And this is one of the characteristics of a true cultivator.
Su Zhu was stunned, staring at Su Han as if she didn't recognize him at all. After a brief silence, she grabbed Su Han's arm and pulled him up. When she saw the mole on his hand, she breathed a sigh of relief, "He really is my brother."
"...Is it really necessary?" Su Han stared at Su Zhu helplessly.
"Of course! At your age and level, you'd be a top scholar in ancient times, the first rank of the imperial examination."
Su Zhu's gaze as she looked at Su Han was practically radiant. "My brother is such a prodigy! My God... the Su family's ancestral graves are emitting auspicious smoke. I'll go to the ancestral graves to offer more incense in a while! May our ancestors bless us."
"..." Although Su Han was speechless, he didn't say much. He could understand Su Zhu's excitement.
However, Su Zhu gradually calmed down, and her eyes became suspicious. "Speaking of which, you didn't actually run into our ancestor who has been suppressed for many years, did you?"
"I've already told you, don't try to apply the plots in novels to reality." Su Han glanced at Su Zhu helplessly, then turned and walked towards his room. "In those novels, things like jumping off a cliff to find treasure, or encountering the remnant soul of your ancestor to pass on your skills... these are all artistic embellishments. The chances of them happening in reality are practically zero."
Su Zhu hummed in agreement, staring at Su Han's retreating figure. A struggle appeared on her face, and finally she gritted her teeth and said, "I'm relieved that you have one yuan... I feel that Mom and Dad would be very happy to know."
“However, I hope you don’t apply to Jinling University! With your talent, you’re destined to be the top scholar in Jiangnan! Tsinghua and Yenching are the places you should really go.”
Although she was reluctant, Su Zhu knew that this was the best thing for Su Han.
“No need for that,” Su Han stopped in front of his room. “I’ve already said before, whichever school you go to, I’ll go to too.”
As soon as he finished speaking, the door slammed shut.
Su Zhu's expression was complicated, it was hard to tell whether it was joy or regret. "Really... my suggestion was clearly better."
Su Han sat cross-legged on the bed and sighed helplessly. He understood Su Zhu's considerations, but he didn't know how to explain them.
He didn't really go to school to learn knowledge; after all, Su Han could now be said to be standing at the pinnacle of cultivation...
He simply wanted to experience life. Therefore, the quality of the school was irrelevant to him.
Since Su Zhu chose Jinling University, he'd go with her. This silly older sister has good talent, but she's still a ways off from being a prodigy. Being closer means Su Han can take care of her a bit.
Shaking his head, Su Han stopped thinking about these issues and created several wooden clones to send them out for training.
Su Han continued cultivating until the wooden clone was released. He checked the time and realized it was already very late, so he washed up and went to bed.
The next morning, after Su Han got up, he found Su Zhu lying on the sofa in the living room, not having made breakfast, just staring blankly at her phone.
"...What are you looking at so intently?" Su Han gave Su Zhu a strange look. It was rare for Su Zhu to get up early but not make breakfast.
Of course, he had no objection to this, and after thinking for a moment, he said, "I'll order breakfast delivery."
"That's too expensive, I'll make breakfast later."
Su Zhu suddenly snapped out of her daze, then let out a breath and slumped softly onto the sofa. She was clearly agitated.
"What exactly did you see?" Su Han was puzzled. Su Zhu hadn't seemed this disoriented even after seeing the news about the school explosion. What was going on?
"Didn't you see the news this morning?" Su Zhu looked at Su Han with some surprise, then said excitedly, "You can go and see, it's the one that's trending the most right now."
Su Han's expression shifted, and he immediately took out his phone. After glancing at it, his expression froze.
At this moment, news pages on major websites, as well as Weibo, were flooded with this message.
"Hua Ya Jiangnan, a new Holy Lord has emerged, congratulations to Hua Ya!"
Shocking! A renowned high school in Jiangzhou was destroyed; the inside story is quite surprising!
"Mysterious Holy Master? Official Announcement Released, But His True Identity Remains Unrevealed!"
A spokesperson for the World Cultivation Association expressed skepticism about the news of a new Holy Master emerging in Huaya, suspecting that Huaya had fabricated the story. Is this the reason the Holy Master is unwilling to go to the World Cultivation Association for certification?
There's just too much news.
Su Han was completely bewildered. What was going on?
He only chatted with Xu Changnan for a while yesterday, so why is the news of the new Holy Lord so popular today?
Judging from his expression, he almost thought he had held a press conference.
"If I reveal my identity as the young Holy Lord, it's only natural that it will cause such a huge reaction!"
Su Han's mind was racing. The Holy Lord, who broke the record for the youngest person in history, was a natural-born vehicle for attracting attention.
"But the news reports it's about a newly emerged Holy Master... This doesn't make sense. There are so many Holy Masters in the world, is it really necessary to report on it so extensively?"
Su Han wasn't angry. After all, although the news had been leaked, his identity hadn't actually been revealed, so as not to affect his school plans.
He was just puzzled by one thing: while there weren't many Holy Lords, there were definitely more than he'd imagined. Why was this news generating so much buzz?
If it weren't so illogical, Su Han might have even suspected that the guy surnamed Xu from yesterday had bought traffic...
Unable to figure it out, Su Han simply asked Su Zhu.
Su Zhu was stunned for a moment, looking at Su Han in astonishment, "Isn't it normal for this news to be so popular?"
"Huh?" Su Han was also taken aback.
“Five years,” Su Zhu said, opening her palms. Her voice was extremely solemn and serious. “For five whole years, Huaya has not seen a new Holy Lord…”
"Since the Great Ma God King and Little Ma Holy Lord broke through to the next realm one after the other five years ago, this is the only new one to emerge during this five-year hiatus. The significance of this is self-evident! This has nothing to do with how many Holy Lords the country has... but represents a kind of inheritance."
"After all, the number of holy masters a country possesses can directly determine its international standing... On a grander scale, this represents the prosperity of our Huaya nation."
Su Zhu concluded, "Under these circumstances, it would be strange if the emergence of a new Holy Master in Huaya didn't cause a public outcry..."