My starting summon is a small skeleton-Chapter 161 - 159 My nephew Lu Wu has the appearance of a Grandmaster.

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Fucheng is a coastal city.

Before Lu Wu traveled to this world, being a coastal city was a huge advantage, a tremendous resource that could greatly help the city’s development.

But in this world, the advantages of being coastal have been significantly reduced.

That’s because the dangers brought by the ocean have greatly increased.

Originally, the most one would worry about was a typhoon or storm, but now, wild Summoned Beasts occasionally emerge from the sea to attack fishing boats.

Sometimes, there are even Summoned Beast Groups that invade the shores.

Therefore, to ensure the safety of fishermen and the city, the coastal cities in Jiangnan have built a large number of Sea Suppression Towers for observation and suppression.

As the focal point of Jiangnan Province, Fucheng naturally has the most comprehensive Sea Suppression Tower system.

Within a hundred miles of Jiangnan’s shores, no movement on the sea surface can escape the detection of the towers.

And today, on the very day Lu Wu finished his additional matches, an ear-piercing alarm suddenly rang out from the coastal Sea Suppression Towers of Fucheng.

At the same time, all the vessels in the Fucheng Sea Area received a broadcast from the towers.

"This is the Fucheng Town Sea Tower Signal Transmission Department.

All vessels please be aware, there is a vast number of Summoned Beasts appearing in the Fucheng Sea Area, and it is suspected that a Summoned Beast tide is about to erupt. For your own safety, all vessels must return to port immediately!"

Upon this broadcast, nearly all the ships in the nearby sea area returned to port immediately.

At the same time, the Sea Suppression Towers went into full operation.

According to their surveys, the invading Summoned Beast Group was massive, with a varied and aggressive species composition, and it was highly likely that their target was Fucheng.

Behind such a large-scale Summoned Beast tide, there must be a Lord-level or higher existence among them.

This was a very dangerous situation, and they had to be cautious in their response.

The Sea Suppression Towers even sent this information to Governor Jiang Yuexing without delay...

While the Sea Suppression Towers were on high alert,

Lu Wu and his team came to the Fucheng Professional Center.

To his surprise, Principal Zhang Wentao of Jiangnan University, who was also the head of the Fucheng Professional Center, was waiting for him at the entrance. This touched Lu Wu deeply.

However, Zhang Wentao was even more excited than Lu Wu, and as soon as Lu Wu arrived, he took his hand.

"Xiao Lu, I’ve been wanting to meet you to personally thank you for your contributions to Jiangnan University. I didn’t want to disturb you during the competition, so I held off, but now that the preliminaries have ended and you’ve entered the top eight, I can finally have a proper chat with you.

Come on, let’s go inside and talk!"

With that, Zhang Wentao led Lu Wu by the hand into the building.

Though Lu Wu didn’t particularly enjoy being led by the hand by an older man, which felt uncomfortable and weird, he thought about the benefits he was about to receive and endured it.

In fact, he endured it quite well, sweet-talking and calling him ’Grandpa Zhang’ which made Zhang Wentao beam with joy.

However, Zhao Kai Ming, who was nearby, didn’t like it.

"Don’t call him Grandpa Zhang. If you’re going to address him, call him Principal Zhang, or like you call me, Uncle Zhang is fine too!"

Zhang Wentao was displeased with this. At over seventy years old, what’s wrong with Xiao Lu calling him ’Grandpa Zhang’?

What irked him even more was that Lu Wu actually started calling him Principal Zhang.

"No, no, don’t call me Grandpa Zhang. How about Uncle Zhang? That’s much more cordial than Principal Zhang."

As Zhang Wentao spoke, he glared at Zhao Kai Ming, as if to say: ’You old rascal, if you dare oppose again, I’ll break your legs.’

Zhao Kai Ming pursed his lips, knowing well it was futile to advise such a stubborn old man.

He couldn’t care less against that one’s tall stature; he’d let it go, after all, he wouldn’t be the one getting hit if trouble arose.

Seeing Zhao Kai Ming not objecting, Lu Wu and Zhang Wentao became amiable.

Lu Wu called him uncle with each breath while Zhang Wentao called him a wise nephew, and they got along splendidly.

Soon, Lu Wu understood the purpose of Zhang Wentao’s invitation.

Ah, well, Zhao Kai Ming had already explained before Lu Wu arrived that Zhang Wentao was preparing to improve his conditions.

It was not just an improvement for Lu Wu, 042 as a whole would benefit.

Dudu and Lin Jianying both received guaranteed admission contracts from Jiangnan University along with A-level benefit plans to support growth.

As for Lu Wu, it was even more impressive.

"I heard that Jiangbei University promised you a treatment at associate professor level, they will build a research institute just for you, all the data from Jiangbei University will be open to you, and they will also provide you with 10,000 points of research funds every month, right?"

"These benefits they are offering seem tempting, but in reality, they are setting traps waiting for you to fall in.

Except for the data being open to you, the rest are basically empty promises.

The research institute they build for you belongs to the school, and they have the final say when they want it back. As for the research funds, those may indeed exist.

But accordingly, whatever project you come up with will belong to Jiangbei University in the end. These folks are very cunning!"

