I will eventually become a god through sheer hard work.

"Let's talk about something else."

"The martial arts exam will begin soon."

Wu Youqing got up and walked to the wall, reached out and pulled out a hidden cabinet, from which she took out a tea set and tea leaves... as well as a can of cola.

"You have accepted the invitation to serve as an examiner for this martial arts exam. As is customary in previous years, you specially invited young genius examiners are assigned to exam venues within your respective urban areas."

"However, your situation is rather special, so you probably won't be assigned to an exam venue in the Fifth Metropolitan Area."

As she spoke, she unzipped the Coca-Cola bottle, poured it into a blue-patterned, gilded, carved porcelain cup on the tea tray, and then pushed it in front of Xue Jing, as meticulous as ever.

Xue Jing picked up the glass and gulped down the soda in one go. The pleasure of the carbonated drink lingered in his throat before he asked, "Is there any difference?"

Wu Youqing also brewed herself a cup of tea, gracefully picked up the cup with both hands, took a small sip, and said:

"Naturally there is."

"The martial arts exam is different from the regular college entrance exam. In addition to the written exam that tests basic skills, there will be a 'special practical exam' to test students' ability to perform under pressure. The specifics vary from exam room to exam room."

“Some exam rooms are very simple, just a series of practical exercises between students. Some exam rooms will even arrange for students to enter a completely controlled area and take practical exams according to the rules set by the examiners.”

"If nothing unexpected had happened, you would have been assigned to the examination hall in the Fifth Metropolitan Area, a place where martial arts are not well developed, and you should have been able to complete the mission easily."

Xue Jing raised an eyebrow and said, "So something unexpected is going to happen?"

Wu Youqing nodded. "Many of the leaders in charge of martial arts exams at the Education Bureau are members of the Secret Martial Arts Society."

"If you successfully complete the task of being a martial arts examiner and do the same thing as the Supreme Martial King did, it will be difficult for the Secret Martial Society to openly attack you again, because of the Venerable One's taboo. Therefore, this is the last chance for those extremist thinkers within the Secret Martial Society who dislike you."

"They will most likely arrange for you to take the exam in the most difficult Seventh Metropolitan Area, and then try to deal with you... This is a transfer carried out through proper procedures, and it's difficult for me to stop it."

The Seventh Metropolitan Area, the hometown of the Supreme Martial King, is the most developed metropolitan area in terms of martial arts.

"...However, this is also an opportunity."

Wu Youqing said.

"During your trip to the Inner Ring Source City, you displayed your extraordinary 'divinely bestowed secret techniques'... The Secret Martial Society might very well bring along a wisp of the Primordial Wind of All Things in order to deal with you."

"If it is as I suspect, I hope you can take it."

Upon hearing this, Xue Jing nodded and said, "No problem."

Wu Youqing smiled and said, "Besides this matter, since you're going to the Seventh Metropolitan Area, you can also visit the Extreme Martial Ascension Palace, broaden your horizons, and prepare for the small title match in a few months."

"Since we've made such a bold claim, aiming to win seven eternal championships within six years, we can't afford to become a laughing stock."

……

Xue Jing and Wu Youqing chatted for almost two hours. He finished the can of cola in no time and asked for another one, but Wu Youqing told him that she only kept one can on hand. After that, he could only drink the weird-tasting tea brewed in the sweet water bottle.

Having not tasted this for a long time, Xue Jing quite missed it, but after getting used to it, it didn't seem so bad anymore.

Aside from the important business discussed at the beginning, the rest of the time was spent chatting and joking around. When Xue Jing felt it was getting late and said goodbye, he saw for the first time on Wu Youqing's face a somewhat reluctant expression of lingering affection.

Although it only happened for a moment, it even made him wonder if it was just his imagination.

By the time Xue Jing returned home, it was already seven o'clock in the evening.

When he unlocked the door and walked in, he saw Xue Wan sitting on the sofa with her arms crossed, legs crossed, shaking her leg, looking unhappy.

“Ah~~~Jing.”

Upon seeing Xue Jing enter, she immediately called out his name in a drawn-out, dissatisfied tone.

Xue Jing didn't take it seriously, reached out and petted the cat sleeping on the sofa, and laughed, "What's wrong? Why do you look like a little kid who got stood up by his parents?"

Xue Wan said with great distress, "A-Jing, you've changed."

Xue Jing raised an eyebrow and asked, "What are you talking about?"

Xue Wan sighed:

"The first thing you did when you got back wasn't to find your dearest sister and hug her to replenish your missing sister-complex energy, but to go out and find someone else... Hmm? Did you get a girlfriend? Or did you go to see that little bastard Li Ge?"

Xue Jing glanced at her and said speechlessly, "Who are you calling a sister-complex? Stop slandering people... You should probably graduate from my school by now. At your age, you're still clinging to your younger brother all day long. You're starting to look a bit perverted."

Xue Wan: "Huh!?"

She stood up, somewhat exasperated, walked up to Xue Jing, grabbed his face with both hands, and glared at him, saying, "You naturally evil little brat from the Xue family, who are you calling a pervert?!"

Xue Jing said calmly, "You."

"Tch, you were right."

Xue Wan immediately smiled and hugged Xue Jing tightly, bringing her nose close to his body to sniff him, and said contentedly:

"Ah, my brother-complex battery is charging~"

Xue Jing leaned back with a look of disgust to avoid her sniffing, "You're really a pervert."

