Chapter 97

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Xie Tingxian’s smile froze on his face, his beard trembling as he was unable to speak for a long time.

Ding Lingdang’s beautiful eyes widened, widened, and widened again, her pink lips opening, opening, and opening even more, her shock reaching its peak.

All the admissions staff, all the reporters, all the students and parents who were watching—all of them were as if struck by lightning, unable to speak for a long time.

After more than half a minute, it was as if a psychic bomb had exploded in the center of the crowd, causing a commotion!

“The Great Wasteland Combat Academy’s Alchemy and Artifact Forging Department? Did you fill it out wrong? The Great Wasteland Combat Academy has an Alchemy and Artifact Forging Department? Isn’t that a university that specializes in producing combat cultivators?”

“It does exist, but the Great Wasteland Combat Academy’s Alchemy and Artifact Forging Department is known as one of the worst four majors among the ‘Nine Greats.’ It’s very small in scale, very low in level, and almost no one applies for it. In previous years, the students were all transferred from popular majors!”

“Is he crazy? He didn’t choose the Alchemy and Artifact Forging Department of the Deep Sea University, but chose the Great Wasteland Combat Academy’s Alchemy and Artifact Forging Department?”

“Even if he wanted to choose the Great Wasteland Combat Academy, he should have chosen the Martial Combat Department! Why would he choose the Alchemy and Artifact Forging Department? It’s simply a sign of mental confusion!”

“What is he thinking?”

Many people tugged at their hair, racking their brains to understand why Li Yao would make such a bizarre choice—it was simply—beyond reason!

Xie Tingxian stood like a statue, silent for a full minute before the wrinkles on his face finally relaxed, and he smiled bitterly, “Li Yao, you always do things that surprise everyone, leaving everyone speechless.”

Li Yao sincerely apologized, “I’m truly sorry, Professor Xie. I didn’t expect you to travel such a long distance. The Deep Sea University is a great school, and I absolutely believe that you and President Chu have the ability to cultivate me into another supernova.”

“But what I want to become is not another supernova, but the first ‘Demon Star.’ That’s why I chose the Great Wasteland Combat Academy.”

Xie Tingxian sighed deeply, “You once said that your dream was to enter the ‘Holy Land of Alchemy and Artifact Forging.’ I didn’t expect you to give up this dream on a whim—it’s not worth it, Li Yao!”

Li Yao smiled, “Professor Xie, you’re wrong. I didn’t act on a whim, and I never gave up my dream for even a second. Now, the Deep Sea University’s Alchemy and Artifact Forging Department is the Holy Land of Alchemy and Artifact Forging, but in the future, perhaps this honor might belong to the Great Wasteland Combat Academy’s Alchemy and Artifact Forging Department.”

“What?”

Xie Tingxian, Ding Lingdang, and all the admissions staff of the ‘Nine Greats’ were stunned.

Li Yao said calmly, “This is why I have been apologizing to you all along—I’m not just joining the Great Wasteland Combat Academy’s Alchemy and Artifact Forging Department. In the near future, I will lead the Great Wasteland Combat Academy’s Alchemy and Artifact Forging Department to challenge the Deep Sea University’s Alchemy and Artifact Forging Department and snatch away the supreme honor of being the ‘Holy Land of Alchemy and Artifact Forging’!”

“I want the entire Federation, the entire Tianyuan World, to know that the Great Wasteland Combat Academy is not just a top-tier Martial Combat Department, but that the Great Wasteland Combat Academy’s Alchemy and Artifact Forging Department is the strongest alchemy and artifact forging holy land in the Federation!”

Li Yao’s sincere expression and his incredibly bold declaration mixed together, making everyone present doubt their ears and causing Xie Tingxian to momentarily lose his composure.

“What is he saying? Does he even know what he’s saying?”

“Young people become arrogant and overconfident after a little success. They need to be tempered and matured!”

“Leading the Great Wasteland Combat Academy’s Alchemy and Artifact Forging Department to challenge the Deep Sea University’s Alchemy and Artifact Forging Department is like leading a group of mice to challenge an elephant!”

“Not just mice and elephants, it’s like leading a group of ants to challenge a dinosaur!”

Many of the ‘Nine Greats’ admissions staff were enraged.

Xie Tingxian was silent for ten seconds, then laughed bitterly, “Li Yao, young people should have dreams, but they should also understand the difference between dreams and delusions—you are too arrogant.”

Li Yao’s eyes were as clear as water, and he shook his head, “Professor Xie, I’m not arrogant, I’m just afraid, very, very afraid.”

“Afraid?” Xie Tingxian was confused.

“Yes, afraid, because I fully recognize the strength of the Deep Sea University’s Alchemy and Artifact Forging Department. It’s like a towering god or demon. Not to mention challenging it, even just having the thought of challenging it is an incredibly difficult thing.”

“If I don’t say it now, I’m afraid that by tomorrow, no, not even tomorrow, by the next hour, the next minute, the next second—I will completely lose the courage to challenge this god or demon!”

“But now, I’ve said it, in front of so many teachers from the ‘Nine Greats,’ making this extremely crazy idea public. I no longer have to worry about hesitation, contradiction, confusion, retreat, or giving up.”

“Either I will become a huge joke, or I might accidentally create a miracle. There is no third path ahead. I can only do my best, grit my teeth, and walk straight ahead!”

Xie Tingxian was moved, “I understand. It seems you are not arrogant—just too young, too impulsive, and too naive! The reason miracles are miracles is because the probability of them happening is so small, perhaps only one in a thousand, one in ten thousand!”

Li Yao smiled, his pupils shining like stars, “One in a thousand, one in ten thousand, or even one in a hundred million, that doesn’t mean zero, right?”

Xie Tingxian was speechless, sighing deeply with regret as he got into the flying car.

Xie Tingxian left.

“Sis Ling!”

Li Yao sighed in relief, his face breaking into a radiant smile as he turned to Ding Lingdang, “My choice, I hope it hasn’t disappointed you too much. Don’t worry, if I have time, I will still go to the Martial Combat Department…”

Before he could finish his sentence, Ding Lingdang pounced on him, grabbing his collar and shaking him violently, like a raging mother leopard:

“You little brat, you planned to apply to the Great Wasteland Combat Academy all along, didn’t you? Then why did you act like it was a life-and-death farewell? You made me so melancholic, sighing and lamenting! Why didn’t you say it earlier!”

“I wanted to give you a surprise…”

“Surprise my big watermelon! You’ve been toying with my feelings! Do you want me to beat your head in!”

【Volume 1: "100-Day Sprint" Conclusion】

Preview for the next volume: "The Great Wasteland Storm"

“Crystal armor is the greatest magical treasure in the modern cultivation world, hailed as the ‘King of Modern Magical Treasures’ and the ‘Treasure of Treasures.’ Even the Deep Sea University’s Alchemy and Artifact Forging Department finds it extremely difficult to forge a new type of crystal armor.”

“With your Great Wasteland Combat Academy’s Alchemy and Artifact Forging Department, a trash major, and you few trash—do you think you can forge crystal armor?”

“What? This piece of scrap metal is the crystal armor you forged? It’s broken, rough, and black, just a pile of garbage!”

“With this pile of garbage, you dare to name it ‘Xuan Bone Combat Armor’? Could you tell me where it’s ‘mysterious’ from head to toe?”

“Why don’t I help this pile of garbage change its name? Don’t call it Xuan Bone—call it ‘Garbage Bone’!”

Deep in the Great Wasteland, a storm is about to strike, and a one-in-a-hundred-million miracle is about to appear!

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