Zhang Zhi had never been particularly fond of the clichéd routine of showing off and humiliating others, but since they had already bullied him to his face, he naturally wasn't going to be polite:
"You've never heard of it?"
"No way. You actually haven't heard of it? Could I have been tricked?"
"That teacher told me that as long as I was willing to attend Seven Dragons Academy, I could enter the Trial Tower once every month."
"Do you know what this Trial Tower is?"
Someone in the crowd cried out softly, "The Trial Tower?"
Zhang Zhi nodded earnestly. "Yes, the Trial Tower. I'd never heard of it before."
"Do you think that person was trying to fool me and deliberately made up something to deceive me?"
"But the Principal also said it was a good thing. The teacher who recruited me and the Principal are friends, so he probably wouldn't lie to me, right?"
No matter how stupid the people opposite him were, they now understood exactly what Zhang Zhi was doing.
Watching those people retreat in a somewhat disheveled state, he shook his head at Li Yuan. "Why did you have to do that?"
Li Yuan said enviously, "I just couldn't stand the look on their faces."
"Seven Dragons Academy is famous among family disciples like us!"
But what I didn't expect was that not only did you get into Seven Dragons Academy, you even managed to obtain a quota for the Trial Tower.
"In the future, I'll really have to rely on you to look after me."
Li Yuan was trying to win Zhang Zhi's favor.
If it had been someone else, Zhang Zhi might not have accepted them even if they groveled before him. But he had a fairly good impression of Li Yuan.
Mainly because he felt that Li Yuan had decent character.
At the very least, he hadn't bullied the weak. In their three years as classmates, and one and a half years as deskmates, he had never done anything against Zhang Zhi, though that was also related to the fact that they usually had little interaction.
But for a Noble Family disciple to achieve this during the age when people were most likely to be disliked by both chickens and dogs, it could be said to be extremely rare.
Someone with decent character was still worth befriending.
After watching that group leave, Li Yuan pointed into the distance and said, "There's a Small Library over there, right beside the Academic Affairs Office. It's usually used by the school's teachers to look up information."
If you want information about Seven Dragons Academy, there will definitely be some in that library.
"Coincidentally, I also know some rumors about Seven Dragons Academy. I'll tell you about them."
The Small Library did indeed contain information about Seven Dragons Academy.
This school's resources were truly formidable. It had more than a hundred thousand students, and over the past twenty thousand years, more than a hundred Middle Thousand World Realm Lords had emerged from the school, along with nearly ten thousand Lesser Thousand World Realm Lords.
There were currently more than ten Middle Thousand World Realm Lords and hundreds of Lesser Thousand World Realm Lords teaching at the school.
Those were all the materials about Seven Dragons Academy that Zhang Zhi found in the Small Library.
But even from just this information, Zhang Zhi understood how formidable the academy truly was.
The reason the Five Great Schools were called the Five Great Schools was precisely because each of them had a Middle Thousand World Realm Lord serving as its Sea-Calming Needle.
But this school had more than ten!
As for the gossip Li Yuan had heard, if the other two schools hadn't produced Great Thousand World Realm Lords, this school would definitely have been number one across the All Domain. That was why Seven Dragons Academy had been recruiting talented prospects everywhere in recent years.
This might also have been why Seven Dragons Academy had taken a liking to Zhang Zhi.
The two of them stayed in the library until nightfall.
As he was saying goodbye to Li Yuan, Li Yuan suddenly asked Zhang Zhi, "You should know that many families have support funds for outsiders. My family has one too. Would you be interested in applying?"
Zhang Zhi smiled and shook his head.
Put bluntly, this kind of family support fund was simply a channel for sucking blood from outsiders.
The targets they supported were Realm Lords who had high talent but humble origins. There was only one condition: they had to marry into the family.
Whether in his previous life or this one, Zhang Zhi had never intended to live off a woman.
Li Yuan instead became a little awkward. "I was being presumptuous. With your current potential, my family simply isn't capable of supporting you."
"But if you need cards related to the Water World Path in the future, you can come to me!"
Zhang Zhi's heart stirred when he heard this. It seemed that the Lesser Thousand World Realm Lord elder in his family followed the Dragon Palace Path?
He had a Dragon Gate Card, so naturally, the more fish cards he had, the better.
With that thought, he asked, "Does your family follow the Dragon Palace Path?"
"If that's the case, I happen to need a batch of fish cards, such as scale-fish cards. Gray ones will do."
"I also have two White Lizardman Cards. Do you think you could help me exchange them for some?"
"Gray fish cards? No problem!"
"Meet me at the school library tomorrow morning!"
...,...
The next day, the first thing Zhang Zhi did after waking up was still refining Green Cards.
The five remaining Green Human Cards required twenty-five points of Mental Power.
Next were the White Human Cards. On average, refining five consumed one point of Mental Power and took thirteen minutes.
As Zhang Zhi continued refining the cards methodically, thinking that his Mental Power should be enough to refine all the Human Cards today, he suddenly sensed that something was wrong.
The White Card in his hand consumed quite a lot of Mental Power during refinement.
This White Human Card seemed to have used one point of Mental Power just to be refined. That was nearly five times as much as the other White Cards.
Based on his previous experience, this should be an "elite" card, and it likely contained a human with extremely high talent.
Looking at the Human Card in his sea of consciousness, which appeared hardly any different from the others, he pondered for a moment before sending Mental Power into it!
Five points, ten points, twelve points.
His Mental Power was nearly depleted, so he hurriedly stopped.
The color of this White Card was clearly deeper than that of the others. A dozen or so points of Mental Power were obviously not this White Human Card's limit.
This card seemed to have the potential to advance into a Green Card!
But he had already used nearly all of his Mental Power for the day. It seemed he could only wait until tomorrow!
He really didn't have enough Mental Power!
In the morning, he went to the library, where Li Yuan gave him forty Gray Fish Cards.
Zhang Zhi hesitated at first.
After all, under normal circumstances, the exchange ratio between White Cards and Gray Cards was around one to thirteen.
Li Yuan noticed Zhang Zhi's hesitation:
"Ah, my family doesn't have many other kinds of cards, but we have plenty of fish cards. Besides, you probably know that Beastman Cards have been rising in price recently. If you still think I'm giving you too many, then consider the extra ones a friends' discount. How does that sound?"
Zhang Zhi ultimately agreed to the exchange ratio. After completing the exchange, he casually asked, "Do you know why Beastman Cards have suddenly become so popular recently?"
When Li Yuan heard this, he wore an expression that said Zhang Zhi had come to the right person:
"I really do know about this. I heard that a powerhouse who follows the Beastman Path has been unable to break through for a long time and is nearing the end of his lifespan. He wants to go crazy one last time before dying, so he's collecting a massive number of Beastman Cards. Once there are enough beastmen in his Small World, he'll begin slaughtering them to see whether he can force his Small World to break through its limits!"
"What!!"
Zhang Zhi was utterly shocked when he heard this!
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