Douluo Continent: I teach and nurture students at Tianshui Academy!

Apart from those with dimensional awareness, even experienced fishermen did not notice anything unusual about the Tianlan River.

At this moment, the Dragon King, who was still enjoying himself on another main stream of the Tianlan River, was completely unaware that his home had been raided. Not only had his water been stolen, but even his wife had been forcibly taken away.

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Mingjie.

The Sun and Moon River flows, sometimes fast, sometimes slow, ceaselessly, its waters vast and magnificent, rippling with countless waves and churning endless sprays. It traverses the present-day Mingjie Continent, serving as the dividing line between the north and south. Stretching for eight hundred kilometers and three kilometers wide, it nurtures countless aquatic creatures and is now the only water source in the Mingjie.

Gu Shenge appeared above the Sun and Moon River. Looking at the Sun and Moon River, which had already taken shape, a look of satisfaction appeared in her eyes. Then she took out the Hundred Beasts Map and released the Flood Dragon Queen from the secret realm in the map.

The white jade dragon appeared before him, its enormous eyes revealing a human-like resentment and helplessness. It respectfully lowered its head, communicated with Gu Shenge through its spiritual power, and called out respectfully.

"Lord."

"Hmm~" Gu Shenge nodded in satisfaction. She was quite sensible and didn't need him to discipline her anymore.

Looking at the Flood Dragon Queen, unlike the ordinary Black Flood Dragon, as a mutated soul beast, she was pure white with flawless skin, green eyes and white scales. Her body was slender and beautiful, and her scales were as smooth as silk, as if carved from white jade. They looked thin, but they were harder than refined iron. The sunlight shone on the Flood Dragon Queen's white scales, which was quite dazzling and made it impossible to look directly at her.

"Now that you are my spirit pet, you are no longer the Queen of the Dragons. From now on, your name will be Bai~"

Gu Shenge was about to name the Flood Dragon Queen Bai Suzhen, but then she thought that Bai Suzhen was a white snake, while the Flood Dragon Queen was a white dragon, so the name didn't match. She decided to change it.

After hesitating for a while, he looked at the dragon queen's pure white scales and continued to bestow a name upon her.

"From now on, your name will be Bai Yujie."

"Thank you, Lord, for bestowing this name upon me."

Empress Jiao, no, it should be Bai Yujie who accepted, but she felt that there was something strange about the name.

Gu Shenge raised her hand and pointed lightly at the Sun and Moon River, then gave Bai Yujie an order.

"Bai Yujie, from now on you will be the master of the Sun and Moon River, responsible for leading all the aquatic creatures in the Sun and Moon River and protecting the Golden Ancient Tree."

The middle section of the Sun and Moon River is where the Golden Ancient Tree sapling is located. In addition to ordinary aquatic creatures, there are also many aquatic soul beasts in the Sun and Moon River. Although the Golden Ancient Tree sapling is protected by the barrier he set up, it is still better to arrange for creatures to guard it just in case.

"Subordinates obey orders."

Although Bai Yujie was quite unwilling, her life was in the other party's hands, so she had no choice but to comply.

To help Bai Yujie break through to the 100,000-year mark quickly, Gu Shenge took out five portions of Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow, presented them to her, and said.

"Your cultivation has reached over 98,000 years, and you're not far from 100,000 years. Consuming these millennium-old mystic ice marrow should allow you to break through to 100,000 years."

Sensing the powerful ice-attribute energy contained in the Millennium Profound Ice Marrow, Bai Yujie, though not an ice-attribute soul beast, was overjoyed because water and ice are inseparable, and repeatedly thanked Gu Shenge.

"Thank you for your kindness, my lord. I will certainly not let you down!"

Bai Yujie swallowed five portions of the Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Marrow, preparing to refine them diligently, while Gu Shenge summoned the Snow Emperor.

A noble and aloof snow-haired queen appeared beside him, her three thousand white hairs fluttering, perfectly holy, cold and beautiful. Snowflakes surged up and surrounded the Snow Queen, enveloping her graceful body and keeping everyone at a distance. Apart from Gu Shenge and the Ice Queen, no one dared to come within three feet of her.

"Snow Emperor, this is my newly acquired spirit pet, Bai Yujie. Please help her refine the energy of the thousand-year-old Xuanbing Marrow within her body."

Gu Shenge asked Xue Di to help Bai Yujie break through. As someone who was once ranked third among the top ten ferocious beasts, helping a soul beast that was over 98,000 years old to refine the energy in its body was not difficult.

