Age of Heroes, 10-game winning streak

What is missing is not this apology. The truth has already been redeemed. This apology no longer matters.

An apology is only effective before the truth is revealed. A belated apology is not an apology, just like delayed justice is injustice.

Zhuge Qingyun took out a card: "Here are 500 credits."

Bai Yu looked down at the card, interlacing his fingers: "So... who do you want me to help you get rid of?"

Zhuge Qingyun: "..."

"Just a joke to liven up the atmosphere." Bai Yu shook his head: "I'm not short of credits."

"No freshman has ever dared to say they don't lack credits." Zhuge Qingyun pushed the card to the center of the table and reminded them, "Even if you are specially recruited, you will never have enough credits."

Bai Yu just drank tea and smiled without saying anything.

At worst, he could go and make pills to earn credits. Anyway, the news of him becoming a third-grade alchemist at such a young age must have spread throughout Danding Academy by now.

"Why don't we get straight to the point?" Bai Yu said, "Let's get straight to the point. Zhuge Fei suffered such a huge loss, and you became famous. Your reputation has dropped a lot, and you were almost given a red nose. Isn't it time to say something harsh?"

He didn't believe that Zhuge Qingyun was really a good person with a good reputation. If he was really such a gentleman, it would not make much difference whether the other party gave him gifts or not.

At this moment, all the conversations in the room stopped.

"To be fair, there's nothing wrong with what you did. Penglai Academy rules by strength, and you two are incredibly powerful, so even slightly overstepping the line is fine. Furthermore, you didn't cross the line, and you didn't cause any actual harm to my sister. As your brother, I have to apologize to you—because you both handled things very well."

Zhuge Qingyun pressed the back of his finger against a disposable paper cup, and the water in the cup began to flow, transforming into a swirling tornado. "But from an emotional point of view, you have indeed made me suffer a great loss. I feel a sense of grievance that I cannot swallow."

"I know I'm in the wrong, but I still feel unhappy." Bai Yu raised an eyebrow: "It seems you're not as generous as you look."

"Being magnanimous is one thing, but caring about it is another." Zhuge Qingyun said calmly, "If I do nothing, it will make the Formation Society appear weak and vulnerable."

"If you want to fight with me, I'm here for you anytime." Bai Yu faced Zhuge Qingyun, a master ranked in the top 30 of the list, and his momentum was not inferior to his.

Zhuge Qingyun's eyes were like torches: "Oh?"

"Hey, have some shame." Xing Yaoyao leaned on the sofa and bit the lollipop in his mouth.

The two looked at each other for a moment, Zhuge Qingyun let go, and the tornado in the cup gradually calmed down.

"I won't attack freshmen yet. That's the bottom line."

"When you are promoted to a second-year student, I will be a fourth-year student."

"You have one year left."

"By then, even if I bully the weak with my strength, you will have nowhere to hide."

A year later, he will fight Bai Yu in public as an explanation for what happened a few days ago.

"If you can reach the third level within a year, I welcome you to challenge me at any time."

Zhuge Qingyun raised his head and drank the tea, which had cooled down considerably.

His message was a declaration rather than a challenge, a notification rather than an invitation.

He divided the matter very clearly, acknowledged any mistakes, and solved any problems, including the final handling.

At least that's how Bai Yu sees it. There are always some things that cannot be explained with words and must be solved with fists.

If you get slapped in the face, you have to slap back. Whether you hit the target or not is another matter, but you must fight back to prove that you have courage and not a coward.

It concerns the reputation of the Zhuge family and the Formation Society.

There will be a battle between the two.

After this battle, whether it was to establish Bai Yu's name or to allow Zhuge Qingyun to pick up the lost face... no one knew.

They knew each other very well that they didn't need to wait for a year.

Maybe it only takes half a year, or maybe it only takes three months.

Zhuge Qingyun finished his tea and stood up to take his leave. Before leaving, he said, "The Qianchen Society's belongings will all be delivered to the Chuanwu Academy's activity building this afternoon, and the manager who took the initiative to deliver the gifts has been fired... I have no reason to refute this matter. I didn't expect it to be a relative's belongings. I deeply apologize for this."

Bai Yu escorted the person out the door.

Su Ruoli stood in front of the dining table, glanced at the paper cup, and whispered, "He is much more polite than Zhuge Fei. He even finished the hot tea."

"So he wasn't turning the tea just now to show off, but to quickly cool it down?" Song Qingnian stroked his chin, "I learned a trick."

"Although Zhuge Qingyun is a bad person, at least the fact that the relics were not returned has nothing to do with him... When the disappearance occurred three years ago, he hadn't even enrolled at Penglai College yet." Xing Yaoyao said something pertinent, "That was all the fault of the graduates. I've heard from the faculty that Tiandi College was indeed in chaos back then."

