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Chapter 247 - 247 240 Cruelty

247: Chapter 240 Cruelty 247: Chapter 240 Cruelty Taixuan Academy.

The morning sun was rising.

Below the Luo Yun Tian Mu Chain, there was a sea of people.

Taixuan Academy consisted of the Inner Courtyard, the Outer Courtyard, and the Reserve Duty.

Among them, the Inner Courtyard had seven hundred and twenty people, the Outer Courtyard three thousand six hundred people, and Reserve Duty ten thousand people; these were all fixed numbers.

The students of Taixuan Academy, whether they belonged to the Reserve Duty, the Outer Courtyard, or the Inner Courtyard, were measured by a single standard—strength.

If one was powerful, perhaps within a year of entering the academy, they could pass various assessments and tests, advance directly to the Inner Courtyard, and become a student there.

If one was weak, with poor talent, even staying at Taixuan Academy for the full nine years, they could only ever be a student on Reserve Duty.

This was not an exaggeration but a reality, as there were too many students from the previous or even earlier batches still on Reserve Duty.

Today, the first assessment for the new batch of freshmen, also known as the basic entry elimination round—crossing the Luo Yun Tian Mu Chain—naturally attracted a great deal of attention.

In addition to all one thousand new students from the new batch being present, even many students from the Outer Courtyard had also come to watch.

Where there were people, there were disputes and interests.

For Taixuan Academy, the focal points of these disputes and interests revolved around martial cultivation resources and martial arts techniques.

But how could Taixuan Academy, which was not a charitable organization, randomly distribute martial cultivation resources and martial arts techniques?

Take those on Reserve Duty for example; they didn’t have any martial cultivation resources or martial arts techniques at all.

The Outer Courtyard had a small portion.

The vast majority belonged to the Inner Courtyard.

This was why all the students of Taixuan Academy yearned for the Inner Courtyard as if possessed by demons!

This was also why students from Reserve Duty and the Outer Courtyard would greet their senior brothers and sisters from the Inner Courtyard with great reverence and an indescribable attitude!

The emergence of interests and disputes meant that the academy was not peaceful.

Struggles were commonplace, and it was inevitable for the weaker ones to be bullied and robbed of martial cultivation resources and martial arts techniques.

The academy did not prohibit these struggles.

Although they were cruel for the weak, they also promoted the prosperity of talent and the densification of the martial arts atmosphere at Taixuan Academy.

And where was the struggle most severe?

Naturally, in the Outer Courtyard.

Although there were many Reserve Duty students, they were basically hapless weaklings without a future.

Without any free martial cultivation resources or martial arts techniques to be issued, they could only earn academic credits by doing hard tasks and buy martial cultivation resources with those credits.

In this situation, Reserve Duty students were all busy and struggling—it was rare for them to have time for disputes…

As for the Inner Courtyard, that was an elevated place, not lacking in martial cultivation resources, so there was no need to fight over them, and moreover, each member was a genius among geniuses, very proud, with their own dignity.

They would challenge and learn from one another to enhance their strength, but they would absolutely not lower their status over some martial cultivation resources or martial arts techniques.

Only the Outer Courtyard.

The middle layer.

If you didn’t work hard you might fall into Reserve Duty, but work a little harder and you might enter the Inner Courtyard and rise above others.

Under these circumstances, they were the most active.

Each student in the Outer Courtyard received thirty basic academic credits per month.

Don’t underestimate these thirty academic credits—ten could grant one entry to the Spirit Qi Tower, and thirty credits for three entries.

Entering the Spirit Qi Tower once allowed for ten Shichen of cultivation, and these ten Shichen were almost equivalent to ten days of normal cultivation!!!

Can you imagine how precious the academic credits were?

The three thousand six hundred people in the Outer Courtyard naturally varied in strength, and it was normal, even expected, for the strong to rob the weak of their academic credits, both in the Martial Arts World and in the minds of everyone at Taixuan Academy.

Martial arts cultivation = survival of the fittest.

And some of the weaker students from the Outer Courtyard, in order to preserve their limited academic credits, naturally seek help from stronger students.

Of course, there’s no such thing as a free lunch.

Seeking protection from the strong comes at a price, one has to offer up at least half of their basic academic credits.

Even giving up half is better than having no protection from the strong and ending up with not a single credit left.

The Outer Courtyard has a ranking list of its strongest, and those in the top ten—each has three to five hundred students following them, right?

Today, the Outer Courtyard students who came to watch the new students cross the Luo Yun Tian Mu Chain are all the lackeys of those strong students.

If they can identify a few exceptional talents, they will naturally receive the appreciation and reward from their bosses.

This has essentially become a tradition.

Every iteration of the crossing of the Luo Yun Tian Mu is the time for the Outer Courtyard’s several strong figures to select fresh blood.

Currently, on the Outer Courtyard’s ranking of the strong.

