Urban Extraordinary Immortal Doctor
Chapter 952: Summoned by the Higher-Ups

Chapter 952: Chapter 952: Summoned by the Higher-Ups

That evening, upon returning to his residence, Fang Bai received ten thousand Essence Stones and over a hundred elixirs sent by Huang Miao.

Fang Bai was in urgent need of cultivation resources and therefore did not stand on ceremony, accepting them all.

Starting from the next day, just as Huang Miao had predicted, Hou Ziping and Fang Bai, having made a name for themselves with one battle, received numerous challenges from Inner Court disciples.

In response to the challenges directed at him, Fang Bai didn’t outright refuse them, but declared, "If you want to challenge me, defeat Hou Ziping first." Consequently, those Inner Court disciples looking to challenge Fang Bai turned their challenge notices over to Hou Ziping.

This proved troublesome for Hou Ziping. As a disciple of Bitao Martial Academy, he had no choice but to accept challenges from his fellow sect members, unless he was willing to admit he was a "turtle shrinking its head in fear."

As a result, for a considerable period that followed, Hou Ziping faced several challenges almost daily, which greatly reduced his time for cultivation.

However, on the day his injuries healed, Hou Ziping had listened to Fang Bai expound upon numerous Martial Dao Arcanes. At the time, he hadn’t fully understood or integrated them, but during the relentless succession of challenges, he validated each concept he had learned from Fang Bai, leading to numerous insights and a subsequent step forward in his power.

Hou Ziping was overjoyed by this realization, understanding that continuous battle was also a form of cultivation.

During this time, Fang Bai was free from harassment by the Inner Court disciples and could quietly focus on his own matters.

He wasn’t in a rush to cultivate either, but instead spent his nights stealthily harvesting the Spiritual Medicine planted by the Bitao Martial Academy, then hiding away in his residence to refine elixirs, silently amassing cultivation resources.

After more than a month, Fang Bai’s Space Ring already contained nearly ten thousand elixirs of various kinds.

To other disciples of the Bitao Martial Academy, this amount was astonishing, but for Fang Bai, it was far from enough.

Fang Bai was now like a giant beast that devoured cultivation resources. While other Martial Academy disciples needed only a few elixirs to aid their practice, Fang Bai required at least several hundred per session to have any effect.

This meant that the nearly ten thousand elixirs Fang Bai had secretly refined recently would only last him for one month, even if used sparingly, and together with the ten thousand Essence Stones and over a hundred elixirs he had won from Huang Miao, he could at most sustain for two months.

Moreover, the Spiritual Medicine planted within the Bitao Martial Academy was not inexhaustible. Fang Bai had already harvested several thousand plants, and all of relatively mature ages, which was bound to attract the Martial Academy’s attention before long.

Therefore, how to acquire more cultivation resources remained Fang Bai’s most pressing concern at the moment.

The True Martial Realm was vast and boasted abundant cultivation resources, but the majority of the discovered resources had been divided and occupied by powerful Sects and clans, such as the Bitao Martial Academy, a fourth-grade Sect, which also had a share.

As for the lesser Sects and clans and the Individual Cultivation Martial Artists with no affiliation, they had to find their own means to search for cultivation resources.

On that clear morning, Fang Bai was sitting cross-legged in meditation on a cultivation stone in the courtyard when a Steward from the Bitao Martial Academy came to his residence and said, "Inner Court disciple Fang Bai, come with me to Lingtian Hall. The headmaster wants to see you."

Fang Bai was somewhat surprised, unsure of what matter would require the headmaster’s summons, but he still dressed in the Inner Court disciple’s uniform and followed the Steward to Lingtian Hall at Lingtian Peak.

After entering Lingtian Hall,

the steward who had brought Fang Bai there took a seat on a stone chair on the west side of the great hall.

Fang Bai looked up and saw, right in front of the hall, seated on an elevated stone chair, a stout elder with half-white hair and a ruddy complexion.

Although the elder tried to conceal his martial artist aura,

he couldn’t hide it from Fang Bai’s divine sense.

"This elder must be at the Desolate Level Perfection,

and must be Ren Jingbo, headmaster of Bitao Martial Academy," he thought.

Fang Bai had been in the Bitao Martial Academy for more than a month,

during which he had seen many high-ranking members of the martial academy,

but he had never met Headmaster Ren Jingbo,

whom he was seeing now for the first time.

A Desolate Level Perfection martial artist

was an untouchable, exalted figure to the ordinary disciples of Bitao Martial Academy,

but to Fang Bai, whose cultivation level was equivalent to the initial stage of the Vast Level

and who could contend with the Vast Level Perfection in combat, it was nothing significant.

Therefore, when other disciples of Bitao Martial Academy faced the imperiously unangry Ren Jingbo,

they would feel like they were under the pressure of a great mountain, appearing either flustered,

cautious,

or exceptionally respectful. Even when they spoke, it was with a trembling voice.

When Fang Bai appeared in Lingtian Hall,

he first greeted Ren Jingbo respectfully without being either arrogant or humble,

then he stood there with the ease of a light breeze and floating clouds,

unfazed by Ren Jingbo’s high vantage point or the assessments from the several other martial academy elders around him,

his expression and demeanor unchanged.

On both sides of Ren Jingbo, and slightly lower,

sat two elders, one fat and one thin; both of them Desolate Level high ranking

and vice-headmasters of the Bitao Martial Academy.

On the east and west sides of Lingtian Hall,

were seated Bitao Martial Academy’s four elders and eight stewards,

whose cultivation levels were middle-stage Desolate Level,

and initial-stage Desolate Level respectively.

One headmaster, two vice-headmasters, four elders, and eight stewards —

these fifteen Desolate Level martial artists constituted the higher echelons of Bitao Martial Academy,

forming its most core power.

They had all gathered in Lingtian Hall today to meet Fang Bai,

the disciple with dual innate attributes.

Seeing Fang Bai’s exceptional calmness and lack of any sign of nervousness,

Ren Jingbo and the others marvelled,

Although these individuals had not released their martial artist aura to pressure Fang Bai,

it was beyond their expectations to see a disciple, who had just entered the martial academy,

remain so composed in the presence of such mighty figures.

However, upon considering Fang Bai’s heaven-defying talent,

they understood and thought to themselves that,

perhaps, this is what distinguishes a martial dao prodigy from the rest.

"Fang Bai, you’ve been in Bitao Martial Academy for over a month now,

how do you find it here?" Ren Jingbo watched Fang Bai for a while before asking with a smile.

Fang Bai replied, "It’s alright."

Ren Jingbo nodded his head, saying,

"You have dual innate spirit bodies, a constitution that is not only unprecedented in the history of our Bitao Martial Academy,

but also rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns throughout the entire True Martial Realm.

Because of this, we, the high-ranking members of the martial academy, have great expectations for you.

We hope you can achieve great success on the path of Martial Dao and lead Bitao Martial Academy to rise in the True Martial Realm!"

As he spoke, his chest surged with excitement and his blood boiled.

He left his stone chair, walked up to Fang Bai,

patted him on the shoulder, and said earnestly,

"Since the establishment of our Bitao Martial Academy, we have never produced a martial dao prodigy,

hence we have always been a fourth-rank sect.

Although a fourth-rank sect is much stronger than those insignificant small sects and factions,

it is still far behind compared to the third, second, or even first-rank major sects. Ah..."