Five Great Secondary Education Schools

The assessment teacher, who had been staring at Zhang Zhi in utter astonishment, pointed at him and said, "Principal, this student Zhang Zhi summoned it!"

The next second, Zhang Zhi was surrounded by people.

There was actually a Mortal Transformation Realm being in the Small World he had just opened. Needless to say, a Realm Lord like this was definitely a genius, with limitless prospects ahead of him.

Recruiting such a student would bring substantial rewards, to say nothing of anything else.

Any ambitious teacher would certainly want to recruit a student like him into their school.

The stern-faced Principal swept his gaze over everyone present. "Other than teachers from the Five Great Schools, the rest of you should stop trying to join in."

Upon hearing the Principal's words, quite a few people quietly withdrew.

True enough, only the Five Great Schools could provide sufficient resources for a genius like this.

If other schools recruited him, they might even hinder his development.

Zhang Zhi's target would undoubtedly be one of the Five Great Schools.

The Five Great Schools were Yuzhang Third Middle School, Linzhou First Middle School, Yuanzhou School, Gandai Affiliated High School, and Yingshan Academy.

After spending half an hour in the Principal's Office and reviewing the contract terms of the Five Great Schools one by one, Zhang Zhi first ruled out Gandai Affiliated High School and Yingshan Academy.

One clause in Gandai Affiliated High School's contract gave Gandai University priority admission rights. Although Gandai University was Qingshan Dao's best Higher Education Institution, it did not even rank in Tianxing Domain, much less the Main World. Tying himself to Gandai University now would be detrimental to his future development.

After all, Tianxing Domain had several Higher Education Institutions that ranked quite highly even in the Main World.

Yingshan Academy, meanwhile, was a private school combining secondary and higher world education. It had become one of the Five Great Schools because its founder was Qingshan Dao's sole late-stage Middle Thousand World Realm Lord.

Entering Yingshan Academy would basically mean joining that Realm Lord's private army in the future. For Realm Lords from commoner backgrounds, that was considered a decent choice.

If he had not been a transmigrator and did not have a Golden Finger, he might have chosen Yingshan Academy.

So which of the remaining three should he choose?

The Five Great Schools seemed to have discussed it beforehand. Their signing rewards were all identical: five Green Resource Cards, twenty White Resource Cards, and five White Choice Cards.

The reward was generous, but only compared with other students.

For students whose Small Worlds could at most produce white-ranked, Elite Tier beings, these signing rewards were indeed substantial. They might need several months, or even one or two years, to fully make use of those resources.

After all, advancing a Micro Small World into a Small Small World was far from simple.

But for someone like him, whose Small World already had green-ranked, Mortal Transformation Realm beings, the resources offered by the Five Great Schools would only last him a few days.

The Five Great Schools seemed to value him highly, but not as highly as he had imagined.

There had to be factors involved that he did not understand.

Sigh, being born at the bottom really is awful. There are too few sources of information. This damned information gap.

After thinking for a moment, he turned to the Principal. "Principal, could you give me some advice?"

The Principal, who had worn a stern expression all along, gave Zhang Zhi a faint smile. "You're not very satisfied with the contract terms, are you?"

"The reason is simple. Our school is too poor. After all, we're only a Top Fifty Primary School in the Dao. The recruitment teachers who come here basically don't have much authority."

In other words, the terms they just showed you are already the best they can offer within their authority.

Hearing the Principal say this, the recruitment teachers from the Five Great Schools all looked somewhat embarrassed.

Ignoring them, the Principal continued, "But don't worry. They've surely already sent the news back to their schools."

"A Realm Lord whose initial world already has a Mortal Transformation Realm being appears no more than three times in each generation across the entire Dao. Sometimes, there isn't even one."

"When the time comes, they'll definitely offer terms that satisfy you."

"There's no need to rush. Go back and get some proper rest first, then come back this afternoon."

Only then did Zhang Zhi, who had been feeling somewhat uneasy, finally relax.

After leaving the Principal's Office and passing by the sports field, he heard many junior students discussing how a Mortal Transformation Realm being had appeared during the graduation assessment.

The news had spread pretty quickly.

Hearing people praise him behind his back... that feeling was genuinely quite nice.

The Principal had just said that every generation had several people capable of Opening a Small World containing Mortal Transformation Realm beings.

And that was only in Qingshan Dao. Above a Dao was a domain, and above a domain seemed to be a realm.

He could not grow too complacent and look down on the heroes of the world!

After collecting his graduation certificate and assessment report from the Academic Affairs Office, Zhang Zhi returned to the Orphanage.

When the Old Director, who was nearing sixty, heard that Zhang Zhi could enter one of the Five Great Schools, he was so happy that he kept wiping his eyes, saying that the wind and sand were really strong today.

As usual, Zhang Zhi told the younger brothers and sisters at the orphanage stories about school and stories about Small Worlds.

The only difference was that today, Zhang Zhi summoned several Essence Realm and Mortal Transformation Realm cultivators from his Small World for them to see.

After lunch, following the usual custom, he stuffed ten Gold Yuan Scrolls into the Old Director's hands for the meal and left the Orphanage.

As he left, the Old Director was still muttering, "There used to be another child here, just like you, who also entered Primary School. But that child hasn't come back in years. Counting the time, he should be about ready to Open a Small World too."

"I wonder whether that child successfully opened a Small World."

Zhang Zhi replied with a smile, "Perhaps he's at some Secondary Education School right now. Maybe after he finishes his studies, he'll come back for a visit."

The Old Director was one of the few people in this world whom Zhang Zhi respected. Saying something to make him happy did not feel insincere at all.

That afternoon's negotiations were still held in the Principal's Office.

When Zhang Zhi entered the Principal's Office, he saw the Principal seemingly arguing with a burly man whose face was covered in beard, his expression as stern as ever.

The two stopped only when they saw Zhang Zhi enter.

The burly bearded man nodded at Zhang Zhi with a broad smile.

Thinking that he was a recruitment teacher specially sent by some school, Zhang Zhi returned the Bearded Man's smile.

The teachers in charge of recruitment from the remaining three schools arrived at the Principal's Office shortly afterward.

Those recruitment teachers seemed wary of one another, and none wanted to be the first to reveal their school's terms.

At that moment, the bearded man laughed. "You schools really have such petty manners."

He turned to Zhang Zhi and said, "Let me introduce myself. I'm from Seven Dragons Academy in Seven Dragons Prefecture."

Although Zhang Zhi had never even left Yicheng, he had long heard of Seven Dragons Prefecture.

Qingshan Dao belonged to Tianxing Domain, and Seven Dragons Prefecture was the capital of the entire Tianxing Domain.