Volume 5: The Ancient Glorious Empire Chapter 25: Once you come, you don’t want to leave
Xu Feng was very disappointed.
The source of the mysterious sound was not the Kandra ruins, but a force called Xinhuo Academy.
And this force is actually preparing to recruit students from outside?
This is as outrageous as a sow being able to climb a tree.
Not to mention a strong man like Xu Feng who rose from obscurity, even the naive young masters and young ladies from powerful families did not believe a single word of the Xinhuo Academy's slogan.
But, now I'm here.
He pushed aside the noble daughter, rekindled his confidence, and spent a large sum of ghost crystals to buy a ticket for the Yunkun flying boat. He couldn't just go back like this, right?
Wouldn't it be a waste of time?
Many strong men returned disappointed, while some were hesitant to step into the academy.
Among the remaining few, some, like Xu Feng, were reluctant to go back directly; there were also representatives of major forces who were ready to go in and take a look.
There are fewer people.
But Xinhuo College appeared suddenly and had no reputation before, so this is understandable.
"That's right, when will this promotion task be completed?"
Gou Ping'an glanced at the panel and sighed silently.
Because of the mission, he was willing to show off in order to attract more people to visit. More visitors would spread the name of Xinhuo College faster and attract more high-quality students.
Gou Ping'an was still a little uncomfortable with this kind of task that required him to be the focus of countless people and stand under the spotlight.
"Fortunately, I changed my appearance in advance. Once the mission is completed and the makeup is removed, it won't attract anyone's attention."
"As smart as I am~"
He coughed, glanced at the people in front of him, and maintained an unfathomable smile, "Everyone, follow me inside and take a look."
After saying this, he turned around and his figure disappeared in the light.
In front of the magnificent palace,
The famous six-sense masters looked at each other, walked up the stairs and walked towards the huge gate.
Wow——
A warm, bright light hits you in the face.
Xu Feng couldn't help but squint his eyes, and countless thoughts flashed through his mind, including disappointment theory, conspiracy theory, and confusion theory. But when he opened his eyes, some of the complicated thoughts disappeared, and only one thought remained in his mind -
"Fuck!"
In front of them was a wide and huge white jade square. At the end of the square, white stone pillars hundreds of meters high supported the majestic and huge mountain gate. They, the humans who stepped into the square, seemed as small as ants.
Behind the huge gate, a white jade staircase goes all the way up to the towering mountain shrouded in clouds.
It can be vaguely seen that there are palaces and pavilions standing everywhere on the mountain peaks, and there are strong men controlling streams of light passing by, like the realm of immortals.
In addition to the main peak, there are some smaller towering peaks, half hidden and half visible in the clouds. There are waterfalls, ladders hanging high, and birds and beasts dancing...
And below the huge square where they were, there were also rolling white clouds.
They seemed to have arrived at a fairy mountain above the sky, hidden among the clouds.
Shocking, really shocking!
Xu Feng considered himself to be quite knowledgeable, having traveled to many places in the Yunhui Region, but he had indeed... never seen such a shocking sight.
Even the ruins of Candela that he had seen were much worse than here.
And it is obvious that this is a secret world, a secret world of extremely high standards.
"Xinhuo Academy... Why have I never heard of this force before?"
Countless people are asking this question in their hearts.
The representatives from the powerful forces looked even more serious, and their eyes kept scanning the surroundings. They needed to know enough about a powerful force that suddenly appeared near the Yunhui Region.
Are they competitors, or...is there a possibility of cooperation?
Putting aside all the questions in their minds, the visitors stepped onto the white jade steps and walked towards the main peak of the academy.
Gou Pingan introduced it earlier:
"There are six main areas in the main peak of our Xinhuo Academy: the 'Mission Hall', the 'Training Area', the 'Residential Area', the 'Inheritance Area', the 'Exchange Office' and the 'Book Collection Pavilion'."
"This main peak is the main activity area for most students."
The main peak is very large.
If he didn't control the light to fly quickly, it would take him half a day to walk from the mountain gate to the mission hall. However, after all, everyone present was not a mortal, and at least had an inhuman physique. Thinking of this, Gou Ping'an slightly increased his speed.
His mission was to promote the academy, therefore, he did not lead everyone to the "Mission Hall", "Exchange Office" and "Training Area" where the students went most often, but instead walked towards the inheritance area which was very deserted and seemed like even dogs did not go there.
The inheritance area is located on the east side of the main peak, covering a large area with many altars scattered throughout.
These altars are "places of inheritance" that have been slightly modified and broken down into smaller pieces.
"This one is the inheritance that has the ability 'Lightning Strike'."
