Qing Chen walked towards the main teaching building.

Lu Yuan and Ni Ergou stood at the entrance. When they saw Qing Chen, disguised, blending into the crowd, both twitched an eye.

This newly appointed school director had no shame. He'd already become a school director, this land was all his family's, and yet he was still taking the branch campus exam?

Qing Chen walked past them as if he didn't know them, not showing the slightest embarrassment.

But at that moment, seeing a familiar back in front of him, he suddenly felt something was wrong.

A girl ran from behind, smiling and shouting, "Shendai Kongyin!"

The familiar figure turned around, and continued walking into the teaching building arm in arm with the girl.

Qing Chen was stunned. How could this girl be at Time Traveler Academy?

It seemed reasonable that Shendai Kongyin would appear here; after all, she wasn't much older than him. After defecting from the Shendai Consortium, she could only settle domestically.

She was also a Time Traveler student.

However, Qing Chen couldn't help but think deeply. Strictly speaking, Shendai Kongyin should now be a member of Nine Provinces, and even Jiu Ran of the Red Leaf organization should also be.

Were they in the Academy with the mission of poaching people for Nine Provinces?

After all, Kunlun and Nine Provinces appeared harmonious, but in reality, their goals differed.

Nine Provinces could not give up a place like the Academy, full of Time Travelers.

The Master of Daybreak's first reaction upon seeing Shendai Kongyin, his former fiancée, was to analyze her identity and purpose for being here.

Branch campus exam.

In fact, it wasn't a real exam; it was more like a questionnaire to identify identities.

The exam was divided into three parts. No question had points. Each exam paper would be analyzed separately by Kunlun Members to see if the examinee possessed certain qualities.

The first part was simple: selecting which group you belonged to.

Question 1: a, Cultivator; b, Awakened One; c, Gene Soldiers; d, ordinary person.

Question 2: a, Underworld Consortium member; b, wealthy family; c, average family; d, had a hard life.

Question 3: a, complete Inner World family; b, broken Inner World family; c, no family.

This part had a total of 18 options, allowing Kunlun to improve everyone's file information and provide more accurate guidance.

The second part was relatively complex, divided into two sub-topics. The first was about Inner World university research directions involving mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology.

The second was a relatively authoritative IQ test worldwide.

Obviously, Kunlun would use the answers from this part to analyze whether a student was suitable for the science and technology Academy.

Few people could answer the questions in this part, so the students in the science and technology Academy were the fewest, even fewer than those in the Supernatural Academy...

The third part was strange. It only printed a pattern with strange lines.

The answer required was what you saw after staring at the pattern for 100 seconds.

Qing Chen, determined to enter the basic Academy, sat in the classroom looking at the paper. He filled in the worst answer, "d', for the first part and didn't write a single answer in the second part.

Only the third part was interesting. Qing Chen didn't know what answer Kunlun wanted.

Analyzing the intent, the first part looked at identity, the second part at knowledge, and the third part probably looked at Cultivation talent?

He silently stared at the pattern.

The pattern was like the swirling witchcraft formations of the Arbitrary Door, except the three circles of patterns were symbols he couldn't understand. Some looked like tadpoles, some like Sanskrit, and some like cursive English script.

Combined, they were strange and mysterious.

Suddenly, when Qing Chen counted to 100 seconds, he felt an irresistible drowsiness, his eyelids uncontrollably drooping.

His consciousness fell into chaos.

...

...

A banging sound on the door.

Qing Chen opened his eyes. He silently looked at the memory palace in front of him, as majestic as a mountain.

Rooms were like stacked building blocks, layer upon layer reaching toward the sky, almost endless.

This was his memory palace.

The banging sound just now was his Shikigami, who had been trapped in the palace. Yes, Shendai Yunwu's Shengqilou, Shadow Woman, and Snow Woman were still locked in his memory palace.

In the Osaka street battle, these three Shikigami wreaked havoc in his body, almost killing him.

In the end, he locked these three Shikigami in separate rooms in the palace before they calmed down.

Qing Chen opened a door and saw the Snow Woman sitting quietly in her cell.

After noticing the opened door, she didn't resist, just quietly glanced at Qing Chen before continuing to sit curled up.

"Um, are you comfortable living here?" Qing Chen asked.

The Snow Woman didn't answer.

Qing Chen didn't know if this Shikigami was mute.

Bored, he went to check on the Shadow Woman.

She wasn't so obedient. Qing Chen had only just opened the door when the Shadow Woman stabbed with a short knife.

Qing Chen quickly closed the door, letting the Shadow Woman stab the closed door—it did nothing.

Inside, the Shadow Woman seemed to know she was powerless here, so she changed tactics.

She said softly through the door, "As long as you let me go, I'll do anything. Or, you can do anything to me now, but please be gentle."

Qing Chen raised his eyebrows. Was there such a good thing?

Wouldn't this solve the problem of manpower in the vegetable garden?

He had been thinking about enticing students to work on his farm, maybe even opening an agricultural branch at Time Traveler Academy.

