Li Qianjun's Aloofness

Meeting Li Qianjun went smoothly. On the surface, he was also very warm toward Zhang Zhi, but having grown up in an orphanage, Zhang Zhi was very good at distinguishing genuine feelings from false ones.

Beneath Li Qianjun's enthusiastic exterior, he sensed the aloofness radiating from the depths of the man's being.

After leaving Li Qianjun's residence, Li Fan enthusiastically led Zhang Zhi to the Academic Affairs Office to complete his enrollment procedures.

On the way to the Academic Affairs Office, Zhang Zhi roughly figured out the reason for Li Qianjun's aloofness.

A Realm Lord capable of opening a Small Small World was indeed considered one of the top one or two geniuses in Qingshan Dao. But when that scope expanded to the entire All Domain, he could only be considered among the top group of geniuses.

Of course, his Small Small World was very different from the Small Small Worlds opened by other geniuses. For one thing, his Small World already had nearly thirty Mortal Transformation Realm cultivators, including Fang Yun, who had even begun seeking a path to the Transcendent Realm.

This was something other geniuses would need several or even more than ten years to catch up with.

But only he knew the current situation inside his Small World.

His orphanage background was the only thing that made the title of genius who had opened a Small Small World more valuable. Otherwise, Li Qianjun might not have been willing to give him another chance later.

At first, Li Qianjun had indeed thought highly of him. But as a Realm Lord of a Thousand World, Li Qianjun naturally had his own pride.

As a Realm Lord whose Small World contained beings akin to gods, he certainly had the capital to be proud!

But Zhang Zhi had rejected his goodwill at the very beginning.

A Realm Lord who had only just opened a Small World, whose strongest combat power was merely at the Mortal Transformation Realm, was hardly any different from an ant to him.

An ant had rejected a god's goodwill, yet the god had not casually crushed it to death. That already counted as merciful.

The reason he had been willing to give Zhang Zhi another chance later was, first, as he had said, he believed Zhang Zhi's orphanage background meant his horizons were inevitably narrow, and going to another school would be a waste of his talent.

Second, the Principal's relationship with him was definitely extraordinary. Otherwise, no matter how compassionate he was, he would not have offered a chance to an ant that had rejected his goodwill.

And now that Zhang Zhi had entered Seven Dragons Academy, Li Qianjun felt he had given the Principal an explanation and had also given this "genius" a chance to prove himself.

Until Zhang Zhi proved his abilities, he would definitely not pay him any more attention.

Zhang Zhi believed that if he turned around and went back to visit Li Qianjun now, he definitely would not even be allowed through the door!

Thinking of this, Zhang Zhi sighed inwardly. I owe the Principal a huge favor.

When they reached the Academic Affairs Office, the immortal crane set the two of them down before spreading its wings and flying away.

Li Fan led Zhang Zhi into the Office Building. Seeing Zhang Zhi still looking at the crane flying off, he said with a smile, "Those immortal cranes were given to the school by a Your Excellency. They're rather proud, so I can only occasionally ride them a few times by borrowing the Academic Affairs Office's name."

"Most of the time, I take the campus shuttle like you do."

Campus transportation is free. You only need to show your Student ID.

With someone from the Academic Affairs Office like Li Fan present, the procedures were naturally completed very quickly.

When he received his Student ID, Zhang Zhi was slightly surprised.

The photo on the Student ID showed his current appearance in real time. Whatever expression he wore, that was the expression displayed on the Student ID.

Could this thing be the product of combining technology with cultivation?

It finally has a hint of the immortal cultivation aesthetic!

After hurrying along, by the time Li Fan brought Zhang Zhi to his residence, it was already getting late.

Looking at the antique-style house occupying at least four or five mu, Zhang Zhi finally understood why the school covered such a vast area.

But then he thought about it. Although everyone in this world could open a Small World, in reality, only about one-third of people could actually do so.

And the students of Seven Dragons Academy were the most talented portion of the top one percent among that one-third who had successfully opened Small Worlds.

People like this would definitely become the backbone of humanity in the future. Neither the relevant authorities nor the various major factions would be stingy when it came to them.

Otherwise, were they supposed to make a Realm Lord live in the eight-person or ten-person dormitories from Zhang Zhi's previous life, where there was not even air conditioning or hot water?

It would be strange if they did not rebel.

After handing the key to Zhang Zhi, Li Fan hurried back. He even politely declined when Zhang Zhi wanted to treat him to a meal as thanks, saying that he still had too much work to do and that they could talk about it after the school year began.

Thinking back to how Li Fan had kept his head down writing documents during registration and had accompanied him everywhere afterward, Zhang Zhi figured his workload really had piled up, so he did not insist.

Zhang Zhi ate dinner in the school cafeteria. The taste was average, but at least it was free.

The cafeteria also had things that were not free, such as various Spirit Fish and Monster Beast meat that had reached a rank. It even supplied White Rank Spirit Rice without any limit.

It was just that the prices of those things were not attractive to Zhang Zhi.

But he was currently in a period of rapid development. Given some time, whether it was Spirit Rice, Monster Beasts, Monster Fish, or even Spirit Beasts and Spirit Fish, he could eat whatever he wanted.

Especially fish. With the Dragon Gate Card, he might even be able to eat Monster Dragon meat in the future.

After dinner, he took the campus subway and began familiarizing himself with the school grounds.

The subway here was a subway in the literal sense—an underground railway with an internal-combustion locomotive at its head.

After wandering around the more important places, such as the library, Trial Tower, Simulation Battlefield, Academic Building, Combat Practice Ground, Student Activity Center, and Logistics Management Office, Zhang Zhi returned to his residence and went to bed early.

The place at Seven Dragons Academy that interested him most, aside from the Trial Tower, was naturally the library.

The library at Seven Dragons Academy definitely had far more books than Yizhou Elementary School.

Although the upper echelons of this world had an extremely tight monopoly over knowledge, especially knowledge related to Small Worlds, an organization like Seven Dragons Academy could barely be considered part of the upper echelons. The library here might even contain information about what the few patterns on his World Bead represented.

Registration at the school would not end for another two days, and he planned to spend those two days holed up in the library.

Early the next morning, he went to the library.

When he took the subway to the library, he found that there were far more people inside than he had imagined.

In any world, there was never a shortage of people with talent, nor of people who possessed both talent and diligence.

This world had no computers, so anyone who wanted to search for information could only do so through the book catalog.

The patterns were related to the World Bead. As Zhang Zhi flipped through the catalog looking for books related to World Beads, he unexpectedly noticed that the catalog for books on Heavenly Material, Earthly Treasures contained a book titled Several Speculations Regarding the Flat Peach Tree's Transformation into a Heavenly Material, Earthly Treasure.

Could this book be related to the Flat Peach Tree?

(Don't joke around on April Fools' Day. For every ten monthly tickets received today, I'll add one more chapter. Really—Chinese people don't lie to Chinese people!)