Chapter 53: As Expected of the Former Principal

[Under your passionate gaze, everyone felt their hearts surge with emotion.]
[The majority of the Red-Hearted Combat Team pledged their loyalty to you.]
[In May of the 125th Transcendent Year, Lin Xue and the others, under your cultivation, reached level 10 and unlocked their first-class advancement quests.]
[You picked a time, took the teleportation array, and personally rushed to Cloud City High School No. 1 to see the old principal.]
[The old principal, who was drinking tea, looked at you with some bewilderment.]
[If his judgment was correct, you shouldn't be a student of Cloud City High School No. 1, right?]
[As an old man who had ploughed the fields of education for many years, he could tell at a glance how precious the set of equipment you wore was.]
[Epic equipment—every single piece possessed its own special spiritual radiance!]
[However, this subtle distinction could only be discerned by professionals who were very familiar with Epic equipment.]
[Ordinary professionals never had the chance to see Epic equipment in their entire lives. Even if Epic equipment appeared right in front of them, without checking the information panel, they would probably only think that this piece of equipment looked really cool!]
[You didn't beat around the bush with the old principal either. After slightly displaying your strength, you straight out stated the purpose of your visit.]
[Your current professional level was 26.]
[Even if you didn't want to be too conspicuous and would slightly conceal your level during the first part of the major examinations, you could still easily surpass Du Yuhan and become the provincial top scorer of the major examinations.]
[Your visit this time was to let the old principal make advance preparations in terms of public opinion, using the highly controversial event of you, the top scorer, enrolling in Cloud City High School No. 1 to whip up the popularity and attention of the school.]
[If utilized well, perhaps Cloud City High School No. 1 could reap massive rewards this time.]
[Yet upon hearing your words, the old principal fell into silence.]
[A moment later, he slowly raised his head.]
["Child, I don't know what kind of feelings you hold for Cloud City High School No. 1 or for me, and I don't want to probe into the reasons behind these feelings."]
["However, entering higher education for advanced studies concerns your future development."]
["As the principal of Cloud City High School No. 1, I desperately hope that the school can reach higher levels under my hands, and I warmly welcome heaven's chosen ones."]
["Yet, I cannot ruin a good child's future prospects for the sake of my own selfish ideals."]
["I must admit that the faculty education, transcendent resources, and various high-precision instruments provided by the Federation's top academies are simply incomparable to what Cloud City High School No. 1 can offer."]
["Therefore, if you can enter a top academy based on your own ability, the achievements you attain in the future will inevitably be greater than staying here."]
["On the transcendent path, acquiring resources is of the utmost importance!"]
["Furthermore, the Federation provides exceptionally large subsidies to top academies. Joining them with your ability will undoubtedly allow you to harvest massive amounts of resources to strengthen yourself."]

[Being strong in the first step means you should naturally maintain your rationality and propel yourself into a phase of growing stronger with every step.]
[Listening to the old principal's words, you smiled faintly.]
[As expected of the old principal!]
[Even though he knew that recruiting a top scorer was beneficial to the development of Cloud City High School No. 1, he still rejected your proposal out of consideration for your future development prospects.]
[Yet the more the old principal tried to stop you, the more determined you were to enter Cloud City High School No. 1.]
[This time, you were absolutely going to help the old principal fulfill his dream.]
[ Afterward, after freeloading a meal from the old principal, you left Cloud City High School No. 1.]
[The old principal watched you leave with a complex expression, wondering what he was thinking.]
[In June of the 125th Transcendent Year, the major examinations began.]
[By purchasing sealing stones, you temporarily sealed your level down to 16.]
[For a professional of ordinary background to crush a crowd of aristocratic descendants was already full of conversational value.]
[If this professional happened to be level 26 as well, it would simply be too eye-catching.]
[That would probably attract the gazes of the Federation's upper echelons in an instant.]
[It wasn't about hiding one's capabilities and feigning weakness; it was simply because this transcendent world was too crazy. To truly powerful figures, Federation laws were no different from waste paper.]
[Before having sufficient power to protect your uniqueness, it was better not to expose yourself.]
[Yet even at only level 16, you were still the most dazzling new star in all of River City.]
[When you became the top scorer of River City and even the entire province, the boiling excitement among grassroots professionals was completely different from the past.]
[In previous years, when an aristocratic descendant from River City became the provincial top scorer, the grassroots professionals struggling in low-level dungeons would also puff out their chests with great pride.]
[Yet that was an aristocratic descendant after all. Anyone with a brain would experience a tinge of melancholy after the initial excitement subsided.]
[What did the glory of an aristocratic family have to do with beasts of burden like themselves?]
[But this time was different!]
[You came from a humble background and were even an orphan. This sense of identity instantly ignited excitement within the hearts of grassroots professionals.]
[Look!]
[Someone of ordinary origin could also become the top scorer of the major examinations!]
[This matter rapidly fermented across the Federation's Wisdom Network and soon rose to become the number one trending search.]

[After all, across the dozens of provinces in the Federation, the frequency of civilian top scorers appearing was virtually zero.]
[Admission teachers from top academies quickly contacted you as well, promising that as long as you joined, scholarships, grants, and academy subsidies would all be provided in full.]
[In the future, as long as you could maintain this upward momentum, the academy would provide you with even more abundant transcendent resources.]
[They might even strive to secure a combat regiment formation qualification for you based on your strength before graduation.]
[To this, you merely smiled faintly.]
[Then, amidst the baffled expressions of the top academy admissions teachers, you turned around and joined Cloud City High School No. 1.]
[Your choice once again detonated the Wisdom Network.]
[For a time, numerous topics relating to the River City top scorer and Cloud City High School No. 1 ran amok across the trending searches of the Wisdom Network.]
[Meanwhile, Cloud City High School No. 1, having made early preparations, seized this public opinion hotspot and began frantically posting promotional videos and essays on the Wisdom Network almost every day.]
[Under such circumstances, the official account of Cloud City High School No. 1 was even joked about by people saying that anyone unaware would think it was a private marketing account!]
[You didn't pay much attention to this.]
[You uniformly categorized the members of the Red-Hearted Combat Team who participated in the major examinations, distributing them between Cloud City High School No. 1 and Cloud City High School No. 2.]
[Although they could all go to Cloud City High School No. 1, you certainly wouldn't let slip a source of manpower as important as Cloud City High School No. 2.]
[Afterward, you began your development plan for establishing the Red-Hearted Combat Regiment.]
[Knowing the upcoming financial turmoils and with ample funds prepared this time, you were fully capable of seizing a terrifying amount of capital.]
[By then, the Red-Hearted Combat Regiment wouldn't lack money for several years.]
[However, just as you were rolling up your sleeves and preparing to begin your stock trading career, the old principal told you a piece of news.]
[River City's second-place scorer in the major examinations, Du Yuhan from the Du family, made the exact same choice as you: instead of going to a top academy, she applied to Cloud City High School No. 1 instead.]
[This news left you slightly stunned. Didn't Du Yuhan go to a top academy in all the previous simulations?]
[The two of you had never intersected in the future either.]
[Why did she come to Cloud City High School No. 1 this time?]
[Just because your exam scores surpassed hers, she had to follow you here?]
[So arrogant?]