16: First Cultivation University

"Tra-la-la! Junior, do you have any tricks for increasing Spell power? Teach us!"

Bai Mingzhu specially brought over a plate of grapes, her jade-like hand plucking one and offering it to Zhang Sheng's lips.

Zhang Sheng hurriedly stepped back.

"Senior, please don't do this."

Senior Cheng Hao also leaned in from the side, asking excitedly, "Are there really any tricks?"

Zhang Sheng could not reveal his Talent to everyone, so he could only say helplessly.

"Just practice more. Cast a Spell, summarize your experience, and you will naturally improve quickly!"

"Tch! Stingy!"

The jade-like hand that had offered the grape quickly retracted. Senior Bai bit down hard on the grape, swallowed it, and turned to the professor's side.

"Xiao Bai, stop messing around! The same Spell cast by different people can be completely different; perhaps this is just Talent."

"I heard that Kyoto obtained a type of Medicinal Pill from a Secret Realm. This magical Medicinal Pill can increase the efficiency of learning Spells, but there are only a few. If only we could mass-produce them when the time comes!"

However, how could such a Medicinal Pill be easily mass-produced? Currently, there isn't even a Pill Formula. Even with an S-rank Alchemist in Kyoto, they have no way to start and can currently only refine low-level Medicinal Pills like the essence food pill.

Professor Liu was merely giving them a glimmer of hope.

"We have harvested quite a lot of gold spirit rice seeds this time. These gold spirit rice seeds will be distributed to other universities to allow them to spread rapidly."

"Moreover, we will open the 'Spring Breeze Turning into Rain Technique', 'Thick Earth Art', and 'Primordial Chaos Qi Refining' to the entire public."

Zhang Sheng had seen the previous plans and understood that all of this was within the plan.

However, what Zhang Sheng did not expect was that even 'Primordial Chaos Qi Refining' was opened to the public.

As if aware of Zhang Sheng's confusion.

"We now know that the Spiritual Qi on Earth at this moment was brought by the Apocalypse Star, but we are not sure if the Spiritual Qi is finite or infinite. We can only assume that Earth's Spiritual Qi is finite, so we must seize Earth's Spiritual Qi resources."

"The promotion of 'Primordial Chaos Qi Refining' is imperative. If we absorb one more wisp of Spiritual Qi, there might be one less wisp of Spiritual Qi on Earth, and thus foreigners will be able to absorb one less wisp of Spiritual Qi."

"Nowadays, the whole world is facing the crisis of Secret Realm descents, so we must seize the initiative and become strong quickly."

Speaking to this point, the atmosphere in the office became oppressive again.

Zhang Sheng understood that if one did not pursue the power of the Qi Sea Realm, the 'Refining Essence into Qi' of the 'Heavenly Circulation Method' would be sufficient at just the Beginner level. This way, ordinary people would not need to consume a large amount of food to absorb Spiritual Qi.

Although the efficiency is extremely low, and it only takes three hours to complete one circulation to absorb a wisp of Spiritual Qi from the outside world, Zhang Sheng believed that the vast majority of ordinary people who do not have enough food to consume would still be willing to Cultivate.

"Knock, knock!"

A knock suddenly sounded outside the door.

Zhang Sheng opened the door to take a look.

It was a middle-aged man with a square face and sparse graying hair.

"Principal!"

"Principal, hello! Please come in!" Zhang Sheng said hurriedly.

"Principal, hello!"

The seniors greeted him politely.

"Principal, you have arrived!" Professor Liu Quan hurriedly stood up to welcome him.

"Hello, everyone!"

"Truly, heroes emerge from the youth. Everyone, you have worked hard!" The Principal's expression was serious as he bowed deeply to everyone.

Zhang Sheng and the others hurriedly returned the salute.

Professor Liu Quan hurriedly led the Principal to his own seat, while he himself sat aside with the students.

"Don't be so reserved; I came specifically to see you all!"

"Thank you for your concern and inspection, Principal Wang. Since taking on the school's scientific research tasks, our group has never slacked off, and even now, we have only achieved some insignificant results."

"Not at all, Professor Liu is being too modest. Your results this time have already been reported to Kyoto, and the relevant rewards will be issued soon. The school will also certainly reward you."

Principal Wang looked at Zhang Sheng.

