bioinnovel Chapter 56 Opening Ceremony, Chief of Lan Zhi Academy
Chapter 56 Opening Ceremony, Chief of Lan Zhi Academy
Lanzhi Beast Taming Academy, Grand Auditorium.
Time flies. Nearly a week has passed since the training match with Burning Heaven Academy.
Today, the annual Yue Lanzhou Academy League, which is of great interest to the beast tamers of Yue Lanzhou, officially kicked off.
According to the tradition of Lanzhi Academy, the opening ceremony is always held in the auditorium and is personally presided over by Dean Lu Yuan.
In the grand auditorium, decorated in blue and gold, the students ranked among the top 600 of Lanzhi Academy took their seats in turn, and the hall was packed.
The vast majority of them were third-year students, with a few exceptionally talented second-year students, and only one first-year student who had just enrolled.
However, a little observation reveals that the only first-year student in the entire room is sitting in the chief seat, while Lin Yueyao, who should have been in the chief seat, is sitting in the second seat.
When people first saw this bizarre sight, they were somewhat surprised, but after considering the recent rumors, they found it to be quite reasonable.
The reason is that the first-year student sitting in the top seat is Xue Youyou, who is rumored to have defeated Lin Feiyan, a once-in-a-millennium genius, in a training match.
If it's true, then this year is undoubtedly the most promising year for Lan Zhiyuan.
Under the intense gazes of the people behind her, Xue Youyou felt as if the back of her head was glowing. Feeling somewhat uncomfortable, she subconsciously twirled the strands of hair by her ears, trying to distract herself by recalling the events of the past week.
These days, Guanghan Zhan has been training Meng Yanqing. Apart from occasionally going to the training room to check on her progress, she spends most of her time happily leveling up in ranked matches with Shendai Yuki Onna.
Although the leveling speed slowed down significantly as the level increased, the good news was that there was no Guanghan Slash to share the experience. After a week of hard work, I was still able to successfully push the Goddess of the Snow Woman forward three levels and reach level 39.
As for Guanghan Zhan, it remained at level 30. The experience gained from defeating the Ten Heavenly Kings Lin Feiyan in a training match wasn't even enough to level up, making Xue Youyou sigh once again that the experience bar of a divine beast is longer than its life.
Then this morning, Xue Youyou saw Meng Yanqing emerge from seclusion. At first, she thought Meng Yanqing had mastered the technique and returned to her sheath, but it turned out that Meng Yanqing had come to remind her that she had to attend the opening ceremony today.
As for why it's someone in seclusion who's reminding someone lying in bed slacking off.
The reason for this was that ever since Xue Youyou started her live stream that day, she had been receiving a lot of harassing calls about buying Xue Nu's evolution route. She had no choice but to turn on the call rejection function for non-friends, which is why Lu Yuan couldn't get through to Xue Youyou at all. She could only call Meng Yanqing and ask her to remind Xue Youyou.
Then, the two of them rushed over to attend the opening ceremony, and Xue Youyou was even forced by Lu Yuan to be placed in the chief position.
Noticing that Lin Yueyao's expression had changed, Xue Youyou thought to herself, "That Lu Yuan has really caused me a lot of trouble."
While this position may not be of much practical use to her, it is something that most commoner beast tamers rely on to find jobs after graduation.
The difference between the first and second place is still quite significant.
For the sake of a useless, empty title, I've offended everyone.
Not only Lin Yueyao, but everyone else was also forced to drop one rank.
The worst off is Lu Yutang. She was originally in the tenth seat, but she has fallen out of the top ten and become the eleventh seat. However, Xue Youyou thinks that Miss Yutang probably won't care too much about this seat.
The auditorium, which could initially be filled with barely suppressed whispers of excitement, quickly quieted down after Lu Yuan stepped onto the stage.
They all held their breath and stared intently at Lu Yuan, waiting for her to speak.
The Lanzhou Academy League is the stage that all young beast tamers dream of.
Each college can field two teams, each consisting of five starters and one substitute, for a total of twelve spots.
Even as a substitute, one can leave behind a glorious record, and after graduation, one can hope to use this experience to get a position or two, instead of becoming a nobody like ordinary students.