Xue Di glanced at Bai Yujie and sensed a relatively strong ice-attribute energy within her body, which was produced by the millennium-old Xuanbing marrow. She nodded in agreement.

With the Snow Emperor's intervention, the ice-attribute energy contained in Bai Yujie's millennium-old Xuanbing marrow was easily refined. However, to break through to the 100,000-year mark, she still needed to undergo a heavenly tribulation.

After surviving the Heavenly Tribulation of 100,000 years, one can choose to transform into a human or continue cultivating as a soul beast. However, the opportunity to transform into a human is only available after surviving the first Heavenly Tribulation.

Although ferocious beasts can transform into human form, it is actually due to their own powerful strength that they change their physical form, rather than transforming into human form completely.

Gu Shenge instructed Bai Yujie to manage the Sun and Moon River first, and then let her return to the Douluo World to undergo the Heavenly Tribulation once her cultivation was stable.

Meanwhile, the Snow Empress returned to his body, while the Ice Emperor was still waiting for her to play chess.

Gu Shenge opened the world panel to check the current state of Mingjie's development.

[World Real Name: Bright Realm]

[Lord of the World: Gu Shenge]

[World State: Newly Born Minor Plane]

[World Perfection Level: 39.69%]

[World Origin: 11749.59 (Note: All things in the world are created from this origin; the more origins there are, the more powerful the world becomes.)]

The world's perfection level has reached as high as 39%, and the bodies of the Ice Emperor and the Snow Emperor have also been transformed into the origin, with the origin directly exceeding 10,000.

However, this time they plundered too many resources from the Douluo World, which caught the attention of the Douluo plane's consciousness. It seems they'll have to stop for a while.

"I still have one more mortal-level lottery draw left, use it."

He immediately chose to use the monthly mortal-level lottery that the system offered.

[Ding~ Mortal-level lottery draw completed. Congratulations, host, you have obtained: "Ninth-Rank Body Tempering Technique"]

"Ninth-Rank Body Tempering Technique?"

Judging from the name, one could tell that this was a body-refining method related to physical training. Gu Shenge chose to accept it, and information about the "Nine-Rank Body Forging Technique" and its cultivation methods flooded into his mind.

[Title: Ninth-Rank Body Forging Technique]

[Synopsis: A basic body-refining method from a high-level fantasy world, divided into three realms and nine grades. The first three grades refine the skin and flesh, the middle three grades refine the tendons and bones, and the last three grades refine the blood and marrow. When all nine grades are mastered, one's blood and qi are as strong as an ox, one's physical strength can reach ten thousand jin, one's physical defense is greatly enhanced, one is impervious to water and fire, invulnerable to swords and spears, and fearless of all poisons.]

Goodness, I thought there weren't any good items in the mortal-level lottery, but it seems I misunderstood. Lottery draws really do depend on luck.

If this ninth-grade body tempering technique were to spread, it would surely drive countless people across the Douluo Continent into a frenzy.

After receiving the Ninth Grade Body Forging Technique, Gu Shenge left the Ming Realm. As the Ming Realm became more and more perfect and the number of living beings increased, the dimensional consciousness belonging to the Ming Realm was also gradually growing stronger.

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(I'm taking an original approach, so the pace might be a bit slow. Please be patient, though. If the pace is too fast, it's easy for the story to fall apart, just like my previous books, sigh~)

Chapter 51: Leng Qishuang's Sorrow - The Academy is Out of Money.

Tianshui University, Dean's Office.

The office is decorated with elegance without being vulgar. Various types of potted roses are neatly arranged in every corner of the room, with no less than a hundred roses. Each rose has been carefully pruned and cared for, and the branches are full of brilliance. They are so beautiful and delicate that it is as if you are in a rose garden.

The alluring fragrance of roses filled the entire office, rich and intoxicating.

The voluptuous and alluring dean sat in her executive chair, her ample body causing the chair to creak. She looked down at the documents on the desk, one hand supporting her fair forehead. A few strands of hair peeked through her fingers, draped messily over the desk. Her mature and beautiful face revealed a hint of worry, her delicate brows slightly furrowed.

What lay before Leng Qishuang was the academy's new planning proposal. But what good was it if it was poorly written?

Although Tianshui Academy is one of the five elemental academies, it is far inferior to the other four elemental academies in terms of scale, faculty, and funding.

Among the five elemental academies, Elephant Armor Academy is backed by the Elephant Armor Sect, Thunder Academy is backed by the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect, and Divine Wind Academy is on good terms with Blazing Fire Academy and is also supported by the Heavenly Dou nobles.

Only Tianshui Academy was completely poor, lacking the support of any sect or noble family, making it the bottom of the five academies.

