"This is the third tier?"
Feeling the rapid transformation of his body, a smile appeared on Lin Yuan's face.
After the second traversal ended, Lin Yuan had already reached the peak of the second tier.
Later, he comprehended the Primordial Force evolution path, almost stepping one foot into the third tier.
Even so, Lin Yuan was still not at the third tier.
Other evolvers at the peak of the second tier, wanting to advance to the third tier, had paths to follow.
Their personal evolution paths would provide detailed guidance.
How to step forward?
What conditions must be met?
What to do after meeting those conditions?
But for Lin Yuan, a pioneer of this evolution path, everything was unknown.
Even with heaven-defying comprehension, without months of fighting numerous evolvers,
and feeling various evolution paths up close, Lin Yuan's advancement to the third tier would have been greatly delayed.
"Third-tier evolvers, also known as 'city-destroying level', with full power, can pierce through half of a city."
"My martial evolution path's third tier covers several miles with Taiji Domain; with a thought, everything within disintegrates."
Lin Yuan sat cross-legged, with the Taiji Domain faintly spreading, encompassing the entire Water Moon District.
One could say, at this moment, the lives of everyone in the Water Moon District were at Lin Yuan's whim.
"On the entire Azure Wave Star, those below a hundred years old reaching the third tier are no more than twenty."
Lin Yuan mused.
Azure Wave Star, being a medium life-bearing planet, has over fifty billion residents.
With such a vast population, extraordinary talents are bound to emerge.
Just like in the recent arena competition, a third-tier opponent Lin Yuan valued was struck by lightning at birth.
Thousands around died under the lightning, yet he survived.
Moreover, his body was baptized by the lightning, innately possessing lightning attributes, extremely fast, and even able to transform into lightning.
Thus, other competitors dubbed him the 'Thunder God'.
The power of lightning is both fierce and yang, though Lin Yuan hadn't faced the 'Thunder God'.
He felt there's a significant chance his Taiji Domain might not contain such an opponent.
An evolver like 'Thunder God' belongs to the unique type, strong individually but not replicable, suitable only for him.
"Goddess of Wisdom."
Lin Yuan pondered for a moment and connected with the Goddess of Wisdom.
"Respected citizen Lin Yuan, please state your request."
The solemn and cool voice of the Goddess of Wisdom resonated.
"Now that my martial path has stepped into the third tier, can I reveal my full strength in the upcoming arena competition?"
Lin Yuan inquired.
Earlier, the Goddess of Wisdom had warned not to expose his identity as the founder of the martial evolution path.
As it could attract attention from alien races, potentially landing him on their 'assassination list'.
"Rest assured, individual talents among evolvers, unless they break into the star domain rankings, won't catch alien attention,"
the Goddess of Wisdom softly explained.
The Universal Human Alliance's territory is vast, its population immense.
Azure Wave Star alone houses fifty billion citizens.
And it is just a single medium life-bearing planet within the Crimson Leviathan Star Domain.
Even thriving as the Crimson Leviathan Star Domain is, it's just one among many Star Domains ruled by human civilization.
The alien races neither have the energy nor the capability to focus on human talents ranked within the top hundred or ten on any particular planet.
Compared to an evolution path that can be passed down indefinitely, an individual human is indeed rather insignificant.
"I see."
Lin Yuan nodded, then asked the Goddess of Wisdom whether others could discern he cultivated the martial evolution path.
The Goddess of Wisdom's explanation was that it was very difficult to discern.
To be precise, almost impossible to see through.
Currently, no one has cultivated the martial evolution path to the Supreme Grandmaster stage,
let alone mastering the intricate Taiji Way of the Yin-Yang stage.
Without reaching this stage, without understanding the true essence of Taiji, how could they recognize Lin Yuan was using the Taiji Way?
The evolution paths publicized by the Universal Human Alliance were countless,
and paths similar to the martial evolution path or resembling the Taiji Way surely existed.
Unless Lin Yuan himself openly spoke about it, how could anyone guess?
In the arena, Lin Yuan learned of many opponents' evolution paths because they themselves disclosed it.
As long as Lin Yuan kept silent about practicing martial evolution, others couldn’t speculate his exact path.
They might only narrow it down to a rough category.
