Chapter 423: A Grand Welcome Party! Huge Credit Point Rewards! Shocking! (Subscribe!)

In the very center of the grand Suhang University, there stands a building that occupies an enormous area.

This building is roughly over thirty meters tall, yet its footprint covers tens of thousands of square meters!

This place is the Teaching Building, where all the teachers of Suhang University have their offices.

At this moment, on the first floor of the Teaching Building, inside a hall of over a thousand square meters.

On the floor of this hall, an extremely intricate six-pointed star magic array is drawn.

The afternoon sun's afterglow shone in through the windows, making the already faintly glowing magic array look all the more radiant.

Just then, the entire magic array circuit lit up rapidly.

Then with a hum, accompanied by dazzling silver-white spatial energy, thirteen figures appeared all at once.

"We're back!"

"It's the hall from before we set off!"

"Mm, our Suhang University is still the best!"

"......"

Liu Yang and the others looked around joyfully, and Zhou Yi's face also bore a smile.

Suhang University—at last, they had returned!

"Welcome back, little heroes of Suhang University."

Principal Wang Hui walked over from one side, smiling.

Beside him were also Zhou Huayang of the Elemental Academy and Song Qi of the Weapon Academy.

"Haha, winning first place for our Suhang University—you've all worked hard!" Zhou Huayang laughed heartily, his gaze toward Zhou Yi brimming with satisfaction.

In this National University Exchange Tournament, Suhang University had truly stolen the limelight.

Now, almost half of the headlines on every major news outlet were about Suhang University taking the championship.

And among them, Zhou Yi's contribution could well be called the greatest!

"Not bad. This time, you all performed even better than the seniors from the previous class."

Song Qi of the Weapon Academy followed up with praise as well.

This dean from the Weapon Academy, though not as stern as Wu Mang, would not easily show any emotional fluctuation either.

Yet at this moment, Song Qi's face was full of smiles.

"Principal, Dean Zhou, Dean Song."

A group of people called out respectfully.

Wu Mang even took the championship trophy out of his spatial ring, along with the group photo of everyone on the awards podium, and laughed loudly:

"Five consecutive championships! These little ones gave it everything they had to win this."

Indeed.

They had thought that with Zhou Yi present, taking the championship of this exchange tournament would be a cinch.

But the appearance of Wang Xuan and Wei He, and the final nine-school alliance, made the process quite a bit more eventful.

Of course...

The final result was still a good one.

"You've all worked hard. The school won't treat you unfairly."

"Let's go, I'll escort you out first."

Wang Hui smilingly took the trophy and group photo, then led everyone out of the hall.

Each floor of the Teaching Building was very spacious, yet the teleportation hall was not far from the Teaching Building's exit.

Under the principal's and the various deans' lead, the group quickly walked to the Teaching Building's exit.

"Oh right, to welcome you back, your classmates, as well as your seniors and senior sisters, have prepared a little surprise for you."

Just as they were about to walk out of the Teaching Building's grand doorway, Principal Wang Hui suddenly turned his head and said mysteriously.

"A surprise?"

Zhou Yi, who was at the front, was slightly taken aback, but his steps didn't stop as he instinctively followed the others out of the Teaching Building.

Then, he saw what Principal Wang Hui had called a surprise.

In front of the Teaching Building, there was a huge fountain plaza; aside from teachers, students rarely came here normally.

But now, this plaza was covered with dense rows upon rows of human figures.

Some of these figures held light signs reading the four big characters 'Suhang University', while others held glowing light sticks imprinted with each competitor's name, like 'Zhou Yi' or 'Jiang Churan'.

The bright light they emitted was dazzling in the slanting afternoon sun.

And not only that, there were also people in the sky riding flying magical beasts, dragging banners with the slogan 'Welcome Home' as they flew back and forth.

Mechanics, mages......

Every type of professional was expressing their welcome in their own way.

And the instant they saw Zhou Yi walk out of the Teaching Building, the entire plaza erupted!

