The Best Choice

Star City Academy, Combat Class Six.

Standing before the lectern and looking at the attentive students below, Feng Qi spoke with ease.

He would be returning to school tomorrow. Over the past few days, aside from staying in the library with Lin Ran, he had been teaching classes throughout the academy.

Bai Fusheng now arranged one class for him every day, letting him experience what it felt like to be a teacher. More importantly, it was to help him determine whether he was suited for the profession.

Perhaps even Bai Fusheng had not expected every one of Feng Qi's classes to become immensely popular, with every seat filled.

Many students from non-combat majors had also come after hearing about them to sit in.

Students who could not get seats even squatted on the floor or leaned by the corridor windows to listen.

Moreover, every student who attended brought a notebook, writing as they listened. The learning atmosphere in every class was incredibly strong.

What he taught in class also became a hot topic among the students that day.

Feng Qi had expected this, so he was not surprised.

After all, what he had copied from the Future Dreamland Database were teaching templates, and their explanations were simple and easy to understand.

All he needed to do was imitate them, repeating to the students what the instructors in the videos had said, along with the marked key points.

This time, the Cultivation Method he had copied in the Future Dreamland was "Heaven and Earth Meditation," a method focused on spiritual cultivation.

Its content was divided into four chapters.

So he planned to use four lessons to teach this Cultivation Method to the students of Star City Academy.

Today was the fourth lesson, as well as the last.

As time passed, Feng Qi closed his lesson notebook and looked at the students below with a smile.

"That concludes today's lesson. We've finished all four chapters of Heaven and Earth Meditation. After class, you can compare notes and fill in anything you missed. I'll be leaving the academy for a while tomorrow. We'll meet again when I return."

With that, he turned to leave.

At that moment, a student seated below suddenly stood up and looked at Feng Qi expectantly.

"Teacher Feng, I'm a student from Cultivation Method Class Four. My name is Ding Siyuan. I've benefited greatly from your lessons these past few days. I heard that the Cultivation Methods you've taught were all developed by you, so I hope that when you have time, you can give us a lesson about your insights into Cultivation Method research. It would be immensely meaningful to students like us in the Cultivation Method Class."

Hearing this, Feng Qi could not help but be stunned.

Students in the Cultivation Method Class were different from those in the Combat Class. Their future goal was surely to enter major research institutions and become Cultivation Method Researchers.

That had once been his goal as well.

So he could understand this student's desire to learn the thought process and insights behind his Cultivation Method research.

For students of the Cultivation Method Class, cultivation itself was secondary. Understanding the structure of the human body and learning how to create an entirely new Cultivation Method were the directions they worked toward.

In comparison, the Combat Class learned like they were applying formulas to calculate answers, while the students of the Cultivation Method Class sought to create entirely new formulas.

Therefore, the thought process and insights behind creating formulas were immensely important to Cultivation Method Class students.

Faced with the student's question, Feng Qi felt embarrassed inside.

That was because he was only a half-baked amateur when it came to Cultivation Method research theory.

Wang Jinsheng had once carefully trained him in this area, but he was still far from capable of truly creating a Cultivation Method. The knowledge he possessed was not even as professional as that of these students, who had spent years diligently studying in the Cultivation Method Class.

The students in the Cultivation Method Class would surely believe that someone with solid theory might not necessarily be strong in practice, but someone who had practically developed a Cultivation Method must certainly possess extremely solid theoretical knowledge.

So they believed that he, someone who had created a brand-new Cultivation Method, was deeply knowledgeable in Cultivation Method research and had his own unique insights.

But the students would never imagine that he was really only good at prac(copy)tic(ing), while his theoretical knowledge was complete trash.

"Since you're interested, I'll give a lesson specifically about my Cultivation Method research insights after I return," Feng Qi replied with a smile.

Then, amid the students' applause, he left the classroom and returned to his dormitory.

Sitting before his desk, Feng Qi added an item to his notebook for the next time he entered the Future Dreamland:

Next time I enter the Future Dreamland, find a Basics of Cultivation Method Research class and copy it properly. If I'm going to show off, I need to go all the way!

He knew very well what the consequences of showing off were.

The higher-profile he became, the more likely he was to be assassinated by enemies lurking in the shadows.

But since he had chosen this path, he had to remain high-profile and bear the risks that came with it.

Copying Cultivation Methods from the future was advancing the development of human civilization as a whole, and its impact on the future would be profound. He could not give it up.

That was also why he felt that modern civilization was developing while standing on his shoulders.

There was no way to do this quietly.

His proposal to Bai Fusheng that he become a teacher had also been partly motivated by this consideration.

Another important reason was that once he became an academy teacher, he could secretly cultivate and establish an organization to oppose the Scarlet Institute.

For example, Lin Ran, Mu Qing, and the contemporary geniuses he would recruit in the future could all gather around him as students, and the outside world would not suspect anything.

While teaching, he could also discover promising talents within Star City Academy, nurture them, and even recruit them into the organization.

Thus, becoming a teacher would allow him to impart knowledge and promote humanity's development in Cultivation Studies, while also serving as a cover for secretly building an organization against the Scarlet Institute.

No matter how he looked at it, becoming a teacher at the academy was one of the best choices for him.

The other choice was becoming the principal. Then all of Star City Academy would become his potential force, but that was obviously unrealistic.

At the same time, security within Star City Academy was tight. While teaching there, his personal safety would be relatively protected—at the very least, it was much safer than staying outside.

As he thought, Feng Qi added more notes to his notebook.

Tomorrow, he would leave Star City Academy and return to school to prepare for graduation.

He suddenly looked forward to seeing how his best friend Mo Fei would react when he learned that Feng Qi had been exempted from examinations and guaranteed admission to Star City Academy.

Galaxy Academy, Principal's Office.

Looking at the latest notice from the Tiger Soul Research Institute in his hand, Principal Yan Junqing wore a surprised expression.

The notice required every school to replace its daily morning Cultivation Gymnastics with the newest version.

At the same time, first-year students at all major academies had to study the latest version of Cultivation Gymnastics as a foundational cultivation subject for one month before attempting to engage with other core Cultivation Studies subjects.

The personal recommendation at the end of the notice especially caught Yan Junqing's attention.

"Feng Qi? Only seventeen years old?!"

"A Cultivation Method research prodigy like this belongs at Galaxy Academy!"

With that thought, he took out his phone and made a call. As soon as it connected, he immediately said,

"Draft an early admission notice for a guaranteed-admission student in my name..."

Similar scenes unfolded in the principal's offices of major academies.

Feng Qi, who was currently buried in thought about future development, would never have imagined that, as he approached graduation, he had already become a key target of attention for the major academies.

Star City Academy, Principal's Office.

Taking the notice handed over by his assistant, Bai Fusheng took a sip of tea and began reading it.

But when he saw the personal recommendation at the end of the notice, he could not help but burst into laughter.

"Good thing I got there first. Old friends, you're too late!"

But halfway through laughing, he suddenly felt that it was not entirely secure, so he hurriedly dialed Feng Qi's number.

After several rings, Feng Qi's voice came through.

"Grandteacher, do you need something?"

"Kid, a man's word is his bond. No matter what temptations the outside world offers you, since you've agreed, you can't go back on it..."

Feng Qi, who was currently racking his brains over his notebook, wore a completely baffled expression.