First place is Chen Feng, the Blood Splitting Hand, a Half-Step Xuanqi Grandmaster at the Peak Realm.

It’s said that he could have entered the Grandmaster Realm by now, but to solidify his foundation, he has forcefully suppressed his realm.

His strength is extremely formidable, especially his move “Blood Splitting Hand,” which is brutally ferocious.

Even some of the super geniuses in the Inner Courtyard do not wish to provoke Blood Splitting Hand Chen Feng.

Second is Ji Linger, the Blue Enchantress, also a Half-Step Xuanqi Grandmaster at the Peak Realm.

If we speak purely of talent for martial cultivation, she’s even more terrifying than Chen Feng, for she is a full seven years younger.

At just eighteen years old this year, she entered Taixuan Academy at fifteen, and by eighteen she’s already ranked second among the Outer Courtyard’s strong.

It’s simply too frightening.

Besides, Ji Linger is also recognized as the number one beauty of the Outer Courtyard.

Her fame there surpasses even Yun Jinning by a lot.

Third is Ao Hong, a Half-Step Xuanqi at the Peak Realm, boastful and smitten with Ji Linger, pursuing her relentlessly to no avail.

And of all in the Outer Courtyard, the most students follow Ao Hong—for not only does he himself possess astonishing strength, more importantly, he has an elder brother, Ao Zhang, who is a super genius ranked within the top hundred of the Inner Courtyard.

Fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth places belong to Song Yu, Huo Wen, Shi Heng, Zhang Zhijian, Yao Wangkong, Fang Ming, and Yue Feng respectively.

Song Yu, Huo Wen, and the other five are at the Peak of the Late Stage of the Mysterious Qi Inner Strength Realm, a notch below Chen Feng, Ji Linger, and Ao Hong.

But they are absolutely not to be underestimated.

To Song Yu and the others, killing an ordinary practitioner at the Peak of the Late Stage of the Mysterious Qi Inner Strength Realm is as easy as squashing an ant.

In the same realm, the difference in strength can be vast!!!

Today, among those present, there is Zhang Zhe, Ao Hong’s loyal lackey.

Zhang Zhe’s strength is nothing special; he is merely at the Middle Stage of the Mysterious Qi Inner Strength Realm.

In the Outer Courtyard, he’s basically at the bottom.

However, he is skilled at bootlicking and talking, which makes him one of Ao Hong’s more favored underlings.

Many students in the Outer Courtyard who have pledged allegiance to Ao Hong were recruited by him.

At this moment, Zhang Zhe stands with his nose in the air, laughing proudly, his gaze continuously sweeping over the new students.

The new students of this year, being very tactful, all nod and make nice to Zhang Zhe—who doesn’t hope to be picked by Zhang Zhe and end up following Ao Hong?

Besides Zhang Zhe, sent by Ao Hong, Huo Wen, Shi Heng, and Fang Ming have also sent their people over.

However, their representatives obviously can’t compare with Zhang Zhe.

Zhang Zhe belongs to Ao Hong, one of the Outer Courtyard’s three powerhouses; they can’t match that.

Of the three powerhouses of the Outer Courtyard—Chen Feng, Ji Linger, and Ao Hong—Chen Feng is obsessed with martial arts, rarely seen by others, and keeps to himself.

Ji Linger does have a few close girlfriends, but has no interest in recruiting people at all.

The Ao Alliance under Ao Hong reigns supreme.

As a result, even as a lackey, Zhang Zhe is full of confidence!

At this moment.

On the side of the new students, in an inconspicuous spot, a group of fifty or sixty people from the Secular World have gathered, naturally led by He Jin.

By He Jin’s side, Xu Zhenlong couldn’t help but say, “That’s Zhang Zhe?

A lackey under Ao Hong, one of the three giants of the Outer Courtyard?

He doesn’t seem that strong.

He’s only at the Middle Stage of the Mysterious Qi Internal Strength Realm!”

“Exactly!!!

I’ve heard that there isn’t a single Xuanqi Grandmaster in the entire Outer Courtyard.

Most are just at the Middle Stage or Late Stage of the Mysterious Qi Inner Strength Realm, about the same as us…” Gao Youming also lowered his voice and added.

“What do you know?

People at the Middle Stage of the Mysterious Qi Inner Strength Realm can instantly kill us at the Peak of the Mysterious Qi Inner Strength Realm!” He Jin snorted, “The difference in strength within the same realm can be immense.

You’d better rid yourselves of any underestimation.

These people who’ve spent a few years in Taixuan Academy may not have increased their realm, but they have solidified their foundations tremendously and even cultivated several formidable martial skills, gaining powerful combat experience.

What do you have to compare with them?”

“This…” Xu Zhenlong and the others changed expression, somewhat in disbelief.

“Brother Jin, are they really that powerful?”