As for the schedule of the Moon Orchid League, they were already familiar with it when they were children, and the rules don't change much from year to year.
The entire competition is divided into two parts: online preliminary rounds and offline main competition.
A total of sixteen teams will participate in the main competition. Ten of these teams have a fixed number of spots, with the top ten universities from the previous year each guaranteed one spot.
In addition, the remaining six teams were selected through open qualifiers.
The opening ceremony held today is essentially about two things: first, confirming the members of the two teams from Lanzhi Academy participating in this year's preliminary selection; and second, conducting the preliminary selection lottery.
Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Lu Yuan held the list in her hand, looked around at everyone, and said loudly: "All of you who are attending this opening ceremony are the most outstanding beast tamer students of my Lanzhi Academy. Most of you will be graduating this year. As the dean of Lanzhi Academy, I would like to say to you that you have worked hard."
"We've been saying the same polite things every year, and I'm sure everyone's tired of hearing them. This year, for the opening ceremony, we're going to have a fresh start and get straight to the point."
"I, Lu Yuan, Dean of Lan Zhi Academy, hereby solemnly announce the list of personnel to be deployed."
"First up is Team Two of Lanzhiyuan."
"Substitute, ninth seat, Xie Jianchun."
"Starting lineup, seventh seat, Shen Yanqiu."
"Sixth seat, Liu Qingchan."
"Fifth seat, Jiang Hanli."
"Vice-captain, fourth seat, Ning Xiaoman."
"Captain, second seat, Lin Yueyao."
As Lu Yuan recited the names of everyone she had spent every day with, everyone was speechless.
Aren't these the original members of Team One? How come they all climbed to Team Two?
The audience immediately began to murmur amongst themselves.
"Was that a slip of the tongue? Shouldn't this be one team?"
"It couldn't have been a slip of the tongue, could it? Every year, the second team members always report first."
"Why did we assign this senior third-year student to the second team?"
"Waaah, I'm caught up in palace intrigue!"
"The dispute over persimmons has always been like this!"
"..."
Hearing the dissenting voices behind her, many of which accused Xue Youyou of being ruthless and pushing the senior students into the second team immediately after taking the position, Xue Youyou was speechless.
She clearly remembered that after the training match with Burning Heaven Academy a week ago, she had specifically told Lu Yuan that nothing needed to be changed.
Unexpectedly, Lu Yuan said one thing and did another, changing the logos of Team One and Team Two without saying a word.
This has really ruined her reputation. Xue Youyou feels that she has been labeled as a bad woman involved in palace intrigue.
Stealing a glance at Lin Yueyao beside her, I could see that Lin Yueyao's eyes were filled with humiliation and astonishment. It was obvious that she was just as confused as I was, not even knowing when she had been arranged to do this.
If Lin Yueyao is like this, then it's even less likely that others would know.
Just as Xue Youyou had guessed, this sudden change was something Lu Yuan had planned long ago.
She didn't care whether Xue Youyou agreed or not. The first team of Lanzhi Academy had to be the strongest team. If the second team's performance was much better than the first team's, wouldn't people outside the academy say behind her back that she, as the dean, had no eye for talent?
If it weren't for concerns about team cohesion, she would have loved to disband the entire team and rebuild a team with the strongest individual players.
During Lu Yuan's reading, Su Wanrou and Cui Yelan were the most nervous in the audience.
When they heard the first two names, their hearts nearly jumped out of their chests. They both thought they had been secretly eliminated. It wasn't until Lu Yuan finished reading the entire second team's roster that Su Wanrou and Cui Yelan breathed a sigh of relief, realizing it was a false alarm.
After quickly announcing the list of the second team, Lu Yuan turned to the next page of the roster and said in a strong voice, "Next is the list of members for the first team of Lan Zhi Academy!"
"Substitute, to be determined."
"Starting lineup, seventh seat, Su Wanrou."
"Ninth seat, Cui Yelan."
"The tenth seat, Lu Yutang."
"Vice Captain, Third Seat, Meng Yanqing."
"And, the most talented student in the history of Lanzhi Academy, the new team captain, and the undisputed chief, Xue Youyou!"