Full-Time Mage: Double Return, Niu Ma Mo Fan

Chapter 25 Imperial Capital Academy, Yin Yang Diagram Awakens!

"In the totem era, there was a grand ceremony for the four chosen spirits."

"Ultimately, the four sacred totems were born: the Azure Dragon, the White Tiger, the Vermilion Bird, and the Black Tortoise."

Meng Qiuzhen slowly told everyone some unsubstantiated legends.

"What is a totem? What is its connection to the Great Wall?"

Mo Fan asked, puzzled.

Although he was also a time traveler, the difference between him and Meng Qiuzhen, who had read the original work, was quite obvious.

Professor Qiu Yuhua's eyes were bright and piercing.

Very few people know about totems, so he wanted to see what this student could say.

Meng Qiuzhen pushed up his non-existent glasses, as if he were an old professor and everyone present was his student.

"The following content will be charged."

Everyone: "."

"Just kidding."

"Totems are mysterious creatures; they are similar to demons, but also transcend them."

"Most of the existing totem creatures possess monarch-level combat power!"

"Monarch-level combat power?!?" Mo Fan exclaimed in surprise, stretching out his fingers to count upwards from the servant level.

Although he had never seen a monarch-level creature, he could tell its strength just from the word "monarch" in its name.

Back then, the Winged Wolves of Bo City were only at the Commander level, and they couldn't even imagine how terrifying a Monarch-level creature would be!
"No need to imagine it. There's a totem in West Lake that might have the power of a supreme monarch. If it goes berserk, it could probably wreak havoc on the entire Hangzhou without any problem," Meng Qiuzhen said.

"Holy crap! Really?!" Zhao Manyan exclaimed.

"Only the officials know whether it's true or not. It's said that totems are immortal, and the Great Wall beneath our feet may be related to the Azure Dragon, the sacred totem," Meng Qiuzhen explained in a leisurely manner, like an old professor.

"Sacred totem, huh?" Qiu Yuhua, the genuine old professor, muttered to himself, lost in thought.

……

After visiting several sacred sites of Chinese magical civilization, Meng Qiuzhen and his group entered the Imperial Capital Academy.

The sheer size of the universities in the capital city had led Mo Fan to already associate them with "Tsinghua University and Peking University" in his mind.

China's premier magic academy has always been admired and has never been surpassed.

While Mingzhu University is indeed top-tier nationwide, it does fall slightly short compared to the prestigious universities in the capital. The main difference lies in the rich historical heritage of the latter!

The scions of noble families over there are treated like ordinary students, and geniuses are as common as cabbage, a dime a dozen. If you weren't born with auspicious clouds and mythical beasts around you, you'd be embarrassed to tell others you're a student at the Imperial Capital Academy.

The leadership of Mingzhu Academy is under immense pressure. As the top university in Shanghai, they certainly wouldn't back down to the capital's top university. So, the leaders of Mingzhu Academy selected the most outstanding freshmen to take over the campus and try to make their Mingzhu name known at the capital's top university.

Among the selected exchange students, Mo Fan and Zhao Manyan need no further introduction.

Mu Nujiao, who truly regarded him as her boss, had already known him for some time.

The remaining characters are Zheng Bingxiao (summoning type), Bai Tingting (healing type), Luo Song, and Shen Mingxiao.

Meng Qiuzhen essentially replaced Peng Liang in the original novel.

……

Upon entering the university in the capital, we were quickly accommodated by teachers who were responsible for welcoming us and arranged for us to stay in the student apartments.

At this level, everyone is an intermediate-level mage, or to put it bluntly, a graduate student, so their living conditions must be quite good.

The accommodation has a lobby, and each person has a private room.

Just as Mu Nujiao was about to say something to Meng Qiuzhen, she saw him hurriedly return to his room.

Meng Qiuzhen closed the door and his gaze fell on the yin-yang diagram that had been dormant for a long time on the back of his hand.

Suddenly, he felt a jolt, and a thought popped into his mind.

