Chapter 176: Zhou Yi — the Leader of the Second Golden Age? (Subscribe, please!)

Wang Hui, the sole principal of Suhang University, a national legislator of Zhongxia Nation, and the founder of "Tianyu," one of Zhongxia Nation's largest guilds......

His personal strength is extremely formidable, and he often leads legions to battle in other worlds.

Over the past decade or so, he has kept a much lower profile, stepping back from the front lines to become the principal of Suhang University.

Although he has retreated to the second line, Wang Hui still wields enormous influence.

Many families and powers have come by reputation, sending their descendants to apply to Suhang University.

Of course, there are also no small number of students who chose to enter Suhang University out of admiration for Wang Hui.

Thus, upon spotting the tall figure that had suddenly appeared on the ceremonial platform, quite a few students in the audience immediately began chatting excitedly.

"It's Principal Wang Hui!"

"It's been a year, the principal is finally back!"

"That's great, now we can pick his courses again."

"......"

Although he is the principal, Wang Hui occasionally also offers public lectures.

"Heavy Cavalry Combat Techniques," "Stagger Judgment and Its Exploitation"......

Principal Wang's lectures are all solid substance, and every public lecture is packed to the rafters.

There are even people who would rather squeeze outside the classroom than miss the lecture.

In the past year, the principal left the school, and the public lectures have not been offered for over a year.

The students naturally miss him terribly.

Of course, besides the joy over the principal's return, many people's gazes were also fixed on the holographic projection floating in midair.

"Hiss! That's fast — it's barely been more than ten minutes since entering the instance, and Zhou Yi has already cleared it?! That's absurd!"

"Even on Nightmare difficulty, I'd probably need half an hour to clear it. As for Abyss difficulty, I probably can't even dream of it — being able to clear it would already be good enough; I wouldn't even consider how long it would take......"

"Among the thirty-plus screens, Zhou Yi's clear speed is absolutely first place. Looks like the top freshman of this batch should be him."

"......"

At Suhang University, the top freshman of every batch is always the focus of everyone's attention.

Some people had even already taken out their phones, beginning to contact the family powers behind them.

After all......

For a figure like this, pulling him in early and conveying goodwill is the best choice.

Of course, the Freshman Grand Competition still has a second phase.

However, they did not believe anyone could possibly be stronger than Zhou Yi......

"Zhou Yi...... the strongest freshman of the second Golden Age?"

"Indeed, whether it's Zhou Yi or the others, they're all far stronger than our batch was when we enrolled."

In the audience, Lin Haoran gazed at Zhou Yi on the screen, a strange gleam flickering in his eyes.

After a brief pause, he said to Li Dongsheng beside him.

"Dongsheng, after the Freshman Grand Competition ends, you guys should be sending Zhou Yi a club invitation, right?"

"If he agrees, remember to let me know."

"I have something to attend to, so I'll head off first."

Patting Li Dongsheng's shoulder, Lin Haoran drifted away.

"Oh, that's rare — Senior Lin is actually interested in someone."

"Zhou Yi's performance is too dazzling. Compared to him, the other specially-recruited students are utterly unremarkable.

Senior Lin is a battle maniac, of course he'd be interested in him......"

Along with Lin Haoran's departure, the surrounding members of the Ouerye Society began discussing among themselves.

You have to know, Lin Haoran is famously cold and aloof within the club, rarely paying this kind of attention to anyone.

"Alright, Minister Lin has spoken."

"Everyone get ready, sort out all the resources we can currently offer."

"We must pull in the top ten freshmen, Zhou Yi included — bring them all into our club!"

At this moment, Li Dongsheng was also brimming with drive.

A level 29 Gunslinger is already considered a fairly high level for an ordinary student.

But within the Ouerye Society, wanting to become a minister still isn't quite enough.

The reason he was able to become minister is still because of his outstanding administrative management ability.

And what comes next will be the moment to prove his worth.

"Brother Lin has spoken, of course we have to give it our all!"

The other members of the Ouerye Society also hurriedly sprang into action.

Generally speaking, when the Ouerye Society recruits members, the member submits an application, and after passing evaluation, pays the membership fee before being admitted.

But for a genius like Zhou Yi, it's different.

They must make the first move, and also offer certain resource benefits.

Otherwise, he could very well be snatched away by another club.

After all, the boost a single powerhouse can bring to a club is simply too great......

On the ceremonial platform, many of the teachers also knew that Principal Wang Hui was returning to the school today.

But what they hadn't expected was that he would actually come to watch the Freshman Grand Competition.

You have to know, in previous Freshman Grand Competitions, even when the principal was on campus, he would only arrange the deans of the various colleges to preside.

He only needed to obtain the final ranking information in the end......

"But this batch of new students is different from previous batches—far too strong. It's only natural that Principal Wang is paying personal attention."

"Still, what's this divine-bestowed skill the principal mentioned? I've never even heard of it..."

At that moment, some of the younger teachers—including Su Mei—seemed to have no real concept of the divine-bestowed skill Principal Wang Hui had mentioned.

Only a few of the older teaching mentors wore looks of surprise.

Among them was the Dean of the War Academy, Wu Mang.

One had to understand that divine-bestowed skills were a concept almost exclusively known to third-turn professionals.

The school's young second-turn professionals weren't clear on it, but he was perfectly clear.

One had to communicate with the gods to possibly receive a boon and have a skill bestowed.

But Zhou Yi was only a newly enrolled freshman.

How could he possibly have gotten the chance to communicate with the gods?

He instinctively glanced at Principal Wang Hui.

Seeing that he had no intention of continuing the explanation, Wu Mang didn't press further.

After all...

Possessing a divine-bestowed skill was, for Zhou Yi, a good thing as well.

"Clear time: 12 minutes, 16 seconds. Not bad—that should be a new record."

At that moment, Zhou Yi has already slain all the monsters, and the clear time appeared in the upper-right corner of the screen.

Wang Hui's single word of praise drew everyone's gaze back to the screen belonging to Zhou Yi.

"He actually broke the record!"

"Doesn't that mean... Zhou Yi is even stronger than the strongest of that generation from eighty years ago??!!"

Upon reaching this conclusion, the surrounding mentors were instantly shocked.

After all...

The last time the Abyss-grade dungeon difficulty had been opened was during the Golden Age, eighty years ago.

The Abyss-grade dungeon clear record was also set back then.

In other words, the future achievements of Zhou Yi, who had broken the record, were very likely to surpass even those of the powerhouses born in the Golden Age!!

Of course, they also knew this was only a possibility.

Still, the mere appearance of such a possibility was already astonishing enough.

After all, the powerhouses born in the Golden Age were truly existences who had set foot on the pinnacle of the Blue Star.

Not something ordinary powerhouses could compare to...

"Dean Wu, I recall there's an additional stage after clearing the dungeon, right?"

Wang Hui spoke up to ask.

Standing beside Wu Mang, who possessed giant bloodline and stood over three meters tall.

His own height of one meter eighty looked rather short.