Douluo Dragon King: I'm creating a golden age behind the scenes!

Chapter 85 Preparations are about to begin

At this time, the Spirit Transmission Academy also keenly seized this opportunity and quickly formulated a plan to fully accept these withdrawing students.

Inside the admissions office of Chuanling Academy, the staff were working busily.

Those scions of aristocratic families need not be considered by the students of the Spirit Transmission Academy, as they already possess profound family backgrounds and resources.

Furthermore, they hope to establish closer ties with various families and further expand the influence of the Spirit Pagoda by accepting these students.

Those children from ordinary families, though lacking powerful family backgrounds, were able to enter Shrek Academy, which was enough to prove that they were true geniuses.

Because all the higher-ups at the Spirit Transmission Academy knew that any student who could successfully enter Shrek Academy, even if they were an outer disciple, must be exceptionally talented and have unlimited potential, given the absurd admission standards and exams that only geniuses could apply for.

Indeed, when they obtained the students' information, they knew that geniuses of their caliber could generally become Soul Douluo or Title Douluo in the future, provided they had sufficient resources.

However, they discovered a strange phenomenon: since Shrek Academy's admission standards have always been the same, and the outer academy disciples are all such young geniuses, why did the outer academy disciples who entered Shrek Academy through the same tests before them all become just ordinary people after graduating from the outer academy?

So they launched an investigation, but after a lot of research and analysis, they came to a ridiculous conclusion—"Shrek's proud contribution value system."

The higher the level of cultivation a Soul Master reaches, the more dependent they become on acquiring resources. To become a powerful individual, one needs a variety of resources, including Soul Spirits, rare metals, battle armor, and mechs.

As for ordinary geniuses like them, without the support of background or power, they often have to rely on themselves to obtain cultivation resources. The fact that they were able to enter the outer academy of Shrek Academy through their own efforts is enough to prove their excellence.

And so, their nightmare began.

Upon entering Shrek Academy's outer court, facing its stringent assessment standards and cultivation requirements, they need to constantly acquire rare resources to support their cultivation.

But where can they find a way to acquire rare resources when they have no powerful backing?

At this point, Shrek Academy, renowned throughout the continent, was basically their only source of rare resources.

According to Shrek Academy's contribution system, if they want to get good cultivation resources quickly, they need to use their secondary profession skills to work and earn contribution points to exchange for them. However, for this group of students who have no power to cultivate them, who only focus on cultivation on weekdays, and who have never been taught by famous teachers, in order not to be eliminated by the academy, they can only choose to start learning from scratch on their own. If you want to ask at this point, why doesn't Shrek Academy send teachers to teach them and help them get through this awkward period?

Sorry, but to receive instruction from a teacher, you need to pay a contribution point to provide this service.

There was no other way but to take the unorthodox path and become self-taught.

However, because they generally lack background support, they are generally unable to obtain enough resources to support their cultivation during the golden period of cultivation before the age of 20.

However, if they fall behind at one step, they will fall behind at every step. As a result, they can only devote some of their energy to their secondary professions, and their cultivation speed will gradually lag behind their classmates. In the end, under Shrek Academy's step-by-step manipulation and pressure, they will either be eliminated or expelled from school early.

Even if one manages to graduate successfully from Shrek Academy's outer academy, the golden period of cultivation before the age of 20 for a Soul Master is largely wasted in the "involution" of the secondary profession at Shrek Academy, where one is busy acquiring contribution points, leaving one to become just another ordinary person.

Occasionally, an outer court disciple might withstand this "training" and become an inner court disciple, thus becoming a true member of Shrek Academy and no longer needing to worry about the supply of resources.

Because the resources will be transferred to them through the contributions of those outer court disciples to the academy.

Therefore, the higher-ups at the Spirit Transmission Academy came to the conclusion that Shrek Academy's training method was not primarily about making geniuses even stronger, but rather about "breeding poisonous insects." They used the competition among hundreds or thousands of outer court students to exchange for the rise of an inner court disciple, then incorporated him into the Shrek camp, euphemistically calling it "meticulous cultivation."

