In the 6480th year of the Xia calendar,

Bianhai University in Haigang City, Bianhai Province, China, is holding a college league held every ten years. Nearly 10,000 students from more than 300 colleges and universities across China are participating in this college league.

This college league has dozens of competitions, including traditional computer, chemistry, biology, physics, mathematics and other competitions, as well as competitions related to immortality, elixir, talisman, instrument, formation and related subdivisions.

However, there is no competition for fighting. After all, fighting can kill people. In an era with peaceful development as its main purpose, fighting has been strictly prohibited.

Lin Liyan and Ning Li met in this college league, but they were not players on the field, but came with students.

Ning Li is now the vice president of Bianhai University, and Lin Liyan is the president of a strong school in another province. Their identities are similar.

"Brother Ning, Bianhai University is getting stronger and stronger. I think it has surpassed Kyoto University."

"Brother Lin, you're joking. Kyoto University has a thousand-year history. It was formerly a martial arts academy and has a strong foundation. Our Bianhai University has a history of less than 500 years. How can we compare?" "

It would be great if time could be exchanged for skills. Look at the students in your school. Each of them is full of energy and has a solid foundation. Alas, unlike our Yunjiang University, which has been catching up for decades, it is still far behind you."

Lin Liyan said. The students of each school stood together, and their cultivation was obvious to them. The average cultivation of Bianhai University was only one level higher than theirs, and Kyoto University was about the same as Bianhai University.

"Brother Lin, Yunjiang is a major industrial province, and Patriarch Lin has paid so much attention to scientific and technological development in recent years. You have a strong foundation. It was said that five people were specially recruited by the Psychic Energy Research Institute as talents last year?"

"Yes, there were five specially recruited people. There were less than a hundred people who passed the exam. It's a bit rubbish."

Speaking of this, Lin Liyan laughed, but his words were still very low-key. Ning Li on the side was speechless. This number is more than their school, okay? And it's still rubbish, then what are they.

Ning Li knew that Lin Liyan was pretending to be cool, so he stopped talking to him about this. Instead, he talked about the current student group and sighed, "College students are getting better and better now. When I was in college, my cultivation was about the same as theirs, but in terms of knowledge, how could I compare with them?"

"Yes, every generation has talented people, and each has been leading the trend for hundreds of years. Ning Li, if you and I were the same age as them, we would not be able to compete with them."

"Yes, but it is more difficult for poor students to succeed now,"

Ning Li said. In terms of cultivation, he is not worse than these people at this age, but his overall quality is much worse. Some things cannot be compensated by talent. Ning

Li just lamented that it is getting harder and harder for poor people in this era to succeed. The training of rich people for their children and descendants is too terrible. Those rich people start bathing their children with spiritual medicine after they are one year old, and start learning various cultural knowledge at the age of three or four. After they go to school and start practicing, in addition to classes, they also have various tutors and various elixirs to assist. How can poor people compare?

So later Ning Li suggested strengthening the spiritual root standard, that is, the outstanding students of each school must have excellent spiritual roots, which gives poor students a chance, otherwise a single spiritual root will not be able to beat the students with five spiritual roots.

After that, China issued a regulation prohibiting gene editing, otherwise the rich can intervene from the fetus, which is even more terrible. The rich will always be rich, and the poor will never be able to turn over in their lives.

"It's not easy for the children of the family. The poor students are competitive, but the children of the family are not competitive. In this era, if you don't want any fame and achievement, it's easy to say that you won't starve to death if you receive a minimum living allowance, but it's too difficult to get ahead."

Lin Liyan also thought of the descendants of the Lin family. In more than 300 years, the Lin family has developed to a population of several million, but now the big family can't monopolize the matter of cultivating immortals, so the competition within their Lin family is also fierce. If you want to get ahead, you have more internal competition than the poor. However,

their internal competition has a retreat and a bottom line. Even if they can't get ahead, they will have no worries about food and clothing, which is higher than the upper limit of ordinary people.

Ning Li did not refute this statement. It was not that he agreed with this statement, but he just did not want to make enemies because of this kind of thing. He simply commented on several influential figures in this college league.

The age limit for participating in this college league is under 30 years old, but there are already many very powerful figures who have already become famous on the Internet. For example, someone won an award in high school, someone got full marks or close to full marks in dozens of subjects in college, and someone was favored by a big boss expert as soon as he entered school and was taken to do research, etc.

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"Every generation has its own people, and each has been leading the trend for hundreds of years. This time, the college league is unprecedented. Qingyun, Zhou Liao and other countries hope to send teams to participate in the next college league, and want to become famous."

In Harbour City, there was also a small part of the big screen in front of Lin Jiang showing the live broadcast, Cao Ying said on the side.

"I saw it. If they want to participate, then let them participate. Even if they have talents, they can't escape our grasp. This is called throwing meat buns at dogs. They can only go and never come back."

Lin Jiang laughed. These countries must be stupid. They send talents to China to compete. Can they still go back? China offers a high price that they can't refuse. How many people can resist it?

"There are too many talents now. There are more than 10,000 people participating in the competition. They are all elites. If it was the era of cultivating immortals, which one was not cultivated by the sect? But now, such geniuses are mass-produced every year. Tsk tsk."

Cao Ying sighed and felt incredible. Why are there so many geniuses? Although there were many geniuses in the era of cultivating immortals, they are nothing compared to now.

"With a large population base, there will naturally be more geniuses. China's population is expected to exceed 10 billion in five years. By then, we still have to find a way to resolve the problem of class mobility. We can't let the aristocratic families control it. There are only a few aristocratic families?"

"Your Lin family is the number one aristocratic family in China. Do you want to target the Lin family?"

"So what? The Lin family now has a population of one million, and I can recognize no more than a hundred of them. Why should I talk so much about personal relationships?"

Lin Jiang waved his hand and said that he was the ancestor of the Lin family, but he didn't know many people in the Lin family. There were really no more than a hundred people, and he had never met most of them. How could there be any feelings for them?

"Okay, if you start with Lin, then I will also rectify Zhonghang Sect."

"Okay, forget it, let's not talk about this, we'll talk about it later. Cao Wang's first batch of rare metals has been shipped back. Do you want to go and see it?"

"You're not going?"

"No, if I go, I'll be cheated by Cao Wang again. This guy has dug up so much money from me. My small treasury is going bankrupt. I decided to put this batch of rare metals into the market and make the space project profitable. Only in this way can it continue for a long time. No one can stand investing money without output."

Lin Jiang said. Every country knows that scientific research is the best choice for developing national strength, but why most countries cannot vigorously support scientific research? It is because scientific research is a bottomless pit. You can invest as much money as you want, and even no bubble will come out. For example, if the research is wrong, it will really be a waste of money. The same is

true for China. Although they have made a lot of achievements, there are also countless mistakes. The wasted funds are terrible, but Lin Jiang can't say it, because scientific research is not necessarily accurate. If it is wrong, who will innovate?

Therefore, marketization is necessary. Now they have discovered several resource planets and set up unmanned bases on them for mining and rough processing. These resources are very precious on the blue planet.

"That's good. Support them so that they can find habitable planets when the time comes."

"Sixteen habitable planets have been locked, but they are too far away. With current technology, the nearest one will take hundreds of years to fly. The probes that have been launched are on the way. Maybe there will be news in two or three hundred years."

Lin Jiang said that habitable planets are determined according to the necessary conditions for life, such as the distance from the star. Some astronomers have observed it, but the nearest one will take hundreds of years to fly, and it is impossible to get accurate news in a short time.