Chapter 1 The Academy

Shen Xinqin introduced the academy and said some welcoming words, then had the staff direct the thousands of people to board large hovercrafts in order.

As the crowd lined up to board the vehicles, some had their names called by various team leaders and were led to the side to meet Shen Xinqin.

From their ship, only Li Xiaoyin, Lin Kun, He Changqing, and Wu Fan were called. The teams from other ships also produced several people each, totaling over a dozen, who surrounded Shen Xinqin, listening to her speak with a smile.

Zhou Jing stood in line and glanced over from afar. It wasn't hard to guess that these dozen or so people were probably all the S-grade or higher awakeners in this batch of immigrants.

After a while, Li Xiaoyin returned.

"Sister Yin, what did she say to you?" Xu Lingyun asked curiously.

Li Xiaoyin rubbed her nose. "Vice Dean Shen didn't say much, just wanted to get to know us."

"That's normal. You're the awakeners with the best potential in this batch of immigrants. It should be routine attention from the higher-ups in the academy."

Zhou Jing didn't find it strange.

Potential stocks get special treatment, without a doubt.

During the voyage, the Superpower Bureau had already adjusted his ability potential assessment upwards. It was now a B-grade, which was considered an above-average evaluation, proving that his performance had indeed changed the Superpower Bureau's opinion.

But now it seemed it was still not enough to get the same attention as an S-grade awakener. The higher-ups in the academy didn't seem to want to get to know him specifically.

At the same time, Shen Xinqin and the team leaders like Wang Wu stood to the side, observing the awakeners lining up to board the vehicles.

Shen Xinqin pinched her chin with her fingers and casually asked, "Besides those high-potential talents, is there anyone else worth noting?"

The team leaders from the other immigrant ships exchanged glances and shook their heads, saying nothing.

The Superpower Bureau's potential judgment was generally not too far off. Awakeners were just ordinary people who had recently acquired superpowers and had not received any training. Apart from superpowers, they didn't have many outstanding qualities. After months of observation, the team leaders had basically not discovered any special talents outside of the high-potential awakeners.

Wang Wu spoke up instead:

"I have one person here who is worth noting. His combat talent is very good. With a C-grade potential for physical enhancement, he can actually fight an S-grade potential awakener to a draw. If he uses real combat weapons, he even has a high chance of winning."

"Oh? What's his name?" Shen Xinqin became a little interested.

"Zhou Jing. This is his file." Wang Wu took out his phone and pulled up the prepared information, showing it to her.

Shen Xinqin blinked her beautiful eyes and quickly browsed through it, raising her delicate eyebrows.

"He's a bit interesting, an ordinary physical enhancement, but with outstanding close combat skills and practical combat ability… Why didn't you call him over to meet me just now?"

Wang Wu shook his head. "His superpower is a bit lacking after all, and there is an essential difference between him and other high-potential individuals. We still need to observe the degree of his subsequent ability development first."

"Alright."

Shen Xinqin nodded, not taking it too seriously.

Anyway, there was plenty of time in the future. Capable people would naturally stand out, and those who were not would reveal their true colors. Now, she only needed to pay a little attention.

At this point, she changed the subject and instructed, "Don't forget to compile the files of every awakener who is recommended to become an Inter-World Explorer as usual. The academy will arrange specific courses for these people, and there are confidentiality agreements to be signed."

"Understood." Wang Wu and the others nodded.

This task was already commonplace for them.

…

One large hovercraft after another sped away, quickly leaving the city and flying over the desolate forest.

"Aquablue Star's wilderness environment is relatively safe. The native beasts are all ordinary creatures. At present, the countries have not overdeveloped it, and the area outside the city is still a primitive environment. The Superpower Academy is not in the city, it's located eighty kilometers outside Xingluo City…"

The staff on the bus acted as tour guides, loudly introducing the situation.

Zhou Jing and the others looked down at the scenery below through the windows. Compared to Silverwind Star, which had been developed for more than two hundred years, Aquablue Star was very pristine, sparsely populated, and with few traces of artificial development.

Aquablue Star had a suitable climate. The biological environment of all the immigrant ships had been gradually adjusted to resemble the ecology of Aquablue Star during the voyage, so the immigrants had long been accustomed to it, and basically no one felt uncomfortable.

Before long, a sprawling complex of buildings appeared in the forest, looking like a university town. Many of the buildings had strange shapes, and it was impossible to tell what their purpose was.

The most striking thing was a translucent light blue罩 (zhào, cover) that covered the building complex, seemingly some kind of energy shield.