"This one, on the other hand, has the ability 'Blade Slash'. This is a move that can be attached to a weapon, greatly increasing the damage and armor-piercing effects. It is also easy to pair with other abilities... Among ordinary students, it is known as the Three Great Masters."
"If you have the opportunity to enter the academy, it won't be a waste to learn a blade slash."
Visitors didn’t understand what the “Three Great Houses” were, but they understood one fact .
It seems that... any student of Xinhuo Academy is eligible to use this inheritance place? So generous?
"Of course, not only this inheritance place, but also the surrounding ones, most students are qualified to use them."
Gou Ping'an walked forward and pointed to a place.
"This is the advanced inheritance 'Resist Fire Ring'."
"This is also a high-level inheritance, called 'Giant', and further away..."
He pointed to the peak shrouded in clouds and across the mountain stream and said, "There is an epic level of ability inheritance there, but usually only core students or instructors can use it."
That makes sense.
This is an epic inheritance! Only the Central Holy Court has an epic inheritance.
Wait, doesn't that mean that students have the opportunity to use inheritance sites below the epic level? This is too unreasonable!
"Could it be that these places of inheritance were all made up by this myth?"
Xu Feng muttered.
After all, in his impression, the place of inheritance is not so "small". It is either a huge valley or built on the top of a mountain to attract the power of thunder... and there is nothing here.
Gou Ping'an had anticipated such doubts.
He said: "Now, let's draw lots to select a few lucky winners."
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Xu Feng walked in the bright sunshine, looking a little dazed.
He was the lucky one drawn by lot, and he stepped onto the inheritance altar that recorded the ability of "Blade Slash". Half a day later, he learned this special ability called "Blade Slash".
"This ability is amazing!"
"As long as I can become more proficient in Blade Slash and develop more ways to use it... my combat power will be greatly improved!"
It has been several years since he made any progress in combat power.
And now...
In his trance, the dormant fire in his chest began to rise again, and there was light in his eyes.
There are many people surrounding Xu Feng.
To be precise, they were looking at Xu Feng's palm, the palm that was glowing red.
Xu Feng is a well-known warrior with the title of Sixth Sense in Jiliu Port. He has a great record of success. Everyone who knows Xu Feng knows that he is not good at this.
Unlike thunder, fire, water and the like, the ability to have crimson light attached to a weapon is quite rare.
Xinhuo Academy, a place of inheritance, seems to be real!
And they can use and learn it by paying a small price, provided that they are a Xinhuo student.
"Xinhuo Academy is too generous and selfless!"
This is a statement of high emotional intelligence.
Low emotional intelligence: Xinhuo Academy is probably not a fool.
With such obvious temptation before them, many visitors immediately expressed their willingness to enter the academy for further studies and become a member of the Xinhuo Academy.
However, enrollment is a two-way thing.
Xinhuo College would rather have no students than have unqualified ones, so naturally it does not accept everyone. However, since this is the first year of open enrollment, the college needs to make its name known, so it has adopted a compromise strategy.
These people were given the status of "preparatory students".
The candidate students can pay to use some of the inheritance sites and training grounds, and can sit in on the professor's open classes for free. If the candidate students perform well, they can become full-time students after three months, but if they do not perform well, then... they will go back to where they came from.
The assessment for the regularization of preparatory students involves all aspects and is quite strict.
But in the eyes of many visitors, they are eager to be "sent back" from the college.
In this way, they can inherit each inheritance for free without having to be tied to the mysterious force of "Xinhuo Academy".
Sure enough, Xinhuo Academy is probably not a fool.
"Time is running out. In order to learn more skills, we must hurry up and complete the tasks issued by the academy."
"Let's go to the target mission hall."
Dozens or even hundreds of preparatory students ran towards the mountainside with smiles of great success.
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You may make a lot of money, but I will never lose anything.
The establishment of Xinhuo Academy is to rapidly expand the organization, cultivate more myths as quickly as possible, and connect powerful forces together. The ultimate goal is to enhance the overall combat effectiveness of human forces to deal with the impending disaster of evil gods.
but,
Fang You has not forgotten that his roots are in Blue Star, and he is a Fire Warrior who has sworn to uphold the glory of mankind and keep the flame of inheritance burning forever. Of course, he cannot draw resources from the Fire Headquarters to supply this training academy.
Apart from the large amount of money spent on the early construction of the college, in his plan, Xinhuo College would be completely self-sufficient.
The Xinhuo Academy he referred to are preparatory students, formal students, etc., who are "non-staff" affiliated with the academy but have not obtained the official Xinhuo status.
These people, firstly, are not the core of the organization, so too many secrets cannot be revealed to them; secondly, they have no contractual connection and cannot perform tasks that can earn destiny points.
but……
The college has prepared enough jobs for them.