Zhang Wentao started off by taking a jab at Jiangbei University.

Then, he outlined the welfare enhancement plan Jiangnan University had for Lu Wu, "Jiangnan University is prepared to directly appoint you as an Honorary Professor of Jiangnan University, with the entitlement of a professorial stipend.

In addition, Jiangnan University will grant you full access permissions.

As long as you wish, all of Jiangnan University’s projects, all Skill Training Plans, cultivation plans, all knowledge is available for you to view.

As for the lab, you already have one of your own, so there’s no need to build another. Plus, if it’s built with the resources of Jiangnan University, it still belongs to Jiangnan University’s research facilities."

Of course, there’s something Zhang Wentao didn’t say.

That was the current financial situation of Jiangnan University; there’s no need to mention how strained the resources are for constructing another research facility for Lu Wu, but a top-grade one would truly be a challenge.

However, even though he wasn’t prepared to build a research facility for Lu Wu, Zhang Wentao still planned to offer Lu Wu some other benefits.

"How about this, once you enroll, I’ll draft an order that lets you choose any item from Jiangnan University’s treasury as compensation for that.

Moreover, you should also acquire a second Summoned Beast. In the next few days, I’ll find a way to secure a Summoned Beast of Golden Quality for you."

Zhang Wentao said all this in one breath and still seemed to feel it wasn’t enough, so he looked at Lu Wu, "Do you have any other requests? If there’s anything else you need, just say it, and I’ll try my best to meet it!"

"No, no, no!"

Lu Wu shook his head repeatedly.

"You don’t have to be polite with me. Feel free to make any requests."

"Really, I don’t have any more, this is pretty good already!"

Zhao Kai Ming was expecting him to fleece Zhang Wentao, but seeing his attitude, there’s no need for Lu Wu to do so; Zhang Wentao himself was lying on the chopping block, waving Lu Wu over to cut as he pleased, to hack boldly.

With him being so agreeable, how could Lu Wu bring himself to do it?

Seeing Lu Wu not taking advantage, not only was Zhang Wentao not pleased, he couldn’t help but sigh.

This wasn’t an act from Zhang Wentao; he genuinely felt that Jiangnan University was too poor to offer much to Lu Wu and that this slighted him.

No one knew how important Lu Wu was to Zhang Wentao.

Zhao Kai Ming thought that the reason Zhang Wentao was so determined to offer Lu Wu benefits was that Jiangbei University had offered the same, causing Zhang Wentao to increase Lu Wu’s treatment for fear of losing him.

In fact, Zhang Wentao had long wanted to improve Lu Wu’s treatment.

Even without Jiangbei University’s interference, he was ready to do everything possible to nurture Lu Wu.

As the one who discovered Lu Wu and watched him grow, he knew Lu Wu’s talent better than anyone.

Last year, when Lu Wu first came to Fucheng, his Cultivation Master level was only close to the professional level, but in just under a year, Lu Wu’s cultivation skills had already reached the threshold of a Master.

A ’Master,’ in terms of cultivation, refers to a pinnacle existence in a certain domain or even one with exceptional contributions.

And now Lu Wu qualified as one.

In the domain of the Little Skeleton, he could certainly be considered a peak-level presence.

There was definitely no cultivator in the field of the Little Skeleton who surpassed Lu Wu.

Moreover, Lu Wu had submitted the Little Skeleton Evolution plan, which Fucheng Professional Center had been verifying for the past few months.

Now, near the end of the verification process, once the results come out...

If it was proven that Lu Wu truly found a stable method for the Little Skeleton’s evolution, he would be eligible to become a Cultivation Master.

It might be as a Skeleton domain Master, which might feel slightly inferior in the presence of other Cultivation Masters,

But it was still a Master title!

And as a Cultivation Master, Lu Wu would also be entitled to enjoy the associated benefits.

More importantly, Lu Wu was young—he was only 19 years old this year. A 19-year-old Cultivation Master was an extremely rare existence if not completely unique.

And Lu Wu wasn’t just specialized in Little Skeleton cultivation; he had ventured into the cultivation of other Summoned Beasts as well.

The recent Goblin injection plan he developed even had Zhao Kai Ming tossing and turning.

That was some seriously impressive expertise. Give Lu Wu a bit more time, and he might just add the title of Goblin Master too.

A 19-year-old with Mastery in two domains.

What kind of talent is this? What kind of genius is this?

This is a monster, alright!

Such an existence, given the right environment, has a very good chance of becoming a Grandmaster of cultivation within twenty years!

And then Jiangnan University could shine because of him.

This was why Zhang Wentao was all out in offering benefits to Lu Wu, still feeling it wasn’t enough, and why after knowing about Lu Wu’s audacious bet with Jiang Beifeng, he said he would even "smash the pot and sell the iron" to pay off Lu Wu’s debt.

Because he had put all his bets on Lu Wu.

For Zhang Wentao, securing Lu Wu was like holding onto the future of Jiangnan University.

So at this moment, he was holding on to Lu Wu’s hand very tightly.

And just as Zhang Wentao tightened his grip on Lu Wu’s hand, a call from the Governor Mansion came to Zhang Wentao...

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