51: Arriving at the university, a hardcore welcome event

Lin Chen's worries, in the end, did not materialize.

Too many enemies appeared, and the Sixth Academy also had a large number of reinforcements in place. It was back and forth, like a star-level war.

A being radiating soft light broke through space. With a wave of his hand, a moon appeared out of thin air.

"You little brats from the Demon Realm, are you tired of living? How dare you touch my beloved junior brothers and sisters!"

The moon that appeared on the battlefield, under the control of this being, slammed heavily onto the Demon Realm Rift, pulverizing the entire rift. Faintly, a scream could be heard from where the rift had vanished.

"Yay, it's a senior sister, we're saved!"

Someone was playing an old meme, but it was very fitting.

With the Demon Realm Rift dissipated, the demon cannon fodder, though numerous, were like rootless duckweed, easily annihilated by the arriving Border Defense Fleet.

On the battlefield, Human Race fleets broke through the void, surrounding various monsters and demons, indiscriminately slaughtering them.

Even as they faced their own demise, these monsters and demons launched suicidal attacks on the Orientation (welcoming new students) fleet, just to chip away at its energy and contribute a little to those who came after them.

Their spirit was commendable, but utterly useless. The welcoming new students spacecraft appeared to be ordinary standard ships, yet the entire Sixth Academy possessed only one hundred and fifty such vessels, each boasting combat power comparable to the Ninth Order Gods.

When necessary, the welcoming new students spacecraft would also join the battlefield, unleashing the combat power of the Ninth Order Gods to severely strike the enemy.

If you shatter the fleet's energy shield, then congratulations, you will witness the fleet's second phase. At that time, you will be ganged up on by over a hundred Ninth Order Gods.

If you like one-on-one combat, a hundred against one is very brave.

If you like group fights, a hundred ganging up on one is also very brave.

"Children, this ambush will end soon. Watch more, ask less. Once you arrive at the Academy and complete your first-year courses, you'll understand the specifics of this war."

Lin Chen was very obedient, carefully observing the battles on various battlefields, engraving the scenes in his mind, just like watching a movie, and a movie from a wide-angle perspective at that.

Time passed minute by minute, and the various monsters and demons besieging the welcoming new students fleet were utterly defeated by the Human Race fleet's artillery fire and high-end combat power.

On another front of the battlefield, the senior sister who destroyed the Demon Realm Rift joined in. With her formidable strength, she forcefully tore apart the "Twisted Color," collected its remains, and took them away.

Everything possesses research value, and the "Twisted Color" spawned by the ritual was even more so.

As the Human Race fleet that had arrived for support began to clear the battlefield, all the welcoming new students spacecraft re-entered a fully sealed state and set sail towards the Sixth Academy.

After another eight hours of peaceful navigation, the spacecraft's portholes reopened, indicating their arrival at their destination—the Sixth Academy.

Through the porthole, Lin Chen first saw a continent that was round on top and square on the bottom. The continent was enveloped by a hemispherical transparent barrier, and through the barrier, he could see the land and oceans on the continent.

The spacecraft rapidly approached the continent. The continent's scenery rapidly magnified before him until his vision was completely covered by the continental world. Only then did the spacecraft fly in from the very top of the hemispherical barrier.

Upon entering the continental world, the spacecraft began to descend vertically. Half a minute later, the spacecraft landed steadily in a valley surrounded by pristine, natural high mountains.

"Children, the Sixth Academy has arrived. Please take your personal belongings, disembark in an orderly fashion, and follow the guidance to participate in the welcoming new students activities."

The voice of the accompanying mentor sounded again. The spacecraft's hatch opened, and fresh, natural air wafted in. Unfiltered, pristine air surged freely into the cabin through the hatch.

Out of some psychological inclination, Lin Chen hid his true body in the mirror space, letting his Copy Body act. He always felt that the welcoming new students activity the mentor mentioned wasn't a good one.

He also had some understanding of the Sixth Academy from its official station (station) in the Virtual Divine Realm.

However, the information he understood was very ordinary and completely unable to clearly describe everything about a Supreme Academy with a history of thirty thousand years. The latest information was even under lockdown.

Before truly enrolling, Lin Chen was essentially in the dark about the Sixth Academy, much like how ordinary high school students on Earth couldn't fully grasp the specifics of universities like Tsinghua and Peking.

Lin Chen followed the other new students off the spacecraft. As his feet touched the grassy ground, he knew things weren't that simple.

What kind of good school would drop students in the wilderness at the start of the semester, with no senior students to welcome them, and not even a glimpse of the Academy gates?

