Ninth class citizen

Chapter 341 Return
Nan Rong only glanced at a few basic textbooks before stopping. In her opinion, these things were really meaningless.

Energy is energy. Whether it is a high-dimensional plane or a low-dimensional plane, the most fundamental free particles are no different. The only difference is the way they are combined and their density.

However, this seemingly simple principle is not mentioned at all in these elementary teaching materials. Instead, they are embellished in various ways to make the methods seem practical and meaningful.

On the contrary, she found the skill books rather interesting.

The two largest sections are for refining elixirs and magical artifacts; the sections explaining the selection of refining materials alone occupy a full 6,000 acres of space.

Due to time constraints, Nan Rong only managed to select the most basic theoretical overview books with the help of Guodong Tuanzi, and gain a general understanding of the principles of alchemy and weapon crafting.

By combining this with his experience in synthesizing potions and making components, he quickly discovered the commonalities among them.

The potions she synthesized in her original plane can be considered equivalent to some basic pills in this plane. And those extraordinary components she made back then, if they could be obtained, would most likely be considered the lowest-grade, mid-to-low-level spiritual artifacts.

In short, the outer skin is different, but the filling inside is almost the same.

Nan Rong's brain was working at lightning speed, and she quickly left those two zones, arriving at another, relatively niche zone.

This is what she has just figured out, and what she needs most right now.

Her gaze immediately fell on a thick book with a milky white sheen, and she instinctively picked it up.

"Basic Secret Texts". Each page contains various abstract secret texts, some resembling characters, some resembling beasts or birds, and some resembling mountains, rivers, lakes, and seas, each unique.

On a few of the secret texts, one can still vaguely see the shadows of the patterns that Nan Rong had studied in the original plane, only they are simpler and more abstract.

These cryptic texts seem to possess a special power; simply looking at them draws one's consciousness deep within them, and time slips away unnoticed.

By dawn the next day, Nan Rong had only read one-third of the book.

She took the books downstairs and completed the borrowing procedures. The new librarian glanced at her a few more times, then pressed a few buttons on the screen that appeared out of thin air, and completed the procedures.

"The lease term is three months. Overdue payments will incur a penalty of one hundred spirit coins per day, with no upper limit," he said.

"What is the ratio of your plane's time flow rate to the core of the universe? Don't forget to return the book when you get back."

"Time-to-rate ratio?" This was the first time Nan Rong had ever heard this term.

"You still don't know?" The administrator noticed her confusion and explained, "Each small plane has its own time flow, which is different from the main plane. Therefore, when the examiner enters a new plane, he will carry a small timekeeping device to fulfill his obligation to inform you later."

"But it's a small matter. I guess he probably forgot. You can ask him when you have time."

Thank you for your kindness in finding an excuse for the dean, but unfortunately, that's not the case.

Aside from handing me a textbook, that person did nothing else of good; he just enjoyed tormenting himself.

He is a dark and wicked demon who builds his happiness on the suffering of others.

Nan Rong strongly suspects that the reason the Great Demon King established this Cosmic Heritage Academy is essentially because he was too idle, so he wanted to cause as much trouble as possible—whether it was the students or the people and beings in various planes.

The kind librarian handed the book to Nan Rong and then gave her a small jade cup filled with a fragrant and pleasant tea.

"Consider this my personal way of thanking you," he said. "Otherwise, such an easy position wouldn't have fallen into my lap." "Master, that cup of tea is a treasure!" Jelly Dumpling popped up. "It contains Soul-Gathering Grass and Heart-Solidifying Flower, which can allow the newly formed body and soul to blend together completely."

"Then I won't stand on ceremony." Nan Rong drank the tea and indeed felt a refreshing aroma that lingered in her mouth, but nothing else.

I didn't feel any complete fusion of soul and body at all.

Perhaps it's because she had a prosthesis? In any case, from the moment the body sculpting was completed, nothing changed.

I didn't feel that my soul was unstable and wanted to break away, nor did I feel that the two were now closely connected.

It seems there's no difference between her body and her own body in the previous dimension.

The main focus is on stability and naturalness.

Nan Rong picked up the book, checked the time and saw that it was still early, so he entered the trading network and spent 1000 spirit coins to buy a small timekeeping instrument. Before long, the puppet bird delivered it to him.

The full name of the timekeeping instrument is the Cosmic Standard Time and Velocity Measuring Instrument. It looks a bit like a timer and is divided into three sections, which are marked with the time of the cosmic core, the time of the small plane, and the velocity ratio.

Once you start the game after entering the small world, you can bind your account.

In just one night, Nan Rong's account gained nearly 20 million spirit coins, indicating that a quarter of the potions Nan Rong left behind had already been sold.

After a moment's thought, she went to the academy's supplies distribution center and exchanged one million physical spirit coins, which she then stored in her solidified space.

The spiritual energy in the core space of the universe appears as colorful gems the size of pigeon eggs, with shimmering light inside.

This universal currency, which contains a certain amount of energy, is almost identical to the source energy crystals in the Nanrong plane, and its effects are also the same.

However, these source energy crystals are extremely rare in smaller planes, but they are ubiquitous in higher dimensions.

Nan Rong stored all the spirit coins into the solidified space before teleporting back to her dormitory. Following the method provided by Instructor Zhou, she calmed her mind and slowly moved the white jade teleportation gate from her mental sea into reality.

Behind the door was still the same seven-colored vortex. Nan Rong stepped inside and found herself suspended in an interstellar battlefield.

Countless dark and towering warships densely filled the entire starry sky.

The insignia on the warship told Nan Rong that she was on the battlefield where the armies of the Delin Federation and the Kungu Empire were facing off.

Between the two warships, numerous large space mechs, some hundreds of meters tall, were rapidly and ruthlessly traversing and engaging in combat.

The energy thrusters traced fluorescent trails in the void, the extended light blades burst forth with blinding light when they slashed, and the phase cannons on their shoulders bombarded continuously, each strike delivered with all their might; no one wanted to give up their chance of survival to someone else.

The performance did not last long.

It was as if an unknown button had been pressed, and the next second, the fully charged cannons opened fire in unison, quickly adding clusters of colorful fireworks to the silent, deep black background.

Sound cannot travel through the void, but Nan Rong clearly heard the roar of the warships exploding, as well as countless voices inside.

There were screams and cries of anguish, but also calm and resolute farewells.

But ultimately they all return to nothingness, and there is no difference between them.