After the two entered, Yang Hui led Luo Fan to a meeting room.
"Please wait here for a while. I'll go make a report. Someone will come shortly to take you to see the Hall Master."
By now, Yang Hui was already unconsciously using honorifics.
Even though Luo Fan had told him to just use his name, he still spoke this way.
After all, Yang Hui knew well that he had no real connection with Luo Fan.
At most, he had only met him before when bringing him and Luo Feng to the Elite Training Camp.
But that hardly counted as any sort of relationship.
If it had been someone else, it would have been the same, just official business.
Therefore, Yang Hui's attitude toward Luo Fan was extremely respectful.
Luo Fan didn't say anything more about it.
Once in the lounge, Luo Fan casually found a seat and sat down.
He began recalling in his mind the content regarding domains and artistic conceptions.
Just as he was about to immerse himself in those memories, he heard a knock on the door, and then a white woman in a red robe walked in.
"Lord Luo Fan, the Hall Master wishes to see you. Please follow me."
Luo Fan stood and followed the red-robed woman.
Soon, the two arrived outside a quiet chamber door.
"This is the place."
After saying this, the red-robed woman bowed to Luo Fan, then departed.
At that moment, from within the quiet chamber came a cold voice.
"Luo Fan, come in."
When Luo Fan entered the reception chamber, he found it completely empty except for two cushions.
A man dressed in black, with cropped hair, looking to be in his twenties, sat on one of the cushions with eyes tightly shut.
The instant Luo Fan saw the man, it was as if he beheld a long spear piercing straight through the heavens.
At that moment, the man suddenly opened his eyes.
"Boom—"
Luo Fan felt a deafening roar explode within his mind.
It was as though the space around him had twisted.
All the surrounding light vanished.
He seemed to fall into endless darkness.
In this darkness, only the man in the center of the chamber remained.
He shone with a dazzling brilliance, like a god.
Yet, at the same time, Luo Fan felt a surge of discomfort within.
He understood, most likely, Hong was testing his will.
However, as a transmigrator, Luo Fan carried an innate pride.
Back in the wilderness zones, though he had come to understand reverence—realizing that as a warrior one must always be cautious—
He had never cast aside the pride in his heart.
Perhaps it was a common flaw of transmigrators.
Aside from his family and friends, he looked upon others almost as if they were NPCs.
It was a kind of inborn arrogance.
In his dealings with people, he was always polite.
But because he knew too much, that pride had always lingered within him.
At this moment, faced with Hong's test, Luo Fan did not choose to silently endure.
Confronting the endless darkness, he seemed to transform into a boundless ocean.
He unleashed the full force of his Raging Waves Intent.
Hong's original purpose was simply to gauge Luo Fan's state of mind and willpower.
After all, he placed great importance on mindset and will.
So he merely tested him a little.
In truth, every year, he would probe the geniuses of the Elite Training Camp to see if any were worth cultivating.
Yet after this test, he was both surprised and delighted.
Before him, Luo Fan had become like a colossal tidal wave.
Carrying endless pride and an unyielding will, pressing down upon him.
Hong couldn't help but feel a spark of excitement.
He adjusted his domain slightly, releasing just a trace of its true power.
He wanted to see how far Luo Fan could go.
Luo Fan immediately sensed the change.
The surrounding light seemed to vanish completely, sinking deeper into darkness.
Meanwhile, the radiance from the man at the center of the chamber grew ever more brilliant.
As if all light had been absorbed and claimed by him alone.
At this instant, Luo Fan recalled the records within Raging Sea Crazy Blade and Waves about domain and intent.
What was the true meaning of Raging Waves?
Raging waves represented the fury of the sea.
And what was the fury of the sea?
Boundless, surging waves—an overwhelming force that drowned all before it.
And what were waves themselves?
Layer upon layer, endless and inexhaustible!
After his breakthrough, Luo Fan's comprehension had nearly tripled.
At this moment, his comprehension was much stronger than before.
Right now, he began to adjust the Raging Waves Intent he had comprehended.
Previously, he thought the Raging Waves Intent was simply attacking like ocean waves.
However, after obtaining the Furious Sea Mad Blade and the Ocean Waves, he knew that the Raging Waves Intent was far more than that.
If he went back and studied slowly on his own, he could eventually comprehend these things as well.
But now, under Hong's pressure, his thoughts were clearer than ever before.
In his mind, everything about intent and domains suddenly appeared before his eyes.
He began to adjust his own intent.
First, it needed to have a boundless, all-engulfing momentum.
This was the fury of the ocean, how could it just be a few tiny splashes?
Next, it needed to possess the endless, inexhaustible nature.
The ocean was truly terrifying.
The waves of the ocean were endless and unceasing.
At this moment, Hong also felt Luo Fan's change.
He could clearly sense that Luo Fan's intent had undergone a tremendous transformation.
It had become more oppressive, and that earlier feeling of lacking follow-through was gone.
If Luo Fan's intent earlier, to Hong, was just a small splash of a wave…
Now, Luo Fan's intent was one towering wave after another, surging endlessly.
Luo Fan himself did not see that on the system template, the "initial grasp" behind the Raging Waves Intent had changed to "deep grasp."
However, even though Luo Fan's intent had made a breakthrough, it was still no match for a domain.
At this moment, Hong also felt it was almost enough.
He did not withdraw the domain all at once, but instead slowly weakened its power.
Luo Fan, feeling the light around him gradually return, also understood Hong's intention and began to slowly retract his own intent.
Very soon, everything calmed down.
The light around Luo Fan returned once again.
He bowed to Hong.
"Many thanks, Master!"
Although he could have raised his intent to this level on his own…
It would have taken quite a lot of time.
But with Hong's help, he had directly improved his intent by a great margin.
This favor, he must remember it.
After all, every bit of time now was extremely precious.
Hong pointed at the cushion opposite him.
"Sit."
Although his voice was somewhat cold…
His gaze toward Luo Fan was in fact very gentle.
At the same time, in Hong's eyes as he looked at Luo Fan, there was also an undisguised trace of appreciation.
"Luo Fan, you are very good!"
"Today I called you here mainly because I wanted to see the first true genius to appear in the Elite Training Camp."
"As expected, you gave me a huge surprise."
"This kind of intent, it seems you mastered it not long ago, right?"
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