"Everyone, that is the Chidu Superpower Academy. It has basically all kinds of superpower facilities. The main building complex covers an area of about one hundred and sixty square kilometers and is covered by a mana-sensing shield, which can detect any creatures entering or leaving. Currently, there are more than seven thousand students and two thousand eight hundred faculty and staff in the academy…"

The staff introduced with a smile.

Aquablue Star had only received eleven batches of immigrants, and the time span was not short. The Superpower Academy generally had a two-year schooling system, so the main source of students for the Superpower Academy was no longer immigrants, but more local awakeners.

"It's too empty…" Zhou Jing clicked his tongue.

The building area of more than one hundred square kilometers could accommodate hundreds of thousands of people, but there were only more than ten thousand people here.

However, superpowers were bound to cause damage during training, so it didn't seem strange that the average space per person was so large…

Moreover, the total population of the ten developing countries on Aquablue Star barely exceeded 100 million, so the number of awakeners born each year was naturally far lower than on other planets. There was a large "talent gap". Compared with other planets, the superpower academy here was actually quite idle.

Soon, the hovercraft stopped at the gate of the Superpower Academy, and thousands of superpower immigrants followed the team leaders through the shield into the academy and headed to the living area.

Along the way, they attracted the attention of many students from the Superpower Academy, but no one came up to say hello. They all observed and sized them up from a distance, whispering to each other.

This also aroused the curiosity of the immigrants, who looked at the academy students.

Zhou Jing noticed that although the students here dressed freely, they all wore special badges. He had seen several types of badges along the way.

In general, only students wearing the same type of badge would gather together.

'This should be the department divisions, right?'

Zhou Jing made a mental note.

Before long, the group arrived at the living area, where there were rows and rows of residential buildings.

The group was temporarily assigned to several of the most remote residential buildings, living in closed isolation. They were not allowed to leave the building for the time being, and were not allowed to contact the academy students at will, but they were not restricted from moving around within a building.

This was a special arrangement for immigrants. After seven days of rest, the building would be unblocked, and they would move into normal academy dormitories. This was just a temporary residence.

In the square in front of the building, Shen Xinqin addressed the crowd:

"Everyone, please stay here and relax. You will officially become students of the Superpower Academy after participating in the entrance ceremony in seven days. During these seven days, someone will come to introduce the facilities and environment of the Superpower Academy, and you can also check relevant information on the internal network. In addition, you must complete the course selection during this period, which is related to your class schedule generation and class assignment, so don't delay. If you have any other questions, contact your respective team leaders online, and they will be responsible for solving them…"

After speaking, Shen Xinqin left gracefully as the crowd watched her off.

Under the arrangement of the staff, the rooms were quickly assigned, and the temporary residences were all single rooms.

Zhou Jing walked into the room with his luggage. The room was a simple suite. It was small but had everything. Through the window, he could see the scenery of the academy in the distance.

There was a white tablet on the table in the living room, which was equipped in every room.

Zhou Jing put down his luggage, picked up the tablet, and turned on the screen. The internal network interface of the Superpower Academy immediately popped up, with various information about the academy on it.

He glanced at it and immediately entered his super-powered person's certificate number to log in.

"Detection passed, identity recognized… Welcome to log in, Zhou Jing."

"You have not yet completed course selection, please complete it as soon as possible."

After logging in successfully, the course selection interface immediately popped up, and a dazzling list of courses was displayed in front of him.

Zhou Jing was invigorated.

Finally, he was exposed to the official controlled superpower knowledge!

Until now, he could truly understand what superpower systems the main world had mastered.

He quickly looked at the list carefully and was immediately surprised.

The courses of the Superpower Academy were roughly divided into three categories. One was cultural courses, which were quite similar to ordinary universities, including science and technology, engineering and construction, finance and economics, literature, history, economics and philosophy, social sciences, law, and so on. Among them, there were several compulsory cultural courses for everyone, such as ideological education, superpower self-awareness, superpower legal provisions, and so on.

The second category was general courses, such as fighting, firearms, driving, physical exercise, practical combat skills, and so on. Any superpower could be learned, and most of them were elective.

The third category was the most important, which was superpower courses, including the development of one's own abilities, as well as elective learning of other systematic superpower knowledge, such as martial arts, magic, mental cultivation, and other routes, with a wide variety.

Superpower knowledge could allow people to master extraordinary power through acquired learning. It had always been strictly controlled by the official, and ordinary people rarely had the opportunity to come into contact with it.

However, students of the Superpower Academy were allowed to learn different superpower knowledge. The official did not want to create too many super-powered people, but those who had already become super-powered people were qualified to receive further training. This was one of the purposes of control.

However, there was a limit to the amount of superpower knowledge that students of the Superpower Academy could learn, with a maximum of three elective courses. They would start learning from the beginning, and only after reaching a new level could they obtain the next level of knowledge. If progress was too slow, it would be regarded as unsuitable for cultivation of the system and would be dropped from the course.