Despite the current prestige of Tianshui Academy with Haoyang Douluo in charge, no one knows the internal situation of the academy better than Leng Qishuang.

Long ago, the academy had been running a financial deficit. If Leng Qishuang hadn't been doing everything she could to keep it afloat, not only by spending her own money but also by relaxing the academy's admission rules to admit commoners and increase tuition revenue, the financial deficit would probably have lasted even longer and could have even affected the academy's operations.

To put it simply, the huge Tianshui Academy currently has less than 300,000 gold soul coins in its account, of which more than 100,000 are tuition fees paid by students.

Although the empire provides various subsidies and funds to the Soul Master Academy, the evaluation is based on the academy's overall strength.

Currently, Tianshui Academy only has 500,000 gold soul coins in funding per academic semester, and that requires an application rather than being directly distributed.

"Sigh, I wonder when the Empire will approve the academy's application."

Leng Qishuang sighed again. If it weren't for her numerous businesses outside the academy, which often subsidized the academy, the academy would have collapsed long ago.

She was starting to regret taking the position of dean; she should have let Lan Qingyan take it instead.

dong dong dong-

A knock sounded on the door, and the beautiful female dean, without looking up, spoke softly.

"Please come in."

Upon hearing this, Gu Shenge pushed open the office door, and a wave of rose fragrance immediately wafted out, quite intoxicating, exactly the same as Leng Qishuang's pleasant body scent.

Seeing the beautiful woman with the rose-colored hair looking down at the documents on the table with a worried expression, he was slightly puzzled and asked in a gentle voice.

"You look so worried, is something wrong?"

Hearing the familiar voice, Leng Qishuang looked up at him, a smile appearing on her mature and beautiful face. She shook her head, indicating that it was nothing serious.

Seeing that she was trying to hide it, Gu Shenge walked to the mature and beautiful woman's side, reached out and grabbed her fair wrist, pulled her up from the executive chair, and sat down in the chair herself. Then she held Leng Qishuang's plump and full body in her arms, smelled her pleasant rose fragrance, and whispered in the woman's ear. The moist and hot breath she exhaled made Leng Qishuang's delicate earlobe turn a strange red.

"Given our relationship, why hide anything? Tell me, what happened?"

The dean of the American Academy was easily manipulated and no longer concealed the academy's financial difficulties, honestly telling Gu Shenge the truth.

Tianshui Academy is a high-level Soul Master Academy, but with less than 300,000 gold soul coins in its accounts, it will be difficult to survive for even one academic season.

Take Gu Shenge for example. His monthly salary is 50,000 gold soul coins, and the academy's funds of less than 300,000 gold soul coins are not even enough for half a year's salary.

After listening to the story told by the voluptuous woman in her arms, Gu Shenge understood that the general idea was that they didn't know when the funds would be allocated from above, and the academy was short of money.

After all, the other four elemental academies have the support of major powers and nobles behind them, so they don't have to worry about funding. Only Tianshui Academy can only wait miserably for the Tiandou Empire to allocate funds.

“I will help you solve the college’s funding problem. After all, I am also the vice dean of the college, and it is my duty to do my part for the college.”

Gu Shenge gently stroked Leng Qishuang's hair, lowered his head to inhale her wonderful fragrance, and softly told her not to worry about the academy's funding issues, as he would take care of them.

Although he hasn't cared much about money these past years while he's been away, as long as he has enough, he still has quite a few good things in his system space. Any one of them could be auctioned off and would be worth at least a million gold soul coins.

Upon hearing that he would come to resolve the matter, the beautiful dean showed a hint of embarrassment. After all, she had invited Gu Shenge back herself, and now she hadn't even been paid her salary. It wasn't right for him to spend money to help the academy.

"Shengge, isn't this a bit inappropriate?"

Gu Shenge gently held Leng Qishuang, stroking her fair and smooth face with his palm, and spoke softly.

"It's decided then. I want to eat your cooking tonight. Come to my dorm and cook."

"Hmm~"

Hearing the man's firm tone that left no room for refusal, the beautiful woman enjoyed his caresses, obediently nodding and being very compliant, which pleased Gu Shenge.

He reached out and lifted Leng Qishuang's chin, raising her face to gaze at the beautiful woman's alluring lips painted with light blue lip gloss. He prepared to lower his head and kiss her, to savor her deliciousness, but a knock on the door unexpectedly interrupted Gu Shenge's mood.

"Dean Leng, Prince Xue Xing has come to the academy."

Lan Qingyan's voice came from outside the door.