After all 150,000 new students from over a hundred spacecraft had disembarked, the welcoming new students spacecraft immediately closed their hatches, lifted off, and disappeared into the sky, leaving a group of new students staring at each other, bewildered.

If it weren't for their firm resolve, they might have thought they had been abducted to some remote mountain gully.

"Welcoming new students activities, it couldn't be such a childish trick as new students having to find the Academy, could it?"

A new student with an active mind voiced his inner complaint.

You know, the older something is, the simpler its operating mechanism tends to be.

As a Supreme Academy, an ancient welcoming new students activity that involves students finding the Academy gates themselves, entering the Academy to study, and then ranking them by order, sounds very reasonable.

"Lin Chen, which direction do you think the Academy is in?"

"I can't guess either. Let's ask a classmate with an intelligence-gathering talent."

Lin Chen truly had no answer to Zhuge Shou's question. He was also completely in the dark, just like at the beginning of the Wu exam, knowing nothing.

Among the Blue Star small group, there truly was a new student with an intelligence-gathering talent, but his talent seemed to have been artificially sealed and was temporarily unusable.

Currently, all new students had not acted rashly. The 150,000 new students were first divided into 104 small groups based on their origin region. Each small group ranged from two to three thousand people at most, to five or six hundred at least.

The Human Race Territory is too vast. Although regional discrimination is strictly prohibited, it has always existed in private.

Blue Star people look down on Star Domain people, and Star Domain people also look down on Blue Star people. Within the Star Domain people, there are also various small groups, such as the Four Saints opposing the Four Fiends, and Auspicious Beasts opposing Evil Beasts.

As for the people of the Three Realms and the border regions, they are like little transparent figures, with no voice, at the bottom of the contempt chain.

"What do you guys say, is it possible this is a classic battle royale map? A continent that's round on top and square on the bottom is just too perfect for a battle royale map."

There are always people with wild imaginations who then guess the truth.

When the first new student left the valley, the welcoming new students activity officially began.

The entire valley vibrated without warning, and a powerful energy burst forth from beneath the valley, indiscriminately covering all new students.

The moment they sensed danger, all new students did not hesitate and fled immediately.

The new students truly pulled out all the stops, each displaying their unique abilities.

Out of 150,000 new students, at least one-third possessed the ability to teleport, and they left the valley immediately.

The remaining new students, those who were fast, galloped non-stop up the high mountain to avoid the impending energy impact.

Those who were slow and couldn't run in time immediately activated all their defensive skills, turning themselves into turtle shells. As long as they withstood the first wave of energy impact, they would have time to escape.

Lin Chen naturally used his mirror teleportation to escape immediately. With his Sixth Order Mirror Teleportation, he maxed out the extreme teleportation distance of one million kilometers.

After randomly teleporting and landing, Lin Chen immediately activated his Spiritual Stealth effect, eliminating his sense of presence, becoming invisible on the spot, and temporarily remaining still.

"Fellow new students, first of all, welcome to the big family of the Sixth Academy."

"It is rumored outside that the Sixth Academy produces 'Old Sixes.' I solemnly declare here that the Sixth Academy is indeed good at cultivating 'Old Sixes.' Any student who enters the Sixth Academy will be a qualified 'Old Six' after four years."

"And you, this batch of reserve 'Old Sixes,' get ready to receive the 'care' from your senior brothers and sisters! Only an 'Old Six' can survive to the end!"

"You still have half an hour to hide. After half an hour, your senior brothers and sisters will enter the arena. I look forward to your showdowns."

"Oh, and the longer you survive, the richer the reward, up to 10,000 academic credits. Academic credits are very useful; you only get a subsidy of 1,000 academic credits upon enrollment."

A somewhat gloating voice rang in Lin Chen's ears, but his expression remained unchanged. Knowing the rules was always better than knowing nothing.

New students versus old students, an old routine, very much in line with Lin Chen's stereotype of a martial arts academy.

"The Academy shouldn't be too insane. At most, they'll send second-year senior brothers and sisters to hunt us new students. Senior brothers and sisters who entered a year before us would at most have cultivation at the late Seventh Order, or perhaps a small number of Eighth Order."

Lin Chen thought this way, believing that with his abilities, it wasn't impossible for him to hide until the very end.

And so, Lin Chen fully operated the Spiritual Stealth Technique, his body slowly sinking into the ground, ignoring collision volume and greatly reducing the energy required to sink underground.

Half an hour later, Lin Chen had already hidden five hundred kilometers underground. His vital energy and spiritual fluctuations were completely contained within his body. To perception, he was like a stone.

Spiritual Stealth Technique, you are the best.