Chapter 167: Wang Yan

After bidding farewell to Mixian Yun, Li Hongshen returned to his dormitory. Following the completion of the three tutorial transmigrations, students were granted a three-day rest period.

After this interval, the academy would lift the travel restrictions on transmigrations, at which point students would have to rely entirely on their own initiative. Whether or not they could earn the favor of professors and mentors by their sophomore year would depend entirely on their individual efforts.

Although Li Hongshen had gained a great deal from his recent reincarnation transmigration, he still felt somewhat unfulfilled, and had even experienced a deep sense of struggle while in that world.

Regardless of his actual survival or the extent of his gains, aside from gaining an understanding of the framework of laws and acquiring a basic gunman career template, he felt he had achieved little else. Yet neither of these two things was particularly precious to Li Hongshen. Law frameworks were taught right here at Central Lord University, and since they were mostly classic structures, Li Hongshen studying them independently wouldn't yield much difference.

As for career templates, Li Hongshen could easily acquire them through source-point transactions in the civilization's mall. After all, many people within the civilization intentionally transmigrated to lower-tier worlds precisely to actively acquire such basic career templates.

Upon returning to the primary world, they would artificially strip these templates and sell them. Li Hongshen could even visit the internal campus trade fairs, where fellow students or senior peers were bound to sell unwanted gunman templates.

Moreover, if one wanted to grind for a career template themselves, it wasn't impossible; the primary world offered training courses where, given sufficient source points, you were guaranteed to pass within a month and secure the exact basic template you desired.

Consequently, upon returning to the primary world, Li Hongshen felt a strange sense of dissonance—he had gained so much, yet felt as though he had obtained nothing at all.

Back in his dormitory, sitting in a daze and looking out the window at the void battleships cruising past, alongside supreme beings who traversed the void using their physical bodies alone, Li Hongshen was momentarily at a loss as to how to plan his future transmigrations.

Just as he was feeling a faint sense of bewilderment, his communicator rang. The display showed an unfamiliar number.

Without thinking too much about it, Li Hongshen answered directly,

"Hello, I am Li Hongshen. May I ask who is calling?"

"Come to Chongde Building. I am waiting for you in Office 8 on the thirteenth floor."

Staring at the hung-up call, Li Hongshen was slightly baffled, but he quickly came to his senses. Chongde Building was clearly the office building for professors and mentors, and the thirteenth floor was the top floor. Could a professor have taken an interest in him?

Filled with a mixture of excitement and apprehension, Li Hongshen left his dormitory and took a shuttle to Chongde Building.

Normally, Chongde Building should have been called Chongde Tower, as it was a tower-shaped structure standing thirteen floors high. The entire tower was constructed of white jade blocks, its surface intricately woven with numerous energy conduits.

Swiping his card to enter the building, Li Hongshen stepped inside and saw that the offices within were actually suspended inside the tower, with the so-called floors merely serving to distinguish different elevations.

Watching some senior students moving in and out of Chongde Building, Li Hongshen imitated them and stepped onto a suspension platform. A virtual screen then unfolded before him, and after he punched in the coordinates 1308, the suspension platform lifted and rapidly ascended toward the top of the tower.

When Li Hongshen's suspension platform arrived outside the office door, it opened automatically. Stepping inside, he discovered that spatial expansion technology had been applied here; what looked like a small room from the outside possessed a vast interior realm once entered.

Surrounding bookshelves lined the entire walls of the office, and behind a broad desk sat a handsome middle-aged man. The bookshelf behind him displayed numerous crystal-clear photographs.

Most importantly, among the many photographs, Li Hongshen caught sight of his own parents.

"Are you Professor Wang Yan?"

"Mm. But you can also call me Teacher Wang."

With these words, the handsome middle-aged man's figure blurred slightly, and Li Hongshen instantly recognized him as the very Teacher Wang who had remodeled his territory in the Endless Wilderness.

"Ah—"

"Well? Surprised? Unexpected? Who would have thought we had such a wonderful connection, right?"

"This—"

"No need to be surprised. Summoning you here today is also to formally ask you: would you be willing to become my registered student? Once you reach your sophomore year, I will take you under my wing directly."

"I'm willing! Of course I'm willing! Thank you for thinking so highly of me, hahaha."

Seeing Li Hongshen accept, Teacher Wang immediately operated the void screen before him. A moment later, Li Hongshen's communicator chimed, and Wang Yan's name was added to his list of guiding mentors, squeezing Mixian Yun down to second place.

"I have already looked into your situation and know that you just returned from a reincarnation transmigration, seemingly having experienced quite a few things.

I won't say too much. I am a pragmatic person; since reincarnation transmigration yielded you the greatest gains, it proves that this mode is the most suitable for you.

You should try to use this transmigration mode as much as possible from now on. Here is some information I've summarized; take a look at it when you get back.

As for the rest, we will discuss it later. Let me help you formulate a transmigration plan first. You must be feeling somewhat lost right now, unsure of how to develop, aren't you?"

Hearing Teacher Wang's words, Li Hongshen nodded frantically. He truly felt lost. Unlike Li Fuzhen, who had a family legacy to follow along the path of her elders, he needed to find a path that suited him before he could develop further.

"Then let me ask you a question first: among the three paths of machinery, genetics, and psionics, is there any one you prefer, or which one do you feel suits you best?"

Upon hearing the question, Li Hongshen pondered for a long time before cautiously replying,

"I don't have any personal preference. I feel that all three paths provide power and direction for a lord; generally speaking, as long as it can enhance my strength, I am willing to try it. Therefore, I might end up walking all of them."

Hearing Li Hongshen's answer, Wang Yan froze for a moment before bursting into hearty laughter.

"That is truly the most pragmatic answer I have ever heard. Indeed, why make such rigid distinctions between paths? If something can enhance your strength, you just use it.

However, pursuing all three paths simultaneously is still a bit too far off for you. If you had to choose just one path to walk first, which one would you pick?"

"It would probably be psionics."

"Why?"

"Because the civilization mainly trains students in the Great Wilderness using psionics, so I figured psionics might be more suitable for us novice lords in the early stages."

"Look, don't you already have the answer in your own heart? Are you still lost now?"

After listening to Wang Yan's words, Li Hongshen smiled sheepishly. The professor had cleared away the lingering confusion in his mind, guiding him through a series of questions that directly pointed out his path forward, filling Li Hongshen with deep admiration.

"Since you understand what path to walk first, I hope your next transmigration will be to a world experiencing a psionic revival."

"For my next world, I'd like to try a self-created world. Let me give that a try."