The Yin-Yang symbol has awakened! The originally static tattoo pattern began to slowly change, with black and white colors flowing and intertwining, eventually transforming into two lively little fish, head to tail, swimming in a cycle.

The power of Yin and Yang dances at the fingertips, as if containing endless mysteries.

A magical power surged into Meng Qiuzhen's body, directly raising his lightning and water elements to the third level of the intermediate stage, and his magical energy increased several times over.

Without testing the new variations of the Yin-Yang diagram, Meng Qiuzhen took the lead in entering the spiritual world to examine the summoning system.

If the summoning system is rendered useless, then he will have lost a magic system for nothing.

But when he saw the summoning system, he was stunned.

The summoning system has become exactly the same as the Yin-Yang diagram!
Not a single star could be seen; only small black and white fish swam among them.

What truly stunned him was the size of the summoning system!
Originally, his spiritual world consisted of three nebulae: lightning, water, and mind, as well as lifeless summoning stardust.

But now, after the Summoning type awakened, it suddenly swelled up and grew larger, directly pushing the two newly promoted elder brothers, Lightning and Water, aside.
Meng Qiuzhen is currently only at the intermediate level and does not know whether the high-level star river is as large as the Yin-Yang Summoning System!
After thinking it over, he began to try using this special summoning technique.

Without stars, there's no way to connect to star orbits, and it's still uncertain whether it will even work.

While he was communicating with the summoning system, his consciousness was suddenly sucked in!
When Meng Qiuzhen opened her eyes again, she found herself in a place that she had never been before, yet felt very familiar.

As far as the eye can see, there is an endless sea with many islands standing in it.

This...this is clearly the dream world he's dreamed about so many times before!

Meng Qiuzhen was right; that bizarre dream was indeed related to the Yin-Yang diagram!
After briefly assessing his own condition, he realized it was merely a wisp of spiritual consciousness, and even if he died, it wouldn't affect him in reality.

Meng Qiuzhen breathed a sigh of relief. He was very uncomfortable with people being forcibly pulled in without prior notice.

As he sought to explore this wondrous world, the yin-yang symbol on the back of his hand provided guidance.

The small black fish, representing yin, suddenly leaped up, as if guiding him with a compass.

After pondering for a moment, Meng Qiuzhen decided to go and see for himself.

With only a wisp of his spiritual consciousness remaining, it was as if his soul had left his body, and in the blink of an eye, he had traveled thousands of miles!

It evokes a feeling of traveling to the North Sea in the morning and visiting Cangwu in the evening.

While on his journey, he recalled the situation of summoners going to summoning planes to contract summoned beasts, which was somewhat similar to his current situation.

My mind started to wander, wondering if this place was some kind of summoning plane.

In his dream-seeking mindset, only a few minutes had passed, yet he had already covered an uncountable distance.

But even now, the sea is still beneath his feet!
He hasn't even left this sea area yet!

Meng Qiuzhen is already numb; how big must this be?!

If this were placed in a magical dimension, it would probably circle the world countless times!
For a moment, he even wondered if this sea area was infinitely vast!
However, this thought did not last long before he arrived at the destination indicated by the little black fish.

High in the sky, Meng Qiuzhen looked down and discovered that there were several huge islands in front of him.

One of them was so huge that it couldn't be called an island; in human terms, it should be called a continent!
That continent even seems to move!
Although the movement was very, very small, Meng Qiuzhen could sense the subtle change.

This isn't an island or a continent, this is clearly a gigantic creature!!!

The little black fish's guidance lies on this continent.

Having found no danger yet, Meng Qiuzhen explored further without any fear.

Finally, they found the first humanoid life form at a dilapidated stone tablet on the mainland!
It was an old man with blue hair and a hunchback, carrying a tortoise-shell-like object on his back.

When he discovered the old man, the old man seemed to have also noticed Meng Qiuzhen.

"I've been waiting for you for a long time, young friend. Welcome to the Summoning Dimension!" The blue-haired elder smiled kindly.

But Meng Qiuzhen was already feeling uneasy!

Are there still humans in the summoning dimension?

Someone was waiting for him!

(End of this chapter)