Chapter 26

Zhou Xia naturally did not know what Bai Ye was thinking, nor could she guess that Bai Ye had already thought about signing up for the school exam one year later.

The No. 1 High School acted very fast, and they soon sent someone to deliver the contract. After Bai Ye signed the contract, the teacher seemed relieved, as if a task had been completed.

“Student Bai, I was worried that you would not come to our school,” said the teacher who was there to deliver the contract.

He looked tall and had a squarish mouth, a wide nose, thick eyebrows, and big eyes. He was wearing a red woolen hat and was neatly shaved.

His name was Fang Hai.

“I naturally have to choose the best school. There is no better high school in our Base City than the No. 1 High School,” Bai Ye said modestly.

Fang Hai was smiling wide.

“That’s true.”

There were two other high schools in the Base City that were comparable to the No. 1 High School.

Of course, the two schools were merely just as famous as the No. 1 High School. However, in general, they were still half a rank below the No. 1 High School.

One of them was a private school, and the other was a public school. Neither the resources nor the nutritional elements provided to their students were comparable to those of the No. 1 High School.

He was certain about signing the Grade-A contract.

Bai Ye treated the two teachers to a meal at a restaurant.

After the meal, Zhou Xia secretly went to the front desk to pay the check.

“There is no reason for a student to pay when the teachers and the student dine outside,” Zhou Xia said seriously. “Alright, I will go back now. You are at home by yourself. If anything happens, you can call me anytime. You should have my phone number, right?”

“Yes.” Bai Ye remembered having Zhou Xia’s phone number.

“By the way, you have now signed a Grade-A contract. Although you have not yet enrolled in the school, you can use the school’s meditation rooms,” Fang Hai told Bai Ye before he left. “However, the canteen will not be operating, as classes have yet to start. You have to go out for meals, or you could bring some snacks with you.”

“Thank you, teacher.”

The junior high school and the senior high school of the No. 1 High School were on two different campuses.

However, the two campuses were not too far apart.

They were only two blocks away.

The next day, Bai Ye brought a bottle of mineral water, two pieces of bread, and a piece of jerky with him.

He arrived at school with the bags.

The guard took a look at the student identification card that had been issued to him in advance.

“You are a new student.” The guard allowed Bai Ye to enter the school after confirming his identity. “The meditation rooms are in the third building. Go up this slope and you will see it just around the corner. There is a plaque hanging on the door,” the guard told Bai Ye.

“Thank you.”

Bai Ye reached the meditation rooms.

Unlike the meditation rooms of the junior high school, the meditation rooms of the senior high school occupied an entire building.

White tiles were pasted outside the three-story square building, and a stone plaque had been installed on the door.

The words ‘Meditation Rooms’ were written on it.

There was a total of 72 rooms on the first floor.

The same number of rooms existed on the second and third floor.

There was thus a grand total of 216 meditation rooms.

There might seem to be many meditation rooms, yet this was still insufficient for the students.

Although it was a school holiday, Bai Ye realized that all the rooms on the first floor were occupied.

He took out his cell phone to check the time.

It was 7:40 a.m.

Bai Ye was lost in thought.

He had thought that he was already very early. Besides, this was a school holiday.

Among the 72 rooms on the second floor, 16 rooms were occupied.

There were two signs on the doors, a red and a green one. If someone locked the room from the inside, the red sign would be displayed.

Bai Ye suspected that some people might have stayed in their meditation room all night.

This was possible.

However, Bai Ye remembered that the school charged a fee for the meditation rooms.

He had a Grade-A contract, so he could try this out for free. Non-students seemed to be charged a significant amount.

He scanned the lock on the door with his student identification card.

He then entered the room.

The meditation room was not big. It was only about 20 to 30 square meters.

However, this was more than enough for one person.

There was a groove against the wall in the four corners of the room, and many pebbles had been placed in each groove.

The surrounding walls had been decorated with rocks layered on top of each other.

The room had been designed in a dark brown natural style.

There were several futons in the meditation room, and there was also an inward groove in the wall on the left. There was a large circle on the outside, and a small circle in the center with a warm yellow light inside it. A small copper incense burner was in the center, emitting a faint fragrance that filled the surroundings.

There were three pots of calming grass against the other wall.

Bai Ye was shocked to see that there were three pots of calming grass in a single meditation room.

He had to admit that the school spent a lot of money on resources.

There was excellent room soundproofing as well. After locking the door, Bai Ye put the things he had brought on the flat copper table at the entrance.

He then sat down cross-legged in the middle of the room.

Bai Ye closed his eyes and began to meditate.

…

Time passed in the blink of an eye, and school would be starting the next day.

Bai Ye opened his eyes in the meditation room of the No. 1 Senior High School.

He looked calm and peaceful.

‘I almost broke through to the gold level.’ Bai Ye, who was always calm and collected, could not help getting excited.

In the past month, it had indeed been much more effective to meditate in the school’s meditation room than at home.

Apart from training Xiaodiao every day, Bai Ye had not needed to worry about Xiaowei’s advancement too.

He had spent the rest of his time meditating.

Within a month, his meditation level had successfully broken through to the silver ten-star level, and he was only one step away from reaching the gold one-star level.

‘Today, I must break through to the gold level in one go,’ Bai Ye thought silently in his heart.

If he broke through to the gold level, perhaps the existence in his dream would be able to come out.

Since his last dream, Bai Ye had had several other dreams like that.

In the dream, he got a little more familiar with that monster.

Bai Ye was still in the mood to observe its appearance.

He had discovered that the second monster that was frozen in the ice did not seem to have a physical body.

A part of its body seemed to be imaginary.

It did not appear to be an entity.

This kind of monster could be found in reality. There were some monsters that did not have a physical body. Instead, their bodies were formed by an elemental structure.

Such monsters were generally elemental beasts.

Thus, perhaps his second monster was an elemental beast.

He closed his eyes and continued meditating.

In his Sea of Consciousness, the star wheel was spinning and its rotating speed kept becoming faster and faster.

Ever since he had advanced to the silver ten-star level, the size of the star wheel seemed to have reached its limit.

Countless silver light spots rotated clockwise based on a fixed pattern.

The light spots scattered in the surrounding void and were attracted by the star wheel, plunging straight into it.

The star wheel became bigger and bigger.

The rotation speed also gradually increased.

Finally, it reached a certain critical point.

The star wheel split into two star wheels right in the middle.

The pressure on this one star wheel was distributed among the two star wheels.

The efficiency with which the two star wheels attracted the light spots scattered in the air was doubled!

Meanwhile, Bai Ye’s mental strength had also broken through to a higher level.

However, he had not simply advanced to a higher level.

He had advanced to the gold one-star and the gold two-star level!

Bai Ye suddenly opened his eyes.

His eyes were blazing like a torch. If an ordinary person with insufficient mental strength looked at Bai Ye, they might feel giddy and enter a trance.

‘Although I still can’t interfere with reality…’ Bai Ye tried to focus on a spot.

The speed of the incense floating in the incense burner on the wall not far away gradually slowed down under Bai Ye’s intense stare. Each particle was amplified, and the sounds that he heard were also slowing down.

The sensitivity of his five senses had increased several times.

To Bai Ye, everything seemed to have happened a long while ago. However, only a few split seconds had passed in reality.

Bai Ye felt a burst of pain in his brain and shut his eyes.