Chapter 28 Entering the Inner Courtyard
The fire hunting competition is over...As Xiao Yun defeated Xu Feng, the captain of the Baisha team, and was thinking about helping Fang Wen and the other four, Elder Su, who was watching the excitement on the hillside, hurriedly appeared and stopped the fight.
"Okay, little guy, you have won this Fire Energy Hunting Competition. You don't have to fight anymore."
Elder Su's slightly aged voice slowly echoed in the rocky belt, causing all the fighting to stop at this moment.
The other members of the Baisha team opened their mouths slightly and wanted to say something, but when they saw Xiao Yun holding a spear at the side, they were unable to utter a word in the end.
Elder Su looked around and said in a deep voice, "As the winners of this Fire Energy Hunting Competition, all freshmen can obtain ten days of Fire Energy, and Xiao Yun, Wang Hongjing, Gongsun Sibao, Ye Zhengfan, and Fang Wen will receive an additional Green Fire Crystal Card and thirty days of Fire Energy!"
"Blue Fire Crystal Card!"
Hearing the reward announced by Elder Su, there was an uproar on the hillside, and everyone looked at Xiao Yun and the other four in the open space with envious eyes.
“In the inner courtyard, the fire crystal cards are divided into five colors from low to high: black, blue, cyan, red, and purple.
The black crystal card is the lowest level crystal card and can only be used for cultivation on the first and second floors of the Tianfen Refining Qi Tower.
Blue crystal cards can be used for cultivation on the third and fourth floors. The others can be pushed up one by one."
"If you want to upgrade the Fire Crystal Card, you need to pay a certain amount of Fire Energy in exchange. To upgrade a black crystal card to blue, you need one hundred days of Fire Energy, and to upgrade a blue crystal card to cyan, you need two hundred days of Fire Energy! Now that you have obtained the Cyan Fire Crystal Card, it is equivalent to saving three hundred days of Fire Energy, which is not a small amount."
Seeing the confusion of Fang Wen and the other three, Elder Su explained it with a smile.
Afterwards, Elder Su waved his hand, and five green crystal cards appeared in his hand. He flicked his finger, and the crystal cards shot towards Xiao Yun and the other four, and finally hovered in front of them.
"The reward is already inside. After you transfer the fire energy in the black crystal card over, return the black crystal card to me."
Upon hearing this, Xiao Yun and the other four quickly took out the blue crystal card. A moment later, they returned the five black crystal cards that had been emptied of fire energy to Elder Su.
"Okay, you guys wait here for a while. The rest of the old students, go into the forest and bring back all the new students!" Elder Su said with a smile after taking the black crystal card. With a wave of his hand, the old students on the hillside moved and all rushed into the dark forest.
"Thanks to the captain, we can enter the inner courtyard with such a reward." Fang Wen and the other three came to Xiao Yun and said happily.
"You all deserve it. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't be able to defeat the White Evil Team on my own."
Xiao Yun waved his hand, signaling them not to worry about it, then he found a big rock and sat down cross-legged to recover.
……
Because Xiao Yun and his four companions eliminated all the old students, except for a few unlucky ones, almost no freshmen in the forest had their fire energy taken away, and they could rush to the finish line unimpeded.
After a while, the old students brought all the new students back to the rocky slope.
When Elder Su saw the new students gathered, he said a few simple words and then led everyone, slowly walking up the hillside towards a gravel staircase.
The gravel stairs were not very high. It took only one or two minutes for all the students to reach the last step and stand on the hillside. Looking forward, the scene that appeared in their field of vision made the freshmen slowly take a breath of cold air.
"Is this the inner courtyard?" Slightly shocked words came out of the mouth of the freshman on the hillside.
Behind the hillside was an extremely large sunken basin. The shape of this basin was like a huge meteorite that had fallen from the sky and smashed out...
In the basin, towering buildings stood in the middle. Looking down from a high vantage point, one could see flea-like figures constantly jumping on the buildings. The basin was surprisingly large. Even if one extended one's sight forward, one could still only see towering buildings and lush forests.
It was hard for people to imagine that in the boundless mountains behind Canaan College, there was such a wonderful place hidden.
"Little ones, welcome to the core of Canaan College, the inner courtyard!" Elder Su clapped his hands and said with a smile when he saw everyone's shocked expressions.
"Since you have passed the Fire Energy Hunting Competition, all the freshmen should follow me back to the inner courtyard. I will settle you down first. From now on, you will be real inner courtyard students!"
With a wave of his hand, Elder Su turned into a blurry figure and flashed towards the basin below. Afterwards, all the freshmen immediately followed and swooped down from the hillside.
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Creak. A wooden door was slowly pushed open, and the sun shone in. With the bright light, one could see the tiny dust particles flying in the air.
