Settling in

"I'm here. It's nice, plenty spacious," Lu Zhen replied.

"Good." Liu Bowen paused, his tone turning more serious. "I've already had someone arrange your enrollment at the academy. You're going straight into the elite class."

"The academy has different instructors, each teaching different cultivation arts.

The Great Wilderness's cultivation arts are exquisite. A single art costs around several hundred thousand Mystic Coins.

The card I gave you should be enough to pick out a few good ones. Sign up for whatever you want to learn when you get there."

"Understood." Lu Zhen nodded. This was exactly what he lacked.

"One more thing." Liu Bowen lowered his voice a little.

"With your current talent, you should rank among the top ten in our cohort at Nine Provinces Academy—[each decade counts as one cohort]."

"By rights, given your great contributions to the Nine Provinces Small World, the council should allocate a substantial amount of resources to you directly.

But at the meeting a while ago, those people argued that you were newly arrived and still needed to switch cultivation arts, so you would need time to adapt.

That means you'll have to compete for resources yourself."

Liu Bowen sighed.

"The greater the talent and strength you show at the academy, the easier it'll be for me to speak up for you here and secure things for you."

"I understand." Lu Zhen remained calm.

"Good. As long as you know where things stand." Liu Bowen chuckled. "Go report to the academy first thing tomorrow morning. I've arranged for someone to show you around."

"She's a young woman from our lineage, and she happens to be in the elite class too. Oh, and she lives right next door to you."

Liu Bowen chuckled again, then ended the communication before Lu Zhen could ask anything