Chapter 822

After finalizing the new weapons, Little Wei Yuan returned to his residence and adjusted the list of craftsmen from the weapon forging workshop, brocade weaving workshop, textile factory, gunpowder factory, medical clinic, alchemy temple, etc., and read it carefully.

There are more than 70,000 people on this list, including nearly 10,000 template Dao Foundation and thousands of natural Dao Foundation. Everyone has reached the level of skilled craftsmen in the eyes of the world. Some can be called great craftsmen.

After reading this surprisingly long list, Little Wei Yuan felt that the time was ripe, and it was time to open a path for the many craftsmen, researchers, and manufacturers in Qingming to stand out.

So Little Wei Yuan spent several days drafting the regulations, and after repeated verification by the Human World Renjian Yanhuo, he officially announced the establishment of the Qingming Academy of Sciences and the Hundred Industries Engineering Academy. Both academies implement the academician system like the National Academy, each with twelve academicians, recruiting from the entire Qingming.

At this point, the three major institutions of the Academy of Sciences, the Engineering Academy, and the National Academy have all been established, and the Qingming highest academic institution system conceived by Little Wei Yuan has been completed.

The academicians of the National Academy are mainly recruited from the outside, after all, the Taichu Palace itself belongs to the Daoist school and does not produce great masters. The Academy of Sciences and the Hundred Industries Engineering Academy are mainly aimed at the inside of Qingming. Especially the Academy of Sciences, which mainly studies various basic theories, is considered the top priority in Little Wei Yuan's heart, who has the experience of the world outside the sky.

Little Wei Yuan also consulted Xu Wenwu about this matter. As a result, this ignorant guy actually knew about the Academy of Sciences, but had never heard of the Engineering Academy.

The Hundred Industries Engineering Academy covers agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, medicine, and various industrial and mining industries, etc. Medical clinics, alchemy, mining, and weapon refining can all be classified into the category of the Engineering Academy.

In Little Wei Yuan's preliminary plan, each of the two academies has twelve academicians. In this way, the academician quota is enough to cover the direct Dharma Forms of the Taichu Palace, and there is still a considerable surplus, which can be distributed to cultivators outside the palace.

The academicians of the Academy of Sciences and the Engineering Academy, in fact, Little Wei Yuan's original intention was to give them to those geniuses in Qingming who have extraordinary talents in cultivation and have contributed to Qingming, except for the direct descendants of the Taichu Palace. At the same time, it also gives the vast number of craftsmen a hope.

Once entering the two academies, not to mention fame and fortune, there are huge practical benefits. The annual Qingyuan subsidy alone is not a small amount, and you can also apply to Qingming for funding for your own research projects.

However, the plan was perfect, but when it was implemented, there were all kinds of situations, and it was a mess.

When it came to the academician selection, the situation of brotherly love and mutual humility within the Taichu Palace that Little Wei Yuan envisioned did not appear at all.

The academician selection is for the masters and craftsmen with cultivation talents in the entire Qingming to see, so naturally, it cannot be closed behind doors and done within the Taichu Palace. So according to the set chapters, anyone who meets several preset conditions can sign up.

As a result, the enthusiasm for signing up far exceeded Little Wei Yuan's imagination. Not only did all the cultivators of the Taichu Palace sign up, but more than 300 people signed up for the Engineering Academy outside the Taichu Palace, and more than 200 people signed up for the Academy of Sciences. Almost all Dharma Form cultivators signed up, and many Dao Foundation late-stage and perfection cultivators with special skills also signed up one after another.

So many qualified people signed up, which forced Little Wei Yuan to respect everyone's voice and change the original chapters, turning it into holding a public selection conference.

At the same time, Little Wei Yuan originally wanted to serve as the dean of the two academies himself, but was forced by the cultivators of the Taichu Palace to give up the position of dean, and only gave him a virtual title of honorary dean.

The first day was the Engineering Academy selection conference. The cultivators each showed their unique skills for the judges to review. Sun Yu, Chuhe, Xu Henshui, Yu Zhizhuo, etc., were all incumbent, successfully killing to the end, and the academician was already in the bag.

However, the competition for other quotas was extremely fierce, and everyone refused to give in to each other, and even in the blink of an eye, it reached the point of having to decide the winner on the fighting platform.

The cultivators' reasons were also very sufficient. No matter what kind of craft on the immortal path, whether it is alchemy or weapon refining, it must have cultivation as a foundation. Generally speaking, the things refined by the late stage of Dharma Form are better than those in the early stage. So when it is difficult to distinguish between the skills, it is better to go to the stage and compare.

The cultivators of the Taichu Palace were all people who didn't think it was a big deal to watch the excitement, and they were extremely in favor of deciding the winner by fighting. As a result, the selection conference had to be moved to the fighting platform.

Just as the fighting began, Ji Liuli suddenly appeared. She stood on the stage and said that she also intended to compete for the Engineering Academy, and then let all the cultivators come up together.

Some unconvinced Dharma Forms asked Ji Liuli what craft she used to join the Engineering Academy. As a result, Ji Liuli answered: Heavenly Secret Art. She said that heavenly secret feng shui is also engineering, and Qi luck array is also an array. To build array disks and magic treasures, it also belongs to the category of engineering.

Everyone couldn't compete with Ji Liuli and had to give up. Among the Dharma Forms outside the Taichu Palace, two were not afraid of death and actually wanted to try on the stage. As a result, it was naturally like an egg hitting a stone. The fragile defeat of these two Dharma Forms made the people behind fully realize how terrifying Ji Liuli was, and no one dared to challenge her again, and Ji Liuli snatched an academician quota alive.

Originally, Little Wei Yuan thought this was the end, but the cultivators of the Taichu Palace were still not satisfied, thinking that the twelve academicians must also have a ranking, and then the first academician would automatically become the dean, so that they could convince the public.

