Seeing Jin Di being taken away by Qiangwei, Chen Jiu walked over quietly to Qilin's side, tapped her lightly on the shoulder, and said, "You're up pretty early!"
"Chen Jiu, that person's aura feels almost identical to the aura of the silver-armored man I sensed at the hospital last time."
"What? How is that possible? Even Sun Wukong didn't dare to face the silver-armored man head-on." Chen Jiu timed his reaction perfectly, widening his eyes in disbelief with acting skills worthy of an emperor of film.
"It's true, the aura was just like the one I sensed before," Qilin said in a rush, fearing he wouldn't believe her.
"I believe you," Chen Jiu said, a resolute look flashing in his eyes.
"Morning, Officer Chen."
"Morning, Officer Chen."
The girl who had come with Qilin greeted him politely at that moment.
Chen Jiu nodded at the greeting and looked at Qilin, saying, "Let's go, let's get some breakfast!"
"But Sister Qiangwei said we have class soon," Qilin said, a hint of hesitation flashing across her face.
"With such a huge issue going on, do you think the academy's higher-ups will arrive on time?" Chen Jiu said, looking in the direction where Jin Di had left.
"Besides, getting breakfast doesn't take much time anyway," Chen Jiu added.
In the end, Qilin nodded in agreement and headed to the cafeteria for breakfast with Chen Jiu.
"Chen Jiu, I'm trying to lose weight lately, so I'll just have a cup of milk," Qilin whispered to Chen Jiu as they stood in line.
"Alright, then go wait for me at the window table, and I'll bring your milk over in a minute," Chen Jiu nodded.
Seeing Qilin walk away, Chen Jiu turned to the cafeteria worker and said, "Give me a deluxe beef noodle soup and a cup of milk."
"It's you, kid Chen. What made you think of ordering milk today? I remember you never drink milk!" the cafeteria worker joked with a smile.
"I heard milk can make your skin fairer, so I wanted to try it," Chen Jiu replied without changing his expression.
"You've got to be kidding me. I saw that pretty girl next to you loud and clear just now. Not bad, kid, you managed to land such a gorgeous girlfriend," the cafeteria worker laughed.
"It's still early for that!" Chen Jiu laughed in response.
With that, he carried the bowl of deluxe beef noodle soup and the milk toward the window table.
"It smells so good, what are you eating?" Qilin asked with a curious expression.
"Me? Just something casual. Here, this is your milk." Chen Jiu placed the deluxe beef noodle soup and the milk on the table and replied softly.
Qilin glanced down at her milk. There was only a single cup of it, which was a far cry from Chen Jiu's deluxe beef noodle soup.
She could even see a big chicken leg in Chen Jiu's bowl.
"What are you looking at? Drink up!" Chen Jiu prepared to dig in without hesitation.
"Your beef noodle soup looks really delicious," Qilin gazed at Chen Jiu's bowl of deluxe beef noodle soup, her stunning, pretty face showing a strong temptation.
Compared to her mere cup of milk, she figured Chen Jiu's beef noodle soup must taste fantastic.
"Qilin, you're trying to lose weight. There's a lot of meat in this beef noodle soup, so you'd better leave it to me!" A hint of amusement flashed in Chen Jiu's eyes as he spoke.
"But..." Qilin trailed off, hesitating and unable to bring herself to say it out on the spot.
"You know, you can't eat anything related to beef when you're trying to lose weight." After saying that, Chen Jiu picked up his chopsticks, took a bite of the noodles, and deliberately put on a look of utter intoxication, filling the pretty face of Qilin before him with envy.
Resisting the craving for the beef noodle soup in her heart, Qilin quickly finished the cup of milk in front of her.
Meanwhile, Chen Jiu was still devouring his meal with gusto. Every time he took a bite of the noodles, he put on an intoxicated expression, making Qilin grit her teeth in secret.
It almost seemed like he was doing it on purpose.
"Are those noodles really that good?" Finally, Qilin couldn't hold back anymore and asked softly, terrified of being overheard by the people around them.
"Have a taste." This time, Chen Jiu didn't stop her; instead, he pushed the bowl of beef noodle soup in front of Qilin.
Catching the mouth-watering aroma rising from the bowl, Qilin finally picked up her chopsticks and took a bite.
Then came the climax. Under Chen Jiu's dumbfounded gaze, Qilin devoured Chen Jiu's barely-touched deluxe beef noodle soup in one go, leaving not even a drop of broth behind.
The moment she put the bowl down, reality hit Qilin. With a deeply blushing face, she whispered, "Chen... Chen Jiu, um, anyway, I'm heading to class first."
With that, she rushed out of the cafeteria in a flurry, leaving Ge Xiaolun and the other two completely bewildered as they walked in.
"Officer Chen!"
"Sir!"
The three of them instantly spotted Chen Jiu in the cafeteria and greeted him with a smile.
"It's you guys. You better train hard, you hear me? Especially you, Ge Xiaolun. If you want to win Qiangwei's heart, your strength must first earn her recognition. Don't you know that to conquer a woman, you must first defeat her in her strongest domain?"
"Sir, I get the logic, but I just can't do it!" Ge Xiaolun shook his head and replied.
