New Journey

(Transition Chapter)

World Power is the fundamental force World Masters use to Control Small Worlds.

Ten points of Mental Power can be converted into one point of World Power. World Masters can convert their excess Mental Power into World Power and store it in World Beads.

The maximum World Power that can be stored in a Micro World's World Bead is one thousand points.

For a Small World, it's ten thousand points.

Generally speaking, it takes at least five years for a World Master who has just opened up a Micro Small World to fill their World Bead with one thousand points of World Power.

More likely, World Masters will have already advanced to Small Small Worlds before their World Beads are full.

World Masters need Mental Power and World Power for too many things.

And Zhang Zhi needs Mental Power and World Power for even more things! The continuous advancement of his Small World does cause his Mental Power Value to increase by leaps and bounds, but this rapid increase takes time.

After opening up a Small World, everyone experiences the greatest increase in Mental Power acquisition, with their Mental Power Value growing at more than ten times the normal rate.

But with subsequent Small World advancements, the growth rate is only about three times each time.

Zhang Zhi's initial Mental Power Value was relatively high, but he also had many places where he needed to consume Mental Power.

He estimated that perhaps when his Small World advanced to a Medium World, his Mental Power would be sufficient to bear the consumption of this Gray Trial Tower.

Receiving such a huge reward but being unable to use it left him with a lot of resentment.

After the Heaven and Earth Trial, benefiting from the Heaven and Earth Gift, his Small World experienced an explosive growth spurt.

Basic Alchemy was upgraded to Gray by Zhang Zhi, but it hasn't been integrated into his Small World yet.

He currently has no alchemy formulas, and there are hardly any alchemy materials in his Small World, so he can only put it aside for now.

After he finished dealing with the various matters in his Small World following the Heaven and Earth Trial, only five days were left before Seven Dragons Academy started. By this time, his cultivation had also broken through to the Elite Realm the day before yesterday.

Advancing his Small World twice did indeed improve his aptitude significantly, but reaching the Mortal Transformation Realm would require some time to accumulate.

He went to the Black Market to bring the latest chapter of "Golden Scales Are Not Things In A Pond" to the bookseller and collected his share of over five hundred Gold Yuan Vouchers for this issue.

He returned to the Orphanage, chatted with the old principal, bragged to his younger siblings, and after finishing lunch, as usual, he left money for the Orphanage's lunch.

The difference was that this time the amount was quite large, a full two hundred Gold Yuan Vouchers.

At the entrance of the Orphanage, he 'happened' to run into Li Yuan passing by.

Li Yuan's school was in Yuzhang, and Zhang Zhi needed to transfer in Yuzhang to get to Seven Dragons Prefecture.

After walking and chatting for a while, Li Yuan learned that Zhang Zhi planned to leave tomorrow and asked if he needed help buying tickets.

The technology in this world was sometimes more advanced than Earth in his previous life, and sometimes far behind. By Zhang Zhi's standards, it was roughly equivalent to Huaxia in the 1990s.

Internal combustion trains were already quite mature technology here and were the main mode of transportation for ordinary people traveling to other cities.

Of course, there were also things like teleportation arrays, but the price for one trip was expensive. Airship technology was also relatively well-developed, but this was an Extraordinary world, and civilian airships were not popular for various reasons.

Therefore, the only option was to take a train to Seven Dragons Prefecture.

The area under the jurisdiction of Tianxing Domain was vast, even larger than Earth in his previous life. The area of Qingshan Dao alone was almost as large as the Eurasian Continent. Traveling from Yicheng to Seven Dragons Prefecture by train would take roughly three days and four nights, and there were no direct routes. He had to go to Yuzhang first to transfer.

He had only bought tickets from Yicheng to Yuzhang for now. Tickets from Yuzhang to Seven Dragons Prefecture could only be bought after arriving in Yuzhang.

As a Family Disciple, Li Yuan had some privileges. Seeing his offer to help buy tickets, Zhang Zhi didn't refuse.

Li Yuan delivered the tickets that afternoon, from Yuzhang to Seven Dragons, and it was even a sleeper berth.

Before leaving, he went to the school, wanting to say goodbye to the Principal, but the Principal was still not there.

As the train started moving, watching the scenery slowly slide backward outside the window, a sense of temporal displacement washed over him.

He had taken trains many times in his previous life. This was his first time taking a train in this world, and memories of his past experiences on Earth flooded his mind one after another.

After a moment of reflection, he composed himself and sat down in his berth.

It would take about twenty hours from Yicheng to Yuzhang. He had bought a sleeper berth, and the trains in this world were much wider than those on Earth. Each row had two compartments with a corridor in between.

He had read novels on Earth that described many romantic encounters on trains, and Zhang Zhi had indeed experienced some in his previous life. On this train, a young married woman across the aisle kept looking at him.

However, he was only a little over fourteen years old in this body, and he didn't have many thoughts about romantic encounters.

Moreover, the young woman was more likely just curious, as there weren't many fourteen or fifteen-year-old teenagers traveling alone in this world.

There were no incidents along the way. He got off the train, transferred, and boarded the train from Yuzhang to Seven Dragons Prefecture.

The train from Yuzhang to Seven Dragons was much faster. Three days later, Zhang Zhi, feeling completely numb from sitting, slowly got off the train.

Without air conditioning on the trains in this world, sitting for several days and nights in a row was something most people couldn't endure.

This was still in a higher-class carriage that Li Yuan had bought for him, equipped with a dedicated shower room. Otherwise, he would have definitely smelled terrible by the time he arrived.

Stepping out of the train station, looking at the huge station square, the dense crowd, and the touts soliciting travelers, Zhang Zhi suddenly felt like it was the Spring Festival travel season on Earth.

He smiled and shook his head, pushing the thought away, and walked towards the road in the distance.

The reason Zhang Zhi felt this world was currently like Huaxia in the 1990s was largely because the atmosphere in certain areas of this world was very similar to that era.

For example, the vibrancy.

For example, the vast majority of people felt that life had hope.

Also, the chaotic public order.

The train station is arguably the most mixed area in a city. With his current small frame at the Elite Realm, it's best to just honestly take public transportation from outside.

Three hours later, after taking quite a few detours, Zhang Zhi looked at the somewhat shabby school gate ahead, which read "Seven Dragons Academy," and thought, Finally, I'm here!

The school gate wasn't very big, and a long line had formed.

He asked someone nearby who was maintaining order and learned that they needed to report at the registration point at the school entrance first, and then someone would lead them to their respective academies.

Different academies had different subjects in their courses.

For example, the Beastman Academy and the Monster Race Academy primarily taught knowledge related to the Beastman Path.

Of course, it wasn't just divided by race.

For instance, the Divine Path had all sorts of races within it!

For example, the Immortal Cultivation Academy was mainly composed of the Monster Race and Human Race, mixed with some other races. At the same time, the Human Race Academy and the Immortal Cultivation Academy had some overlapping courses.

After thanking the person, he walked towards the long line.