The cultivators agreed among themselves to first discuss the ranking based on their achievements in their respective craft fields, and if they really couldn't distinguish, they would go to the fighting platform. Everyone had no objection to this rule, so the second round of fighting began.

This round had nothing to do with Little Wei Yuan at all, and the cultivators didn't discuss it with him either. Little Wei Yuan could see that everyone was holding back their energy and wanted to compare with each other and distinguish the winner. Treatment and so on didn't matter at all.

The second round of competition was extremely fierce, and the Dharma Form cultivators outside the Taichu Palace were very sensible and voluntarily gave up the fighting platform. Before, they didn't know enough about the cultivators of the Taichu Palace, only knowing that the Taichu Palace was powerful, but didn't know how powerful it was.

Competing on the same stage today, they finally knew how big the gap between people was. Both were Dharma Forms, and none of them could withstand a casual slap from Ji Liuli. On the fighting platform, Sun Yu defeated Yu Zhizhuo, Ji Liuli defeated Xu Henshui again, and seeing that the overall situation was set, Ji Liuli was about to take the first academician, Chuhe the old Daoist led the chicken to enter the venue.

The first day of the selection conference ended here, and True Person Chuhe became the first dean and first academician of the Engineering Academy, with the demeanor of a small national teacher of Northern Liao.

On the second day of the Academy of Sciences selection, the cultivators had been arguing for a whole night, and still didn't discuss clearly what the so-called basic theory mentioned by Little Wei Yuan contained.

After arguing to the end, everyone finally set a standard, which is to compare the number of tasks that can be processed in parallel at the same time. The more the quantity, the more sufficient the spiritual nature of the Primordial Spirit. There is no doubt about this point.

When this standard was set, it was already late at night, so it was posted overnight. Anyway, cultivators don't need to sleep much. Little Wei Yuan set up four hundred sets of tables and chairs on the fighting platform overnight, set up a magic array, and the Human World Renjian Yanhuo would issue tasks uniformly at that time.

During the selection process, the number of tasks will gradually increase, and those who can't keep up will be eliminated until only twelve are left, which are the twelve academicians. Then the academicians will continue to compete until the last one is left, which is the dean and first academician of the Academy of Sciences.

By this time, Little Wei Yuan discovered that there were probably quite a few cultivators in the Taichu Palace who were secretly practicing the Invincible Heart.

There are many people who practice the Invincible Heart, and everyone has gradually studied many small techniques. For example, it doesn't matter if you lose occasionally, as long as I believe I can win you next time. It doesn't matter if you can't win next time, as long as you firmly believe that you will win one day.

Besides this move, there is another way. It doesn't matter if you lose, as long as you preach everywhere that I won. It doesn't matter if the audience believes it or not, as long as you believe it yourself, you can continue to maintain the Invincible Heart.

Hearing the selection rules of the Academy of Sciences, Zhang Sheng also quietly left seclusion and quietly signed up.

But just before entering the venue, she suddenly saw the selection rules on the bulletin board, and the last rule stated: Only Dharma Forms are qualified to serve as the first academician and dean, and Dao Foundation can only be the second academician.

The ink color of this rule was very new, clearly just written on it. But the handwriting was sloppy, and Zhang Sheng couldn't tell whose handwriting it was.

The attraction of the second place to Zhang Sheng was basically zero, so she didn't bother to care who set the new rule, quietly left, and went to seclusion by herself.

As the cultivators entered the venue and returned to their seats, the selection conference officially began. A ball of light appeared in front of everyone. Touching it with spiritual sense, they could know the content of the tasks inside.

The light balls in front of more than two hundred cultivators all went out in the blink of an eye, and the speed was roughly the same. Then two light balls appeared in front of everyone, each with different tasks.

This time, a few people were half a beat slow when answering. Then there were four, eight light balls. When sixteen light balls appeared at the same time, someone finally fell behind and couldn't process them in parallel at the same time. The signs above their seats also dimmed. These people's cheeks were hot, and they all came down from the stage in a gray way.

As the number of tasks increased, the exclamations under the stage were one after another. When the tasks were added to thirty-two, more than half of the people were eliminated at once, and only three Dao Foundation cultivators were left. Little Wei Yuan secretly recorded them all.

When the tasks reached sixty-four, all Dao Foundation were eliminated, and there were only less than twenty left on the stage.

Then the number of tasks jumped to one hundred and twenty-eight, and only nine people were left.

The number of tasks continued to increase. In the process of climbing to two hundred and fifty-six, Xiaoyu and Cui Yu were defeated.

Xiaoyu took advantage of the fact that the rules did not restrict the Dharma Forms with spirits, so he released the Shaoyang Star Lord to share the burden for himself. Shaoyang Star Lord easily took on one hundred and twenty-eight tasks, but Xiaoyu himself was a bit nervous, and made a mistake when he only took on one hundred and eight tasks, and was tragically eliminated.

Cui Yu could now handle one hundred and twenty-eight tasks himself, and then summoned twelve Liuren Heavenly Soldiers. These Heavenly Soldiers could each handle an extra eight tasks. As a result, he almost surpassed Xiaoyu, and shocked Xiaoyu into a cold sweat on the spot.

Two hours later, the selection conference finally ended smoothly, and Feng Tingyu won the first dean and first academician of the Academy of Sciences.

And Feng Tingyu clearly didn't use her full strength. She had only processed more than three thousand tasks when Ji Liuli was defeated. Her strength was so strong that it was amazing.

Under the stage, Xiaoyu and Shaoyang Star Lord suddenly remembered their evaluation of Feng Tingyu when they first entered the Human World Renjian Yanhuo not long ago, and both decided to delete this memory after returning.

(End of chapter)