Chapter 250

"If I say I'll bring back a dungeon copy, I'll bring back a dungeon copy."

"But after bringing it back, you don't care about anything else."

"Xiao Na hasn't even slept these past two days; she's been managing the Life-Breath Pool for you."

Shang Shang Zijin complained incessantly, as if pouring out her grievances.

She wasn't exaggerating in the slightest!

In all these years, she had never seen Xiao Na take such an interest in anything!

Li Yao knew he was in the wrong: "What about my mom? Why is Xiao Na handling everything?"

"Aunt Guo and the others haven't been idle, but the Silver Wolf Guild was only ever a C-rank guild before."

"Now that it's suddenly improved so rapidly, leaping to become one of the top powers in Sangyu City,"

"they don't have much management experience for the time being."

"With Xiao Na's help, they're finally on the right track."

"The various regulations for dungeon management, the distribution of spoils, and the hiring of bosses have almost formed a healthy closed loop."

"It won't take as much effort later, so Xiao Na will be able to arrive in Some Jingyu tomorrow."

"That's good," Li Yao nodded.

He had long heard of the two Shang sisters.

One focused on martial arts, the other on business; both were top-tier geniuses.

The one focused on martial arts...

Li Yao glanced at Shang Shang Zijin.

Hmm, she's alright.

The one focused on business was truly worthy of her reputation.

With Xiao Na's help, his mom and the others should have a much easier time.

"That's good?" Shang Shang Zijin was furious, "My throat is parched from talking, and you're not going to show any appreciation?"

"When I reach level 32, I will take Xiao Na to level up."

For subsequent leveling, Xiao Hei had recommended a place to Li Yao.

It was a large-scale dungeon that a team leader must reach level 32 to enter.

The entry requirement was at least 40 people.

Only by entering as the team leader could Li Yao maximize the experience points.

By then,

Li Yao planned to carry thirty-nine people!

"Level 32?" Shang Shang Zijin was skeptical.

That was so far off in the future.

She suspected this kid was just feeding her empty promises!

"What level are you now?"

"31. In about two days, I'll reach 32," Li Yao said calmly.

"31?!"

Shang Shang Zijin's eyes widened: "How are you so fast?"

She hadn't been idle these days, soaking in dungeons every day.

And she was only level 27 now?!

Even if Li Yao was the same as her,

it shouldn't be such a huge gap, right?

"Do you know the Ant Plague Burrow? That's the dungeon I've been grinding," Li Yao didn't hide it.

"Fine," Shang Shang Zijin said, deflated.

She and her sister were coming to study in Some Jingyu,

so naturally, she had researched the various dungeons in Some Jingyu.

She had heard of the Ant Plague Burrow as a leveling holy land.

But this leveling holy land

was meant for level 40 professionals!

This guy Li Yao was most likely soloing it on Purgatory difficulty!

It would be a miracle if he didn't level up fast!

Thinking of this,

Shang Shang Zijin changed her expression, leaned over to Li Yao, and said coquettishly,

"When you take my sister, would you mind taking me along too?"

Biting her lower lip, she said in a highly seductive voice:

"How about it?"

"The two of us sisters have never been carried by anyone else, you know?"

"Not interested."

Li Yao refused without the slightest hesitation.

He was willing to carry Shang Shang Yana

because he could see that her heart wasn't in the martial path.

Her leveling up was merely for self-preservation.

But Shang Shang Zijin was different from Qin Qin Yue.

They were passionate about leveling and killing monsters.

In the future, they might even end up on the battlefield!

Li Yao didn't consider carrying them to level up as helping them.

If he was short on people occasionally, it wouldn't hurt to bring them along.

But carrying them through the whole process

meant nothing to Li Yao, just a bit less experience.

But for them,

it was no different from slow murder!

"Hmph!"

Shang Shang Zijin snorted coldly, feigning dissatisfaction.

However,

she was just saying it.

If she really wanted to ask Li Yao to carry them through a dungeon,

she would have brought it up when the Shang family was cooperating with Silver Wolf earlier.

Just then,

as a bell tolled,

the opening ceremony officially began.

At the very front of the rostrum, a person appeared in the blink of an eye.

Li Yao and Xue Xue Jiulan

were the faces of the Some Jingyu Martial Academy's recruitment.

The vast majority of freshmen had come for them.

With Li Yao shirking his duties,

Xue Xue Jiulan naturally had to step up!

At this moment, Xue Xue Jiulan was like a different person compared to her usual self.

Dressed in a general's silver armor, with a five-star military emblem on her shoulder and a blood-red cape fluttering gently in the breeze,

she was the very image of a female Valkyrie.

