On the central square, there is a crowd of people, and everyone is waiting for it.

When Long Chen's figure fell from the sky and landed on the white jade platform, the crowd erupted in earth-shattering cheers.

Unconsciously, there were several more people behind Long Chen.

Even though most of the appearances have changed a lot, the students recognize them at a glance.

Those were the dean's disciples.

Over the years, Long Chen has not been in the academy, and these disciples of him, leading those graduating students to fight in the east and west, are more like the legendary dean, they are the living goals of the students, and the cheers below are even louder.

They didn't speak, they just smiled and looked at the back of the master and the students below.

The dean's heroic appearance is exactly the same as the statue.

In fact, when he returned to the academy three months ago, Long Chen had already discovered that in the central school district of the academy, on the central square, there was a statue carved from an entire floating mountain hundreds of zhang high.

That's right, that's his statue.

Such a huge statue, but it is extremely detailed, it can be said to be lifelike, and even the dress is exactly the same as when he was in the academy. As a result, Chen Long looked at this statue as if he was looking at an enlarged version of himself, which felt quite weird.

This statue was erected more than ten years ago.

At that time, the news that he and the saints died together in the small world spread all over the continent, and everyone knew about it.

At first, it was scoffed at by most people as a fantasy, but as the war began, many reactions confirmed the news, and many people had to believe this fact.

And the teachers and students of the academy naturally firmly believe that Dean Chen Long is still alive, but no matter how firm their beliefs are, they can't stand the passage of time, the war situation is grim, the situation of the mainland human race is precarious, Chen Long and the disappeared saints are still silent, so decades have passed, even people with firm beliefs can't avoid wavering.

More than ten years ago, even the teachers and students of the academy, even if they didn't mention it on the surface, most of them had lost hope for Chen Long's return in their hearts.

At that time, most of the students in the first few batches when Chen Long was still there had already graduated one after another, and the newly admitted students almost all spent their time in the academy listening to the legend of the dean.

The senior students who admired Chen Long the most, including the Qimen Branch, those students who were good at carving plasticity, in order to prevent the future juniors and sisters from forgetting the existence of the dean, and even did not know the appearance of the dean, they worked together to carve a floating mountain into the appearance of Chen Long as a commemoration.

Of course, the teachers knew that it was a bit inappropriate to erect a statue of the living dean, but under the circumstances, they also acquiesced to this act, after all, they could not always believe that the dean was still alive, and they could not do it themselves, so how could they ask the students.

But now that Long Chen is back in good shape, this statue ......

The corners of Long Chen's mouth twitched, after all, it was his own appearance, he couldn't let everyone smash it, so let it be there.

In contrast, he had something else to say in the face of the excited students right now.

"You're doing a great job. ”

Long Chen's gaze swept over the group of teachers and students below, his expression gentle and calm.

"Originally, I was very worried when I was away. ”

"The academy where I'm not here can still hold on. ”

"Now, you've exceeded my expectations. ”

"Even if I'm not there, the academy is still the academy, and even the war has not extinguished the flames of the academy. ”

"Even if I'm not there, you're still studying, you're moving forward, you're breaking through, you're passing your exams, and you're graduating. ”

"The academy is not only my academy, but also your academy, teachers, students, you are all part of the academy. ”

"If you leave me, the academy will not be able to continue, that is not what I want, because there is no immortal thing in the world, and even I cannot protect the academy forever. ”

"What I want is an academy that can continue to be passed down for eternity and glory to the continent even if I am not there. ”

"And now, you want to prove that you have what it takes to do that. ”

"I'm very happy. ”

"I ...... The dean of the Academy, the Great Sage Chen Long, hereby admits that you and others are all students whom I am proud of!"

In the central square, there was a moment of silence.

Then, the earth-shattering cheers erupted.

For those students who have graduated and are returning today, this represents their 50 years of struggle, which has been recognized by the dean who admires them most.

For those students who have not yet graduated and are still in the academy, this is the expectation of the legendary dean, who has been longing for fifty years, to appear in front of them in person.

......

Dean Chen Long returned to the college, the war ended, and at the same time, it also happened to usher in the day of the college's new enrollment.

During the war, the academy and its students shined, even if the dean was not there, their reputation was not slightly diminished compared to before, and now the Great Sage of Heaven has returned, retreating from the hundred clans and shaking the heavens.

In the days before the entrance exam, almost every day, a steady stream of young people came from the gate of the realm, wanting to see the demeanor of the great sage, worshipping in the academy, and becoming a new first-year student.

The academy, which had finally been freed from the tension of the war, had once again entered a busy day, because of the lack of manpower, many graduates who had come back to see the dean before were left behind to help, and even the senior students in the academy were pulled out of the strong, and they were very busy from top to bottom.

At this juncture, Long Chen, as the dean, gathered on top of the sacred tree with several other branch deans and a group of disciples.

His eyes swept over the people in front of him, Wen Renyao, the dean of the martial arts branch, Wu Danzi, the dean of the Dandao branch, Fu Xuanling, the dean of the Fu Dao branch, Tie Rongxin, the dean of the refining instrument branch, and Lu Qiu, the master of the Wendao Partial Courtyard, were all still in the list.

In the war, the academy naturally lost not only students, the first batch of teachers to enter the academy, now only sixty percent of the academy, and among the high-level, in addition to Yu Zhenzi, Luo Guangqi, the dean of the Qimen Branch, before the defeat that killed two people in the Nanyang Seven Holy War, in order to save the back road, he worked hard three months in advance, and used his life's learning to lay down a Tianji City.

After the defeat of the Terrans, in order to cover the retreat of the Terran army, Luo Guangqi had not yet recovered, so he presided over Tianji City to intercept the army of the Hundred Clans after the Terran was broken, and finally the city was broken, but before that, he dragged the two beast kings of the Hundred Clans and the army of tens of millions of beasts for three days with the strength of one person.