The Tiandou Training Center was buzzing. Following Wang Zongquan's defeat, students from various training centers and martial arts schools across the city found themselves unable to resist the pull. As for the combat enthusiasts, there was no need to even mention them — they were signing up to join the Tiandou Training Center en masse.
After all, a student capable of defeating Wang Zongquan was simply staggering.
People had previously suspected the Tiandou Training Center of pulling some kind of scam, but once they witnessed the center's master, Shi Feng, casually defeat Wang Zongquan, they understood — the Tiandou Training Center was the real deal. It was simply not something any other training center or martial arts school in Fenglin City could compare to.
Moreover, the Tiandou Training Center was outfitted with the latest cutting-edge training equipment and medical facilities, which only added to its appeal.
In the span of just half a day, over five thousand people had become members of the Tiandou Training Center. As for the students admitted to the center, Shi Feng had set certain thresholds — not just anyone could qualify.
The Tiandou Training Center's students were essentially treated as a talent reserve for Zero Wing. It wasn't purely a profit-driven operation. Ordinary people naturally couldn't become students, and the benefits and training enjoyed by the center's students far surpassed those available to regular members. The techniques taught were not open to the public either, so recruitment had to be handled with extra care.
Even so, more than two hundred people had passed the entrance exam in just half a day — a number the Beidou Training Center in Jinhai City could never hope to match.
Xiao Yu was absolutely thrilled watching it all unfold.
As someone who had managed the Beidou Fitness Center for years, he had never seen any training center draw such an enormous wave of sign-ups on its opening day. And this was only the beginning. As the center's reputation continued to spread, even more people would come. Once they eventually trained a student to a notable ranking in Fenglin City, turning the Tiandou Training Center into the city's undisputed leader would be well within reach.
While the Tiandou Training Center was caught up in the frenzy of activity, Zhuo Linqiu suddenly made his way toward Shi Feng.
His approach was utterly silent, as though the people in the entire hall had failed to notice his existence. Only a handful of experts who had mastered dark force were aware of Zhuo Linqiu's presence.
"This man is formidable. His strength might rival Wang Zongquan's," Chen Tianhe thought to himself, watching Zhuo Linqiu approach Shi Feng step by step, a chill running through his heart.
Wang Zongquan's aura was domineering and overtly aggressive, while Zhuo Linqiu's presence was void-like and inwardly restrained. The two were complete opposites — to an ordinary person, Wang Zongquan would certainly seem more impressive. But at their level of cultivation, outward displays of aura no longer mattered. A void-like, inwardly restrained bearing was far more difficult to achieve than a domineering exterior. It was precisely the kind of refinement that practitioners at his level aspired toward.
In terms of technique and mental fortitude, Zhuo Linqiu had already surpassed Wang Zongquan by a full step.
"Zhuo Linqiu? Why is he going to find Shi Feng?" Zhang Wuya caught sight of Zhuo Linqiu and froze.
Unlike Chen Tianhe, Zhang Wuya was not only a dark force expert but also the heir to one of Fenglin City's five major conglomerates. He remembered when Zhuo Linqiu had once visited Fenglin City, convening a gathering of all the city's major corporate groups. Every corporate leader had been present, including his own Zhang family's patriarch. They had all treated Zhuo Linqiu with the utmost respect, and he, as a junior, could only stand off to the side and watch.
Zhuo Linqiu himself was half a step away from becoming a Transformation Force Grandmaster — he had simply been unable to break through due to his advanced age and declining physique, leaving him permanently at the peak of dark force.
He was a figure that Zhang Wuya could only look up to in both status and strength.
Yet now, Zhuo Linqiu was actually going to approach Shi Feng on his own initiative…
While the two watched in curiosity, Zhuo Linqiu arrived before Shi Feng.
"Master Shi, would it be convenient to find somewhere private to talk?" Zhuo Linqiu asked in a low voice.
There was no trace of the disdain he had once shown. On the contrary, his eyes now held a measure of reverence — and even wariness.
A Transformation Force Grandmaster was someone ordinary dark force experts could never hope to meet, but to Zhuo Linqiu, who served as a steward for one of the Five Continents' great financial groups, such figures were not unfamiliar. He understood all too well how powerful a Transformation Force Grandmaster could be — even the major financial groups would not dare show the slightest negligence.
"Of course. Let's go to the top floor to talk." Shi Feng glanced at Zhuo Linqiu and nodded.