Inside the academy, there are plantations, spirit animal gardens, forging workshops, pharmaceutical workshops and other work areas. Preparatory students can choose suitable jobs according to their own abilities and work hard to earn credits.
They were all strong men among the mortals, and could easily outdo countless low-level awakeners. Some of them were professionals who were good at forging strange weapons or making potions, and could greatly fill the gaps in the middle and high-level personnel in these two areas.
In the academy, tasks related to making strange weapons, props, and potion refining indeed account for the largest proportion.
Even if students do not understand these majors and do not want to do hard work, there is still a way for them to earn credits - uploading confidential information.
Whether it is technical data, resource coordinates, historical secrets, or anything else, it can be submitted in the mission hall.
Depending on the value of the submitted materials, prospective students can earn a certain amount of credits.
These are tasks that can earn credits without leaving the house. There are also many field tasks, including maintaining security at the entrance of the academy, exploring resource points, mining and transporting resource mines, etc.
The latter is closely related to the fact that Xinhuo College can be transferred at any time.
The reason why Fang You decided to locate the academy in the "Luofeng Domain" was not only because he did not want to arouse suspicion from the local forces in the Yunhui Domain and cause unnecessary trouble, but also because of the resources of the Luofeng Domain.
Compared with the Yunhui Domain, where most of the land has been reclaimed, the Luofeng Domain has more unowned resources.
Xinhuo officially used the "Treasure Radar" to explore and determine the coordinate range.
After that, the reserve personnel will be able to serve as slaves and be put to good use. In short, everyone has a bright future.
Even the preparatory students who were later deported could serve as publicity cases for the academy and return to the Yunhui domain to shine.
"It won't be a loss. According to Xiao Huan's estimation, if the number of students to be recruited is large enough, we can make a lot of money... Of course, this is unlikely."
He is not here to make money.
He came here for the talent.
"The college's funds are monitored by Xiao Huan, so there is no need to pay too much attention to them. What we should really pay attention to is the regularization of the trainees."
It is better to have nothing than to have something of poor quality!
He has set up a number of "detective eyes" inside the academy, and has a professional inspection team taking turns to observe the students' progress, diligence, learning ability, and most importantly, personal conduct.
In addition to these teaching assistants and tutors, there is also an assessment consultant who provides 24-hour observation.
She is...
Miss Ruo who is working for free in Xinhuo College!
"Don't get me wrong, I just want to observe the human condition of this era and screen out outstanding talents, just like what I did before."
Miss Trial Officer said so.
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The emergence of Xinhuo Academy , apart from the initial waves caused by the "mysterious sound", quickly fell silent and became just a topic of conversation in teahouses and taverns.
Upon learning that this was a force and not an ownerless relic, the top forces in the Yunhui Domain quickly lost interest and only maintained a certain degree of attention.
The Yunkun flying boat from Jiliu Port is no longer sent to Luofeng Territory.
It is said that the Yunkun flight that was about to leave for Luofeng Territory on the fourth day suffered a large number of ticket refunds less than an hour before takeoff, and finally the Yunkun Chamber of Commerce chose to suspend the flight.
Far away in the Yunhui region, people kept gossiping about the news they had heard from others.
Outside Xinhuo Academy, there were spies from many forces roaming around, as well as idle strong men who were hesitant and neither dared to enter the academy nor were willing to leave.
They speculated about what was going on inside the academy, wondering whether "Xinhuo" was truly selfless or had some conspiracy.
Inside the college, however, there was peace.
There is an undercurrent hidden in the peace, which is a fierce confrontation called involution.
The morning light is dim,
In the outermost dormitory area, the trainees sat up straight on their hard beds. They looked at their palms and kept murmuring.
"I'm stronger again."
“In just a few days.”
"This academy is not only about the inheritance land, it is also the most magical place... No, the inheritance land is only a tiny part of it."
A training ground that delivers significant training results;
The student dormitory can help tired muscles recover in a short time;
A training building with magical powers;
Each mythology instructor teaches the class in person;
And these are only the benefits that preparatory students can enjoy. If they can become regular students or even be promoted to core students, they will not only be able to use more training buildings, but also get a discount on these "building tickets" which are not expensive to begin with.
You can also enjoy the superb treatment that only core staff can get!
Many people's mentality has gradually changed. It seems, perhaps, as if, probably... there is nothing wrong with staying in Xinhuo College.
The college has given so much!
The balance in the hearts of lone strong men has completely tilted, and only the strong men who come from big forces are still wavering.
Half a month has passed.
On this day, the first repatriated student appeared.
