Chapter 956: Layout, Starting from Going to the Expansion Realm

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They ‍​‌​​‌‌​​​‌‌​‌‌‌‌​‌‌‌​‌​​​​‌​​​​​​​‌‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​​​​‌‌​​​​​‌‌​​​​‌​​‌‌​‌​‌​​‌‌​​​​​‌‌​​​‌‌​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​‌‌‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​‌​​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌​‌​​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌​‌‌​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​​​‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌​‌‌‌​‍could follow me out of the academy and enter the Expansion Realm at any time.

Whether ‍​‌​​‌‌​​​‌‌​‌‌‌‌​‌‌‌​‌​​​​‌​​​​​​​‌‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​​​​‌‌​​​​​‌‌​​​​‌​​‌‌​‌​‌​​‌‌​​​​​‌‌​​​‌‌​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​‌‌‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​‌​​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌​‌​​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌​‌‌​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​​​‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌​‌‌‌​‍it was me or Millian, both of us had maintained close communication with that City Lord of Ninglan New City.

Because ‍​‌​​‌‌​​​‌‌​‌‌‌‌​‌‌‌​‌​​​​‌​​​​​​​‌‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​​​​‌‌​​​​​‌‌​​​​‌​​‌‌​‌​‌​​‌‌​​​​​‌‌​​​‌‌​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​‌‌‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​‌​​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌​‌​​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌​‌‌​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​​​‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌​‌‌‌​‍she needed to stay in the Expansion Realm for a long time, Ninglan Qiuyue’s relationship with the academy was not a simple student relationship.

Ninglan ‍​‌​​‌‌​​​‌‌​‌‌‌‌​‌‌‌​‌​​​​‌​​​​​​​‌‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​​​​‌‌​​​​​‌‌​​​​‌​​‌‌​‌​‌​​‌‌​​​​​‌‌​​​‌‌​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​‌‌‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​‌​​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌​‌​​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌​‌‌​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​​​‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌​‌‌‌​‍Qiuyue also kept constant attention on matters on the academy side.

Apart ‍​‌​​‌‌​​​‌‌​‌‌‌‌​‌‌‌​‌​​​​‌​​​​​​​‌‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​​​​‌‌​​​​​‌‌​​​​‌​​‌‌​‌​‌​​‌‌​​​​​‌‌​​​‌‌​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​‌‌‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​‌​​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌​‌​​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌​‌‌​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​​​‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌​‌‌‌​‍from interacting with the academy instructors and receiving directives, most of the other information Ninglan Qiuyue learned was basically communicated through Millian.

At this moment, Ninglan Qiuyue had naturally already learned in advance the news of my arrival, and Millian had also carried out a brief communication with Ninglan Qiuyue.

Once they arrived at the Expansion Realm, they could immediately begin some basic cooperation.

However… speaking of it, the Baking House was ultimately just a very small club.

It still had not developed to this day, so what it could bring over was probably nothing more than empty promises.

Even if Ming Xueming were brought along as a representative figure of the pro-witch family forces, she could not possibly bring over any particularly large transactions in one go.

But… isn’t there still Pei Huan here?

She was the technical representative selected from Yi Rui’s team to enter the Expansion Realm!

It was not only resources or materials that could make things bigger and stronger.

However, without these resources, it was indeed somewhat difficult to get started in the early stages.

But for Millian, this was just right.

The Baking House had a large amount of previously accumulated resources, basically counted as wealth accumulated the last time the Expansion Realm was opened.

It was just a pity that they could not be spent within the academy, but in the Expansion Realm, that might not necessarily be the case.

Ming Xueming and her group were backed by Core Realm families, as well as the pro-witch faction of the Academy Wan Shi Wu Club.

One could imagine how thoroughly they had prepared for this.

But what I had prepared for Millian was no less.

What was more, Ming Xueming and her group were being taken over there under our leadership, not taken over there to be given free rein to soar wherever they pleased.

“Let’s wait for Sister Bai. Once Sister Bai arrives, we can head over,” I said.

Since everything had already been decided, there was no need to rush for a moment longer.

So we went to a nearby commercial street and rested for a bit.

While everyone was resting, I also sat down beside Millian and casually activated a soundproof, disturbance-immune spell, which just happened to envelop Millian and me.

“Sister Xiaohan, this is…?”

When Millian saw me suddenly become serious like this, she immediately realized that there was definitely something important I needed to discuss with her!

“Mm, something of a small accident happened over on the game world side,” I said to Millian.

Regarding matters about the game world, I had already disclosed them to Millian.

Even people at Ming Xueming’s level were aware of this kind of information.

Although it was false intelligence, Millian naturally could not be left out.

However, for Millian, there was no need to speak in false intelligence.

I had indeed extended my hand into the game world, but what I went over as was not my main body.

Other families, however, had taken that incarnation in the game world as my main body.

Moreover, I had also displayed an absolute crushing pressure of domain order there, wiping out dozens of outsiders with a single strike.

