Su Fu’s heart skipped a beat upon hearing this.
‘What? Cultivate everything? All of it? The Chinese Pantheon?’
Su Fu looked like she wanted to say something but stopped, internally wailing.
‘Dean, you really have high expectations for me.’
She couldn’t even afford to cultivate eighteen divine skills, let alone fully train so many.
Just thinking about having to run around collecting resources to upgrade her divine skills made her feel faint.
Training divine skills required a huge amount of resources and time—and now she had to cultivate everything?
She didn’t even know how to divide up her days to have enough time.
But facing Tai Xuanzi’s expression of certainty, Su Fu could only grit her teeth and smile.
A woman can’t say she can’t do something, especially not in front of her master.
Besides, these were all top figures in the Chinese Pantheon.
If they said cultivate everything, then cultivate everything.
She would figure it out later.
However, Tai Xuanzi’s words reminded her of another problem.
“By the way, do we have teachers for every profession in Kunlun?” she explained, “I think I’m still too much of a self-taught wildling. I want to listen and learn more theoretical knowledge.”
Su Fu was sincere in her thoughts.
Since choosing the Chinese Pantheon, it felt like stepping into a vast wilderness with no footsteps to follow, no clear guidance.
Though she had some results through exploration, her systematic theoretical knowledge was still too lacking.
Especially now, with the college entrance exam rapidly approaching, she felt like she was racing against time.
She really needed to fill in that gap.
Especially now that the dean advised her to cultivate everything—a much harder path—the need for professional theoretical guidance was even more important.
Hearing the question, Tai Xuanzi coughed lightly, her gaze dodging a bit.
“Well, we offer a one-stop service.”
Seeing Su Fu’s confused look, she added, “Of course, it’s not my own service, but your Teacher Zhuge’s.”
Su Fu: “???”
Wait, no way this means what she’s thinking, right?
Kunlun only has these two teachers?
“One-stop service”…
‘Could it mean Teacher Zhuge is a full-spectrum teacher? Handling all subjects?’ Su Fu almost fainted.
So, the entire Chinese Pantheon teaching team across the universe consists of only these two?
Oh, and she’s the only student?
Then it’s fine.
Two teachers for one student isn’t impossible after all…
Zhuge Yan was smart enough to see through Su Fu’s thoughts at a glance.
After a moment’s contemplation, he said, “You do need to learn systematically.”
“By the way, Dean,” he turned to Tai Xuanzi, “our school has a joint training program, right?”
Tai Xuanzi’s clear eyes met his.
“Isn’t that your responsibility? Handling external communications and such.”
Zhuge Yan: “….”
He leaned closer and whispered, “I’m just trying to uphold your image as the dean.”
Tai Xuanzi: “…There are only three of us in this academy. It’s not like it matters.”
Over time, everyone knows each other anyway.
Zhuge Yan sighed helplessly, “Fine, since you’re the dean, it’s your call.”
He then turned back to Su Fu, seriously explaining, “We have joint training programs with two universities in the Second Star Ring. You can choose any of them to enroll.”
“As long as you meet graduation requirements, both schools will recognize your degree.”
“I think… that shouldn’t be a problem for you, right?”
Only two schools.
Tai Xuanzi looked puzzled and interjected, “Is it really necessary to make things so complicated? You have to attend classes at other schools? What’s so great about that?”
“I think you should just grind instances directly. After clearing a hundred or eighty instances, you’ll naturally become talented.”
“What?” Su Fu was stunned.
‘How many instances?’
She suspected she misheard.
‘Help! A hundred and eighty instances?’
How long would that even take?
She’d be dead before she finished.
What kind of devilish training plan was this?
She wanted to take back what she just said—there’s only one Chinese Pantheon teacher in the universe?
‘Dean, you… sigh, you really are fit to be the dean’.
Seeing Tai Xuanzi’s confused expression, Su Fu smiled politely.
She didn’t dare say a word.
A woman couldn’t speak out about being incapable in front of her master.
Beside her, Zhuge Yan helplessly massaged his forehead again.
He really wanted to look up and sigh, then angrily ask are you the only person in the world?
But he certainly couldn’t say that so bluntly.
So, Zhuge Yan took a deep breath and explained tactfully, “Dean, Su Fu also needs classmates.”
“For example, competitions, the joy of skipping classes together… these are important parts of college life, right?”
Tai Xuanzi nodded seriously at this, “That’s true. Classmates are quite important.”
“I myself came to Kunlun during my school years.”
She paused and sighed a little, “It’s just a pity Minister Kong Ying failed. She insisted on going to the Fourth Star Ring.”
‘Kong Ying?’ Su Fu was shocked.
‘That’s Minister Kong Ying of the Northern Polaris Education Department?’
So the dean and Minister Kong Ying were classmates.
She tried to control her expression.
She didn’t expect to get such a juicy piece of gossip.
But the Second Star Ring should be much better than the Fourth Star Ring, so why did Minister Kong Ying insist on the Fourth?
At this moment, Zhuge Yan cleared his throat softly and steered the topic back to the joint training program.
“So, Su Fu, what do you think?”
Snapping back to reality, Su Fu said, “Teacher Zhuge, I think it’s a great idea.”
Of course, she was supportive.
The joint training program meant she could use resources from two schools.
Although it might be a bit tougher, the benefits were huge.
The simplest example was that she could use all the collaborative instances between the two schools.
However, this also meant she had to perform well this time to get into the school with the richest resources in the Second Star Ring.
Thinking of this, Su Fu finally asked her most pressing question.
“Teacher, you must have heard about this year’s college entrance exam reform.”
