Chapter 69: Graduating Right After Enrollment? Still Want Me to Stay as a Teacher!

Another Divine Pet has appeared! The fourth Divine Pet after Taotie, the Nine‑Head Immortal Phoenix, and the Kui Niu is Qiongqi.

Each Divine Pet is extremely powerful; regardless of base stats, just look at the feedback skills—they are absolutely formidable.

【Skill: Demon God Spirit Body (Passive)】

【Effect: Immune to all negative‑energy spell damage; when your HP or mana is not full, the body automatically absorbs demonic energy, evil energy, death energy and all other negative energy, converting it into mana or HP. When surrounding negative energy is abundant, the maximum conversion rate per second equals your Spirit cap.】

This skill is as overbearing as the Taotie passive "Mana Annihilation" obtained earlier!

Even more excessive.

It grants outright immunity to all spell damage from negative energy; energies like Demon Power cannot harm him, but instead are converted into his HP or mana.

Lu Zheng's current Spirit exceeds 28,000 points, meaning that in an environment rich in negative energy he can recover over 28,000 mana or HP per second. Such a potent passive makes him invincible under those conditions!

Getting another Divine Pet puts Lu Zheng in an especially good mood.

He had previously told Xuanyuan Wuji about owning three Divine Pets; now Lu Zheng has shown him almost all his cards, and finally has another secret card known only to himself!

And that's a good start—once there's a fourth, there will be a fifth, then a sixth.

Lu Zheng believes a new Divine Pet will appear soon; after all, he now has a luck aura, ten new summoning slots each day, and the refresh interval has increased.

At present his own level is still 100; the three original Divine Pets are at: Taotie 124, Kui Niu 123, and the Nine‑Head Immortal Phoenix only 102, still below his planned standard.

According to his original plan, all three Divine Pets must reach at least level 130 before he can start the third Job Change Quest.

Otherwise there's a risk of job‑change failure! Everything must be done cautiously.

Today counts as a double blessing.

Besides summoning a Divine Pet, his parents' livelihood profession level also rose to 30, allowing them to change jobs.

Lu Zheng equipped each parent with a set of silver gear, boosting their strength; their job‑change tasks were completed easily, officially making them intermediate professionals.

Above level 30, most dungeons have no restrictions.

Lu Zheng took his parents straight to a high‑level dungeon; in a day and a half they accumulated combat experience up to level 60.

Thus they only need to raise their livelihood profession experience; when Lu Zheng's first school year ends, he can help them advance to the senior farmer tier.

The household matters are settled.

In the evening, Lu Zheng, Mu Yunlan, and Yang Dong gathered and headed first to Fengdu City.

After paying a visit to Fu Cangli, they called on Tan Tai Mingyue and Wang Jun, arrived at the teleport plaza, and prepared to go straight to Tiannan City.

They unexpectedly ran into an acquaintance, Dongfang Niaoniao.

"Did you also apply to Zhennan University?"

Mu Yunlan couldn't help asking.

Dongfang Niaoniao nodded, "Lu Zheng is a strong one; I want to follow him, to walk the path of a strong person's growth, it will motivate me even more!"

Mu Yunlan wasn't entirely convinced by that reason, but recalling the rumor that Lu Zheng was going to Zhennan University because of a girl named Ji Zirou, she thought that having an extra Dongfang Niaoniao now wasn't a big problem.

They entered the teleport array and activated it: first transferring to Yunxiao City for transit, then heading straight to Tiannan City.

Yunxiao City lies in central Great Summer; like the Imperial Capital, it has teleport arrays to all major cities.

To cut down on teleport hops to other counties, one can transit through either the Imperial Capital or Yunxiao City; comparatively, Yunxiao City, being central, sees far more traffic than the Imperial Capital.

However, as pre‑enrollment examinees, Lu Zheng and his group still have priority, allowing them to board the teleport array first.

Before 7 p. m., the party arrived at the student reception office of Zhennan University in Tiannan City, logged their identity information, received student IDs, and could then choose their own accommodation.

There are free public dorms that can be lived in for three years, and temporary free hotel suites, but the latter are limited to three days.

After three days, they must find a place on their own.

Lu Zheng prefers his own private space, so he moved into a hotel suite, planning to look for a rental tomorrow.

Wang Jun and the others made the same choice.

The next morning, the group entered Zhennan University together, then split into different departments to report.

Wang Jun and Lu Zheng are both in the Summoning Department, so they are together, which makes Yang Dong very uncomfortable.

He feels that from now on, whenever possible he must stay by Lu Zheng's side; with Wang Jun as a competitor, his position as Lu Zheng's top junior is under great threat!

The senior leading Lu Zheng to the Summoning Department is named Yu Sen; this year he entered the third year, meaning he has been studying at the university for two years, and exudes a heavy aura of killing, indicating frequent combat.

Yu Sen is level 114; Zhennan University's graduation requirement is to complete the third job change, i. e., reach above level 100. Yu Sen just entered the third year, with one year left, and has already completed the third job change, becoming a master‑level professional with impressive innate potential.

But when facing Lu Zheng, he behaves very amicably.

"Junior, Director Song specifically asked me: once you arrive, I'll take you to see him immediately; he's been waiting for you in his office all day."

Lu Zheng instantly displayed a startled, pampered expression.

"He's waiting just for me; how can we keep the director waiting that long? Let's go faster so we don't keep him waiting."

In the past ten days, Fu Cangli had already sent Lu Zheng some information about Zhennan University, letting him familiarize himself in advance.

The Summoning Department director, Song Shiyu, thirty‑seven, level 258, a fifth‑job Grand Summoning Mentor, possesses two Celestial‑Grade Spirit Pets, three rare summons, and several other summoned beasts.

A summoner with even one Celestial‑Grade Spirit Pet is already considered an epic‑level professional; Song Shiyu, who has two, is certainly a highly promising future saint‑level combatant.

Someone like that should be proud and temperamental.

But when Song Shiyu saw Lu Zheng, he showed a look of admiration, grabbed Lu Zheng's arm excitedly and said: "Lu Zheng, you finally arrived! If you hadn't come, I would have had to go looking for you myself! You are the hope of our Summoning Department, the future of our entire summoner profession, a true leader!"

"I've been watching the stars and moon, and finally you've arrived! I've already arranged your studies; as a once‑in‑a‑millennium Heavenly Champion, you don't need to attend classes like other students. I'll give you some books, and you can ask me anytime about anything you don't understand."

Your level has reached 100; starting tomorrow you'll run the Abyss Demon Lair dungeon, and after completing the 100,000‑kill quest, you'll begin the third Job Change Quest. Once the job change is finished, you can apply for graduation.

With your strength, this whole process will take at most half a year; after six months you'll graduate and stay on campus—I'll hire you as a Summoning Department instructor at Zhennan University!

Lu Zheng was left speechless by what he heard.

"Graduating me right after enrollment and even arranging a job for me?! Have universities now reinstated guaranteed placement after graduation?" (End of chapter)