Gao Wu: From Martial Arts Student to Star Emperor

In previous years, the martial arts competition for freshmen at Xingkong University, which was held by three departments, determined the first place winner. When the host said this, the audience would burst into thunderous applause.

But this time, among the hundreds of thousands of spectators, very few applauded; only a handful of people in the waiting area clapped, which seemed very abrupt.

Although the planets of the Ten Star Alliance each have their own agendas, they belong to a unified whole.

Regardless of who wins first place, people from other planets can accept it, since everyone is on the same level.

However, this year, a person from a barren planet in a peripheral star region won first place, which was a slap in the face to the planets of the Ten Star Alliance. Naturally, the audience was not willing to give them a good look.

The host, Bai Xinlin, hadn't expected this situation to occur, so she could only smile awkwardly at Chen Lie.

"Chen Lie, congratulations! You are the only person in the history of Starry Sky University who did not come from a planet in the Ten Star Alliance and successfully won the first place in the Starry Sky University Martial Arts Competition in the 7366th year of the Galactic Calendar."

After saying "thank you," Chen Lie put the Blood River Blade into his storage bag.

"The rewards set by Starry Sky University for the top student in the entire school are: two million credits, five uses of either the Zero Martial Intent Cave or the Divine Intent Cave, a high-grade Earth-level martial arts technique, a choice of one innate spiritual object or spiritual treasure, and a piece of Five Elements Divine Iron."

Two million credits will be directly credited to your exclusive Star Card, while the remaining rewards will be distributed to your class by your tutor.

You can communicate directly with your mentor and choose what suits you best.

Chen Lie nodded and was about to speak when Bai Xinlin added, "According to the rules of the Interstellar Alliance, in addition to this, your home planet Blue Star will receive a dazzling gold-level Martial Seal Medal for your outstanding performance. The Martial Seal Medal is a reward system jointly established by the Holy Envoy Hall and the Interstellar Alliance for planets that cultivate outstanding martial arts geniuses."

The Canglan Starfield has resource planets belonging to more than a dozen starfields. These planets are rich in martial arts treasures, spiritual herbs and medicines, energy mineral veins, and so on. All of these are essential resources to help martial artists cultivate and to help the planet develop.

These resource-rich planets belong to the entire star system and are managed by the Ten Star Alliance.

The Golden-grade Martial Seal Medal allows you to use your Blue Star's currency to purchase these public resources shared across the entire star system.

A dazzling gold-grade martial seal medal has a limit of 30 million Star Yuan Galaxy Coins, but it can only be used to purchase Category II resources from the Interstellar Alliance.

The Military Seal Medal must be used within one year of its issuance; otherwise, it will be invalid.

Upon hearing what the host, Bai Xinlin, said, Chen Lie immediately understood.

The currency of Earth is worthless outside of Earth; no one recognizes its value. Earth purchases advanced instruments, starship energy, and martial arts techniques from outer space by exchanging its own resources for Galactic Coins, which are then used to make the purchases.

Every year, Blue Star relies on reselling its own resources, alien beast meat, and alien beast cores to purchase extraterrestrial resources and subsidize Starry Sky University students. After the annual surplus, it can save a few million Galaxy Coins, but it cannot withstand the consumption.

The purpose of this Martial Seal Medal is to allow the Star Yuan currency of Earth itself to be used as Galactic currency to purchase interstellar resources, which is equivalent to turning a currency that is not recognized by extraterrestrials and is essentially worthless into a universal interstellar currency.

The Blue Star's Star Yuan currency is something the Blue Star government can print as much as it wants. It can be converted into 30 million Star Yuan Galaxy Coins. Even if it is used as Galaxy Coins at a ratio of 100 to 1, it is still a windfall for Blue Star.

The outflow of Earth's currency to other planets is also a good thing for Earth, as it can expand its interstellar influence.

"What does it mean that we can only purchase Category II resources?" Chen Lie asked.

"The first category of resources are treasure-level resources, and the second category are ordinary resources, such as basic resources like Spirit-Nourishing Flowers, Starship Energy, and rare spiritual herbs," Bai Xinlin replied.

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"How much currency on Earth would be equivalent to 30 million Star Yuan Galaxy Coins?"

"This needs to be assessed and evaluated by the Canglan Star Region Interstellar Bank. However, since the purchase of public resources in the star region is done using Martial Seal Medals, the Canglan Star Region Interstellar Bank provides a safety net for the currency of every star in the Canglan Star Region. As long as the Blue Star currency is normal, the ratio of the deduction to Galaxy Coins will not be lower than one hundred to one."

Chen Lie nodded. The official ratio of Blue Star's local Star Yuan currency to Galaxy Coin is fifty to one, but how the ratio is set is your business. Extraterrestrial forces do not recognize it at all. In the eyes of extraterrestrial forces, Blue Star's money is just a piece of waste paper. Let alone fifty to one, even if it were five hundred to one, it would not be spendable in extraterrestrial areas.

"Alright, Chen Lie, that's all for the rewards. As the winner of this freshman martial arts competition, is there anything you'd like to say?" Bai Xinlin asked.

Chen Lie shook his head: "No!"

