100: Chapter 100 Knowledge Changes Destiny (Physics)
Heavenly River Sword Sect, Mountain Gate.
That black brick, which sealed a trace of the Abyssal Lord's true spirit, was solemnly laid at the bottommost layer of the mountain gate. It was no longer an ordinary brick; it was the hardest "threshold" in the entire Cultivation World. Anyone with ill intentions or who tried to sneak in without paying tuition would feel a gaze filled with resentment and grievance from the Abyssal Lord: "I've already become a brick, what more do you want?"
Above the brick, a brand new, postmodern-style (actually just Li Mo's blind design) giant archway rose from the ground. On the archway, the original four vigorous characters "Heavenly River Sword Sect" had been taken down and replaced with a new sign flashing with neon light effects (powered by the Evil Eye Tyrant):
[Tianhe Comprehensive Institute of Advanced Cultivation Technology] (Tianhe Institute of Advanced Cultivation Technology)
"What are these characters?" A Loose Cultivator who had just arrived to report pointed at that line of foreign text (Pinyin) with a face full of confusion. "Don't understand, do you?" The receptionist nearby (a former bandit from Black Wind Village, now the Director of the Admissions Office) pushed the plain glasses on his nose with a look of disdain. "This is called 'International Style.' It's a rune specially designed by the Saint to align with the Abyss."
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[Opening Ceremony Scene]
The square was packed with people. Besides the original Sect Disciples, there were also international students from the Great Zhou Dynasty (led by the Crown Prince who had repented after the red underwear incident), exchange students from various major Sects, and even a few Yao Beasts who had transformed but not quite completely.
Li Mo's figure was not on the high platform. He was still hiding in the Scripture Pavilion, giving a speech through a giant projection Formation (again, the Evil Eye Tyrant).
In the projection, Li Mo's figure was blurry and mysterious (actually, he just hadn't washed his hair), and his voice spread lazily throughout the field: "Cough, cough, well... welcome everyone to Tianhe Academy." "Our school motto is simple: don't ask why, just do it." "Next, please meet the heads of each department."
*Clap clap clap*— Thunderous applause.
The first to step onto the stage was the Head of the [Civil Engineering Department], Butcher Xiao. This former Divine Marquis Who Guards the Nation was currently wearing a mud-stained tank top, holding a trowel in his hand, and exuding a heavy aura like the "Mother of Earth." "I'll only say one thing!" Butcher Xiao waved his trowel, his eyes fanatical. "Cultivation is road construction! If the road is not level, how can one level the world? From now on, anyone who dares to slack off in my class, I'll brick them into the wall... oh no, I'll let them deeply experience the 'solidification process of concrete'!"
The second to step onto the stage was the visiting professor of the [Department of Acting and Social Psychology], the Emperor of Great Zhou, Zhou Tiance. He was wearing that "Tianhe Production" vest, looking elegant. "We... oh no, this professor's proposition is: life is like a play, it all depends on acting. How to use a single look to make enemies believe you are a peerless expert? How to use a piece of blank paper (a rubber check) to make the Abyssal Lord send you pigs? This is the 'Emperor's Heart Art' we are going to learn!"
The third to step onto the stage was the Head of the [Department of Applied Physics and Mental Remodeling], Senior Brother Lei Wanjun. He was the most terrifying. He wasn't holding a sword, but rather that book that made countless people tremble with fear, "five-year simulation, three-year cultivation." A strange geometric light flickered in his eyes, looking at everyone as if they were an equation waiting to be solved. "All things are numbers." Lei Wanjun pushed his glasses (the same style as Li Mo's) and said coldly, "In my class, there is no 'shattered Dao Heart,' only 'miscalculated decimal points.' If anyone can't calculate gravitational acceleration correctly, I'll send them to the sky to personally experience free fall."
The freshmen below were shivering. They thought they were here to learn sword-kinesis flight, so why did it feel like they had entered a mental asylum?
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Second floor of the Scripture Pavilion.
Li Mo cut off the projection, slumped in his rocking chair, and breathed a long sigh of relief. "Whew... I finally bluffed my way through."
He glanced at the System panel. With the establishment of the academy, that blocked Administrator Privilege bar finally flickered. [Current Status: Administrator Privilege restored to 20%.] [New Function Unlocked: Map Editor (Elementary).] [Achievement Attained: Peaches and Plums Throughout the World (though they are all crooked-necked trees).]
"20%, huh... barely enough." Li Mo picked up his teacup and looked out at the bustling square. It seemed everything was developing in a good direction. The Heavenly River Sword Sect was no longer that small, declining Sect, but had become the most bizarre and powerful Holy Land in the Cultivation World.
But. Deep in Li Mo's eyes, there wasn't much laughter. He stood up and walked to the deepest part of the bookshelves, the core position of the "Restricted Book Area." There lay a book he had never mentioned to anyone. It was something he had swept out of a corner of this Scripture Pavilion on his first day of Transmigration.
Title: "Autopsy Report".
Li Mo flipped open the pages. There was no text inside, only a single illustration—the only one. It was a map. A map... of the entire Cultivation World.
Before, Li Mo couldn't understand this map. But now, possessing the Eye of Truth and 20% Administrator Privilege, he finally saw the true nature of this map.
The so-called "Southern Wilderness" was nothing but a giant, withered foot. The so-called "Central Province" was a protruding breastbone. And that bottomless "North Sea" was a hollowed-out eye socket.
"The entire Cultivation World... is truly a corpse." Li Mo's finger lightly traced the patterns on the map. "And we people are like... bacterial colonies on this corpse? Or parasites?"
At that moment, the ground vibrated slightly. It wasn't an earthquake. The source of the vibration came from the square, from those hundred thousand celebrating students, and from that academy that was frantically expanding.
Too noisy. Like a group of fleas having a party on a giant.
Li Mo slammed the "Autopsy Report" shut and turned to look out the window. It was currently noon, and the sun was bright. But in Li Mo's Eye of Truth, he saw a hair-raising sight.
In the sky, that originally stationary sun suddenly... blinked.
[Warning! Warning!] [Excessive environmental noise detected.] [Large-scale illegal construction (Tianhe Academy) is damaging the "surface dermis."] [Host (World Entity)... seems to have been awakened.] [Current Awakening Progress: 0.01%.]
"...Shit." Li Mo couldn't help but swear. He had calculated everything but hadn't accounted for this. He had guarded against the Abyss and fooled the Heavenly Dao, but because the commotion was too loud, he had woken up this "Mother of Earth" (in a physical sense) beneath his feet?
"Squeak?" The Treasure-Seeking Rat felt Li Mo's mood wasn't right and cautiously approached.
Li Mo took a deep breath, put on those gold-rimmed glasses again, and his gaze gradually became sharp. "It's nothing, Squeak." "It seems our academy needs to add another new department."
He picked up a pen and added a line at the end of the admissions brochure: [New Major: Corpse Cosmetology and Soothing Care Department.] [Department Head: Li Mo (leading the class personally).]
"Since it's awake, then we'll find a way to coax it back to sleep." "If we can't coax it to sleep... then we can only give it some 'anesthesia'."
Li Mo pushed open the window, looking at the still ignorant and happy crowd, a mad smile curling at the corner of his mouth. The story of the first volume has ended. But the real "Administrator" work has only just begun.