Logging 10,000 Years into the Future

Chapter 358

“Captain, that Class A mission we were considering earlier to help rebuild the defense line and wipe out the exotic beasts seems to have been canceled …”

A burly middle-aged man walked up to someone, frowning, “Apparently it didn’t breakout there, so there’s no need for clearing operations … it was vague and not really explained clearly.”

“Never mind.” The thin man said indifferently, “If it’s gone, it’s gone. With new catacombs appearing, there are many missions that’ll come our way. Let’s just reselect a few and accept those.”

“Yeah, okay.”

The burly middle-aged man nodded.

As the two were chatting idly, suddenly at this moment …

Boom!

A muffled thunderous sound came from below.

It seemed like the entire second floor shook slightly, the floorboards trembling.

Almost everyone present was at the Level 7 Martial Master realm, so this slight tremor naturally wouldn’t affect them much. But the abrupt anomaly still startled many people, causing a stir among the crowd and much discussion.

“What was that? An earthquake?”

“How could there be an earthquake at the military district?!”

“Then what was that about? What happened on the first floor?”

Someone frowned and muttered to himself, “Why do I keep feeling like this has happened before …”

“It has indeed happened before. When General Chen Angxing came to test his combat power previously, it caused the second floor to shake like an earthquake. I was there at the time …”

A general beside him naturally explained with the demeanor of someone who had experienced it, “Because the strength testing room downstairs has a synthetic crystal pillar connected to the entire building’s framework. If the force behind a punch is strong enough, it can seep into the building and cause tremors, just like …”

This guy’s words trailed off abruptly as he suddenly realized something and whipped his head up to look at the screen displaying the district general star ranking.

Upon seeing it, his eyes immediately widened, he stumbled back, and gasped sharply.

The others also came to and looked towards the district general star ranking.

In an instant, as if it was contagious, everyone in the second-floor lobby had a stunned expression on their faces, gasping sounds rising all around.

Even the burly man and thin man who had been discussing missions looked equally shocked and shaken.

They saw that in the spot their gazes had fallen, a brand-new entry had appeared on the screen.

Combat Power: 12.5 stars.

Merit: 0 (not tallied)

Overall Ranking: 1st

Grand Ranking: 8th]

It powerfully took the first-place.

As for the original number one Chen Angxing, he had been pushed down to second.

After a brief moment of shock and silence, the massive second floor mission lobby … erupted into an uproar!

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“Holy shit, he took the first place?!”

“Where did this Lu Sheng come from? How come we’ve never heard of him before?”

“A combat power of twelve and a half stars! Over one hundred and twenty million! Hiss–damn it, I don’t even have his scraps … (crying)”

“Does it need to be so exaggerated!”

“My Ninth Military Region has produced another top-tier powerhouse!”

Someone was emotionally excited and said loudly: “His merit value hasn’t even been calculated yet, but he’s ranked eighth on the overall list. Given time … won’t the East have an Eighth Luminary?!”

“It’s only a matter of time! The seven strongest top-tier powerhouses representing the peak under the great generals of the East, the Seven Luminaries of the East, not all of them can reach a combat power of twelve and a half stars.”

“Haha, my Ninth Military Region is rising again! The next Eastern Military Star General Competition will be a time for my Ninth Military Region to make a big impression.”

The star generals were discussing fervently, their emotions running high.

In the crowd, a rough and burly man also had an astonished look on his face: “Captain, a combat power of twelve and a half stars. A top-tier powerhouse, a top Grandmaster-level character … it’s been many years since we’ve seen one.”

The tall, thin man nodded slightly, although he was greatly shaken, he remained quite calm.

He analysed with a flickering gaze: “When we just came in, it seemed like only Xiao Zhan’s squad and Han Ling’s Wolf Squad were inside the Strength Testing Room… Let’s hurry downstairs now, if we’re fast enough, we might still catch a glimpse of this top-tier powerhouse!”

“Yes!”

The rough and burly man’s eyes lit up, and he immediately became excited.

A top-tier powerhouse with a combat power of twelve stars, a Grandmaster level character. A future Eighth Luminary.

Even among their master star general community, he was an unreachable existence.

Either they would live in seclusion, or they would be constantly soaked in the depths of Class SS Catacombs.

It was already difficult to catch a glimpse of them normally, let alone get close to them.

Such an opportunity was extremely rare.

It was apparent that they were not the only ones who thought of this, figures were flickering on the second floor of the hall, star generals had already reacted and were hurriedly heading downstairs.

“Let’s go!”

The tall, thin man let out a low shout, and his figure flickered and disappeared.

A golden sacred radiance dimmed at Lu Sheng’s brow.

…

Looking at the crystal pillar lit up with twelve and a half stars, Lu Sheng’s expression and mood were both very calm.

Grip of the Heavens! (TN: technique introduced in c325.)

CPI of over one 120 million.

It was both unexpected and reasonable.

“Back then, even before I achieved the immortal cells, I could crush powerhouses with one hand. Although the Grandmaster wasn’t a proper powerhouse, my combat power was probably over fifty million at that time.”

Although the Martial Association’s minimum standard for powerhouses was two million in combat power.

But just like the one million combat power threshold for masters, the weakest powerhouses didn’t just have two million either.

Once the Heaven and Earth Bridges were opened, their combat power could easily soar to over forty million.

And then the powerhouse’s blood pellets would continuously refine them day and night, tempering their martial will, causing the powerhouse’s combat power to constantly increase.

Level 8 was a vast realm.

The gap between a top tier Grandmaster and common Grandmaster was even greater than the gap between a Level 7 Martial Master and a Level 6 Martial Artist.

“After all, it’s the final realm under the Level 9 Martial Sage realm. How many martial artists with extraordinary talents have been stuck at this realm, expanding and deepening this single realm in unimaginable ways …”

Lu Sheng’s punch just now utilized almost all of his strength, including the immortal cells.

It could be said to be his strongest strike without entering the “Unmatched” or “Martial God” state.

“This was when my body was depleted and the immortal cells were in a ‘shriveled’ state. For that punch to have over one hundred million in combat power, it does seem a bit exaggerated. The Stellar Immortal Technique says that a single immortal cell can only reach the level of an average Grandmaster powerhouse. This far exceeds that …”

But then he thought, in the future ten thousand years of martial arts, the standards for measuring powerhouses would probably be different.

A Grandmaster powerhouse with thirty or forty million in combat power would hardly be considered anything in the future ten thousand years of martial arts.

Thinking of it this way, it made sense.