“This year’s specially admitted students, there are only two. One is Evan Turner, and the other… is Brian Brooks! Speaking of Brian Brooks, he possesses noble morals, uprightness, and selflessness. To save his classmates, when the Red-Boned White Infant Snake appeared, he still charged into the sea of snakes. In order to give his classmates a chance to survive, he fed himself to the wolves, and once uttered the stirring words: ‘If I live, I am a person of the Dao Academy; if I die, I am the soul of the Dao Academy!’”

“And also, when Brian Brooks finally saw the Ancient Barbarian Ghost Bear, even though he was gravely injured and weak, he still struggled to crawl over, trying to use his own body to lure the Ghost Bear away and save all his classmates!”

These deeds quickly spread, making Brian Brooks famous throughout the entire Lower Academy Island.

But at this moment, Brian Brooks, through his own transmission ring, saw all of this on the Spirit Net after logging in. Not only did his heart turn cold, but even his blood felt chilled. He only felt that disaster was imminent, and in his fright, he hurriedly posted a clarification.

“Hello everyone, I am Brian Brooks. You’ve misunderstood. Actually, I was very scared at the time. The reason I charged into the snake group wasn’t because I was selfless, but because I thought classmate Emily Parker was very pretty, and I wanted to pursue her, really…”

This message was sent out by Brian Brooks with great pain, hoping to blacken his own name and cool things down. He didn’t dare to be high-profile anymore.

But he never expected that as soon as this post was made, it would quickly receive countless students’ approval and replies. Most of them were female classmates, all expressing that he was a real man!

Brian Brooks only felt his vision go black, tears almost streaming down, wailing that he just wanted to cool things down for everyone, but instead it heated up even more. So he posted another clarification.

“Actually, the reason I blocked the wolf pack was because I was poisoned and knew I was going to die, so I just wanted to die quickly. In the end, it wasn’t me who saved everyone. All the credit belongs to classmate Henry Brooks!”

After writing this, Brian Brooks was just about to breathe a sigh of relief. He felt that since he had pushed all the credit onto Henry Brooks, the attention should shift and things would cool down.

But… Brian Brooks’s relief only lasted a short while, because Henry Brooks actually publicly posted as well, saying that in terms of martial arts, Brian Brooks is not as good as me, but in terms of heroism and self-sacrifice, I am not as good as him!

As soon as this post appeared, the entire Spirit Net exploded. After all, Henry Brooks was also a celebrity, and his words carried a lot of weight. Instantly, countless people started discussing, causing Brian Brooks’s plan to cool things down to collapse once again, and the attention heated up even more, overshadowing even Emma Brooks.

All of this made Brian Brooks want nothing more than to bash his head against a wall. He was in despair, tears streaming down, his heart trembling.

“Heavens, are you trying to kill me? Please let me go, I admit I was wrong, isn’t that enough!”

With tears in his eyes, he gritted his teeth and posted yet again.

“Everyone, please stop paying attention to me. I’m just an ordinary fat guy. I have no strengths. I’m greedy, I’m lustful, I’m money-grubbing, I’m selfish. I only barely passed the entrance exam, and the purity of the spirit stones I refined is just a bit over fifty percent. I really am just an ordinary person!!”

Even Brian Brooks himself felt that this time he had thoroughly blackened his own name. Anything bad, he included it. But the way things developed left him stunned once again.

This time, it was actually David Clark who stepped forward, leaving behind a message that resonated with and was recognized by countless students like never before!

“Emma Brooks is impressive, and Evan Turner is even more outstanding, but they were already prodigies. Whether saving people or passing the assessment, it was easy for them. But Brian Brooks is different. He risked his life to save others. It’s like a rich person giving you a hundred spirit stones, and a poor person giving you all his savings of a hundred spirit stones—can the meaning be the same? Brian Brooks is just like us, an ordinary student. How could he not have flaws? But it’s precisely people like him, who sacrifice themselves to save others, that are the most moving. That bloody scene, I will never forget for the rest of my life!”

This message immediately caused another sensation, pushing the discussion on the Lower Academy Island’s Spirit Net to its peak. For a time, the topic of Brian Brooks surpassed even Evan Turner, making him the most outstanding freshman of this year!

Brian Brooks was completely dumbfounded, staring blankly at the Spirit Net. He himself didn’t feel that he was so great. It took him a long while to recover, his eyes filled with despair, as if he had lost all hope in life, taking out a bag of snacks and crunching away in frustration.

“It’s over, it’s over, I’m in big trouble now!”

Sure enough, not long after, a teacher from the Phoenix City group of airships, unable to stand it any longer, publicly revealed the scene of Brian Brooks cheating during the assessment…

It was like a stone thrown into a thousand waves, causing a huge uproar and shaking the entire Lower Academy Island!

Chapter 7: The Nation’s Miner

With the cheating incident exposed, the higher Brian Brooks had been praised before, the more shocked everyone felt now. For a time, the topic of Brian Brooks fermented once again, and his fame not only topped the freshmen, but even the seniors were all overshadowed.

Many people even directly posted on the Spirit Net, angrily calling for Brian Brooks to be punished.

Seeing the worst outcome he had anticipated come true, Brian Brooks sighed deeply, his face gloomy as he sat in his cave dwelling, looking around, his heart full of sorrow.