Even though none of them were transcendents, it was still enough to demonstrate how terrifying that battle record was.

As a result, they became even more firmly convinced that the me in the game world was my main body.

Heaven knew how shocked Millian had been when she learned this news back then!

She only regretted that she could not go over to share Sister Xiaohan’s pressure.

And this time, when Millian once again heard me bring up matters about the game world, she was also very curious why I was mentioning it at this critical juncture, and moreover…

“I wonder what kind of accident Sister Xiaohan is referring to? Can I help with anything?”

“The small accident has already been resolved. This kind of small matter doesn’t require you to take action,” I said with a smile as I waved my hand.

As I spoke, I took out a storage card.

It looked like a very ordinary, commonly used storage card, but it was actually a very specialized type of storage equipment.

It could store many storage equipments that themselves had spatial properties—in other words, spatial nesting dolls.

After all, storage equipment could also be placed inside storage equipment.

Only some relatively inferior or unstable spatial equipment carried certain risks when nested.

“This is…”

“Inside are all different types of storage equipment,” I explained.

“They are all spoils of war that I seized after killing outsiders in the game world. I roughly categorized the contents inside. I’ve already taken what I need. The rest… consider it your startup resources for this entry into the Expansion Realm.”

“Th-this many?!”

What Millian was marveling at at this moment was the sheer number of storage equipments inside the storage card!

And these equipments were visibly different to the naked eye, even in style, truly opening her eyes.

Of course, if she were to open them one by one to take a look… her jaw might very well drop.

After all, a considerable portion of these belonged to desperados whose own worlds had already been destroyed.

Even if not, they were still pawns of some void force, and their family backgrounds were not shallow.

“Mm. After arriving in the Expansion Realm, find a place with a larger venue to take inventory yourself and conduct a value assessment of the items inside. These are all materials from outside the world, basically non-renewable resources. Before you fully figure out the value of a material, you must not price it rashly.”

“Understood!”

Millian’s breathing became a bit heavy at this moment.

She naturally understood the importance of these things.

Having been deliberately pointed out by Sister Xiaohan, she absolutely had to take them even more seriously!

After slowly digesting this piece of information, Millian tried taking out a very inconspicuous belt.

This was also a piece of storage equipment, but when she inspected the internal resources, she was shocked once again!

Resources piled up like mountains—although their value was still hard to determine for now, this sheer volume was already laid out before her.

With such a “parachuted” batch of resources, she suddenly felt that some of her plans in the Expansion Realm could perhaps be made even more aggressive.

“I’ll leave the professional matters to you. I won’t ask too much,” I said as I dispelled the soundproof disturbance-immune spell.

These resources were not essential to me.

Handing them over to Millian to manage was fine.

When the time came, if I needed something, and Millian and her group could help me resolve unnecessary trouble, that would already be a gain.

After all!

Money can make the ghosts push the millstones.

Seeing that I was almost done here, the first to notice was naturally Ming Xueming.

As the “attendant” on this trip, she naturally had to pay attention to any of my actions at all times.

After all, sometimes intelligence work was also very important.

But unfortunately, all she could see was that Assistant Instructor Xiaohan gave Millian something, then seemed to give her some instructions, and that was it.

However, aside from that, she also noticed some other small movements.

It looked like some people engaged in intelligence work were keeping an eye on them.

This was unavoidable.

After all, what they were about to do… was something others wanted to do but could not do!

Thinking of this, a trace of a smile rose at the corner of Ming Xueming’s mouth.

She suddenly felt that the costs they had paid earlier were all worth it.

There was only one word in her heart… worth it!

At this moment, I met Ming Xueming’s gaze as it occasionally turned toward me, and I symbolically returned a smile.

I was not surprised that she would be paying attention to me.

Not only her—I also saw quite a few people here observing in secret.

With a simple glance, it was easy to tell who had sent them.

It looked like they were getting anxious.

“By the way, Millian, how is the Wan Shi Wu Club’s accountability for our Baking House members destroying their secret realm progressing now?”

I asked casually.

“Originally, they wanted to continue pursuing it, but these past two days, the Wan Shi Wu Club’s attitude toward this matter has directly reversed. I think it should be that Ming Xueming’s side exerted pressure and suppressed the matter.”

“After all, in principle, this secret realm didn’t belong to the Wan Shi Wu Club to begin with. It was jointly developed by the Witch Secret Realm Club and the Wan Shi Wu Club. In essence, it was the development of a secret realm under family authorization. The Wan Shi Wu Club didn’t want to give up the qualification to step into the Expansion Realm just to offend us.”

“So that means the Witch Secret Realm Club will still pursue accountability against us?”

“Most likely they will. When Ming Xueming came to find us, people from the Witch Secret Realm Club also came over, but I didn’t give them any opportunity—I only gave it to Ming Xueming.”

