Therefore, the strength of the students was cultivated through regular club activities, and the most effective way to cultivate them was various competitions.
"Clubs compete with each other, instructors are responsible for training students, developing them, enhancing their strength, and students must also strive to bring points to their club, which has a points ranking. This points ranking is tied to the teacher's evaluations and rewards. Of course, it is also very important for students to earn points because these points are needed for your graduation assessments and can also be used as a kind of campus currency for trading resources between teachers and students," explained Elder Luo in detail.
"Ye Changfeng is the instructor responsible for the Leisure Clouds and Wild Cranes Club, but his club's students underperformed last semester, ranking ninety-ninth out of over a hundred clubs," Elder Luo explained.
At this point, even he couldn't help but laugh.
This ranking was really terrible.
"Anyway, when I forcefully transferred you to his class from Yuchi Shen yesterday, he insisted that you must join Leisure Clouds and Wild Cranes," Elder Luo shrugged. "You see, that guy likes to take advantage when others are down."
Xiang Beifei, stroking his chin, puzzledly said, "The name of this club doesn't quite seem like Mr. Ye's style. It sounds more like..."
Leisure Clouds and Wild Cranes sounds exactly like a style belonging to a bigwig of leisure.
"Haha, you noticed? I originally ran this club, but after I retired, and since Ye Changfeng was becoming a teacher at that time, I handed it over to him. However, he was away from school for a whole year last academic year due to some matters and only returned this July. Consequently, their ranking dropped from fifteenth before he left to ninety-ninth, and all kinds of evaluations and promotions had nothing to do with him," Elder Luo continued.
"What was he doing last year?" Xiang Beifei asked.
"The Jiuzhou Alliance needed an academic advisor, so he took that role for a year and only returned this year," said Elder Luo. "Yuchi Shen and him were of comparable strength, but Yuchi's club was strong and produced excellent students, earning him a promotion to associate professor last academic year. Because Ye Changfeng was in charge of a weak club and wasn't at the school last year, he got stuck in the 'lecturer' stage. This semester, he's determined to rethink the club. The first thing he did was to ask me to have you join his club."
In universities, instructors have titles, generally divided into teaching assistants, lecturers, associate professors, and professors. At the Martial Arts College, promotions are linked to the strength of the student clubs. Yuchi Shen's club is very strong, so he is now at the associate professor level. Ye Changfeng was just a bit unlucky.
"The club you started, he was away, why didn't you help out with it?" Xiang Beifei asked.
"I don't have the time! I'm very busy every day!" Elder Luo stretched lazily.
Xiang Beifei looked at Elder Luo's system interface. His activities today—
[You closed your eyes to rest for half an hour, leisure value +10]
Is this what you are busy with every day!
But on reflection, Elder Luo was retired and usually just needed to stroll around and watch birds, so there was no need to push him too hard. Besides, the matter of titles was ultimately Ye Changfeng's own issue. It would be unfair to other instructors if Elder Luo intervened.
After much thought, Xiang Beifei agreed.
Although he wasn't very afraid of Yuchi Shen, it was still not a wise move to openly compete for system rewards with Yuchi before reaching the Meridian Opening stage and being able to see Yuchi's system tasks. Following Ye Changfeng seemed a good choice.
Once he reached the Meridian Opening stage, Xiang Beifei would be able to see Yuchi Shen's system information, and then he could really go all out.
For now, Xiang Beifei set aside the matter regarding Xu Yang, uncertain of Xu's intentions toward him. He could only be sure that Xu's previous visit was to probe and not to harm him, otherwise, he would not have escaped so easily that night.
As a teacher at Liangzhou University, Xu Yang would likely not dare to openly target him again. Still, it was always good to be a bit cautious and see if Xu would reveal any flaws in the future.
In the afternoon, a large crowd of students gathered at the cultural corridor of Liangzhou University. Various students were calling out as they recruited new members. The first week's schedule was relatively light, also considering the freshmen, giving them some time to familiarize themselves with the campus.
Xiang Beifei walked along the road, observing various student clubs with mostly chic names such as Moving Mountains, Great Unity, Eight Desolations, Unrivaled in the Four Seas... He saw a plaquette nearby listing the club rankings from the previous semester, with a total of a hundred clubs; "Cold Sha" topped the list.
He was clueless about clubs and was also unaware of the rules, but soon he spotted the sign for "Leisure Clouds and Wild Cranes."
Ye Changfeng was sitting behind a desk and also saw Xiang Beifei, waving him over. Xiang Beifei walked over and politely greeted, "Mr. Ye."
"Come with me, it's too crowded here, inconvenient."
Ye Changfeng waved his hand, directly pulling Xiang Beifei. Xiang Beifei only felt the surroundings stall, as if squeezed into a space, and when he reappeared, he was already in Ye Changfeng's office.
It was a very neat office, simple and elegant. However, for some reason, behind these elegant decorations, there seemed to be hidden sharp sword auras, stern and deadly, as if from every corner numerous swords could suddenly fly out.
As an Awakener of the [Supremacy of Ten Thousand Swords System], one must not underestimate him.
Ye Changfeng raised his glasses and smiled, "Has Elder Luo told you?"
"Yes, he said I must join this club."
"I'll listen to him."
Ye Changfeng started to smile and said, "You probably understand the situation. The students cultivated in my club were not strong enough, they did not meet the points requirement, and I didn't get promoted to associate professor. It's very helpless. Today is the day our club is recruiting anew, and you are the first one."
"Where are the other members of the club?"
"I dissolved the club and then reorganized it. Apart from three Meridian Opening stage advanced students who stayed, there are no others. I need to establish two new small teams, no matter what, we have to properly cultivate you," Ye Changfeng was very straightforward.
"What teams?" Xiang Beifei asked.
"Every student in the Martial Arts College clubs is trained according to the scale of pioneer teams, in preparation for combating desolate beasts. But you should know what qualifications a pioneer team needs," Ye Changfeng said.
Each pioneer team generally consists of at least five people.
One is the captain, who needs the ability to command and control the overall situation, must be well-versed in the extraterritorial wilderness and the knowledge of desolate beasts; one Awakener with healing ability or other logistic capabilities; one with scouting type abilities, responsible for alerting and monitoring movements around and tracking desolate beasts; one with a range-type defense ability to help protect everyone; and another, with special operational capabilities, in charge of covering the team's retreat or advancement.
"I know, my abilities don't fit in a team," Xiang Beifei said.
He had no system, definitely incapable of healing, his scouting abilities were not a match for dedicated System Awakeners like Lu Hong, and his defensive capabilities, relative to others' systems, were ineffective against desolate beasts.
"That's just theory, but theory is static, people are dynamic. A real pioneer team, sometimes abilities are overlapping, like some captains, have the ability to command the entire situation and are also the scouting type system awakeners, sometimes the defense-type system awakeners, even also take on the role of trailblazing,"
"The situation in the extraterritorial wilderness changes in the blink of an eye, needing adaptability rather than rigid methods. Some pioneer teams are not just five people; sometimes they're even more than ten people, each having their own strengths, even if they do not possess those five abilities, they can still excel in the extraterritorial wilderness,"