When the answer was finally revealed, it wasn't just the people at the venue who were stunned.
At that moment, viewers in front of screens all across the world simultaneously shot to their feet, some of them even swearing out loud—
Jiang Xing's very first attribute test hadn't been setup for the later research results at all…
He had directly thrown out the single most heavyweight discovery from the very start!
The twenty-sixth attribute had truly descended without any warning at all.
Damn it, how could I possibly be having a dream like this?!
And even after revealing the existence of a brand-new attribute, Jiang Xing still hadn't finished his presentation!
He continued directing the Clouddown Bird to demonstrate multiple moves, displaying their interaction and suppression relationships.
He also explained the contents of the documents in detail, talking through his selection criteria for different moves, as well as the connections between them, building hypotheses and deriving conclusions step by step…
Completely and thoroughly proving that this brand-new attribute did not exist solely within the move Return, but was in fact the true attribute of many different moves.
And furthermore, he proved that this new attribute had not just "come into existence."
In truth, it had always existed in this world. It had always been by everyone's side.
It was only because it was so ever-changing and difficult to pin down that people had overlooked it all this time.
Based on those characteristics, Jiang Xing gave this new attribute a name.
Emotion.
This entire deduction process became Jiang Xing's sixth research achievement.
[Hypothesis and Proof of the Emotion Attribute]
Immediately afterward, as though he did not know exhaustion, he launched into yet another round of presentations.
Watching his performance, all the complicated emotions within the lecture hall and among the audience in front of their screens ultimately transformed into pure astonishment—
He actually intended to completely unveil the veil covering the Emotion attribute right here on this stage.
He wanted to skip the decades—or even centuries—of developmental history that every other attribute had gone through and make everyone fully understand exactly what kind of attribute this was!
As for this kind of thing, people were left with only a single evaluation.
Insane!
And when they recalled the amount of time that had passed since Jiang Xing proposed and proved the Friendship Theory, that feeling became even more tangible…
It had only been a little over a month!
Students had only just finished a single monthly exam, and office workers had only received one paycheck.
Yet Jiang Xing had already completed so many research projects and produced discoveries of such staggering importance.
It was madness.
...
"You already knew?"
Inside the lecture hall, Amru had already calmed himself and sat back down.
He recalled Dr. Xu's earlier response, the fact that his reaction contained more joy than shock, and even the strange expression he wore during lunch…
Clearly, as Jiang Xing's teacher, Dr. Xu had known about these discoveries long ago.
"I already told you it was an attribute. You just didn't believe me."
"..."
Amru rolled his eyes at him.
What nonsense. There were simply too many variables on a Pet Beast that could affect the power of a single move.
And the field of attribute studies itself had remained stagnant for decades. He could barely even remember the last time a new attribute had been proven to exist.
Without already seeing the answer, who could immediately conclude with certainty that it had to be attribute interference?
Besides, that brat Jiang Xing was really something else.
Researching a new attribute definitely wasn't something that could be done in a day or two.
While he had been proudly showing off his own research achievements these past few days, Jiang Xing had probably been laughing secretly inside the whole time.
Still, Amru did not feel the slightest bit unhappy.
He was a Necromancy-type doctor, the person with the strongest mental resilience around. A little public embarrassment was nothing more than a breeze brushing past his face.
On the contrary, as a doctor himself, seeing a discovery important enough to change the entire field of Pet Beast studies filled him with nothing but joy.
"Amru," Dr. Xu suddenly spoke.
He looked at the young man confidently speaking onstage, his expression carrying a trace of melancholy.
"Do you think… we've gotten old?"
If this had been half a year ago, Dr. Xu definitely would never have felt this way.
Every day, he was busy researching projects, thinking through all kinds of Beast Taming problems, and finding time to teach students. He simply had no time to become sentimental.
However, during this period of time, the shock Jiang Xing had brought him was simply too overwhelming.
Dr. Xu watched this outstanding student standing upon the stage, speaking eloquently and confidently.
It was as though he had returned to several decades ago, seeing his own younger self in those high-spirited, radiant years.
And only at that moment did he suddenly realize—he no longer seemed to be young anymore.
There was also Su Muli, along with countless other young researchers and Beast Tamers.
Dr. Xu suddenly felt that perhaps… the era belonging to the younger generation had already arrived.
Amru was even older than Dr. Xu, already approaching a hundred years of age. He had only managed to maintain such vigor and sharpness through the physical enhancement and lifespan extension granted by Beast Tamer contracts…
If it were an ordinary old man, half his body would already be in the grave.
He could understand Dr. Xu's feelings very well.
But… he glanced sideways at Dr. Xu and said disdainfully, "You're old. I'm not."
"The strongest Beast Tamer in history once lived to one hundred and ninety years old—nearly two full centuries!"
"And if someone were to nurture a Mythical Tier Pet Beast and form a contract with a god… nobody can even say how long they might live."
"I'm only ninety-seven. I'm in the prime of my life—the perfect age to keep fighting and charging forward!"
"And besides…"
Amru looked toward the stage, a smile spreading across his face.
"Compared to us, Beast Taming studies itself is even younger. Over the past twenty or thirty years, it merely slowed its pace slightly."
"I believe that from here onward, it will move even faster and more steadily."
"In this age of brilliant stars, I'm not about to hand all the opportunities over to the younger generation."
Dr. Xu burst into laughter.
There had always been a saying among doctors—although Necromancy was the coldest and darkest attribute, Necromancy doctors themselves were the brightest and most optimistic of them all.
And honestly, that saying was completely true.
Compared to him, at seventy-five years old, Dr. Xu was practically a doctor in the prime of his life!
The sense of aging lingering in Dr. Xu's heart was instantly swept away. Looking toward the stage, he smiled.
"You're right. I can't lose to my own student—"
"Perhaps the future belongs to them, but the present still belongs to us."
"Now that's more like it. As a teacher, stop acting all awkward and sentimental. It's unbecoming."
Amru said with a grin.
While the two doctors leaned close together, whispering among themselves—beside them, Su Muli sat upright with perfect posture, obediently looking toward the stage as though she hadn't noticed anything happening nearby, fully focused on listening to the presentation.
In reality, she was screaming internally.
Junior, slow down for a second!
I know you're amazing. I know you're incredible…
But you nearly scared our teacher into retirement!
…
Up on the stage, Jiang Xing had no idea that Dr. Xu had just briefly hovered at the edge of retirement.
After finishing his presentation, he turned off the projector and delivered his final summary.
"Through this experiment, we have already come to understand what exactly 'Emotion' is."
"But what deserves even deeper reflection is whether there are still more discoveries buried beneath the dust of history, waiting for us to uncover them."
"After all, as times have changed, we now possess tools far more powerful than those of the past. They can not only help us explore unknown fields, but also allow us to revisit the past and discover the things that were once overlooked."
"We should not conduct research while clinging to habit. We should always maintain confusion and curiosity."
"Just like my teacher once taught me—"
"Ask a few more 'whys.'"
"My presentation is over. Thank you, everyone."
Even after Jiang Xing stepped down from the stage, people still remained immersed in the presentation they had just witnessed.
It felt as though they themselves had followed him through a grand experiment called "Exploring a New Attribute."
Only after snapping out of that experience did the lecture hall erupt into thunderous applause like a torrential storm.
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