151: I regret it so much! (Sixth update!)

Inside the live stream, all the viewers held their breath.

They forgot about Cai Xukun, and they also forgot about Liu Tianxian.

Everyone's attention was firmly captivated by the young man suspended in mid-air at the center of the screen, and the cluster of buildings behind him that looked like a celestial realm.

After three seconds of frozen silence, the bullet comments went completely wild.

【I'm... am I dreaming? Is this real?】

【Director! Zoom in! I want to see the Headmaster's face!】

【Forget the celebrities! Who wants to see celebrities! I want to see Immortals!】

【Those who said it was special effects, come out and get hit! If this is special effects, I'll eat my keyboard!】

On the Martial Arts Training Ground, Li Heng slowly opened his eyes.

He ignored the mundane world at the foot of the distant mountain, which was buzzing because of the live broadcast.

His gaze swept over the two hundred students neatly lined up below the stage.

“Today is the Academy's final selection.”

His voice was not loud, yet it clearly reached everyone, as well as every viewer in the live stream.

“Representatives from each department will form a team. There will be five teams in total: Sword Cultivator, Spell Cultivator, Body Cultivator, Talisman Cultivator, and Formation.”

“The competition will be in a Arena (arena) format, with drawing lots for matchups.”

“The group stage, semi-finals, and finals will last for one day.”

Li Heng's speaking pace was neither fast nor slow, clearly explaining the rules.

Not a single wasted word.

After speaking, his figure shifted slightly, and he quietly retreated to the main seat on one side of the Martial Arts Training Ground, leaving the space entirely to the students.

Upon seeing this, the live broadcast's chief director, Han Li, immediately roared into his earpiece.

“Camera on the host!”

The next second, under the gaze of countless viewers, Han Li's figure soared from one side of the Martial Arts Training Ground, tracing a graceful arc in the air, finally landing steadily between Cai Xukun and Liu Tianxian.

He grinned, revealing his two signature small tiger teeth, and waved at the camera.

“Good morning, dear viewers and friends!”

“I am Han Li, the special host for the Kunlun Cultivation Academy's final selection!”

At this moment, the bullet comments in the live stream exploded again.

【Holy crap!!!!】

【Han Li??? Is it the Han Li I'm thinking of? That anti-fraud Streamer Han Li?】

【He he he... he can fly?!】

【I'm broken! The anti-fraud Streamer I followed, really went to Cultivation?!】

【Case closed! No wonder Han Li hasn't streamed for months, turns out he went to get a spot for Immortal Ascension!】

【My youth is over! I watched him run out of haunted houses in a panic, and now he's actually flying through the air...】

Han Li was completely unaware that his old fans were frantically complaining in the live stream.

He relished the feeling of being in the spotlight, cleared his throat, and in his highly infectious Streamer tone, announced loudly.

“Enough with the pleasantries!”

“I announce that the Kunlun Cultivation Academy's first annual final selection competition is now...”

“Officially beginning!”

The moment his words fell, a high-pitched Dragon roar and a clear Phoenix cry simultaneously resounded through the sky!

Under the shocked gaze of everyone, a hundred-meter giant Dragon, cast entirely from golden metal with distinct scales, and a Phoenix, its body burning with crimson flames and adorned with magnificent feathers, shot up into the sky from the deep mountains of the Academy!

They circled and chased each other in the air, the Dragon's body agile, the Phoenix's wings spread wide, stirring up gusts of wind and thunder and scorching heat waves.

The scene was as if a mythical legend had been brought directly into reality!

All the viewers in the live stream's brains crashed again.

Han Li looked at the camera, a hint of just the right amount of smugness on his face.

“Everyone, there's no need to panic. This is a special opening performance meticulously prepared by our Artifact Refining Department students for everyone — Dragon and Phoenix Bringing Auspiciousness!”

【Artifact Refining Department... performance? Is this something students can make?!】

【Mom asked me why I'm kneeling again...】

【I take back what I just said, if this is special effects, I'll eat my monitor too!】

【From today onwards, I am Kun, Sect!】

The atmosphere in the live stream was completely ignited, and a fervent emotion swept across the entire Dragon Country through the screen.

At the same time.

Jinghai City, inside a university girls' dormitory.

Lin Xue's roommate's mouth hung open, staring intently at the Dragon and Phoenix soaring across the sky on her phone screen, completely unaware that her potato chips had fallen all over the floor.

“Oh my god...”

“Xuexue, look... this... is this the school your high school classmate Fang Yuan talked about?”

Lin Xue didn't speak, she just nodded silently, her eyes full of complexity.

Another girl, who was applying a face mask, suddenly sat up, tore off the mask from her face, her face filled with regret.

“I... I remember now!”

“That crowdfunding back then! I saw it too! At the time, I even cursed them as scammers and just swiped past it...”

The more she spoke, the more her voice trembled, finally taking on a hint of a sob.

“If I had also spent a hundred yuan to participate back then... even just once... what if... what if I was the one chosen?”

“Then today... wouldn't I also be able to Cultivation in that place...?”

These words were like a heavy hammer, striking hard at the heart of every girl in the dormitory.

Regret.

Endless regret.

And this scene was not just happening in this dormitory.

At this moment, throughout the entire Dragon Country, in countless cities, countless corners, those who had once scoffed at and dismissed the “Kunlun Cultivation Academy Crowdfunding” recalled that matter they had forgotten deep in their memories.

They looked at the miraculous Academy in the live broadcast, at the students flying through the air, at the Dragon and Phoenix soaring across the sky.

An emotion named “remorse” spread like a virus, wildly.

If only back then... if only back then, they were given another chance...