Back in Virtue Archives, Lu Yin quickly checked his cosmic ring. 100 billion. How painful! He had just burned through 100 billion star essence! Just how much would it cost to Possess Semi-Progenitors? Or further, when he could Possess Progenitors? He was too terrified to even consider the matter.

Was there even enough star essence in the Fifth Mainland and the Perennial World combined to pay for what Lu Yin needed? Where else could he acquire more funds?

Regardless of the costs, Lu Yin needed to keep rolling his die. He wanted to Possess someone from Star Alliance so that he could free those people from the restriction that controlled them.

Lu Yin’s mind raced, and even as he worried about the costs and potential benefits, he could not help but look forward to the possibilities. He tapped the die. Three pips. He tapped again. Four pips. He was done.

The fourth roll was Timestop, and Lu Yin willingly entered his Timestop Space, spending the entire time practicing the Cosmic Art and reciting the Origin Sutra. Nearly a year later, he emerged from his Timestop Space. He needed to wait another ten days before he could roll his die again.

Unfortunately, he was not given the opportunity, as ten days later was when the students would head for the Higher Realm to start their exchange program. Naturally, Lu Yin was summoned by Headmaster Wen.

It had taken a month for the list of participating students to be finalized. Over the course of the last month, Mr. Tang and Prof. Wei had worked on helping the students raise their strength,...