“Meditation?” Qing Chen questioned the word.

“Yes,” Lu Yuan explained, “The picture in the third part of the exam paper is actually to help everyone enter their first meditation. Without the True Sight Eye, this is the only way.”

Many meditation methods circulated in the Outer World, but no one had ever truly been able to achieve transcendence through meditation.

This was because true meditation in the extraordinary world required external assistance.

One was breathing exercises while holding the True Sight Eye in hand.

The other was relying on simple meditation diagrams.

There were many kinds of meditation diagrams, and the more mysterious and precious the diagram, the faster one could enter the meditative state, and the faster one's spiritual power would recover.

This was all the information left behind by the witches when they left the Central Plains.

At this time, Zheng Yuandong calmly said, “The options you checked in the front part of your exam paper were all terrible, as if you were the most beautiful orphan in the Inner World. And you didn't write any of the science questions in the back. What, have you decided to join the basic Academy?”

Ni Ergou said, “Boss Qing Chen, you're a school director now, how can you still do this kind of thing?”

“Ahem,” Qing Chen felt a little embarrassed that his plan had been discovered, “Well, I actually planned to write the second part, but I fell asleep looking at that ridiculous pattern of yours. By the way, I'm very curious why this meditation diagram made me sleep for so long.”

Zheng Yuandong looked at him, “That's something I'm also curious about. In the Kunlun organization, the longest time anyone spent in their first meditation was 21 hours, and you, precisely, three and a half days, 44 hours. You're about to cross over. If you don't wake up, I'm afraid I'll have to find a way to wake you up. I can't let you meditate your way into an adventure in the Inner World.”

Qing Chen recalled that in the Inner World, he had Shadow, Qing Ye, Qing Qu, and Zard with him. Honestly, it wasn't really an adventure.

Zheng Yuandong asked, “What did you see in the meditation world?”

Qing Chen asked back, “What did you all see?”

Ni Ergou rolled his eyes, “Trying to lie again.”

Zheng Yuandong said with a smile, “The more vast a person's spiritual world, the more extensive what they see in their first meditation will be. Some see a leaf hundreds of square meters in size, and some have even seen a mountain peak. Of course, these are already the level that is specifically recorded in the witch's inheritance, belonging to the rarest of the rare. Ordinary people might see an Off-road Vehicle, a motorcycle, a drop of water, a grain of sand. What you see doesn't matter, the size does.”

Qing Chen recalled that it was difficult for him to define what he saw, because as Zheng Yuandong said, what other people saw was nothing compared to the wonder of his memory palace.

After all, his memory palace had “memory”, and the magnificence of the memory palace was no less than that of a mountain peak.

The reason why he hadn't woken up for three days was because he spent too long climbing in his memory palace.

So, was he suitable for the cultivation of the witch's inheritance?

What he saw in his meditation was what Zheng Yuandong called “rare”.

And this didn't even count the palace's built-in memory.

Ni Ergou asked, “What did you see in your meditation?”

Qing Chen casually said, “I saw a little…”

Zheng Yuandong waved his hand with a smile, “I won't believe a single word after that, so you don't need to say it.”

“Haha, look, when I try to tell the truth, you guys have this attitude,” Qing Chen said, “What did the other students in the Academy see?”

Zheng Yuandong shook his head, “That's a secret of the Academy.”

“I'm a school director,” Qing Chen said seriously.

Ni Ergou: “…”

Lu Yuan was helpless beside him, “When you wanted to sneak into the basic Academy, why didn't you think about being a school director?!”

Zheng Yuandong pondered for a moment and said with a smile, “It's fine to tell you. In the Academy, a group of elites have extremely vast spiritual worlds, suitable for the cultivation of the witch's inheritance. Some saw a river flowing endlessly, some saw a waterfall cascading down, some saw a heavy snowfall, and some saw a desert. It is said that several people saw you, they seem to be your fans.”

“Who are they?” Qing Chen asked.

Lu Yuan asked, “Do you want to meet your fans, or do you want to poach people from us?”

“Both,” Qing Chen confessed, “So which Academy was I assigned to in the end?”

