Chapter 503 - 500: Official Member
Zuo Wenya wasn’t anxious at all. He simply listened quietly to the objections. Once no one else was speaking, he slowly took out a document and placed it on the desk.
"I can understand everyone’s confusion, but there are some things you may not be aware of. Just three days ago, Lin Xinghai passed the Military Department’s review and became an official member of the Seed Plan," Zuo Wenya said slowly.
The impact of his words was even greater than that of the application he had submitted earlier.
The room instantly erupted with discussion. Several people even snatched the document to examine it closely.
After a while longer, the commotion died down, and everyone gradually fell silent, accepting this incredible reality.
The Huaxia government had started pushing the Seed Plan a long time ago. In fact, their own East Sea Academy was one of the screening locations.
To be precise, every student at East Sea Academy was a preparatory member of the Seed Plan.
However, gaining the plan’s official recognition and successfully joining was immensely difficult. Often, an entire graduating class would pass without a single student meeting the requirements.
Among everyone present, only Zuo Wenya—who wasn’t even thirty years old—was a member of the Seed Plan. The others, even if their power was sufficient, were too old to be selected.
Even Zuo Wenya himself had only qualified as an official member of the Seed Plan after breaking through to the Divine Demon Realm.
But Lin Xinghai had obtained this qualification right after breaking through to the Blood Qi Realm. Anyone could see that Lin Xinghai’s potential was even greater than that of Zuo Wenya, the youngest person to ever reach the Divine Demon Realm.
In truth, only Zuo Wenya knew that Lin Xinghai’s potential wasn’t just ’greater’ than his—it was far more than that. This was because official members of the Seed Plan were also divided into different Levels.
Specifically, First Class Seed, Second Class Seed, and Third Class Seed.
Even he was only a Third Class Seed, and yet the total number of Third Class Seeds in the entire nation had just barely surpassed one hundred.
There were fewer than ten people with the status of Second Class Seed.
As for First Class Seeds, not a single one had appeared since the plan’s inception.
But that record was broken three days ago after the Military Department’s experts completed their assessment.
Lin Xinghai’s potential was rated as First Class Seed.
The ultimate criterion for these ratings was one thing and one thing only: the probability of breaking through the Divine Demon Realm to the next Realm.
Only those with a greater than 60% probability of transcending the Divine Demon Realm could be rated as a First Class Seed.
Whenever he thought about this, Zuo Wenya couldn’t help but feel a little wistful. But beyond that, he was also proud of his student. ’All I can do now is improve my own strength as quickly as possible, so I’m not surpassed by my own student too soon.’
"Alright, if no one has any further objections, let’s proceed with a vote by show of hands!" Zuo Wenya said, speaking up once more.
"I agree!" Hua Zhenghao, the principal, was the first to raise his hand.
Seeing the principal’s move, the other instructors in the room suddenly realized that he had been sitting quietly to the side the entire time, listening as if he had known the truth all along.
At the sight of this, the instructors who had still been hesitant no longer wavered. They raised their hands one by one, and soon, with over seventy percent in favor, the proposal passed.
Next, two other instructors presented their own applications, but of course, compared to Zuo Wenya’s, they caused barely a ripple.
"If there’s nothing else, let’s adjourn the meeting," Hua Zhenghao announced, glancing around the room.
Seeing no objections, he stood up and left. Zuo Wenya gathered his things from the desk, also preparing to depart.
But Zhang Qishui, who was sitting nearby, suddenly spoke up. "I want to know how Lin Xinghai managed to become an official member of the Seed Plan while only at the Blood Qi Realm. What exactly happened on the day he broke through?"
Since everyone present on that day had signed a non-disclosure agreement, even the academy’s instructors were unaware of what had truly happened. All they had heard were the rumors Zuo Wenya had deliberately spread.
Zhang Qishui hadn’t cared about it before, but thinking back now... ’If Lin Xinghai had merely completed the second stage of his Divine Demon Body Cultivation on the day he broke through, how could he have possibly become an official member of the Seed Plan so quickly?’
"It’s not that you can’t know. Sign this non-disclosure agreement, and I’ll tell you. The same goes for everyone else. Anyone who wants to know can just come over and sign." Zuo Wenya, seemingly prepared for this, took another document out and handed it to Zhang Qishui.
Zhang Qishui took it. A brief glance at the document’s title made his pupils constrict.
It was an S Level non-disclosure agreement.
If it were an ordinary NDA, he would have just signed it; he’d signed one or two of those before. But an S Level agreement was completely different.
Once he signed it, while he wouldn’t exactly lose his freedom, he would be placed under 24-hour surveillance by the Military Department.
’I’d have absolutely no privacy!’
"Too much trouble. Forget it." He wasn’t willing to go through all that hassle just for a moment of curiosity. He tossed the agreement back down and walked away.
Seeing his colleague rebuffed yet again, Zuo Wenya couldn’t help but smile. At the same time, his gaze swept over the others.
After seeing the agreement’s classification, the other instructors avoided it like the plague and promptly turned to leave.
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Lin Xinghai and his team were completely unaware of this major event taking place among the academy’s leadership.
Having set out in the morning and traveled at full speed, they were back at East Sea Academy by noon.
They quickly went to the Mission Hall to submit their mission report and collect the rest of their payment.
Once the money was in hand, Lin Xinghai distributed the spoils from the mission.
He had undoubtedly contributed the most to this mission; without him, they never would have achieved such results. Therefore, he took half of the earnings directly: 4,754,700 Huaxia Coins and 25,000 Credit Points.
Of course, Lin Xinghai chose to take 500,000 Huaxia Coins’ worth of his share in the form of Low Level Elemental Crystals.
So, what Lin Xinghai ultimately received in cash was 4,254,700 Huaxia Coins. Adding this to his previous savings, his account balance once again broke the five million mark, reaching a total of 5,829,700 Huaxia Coins.
As for his Credit Points, his total now reached 28,000, and Yan Feijie still owed him another 10,000.
To put it mildly, Lin Xinghai was rolling in it after just one mission.
It wasn’t just him, either—the other students were all beaming. After dividing the rest of the money, each of them received over 200,000 Huaxia Coins. While it couldn’t compare to Lin Xinghai’s share, it was still a huge fortune for these regular students.
More importantly, this was just a single mission. Following Lin Xinghai, they could already imagine earning a substantial income every week they went out on missions.
With this kind of financial backing, they could go all out buying Cultivation Resources. Their future rate of progress was easy to imagine.
After distributing the mission’s earnings, Lin Xinghai prepared to find Zuo Wenya and ask for his help in submitting the "Investigation Technique" to the academy.
This had been Little Fatty’s suggestion. ’If it goes through,’ he thought, ’I’ll never have to worry about Cultivation Resources again.’