CHAPTER 16: CHAPTER 15: GOING TO SCHOOL

However, the only regret Li Xing feels now is that, despite being surrounded by a vast expanse of Spirit Plants, she cannot perform Alchemy—in fact, she doesn’t dare to. Even the best Alchemist can’t avoid an explosion, which is almost as powerful as a bomb blast.

Her personal best record is a success rate of four out of ten, which means at least a sixty percent chance of failure. Moreover, these Spirit Plants are all high-grade, with more abundant Spiritual Energy, making them even harder to control, and increasing the chances of an explosion.

She can use Spirit Stones to set up an array to block out the sound, but she can’t stop the power of the explosion. If she really attempted Alchemy in her room, one slip-up might bring the whole room down. So, until she finds a safe place, Li Xing can only look at the Spirit Plants and sigh.

Time flies, and before long, it’s the first day of school. Dressed in a brand new uniform and carrying a pink backpack sewn by Anna herself, Li Xing walks onto the campus amidst the envious gazes of passersby.

Not everyone has the opportunity to enter a campus for education. On Qianyuan Continent, ordinary people without Primordial Spirits attend online schools. Everything from elementary to university courses, exams, degree awards, and professional exams can be completed online. Only Elemental Spirits can step into a campus to communicate and compete with teachers and classmates face to face.

Seeing the little ones around her dressed similarly, Li Xing couldn’t help but reflect:

Because of her exceptional aptitude, she attended clan schools back on Blue Star, taught individually by a few of the clan’s most knowledgeable elder uncles.

She was all alone listening to her elders preach, learning a lot of knowledge, but she never experienced school life. Unexpectedly, in this life, she fulfills her dream of school life.

Datang City has only one school, called Datang Academy. Today is the opening ceremony, and all the first-year students are in the auditorium. Li Xing glanced around the auditorium, estimating roughly five thousand people, which means there are fifty thousand students across the ten grades in the entire school.

Based on a ratio of eighty-to-one between ordinary people and Elemental Spirits, Datang City’s population must have at least four million. It’s astonishing that such a large city is considered a lower city, making Li Xing curious about how bustling and prosperous the middle and upper cities must be.

The spacious and bright auditorium had numerous large spherical screens floating around. No matter where you sat, you could have the best view of the images on the screen. After a short video introducing the school’s history, the principal with graying hair began his speech.

The principal spoke slowly, almost like a lullaby, and he wouldn’t stop, repeating encouragements for everyone to study hard, serve the federation in the future, and honor their alma mater. Soon, the sound of continuous snores filled the auditorium. Even someone as patient as Li Xing found herself getting agitated in the face of the principal’s Tang Seng-like repetitive and slow speech. People who speak slowly and ramble on are really unwelcome everywhere.

Finally, after the speech ended and classes were divided, the morning time had passed as well. Li Xing followed the crowd to the cafeteria. The cafeteria was enormous, with rows of two-person tables and chairs stretching as far as the eye could see.

Li Xing didn’t see a window for meal service. She picked a seat, sat down, and followed others’ examples by taking out her electronic student card from her lightbrain and scanned the QR code at the lower right corner of the table. Instantly, a light screen appeared in front of her, showing images of various meal sets.

Li Xing selected a meal she liked, clicked the "Confirm" button on the lower right corner of the screen, and with a flash of white light, the meal she ordered appeared in front of her, piping hot—it took less than a second from ordering to serving.

How magical!

Li Xing touched the tabletop. It was made of white marble, smooth and flat, with absolutely no hidden mechanisms. Using her Divine Sense to check, she realized there was a Teleportation Array engraved on it.

No wonder there was no meal service window. After students place their orders, the kitchen directly sends the food through the Teleportation Array, saving time and effort. Whoever came up with this method is truly a genius!

Li Xing marveled at how this world was filled with traces of the cultivation realm, with Spirit Plants, Star Beasts, Crystal Stones, and Arrays all present. Although this place is not her homeland, it feels so familiar, making even an outsider like her feel settled. Eating the warm food, Li Xing once again felt lucky to have been sent here instead of a place completely devoid of cultivation.

After finishing a meal, Li Xing checked her lightbrain account balance and found not a single star coin missing, which made her happily order another meal of a different flavor and eat heartily.

Meals in Datang Academy’s cafeteria are free for students. There’s no reason not to take advantage of this! The food provided by the school, though not as tasty as Anna’s home-cooked meals, is generous in portion, with fresh ingredients, and Li Xing is content.

Completely immersed in the joy of free food and drink, two people not far from her were whispering, and Li Xing was the focus of their conversation.

"Brother Tang, look, that new student named Li Xing has already eaten three giant meal sets; she can really eat a lot!"

A freckled-faced boy was facing Li Xing’s direction. Seeing her quickly finish three meals, still unsatisfied, and ordering a fourth, he was truly astonished—he’d never seen a girl who could eat so much.

The Little Fatty across from Little Sparrow turned his head, cast a disdainful glance at Li Xing, and snorted, "Treating such lousy food as a delicacy and never having enough—what an uncultured bottom-dweller!"

"Brother Tang, my grandpa says the highest bloodline originates from the Double Black. Do you think she could be a descendant of the highest bloodline?"

Little Fatty rolled his eyes and said, "When did you become blind? Do you think someone like her deserves to be a descendant of the highest bloodline? She’s just a fake Double Black bred by human traffickers. She only has the appearance but is really just a useless pillow embroidered with flowers—a low-level Star Beast could easily devour her."

Engrossed in Li Xing’s eating movements, Little Sparrow wasn’t paying attention to Little Fatty’s discontent and continued speaking for Li Xing, "No way, I heard her Primordial Spirit level is also an A, just like yours."

"Just wait, I’ll soon show you that there’s a difference even between A-levels!" With that, Little Fatty angrily stormed off, and Little Sparrow, realizing he said something wrong, awkwardly followed.

Li Xing calmly glanced over and continued eating.