Welcome to Xiuzhen Academy

Chapter 57 Penglai
  Sitting on the train uptown.

Yu Qian looked out the window at the scenery passing by.

A few hours ago, she was being chased and intercepted in the upper city, and the Inspectorate and Operations Department were still searching outside the Holy See.

She unblocked Qi You and sent him a message: Are you already in the academy?

Qi You replied in seconds: Yes.

Immediately afterwards, her voice came in: "You finally lifted the shield. I was planning to tell you when I saw the game was over."

"You just follow the map in the email. You don't need to look at the federal map." He said, "This place... I can't explain clearly. It's very mysterious anyway. You think there is a road in an impassable place. That's probably what it means."

Yu Qian asked: "What's the academy like? Can I bring my own luggage?"

"Inside... how do I put it? It's not like the human world. You'll understand it when you see it. I'm a science student. If you ask me to describe it, I can't describe it." Qi Youyou said, "As for the luggage, it should be fine. You can take it or not. Okay, you can buy everything here, and what kind of luggage can you bring?"

Yu Qian glanced at the android sitting next to him: "Well... there is a large technological tool."

"What is that?" Qi You asked.

"Bai," she said.

"Isn't it a dog?"

"Not now, no more, I'm getting off the car." Yu Qian hung up the call.

The train arrives at the station.

The three got out of the car.

Yu Qian looked at the three bright characters in front of him - Botanical Garden.

Umikawa looked at the directions on the map disbelievingly: "So the academy actually studies botany?"

Visiting the botanical garden is free.

Shangcheng District has always done a good job in ensuring education and basic life.

Yu Qian walked into the botanical garden. He didn't bother to look at the strange trees and flowers he had never seen before. Instead, he followed the route on the map and walked to... an arch bridge?

Umikawa looked at the underground lake: "You're not going to jump into the water, are you?"

Yu Qian walked onto the arch bridge: "It doesn't seem like that... the route still needs to go forward."

Sai Mi was a little impatient. She obviously got more eyes than the plants being visited.

Yu Qian took two steps, stopped, and looked at the map: "The map shows that the final destination is here, but..."

Before she finished speaking, she noticed something was wrong - the sounds around her had disappeared at some point, and there were no tourists' footsteps or Umikawa's voice behind her.

She looked up from the map and was stunned for a moment.

The figures of the others disappeared, and in front of them was a scene they had never seen before.

"Not in the human world." - Qi Youyou was absolutely right.

How could such a scene be from the human world?
  For the first time, Yu Qian had a concrete concept of the word "wonderland"——

There are spiritual books hidden on the blue peaks of the sea, which God chose as the residence of gods and immortals. When the weather is clear, you can hear laughter in the void, and fight to ride the huge waves and ride whales.

There are clouds and mist in front of you, and a vast expanse of white beneath your feet. The breeze blows by, blowing the clouds, and you feel like you are stepping on the top of the clouds. When you lower your head, you can see the stars below.

She had never seen such a scene before, and she forgot to even think about it for a while.

The thin clouds and mist that could not be seen revealed the houses behind in the haze. They seemed to be floating in the air, high or low, without any support below.

There is a tall tower further away, hidden in the clouds and mist, looming, with a faint stream of light flowing through it.

"This is..." she murmured, "Is this the world of cultivators?"

The clouds and mist around us seem to be alive, changing into various forms from time to time and drifting by. They float from the clouds, fall into the clouds, disperse in an uproar, and finally merge into the clouds and mist, returning to the lingering mist again.

Yu Qian subconsciously stretched out his hand, but only touched the cool air and caught nothing.

She lowered her head and realized that the stars under her feet were distant urban areas. It’s so high here that everything below seems so small.

Floating on the clouds, looking down at the world.

She looked down, feeling an indescribable feeling.

Figures of other people gradually appeared in the clouds and mist farther away. The specific appearance could not be seen clearly, but they all froze in place after entering here. They were also students who came to register for school like Yu Qian.

"Hiss..." A woman's voice came from behind. Sami stood behind her and also received a huge impact.

After Yu Qian's figure disappeared and the tourists around him didn't notice this scene at all, Saimi and Umikawa immediately understood - this arch bridge was the door to another world, and they all passed through it. Arch bridge, here we come.

Hai Jianchuan looked at the scene in front of him in shock and murmured: "People are sitting in the sky with suspicion, and fish are like hanging in the mirror."

Even Bai, who is not a human being, as an android with high intelligence and data life, cannot give any effective and accurate description of the scenery in front of him.

A gust of wind blew up, layers of clouds and mist piled up, and a huge palace appeared directly ahead in the distance.

[All students please come to the main hall to report quickly]

This voice brought back everyone's thoughts.

"Go and report." Hai Mikawa said in a daze. He had not fully recovered from the shock just now and almost tripped over.

As she walked forward, Yu Qian found that the distance between the palace seemed to have never changed, and she seemed to have been standing still.

Sammi and Umikawa, who were originally standing next to her, had unknowingly moved far in front of her.

She turned around, Bai was behind her.

This meant that she was moving, but her path was somehow longer than the others, so that she seemed to be left behind by everyone.

Bai said helplessly: "I can't move, maybe because I am 'baggage'."

"Then wait for me here." Yu Qian said.

The figures of Sai Mi and Umikawa gradually disappeared from her sight.

There was no trace of other people around her, and she was the only one left to move forward among the clouds.

I don't know how long it took.

Finally, Yu Qian stood alone in front of the palace.

She climbed the steps and walked into the hall step by step.

A woman stood above.

When she got closer, she saw her face.

Yu Qian was stunned on the spot.

The woman above smiled: "Don't worry, everyone here will only see their own faces, and their appearance is just an illusion."

"Don't you have your own face?" Yu Qian asked. She didn't like people using the same face as her.

The other party didn't pay attention to her offense: "I have it, but you can't see it now. Come forward."

Yu Qian walked up.

The woman stood on the highest step. She raised her hand, and a delicate jade tablet appeared in the air: "This is a spiritual tablet. In today's terms, this is your student ID card."

Yu Qian raised his head and raised his hand to pick up the jade token. His tentacles were warm and cold.

"Is this the academy?" she asked.

The woman looked at her with a slight smile: "Yes, you can call it the academy, you can call it the City in the Sky, or use the more ancient name, Penglai."

Yu Qian felt goosebumps when she saw such a gentle and kind expression on a face like hers. She asked again: "Are you the dean? Or a teacher in the college?"

(End of this chapter)