Urban Super Medical Sage
Chapter 241 - 241 234 Reserve Duty

241: Chapter 234 Reserve Duty 241: Chapter 234 Reserve Duty Suddenly.

Su Chen took another step forward, and Bu Teng instinctively continued to step back, retreating with that step.

“Ah…” Bu Teng let out an instinctive roar, the space behind him was empty; it was a cliff, and due to immense fear, Bu Teng had forgotten about the fact that they were on a cliff nearly five thousand meters deep.

It was in this instant that Su Chen moved like a swift lightning, so fast that he seemed to disappear.

In just a fraction of a breath, Su Chen reached the edge of the cliff, raised his hand, and directly grabbed the hand of Bu Teng, who had already fallen off the cliff and was about to plummet.

“Ah!

Ah!!

Ah!!!” Bu Teng screamed like a madman, scared nearly out of his wits.

The mere instant of being suspended in mid-air was too much for his heart to bear!

The moment death approached was indescribable…

“I don’t want to die, I don’t want to die, I don’t want to die…” Then, Bu Teng, his face covered in tears, cried out loudly, completely breaking down.

In the instant his feet found empty air and he was about to fall off the cliff, he had utterly collapsed, with only the thought of survival, willing to do anything just to live.

Meanwhile.

Gu Yuan and Qiao Hun couldn’t understand why Su Chen wanted to save Bu Teng.

They couldn’t understand it at all.

“Do you know why I grabbed you?” Su Chen asked with a smile.

Bu Teng shook his head; how could he possibly know?

After shaking his head, he pleaded, “You are my grandfather, my old ancestor, I don’t want to die, please, I would even be a bull or a horse, a slave, anything, I just don’t want to die!”

“The reason I grabbed you is that if you fell down like that, what if there was a one in a billion chance you’d survive?

I, can’t take that risk!” After saying that, Su Chen grinned, his other hand wielding the Duanxuan Sword sparkling with the light of death, suddenly moving forward, slashing across Bu Teng’s neck, and then, Su Chen let go.

Bu Teng, or rather, Bu Teng’s body fell into the abyss.

Gu Yuan and Qiao Hun trembled simultaneously, feeling a bone-chilling fear!!!

A complete feeling of dread filled their hearts!

So ruthless.

Su Chen truly was ruthless.

“Alright, time to get down to business!” After dealing with Bu Teng and his companions, Su Chen glanced at Qiao Hun and Gu Yuan, saying, “Spiritual Source Cave is mine, Scarlet Origin Cave is yours…”

“Wait a minute, Su Chen, I…” Gu Yuan started to say something, but was directly interrupted by Su Chen, “I don’t have time to fuss with you.

You warned me at the foot of the mountain, and I’ve already saved your life, we are even!”

Gu Yuan fell silent.

Her heart filled with grievance and sorrow!!!

She was Gu Yuan!

Throughout the years, people always sought her out, and she would ignore them if she didn’t wish to respond.

She never thought the roles would reverse one day.

Yet, she could tell that Su Chen really couldn’t be bothered with her.

“I owe you my life, and I will repay it!” Gu Yuan said defiantly, taking a deep breath, What “we are even”, in fact, she owed Su Chen.

“Whatever…” Su Chen was indifferent, his figure flashed, and he had already entered the Spiritual Source Cave.

“……” Gu Yuan bit her lip, her eyes determined and resolute behind her veil.

Su Chen not wanting to bother with her, in her view, was an indication of disrespect; why look down on her when Gu Yuan, compared to Su Chen, was simply not in the same league; she was too weak.

“Someday, I’ll make you look at me!” Gu Yuan silently vowed.

“Gu Yuan, I advise you not to compete with him or harbor inappropriate thoughts towards him!” Just then, Qiao Hun spoke up, his voice tinged with a wry smile, “We are people from two different worlds, or rather, he is not even human.”

“As long as I try hard, anything is possible!” Gu Yuan stated firmly.

“You haven’t fallen for him, have you?” Qiao Hun asked, his tone slightly odd.

“Shut up!” Gu Yuan reprimanded, turned around, and walked towards the Scarlet Origin Cave.

Qiao Hun gave Gu Yuan a deep look, then sighed, “It seems true – Although the story of a hero saving a beauty is age-old, it indeed captures a woman’s heart best; he saved you…”

Meanwhile.

Su Chen had already forgotten about Gu Yuan and Qiao Hun; he swiftly moved deeper into the Spiritual Source Cave, his face full of longing.

“The heat isn’t fluctuating much; it seems the True Fire Spirit must have really fallen asleep!” Su Chen’s eyes lit up, and he quickened his pace.

As he walked, Su Chen’s expression grew grave again; he had been walking for hundreds of breaths.

Still no sign of an end.

This Spiritual Source Cave was much larger and deeper than he had imagined.

And, the traces of the years on the walls of the cave told Su Chen that the Spiritual Source Cave had existed for a very long time…

Finally, after a quarter of an hour.

Su Chen reached the end.

The end was not as he had imagined, but a plaza.

As big as a football field.

Underfoot, rather than uneven rocks and stony ground, there was a series of uniformly sized, very smooth stone slabs, these slabs showing a slate gray color, covered with a thick layer of limestone dust, suggesting they were extremely ancient.

The surroundings, the cave walls too were paved with enormous stone slabs shaped into ovals.