Bai Yu said nonchalantly, "It's just a difference of opinion. Just like you seniors, you wouldn't show mercy to a senior from Yuling Academy just because you respect him, right?"

Xing Yaoyao pressed her legs together and pushed them down, moving her upper body to sit up from the sofa. "Junior, it seems you've already become quite self-aware of being a student at the Chuanwu Academy... It just so happens that you've also run into this big problem. How about joining our Chuanwu Club and letting me train you properly? In less than a year, I guarantee you'll be able to reach the third level and beat Zhuge Qingyun to a pulp."

"Senior sister, it was just howling." Song Qingnian corrected the mistake.

"Thank you for your suggestion, but we have already established a club, so we won't join the Chuanwu Club." Bai Yu flatly declined, "I'm sorry, you came here for nothing."

"Are you still obsessed with the Thousand Dust Society?" Xing Yaoyao advised. "But for the vast majority of students, creating their own clubs is often just a hobby. Penglai Academy's five major clubs are nominally clubs, but in reality they have a high degree of student autonomy... Co-governance between teachers and students is the basic strategy of Penglai Academy. Joining the Chuanwu Society will give you more resources and a say."

"But he's bound to be involved." Su Ruoli got straight to the point: "The battle between the systems."

She looked directly at Xing Yaoyao, and the gentle heroic spirit asked a core question directly and pointedly: "Senior sister, what I want to know is... in this system battle, what does victory or defeat mean to us?"

Chapter 306: Go throw shit at his door tonight

The battle of systems.

Pass on martial arts and control spirits.

Before entering Penglai Academy, I had already heard about it from Lu Danxin (although this instructor has disappeared, he said he would let me go, and it was really not hypocritical at all)

Su Ruoli has seen and heard a lot in the past few days, including the previous turmoil in the Formation Society, which involved the conflict between the Chuanwu Society and the Yuling Society.

No wonder Ximen Jing came forward with such reluctance.

This huge vortex will drag in all those who are unwilling to be involved, and eventually lead to a storm of the times.

Some want to promote it, others want to stop it.

The establishment of a new system will inevitably be accompanied by the collapse of the old system... Just like the emergence of the automobile directly destroyed the horse-drawn carriage market, countless people will benefit, and many people will suffer.

The question Su Ruoli asked was very targeted. What she asked was 'what does it mean to us'.

She was not a member of the Chuanwu Society, so there was no need for her to immediately stand on the same side with Song Qingnian and Xing Yaoyao in the Chuanwu Society.

Admittedly, Su Ruoli is indeed just an ordinary student now, but if the Spirit Control System is really unstoppable, he still has the option of joining if he can't beat it.

Therefore, for most people, experiencing it personally is not the best option. The best option is actually to watch from the sidelines.

The system revolution will come sooner or later, but it is not clear who the winner will be. Just wait until then.

She is not lacking in patience.

Xing Yaoyao folded his hands, supporting the exaggerated weight on his chest, and whispered, "There's nothing wrong with your thoughts as a freshman, but you'll soon realize that there are countless invisible barriers on this road."

"These thresholds will only be lowered and allowed to be crossed once you choose a side."

"The tide of the times will arrive sooner or later, and its source is in Penglai. Everyone will be swept up in it. If you can't find a position in advance, you will only become cannon fodder."

She sighed and stated the truth: "Precisely because of your excellence, if you don't choose one side, you will inevitably become the center of the vortex."

"Besides, you are students of the Chuanwu Academy, and you are born with this position and identity." Song Qingnian also said bluntly: "Even if you don't join the Chuanwu Society, it will be the same."

"What is this Donglin Party?" Bai Yu couldn't help but complain.

Xing Yaoyao chuckled, sat back down, and stretched lazily. "Actually, ever since you beat up Zhou Jingyan, this outcome was inevitable. Besides... your battle with Yuling Academy, even if it's not considered a system battle, is also about the title of Haoyue."

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend. By joining forces with the Chuanwu Society, it will be much easier to deal with the Yuling Society."

She concluded that Bai Yu had no other choice.

But in fact, Xing Yaoyao was wrong.

She didn't know that Bai Yu was also an alchemist who could refine third-grade elixirs, which meant that even if he couldn't become Haoyue in the future, he could still become a high-grade alchemist.

Alchemists are different from formation masters. Even if the former is involved in a system dispute, they can still live freely... because elixirs are necessities.

Therefore, Yuling Academy tried its best to win over Danding Academy, but this was just a win-over.

Danding College also did not cut off the elixir trade with the Refining College and the Martial Arts College.

In the end, the battle between systems is still a competition of basic skills.

In other words... whoever has lower costs, whoever can mass-produce extraordinary people, and whoever can improve the average strength of extraordinary people will have the advantage.