However, one thing is undeniable: these commoners, even if they are only outer disciples, are still unpolished gems. As long as they are given enough training and resources, accepting these dropouts will be of great benefit to the Spirit Pagoda, regardless of whether they choose to join it in the future.

In Qian Gu Dongfeng's own words, "Even if not all of these disciples are geniuses, recruiting them all would only cost our Spirit Pagoda a little more money. But, why not take the opportunity to annoy Shrek Academy?"

Finally, the Spirit Transmission Academy made a decision: regardless of whether these students were scions of aristocratic families who had already negotiated terms with various clans and forces and were preparing to seek other paths, or commoners who had never been contacted before and had no background, the Spirit Transmission Academy opened its doors to them all, accepting them all with preferential treatment and allowing them to enroll directly.

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August 1st finally arrived. After months of intense activity throughout the entire Spirit Transmission Academy, the day of the start of the new semester finally came.

Zhou Mingyu had already arrived at the Spirit Transmission Academy, located on the outskirts of Shrek City, half a month ago.

Yes, although it is in the suburbs, the Spirit Transmission Academy is located directly on the outskirts of Shrek City, right under the nose of Shrek Academy.

To be honest, I don't know if it was intentional or accidental by the higher-ups of the Spirit Pagoda, but it is said that when the higher-ups voted to choose the location of the academy, this location received overwhelming support.

After selecting the site, the Spirit Pagoda, being wealthy and powerful, directly purchased the site and a large surrounding area.

At this moment, he was standing in the newly built academy square of the Spirit Transmission Academy, attending the upcoming opening ceremony of the Spirit Transmission Academy.

At this moment, the square was teeming with people, and the sound of their voices was like a sea. Looking at the bustling crowd in the square, in addition to the families and commoner students, there were many genius disciples trained by the Spirit Pagoda itself. They came from branches of the Spirit Pagoda all over the continent and had been instilled with the most orthodox Spirit Pagoda philosophy since childhood. At this moment, they were gathered in this academy at the headquarters.

The current Spirit Transmission Academy can be described as a small-scale internal power struggle within the Spirit Transmission Tower, encompassing the younger generation of almost all factions within the entire tower. Young geniuses from different regions and factions sized each other up, and the air was filled with excitement, but also with an invisible competition and probing.

Amidst this complex and chaotic scene, Zhou Mingyu's corner also possessed its own unique aura.

Although he did not deliberately seek the limelight, he naturally became the core of this area.

Surrounding him at this moment was a group of outstanding young talents, who, like him, came from the Spirit Pagoda branches of various coastal cities in the Skysea Alliance.

Their uniforms are embroidered with unique wave patterns, giving them a sharp and expansive air, like the sea breeze.

These young people, though not the most outstanding in the square in terms of either soul power cultivation or demeanor, were not the most prominent figures in the area.

However, they are probably the most united and harmonious faction at present. They are all young and ambitious people who are at an age where no one is willing to submit to anyone else.

Therefore, even within their own factions, others harbor hidden conflicts.

But the disciples of the Spirit Tower of the Tianhai Alliance were different. They talked to each other, their eyes meeting in tacit understanding, but their gazes would eventually be drawn to the figure in the center—Zhou Mingyu.

This implicit "he-first" mentality does not solely stem from the dominant position of the Tianhai Spirit Pagoda within the alliance, which certainly provides Zhou Mingyu with a natural foundation of prestige.

But more importantly, Zhou Mingyu himself demonstrated an undeniable strength and leadership quality.

His very existence was like a pillar of strength, inspiring these proud and arrogant geniuses of Tianhai to sincerely believe in him and willingly follow him.

Zhou Mingyu's gaze calmly swept across the surging crowd in the square, passing over those familiar and unfamiliar faces. Finally, his gaze seemed to penetrate the crowd and space, striking briefly and sharply towards the faint outline of Shrek Academy in the distance.

That place, once a sacred land that all Soul Masters yearned for, has now become the biggest "neighbor" and nemesis of this new academy.

Just then, a deep and grand soul-guided loudspeaker suddenly rang out in the sky above the square, like the roar of a giant beast awakening, instantly suppressing all other noise.

Countless eyes turned to the majestic rostrum in front of the square.

The opening ceremony is about to begin.