji Xiuyin was contemplating whether to give himself another slap in the face to wake up, the phone’s screen suddenly flickered bizarrely a few times.

A moment later, the phone’s wallpaper and apps vanished without a trace.

Against a light brown background, a line of pure black text appeared on the screen.

"Lucky one, you have received an invitation from the Game Main God."

The text disappeared.

An emerald bamboo scroll, seemingly untreated, suddenly appeared at the edge of the screen.