Zheng Yuandong said, “Don't attend classes with the other students, come and teach.”

Qing Chen shook his head, “No, at least not under the identity of Qing Chen.”

Now that Qing Yuan and Huan Yu were both in the Academy, he hadn't figured out the strength of these two people yet, and he couldn't appear rashly.

After all, Qing Yuan and Huan Yu were people who had tried to kill him before.

One had formed a deadly feud with him at Weiyang Lake Park in Xian City.

The other had ambushed him in the streets of Zheng City, even setting up explosives, with extremely cruel methods.

Now Qing Chen wasn't sure if these two were A-level, so he hadn't taken action rashly. Otherwise, he would have gone to their door a long time ago.

Therefore, he couldn't stand out as that special target.

But now that the other party already regarded him as Chen Sui, he could completely use another identity to teach.

Qing Chen frowned, “Right, did others know I disappeared for three days…”

Zheng Yuandong said, “Don't worry, everyone in the Academy knows. A small number of people passed the extraordinary examination, obtained the True Sight Eye and the witch's inheritance, and are currently undergoing concentrated cultivation. Therefore, your disappearance for three days can be explained as you entering the extraordinary Academy's witch department.”

“That's the only way to explain it,” Qing Chen nodded.

“Don't you want to come and teach?” Zheng Yuandong asked.

Qing Chen thought for a while and said, “Can I be the dean of a branch?”

As soon as these words came out, Zheng Yuandong and Ni Ergou looked at each other. They thought it would be difficult to get Qing Chen to teach. The two of them had rehearsed their speech, but Qing Chen actually wanted to skip being a teacher and directly become the dean!

Zheng Yuandong said without hesitation, “Yes, you can be the dean of the Extraordinary Academy.”

With Qing Chen's strength, being the dean of the entire academy was more than enough.

Moreover, in terms of practical combat, except for Zheng Yuandong, no one in this room could compare to Qing Chen in terms of practical combat experience.

Even Zheng Yuandong's combat frequency might not be as high as Qing Chen's.

If Qing Chen became the dean of the Extraordinary Academy, wouldn't it be natural for him, as the dean, to teach cultivation techniques? Everything would be easy to discuss then.

Other students probably didn't know that while they were anxiously choosing their branches to enter the Technology Academy and the Extraordinary Academy, one of their peers was about to become a dean!

But at this time, Qing Chen shook his head, “Not the dean of the Extraordinary Academy, but the dean of the Agricultural Academy.”

Chen Sui, the target for taking the blame, is in the Technology Academy.

Chen Nian is in the Extraordinary Academy's witch department, unknown to others.

He would use another identity to be the dean, attracting students to farm.

More and more disguises.

Lu Yuan was completely taken aback when he heard this, “Wait, we don't have an Agricultural Academy. You're willing to be the dean, which is good, but what's the matter with you opening a new academy? We don't cultivate farmers!”

Zheng Yuandong pondered, “You have a plan?”

Qing Chen thought for a moment, “Let me confirm one thing. After eating something on the island, leaving Whale Island will not result in death due to the rapid loss of energy, right?”

“Yes,” Zheng Yuandong nodded, “I also had this concern before, worried that the matter on this island couldn't be taken away, and that after eating the island's specialties, people would be suddenly deducted this energy by the world and die. But later experiments showed that there was no such concern. Forbidden Artifacts have their own rules, and I'm not sure if they follow the principle of conservation of energy, but there's no such danger.”

“That's fine,” Qing Chen nodded.

Ni Ergou and Lu Yuan looked at Zheng Yuandong, “Boss…”

Zheng Yuandong raised his hand to stop them. After careful consideration, he asked, “When do you plan to establish the Agricultural Academy?”

Qing Chen glanced at the time, the countdown was 00:00:09.

He looked up and said, “I'll give you a definite answer next time I return.”

Time travel.

The world fell into darkness and then returned to light.

Qing Chen was still by the campfire, and the sapling on Zard's head was shattered again by the rules.

It seemed nothing had changed.

Qing Chen looked at Shadow, who was sitting by the campfire roasting fish in the distance, and suddenly remembered the scene when Shadow held him close in his arms when he was a child.

