"The thirteenth of the seventy-two unique skills is the Burning Wood Knife Technique."

Master Ji Gang reached out and pulled out a wooden sword from who-knows-where. Just as he was about to begin his demonstration, his movements suddenly froze.

Shen Qian was puzzled, but then a mechanical voice rang in his ears.

"Student, your time limit for the level has expired. The dungeon is closing automatically. The results will be sent to your email address. Please check it yourself."

"The path of martial arts is arduous, please keep up the good work!"

He was momentarily dazed before he came to his senses, and when he came to, he was standing at the foot of that low hill again.

The Shaolin Temple before us has once again become a landscape painting, devoid of its former vibrancy.

Time is up……

He exhaled a breath of stale air, looking rather helpless.

After all, it's a one-star secret realm, so the time limit is only one hour.

Chen Qian's efficiency was already extremely high, with everything being "learned in one go," but Master Ji Gang's pace was unhurried, and Chen Qian's urging was useless.

"It seems I'll have to spend a few more days in this one-star secret realm in order to obtain the divine power..."

He murmured before sinking down.

His original plan was to pass through the low-level secret realm as quickly as possible, and then obtain the qualification to enter the Tower of Myriad Phenomena and the six-star secret realm as soon as possible.

After all, the higher the level of the secret realm, the better the rewards.

But this unexpected incident occurred.

However, sinking to the bottom wasn't necessarily a loss, or rather, one might not even obtain supernatural powers in a high-level secret realm.

Beep beep!

The bracelet vibrated; it was the evaluation from the secret realm's settlement.

As expected, it was a big "D".

That's normal. Before sinking, they didn't even enter the Bronze Man Formation and stayed outside the whole time, so giving them the lowest rating isn't wrong.

He didn't care about sinking.

...

It's still the martial arts department, that ten-story building in the northwest.

The fourth floor of the martial arts education institution's data monitoring center is the monitoring hall for the regular levels of the martial arts simulator, while the fifth floor is the monitoring hall for the regular levels of the martial arts secret realm.

At that moment, in one of the offices, a man in a suit hurriedly pushed open the door, picked up the internal phone on the table, and dialed a number.

"Hey, Team Leader Liao, the results are in!" the man said immediately as soon as the call connected.

"How about it?"

"Unbelievable! You won't believe it... his rating is D!" the man said in an incredulous tone.

"Really?" The person on the other end of the phone was clearly taken aback.

"Absolutely true. I've been keeping an eye on it ever since you reminded me. You know these things can't possibly be wrong, since it's all determined by the system... Hmm, I understand. Okay, thanks, goodbye!"

After exchanging a few more words, the man hung up the phone and then paced excitedly around the office.

"Such an unparalleled genius has shown signs of decline... I wonder how many people will be interested in this news. But I've made it, this time it's really happening!"

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