"Patriarch, what about the Genius Training Camp?" Estina was puzzled but did not refuse.

She knew a bit about the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall. Those who joined the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall were not barred from entering the Genius Training Camp, but the hall's Defense Corps clearly conflicted with the training at the Genius Training Camp. The Defense Corps was one of the core layers of the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, and entering its core circle often meant being unable to join the Genius Training Camp.

However, merely joining the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall would not affect her entrance into the Genius Training Camp.

She did not know which option Patriarch Lutode intended to discuss.

"The training at the Genius Training Camp is important, but joining the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall doesn't necessarily mean you will fare poorly," Lutode said. "The Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall is not what you perceive it to be now. Hall Master Lin will become the fifth Deputy City Lord of Chasing Light City, and the youngest at that. Our Brand Clan doesn't have much interaction with Hall Master Lin, but you are the one with the best chance to enter the core circle of the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, so this task can only be entrusted to you. As for your resources, the clan will not reduce them."

"Deputy City Lord? Lin Qi?" Estina felt her mind was overwhelmed, "Could this be a mistake?"

Recently, she had met Lin Qi, who wasn't even a Bone Forging Realm expert at the time. Afterward, he became a Bone Forging Realm expert, but now being told Lin Qi was already a Deputy City Lord of Chasing Light City seemed too far-fetched to believe.

If these words hadn't come from Patriarch Lutode, she would have suspected it was pure fabrication.

"By tomorrow morning, everyone in the city will know this," Lutode said to Estina, somewhat helplessly. "I know you want to enter the Genius Training Camp. At that time, not to mention becoming a Bone Forging Realm expert, you might even enter Domain City, but our clan can no longer wait, do you understand?"

"I understand, Patriarch. Tomorrow, I will join the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall," Estina said, looking at the fading life force of Lutode and knowing that Patriarch Lutode might not have many years left.

Although theoretically Bone Forging Realm Martial Artists can live up to 150 years, in this era, no Martial Artist avoids combat. Constantly depleted Qi and Blood and various injuries, even with medicinal recovery, cannot replenish life force. So, few Bone Forging Realm Martial Artists reach a hundred years.

Compared to ordinary people who can safely live into their eighties or nineties, Bone Forging Realm experts do not possess much more strength. In fact, their lives are often shorter due to battles in the wild.

It's rare in Chasing Light City for someone like Patriarch Lutode to live to over ninety.

Because of Lutode's existence, the Brand Clan has thrived until today. If Lutode were gone, even clan members would not hesitate to seize control. Relying on a forty-something Middle Stage Bone Forging Realm Martial Artist would not sustain the current Brand Clan.

But if Estina rose to high power within one of the major city factions, it would be entirely different. Even without strength, various city factions would grant some respect, far beyond what a Genius Training Camp student's status could provide.

"Good child, from today you are the first heir of our Brand Clan, and all the clan's resources will be open to you," Lutode nodded approvingly, then left the courtyard.

With Lutode's departure, the entire Brand Clan's descendants were in an uproar.

None of them expected that Estina, the clan's top genius, who surpassed the other two geniuses significantly, would ultimately miss entering the Genius Training Camp, merely joining the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall. This left everyone sighing deeply.

As for the two genius members of the Brand Clan, upon receiving the news, they were initially perplexed but then delirious with joy.

"Hahaha, Tina, no matter how talented you are, in the end, you still can't enter the Genius Training Camp."

"What does it matter to be the first heir, or have all the clan's resources open to you? Once I enter and graduate from the Genius Training Camp, the head of the Brand Clan will be me!"

The two geniuses of the Brand Clan had originally been in despair about the situation. No matter if they entered the Genius Training Camp with Estina, they would be left far behind.

But now they saw an opportunity. As long as they could get into the Genius Training Camp, with its training and resources, they could completely catch up to and even surpass Estina. Then the patriarch status would indeed be determined by strength when the current patriarch steps down.

At dawn, as the sun rose.

Estina, led personally by Patriarch Lutode, arrived at the abandoned area of Chasing Light City, a place no Martial Artist or formal resident of Chasing Light City would visit.

But as the flying car stopped on the dilapidated street outside the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, Estina was quite stunned.

At this moment, the entire rundown street was filled with flying cars and bustling crowds. There were no vagabonds in sight as everyone visible to the naked eye came from the various clans of the city and suburbs, including many already martial artists.

These people were all accompanying clan representatives, waiting in line for the Black Obsidian Martial Arts Hall disciple assessment.

It was as if the assessment before her was not for a martial arts hall in the abandoned area, but for the Genius Training Camp assessment of the city. Those vagabonds who could previously queue for assessment found they couldn't even line up now, as the intense Qi and Blood pressure rendered them breathless.

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