Great Evolution Academy's Official Account

"He's a fellow disciple of mine from Hanging Moon Peak, and we get along 'very well.' If you see him, notify me immediately."

After leaving those words, Ying Ruomu turned to leave, but cultivators who had heard the news soon came downstairs and crowded around him.

"Junior Brother Ying, what brings you here today? Are you chartering a boat to gather pearls?"

"Brother Ying, our merchant association's boat just unloaded a shipment. If you want to rent it, we can negotiate the price."

"Brother Ying, my master needs a Supreme Spirit Pearl to refine his bonded artifact. Name a price for the one you have."

Li Yu had no idea Ying Ruomu was looking for him. After leaving the office, he went searching for a suitable house, but the prices were either too expensive or too high, so he could only make do with staying at an inn for now.

That evening, he turned on his tablet and immersed himself in the Galaxy Platform. Following Xue Feng's advice, he searched for educational institutions to catch up on his studies.

Based on his needs, Li Yu searched for streamers tagged with adult education.

He planned to enroll in an elementary school course for adults first. He had already taught himself most of the basic terminology covered in kindergarten and wanted to skip a grade.

But there were so many streamers offering education that Li Yu's eyes swam.

Fortunately, ever since receiving the tablet, he had watched livestreams whenever he had time and had already mastered the filtering functions.

First, he sorted the prices from highest to lowest.

The first page displayed private educational institutions offering things like a deluxe supreme one-on-one package for 19,999 Star Coins. Li Yu did not even dare click on them and scrolled straight down.

Only when the prices fell below 100 Star Coins did Li Yu find the courage to click through and read the reviews.

But after reading a few, his brows knitted tightly.

Many reviews said that after payment, the school's teachers were irresponsible, teaching carelessly by reading straight from the textbook. Once they had muddled through the course, they simply issued a diploma and considered the teaching done.

There was more than one such review, making Li Yu even more cautious.

His account held only the Star Coins Jiang Taiyi had left him. He could not afford to choose one of those unscrupulous educational institutions.

Soon, he came across a streamer called "Great Evolution Academy's Official Account."

Li Yu's eyes lit up, and he immediately followed it. Although he considered his aptitude for comprehension average, that did nothing to diminish his yearning for an institution of higher learning.

He checked the fees for Great Evolution Academy's adult education program: 99 Star Coins covered everything, from adult elementary school through an adult bachelor's degree.

That's a little expensive.

Li Yu shook his head. Lacking confidence in his own comprehension, he changed the filter to sort by follower count, from highest to lowest.

To his surprise, "Great Evolution Academy's Official Account" ranked first this time, rather than those private educational institutions.

As expected of the school with the highest admission requirements in the Galaxy Alliance!

Even as Li Yu admired it, he sorted by the most positive reviews. This time, "Great Evolution Academy's Official Account" came dead last.

Li Yu found that odd. Could this adult education program be something Great Evolution Academy used specifically to generate revenue?

He could not resist clicking through to read the reviews and discovered that Great Evolution Academy's guiding principle was: students must actually learn, and the value of the academy's diplomas must be guaranteed!

Once enrolled, anyone who wanted a diploma had to pass every examination at Great Evolution Academy. They even had to earn perfect scores, because getting a single question wrong meant there was still a gap in their knowledge, and they would fail.

Before enrolling, many adults believed the poor quality of education on their home planets had held back their talents, so they wanted to prove themselves through Great Evolution Academy's adult education program.

Great Evolution Academy's adult education program had indeed produced a genius before. After completing everything from adult elementary school through the bachelor's curriculum, that person mastered Thousand Mechanisms Evolution. Starting late yet overtaking those ahead, they comprehended all 480 million formations and cultivated a primordial spirit in just a hundred years.

This example inspired many people in the Galaxy Alliance, keeping enrollment in Great Evolution Academy's adult education program consistently high.

Yet its graduation rate ranked last among all schools, at less than one percent.

Precisely for that reason, negative reviews surged like a tide.

After reading them, however, Li Yu's eyes shone.

That means as long as I don't graduate, I can keep taking advantage of Great Evolution Academy's educational resources.

This is the one!

With an aching heart, Li Yu paid 99 Star Coins.

Seeing that his account balance had fallen to just 19.1, he began wondering how he could earn Star Coins.

During this time, he had also learned what spirit crystals were. They were the official currency of the Galaxy Alliance, equivalent to the spirit stones here in Mountain Sea.

The difference was that spirit crystals were concentrated essence uniformly refined and pressed from spirit stone ore. Only the Galaxy Central Bank could issue them. Each was a small, round coin bearing a special mark.

The marks differed according to denomination.

To top up an account, one only needed to place spirit crystals on the tablet and tap to confirm. It would automatically recognize the marks. Once the top-up was complete, the spirit crystals would turn to powder and dissipate.

Thus, even if Li Yu possessed countless spirit stones, he could not use them to top up his tablet. Without the official marks, they were counterfeit currency.

With direct top-ups out of the question, his remaining option was to become a streamer and have other people tip him.

But Li Yu had no act to offer.

He genuinely had no idea what he should stream to make viewers willingly give him their Star Coins.

Soon, Li Yu thought of pearl gathering.

There were quite a few people on the Galaxy Platform who went shore foraging on water-covered planets or streamed survival in aquatic worlds. Pearl gathering counted as a small category within that, without any major streamers, so there was relatively little competition.

Li Yu felt it had potential and decided to give it a try when he had time.

Just then, a link popped up in his private messages. He had successfully paid to enroll in Great Evolution Academy's adult education program, and it asked him to fill in his personal information.

Li Yu immediately opened the link. At the first line, where he had to enter his name, he paused briefly, wondering whether to use an alias, since the account he was currently using belonged to Patriarch Jiang Taiyi.

In the end, however, he truthfully entered his own name, age, cultivation, and other information.

The enrollment instructions warned that the information had to be truthful and valid. If any of it was discovered to be false, the enrollment fee would be refunded, and no further applications from related accounts would be accepted.

Li Yu did not know how Great Evolution Academy would verify it, but as a top university, it surely had experts with primordial spirits overseeing it. Perhaps they had special methods.

In the end, however, he still got stuck at the residential address field.

Li Yu did not know which part of the Galaxy Alliance Mountain Sea, where he lived, belonged to. But he soon noticed there was no ※ after the address field, meaning it was not required and could either be filled in or left blank.

After hesitating for a while, Li Yu wrote "Mountain Sea, Eastern Lands, Zhao Kingdom."