CHAPTER 918: CHAPTER 346: STARTING A SCHOOL? (6K)

"Academy? What academy? I’ve already become a Lord, and you still want me to go back to school?"

Bai Yi looked at Shang Ji with uncertainty, not understanding why Shang Ji suddenly brought this up.

"Yes, precisely an academy.

But it’s not about sending you to school, don’t worry.

My idea is to establish an academy in your name."

Shang Ji held his forehead with one hand, feeling a bit helpless about Bai Yi’s reaction, but still explained:

"Your Highness might not know, but your current status among the Transcendents in the Starry Sky is nearly at the level of all Transcendent representatives.

It would be such a waste not to make good use of such a level of prestige.

However, this kind of ethereal thing is really hard to utilize, especially when you want to maintain that prestige while also seeking benefits, it’s really challenging.

We can’t rely on this prestige to raise funds among the Transcendents.

So, after discussing it with my other Avatars, we finally decided to establish an academy, an academy open to all Transcendents in the Starry Sky for free!

With your current status among the Transcendents, you are already an excellent brand.

If managed properly, not only can it further solidify your status, but it can also lay more covert groundwork for you in the Starry Sky.

Even... you can use it to screen out enough suitable individuals for the Witch Clan."

Listening to Shang Ji’s explanation, Bai Yi’s eyes lit up, increasingly seeing the bright prospects of this plan.

The prestige and status it could bring are secondary; she valued the effect as a source of witch recruits.

Since she raised the requirements for witch transformation, it’s been a long time since a large number of witches joined the territory.

Even recently on Maga Star, apart from those high-tier ones, there were only a few thousand worth converting, not even reaching ten thousand.

There’s indeed an urgent need for a stable source.

However, with her selection method, as long as the requirements aren’t lowered, the already screened population would never provide new witch candidates in a short time.

Either wait for a long time for reproduction and search among newborns, or find new population sources.

The former had already been scheduled by Bai Yi, as those humans not entirely cleared in various instances were tasked with this.

As for the latter, her Avatars and even the Witch Expedition Army were striving to explore new worlds, but even conquering new worlds takes time.

But now, the Starry Sky fits the requirements perfectly and can become her new population pool!

"Yes, an academy!

How come I never thought of that!

But then, I didn’t have as many people to filter through before, even with several Life Planets in hand, the population barely broke ten million.

There was no need for additional screening.

Even after acquiring Maga Star, which has the most people, there was already a mature screening mechanism, no need for extra screening.

Only the Starry Sky has this opportunity!"

Previously, she never considered the Starry Sky mainly because there was no way to screen.

After all, knowing how strictly the Starry Sky monitored genetic modifications, indiscriminate large-scale alterations could provoke an overreaction.

Her spores worked well planetarily, but the Starry Sky was never limited to just planets and had numerous ways to block her spores from spreading.

Otherwise, she wouldn’t have later pondered starting from the soul, using artificial relics for assimilation.

It was due to these reasons she abandoned the idea of scattering spores broadly, eventually forgetting about it over time.

Until now, when Shang Ji pointed it out from the plan, she realized the potential value of the vast population in the Starry Sky.

Now, she possessed the opportunity to filter people and convert them slowly without drawing attention.

Even if this population pool had long been diligently worked over by various civilizations and forces, screening out many geniuses,

with such a large population base and the top-down lock and monopoly over the Transcendents, some geniuses are still overlooked, even unable to pursue the Transcendent path due to poverty.

On this point, she felt thankful for the monopolies of the three major civilizations.

Besides, her requirement for talent was never just about Transcendents...

As long as one is transformed into a witch, even ordinary people can have Tier Six strength and extraordinary Transcendent talent.

Truly exceptional Transcendent talents, like Magga, are rare and hard to come by.

What she truly needed were those who couldn’t gain certain abilities through genetic modification, with learning capabilities or talent in certain technologies among the Low-tier Transcendents and ordinary people.

Strength or having Transcendent talent wasn’t essential; genetic modification would solve all of it.

Transcendent geniuses were hard to find, but when targeting ordinary people, the options were abundant...

"I want to know the specific plan, and you must have considered recruiting ordinary people, right?"

"Yes, Your Highness, indeed.

Isn’t that why I’m here to find you..."

Shang Ji smiled as he sent the details into Bai Yi’s mind, but to Bai Yi, his smile was eerie.

When Shang Ji said this, Bai Yi knew what he was after.

This wasn’t about submitting a plan; it was clearly about squeezing her for labor!

It’s just that she’s good-tempered, or else, how could a subordinate push their boss to work!