One must note, evolution paths are immensely personal matters.
Knowing another's evolution path reveals their weaknesses, allowing opponents to exploit them.
Therefore,
unless extremely confident,
an evolver typically won’t advertise their chosen path.
"I might as well upgrade my citizen rank."
With a thought, Lin Yuan directly consumed merit points to upgrade his citizen rank.
Six months ago, right after the second traversal ended,
Lin Yuan submitted the martial evolution path's continuation, amassing enough merit points to upgrade to the fourth rank.
However, to take advantage of the Human Civilization's Central Bank loan limit, he delayed until now.
"Beep––"
With the merit points consumed, Lin Yuan's citizen rank officially advanced to the fourth class.
A fourth-class citizen already tops Azure Wave Star, comparable only to a governor's level.
The updated privileges for a fourth-class citizen delve deeper than those of a third class.
An added privilege is that if Lin Yuan feels his life is threatened,
he can directly mobilize Azure Wave Star's fleet for protection.
Furthermore, his loan limit at the Central Bank reached one billion,
and Lin Yuan received a transfer of twenty million.
"Upgrading to a fifth-class citizen requires fifty thousand merit points?"
Lin Yuan frowned, no wonder there aren't any fifth-class citizens on Azure Wave Star.
To become a fifth-class citizen requires merit points more than the total required for the previous four classes combined.
"Take it slow."
Lin Yuan wasn't in a rush.
Now that his martial evolution path is at the third tier, it has already earned him significant merit points.
In the future, when he develops this path to the fifth or sixth tier, could merit points be any less?
Even just theoretically reaching the sixth tier granted him twenty thousand merit points.
If the martial evolution path genuinely becomes a sixth-tier path, the merit points Lin Yuan would gain will surely exceed twenty thousand.
"Hmm?"
"President Liao reached out thrice?"
Lin Yuan glanced at the visitor records.
"Three days closed-door cultivation?"
Lin Yuan stood up, replying to President Liao, "I'm fine."
During the breakthrough to the third tier, both Lin Yuan's physical body and soul were evolving, hence the lengthy period.
As soon as Lin Yuan sent out the message, President Liao 'instantly replied'.
"If there’s any problem, please speak up. This person named Lu Meng can penetrate dreams and souls, and not even virtual worlds can fully isolate them.”
President Liao's tone was concerned.
Lin Yuan's last competition before entering closed-door cultivation was against a third-tier evolver on the dream evolution path.
President Liao worried if Lin Yuan was affected in some way.
It's worth noting, these past months of the arena competition made President Liao acutely aware of Lin Yuan's unparalleled evolution talent.
With the strength of a twelve-stage second tier, Lin Yuan managed to hold his ground for half an hour against a third-tier evolver.
Had time not been a constraint, he might have sustained even longer.
Such potential, even positioned in the entire Eastern Continent, is top-notch, rare in several decades of arena competitions.
"I truly am fine."
Lin Yuan contemplated briefly, sending another message, "I have reached the third tier."
Transcending into the third tier couldn't be hidden for long.
With the upcoming individual arena matches against other third-tier opponents, Lin Yuan would inevitably showcase his corresponding strength.
In the Evolvers Association of Eastern Peace City.
President Liao sat at his desk, dumbfounded, staring at the virtual screen in front of him.
Especially at the six words.
"I have reached the third tier."
Left his mind blank.
Only after some moments did he manage to react.
Reached the third tier?
Lin Yuan advanced to the third tier?
In Eastern Peace City, could a third-tier evolver emerge as well?
Eastern Peace City had hosted over a thousand arena competitions,
The peak achievement was only those two or three second-tier evolvers.
As for third-tier evolvers...
President Liao never even dared to imagine such a thing.
One of the arena competition's conditions was being under a hundred years old.
Third-tier evolvers, Eastern Peace City had produced before,
but with the age limit included, they were exceedingly rare.
So scarce that in the entire Eastern Continent, even across Azure Wave Star, such evolvers are counted on one's fingers.
Currently, evolvers who prominently demonstrate third-tier strength in the arena number just over ten.
"My Eastern Peace City, my Eastern Peace City has given birth to a dragon."
President Liao's eyes reddened, murmuring softly.
(End of this chapter)