Bai Xinlin was not surprised by Chen Lie's answer. After all, there was no applause from the sidelines just now. He, a freshman from a marginal star region planet, won first place in the Starry Sky University's martial arts competition. He was too hated. Under these circumstances, there was nothing to say.

"Alright, now, please have the top ten from each department come up on stage to receive your martial arts medals."

As soon as Bai Xinlin finished speaking, the top ten students from the Martial Arts Department, Mental Strength Department, and Swordsmanship Department all went up on stage.

After the top ten freshmen from each department went on stage, they each received a martial arts medal.

"The winner of the school-wide martial arts competition will be awarded a dazzling gold martial arts seal medal, which can be used to purchase second-class public resources in the star field with 30 million Galaxy Coins, the local currency."

The winner of the overall ranking in the Freshman Martial Arts Competition will be awarded a Colored Silver Martial Seal Medal, which can be used to purchase Starfield Public Class II Resources at a discount of 20 million Galaxy Coins.

Those who rank in the top ten of the entire Freshman Martial Arts Competition will be awarded a Bronze Martial Seal Medal, which can be used to purchase Starfield Public Category II Resources at a discount of ten million Galactic Coins.

Under Bai Xinlin's guidance, the top ten students in the entire department received a medal and then hurriedly left the stage, leaving only Chen Lie, Luo Yunshang, and Shao Lin on stage.

"Congratulations to the three students who won first place in the three departments! Next, the heads of the three departments will issue the Martial Arts Seal Medals. Please have your representative from your star come up to the stage to receive the Martial Arts Seal Medals!"

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On the battle stage, Chen Lie stood expressionless in the middle, with Shao Lin to his left, who was deep in thought, and Luo Yunshang to his right, who looked dejected.

Soon after, representatives from Aurora Star and Azure Dragon Star stepped onto the battle stage together.

Upon meeting the representative from Aurora Star, Luo Yunshang said, "This is my family elder. He can accept the medal on my behalf. The medal contains all the rewards and will be controlled by the Luo family of the Southern Federation of Aurora Star."

On the other side, Shao Lin looked at the representative of Canglong Star and said, "This is the principal of the First Martial Arts High School of Canglong Continent. He will accept the Martial Seal Medal on my behalf. The reward will be distributed by the First Martial Arts High School of Canglong Continent."

Bai Xinlin nodded slightly and said, "These requirements will be signed by the two heads of the Mental Strength Department and the Swordsmanship Department. Chen Lie, where is your representative from Blue Star?"

Chen Lie said, "The Blue Star representative hasn't arrived yet, so just give me the medal!"

"The Blue Star representative didn't arrive... So what about the last part of your freshman martial arts competition, the dialogue between the interstellar cloud platform and the star-field planets?"

"Without a ninth-tier martial artist capable of traversing the void, you cannot reach the Canglong Star Interstellar Cloud Platform," Bai Xinlin said.

"Then let's postpone it and give the opportunity to the second and third place!" Chen Lie said.

Chen Lie's suggestion was decisively rejected by Shao Lin and Luo Yunshang.

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If it were an opportunity that was rightfully won, they would naturally not give it up, but this was given to them by their opponents, which they found hard to accept.

Historically, those who have spoken with the entire star field on the interstellar cloud platform are the first and second place winners of the Starry Sky University's martial arts competition. What face do the second and third place winners have to show off?

"That would be such a shame!"

Bai Xinlin shook her head.

Blue Star is also a planet that has joined the Interstellar Alliance, so it's impossible that it can't muster a ninth-level martial artist, right?

Geniuses deserve sufficient honor, especially geniuses like this, who are a once-in-a-millennium talent in the outer star regions.

The Starry Sky University Freshman Martial Arts Competition is valued even by planets in the Ten Star Alliance, who send a representative of a tenth-level martial artist to each competition. Yet Blue Star ignores this, which is no wonder its martial arts level is low.

Chen Lie, along with two representatives from Aurora Star and Canglong Star, went to the high platform of the three department heads to receive the Martial Seal Medal.

The person who presented the medal to Chen Lie was Yan Zhiyun, the head of the Martial Arts Department and vice president of Starry Sky University, who was also Ruan Liusu's master.

After Chen Lie approached, Yan Zhiyun glanced at him indifferently and asked, "Does the Golden Martial Seal Medal require an explanation?"

"No need, the medals can be left to Blue Star to manage!" Chen Lie said.

Yan Zhiyun infused the medal with true essence and gave it to Chen Lie.

After receiving the medal, Chen Lie went down from the battle stage with Luo Yunshang and Shao Lin.

At this moment, the audience members in the stands were all puzzled and confused.

"What's going on? No representative from Earth has come?"

"He even skipped the final step, going up the interstellar platform. He, the top freshman in the entire school, got nothing in return!"

"Is Earth really that tough? Someone from our planet won first place in the annual martial arts competition, and they didn't even send a representative?"

"No wonder the martial arts level on these peripheral star regions has never been able to develop. They won first place in the Starry Sky University Martial Arts Competition, but they didn't care at all. These kinds of planets are too disheartening for martial arts geniuses!"