"Hehe, what does it matter~" Xue Wan hugged him tightly and said with a cute smile.

After she had been making a fuss for a while, claiming that her brother-complex battery had been fully charged, she finally let go of his hand, pointed to the little maid Yunqin who was busy in the kitchen, and asked:

"Ah Jing, where did you find this little maid?"

Xue Jing straightened his disheveled clothes and made up a story:

“I rescued an orphan from human traffickers in the inner ring. She had nowhere to go and didn’t even have an ID card. I saw that she was very good at housework, so I let her come with me to be my maid.”

Xue Wan tilted her head and said, "So that's how it is. What a pitiful child... But you're too corrupt. You're like a landlord. Usually, when you take in an orphan, you treat them like a god-sister or something."

Xue Jing waved his hand and said, "Having an older sister is already troublesome enough. I don't even want to think about having a younger sister as well."

Xue Wan said with dissatisfaction, "How am I being troublesome? You have such a beautiful older sister who loves and dotes on you. Countless people envy you."

……

On the dining table, seven or eight dishes, each with its own unique color, aroma, and flavor, filled the entire table. Xue Jing patted the little maid's head, wiped the slight sweat from her forehead with a tissue, and said gently:

"You've worked hard. Sit down and eat with us, Xiao Yunqin."

Yunqin nodded gently and obediently replied, "Yes, Master."

Xue Wan looked at the table full of dishes with some surprise: "Wow, so professional! He's just a kid..."

She smiled and reached out to pat Yunqin's head: "Little Yunqin is so great."

The maid glanced at her shyly and whispered, "Young Miss..."

"Young Miss!" Xue Wan was overjoyed and said happily:

"This is the first time someone has addressed me so formally. I feel like I've become a rich heiress."

Xue Jing said leisurely, "Stop dreaming. You'll have to wash the dishes after you finish eating, Cinderella."

Xue Wan glared at him: "You wicked stepmother, when my crystal shoes arrive, I'll definitely wear white stockings and stomp on you twice!"

The three of them started eating. Although Xue Wan felt that the dishes were not as good as the glowing dishes made by her younger brother, she still praised Yun Qin's cooking skills without reservation.

While eating, Xue Wan moved her chair closer to Xue Jing, picked up her phone, fiddled with it for a bit, and then showed it to Xue Jing, saying smugly:

“My silly little brother, look.”

Xue Jing chewed a large pork rib, bones and all, crunching them down to powder before swallowing. He then looked at Xue Wan's phone.

The above is a user's profile page on a blogging platform. The user's nickname is @我傻的欧豆豆, and the profile picture is a sleeping, handsome black cat with four white paws. It is clearly Xue Wan's account.

Next to it is the account's number of followers - 79.7.

"How about it? Aren't I amazing? I'll soon become a million-follower influencer."

Xue Wan said with a smug look on her face.

"I'm now the undisputed leader of Xue Jing's fan club. With a single call, millions of Xue Jing fans will flock to my aid..."

While eating, Xue Jing casually remarked, "That's just consuming my data usage, how is that impressive?"

Xue Wan retorted, "I earned this traffic through my own abilities, how can you say that?"

She fiddled with her phone for a bit more, then handed it to Xue Jing: "You probably don't pay much attention to your own news, right? Let me find some funny ones for you to see..."

"This is the U19 post-match rating from Lion Sports, it's quite interesting."

Xue Jing looked at the interface, which displayed a list of official photos and names of the U19 finalists, with Xue Jing listed first.

Number of reviews: 31.4; Rating: 9.9 out of 10

Hot comments:

Watching U19 without watching Xue Jing is like reading the Four Great Classical Novels without reading Dream of the Red Chamber; you forget the parts in the middle, and in the end, you can only live a relatively unsuccessful life.

A great face, great talent, and a great character.

Say the most outrageous things, show off the most, and do the most ruthless things.

If you don't practice martial arts, seeing him is like a frog in a well looking at the moon in the sky; if you practice martial arts, seeing him is like a mayfly gazing at the blue sky.

The second is Otogisuka.

Number of reviews: 12.3; Rating: 9.6 stars

People who regularly practice Jinglu (a type of traditional Chinese medicine) often have bright, intelligent eyes, are extremely confident, and their IQ increases year by year, eventually leading them to become geniuses.

[Let me state upfront that I'm really not a yaoi fangirl; I feel disgusted by anything male-male, but I wish Xue Jing could kiss Lu Sang.]

Anyone who can resist shipping Xue Jing and Lu Sang for three seconds when they see them standing together is a superhuman.

What kind of crap is this comment... Xue Jing frowned and skipped over it, then looked down.

He soon saw Zhou Yinglin in a very low position on the list.

Number of reviews: 16.6; Rating: 3.7 stars

[Could you perform that again? "Genius is just the threshold to my door. Watch closely, it'll be over in a second," "Hahahaha!!!"]

[A self-proclaimed Beethoven, a top-tier idiot]

[Bragging before the game, then acting like an idiot afterward]

The sense of superiority that the people in the inner ring of the city had accumulated over a century through frugality was completely destroyed by Zhou Yinglin in just one game.

[The Best Fun of the Year in the Old Martial Arts Circle]

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