Her resolute face perfectly displayed the heroic spirit of a woman!

Li Yao's attention was on Senior Xue's arm.

The effect of the Life-Breath Liquid was very good.

Every time he visited Senior Xue, her complexion was much better.

Now, she looked almost as if nothing had happened!

Qin Qin Yue suddenly looked at Li Yao with a gloating expression.

"Young Master Li, aren't you going up yet?"

"Didn't the promotional poster say the national top scholar would be giving a speech?"

"There's a promotional poster?" Li Yao was stunned.

He immediately remembered:

even though he had agreed with Senior Xue that he wouldn't need to give a speech,

he still had to go sit on the rostrum.

They said that

for such a large Some Jingyu Martial Academy,

they couldn't engage in false advertising.

Li Yao left,

walked from the backstage to the rostrum,

and sat in the chair already prepared for him.

Many academy leaders were also sitting on the rostrum.

Seeing Li Yao,

they all nodded at him in a friendly manner,

having no objections to Li Yao sitting in that position.

Li Yao nodded back to each of them.

Although he couldn't name them, in his perception,

these people were terrifyingly strong,

far beyond the five-turn professional he had encountered that day!

And the students below,

upon seeing Li Yao, could no longer sit still.

On the rostrum,

except for the famous General Xue, the others looked middle-aged or older.

At a glance, it was a gathering of academy bigwigs!

How could someone their own age be sitting up there now?

"Who is that kid? Which team-leader-level student is he?"

"I've seen photos of the team-leader-level bigwigs on the forum; it shouldn't be them."

"Hey, hey, could it be the one from the advertisements?"

"Li Yao? The Dragon Country top scholar?"

"Holy crap, this kid is so handsome, why does he always use a mosaic on his livestreams?"

"We're all freshmen; I'm standing down here like an idiot, and he's up there crossing his legs, watching me stand like an idiot."

Regarding Li Yao,

the vast majority of freshmen were convinced.

But to be able to come to Some Jingyu,

most were geniuses in their own worlds.

Before truly crossing swords,

there were still a few unconvinced gazes fixed tightly on Li Yao on the stage.

If Li Yao can sit in that position,

why can't I?

Xue Xue Jiulan stood in front of the stage and waved her hand gently.

The incredibly noisy scene immediately quieted down.

Although she spoke softly, her voice could be clearly heard across the entire playground.

"I won't introduce myself too much."

"You all might have been city top scholars or even provincial top scholars during the martial exam to get here, so there's no need for words of encouragement."

"Holding an opening ceremony is nothing more than wanting to tell you:"

"All of that is in the past. Now, from this moment on, your university ship will officially set sail!"

Pausing, Xue Xue Jiulan said seriously:

"Getting to the point, you should all know that the Some Jingyu Martial Academy's teaching system is a two-way choice between teachers and students."

"And how a teacher chooses you cannot be fully determined by martial exam scores alone."

Having said this, Xue Xue Jiulan turned around and pointed to a towering mountain standing in Some Jingyu behind her.

"That is a trial secret realm that Some Jingyu snatched from the Titan race."

As soon as these words were spoken,

there was another heated discussion at the scene.

What is the Titan race?

Most students had never heard of the Outer Realm Abyss, let alone any Titan race.

Li Yao sat in his chair, watching Senior Xue's back,

roughly guessing the thoughts of the Some Jingyu higher-ups.

He had been soaking in the dungeon hall these days

and had seen many Some Jingyu students,

but none could be called strong.

The strongest batch was nothing more than the likes of Zhang Zhang Liyu and Shang Shang Ziyu.

It was only after asking Xiao Hei later that he learned

that the truly powerful students spent most of their time in the Outer Realm Abyss, participating in the war against the Titan race.

This was not only the case for Some Jingyu, but for all major academies.

Aren't the academies training students precisely for war?

After reaching the deputy team leader level, one could search for missions in the Outer Realm Abyss.

The rewards were far beyond what ordinary dungeons could compare to.

Dungeons allowed you to choose the difficulty,

but that place was a bloody battlefield.

Once you went there, everything was an unknown.

Still the same saying:

Contribution and reward are directly proportional!

So Li Yao guessed

that Senior Xue saying this out loud

was to give the students a preventive shot.

Coming to Some Jingyu is not the end for a professional,

but the beginning of stepping toward war.

There were senior students mixed in with the freshmen.

Once someone asked about the Titan race,

they would stand out,

pretending not to know much, but informing these freshmen of the key points of the Outer Realm Abyss.

Abyss?

Battlefield?

The three major races that the human race must face if they want to explore the abyss?