At the very same moment Qin Feng was teleported out of the Canaan Tower and back into the vast, silent teleportation hall.
On the private forums of the Canaan Starry Sky Martial Arts University, a massive, university-wide broadcast suddenly appeared on the personal terminals of hundreds of millions of students online. It was written in a striking, blood-red font!
The broadcast contained only a single line of text.
Yet, like a depth charge dropped into a calm lake, it instantly created a tidal wave!
[CONGRATULATIONS! Level 4 Martial Artist Qin Feng has successfully cleared the 100th floor of the Canaan Tower! This broadcast is issued as encouragement!]
This broadcast took over the very top of every student’s forum interface, domineering and impossible to dismiss.
It had no close button. It just hung there, high above everything else, flashing with a glaring red light, as if heralding an extraordinary achievement worthy of the history books.
The broadcast remained for a full five minutes.
During those long five minutes, across the entire Canaan Starry Sky Martial Arts University—whether it was students training diligently in their dorms, elites sweating it out in the mission zones, or even competitors who had just finished a fierce duel...
Everyone’s eyes were glued to that line of text.
After a brief, deathly silence.
The forums absolutely exploded!
Countless comments flooded the section below the broadcast, appearing as fast as water from a burst dam!
The refresh rate was so fast that the forum’s servers even lagged for a moment!
Two completely different tones emerged in the comment section, a clear divide between them.
The senior students, to whom the name Qin Feng was already legendary, had a knee-jerk reaction of shock. But it was immediately followed by expressions that said, ’Ah, of course,’ and, ’I’m not even surprised.’
"Holy shit! You scared me! A Level 4 Martial Artist cleared the 100th floor?! Are you fucking kidding me?! The Gatekeeper on the 100th floor is a genuine Stone Race monster with a 3600 life force index! ...Oh, it was Qin Beast. Never mind then. That explains it."
"When I saw ’Level 4 Martial Artist’ and ’100th floor’ together, my first thought was that the system was bugged. But when I saw the two words ’Qin Feng,’ I knew it wasn’t the system that was bugged—it was the world. This is perfectly reasonable. Very reasonable."
"Hahaha! To the guy above, ’the world is bugged,’ my ass! But for real, that Qin Beast guy went straight for the tower right after winning the Fourth Level Division championship. I thought he’d gone into seclusion to cultivate, but it turns out he was off to the Canaan Tower to farm for loot! The man won’t let a single Contribution Point escape!"
"Probably."
"Calm down, everyone, calm down. This is just standard procedure for him, nothing to get excited about, so take a seat. When it comes to a creature like Qin Beast who defies all common sense, we have to learn to view him with a calm mind. Otherwise, our Martial Arts Heart will shatter sooner or later."
...
The senior students’ discussion was full of banter and a nonchalant, ’seen-it-all-before’ attitude.
It was as if they considered it perfectly natural for Qin Feng to accomplish any world-shaking feat.
However, for the new students who had just enrolled and were still basking in the pride of distinguishing themselves on their home planets, this broadcast and the seniors’ reactions delivered an unprecedented, paradigm-shifting shock!
Their comments were filled with shock, confusion, and intense curiosity about that mysterious nickname.
"Qin Beast? Is that... Senior Qin Feng’s nickname? It sounds... so badass, yet so strange..."
"Someone please explain! Can any of the seniors fill us in on this Senior Qin Feng? What’s his story? How did he get the nickname ’Qin Beast’? And why does everyone think it’s normal for him to clear the 100th floor?"
"Uh... I’m a newbie, just enrolled a month ago and haven’t even finished the tutorials yet. So, asking timidly and politely... is clearing the 100th floor of the Canaan Tower a really big deal? I mean, the broadcast lasted for five minutes and it was for the whole university?"
"Same question! I tried the Canaan Tower before and got knocked out on the 15th floor by one swing of an axe from a three-meter-tall elite greenskin. I’m still in therapy for it... What does clearing the 100th floor even represent?!"
"..."
Faced with the blizzard of questions from the knowledge-hungry new students, some of the idle and helpful senior students began their favorite activity: digging up old forum posts.
Like seasoned Hunters, they skillfully navigated the forum’s unfathomably vast archives, where old posts were measured in the quadrillions. They precisely unearthed the sensational, viral threads related to the keywords "Qin Feng" and "Qin Beast," and then dumped the links one by one into the comment section.
In an instant, the entire forum became an archaeological dig dedicated to the "Legend of Qin Feng."
[Archived Link 1: "SHOCKING! After Only Forty Years of Enrollment, He Defeated ’Old Lai Zi’ Zhou Run Head-On! A Complete Domination! The Name ’Qin Beast’ Is Well-Earned!"]
[Archived Link 2: "(HD UNCENSORED) Full Recording of the Finals! Qin Feng vs. Zhou Run! The Insane Assault That Began with ’A Point of Cold Light’! A Textbook-Level Display of Spearmanship!"]
[Archived Link 3: "(IN-DEPTH REVEAL) Mastered the Top-grade Acupoint Opening Technique in Forty Years—Can You Believe It?! How Did ’Qin Beast’ Do It? A Must-Read for Newbies! Let Qin Beast Show You How to Speedrun the Top-grade Acupoint Opening Technique! (Trollface)"]