"Can't do it? You haven't even started trying, how can you say you can't? You are the Power of the Galaxy, the most powerful among all Super Genes, with infinite potential and an extremely high ceiling. You need to have confidence in yourself," Chen Jiu rebuked in a deep voice.
Ge Xiaolun nodded silently. Chen Jiu knew very well that it was absolutely impossible to instantly enlighten a twenty-something young man who had not yet been tempered by war.
Chen Jiu wasn't in a hurry. He had plenty of methods to help these academy students adjust their mindsets and prepare for the battles to come.
"Sir, what is the Power of the Galaxy?" Hearing Chen Jiu refer to him as the Power of the Galaxy, Ge Xiaolun looked puzzled.
"When you go to training, your instructor will tell you." Chen Jiu didn't answer. Having said that, he walked out of the cafeteria under the gaze of the three.
***
Meanwhile, Jin Di, who had been brought to the boys' dormitory by Qiangwei, remained silent all the way without Chen Jiu's telepathic sound transmission.
"This is your dorm," Qiangwei glanced at him and said.
Jin Di nodded upon hearing this and asked, "When does training start?"
"Theory class is this morning, and practical combat training is in the afternoon," Qiangwei answered obediently. Her attitude was no longer as icy as before; after all, the person before her was a Third-Generation God Body. As far as she knew, Sun Wukong was the only Third-Generation God Body in their Super Academy until now.
"Good, take me to theory class now," Jin Di said without hesitation.
Chen Jiu had told him that if he wanted to defeat Sun Wukong, he needed training. Only through continuous training could he hope to master certain combat techniques, and only then would he have a chance to gain the upper hand in a fight against Sun Wukong.
After all, his strength was inherently no weaker than Sun Wukong's; it was just that, having just been born, he knew no combat techniques at all, which was why he suffered losses at Sun Wukong's hands.
Therefore, he kept Chen Jiu's words firmly in mind: train himself and improve himself.
Hearing Jin Di's words, Qiangwei nodded and began walking toward another building.
***
Over at Du Kao's end, he looked at Lianfeng and Ryze standing before him in the meeting room with a puzzled expression. "This person is neither the owner of a Super Gene nor someone from another civilization. Why does his aura contain the aura of a Third-Generation God Body? Could he be that silver-armored man?"
Hearing Du Kao's question, Lianfeng shook her head and said, "I really couldn't find any relevant information about this person in Deno's records. Perhaps we can wait for Leona to arrive and ask her; the Solar System civilization she comes from might know something."
"When is Leona arriving?" Du Kao asked.
"Just these next few days. I'm currently constructing the teleportation array," Ryze the bald mage frowned and said.
"Ryze, do you have no clue about this person's strength and identity either?" Du Kao looked at Ryze and asked.
Ryze shook his head. "I cannot sense the slightest presence of a Super Gene in him. On the contrary, his physical body and spirit are extremely powerful, making even someone like me feel inferior. He seems as though he comes from a completely different cultivation civilization."
"Moreover, unlike us River of Heaven bodies who overly rely on our own Super Genes, they are more like the cultivators recorded in Earth's legends. Wukong might be somewhat similar to them, but I can't quite articulate the difference," the mage frowned.
"Perhaps he comes from another civilizational universe," Ryze said after a moment of silence. "After all, having no Super Gene in his body yet possessing an aura strength comparable to a Third-Generation God Body is a first in the known civilizational universe. The best we can do right now is to befriend him."
"If we can obtain the secret of how he reached the level of a Third-Generation God Body without relying on Super Genes, then even if our Deno Civilization wanted to rival the current Angel Civilization, it wouldn't be entirely impossible," Du Kao said, a flash of light in his eyes.
"Perhaps!" Ryze's eyes were endlessly deep as if he were pondering something.
"You go give them their class first," Du Kao said to the deep-in-thought Ryze.
Ryze nodded, quickly left the meeting room, and headed toward the teaching building.
***
At that moment, inside the Super Academy's teaching building, all the owners of Super Genes were gathered downstairs.
Standing neatly in a row, Instructor Jayce stood before them and seemed to be saying something.
"Starting today, all of you must wake up at five o'clock every morning and run ten laps around the playground. For any trainee who fails to finish, I will make sure they experience firsthand just how thrilling hellish training can be. If you don't believe me, feel free to try." At this point, a rare smile actually appeared on Jayce's stern face.
"Also, if I catch anyone sleeping past ten o'clock at night, their entire dorm will have to double their training the next afternoon."
"By joining the Super Academy, you have two and a half years of training ahead of you. I hope you will all give it your absolute all to handle the crisis about to descend upon us in the future. I don't want to see any of you failing to train seriously and then being reduced to impotent rage on the battlefield. Remember this: the Super Academy is a place to train you, but out there on the battlefield, your enemies will only be thinking about how to kill you. If you don't work hard now, you'll die at the enemy's hands on the battlefield later. Did you hear that clearly!" Instructor Jayce shouted loudly.
"We... heard... clearly!" A feeble voice rose from the ranks below, causing Instructor Jayce's expression to turn somewhat ugly.
"Did you all not eat breakfast? Answer me again, did you hear clearly?" Instructor Jayce shouted at the top of his lungs once more.
"We heard clearly!"