Even in the Ten-Star Alliance, if someone wins first place in the Starry Sky University Freshman Martial Arts Competition at the three-star level, the official organization will bestow upon them immense honor!

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The audience's words reached the ears of Zhang Wenwu, a member of the Blue Star school-based work team.

Zhang Wenwu felt a pang of sadness upon hearing this. Blue Star naturally valued geniuses, but who would have thought that someone from Blue Star would actually win first place in the Starry Sky University's school-wide martial arts competition?

If we had known in advance, even if we won first place in the martial arts competition, or even just tenth place in the entire department, Blue Star would have sent its top-tier ninth-level Grandmaster to come and offer his sincere congratulations.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the Martial Arts Competition for all freshmen of the Galaxy Calendar Class of 7366 has now come to an end!"

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The rankings for the competition will be announced later. Please leave the venue in an orderly manner.

As the host, Bai Xinlin, announced the end of the martial arts competition, the surrounding audience members began to leave.

Chen Lie also returned to the waiting area.

Huang Yuxi nodded slightly to Chen Lie: "Chen Lie, congratulations! You are the first person from a non-Ten Star Alliance planet to win first place in the Starry Sky University Martial Arts Competition."

Chen Lie said, "I've said it before, my goal is to win first place in the martial arts competition."

"The first place in the new martial arts competition has always been a candidate for the top twenty of the Hidden Dragon List."

You won first place in the freshman martial arts competition, which is truly impressive, but don't be too happy too soon.

Because of the rules set by Starry Sky University, this martial arts competition excluded many geniuses from the noble families of the Ten Star Alliance planets who had been enrolled in Starry Sky University for half a year.

"You won first place in the freshman martial arts competition, but that doesn't mean you're truly the best in your class. There are still many formidable opponents who haven't participated."

"I know that!" Chen Lie nodded.

"It's a pity that your Blue Star didn't send a representative of the ninth-level martial artist, causing you to miss an opportunity to show your prowess."

Zhang Wenwu immediately stepped forward and said, "Chen Lie, the fact that Blue Star didn't send a representative doesn't mean they don't value you."

It's because we never dared to imagine that people from our Blue Star could actually win a place in the martial arts competition at Starry Sky University.

"If we had known you possessed such strength, President Wang of the Martial Arts Association would surely have come in person!"

Chen Lie waved his hand and said, "It's alright, I understand the situation."

"No matter what the situation, we have ignored you, and I still want to express my apologies on behalf of the authorities!" Zhang Wenwu said.

At this moment, Shen Jiuxi, who had been sitting quietly in the back without saying a word, walked up with her arms crossed.

She approached Zhang Wenwu and asked, "Are you an official from Blue Star?"

"I am Zhang Wenwu, the director of the Blue Star's working group stationed at the Starry Sky University. May I ask who you are...?"

Shen Jiuxi said calmly, "I am a member of the Shen family, a family of the Canglong Star Planet Council."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Wenwu immediately realized that the person in front of him must be a top nobleman from Canglong Star.

If we compare Canglong Star to a corporation, then the members of the Canglong Star Planet Council are the company's shareholders, entities that can influence the direction of Canglong Star.

Having served as the director of the resident working group at Starry Sky University for so long, Zhang Wenwu understood that the Shen family was a behemoth occupying Canglong Star, so he dared not be negligent.

"Hello, Shen, are you a fellow student of Chen Lie?" Zhang Wenwu asked gently.

"Alumni? I suppose you could call me that! I have something I'd like you to convey to the higher-ups on Earth!"

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"What is it? Please tell me!"

"Your Blue Star had better restrain some of the students at Starry Sky University."

Take Chen Lie for example. He's incredibly arrogant and domineering. He stole my spirit sword when I wasn't looking and then confiscated it, intending to extort one million Star Yuan Galaxy Coins from me.

In the Canglong Star region, even the nobles of Blood God Star and Tianming Star wouldn't dare to be so arrogant towards me. This Chen Lie from your Blue Star is running rampant at Starry Sky University, even more arrogant than the people from Blood God Star and Tianming Star. If you didn't know better, you'd think Starry Sky University was his private property.

"If it weren't for my kind heart, he would be a corpse by now!" Shen Jiuxi said calmly.

"this……"

Zhang Wenwu was stunned. He had thought that Shen Jiuxi was a proud woman whom Chen Lie had met on Canglong Star, but he did not expect her to be an enemy, making such a blatant threat.

Chen Lie said, "Director Zhang, don't listen to this person's nonsense. If she were truly capable, she wouldn't need to resort to verbal threats!"

With that, Chen Lie handed the dazzling gold martial arts medal to Zhang Wenwu, saying, "I'm entrusting this medal to you to deliver to Blue Star!"

"Good, this medal of yours can double the amount of martial arts resources that the entire planet Earth imports from extraterrestrial sources throughout the year!"

"This year's Blue Star martial arts students have benefited all the young people on Blue Star, and they should all be grateful to you," Zhang Wenwu exclaimed.

Chen Lie responded with a few words and then saw Zhang Wenwu off from the waiting area.

Before long, most of the spectators had left the stands, and Chen Lie and his group also left the arena.

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