From Millian’s perspective, this was partly in consideration of Sister Xiaohan’s intentions, and partly to drive a wedge between the Wan Shi Wu Club and the Witch Secret Realm.

Although this method was not particularly painful or itchy, once the interests of the Expansion Realm stirred people’s hearts, this crack would definitely grow larger and larger.

“But Sister Xiaohan, rest assured. If it’s only the Witch Secret Realm Club, the problem isn’t big—at least the pressure is much lighter than before. Even without me, Tan Han and her group wouldn’t suffer losses in this regard,” Millian hurriedly added.

However, after she finished speaking, she noticed that my expression did not look particularly unconcerned or relaxed.

“Sister Xiaohan… is it… that you don’t really like how I handled this? Or is it that…”

“Oh no, I just feel that it’s all so boring now. There’s no reason to blow up their secret realm anymore,” I said as I shook my head at Millian’s cautious questioning.

“Sister Xiaohan, what you actually mean is… you hope they’ll come looking for trouble unreasonably?”

“Mm. My Ancient Ice incarnation can’t stay inside the secret realm anymore. It needs to appear in this world in a reasonable way, in order to stir up… ahem… this is something you can’t understand, Millian.”

“I understand.”

Millian instantly understood, even though she didn’t know why.

Just the slip of the tongue with “stir up” was already enough to trigger her endless imagination!

Stir up what?

An academy war?

After all, Sister Xiaohan had told her that it wouldn’t be long before an academy war would begin.

Now Sister Xiaohan was already laying out plans in the Expansion Realm, plus the migration of the Ice Snow Throne secret realm…

She realized that she was indeed conceiving of some things she dared not continue thinking about!

“Alright.”

As for what Millian understood from that “I understand,” I couldn’t be bothered to know.

I only knew that in that instant, she had mentally filled in a lot of things—her heartbeat accelerated, and she even showed some violent escalation tendencies.

And the reason I didn’t continue chatting idly with Millian was because I finally saw that familiar figure!

“Sister Bai! Over here.”

I called out, my tone completely different from how I had spoken in front of everyone earlier.

If earlier I had been someone who understood nothing yet controlled the overall direction as a dominator, then at this moment, I was like an ordinary girl throwing herself into her girlfriend’s arms.

The contrast before and after truly shocked some people.

“Sister Bai, it's time to go.”

“Did Xiaohan not prepare anything at all?”

Sister Bai’s gaze swept over the people present, but she didn’t say much.

As long as these people didn’t end up becoming light bulbs that disturbed her being together with Xiaohan, she naturally wouldn’t care.

But looking at it like this, twenty or so people… that number was indeed a bit large.

However, Bai Yu knew that the Xiaohan before her had very legitimate reasons.

Xiaohan was going to set up a dream-state soul-substance preparation factory in the Expansion Realm.

Academy Head Mei naturally wouldn’t object, so what was wrong with bringing some people over to help?

“Well… may I ask, since we’re going to the Expansion Realm, why are we gathering here? Wouldn’t it be more convenient to go directly to the Expansion Realm teleportation hall?”

At this moment, Ming Xueming walked over.

She was naturally not asking Instructor Bai Yu directly, but asking Millian beside her.

“The Expansion Realm teleportation hall is a permanent teleportation channel linking the two realms. With just the twenty of us going, there’s no need to trouble ourselves there. This Instructor Bai Yu will personally open a temporary passage to take us over.”

Millian had naturally asked this question before and had received this answer.

But in reality, the main reason for doing it this way was because bringing people over was an implicitly permitted action.

Bringing so many people and still making a big show or going through official channels would be somewhat awkward.

No matter how one interpreted it, it was like asking why a transcendent instructor had to go through the formal process of applying for leave to exit the academy walls.

Just go directly—the academy wouldn’t say anything.

After receiving the answer, Ming Xueming didn’t ask any further questions.

This one was simply her own muddleheadedness.

After waiting for the most crucial witch to arrive, the group went to a relatively sparsely populated underground parking lot.

Bai Yu directly tore open a spatial passage, and this rift led straight to the Expansion Realm.

The relationship between the Core Realm and the Expansion Realm was such that even spatial teleportation spells could connect them, but students were not allowed to enter privately.

“By the way… there are people over there who’ve been staring at us the whole time. Are we sure it’s okay? If they file a report, even if we have connections, they could still make things unpleasant for us, right?”

Ming Xueming walked at the back and still asked somewhat uneasily.

“What’s there to worry about? If they want to report it, let them. If an instructor takes over to investigate, they’ll find that this was personally approved by the principal,” Millian said indifferently, the confidence in her tone practically overflowing.

Their trip to the Expansion Realm naturally required reporting, after all, most of them were students, and some also needed to report to their own instructors.

In this regard, the special approval from Academy Head Mei Linde was dazzling enough to blind her eyes!

A personally signed special approval from the principal was not something a student could forge!

With absolute confidence, the group of around twenty people disappeared from the Witch Academy just like that.