“Many Second Star Ring candidates are coming to the Third Arm to take the exam. What… level are they at?”
She knew almost nothing about these candidates from higher star rings.
What special abilities did they have?
Which clans did they come from?
How strong were they?
If she could learn something in advance, she wouldn’t be so passive during the exam.
Tai Xuanzi answered casually upon hearing this.
“They’re just a bunch of rookies. If they were really good at the Second Star Ring, would they bother coming to the Third Arm?”
“They only come here because they couldn’t make it in the Second Star Ring and want to take the easier route.”
“The truly capable students stay in the Second Star Ring. These who come to the Third Arm are just trying to find an easy way out. You don’t need to worry.”
Su Fu didn’t expect Tai Xuanzi to speak so bluntly, but thinking about it, it did make sense.
The Second Star Ring was very strong; why would elite students leave their home star system for a lower one’s exam?
So these so-called Second Star Ring “elite” students weren’t as scary as she had imagined.
However, even so-called rookies were still “rookies” in Dean Tai Xuanzi’s eyes, so Su Fu had to take them seriously.
After all, they had access to resources and systematic training.
A small smile tugged at her lips.
“But after this reform, whether they stay in the Second Star Ring or come to the Third Arm…”
Tai Xuanzi cut her off mid-sentence.
“There’s still time before the college entrance exam, but many clans have already started their internal conflicts. Just a few days ago, the Asgard family and the Paradise Saint Clan almost…”
“Ahem! Ahem!”
Tai Xuanzi was interrupted as Zhuge Yan coughed twice to remind her.
Su Fu listened curiously.
‘What? Fighting among dogs?’
‘Aren’t those two from the Seven Great Clans? How did they start fighting each other?’
Unfortunately, after Zhuge Yan’s reminder, Tai Xuanzi stopped talking.
But Su Fu clearly saw the dean’s unreadable look of schadenfreude.
She really wanted to hear the full story!
At this moment, Zhuge Yan looked at her and asked, “You’re probably worried about whether they will crush you with their superior power, right?”
“You don’t have to worry about that. The exam papers are dynamically adjusted. There’s no such thing as a max-level expert crushing newbies in a starting village.”
Upon hearing this, Su Fu’s tense nerves relaxed a little.
That was good.
She was worried those Second Star Ring candidates would bring overwhelming advantages to the exam, leaving her no chance to compete.
It seemed impossible for them to cheat their way in.
Although the Third Arm exam was easier than the Second Star Ring’s, the Shen Yan AI would dynamically adjust exam difficulty and divine power distribution.
The addition of Second Star Ring candidates meant Shen Yan would allocate more abundant divine power to the Third Arm exam.
Ordinary candidates would receive more divine power than before, enabling greater divine skill improvements.
So, in a sense, it was Shen Yan’s compensation for ordinary candidates.
That meant the gap might not be as huge as it seemed outside the exam.
Maybe it even gave Third Arm candidates a fighting chance against those from the Second Star Ring.
However, the advantages of these clan children objectively still existed.
Sure enough, Teacher Zhuge reminded her: “But you do need to pay attention. These people are candidates from core clan circles of major pantheons.”
“They’ve received top-tier education from childhood and have systematic training on various exam types and strategies. Plus, they have exclusive divine artifacts and various bloodline abilities.”
No matter how Shen Yan adjusted, the information and artifact gap was hard to make up.
Knowing this, Su Fu cleared her throat and asked, “Teacher, is there any forecast for the exam maps?”
She worried these clan candidates’ arrival would push the maps’ difficulty to an extreme.
The Fourth Star Ring exam was already the Map of the Nine Provinces, and the Third Arm was naturally harder.
Now with these candidates, she dared not imagine the difficulty level.
She was afraid the maps would become absurdly difficult, which would definitely favor the well-informed clan candidates.
Zhuge Yan thought for a moment and said, “Maps? There are many.”
“But I think they’ll still be physical-type maps. Like mountains, ice plains, forests, that sort of thing.”
He paused, “But the difficulty might increase a bit. For example, some extreme environments…”
“Underground, or sky maps.”
“And possibly some natural disaster maps as well.”
He continued analyzing, “If there are many Second Star Ring candidates, Shen Yan will definitely adjust the map difficulty dynamically. It could be natural disaster types—”
“Like hellscape, glacial wastelands, sandstorms. But most likely, the difficulty will be capped around this level.”
Su Fu was a bit curious and asked, “Physical maps?”
“Are there other types besides physical maps?”
Zhuge Yan nodded, “Yes, like mythic civilization ruins. You’ve been to places like that—such as the Chang’an Map.”
“But that’s just the basics. There are also places like the Chinese Fengdu Underworld, the Eighteen Levels of Hell…”
Su Fu gasped, ‘Fengdu Underworld? The Eighteen Levels of Hell?’
They were going all out?
If the exam maps were such environments, the difficulty would probably skyrocket.
“Other pantheons’ maps too,” Zhuge Yan continued, “like the Greek Pantheon’s Atlantis, the Sunken City. Or the Troy Battlefield.”
As he spoke, his tone shifted.
“Beyond that, there are even higher-difficulty spacetime maps. Like cyclic exam grounds. You’ve probably heard the story of Sisyphus, right?”
Su Fu nodded.
Sisyphus—the Greek mythological king punished to endlessly push a boulder uphill, only for it to roll back down just before reaching the top, repeating this forever without end.
“In that exam ground,” Zhuge Yan said, “all terrain resets every ten minutes. The defenses you painstakingly built, the water sources you opened, the campfires you lit—all vanish in an instant, and everything returns to zero.”