Evolving infinitely from ground zero

Sophomores and seniors at the registration desk vied to send him off in order to get closer to him.

In the end, it was a senior with big, wavy blond hair who outdid the rest and earned the right to show him the way to the dormitory.

This senior had a decent appearance, scoring at least a 7 out of 10.

Her most prominent feature was her particularly voluptuous figure, seductive enough to tempt one to commit crimes.

All along the way, the senior made a point to display her charms in front of Lin Zichen, hoping to get his attention.

However, Lin Zichen was not at all hooked and was oblivious to her impressive figure.

“By the way, Zi Chen, up ahead is Sunrise Plaza where the school’s student power ranking is located. Would you like to go see it?”

As they passed a forest path, the senior smiled and pointed to a plaza ahead, asking him.

Lin Zichen was quite interested in the power ranking and responded with a smile, “Sure, let’s go have a look. Thank you for showing the way, senior.”

“It’s no trouble at all; it’s my pleasure to show the handsome junior the way,” she said.

The senior presented herself humbly, with every smile and tone of voice designed to ingratiate herself with Lin Zichen to the greatest extent possible.

After a brief walk, the two stopped in front of the so-called power ranking.

There were two power rankings: the Peak Ranking and the Newcomer Ranking.

The Peak Ranking was for all the students in the college and had a total of 500 ranks.

The Newcomer Ranking was only for first-year students and had 100 ranks.

Scanning the two lists briefly, Lin Zichen saw the Peak Ranking filled with the names of 500 densely packed students.

As for the Newcomer Ranking, it was blank.

After all, the term had just started, and the new students hadn’t crossed fists yet, making it impossible to rank them.

As for ranking by college entrance examination scores, the college deemed it unnecessary, believing that the entrance exam was a thing of the past. Now that they were in college, it was time to speak with their current strength.

Lin Zichen quickly scanned through the Peak Ranking.

The top 3 were advanced warriors, with the first and second ranks being Evolvers and the third Mechanical students, all seniors.

From fourth to 108th place were Ordinary Ninth Rank, all Evolvers and Mechanical students.

Rank 109 to 500 were Ordinary Eighth Rank, almost all Evolvers and Mechanical humans.

The reason it’s “almost” is that three Martial Arts students had made it onto the list.

All three were senior students of Martial Arts College, oddly ranking at 389, 453, and 498, respectively.

For these three Martial Arts students to rank so high as pure blood humans was indeed a glory for martial arts.

Yet, with only three senior Martial Arts students in the top 500 of the Peak Ranking, the gap in numbers was staggeringly large.

It was evident how disadvantaged pure blood humans were against Genetic Integrators and Mechanically Modified Humans.

“Zi Chen, the three Martial Arts students on the Peak Ranking are members of Tianren Pavilion like you,” said the senior.

Trying to find a conversation topic with Lin Zichen, the senior took the initiative to introduce the Martial Arts students on the Peak Ranking.

She continued, “These three could have been admitted to Evolution College based on their college entrance examination scores, but because they believe in the Pureblood Human Path, they joined Tianren Pavilion under President Liu’s invitation.”

“Without their convictions, given their current physical strength, they would have long since transferred to Evolution College and embraced Genetic Fusion, rather than staying at the nearly futile Martial Arts College, where they painstakingly temper their physical bodies night and day,” she said.

“Isn’t Genetic Fusion tempting?”

“Taking the Genetic Fusion path, as long as you have Exotic Beast Genes, a simple fusion makes you stronger, and the effort required is much less than following the Pureblood Human Path.”

“I really admire them,” she added.

Admiration? In truth, she didn’t admire them at all; she even thought those three were a bit foolish.

Her current claim of admiration was primarily in hopes of currying favor with Lin Zichen.

After all, Lin Zichen was a member of Tianren Pavilion.

If it were her, she would not hesitate to transfer to Evolution College to become a Genetic Integrator with a bright future.

It wasn’t surprising that she would think this way, considering that Martial Arts students truly endured discrimination in the school and had a hard time.

Even though Martial Arts students were in the inner campus area and shared a learning environment with Evolution and Mechanical students, many Martial Arts graduates fared even worse than students from the outer campus areas studying culture or arts.

Unless they could transfer to Evolution College or Mechanical Academy later on, achieving a life-changing reversal of fortune.

The suitability for Genetic Fusion and Mechanical Modification could be enhanced through subsequent training and would increase as the body grew stronger.

However, the improvement was quite limited.

Simply put — nine parts were fated, one part dependent on struggle.

In the entire Martial Arts College, by continuously training the body to improve suitability, about ten percent of students could defy fate by the time they graduated after four years, meeting the requirements for Genetic Fusion or Mechanical Modification.

90% of Martial Arts students hoped to turn their destiny around by enrolling in Martial Arts College, seeing it as a second college entrance examination in their lives.

As for the remaining 10%, these were either poor students who didn’t perform well academically but had decent physical test data, forced to enroll in Martial Arts College, or the very few who believed in the Pureblood Human Path and were members of Tianren Pavilion.

“Zi Chen, with your talent, you will definitely be able to make it onto the Peak Ranking in the future. As a pure blood human, you’ll break the records of Martial Arts students and charge directly into the top 5 of the Peak Ranking!”

After introducing the three Martial Arts students on the Peak Ranking, the senior turned the conversation back to Lin Zichen, continuing to flatter him, hoping to win his favor.