"This must be Zhang Sheng! I have seen your photo and your first batch of results. Keep working hard, and don't forget your alma mater when you go to Kyoto in the future!"

Go to Kyoto?

Everyone looked shocked.

"Principal, what is this?" Professor Liu asked.

"The news will be officially released today. Although this matter has been in the planning stages since the second day of the Secret Realm outbreak, it has now been preliminarily decided!"

...

From Principal Wang, Zhang Sheng and the others learned a piece of earth-shattering news.

That is, China will establish the "First Cultivation University", gathering the top Talents from across the country, concentrating resources, and quickly training a group of top-tier Cultivators, while simultaneously conducting the most comprehensive and in-depth research on cultivation civilization.

The Principal left.

He also left a document for everyone.

"This information will be released soon, so it doesn't hurt for you to take a look now!"

"Junior Zhang Sheng, congratulations in advance!" Bai Mingzhu said.

Principal Wang specifically emphasized that although Zhang Sheng's Awakening Talent was average, he possessed an extraordinary Spirit Farmer Talent and would be admitted to the First Cultivation University as a specially recruited Talent.

"First Cultivation University... if only I could get in!" Cheng Hao said enviously.

"Cheng Hao, Mingzhu, when will you be as steady as Zhang Yong? There will be open recruitment later, and you can naturally enter the First Cultivation University if you pass the assessment," Professor Liu said helplessly.

Zhang Sheng belonged to the early batch of specially recruited Talents, and there would be a nationwide enrollment examination later.

The group left the office with the documents.

Returning to the Cultivation room,

Zhang Sheng flipped through the information Principal Wang had left behind, which contained basic information about the First Cultivation University.

"The highest authority in China has issued a directive for the 'First Cultivation University' to be established under the leadership of the Chinese Five Armies, the National Research Institute, and Qingbei University."

It could be said that its status is far beyond that of Qingbei University in Kyoto.

The school is based on Qingbei University, expanded and renovated, and the original faculty and students of Qingbei University are directly incorporated into it.

The entire school implements strict military-style management...

Looking at it this way, Qingbei is gone and has transformed directly into the First Cultivation University. However, is it fair for the original staff and students of Qingbei to be directly incorporated?

You have to know that this is a Cultivation university, a brand-new era; good grades in the past don't necessarily mean good at Cultivation.

It was not just Zhang Sheng who was confused; almost everyone who did not understand the situation had such doubts.

Clearing his thoughts,

Zhang Sheng began to organize the breeding report.

By noon, the second round of the breeding report was basically completed.

At this moment, the gold spirit rice entrusted to the Armed Police Officers to harvest had all been harvested. Fifty people had worked for the entire morning, and several hydraulic shears had been worn out.

In the future, harvesting gold spirit rice might require specific tools; it is a problem for ordinary people to want to harvest gold spirit rice.

The stalks of this gold spirit rice are truly hard.

Grain by grain, the golden rice entered a specific machine. After weighing, scanning, and calculation, it was determined that 6,029 stalks of gold spirit rice had been harvested, yielding 108,522 grains of rice, totaling 2,170 kilograms.

A single grain of gold spirit rice, the size of a peanut, weighed about 20 grams, feeling heavy and textured in the palm of one's hand.

Using pliers to pry open its hard shell, inside was the color of jade—crystalline, translucent golden spirit rice.

Although the shape is the same as ordinary rice, the size and weight are vastly different.

It was not just Zhang Sheng's gold spirit rice that had matured; the three seniors' were no exception.

However, the three of them combined only harvested about 300 kilograms, which was far from Zhang Sheng's harvest.

"Zhang Sheng, the school will take away 2,100 kilograms of the gold spirit rice. The remaining 70 kilograms will be one of your rewards, and you are permitted to arrange them freely, whether you want to give them away or take them to the First Cultivation University."

"The school will distribute these gold spirit rice, so you can rest assured in handling them."

That night, Zhang Sheng received the school's official notice—it was the admission notice for the "First Cultivation University".

The notice stated that Zhang Sheng would be introduced as a special Talent to the spirit plant College of the "First Cultivation University," requiring him to report to Kyoto before May 17, 2030. Failure to report by the deadline would be considered an automatic forfeiture of his admission qualification.