Chapter 10: World Potential and Early Assessment
While Chu Hao was still deep in thought, pondering how to design the crucial demon race,
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On the other side, the observation room where Wang Zhi and the others were located had descended into chaos.
"Unbelievable… I never thought in my lifetime I'd see a creature design like this!"
An elderly instructor, looking at the projection of the Endless Abyss world, said excitedly.
In the world projection, countless abyssal creatures were engaged in frantic slaughter.
Their numbers often reached into the thousands, but in the end, only a handful survived such blood battles.
Yet, each survivor was enough to astonish the instructors.
Pure, fierce, ruthless evolution, life emerging from death...
This was the common mark of every surviving abyssal creature.
"Yes, yes, many students only know rote memorization. The creatures they design all come out of the same mold!"
Another younger instructor added, "And these creatures' attributes are often too average. They may not have major weaknesses, but they also lack remarkable strengths."
Hearing this, Wang Zhi sneered.
"Do you really think… all these creatures were designed by Chu Hao?"
The other instructors were puzzled.
Could it be that these abyssal creatures weren't designed by Chu Hao?
Was someone else helping him?
Who could it be?!
Countless questions arose in the instructors' minds, yet they dared not speak in front of the highly respected vice-principal.
Seeing their dazed expressions, Wang Zhi could not help but roar:
"Evolution! Natural selection—that is evolution! You fools!"
As a high-level god, his roar easily stirred up a storm.
Across Tianding University, Wang Zhi's roar echoed everywhere.
"You've truly been made dumb by reading… and that includes myself!"
As he spoke, Wang Zhi reflected on himself.
"Normally, we focus too much on imitation and too little on innovation. That's why our graduates produce designs that seem clever but are actually full of loopholes!"
"Look carefully. How could a single person design so many abyssal creatures?"
"Not to mention whether Chu Hao has that much knowledge, even his energy alone couldn't create this many types of creatures!"
Wang Zhi began to educate the instructors:
"Now I understand. Chu Hao didn't design any specific creatures at all. He simply let them adapt to this strange low-dimensional world on their own, allowing them to freely master everything within it, without too much early intervention."
"Just as the saying goes, life…"
Wang Zhi's eyes lit up.
"…will find its own way!"
One instructor objected:
"But Vice-Principal Wang, if we don't intervene, won't so many creatures cause chaos?"
"Then the entire world will produce too many intelligent species that cannot coexist peacefully!"
"That environment would never stably produce divine fire!"
The instructor mustered courage to speak.
"The quantity of divine fire is the most critical!"
"Don't even talk about divine fire—resource collection and world growth would also become huge problems!"
Hearing this, Wang Zhi sneered again.
At this moment, they were no longer in a strict superior-subordinate relationship but rather in a peer academic discussion.
"You're correct, but let me ask you a question…"
"The world you describe, meticulously planned and precise, what is its true potential?"
"Potential…" The instructor hesitated.
He hadn't expected Wang Zhi to ask this.
"The potential of a divine world does have a limit, but by then…"
"By then! By then! How many people's divine worlds won't last until that so-called 'by then'? The potential of a world can be seen from the very beginning!"
"Whether it's the legendary 'Ten Thousand Realms,' the vast 'Stellar Seas,' or the unique 'Heavenly Mountain,' each of these powerful transcendent worlds had extraordinary potential from the start!"
"So, if you want to go from igniting divine fire to ascending the divine ranks, the potential of the world is the most important factor!"
"Divine fire can be accumulated, resources can be gathered, but…"
"World potential cannot!"
After saying this, Wang Zhi exhaled heavily and sank back into his seat.
The surrounding instructors were stunned.
Not out of fear of Wang Zhi, but because his words made them think deeply.
Indeed, many of these instructors had once been prodigies, full of ambition and dreams of unique designs…
Yet in the end, they lacked courage and chose a safer, more stable life…
"Vice-Principal Wang…"
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Just as the middle-aged instructors were lost in thought, a shocking piece of news jolted them awake.
"Chu Hao…"
"He submitted a request for early assessment!"
"Hiss!"
Hearing this, Wang Zhi and the others gasped.
"Early assessment? Has he gone mad? This will destroy the newly-formed structure of his world!"
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Tianding University's assessment consists of three stages:
The first stage places a small number of alien invaders into the graduate's divine world, their power only 1–5th rank.
The second stage introduces large numbers of aliens, along with a few 5–10th rank alien leaders.
The third stage sends 1–3 alien legions, including one 11th-rank Legendary Stage alien leader, into the divine world!
The difficulty increases with each stage, like three huge mountains pressing down on every graduate.
These aliens are exceptionally strong.
Many graduates' divine worlds cannot withstand them due to insufficient preparation time.
Without enough strength, the aliens can easily destroy the world core, causing the divine world to collapse.
What awaits these graduates then… is only despair.
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In fact, Tianding University has a fourth stage of assessment, but no one has ever completed it.
This fourth stage connects the graduate's divine world with a "special assessment world," leaving the passage between the two open.
When the two worlds collide, only one can survive.
It is the cruelest and most terrifying assessment.
But that is a story for later.
Even the first stage alone is enough to put many graduates' worlds into serious trouble.
And an early assessment? That is far more dangerous.
The instructors present could not understand Chu Hao's decision.
"Has this guy gone mad?!"
"What exactly… is he trying to do?"