Productivity determines production relations, and changes in production relations drive social changes... It's such a simple truth, but some people just don't understand it.

Today's extraordinary people are still similar to those who engage in scientific research, which is a kind of handicraft and has not yet reached the level of automation. Whoever can complete automation in the first step will be able to take off.

If we fail to take this step in time, we will end up like the situation in the West, where the knight system and the magic system develop together, and neither can completely overwhelm the other. This is actually not a good thing, because it will cause the development of the extraordinary system to slow down, the two systems will gradually separate, and even go to the other extreme.

If the weakness is too obvious, it will be easy to be targeted.

Thus, the Battle Mage and the Demon Breaker were born.

They split up and merged repeatedly, only thinking about targeting another system, but ignoring their own development, resulting in stagnation.

Bai Yu easily saw through this. He didn't believe that others couldn't see through it, but most people were just in the situation and had no choice.

It's because most extraordinary people only focus their energy on the development of one system. It's like among doctors, there is a difference between internal medicine and surgery. Among surgeons, craniotomy and liver resection are two different things.

Those who eventually reach the fifth level are those who focus on one point and reach the pinnacle.

The difference between the supernatural system and the medical system is that it is a kind of power.

For example, after the two world wars, everyone realized which battlefield weapon was more useful, and that the era of cavalry was over and the tank turret was the correct answer.

Bai Yu looked at Xing Yaoyao and Song Qingnian, thinking that perhaps the seniors had been competing with each other all the way, so they were used to this development path, using each other as a whetstone to fight their way to the top ten of the list.

But he really doesn't need this path.

He will take the name of Haoyue himself.

He finally gave an affirmative answer: "I will not join the Chuanwu Society, and neither will everyone here."

"Junior, you're too stubborn." Xing Yaoyao thought this was a simple invitation, but she didn't expect that even her beauty trick wouldn't work: "I can make my own decision. As long as you join the Chuanwu Society, even if..."

"That's not the question." Bai Yu raised his hand to interrupt. He deliberately asked, "I remember that the current president of the Chuanwu Society is Bei Mingque, who also has the title of Haoyue, right?"

Song Qingnian said: "Yes, what happened to President Beiming?"

Bai Yu spoke in a very refined tone, "Let me put it this way—I heard that everyone in the Chuanwu Club is a crack warrior, and President Bei Ming is incredibly powerful. I'd really like to join, but unfortunately the Chuanwu Club is full. Could you please ask President Bei Ming to leave the club and give me his seat?"

There was silence.

Song Qingnian's expression was one of disbelief, while Xing Yaoyao's gaze became three parts dangerous and seven parts aware.

"...So you have a grudge against President Bei Ming."

"No, you misunderstood. I'm not targeting him."

Bai Yu said modestly, "I have grievances with almost everyone with the last name Bei Ming."

"But I think the one standing at the top of Beimingque should be the most powerful one of this generation, right?"

He turned around and smiled, spreading his hands calmly: "Look, after hearing this, do you two immediately not want to recruit me, or even want to beat me up?"

"I won't bully the weak." Xing Yaoyao put his hands in his pockets, looking depressed. "But I really can't bring myself to recruit you. You actually have a grudge against Bei Ming. Even if you are very talented, you can't be so arrogant. Whether it's true or not, I can't interfere in the president's private affairs... Oh, I shouldn't have come if I had known!"

"I'm serious." Bai Yu said without a smile, "If I wasn't so weak, I'd go to Bei Ming's house and throw shit at them. When they come out, I'll treat them to some golden juice."

"What happened to you, Bei Ming family?" Song Qingnian asked curiously, "Did they hurt your kidney?"

"It's just a small matter...just revenge for my father's murder."

The two of them couldn't stay any longer and suddenly felt very uncomfortable.

They all chose to say goodbye, leaving no room for the two of them to interfere in this matter.

Xing Yaoyao, however, still remained unwilling to give up and said, "If you change your mind, you can always tell me. Even if it's a fight, it would be more convenient to join in and beat up that icy-faced Bei Mingque. There's not even a single handsome guy in the upper echelons of the entire club. I can't even find anyone to show off when I go out!"

"Let's go, senior sister. Although my junior is handsome, he's already taken. Didn't you see that Miss Su beside him has stopped smiling?"

"Humph! You bunch of roughnecks will never understand my sorrow, just like the day doesn't understand the darkness of the night."

The lively crowd left.

Bai Yu also regained his composure. Su Ruoli asked with concern, "Are you okay?"

"Of course." Bai Yu said lightly: "It's just a matter of revenge for my father's murder. Bai Xinghe and I are really not familiar with each other."

"I'll go with you then." Su Ruoli straightened his collar naturally.

"Don't worry. It won't be too late to go after I get the title of Haoyue... and I believe it won't take too long."