Shadow even dared to speak up to God, asking him to keep his voice down and not wake him up.

“Brother,” Qing Chen called out.

Shadow was stunned for a moment, then slowly smiled, “Back?”

For some reason, the air seemed to become lively.

Qing Chen sat by the campfire and after a long silence, suddenly said, “My memories have been unsealed, and in my memories, I saw the person who sent me to the Outer World. Who is he exactly? You should know his identity. The Qing Family's records must have it. I saw you sitting in a dimly lit room, holding me.”

Shadow looked at the campfire, bringing his hands closer to the flames to feel the warmth, “Your words really brought my memories back over a hundred years… No, for you, it's only been over a decade.”

It was a century of time that he had paused for another person. Everyone had stopped, and time only flowed turbulently on him alone.

So when Shadow recalled everything from that time, it felt like he was traversing a river of time that spanned a century, “You were very, very small then. The first time I saw him was in a family photo. The photo had Ren Xiaosu, ancestor Qing Zhen, Knight members Li Yingyun and Qin Sheng, a person called P5092, and the Northwest Army Commander Zhang Jinglin. There were so many people. After defeating the AI ‘Ling’, they took a group photo with an old camera to commemorate that victory. Among them was the one who sent you to the Outer World, Yan Liuyuan.”

Qing Chen recalled and finally found this name.

According to the records in the Li Clan Academy, he was once the lord of the grasslands in the vast royal court north of the Federation.

Under his leadership, the nomadic people of the grasslands remained outside the Federation, establishing a defense line on the grasslands to defend against the northern barbarians.

Until the bloodthirsty barbarians were completely exterminated, Yan Liuyuan led the people of the grasslands back to the Federation, and he himself disappeared with a woman named Li Xiaoyu.

Shadow poked the campfire with a stick, “Within the Conglomerate, the only recognized god is one, but there are three people who are closest to God: Li Shentan, Chen Wudi, and Yan Liuyuan. Each of their wills is close to the edge of merging with the will of the world. In order to avoid completely becoming the will of the world, they need to leave this world and go to a more vast place. God Ren Xiaosu seems to have left for the same reason. Many people once guessed that Yan Liuyuan should have left with Ren Xiaosu, but later everyone found out that he didn't leave.”

Shadow looked at Qing Chen, “He said he would protect this world for his brother, Ren Xiaosu.”

“Are he and Ren Xiaosu brothers?” Qing Chen asked, “Why do they have different surnames?”

Shadow smiled, “I don't know about that. Anyway, he always called Ren Xiaosu his brother. It’s said that they had a very good brotherly relationship, like real brothers.”

“At that time, you asked him to keep his voice down so as not to wake me up. Did he punish you later?” Qing Chen was curious.

“No,” Shadow shook his head, “He said that brothers should protect their brothers. When his brother protected him, he was like this. He even gave me a Forbidden Artifact because of my courage. Forbidden Artifact ace-006, Divine Ear Pick.”

Qing Chen couldn't help but laugh, “What kind of Forbidden Artifact is this? Why does it have such a strange name?”

Shadow laughed, “Don't underestimate it. As long as you use it to clean your ears, no one can attack you at close range, because my mother said, you can't touch others when they are cleaning their ears. Haha, it is said that this was once God Ren Xiaosu's personal item. I don't know why it's so strange. No one knows it's on me, maybe one day it can give many people a surprise.”

Qing Chen suddenly remembered the moment he was looked at by the other party in his memory.

He asked, “You used ‘that person’ before to refer to him, is it because mentioning his name would let him know?”

Shadow nodded, “But it doesn't matter anymore. He should be sleeping now, and besides, I'm almost gone, I'm not afraid of him, haha.”

Qing Chen sighed inwardly.

At this time, while the elder brother and younger brother were discussing the secrets of the Federation.

Ma Jingjing and others in the distance were cautiously looking at this Master of Daybreak.

They couldn't hear what the two were talking about.

But they heard Yi Wenbo encouraging Ma Jingjing, “Hurry up, hurry up, the chance to cling to a powerful person has come!”