86: Secret Realms and Group Chat

After leaving Mo Yi's office and returning to his dorm, Xu Yan opened his computer, logged into the academic affairs system, and started checking the Training Secret Realms recommended by the Academy for practical training.

However, after briefly reviewing the Training Secret Realms recommended by the Academy, the originally enthusiastic Xu Yan lost some of his interest.

Because Xu Yan had only recently received his Commander Rank Badge from Mo Yi, and the documentation for the two Wind Flame Lion Kings was independently approved by Mo Yi's Experimental Building and not yet synchronized with the academic affairs system, Xu Yan's current information in the academic affairs system was still stuck at the time he won the entrance examination.

Precisely because of this, most of the Secret Realms recommended to Xu Yan by the academic affairs system were General Rank Secret Realms, with only a handful of Commander Rank Secret Realms, and those were all low-danger ones.

After scanning the list and finding no Secret Realms that sparked his desire to explore, Xu Yan decisively abandoned the idea of training in these Secret Realms.

The resources in these Secret Realms were abundant, and they certainly posed a challenge to ordinary First-year freshmen of the Eight Great Academies, but they seemed far too simple for Xu Yan, who now had two Monarch Rank Wind Flame Lion Kings completely obedient to his command.

As for resources, with the help of the Dominion Contract established with the two Wind Flame Lion Kings, Xu Yan, who had initially mastered the Power of Heaven and Earth, successfully broke through to the Commander Rank in the half-month prior regarding his skill in spirit food and Potions.

Moreover, his breakthrough immediately unlocked most Recipes for the entire Commander Rank, especially those related to Wind and Fire attributes, which yielded particularly good results.

Regarding this, according to Mo Yi, Xu Yan originally had considerable accumulation (his study habits during his Third year of high school were equivalent to five years of continuous study), but previously, he lacked the strength to routinely produce Commander Rank spirit food. With the Power of Heaven and Earth, this deficiency was compensated for from another angle.

If Xu Yan hadn't completely depleted his previous accumulation, having successfully mastered the Power of Heaven and Earth now, he would even be able to directly produce Monarch Rank Potions and spirit food of the Wind and Fire attributes.

Thinking that as students of the Combat Department, Jing Xing and the others might have different access permissions for viewing Secret Realms, Xu Yan opened the Group Chat they had created after their small gathering.

In the Group Chat history, apart from a few messages from Xu Yan stating that the spirit food they ordered was ready for them to pick up themselves or send someone to retrieve, the rest consisted of the four people's various complaints about their inhuman instructors and their condemnation of Xu Yan, the “Number One From Someone Else's Family” constantly mentioned by the Combat Department instructors.

It could be said that Xu Yan, their common target of condemnation, contributed significantly to the rapid development of the friendship among Jing Xing and the other three during this period.

Xu Yan: “I want to go out for some training recently, but the Secret Realms recommended by the academic affairs system feel a bit lacking. Do you have any recommendations?”

Lin Heng: “Holy crap, there he is, the Great Villain! Take my Spatial Slice!!!”

Seeing Lin Heng's seemingly frantic reply, Xu Yan felt bewildered. He recalled that Lin Heng wasn't such a chuunibyou character.

Before Xu Yan could ask what had happened to him, Jing Xing's message provided the answer.

Jing Xing: “Xu Yan, don't mind him. He was driven almost crazy by his instructor adding extra training because of his loose tongue recently, and the method used was the same one you used to beat him before. So he's having a stress reaction toward you, the first person who used that method against him.”

Chen Yan: “If the recommended Secret Realms aren't interesting to you, you can look at the Unrecommended Secret Realms. They are on the academic affairs system's Secret Realm page, but the font is small and the location isn't prominent.

The reasons for not recommending them are mainly that these Secret Realms have special circumstances, or they haven't been developed since discovery, or they were deemed unworthy of development after discovery.

These Secret Realms are not Universal Secret Realms; they are not suitable for everyone to enter and explore. However, for those with special needs, the rewards they can obtain far exceed those from the Secret Realms recommended by the school.”

Mu Jin: “Yes, just like the Insect World where I am currently, it is one of those Special Secret Realms—a world belonging exclusively to insect swarms. For others, it might not offer much benefit and instead pose extreme danger, but for my Flame Spirit Queen Bee, it is an excellent training ground.

However, most of these Special Secret Realms carry considerable danger. Unless you have sufficient means of self-preservation or someone protecting you, do not easily enter them. I was only able to move around in a small area here after my instructor greeted the powerful entities within the Insect World.”

Seeing Chen Yan and Mu Jin's messages, Xu Yan switched back to the academic affairs system page, scanned it carefully, and sure enough, in an inconspicuous corner of the page, he saw the three characters “Unrecommended” written in the smallest font size.

After going through actions like “ignore risk and continue access,” Xu Yan entered another page. Looking at the dense list of Secret Realm names and introductions inside, they certainly felt much more exciting than the previously recommended Secret Realms.

However, before Xu Yan could continue checking the information on those Secret Realms, the flashing chat window drew his attention back to the five-person Group Chat.

Lin Heng: “Sorry, I had a stress reaction just now and couldn't control myself. My mentality is fully recovered now, so I can speak properly.

But I remember you saying that your instructor gave you a Monarch Rank Difficulty Project? Didn't you also say you would be dedicating a long time to that project? What's the situation now? Did you get stuck on the project and need to go out and relax to find inspiration?”

Seeing that Lin Heng's message immediately hit the crucial point, the hearts of the four people, including Lin Heng who sent the message, suddenly skipped a beat, and an ominous premonition arose, as if continuing to delve into Lin Heng's question would lead them to face something extremely terrifying.

However, before the others could change the subject and push Lin Heng's message down, Xu Yan saw the information.

While a strange sense of satisfaction spontaneously arose in his heart, Xu Yan typed quickly on the keyboard with a somewhat eerie smile, and simultaneously took a picture of the two Wind Flame Lion Kings beside him and the Marshal Rank Breeder badge he had just received.

Xu Yan: “You mean that? My luck was pretty good; I've already finished it. I am now a Marshal Rank Breeder. I also gained two Wind Flame Lion Kings who willingly follow me. It is precisely because of the existence of these two Wind Flame Lion Kings that I got the idea of going out and exploring.

Picture, Picture, Picture.”