I Can, I Can Win

Star City Academy, Principal's Office.

"Have you thought it over? Would you like to come to Star City Academy after graduation?"

Looking at the kind-faced, patiently persuasive Bai Fusheng, Feng Qi already had his answer.

Galaxy Academy had once been his dream, but he had applied there to further his studies in Cultivation Method Research and strive to enter Galaxy Academy's Cultivation Method Research institution in the future.

But now that he had Future Dreamland, whether he could get into Galaxy Academy was no longer important.

By comparison, Star City Academy was his best choice. Aside from Lin Ran and Mu Qing, those two ticking time bombs he couldn't stop worrying about, History Teacher Wang would also come here to study again someday in the future.

He looked forward to witnessing Old Wang's rise.

But he did not immediately accept Bai Fusheng's offer of guaranteed admission without an exam.

The art of negotiation lay in tugging back and forth, then getting what you wanted through that struggle. With that in mind, he said:

"Master, can I discuss something with you?"

Hearing that, Bai Fusheng immediately sensed an opening and grinned.

"Go ahead. As long as you aren't asking to be the principal, everything is negotiable."

"Joining Star City Academy isn't a problem, but I don't want to be a student."

"Not a student? Do you really want to be the principal?" Bai Fusheng stared at him in astonishment.

Feng Qi: ...

"Actually, I want to be a teacher at Star City Academy and teach the students knowledge about Cultivation Method Studies. You know my talent. I'm not bragging, but with my abilities, being an academy teacher would be more than easy."

Bai Fusheng did not refute such a boastful statement.

He had heard Feng Qi lecture before. His foundation was solid, and his content was clear and well-organized. It was practically a classroom-ready teaching model, so it was theoretically feasible for Feng Qi to become a teacher.

But the problem was that not just anyone could become an academy teacher. They needed to provide proof of various qualifications and pass the Ministry of Education's assessments.

One of those requirements was something Feng Qi could never meet: providing an academy graduation certificate.

These rigid requirements existed for the sake of the academy's students. It was not mere inflexibility; after all, teaching Cultivation Methods was no joke.

Inexperienced teaching could easily lead students to make mistakes in cultivation. In severe cases, it could even cause their meridians to rupture and kill them.

Back then, the major academies had hired a batch of renowned experts from the Domain Battle Squad as instructors, and many cultivation safety incidents had occurred during that period.

Being strong and knowing how to teach were two different things.

Many of these rigid rules had been born from lessons learned throughout history.

Looking at Feng Qi, Bai Fusheng found himself in a difficult position. It wasn't that he doubted Feng Qi's ability, but that he could not fulfill Feng Qi's request.

"Master, you're the principal. I think you can definitely handle such a small matter easily."

"A small matter? If I agree to this, I might lose my position as principal. You don't even have teaching qualifications, so how can I let you become a teacher?" Bai Fusheng snapped, glaring at him.

"Then let's try a different approach. I can become a student at Star City Academy, but you have to give me the corresponding authority of a teacher—for example, letting me lead a class. Publicly, though, I'll still be a student."

"This... I'll think about it."

Letting Feng Qi teach a few occasional classes was still within his authority, but allowing Feng Qi to lead an entire class felt like going too far.

"Just let me try. If I can't teach them well, I'll obediently be a student. How about it?" Feng Qi continued persuading him, trying to win Bai Fusheng's approval.

As for whether he could teach the students well, he was not worried.

The cultivation teaching videos from Future Dreamland could completely solve that problem for him.

There was nothing copying the future couldn't solve. If there was, then he would just copy it a few more times.

After hesitating for a moment, Bai Fusheng gritted his teeth.

"Since you're so confident, I'll let you try for now. But what exactly are you thinking, kid? Isn't being a student good enough? Why insist on becoming a teacher and making trouble for yourself?"

"A genius has to be different," Feng Qi said with a grin.

Watching Feng Qi gradually put on airs, Bai Fusheng was left speechless.

For some reason, he suddenly found Feng Qi extremely punchable.

After returning from the Principal's Office to his dormitory.

Feng Qi sat at his desk, spread open his notebook, and began recording what he had gained from this trip to Future Dreamland, along with the preparations he needed to make before entering Dreamland next time.

The "Sucker" he had encountered in Future Dreamland this time had made him curious.

It seemed there was something on him that attracted Sucker and made her dependent on him.

He had no idea what the specific reason was, so he planned to search the Database carefully the next time he entered Future Dreamland and see whether there were any records related to Sucker.

But his greatest gain from this trip to Future Dreamland was learning that enemies were lurking among humanity. The mysterious Scarlet Institute had most likely already been controlled by the enemy and turned into a tool for Domain Creatures to restrain the development of human civilization.

Based on the description in the email message, he guessed that the Scarlet Institute might also be conducting a series of secret studies harmful to the development of human civilization. The ones leading those research projects were Domain Transcendent Creatures capable of leaving the Domain Field.

As for exactly what those research projects were, the future had left him very limited information, so there was no way to know the answer.

Now that he had returned from Future Dreamland, he set a goal for himself.

He would secretly establish an organization capable of contending with the Scarlet Institute, while also protecting those human geniuses who might die young ahead of time.

As long as he could accomplish those things, the future would inevitably undergo earth-shaking changes.

Feng Qi's mindset had quietly changed with each trip into Future Dreamland.

When he first entered the Star City Shelter and learned that human civilization would be destroyed fifteen hundred years later, he had been stunned and had even found it hard to believe.

Before that, he had firmly believed that humanity would surely win on the long road of resisting Domain invasions.

But now he understood that the end of human civilization was no accident. The truth was cruel.

Where was this supposed peaceful era?

The claim that humanity only needed to keep developing and would one day drive away every Domain Field to achieve final victory was all a lie.

Beneath the seemingly peaceful development of civilization, dark currents churned. A series of crises capable of destroying human civilization existed in secret.

The Scarlet Institute, Mu Qing, Lin Ran... Perhaps many more undiscovered crises lurked in the shadows. Like antivirus software, he needed to travel through the future, search out the viruses hidden in history, kill them, and ensure the healthy growth of human civilization.

Though he felt the pressure, he took a deep breath, and his gaze became resolute once more.

Since he had decided to step forward, he would never retreat.

Human civilization's end was fifteen hundred years away. In truth, it had nothing to do with him now, because by the time World's End came, he would have long been buried in the ground. He could have lived out his life carefree and ignored everything about the future.

But he was not that kind of person.

He believed that when faced with the same question, there would be people like him who would choose to fight without hesitation.

History could prove that.

Star City had once nearly been swallowed by the ever-expanding Domain Field. At that time, a group of people had stepped forward. One after another, they had thrown themselves fearlessly into the battle against the Domain Field, using countless sacrifices to drive back the spreading Domain Field.

The peace and tranquility they enjoyed in Star City today had been created by the lives of those martyrs.

If everyone chose to retreat, humanity would have no future.

At that thought, he suddenly felt an enormous weight on his shoulders.

When he had browsed the Star City Database, he had felt that he was standing on the shoulders of the future, while modern civilization was developing upon his shoulders.

But now he suddenly felt that the future was standing on his shoulders too.

Because every action he took could affect the future and change it.

Therefore, he carried a future on his shoulders!

Closing his notebook, he walked to the balcony and looked up at the star-filled night sky. The oppression in his heart eased.

As the breeze brushed against his face and he savored the beauty within the silence, he grinned.

"I can win!"

Since the future was not the future he wanted, then he would turn it into the future he envisioned.