Grinding to Become the Master of the Universe

Chapter 378 - 173: Qin Beast’s Renown, the True Worth of the Canaan Tower, and the Freshmen’s Admiration

"I... holy shit! Is that Zhou Run?! The same Zhou Run who got completely dominated and beaten for three minutes by Qin Feng?!"

"So strong! Such dominance! That Zheng Dong is a monster with a life force over 3,000, right? But in front of Zhou Run, he was... completely powerless to fight back! The difference in their strength is just too huge!"

"So Zhou Run was this terrifying all along?! When I saw him get thrashed by Qin Feng, I thought... I thought he was just a fraud with a high rank... I was wrong. I was so, so wrong!"

"Yeah! I finally get it! It’s not that Zhou Run is weak, it’s that... that guy they call ’Qin Beast’ isn’t even human!"

"Zhou Run is already this incredible... but Qin Feng is even stronger than him! And not just by a little! My god, this Cannan Star Martial Arts University really is a den of monsters!"

...

The user with the ID "Retired Lai Zi" seemed quite satisfied as they watched the new students’ comments, all filled with shock.

This was exactly the effect he had been waiting for.

"It seems everyone now has a basic idea of what the word ’powerful’ really means."

He continued his explanation at a leisurely pace.

"My fellow juniors, every single one of you is a ’General Star’ who battled their way here, tooth and nail, from among the hundreds of millions of Martial Arts High School students on your respective planets. You, more than anyone, should understand the chasm-like gap between a genius and an ordinary person."

"But what I’m here to tell you today is this—there are gaps between geniuses as well!"

"And the Canaan Tower’s purpose is to measure that very gap! Except, it doesn’t just measure human geniuses. What it catalogs are the most elite, most terrifying, most ridiculously overpowered... geniuses from the billions of races in this vast cosmos!"

"That’s right, you heard me correctly—myriad races! In this Star Sea, there are countless other races, and among them are truly terrifying prodigies who have also fought their way out of a bloodbath against billions of their own kind! If you underestimate them out of racial arrogance, you will die without a grave to your name!"

"The first hundred floors of the Canaan Tower correspond to our Fourth Level of Enlightenment Realm. However, they correspond to the most elite Level 4 Martial Artists who have cultivated a ’Top-grade Acupoint Opening Technique’! Their life force index is capped at an upper limit of 3600 points!"

"As for the difficulty of the earlier floors, I think all you new students will understand once you go and challenge them for yourselves. I won’t elaborate further."

"I will only talk about what starts from the 91st floor!"

His tone suddenly became extremely grave.

"From the 91st floor onward, you will face a true nightmare! Every Gatekeeper on those floors will be one or more true monsters from the Alien Races, whose life force indexes have also reached the 3600-point limit, and whose Killing Techniques have also reached the ’Control Realm’!"

"Perhaps some of you will say, ’If we’re all at the 3600-point limit and all have Control Realm Killing Techniques, aren’t we on the same starting line? What’s there to be afraid of?’ Heh..."

He let out a cold, scornful laugh.

"In that case, I invite you to rewatch the duel between Qin Feng and Zhou Run. They both have a 3600-point limit, and they both have Control Realm Killing Techniques, but how big was the gap between them? I think you all have the answer in your hearts already."

"Similarly, among the myriad races, those monsters deemed worthy of being cataloged by the Canaan Tower are also... Kings among their peers!"

"Take the recording you just saw of the duel between Zhou Run and Zheng Dong. Zhou Run’s strength is decent, wouldn’t you say?"

"Zhou Run: life force index of 3600. He has mastered a total of seven ’Control Realm’ First-level Killing Techniques, five ’Perfection Realm’ Second-level Killing Techniques, and one ’Perfection Realm’ Third-level Killing Technique."

"With that level of strength, Zhou Run stopped at the 81st floor of the Canaan Tower."

"He wasn’t even qualified to challenge the floors with monsters that have a 3600-point life force and have mastered Control Realm Killing Techniques!"

"The Gatekeeper of that floor was a despairingly powerful, fallen ’Nagash Follower.’ Its life force index was only 3400 points. However, it had mastered over a hundred ’Perfection Realm’ First-level Killing Techniques, over thirty ’Perfection Realm’ Second-level Killing Techniques, and a full dozen-plus ’Perfection Realm’ Third-level Killing Techniques!"

"Now, do you understand the true value of reaching the 100th floor of the Canaan Tower?"

"Let me give you another piece of data. In the history of Cannan Star Martial Arts University, the vast majority of students only managed to truly clear the 100th floor of the Canaan Tower for the first time *after* they had already broken through to the realm of a Sixth-Level Soaring Martial Artist!"

At this point, he paused, then dropped a true bombshell that sent the entire forum into an uproar.

"And you don’t need to ask how I know all this so clearly."

"Because, I am Zhou Run."

The moment those four words, "I am Zhou Run," appeared on the forum.

The entire world seemed to stand still.

All the students, new and old alike, were utterly shocked into silence by the sudden, immense impact of the man himself appearing!

After a brief, deathly silence.

Came an eruption more violent, more insane, and more explosive than anything before it!