Kunlun seemed to want him to be a teacher.

But being a teacher, how could it compare to being a dean?

Unfortunately, he couldn't control the Shikigami, and Xiao Zhenji didn't currently have the ability to control Shikigami either. When Xiao Zhenji completed the challenge, he'd let her take the Shikigami to work in the vegetable garden, preventing them from causing trouble.

He didn't bother to look at the third room where Shengqilou was imprisoned, it was just a wooden boat.

What was going on? Why was he in his own mind?!

Wait, it was because of the branch campus exam.

Because of the pattern in the third part of the exam!

"Strange, the exam asked what I saw after staring at the pattern, so should I write about the memory palace?" Qing Chen wondered, "What did others see? They shouldn't have memory palaces, so they saw... their brains?"

What was interesting about brains.

This was the first time Qing Chen had come to the palace this way.

He curiously opened a door on the second floor. The "Qing Chen' inside was standing on a podium introducing himself: "Hello everyone, my name is Qing Chen."

Outside the door was written: "6 years old."

This was his memory from first grade.

Qing Chen stood in that familiar yet unfamiliar classroom, looking out the window. The sunlight was just right, shining on his Face[-] through the glass, warm.

Qing Chen left the classroom, but outside his class, every corner of the school was empty.

"This is just my memory, not a complete world," Qing Chen sighed, "It's not bad to come here and sit sometimes."

He looked back at his young self on the podium and couldn't help but smile.

At that time, "Qing Chen' couldn't have imagined what he would experience.

At this time, he suddenly remembered that this memory palace wasn't entirely under his control.

There was another room.

One that even he couldn't open.

Qing Chen quickly left the room and climbed toward the 999th floor.

He was like a tiny ant, tirelessly climbing upwards.

The palace, like a pyramid, was too high. Qing Chen took a long time to climb each floor. He didn't seem like the owner of the palace, but more like a guest.

He didn't know how long he had been climbing, but when he finally stood in front of that room, it felt like he had lived a lifetime.

Qing Chen carefully tried to open the door.

In the past, no matter how he tried, he couldn't access the memories in this room, but now, when he pushed the door, it opened.

Qing Chen was stunned.

City 5, Ginkgo Garden.

The Head of the Qingshi Clan sat silently in the dimly lit room.

A boy sat beside the Head of the Qingshi Clan, silent.

Qing Chen felt the boy looked familiar. The boy was holding a small boy who was fast asleep in his arms.

Opposite them sat a young man with beautiful brows and eyes. His long hair was combed back, like a noble son from an ancient painting.

Only, this young man with sword-like brows and star-like eyes seemed shrouded in chaotic mist, as if he might dissipate at any moment.

The young man smiled and said, "I've been asleep for a long time, so you may have forgotten me. But your ancestors should remember me."

The Head of the Qingshi Clan said softly, "There's a photo of you and ancestor Qing Zhen at home. We can't forget."

The young man laughed, "My brother traveled to various worlds. He entrusted the Federation to you, probably not expecting the world to become like this. So, this needs to change."

The Head of the Qingshi Clan looked at the floor, his voice calm as a well, "The roots are deep; it's hard to change."

The young man said, "I'll be going back to sleep soon. I can't do everything myself. Let's play a game. I'll find some people to participate, and see what they can do."

Qing Chen stood silently beside them... He glanced at the young man beside the patriarch and the little boy in his arms.

This sealed memory was strange.

Could this be the beginning of the time travel incident?!

The young man wasn't Li Shentan, so Li Shentan was just a participant, not the initiator?

The Head of the Qingshi Clan must be his biological father.

And next to him should be the current Qing Family Shadow, Qing Zhun.

The boy tightly held the tiny baby in his arms and said to the young man, "Please keep your voice down; my brother is sleeping."

The young man laughed, "Spirited, has personality, good."

Qing Chen watched this scene and couldn't help but wonder who this young man was.

He had a photo with Qing Family ancestor Qing Zhen, so he must be a human from the same era as Li Shentan.

Nearly a thousand years later, how could he still exist?

At this time, the young man said, "I want to choose some interesting people to go to another world and play. For the sake of your ancestors' friendship with me, let your son go."

Having said that, the young man suddenly laughed and looked towards Qing Chen's current position, "Who's watching me?"

In an instant, Qing Chen's heart skipped a beat, this memory ended here!

Wait, this was clearly in his memory, and he was in the Outer World. How could the other party sense him peeking into this memory?

The people in the memory seemed to have come alive.

Could this be the power of a god?

Even fragments of memory in someone's mind have their own consciousness?!

That's terrifying!

Qing Chen stepped back, slowly closing the door.

The next moment, he exited his consciousness, opening his eyes to see Lu Yuan's Face[-] very close.

"What's wrong?" Qing Chen frowned. He realized he wasn't in the classroom, but lying on a bed.

Not far away, Zheng Yuandong and Ni Ergou were playing checkers.

Lu Yuan said, "Big Brother, the other students have all left. Others meditated for ten minutes, but you meditated for three days?"