In addition, the course introduction stated that there were power conflicts between some superpower knowledge. Some had been discovered, but some had not yet been tested, so there was a risk in taking multiple superpower knowledge courses.

Zhou Jing browsed through the introduction of each superpower knowledge course and became more and more shocked as he read it.

"How can there be so many types of superpower knowledge in the main world?"

There were many types of superpower knowledge systems in the martial arts route alone. Although the cultivation methods and power forms were partially similar, they were ultimately different.

With so many superpower knowledge systems, each with its own cultivation methods and growth stages, Zhou Jing's biggest feeling was that it was too vast and complicated.

No wonder the Superpower Bureau used a personal grading method to determine the level of ability users, because many systems did not cultivate the same "energy foundation". There was no universal realm division for all systems at all, so only each person's actual combat power could be used as the criteria.

"Where did so many superpower knowledge systems come from? Are they all researched?"

Zhou Jing was secretly surprised and suddenly remembered the alien life forms he encountered in the Alien Beast World. He couldn't help but have a flash of insight.

Could it be that this superpower knowledge was obtained by the main world from different star realms?

Then it meant that his guess that the main world could travel through star realms was true, and it had explored more than one star realm?

Zhou Jing's heart shuddered slightly.

He calmed himself down and tried to find the "Alien Blood Warrior" and "Elemental Wizard" systems in the courses.

But after searching through it, he couldn't find them.

"I don't know if it's not included or some other situation…"

Zhou Jing stroked his chin, not sure.

Then, he suppressed these guesses in his heart… No matter what the situation, it was just a guess now. Completing the task at hand was the most important thing.

…

In the next three days, all the superpower immigrants stayed in the closed-managed residential building, unable to go out and could only study the academy's internal network.

Zhou Jing stayed in his room, studying the various courses of the Superpower Academy.

Occasionally, he went to visit Li Xiaoyin and his three best friends to discuss course selection.

There was a dazzling array of courses, but they didn't need to choose them one by one. As long as they submitted their future career aspirations, the system would automatically recommend a combination of subjects.

In the previous few months on the ship, the four of them had already discussed it. They filled in civil service industries such as Superpower Bureau agent and military officer for the first few aspirations. Working in the system was definitely the most popular. The latter filled in folk occupations such as the Superpower League player.

The system gave similar subject combinations to several people, but due to the differences in each person's superpowers, there were slight adjustments, which was still more tailored to the individual's aptitude.

However, the four of them were troubled by the elective courses of superpower knowledge. There were too many choices, and they had not made up their minds for a long time.

On the fourth day of the tangle, an academy staff member suddenly came to the door to talk to Zhou Jing and Li Xiaoyin separately.

…

In the room, Zhou Jing sat opposite an academy tutor.

There was a document on the table with densely packed clauses.

"This is a special confidentiality agreement. You need to sign it. You must not disclose our next conversation to any uninformed person in any form, especially not on the Internet."

The academy tutor said in a serious tone.

Zhou Jing looked at the document, feeling inexplicable.

Today, he was suddenly approached by an academy tutor. Before he could say anything, the tutor took out a confidentiality agreement and asked him to sign it. He didn't even know what the conversation was about.

"Excuse me, what is the matter you want to talk to me about? I can't just sign a document without knowing anything, right?"

Zhou Jing said tentatively.

"You can." The academy tutor nodded and explained, "The academy believes that you have special potential and is willing to open up some hidden courses that are not on the course selection list for you to conduct special training suitable for certain special occupations, so as to achieve the employment needs of that occupation. As for the specifics, I can't disclose it before you sign. If you don't sign, then you will be deemed to have given up this treatment."

Zhou Jing was stunned.

It sounded like he was going to get key training?

However, he didn't get happy immediately. After thinking about it, he asked, "Then does it mean that if I sign, I must engage in this occupation?"

The academy tutor shook his head. "Not necessarily. It mainly depends on personal willingness. After listening to what I have to say, you can also refuse to accept this special training. Signing the confidentiality agreement is mainly to prevent information leakage. Every year, we will select some suitable training targets from the students. Not everyone agrees… but generally no one refuses."

"In that case, I'll sign."

Zhou Jing became more and more confused. He carefully browsed the document again. There was no major problem, so he signed his name.

The academy tutor checked it, confirmed that it was correct, and put the document away.

Zhou Jing asked curiously, "Can you tell me what's going on now?"

The academy tutor nodded, put his hands on the table, leaned forward, looked closely at Zhou Jing, and said something shocking:

"Do you believe that there are multiple dimensions in the universe?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhou Jing's expression suddenly became strange.