"Zhou Yi! Yi God!"

"Zhou Yi, welcome back!"

"Yi God, I love you!!"

"......"

Cheering like an overwhelming tide surged toward Zhou Yi, stinging his eardrums with pain.

This cheering was even grander than the cheers from the exchange tournament's sports audience!

"What's going on?"

Hearing the commotion, Liu Yang and the others behind also walked out of the Teaching Building one after another.

So they, too, were stunned by the scene before them.

They never expected that upon returning to school, there would be such a grand welcome ceremony.

"This is the first time we've held such a welcome ceremony—it looks like it turned out quite well."

Wang Hui smiled slightly, then waved his right hand.

Golden sacred power surged beneath everyone's feet, forming a structure resembling a ceremonial platform.

All their positions rapidly rose, allowing everyone in the square to see them.

"Ladies and gentlemen."

Principal Wang Hui's voice clearly reached every ear, and the cheers immediately ceased.

"At this year's National University Freshman Exchange Competition, our Suzhou-Hangzhou University won the championship! Continuing our five-year consecutive title!"

"Here, I want to thank the ten athletes who represented Suzhou-Hangzhou University in the exchange competition."

"Of course, thanks alone aren't enough—we must also offer rewards."

Undeniably, Principal Wang Hui was a person of immense personal charisma.

With just a few simple words, he immediately made the students below smile.

"This exchange competition is, in essence, a war among universities to test each other's teaching capabilities!"

"Since it is a war, rewards must be given according to merit."

Wang Hui turned to look at the several people at the back of the team:

"Xu Qiang, Huang Bin, Zhao Qingzhu, Yang Siyu—you four, though only reserve players, also shone brightly in the individual and survival events."

"Therefore, each of you will receive 5,000 academic credits!"

As soon as he finished speaking, including these four athletes, everyone in the square was stunned.

What did 5,000 academic credits even mean?

At 500 credits per Abyss-level Goblin dungeon, you could clear it ten times over!

If you only cleared Nightmare-level dungeons, you could clear it even more times!

An ordinary student would need at least an entire academic year to accumulate 5,000 academic credits!

"Even reserve players get 5,000 credits? That's insane!"

The students were awestruck.

Ignoring the stunned murmurs below, Wang Hui on the stage continued announcing:

"Guo Jun, as the off-tank, you protected the damage dealers excellently—you receive 10,000 academic credits!"

"Cai Hua, as the main tank..."

Amidst waves of stunned gazes, Wang Hui announced the academic credit rewards for every official team member—none were below 10,000 credits!

"Jiang Churan, as the physical damage dealer, your swordplay is refined, your movement agile, and your performance in the competition outstanding—you receive 20,000 academic credits!"

Soon, Jiang Churan's 030 credit reward was also announced.

The entire team now had only one person left without a reward: Zhou Yi.

At this moment, the entire square fell silent, all eyes fixed on the stage.

They were curious—how many academic credits would Zhou Yi receive?

"Zhou Yi."

Wang Hui looked at Zhou Yi, a satisfied smile on his face:

"As captain, you led the team to first place in the team event."

"As a Holy Knight, you defeated the formidable Mechanic Wang Xuan and Warrior Wei He in the individual event, securing first place."

"As the target of the nine-school siege, you turned the tide in the survival event and claimed first place again."

"You could say that Suzhou-Hangzhou University's championship in this exchange competition is thanks entirely to you."

"Therefore..."

Wang Hui's voice rose sharply:

"You will receive a reward of 100,000 academic credits from Suzhou-Hangzhou University!!"

Madness!

As soon as Zhou Yi's reward was announced, the entire square erupted in chaos!

"100,000 academic credits! That's 100,000 academic credits!"

"100,000 academic credits can be exchanged for several S-rank divine techniques in the Skill Library!"

"Even if I worked nonstop on school missions, I couldn't save 100,000 credits in four years!"