Little Lingling saw her mother crying and hurriedly ran over, her small hands nervously wiping her mother's tears. "Mom, don't cry. When you cry, Lingling wants to cry too." Her small mouth quivered, almost ready to cry.

Luo Chao walked over and comforted her, saying, "Lingling, mom isn't crying, mom is happy about the Taoist temple." Liu Su also quickly held back her tears, "Yes, mom is crying tears of joy."

Yanjing, military compound.

Every house here is styled as a courtyard, quaint and classical. Luo Chao entered one of them and immediately saw Chen Yuquan in the courtyard on a rattan chair drinking tea. His leisurely manner seemed to indicate a very good mood.

"You're here. Come sit." Chen Yuquan raised his eyelids and invited Luo Chao to sit down.

"Prove it, let me see where you got the confidence to join the Dragon Team." Luo Chao didn't speak, just extended a finger and gently poked the stone table in front of him, effortlessly poking a hole as if it were tofu. Seeing this, Chen Yuquan squinted his eyes. In the past, Luo Chao's full punch could break stones, but never had he been able to poke a hole so effortlessly.

"When did you develop this ability?" "Just recently." "Tell me how it happened." Luo Chao honestly recounted how he became a cultivator to Chen Yuquan.

"So, you're truly no longer an ordinary person." "Yes, according to our terminology, I'm a cultivator at the peak of Qi Condensation." Luo Chao replied.

Chen Yuquan smiled, "You kid, pulling this on me." He put down the teacup. "Alright, since you've attained this ability and are actively asking to join the Dragon Team, I'll grant your wish. But be sure, once you join the Dragon Team, you'll find that this world isn't as simple as you see it." Chen Yuquan sighed, "Their world is vast and magnificent, beyond the understanding of ordinary people like us."

"With great power comes great responsibility. Since I've gained such formidable strength, of course, I must better protect our country and people." Luo Chao stated firmly.

Chen Yuquan laughed, pleased, "It's good you understand this principle. Come, I'll take you to the Dragon Team base. With my ability, I can only recommend you; whether you succeed is up to you."

Sitting in a Hongqi, the car drove out of Yanjing, arriving at the foot of a mountain in the suburbs. The car zigzagged to a military base. With Chen Yuquan's license plate, it was checked four or five times before being admitted. Luo Chao had stayed in Yanjing for so long but had never known of this place, looking around curiously the whole way. The car finally stopped, and Luo Chao and Chen Yuquan got out to meet a sturdy man in his forties with a bushy beard, wide shoulders, and a solid build who hugged Chen Yuquan tightly.

"Old Tie, let me introduce you, this is Luo Chao." Chen Yuquan pointed to Luo Chao. "Hmm, I've heard of him, Dark Night." Old Tie twitched his mustache, sizing up Luo Chao.

"Hehe, glad you know. Luo Chao, this is Tie Xiong, Deputy Leader of Huaxia's Dragon Team, your future direct superior." Chen Yuquan said smilingly.

"Don't say that yet. Although I trust the people you recommend, Old Chen, we must still test whether he has real abilities." Tie Xiong didn't immediately agree.

Chen Yuquan laughed, "You, same old. Alright, I'll leave the person to you. I don't have the right to meddle in your internal affairs. I have other matters to attend to, so I'll leave first."

"Alright, next time we have a chance, let's have a drink, it's been a long time since we last got together." Tie Xiong mentioned the Royal Language Academy.

"No problem. Luo Chao, you'll follow Uncle Tie from now on. I'll leave now, take care and give it your all." Chen Yuquan reminded one last time and then left in the Hongqi.

"Kid, come with me." Tie Xiong smiled, patting Luo Chao's shoulder, taking the lead. Luo Chao followed silently behind him.

Passing through a passage, taking an elevator to the underground part of the military base, Luo Chao saw various tech personnel in white coats bustling about. Some casually dressed people gathered to chat or trained using various apparatus.

Tie Xiong noticed Luo Chao's curiosity about those people and said, "Our Dragon Team is divided into two parts: the Dragon God Team and the Dragon Soul Team. The Dragon God Team handles combat and confrontations with foreign superpower users, while the Dragon Soul Team provides diverse technical support for the Dragon God's combatants; they're top experts and scientists in their fields. In today's era, mere martial force doesn't suffice; the combination of martial strength and technology is the key to victory."

Pointing to the chatting young men and women, Tie Xiong said again to Luo Chao, "See those guys? They're members of the Dragon God Team's Dragon Fourth Squad. Hey! What are you chatting about leisurely instead of training? Got itchy skin?"

The young people scattered like birds once they saw Tie Xiong. Tie Xiong chuckled, "Those damn kids, running so fast."

Entering a lab, a woman was tinkering with various devices inside. Tie Xiong addressed her, "Xiao Zhao, there's a newcomer; test him, please."

"Understood." The woman called Xiao Zhao answered icily. Rising, her face was gorgeous, yet it remained taut without a smile, draped in a standard white coat, making it difficult to discern her figure. She opened an area in the lab with an outdoor floating elevator-like apparatus. "Step inside and stand firmly," her face showed no emotion.

"Xiao Zhao, don't carry this icy demeanor all the time; lots of young men in the team like you and get scared away by it. Mind you, you don't end up unmarried." Tie Xiong advised earnestly.

"Captain Tie, I just thought of a better way to stimulate a superpower user's internal energy; want to try it?" Zhao Hanxue said expressionlessly.

Tie Xiong awkwardly touched his beard, "Just pretend I didn't say anything." Apparently, fearing Zhao Hanxue's new method.

Meanwhile, Luo Chao had entered the test chamber according to Zhao Hanxue's instructions, standing accordingly inside. "Shall we begin?" Zhao Hanxue asked. "Yes, start." Tie Xiong nodded. Air pressure slowly closed the chamber gate, lights on the machine lit up, and Luo Chao felt a beam scanning him from feet to head.

Tie Xiong and Zhao Hanxue were focused on the screen in front of them, "Energy emphasis: 98, muscle strength: 82, brain development: 80, reaction capability: unknown, speed: unknown, overall rating: B+." A synthesized electronic voice read a series of data aloud.

"Wow, this kid's strong, having just awakened superpowers; already reaching this level. B+, matching each squad's elite members, second only to the team leader." Yet, he didn't know Luo Chao wasn't a superpower user but a cultivator. Chen Yuquan hadn't had time to tell him, but it didn't matter; the physical energy was the same. Such a score even shocked the famously icy goddess Zhao Hanxue, whose mouth slightly parted.

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