These stone slabs on the cave walls, however, were not so covered with limestone dust; Su Chen could clearly see that on these slabs, there were drawings.

Simple, rustic, and rudimentary drawings.

It was as if drawn by a primitive man.

“It seems these paintings are very special!” Su Chen murmured to himself, his expression becoming increasingly solemn.

Then.

Su Chen shifted his gaze, looking straight ahead.

Straight ahead.

At the end of his line of sight was a pool about a hundred square feet in size.

The pool was circular, black, and filled with fire!!!

The fire was red, blood red, like a mass of fresh blood, and it was liquid, similar to magma, churning and bursting.

Hisssss…

Listening closely, the liquid fire, in its churning and bursting, contained a terrifyingly deep, ancient, and immortal sound.

Su Chen was roughly twenty meters away from the pool, but even from that distance, he still felt an alarming heat!

“The fire in this pool is the True Fire…” Su Chen took a deep breath and licked his lips.

Even a fool would realize something—Spiritual Source Cave was far more astonishing than he had imagined.

——————

Taixuan Mountain, Taixuan Academy.

Taixuan Academy was located at the center of the four peaks Lyn Peak, Siling Peak, Tianmu Peak, and Heng Ming Peak, surrounded naturally by these four mountains, which served as a barrier for the academy.

Between every two of these mountains, there hung a chain made of Mysterious Iron!!!

Legend had it that these chains had existed for over a thousand years and were one of the symbols of Taixuan Academy.

Among them, the chain between Luo Yun Peak and Tianmu Peak, named Luo Yun Tian Mu, was the longest, reaching seventeen kilometers.

One end of this chain was fixed about fifty meters high on Luo Yun Peak, and the other end was fixed at a height of one thousand meters on Tianmu Peak.

As a result, the Luo Yun Tian Mu chain had an astonishing angle, the degree of its incline overwhelming, and its danger indescribable.

At this moment.

Beneath the Luo Yun Tian Mu chain.

Yu Jianbo, Huang Guochun, and six others were with Leng Mang, Mu Ziling, He Jin, and others, all looking up at the Luo Yun Tian Mu chain.

“You have now arrived at Taixuan Academy, and three days from now will be the Freshman Ranking Tournament!” Yu Jianbo said, his voice extremely grave, “However, not all freshmen have the qualifications to participate.

To earn the right to participate, you must first cross the Luo Yun Tian Mu chain!!!”

“What?” As Yu Jianbo spoke, Leng Mang, Zheng Bu, and others gasped in shock, and the fifty students from the five universities in Anwu City also turned pale.

“Only those who successfully cross the Luo Yun Tian Mu chain will earn the qualifications to participate in the Freshman Ranking Tournament!” Yu Jianbo continued: “So prepare yourselves mentally.

If you don’t earn the qualifications for the Ranking Tournament, then your days at Taixuan Academy will be difficult, you’ll have to join the Reserve Duty!”

“Reserve Duty?

What does that mean?” He Jin asked.

Yu Jianbo didn’t explain, but Huang Guochun did: “Students in Reserve Duty aren’t truly academy students.

They can only serve, without the right to attend martial cultivation classes, enter the Martial Arts Pavilion, or enter the Spirit Qi Tower.

They can only cultivate on their own, and the martial cultivation resources they need must be earned by completing various tasks issued by the academy…”

With this explanation from Huang Guochun, including He Jin, everyone’s faces looked grim!!!

Reserve Duty?

That meant they were essentially servants!

It was too cruel.

“Elder Yu, this Luo Yun Tian Mu chain, typically, what are the odds for a freshman to cross it?” Mu Ziling asked, taking a deep breath.

“About half,” Yu Jianbo thought for a moment and said.

The crowd breathed a slight sigh of relief, but Yu Jianbo continued, “I mean half of all the freshmen, that is, about five hundred out of one thousand can cross.

If we only consider those of you from the Secular World, the passing rate is at most one in ten.”

Suddenly, the faces of Leng Mang, He Jin, and about fifty to sixty people turned ashen!

“Don’t be discouraged, even if you don’t manage to cross Luo Yun Tian Mu and enter Reserve Duty, every year there is a chance to challenge for a position as a formal Outer Courtyard student,” Huang Guochun consoled.

“Alright, you have seen the Luo Yun Tian Mu.

Tomorrow is the day to cross the Luo Yun Tian Mu, everyone be prepared!

Also, there’s one more important thing, freshmen are the most vulnerable to bullying, and it’s a tradition at Taixuan Academy, especially for those of you from the Secular World, it’s even more…” Yu Jianbo said and then fell silent.

The implication was clear.

For newcomers from the Secular World, the challenges were definitely immense.

“So, you need to unite!!!

Work together!” Yu Jianbo finished speaking and left, with Huang Guochun and other martial cultivation instructors also departing.

Only Leng Mang, He Jin, Mu Ziling, and about fifty to sixty others were left.

They were all silent, but it was clear they were very anxious, nervous, and scared…

After a long while.

“This is Taixuan Academy, and what the previous martial cultivation instructors said sums up to one word—cruelty!” He Jin was the first to speak: “We’re all from the Secular World and newcomers, and we will inevitably be bullied, so as our martial cultivation instructors said, we need to unite and become a collective…”

He Jin paused for a moment, then continued, “Since it’s a collective, we can’t be a group of loose sand; we need a leader, and I will be that leader.

Does anyone have any objections?”

[Continue the excitement tomorrow]