The next moment, six shadows of varying lengths walked in one after another. The leader, Elder Su, glanced at the small attic in front of him and said with a smile, "This will be where the five of you will live from now on. You can decorate it as you like."
"I would like to remind you that in the inner courtyard, unless you are very powerful, it is not easy for you to survive here alone. Because the inner courtyard emphasizes strength, the old students also divide their own territories. You will see these things in the future."
"So, I let you live together because I hope you can form a team. In the hunting competition, I believe you have already known the power of teamwork, right? It is difficult for one person to catch up with the effect of the team." Elder Su looked at the five people with a smile, "If you are not used to living with others, you can also join other forces. Those forces will spend fire energy to rent land, and the living environment is much better than the residence for freshmen."
"Given your strength as the top five, I believe many forces will be eager to have you join..."
After Elder Su chatted with everyone about the situation in the inner courtyard for a while, he stood up and left, leaving the space to Xiao Yun and the other four.
"Tsk tsk, what Vice Dean Hu Qian said is true. If you want to do well in the inner courtyard, you either have to join a powerful force or rely on your own strength."
"The strong prey on the weak, and the fittest survive. It's the same everywhere. The academy has specially created this atmosphere, hoping that we can adapt to the law of survival in advance. Only in the struggle can the real strong emerge."
"Boss, are you going to create a faction? If you do, I, Fang Wen, will be the first to join!"
"Creating a power? No rush, let me break through to the Dou Ling first. The cultivation level of a great Dou Shi is still too low."
"...Boss is awesome."
The four people who were originally chatting animatedly fell silent when they heard Xiao Yun's Versailles. After a long time, Fang Wen finally uttered a few words.
The highest level of cultivation among them was only a five-star Grand Fighter, and now Xiao Yun, who was so much younger than him, had a Grand Fighter level that was too low. The map cannon blew the four people in the courtyard to pieces, leaving them burnt on the outside and tender on the inside.
"What's wrong? Am I right?"
Seeing four people staring at him, Xiao Yun was a little confused.
"That's only for a genius like you. For most people, a Grand Fighter is already a very strong level." Fang Wen said bitterly, and the other three nodded, agreeing with what he said.
"Okay, I'm going to go to the Tianfen Refining Qi Tower to take a look. Do any of you want to come with me?" Seeing that the four people looked like their self-esteem was hurt, Xiao Yun touched his head embarrassedly and quickly skipped this unpleasant topic.
"No, boss. I still need to clean up my room."
"We too, Captain, go by yourself."
Fang Wen and the other three turned around and walked into the small building. Their self-esteem was hurt, and they were about to explode if they looked at Xiao Yun any longer.
Pushing open the wooden door, Xiao Yun shrugged and headed towards the Tianfen Refining Qi Tower that he had been longing for.
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The size of the inner courtyard was somewhat beyond Xiao Yun's expectations. He ran for nearly half an hour but still hadn't reached the boundary of the inner courtyard. Along the way, he could often see some fierce battles between people.
"The atmosphere here is quite fierce. People will fight each other if they disagree with each other. But this is just what I want!" Xiao Yun thought to himself. The battles in the Fire Energy Hunting Competition made his fighting spirit more condensed and his cultivation level improved a lot. If he could often fight with some equally matched opponents in the inner courtyard, he believed that he would be able to break through to the Fighting Spirit realm soon.
Suddenly, Xiao Yun looked around and found that more and more people were gathering on the road he was walking on. Each of them was running at maximum speed. Above the woods and buildings on both sides, there were constant flashing figures and the sound of whirring wind.
"It seems like it's almost here." Xiao Yun couldn't think of anything else in the inner courtyard except the Tianfen Refining Qi Tower that could attract so many students.
With fighting spirit attached to his legs, Xiao Yun's figure turned into a stream of fiery red light and rushed towards the figure in front of him rapidly. After a moment, Xiao Yun stopped behind a dark team.
Standing up and jumping onto the branches around him, Xiao Yun looked down at the scene below from a high vantage point, his eyes passed over the dark crowd and looked directly ahead. In front of the crowd, he saw a sunken terrain, in which a huge black tower was buried deep underground, with only a section of the tower top and an entrance exposed on the ground.
"This must be the Tianfen Refining Qi Tower, right? It's actually protected by a space lock. Is it blocking the aura of the Fallen Heart Flame?" Standing on the tree branch, Xiao Yun thought in his heart. Yes, if there was no space lock to protect it, the aura of the strange fire would have been sensed by Han Feng who was also in the Black Horn Region.
At the same time, this blockade can also suppress the riot of the Fallen Heart Flame, preventing it from breaking through the Tianfen Refining Qi Tower.
Seeing figures coming one after another, some of the most powerful ones did not follow the rules and directly passed through the crowd, cutting in front of everyone. Seeing this, Xiao Yun was too lazy to go down to line up, but stood quietly on the branch and waited.
(End of this chapter)
