Chasing Light City, downtown.

In the deep night, a bright full moon hung high in the sky, with moonlight quietly spilling over the courtyard of the Brand clan's main villa.

In the courtyard, on a training ground entirely made of energy ore, Estina, dressed in a pristine training suit and wearing a metal mask, held an A6-level practice great sword tightly in her hands. With just a single step, she appeared more than ten meters away, behind a metal dummy made of A6-level alloy.

As Estina sheathed the great sword, the two-meter-tall metal dummy suddenly showed several cracks and then scattered all over the ground, leaving the Brand clan juniors who were training outside the training ground all wide-eyed in shock.

"High-tier Martial Technique Broken Wind, Miss Tina actually mastered it?"

"My God! Our clan is going to prosper now. With this talent and strength, she will definitely rank in the top ten in the Genius Training Camp!"

"The other two geniuses in the top three of the clan are really unlucky to be in the same era as her. They might have to live in her shadow for the rest of their lives."

In the courtyard, over a hundred Brand clan juniors, regardless of gender, looked at Estina dominating the entire training ground. Apart from envy and amazement, each of them felt a tinge of sadness.

As children of the Brand main house, their lives from a young age were anything but as beautiful as the ordinary people in the city and suburbs imagined. From a young age, they had to undergo training—training during the day, training at night—having almost no personal time, all in the hope of entering the Genius Training Camp and eventually becoming the senior figures of the clan.

The two lofty geniuses in the clan were already a given, and they somewhat had hope to compete since those family geniuses merely achieved the high-tier Martial Arts Training Technique a step earlier and entered the Martial Artist Realm.

But Estina had mastered the high-tier secret skill treasured by the Brand clan for over a hundred years, surpassing those two geniuses in one fell swoop.

Now, it was even more terrifying. She directly trained the high-tier martial technique Broken Wind to proficiency, coupled with her physique nearing the middle stage of a Martial Artist, making her an exceptionally dazzling presence in every Genius Training Camp cohort, with no problem maintaining the top ten as a graduate.

As the Brand clan juniors whispered among themselves, an elder, standing two meters three or four tall with one artificial eye, came over.

The presence of the elder instantly silenced all the juniors present, not daring to lift their heads at all.

"Why has the Patriarch come over?"

"Does he have more arrangements for Miss Tina?"

All the juniors were filled with astonishment and curiosity toward the Patriarch's sudden appearance in the middle of the night.

The current Patriarch of the Brand clan, Lutode, is a legend who brought the Brand clan to its peak, not only being a top-ten graduate from the early years of the Genius Training Camp but now also the captain of the 11th Defense Corps, holding substantial influence throughout the Three-Eyed Race.

Originally, the Brand clan had potential for further progress relying on Patriarch Lutode, but for decades the Brand clan hadn't produced any formidable martial artists, and as Lutode's age exceeded ninety, the Brand clan became more and more declining.

The Patriarch had always been busy, even with emerging geniuses in the clan; he would meet them only once upon their promotion to a Martial Artist. Seeing him a second time was difficult.

Now the Patriarch came in person, an event that had never occurred before.

"Patriarch." Estina, seeing the Patriarch Lutode, couldn't help but take the initiative to step forward.

"Not bad, to have mastered Broken Wind so quickly; this talent surpasses even myself back then." Lutode praised after glancing at the scattered metal dummies on the training ground, "Now it seems you truly are the most suitable candidate."

"What orders does the Patriarch have?" Estina, looking at Lutode, was also curious about what Lutode wanted from her.

Previously, when she became a Martial Artist, she met him once. At that time, Lutode told her to focus on cultivation, promising full support from the Patriarch, which instantly elevated her status in the Brand family, second only to another middle-stage Bone Forging Realm senior in the clan.

"Prepare yourself; tomorrow, you'll participate in the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall's assessment, joining the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall." Lutode stroked his graying beard, speaking with an unyielding tone.

"Joining the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall?" Estina, after hearing this, couldn't react for a moment, feeling somewhat stunned.

At this moment, not only was Estina stunned, but also all the family juniors below the training ground listened, dumbfounded, each of them raising their heads in disbelief to look at Patriarch Lutode, doubting if the person before them was an imposter.

The name of the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall is known to many in Chasing Light City now. It was founded by a martial artist in the initial stage of the Bone Forging Realm. Although it has established itself in the city, it remains an insignificant fledgling among the many city forces, hardly worth mentioning.

Now the Patriarch allows the family's esteemed young lady to participate in the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall's assessment and join it. Either the Patriarch has gone mad, or the person is an impostor, with no other possibilities.

"Yes." Lutode nodded, glanced at the rioting crowd, and his declining but potent qi and blood suddenly erupted.

The juniors who initially suspected the Patriarch of being an imposter all bowed down, unable to move, while those who said nothing, along with Estina, remained unscathed, clearly showing mastery over the control of qi and blood.

At this moment, no member of the family had any doubt that the Patriarch was an impostor.

Such control over qi and blood is not something even a middle-stage or high-tier martial artist of the Bone Forging Realm could achieve. Only a martial artist like Lutode, who remains in the extreme Bone Forging Realm for decades, could possess such a level of control.

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