Monster Paradise

From the Martial Arts Hunting Academy, Lin Huang and Lin Xin spent another week in Baijing City. After nonchalantly strolling through several of the most popular spots and clocking more than ten restaurants and fly houses with exploding reputations, it was off to their next stop.

For more than a month afterwards, the siblings walked around and the journey was unprecedentedly pleasant.

Along the way, Lin Huang also visited several old friends such as the siblings of Yizheng Yuyu, Leng Yuexin, and Li Lang, and had a great time together.

When traveling to the third district, Lin Huang remembered that his elder brother Liu Ming was the vice president of the Martial Arts Hunting Academy, plus Lin Xin also wanted to see what the third district's Martial Arts Hunting Academy was like, and the two of them went straight to the Martial Arts Hunting Academy on their first stop.

Early in the morning, Liu Ming received the two at a morning tea shop in front of the Hunting Martial Academy.

"Brother, long time no see." At the entrance of the shop, Lin Huang saw Liu Ming sitting inside the floor-to-ceiling window and waved his hand in greeting.

Among all the students that Mr. Fu had instructed, Liu Ming was the one who was closest to Lin Huang. He was also almost the best friend of Lin Huang's besides the Yi Zheng siblings and a few other best friends.

Liu Ming smiled as he stood up and waved at Lin Huang, "Come on in."

As the siblings entered the shop and took their seats, Liu Ming then took a closer look at Lin Huang, "It's been a few years since I've seen you, Little Brother, you're getting better and better, and you're getting more and more handsome."

As an Imperial Palace realm cultivator, he naturally knew everything about what had happened in the cultivation world. Aside from the year in the Great World, Liu Ming was largely aware of what Lin Huang had experienced over the years, as he had also been paying attention to his little brother.

"Senior brother, you've changed quite a bit, too. The Dao of Knives has been refined to the sixth realm, and you've lost a lot of weight, so I'm sure you haven't practiced a lot." Lin Huang also laughed and ridiculed the other party.

Liu Ming's battle prowess was now Golden Imperial Palace, and the Dao of Knives had also refined to the sixth realm, so a body of strength was probably considered strong in the Imperial Palace realm as well.

"It's true that the sword hasn't missed practice, but that's not the reason I've lost weight." Liu Ming smiled and shook his head, "I've just lost weight in the past month or so."

"It's been a busy month or so getting the academy's preparatory admissions."

"Preparatory admissions, isn't that an easy job?" Lin Huang was slightly surprised, he had been a teacher at the Martial Hunting Academy and naturally knew about the preparatory admissions.

Usually, preparatory admissions were conducted half a year in advance, and the most outstanding students in those preparatory academies were selected for a preparatory assessment. If they passed the assessment, it was equivalent to getting an early admission to the Hunting Martial Academy, and they didn't even need to take the official exams in June, they only needed to stay in the reserve academy until they graduated, then they could directly enroll in the Hunting Martial Academy.

The reason why this job was easy was because there were not many students in the reserve academy who qualified for the preparatory assessment. In Lin Huang's previous Region 7, there were basically no more than 1,000 students who were eligible for the assessment every year. And there were over 30 million official reserve academy graduates in the seventh district every year.

The reason why there were so few reserve quotas was mainly because the rigid requirements for reserve quotas from major academies were very high, and the most basic requirement was to have Black Iron Realm Battle Power.

It was equivalent to saying that in order to get this kind of qualification, one had to have at least the strength to hunt and kill Black Iron Realm first-tier monsters before the age of sixteen.

Since the prep academy only taught the basics, with little to no actual combat courses and no formal combat skills, there were very few students who could do this.

"It used to be easy, but this year, I don't know what's going on, but the preparatory academies have reported several times the number of preparatory slots. There are even some small C-class strongholds that have declared their preparatory slots." Liu Ming was full of frustration.

"In the past, our academies have declared around three thousand preparatory quotas every year, but this year, the number of declarations is almost at thirteen thousand."

This declaration of preparatory quota was not something that the students themselves were eligible to report, but rather the dean of each preparatory academy, after investigating the students' situation.

Every year, in December, the Martial Hunting Academy would conduct a preliminary selection of all the students who had declared. The pass rate of the preliminary election would be recorded, and reserve academies with too low pass rates would be investigated, and if they were found to be lying, the dean would be directly dismissed. So normally, no ROTC dean would lie about the quota.

"I don't know if it's because of the change in energy concentration in the air, but this year's geniuses seem to have suddenly become more numerous." Liu Ming couldn't figure out what was going on.

Hearing this, Lin Huang instead figured out that the rules of the Gravel World had become complete, making it easier to cultivate.

The more talented and potential people were, or the stronger they were, the deeper they would feel about the changes in the world.

And within the young people, there were actually many with talent and potential, which were now more and more stimulated.

"These two months do seem to be a bit unusual. Recently, the internet has also been boisterous, saying that the danger zones and Jedi at all levels, the overall strength of the monsters have become stronger."

"I've seen several posts talking about people discovering several Eternal Life Realm monsters in moderate danger zones, as well as Emperor Palace Realm monsters in heavy danger zones."

At this point, Liu Ming suddenly whispered.

"I have a friend who is a staff member of the Alliance government, and he revealed the other day while drinking with me that the Alliance government was recently meeting to discuss the reclassification of some dangerous areas."

Of course, Lin Huang knew that he had brought about these changes.

Monsters becoming stronger was not really bad news. Humans had also become stronger, but many people just didn't realize it themselves.

This change would only make the humans in the Gravel World stronger and stronger in the long run.

Compared to Empyrean Heart's direct opening of the Void Gate, this change brought by Lin Huang was undoubtedly many times milder.

After having a morning tea with Liu Ming and chatting for a while, Liu Ming took the siblings around the Martial Hunting Academy for a while and was soon urged to leave by a communication.

Lin Huang knew that he was busy and did not stay.

After Liu Ming left, the two of them briefly strolled around the Martial Arts Hunting Academy in the third district before leaving.

Back at the hotel, Lin Huang opened the Emperor's Heart Ring and started checking the major social media platforms.

He hadn't looked at the social media platforms for more than a month, and the most he did every day was to glance at the news before going to sleep. This was because he felt that brushing social media platforms was too much of a waste of time, and he could often see all sorts of arguments, some of which were not only pointless, but could even mess up your mood.

Lin Huang, who was in a state of travel, simply blocked out these sounds.

But a chat with Liu Ming made him somewhat curious about what people thought of the changes in the gritty world.

Clicking on several social media platforms in succession, Lin Huang couldn't stop laughing and crying as he read some of the most popular posts.

What left him speechless the most was that there was a group of people advocating that the end was coming.

The monsters getting stronger meant that the gritty world would come to an end. This was because these monsters would get stronger and stronger, eventually taking over the entire gritty world.

The key was that there were even many people who believed in this view.

A large group of people had even formed an online alliance called the Doomsday Faction.

"There's this time, can't you guys practice well?" After a brief look around, Lin Huang finally couldn't help but turn off all the social media pages.

"The good thing is that not everyone is this boring. There are still a lot of people in this world who are being aggressive and getting stronger!"