Chapter 9: The Academy in Uproar

  Xu Hua quickly picked up the beheaded butcher's spatial ring and left immediately, after all, the commotion from their fight was too great. Although this was a slum, it still managed to attract the attention of some powerful individuals in the town, several of whom rushed over from all directions. Fortunately, Xu Hua acted fast, if he had been any slower, he would have been discovered by the people arriving on the scene.

  Not long after the stranger found the courtyard that had been destroyed and the two corpses in it, he left. Xu Hua also didn't mean to provoke others, at this time he had already returned to his residence in the wine building.

  Xu Hua took out the Blood Butcher's spatial ring and used his divine sense to enter it. The result shocked Xu Hua! He didn't expect that this spatial ring was only slightly smaller than the one he had obtained from the Blood Saint. Unexpectedly, the Blood Butcher had such an encounter, unfortunately, he encountered Xu Hua, otherwise, if he continued to grow, he would be a dominant figure. After all, in the early stages of martial arts, resources are still the most important thing, as long as there are enough resources, even an ordinary person can become a Martial Emperor.

  The bloody butcher's final move was indeed extraordinary, and there must be some treasures in this spatial ring. Xu Hua took out the items one by one from the spatial ring.

  First of all, there are several jade bottles, and on top of the jade bottles, there are some small characters.

  Low-grade Spirit Dan --- Shuiyuan Dan. Note: Water attribute dan medicine, suitable for those who grasp water attribute true energy, also can be used to change variant ice attribute true energy.

  Mid-grade Spirit Pellet --- Calamity Pellet. Note: Must be consumed within one day, suitable for mutual destruction; depletes user's entire potential within an hour, greatly increasing their actual strength.

  Low-grade Spirit Pellet --- Muscle Changing Bone Refining Pellet. Note: It has the effect of changing muscles and bones for martial artists, enhancing the foundation of martial artists.

  Medium-grade Spirit Pellet --- Mind Concentration Pellet. Note: Enhances mental focus, considered a peerless spirit pellet for alchemists and artifact refiners.

  Four kinds of elixirs, three of which are two medium-grade spiritual elixirs. The Water Origin Elixir is of no use to Xu Hua now, and the Elixir of Hardship is even more useless, with the four words "ingesting it will surely kill" making Xu Hua hesitant. As for the Easy Tendon Replacing Bone Elixir, it's a rare spiritual elixir for Xu Hua, and the effect of the Mind Condensing Elixir should not be underestimated.

  "What a big harvest! Let's see what other good things there are!" Xu Hua continued to search.

  "Bloody Palm Print", a low-level martial skill that condenses evil energy to intimidate the opponent's mind.

  "Sacrifice", a special, unranked secret art that exchanges one's own life force for power. It is extremely overbearing and cannot be used unless at the brink of death. After use, the practitioner will definitely suffer from severe aftereffects, with only a slim chance of survival. The stronger one's physical body and the more abundant their life force, the smaller the aftereffects will be. Those below the rank of Martial Emperor who attempt to practice this technique will definitely die without exception.

  Upon seeing this technique, Xu Hua suddenly trembled all over, his face extremely excited. This technique might be useless to others, but to him it was the ultimate divine art! For someone who possessed the "Devouring Life Technique" like Xu Hua, the aftereffects of using "Sacrifice" would be much smaller compared to ordinary people. The life force contained within Xu Hua's Life Crystal far surpassed what a martial arts master could imagine. According to the saying in "Sacrifice", 'the stronger one's life force, the smaller the aftereffects', Xu Hua basically wouldn't have many aftereffects.

  "With 'Sacrifice' in place, even if my injuries are not healed, my strength is absolutely no weaker than the early martial artists of the Wu Zun!" Xu Hua's heart was filled with confidence, but there was no opponent to verify his conjecture.

  So Xu Hua could only continue to check the items in the space ring. There were many ores, and Xu Hua could only identify a few of them. He didn't bother to care about it either, after all, his gains had already exceeded his imagination. After resting at the wine shop for a night, early next morning, Xu Hua left Wu Feng Town and rushed back to the Academy.

  ……

  The Tian Nan Fu was as bustling as ever, and Xu Hua had long been forgotten by them. In their eyes, a guy like Xu Hua who sought death would definitely not live for long, so why bother remembering him?

  Today's task hall is still as hot as usual, Li Fengfei is flipping through a pile of materials, Xu Hua quietly walked in, at this time some people recognized Xu Hua.

  "Isn't this the ordinary disciple who took on a four-star mission last time? How did he come back!"

  "I reckon! He's given up on the mission, which is just as well, otherwise he'd have lost his life for nothing."

  "Haha! Abandoning the task will deduct 10% of the service reward points! Ah yo! That's 4000 points, this kid is in trouble!"

  Li Fengfei looked at Xu Hua, who was calm and collected in front of her, and felt a sudden sense of relief. "You've figured it out, have you? But now you don't even have a single point to your name, and you're still 4000 points in debt! You'll be busy for the rest of the year!"

  Thinking of her words, Xu Hua found that she was not bad after all, at least she didn't mock him. Xu Hua didn't say a word and directly took out the head of Butcher from his spatial ring.

  Boom!

  At the moment when the bloody butcher's head appeared on the table! The entire Task Force was shocked!

  "Impossible! Am I seeing things?!"

  "I think I'm also seeing things! Is that the head of a bloodthirsty butcher?"

  Boom!

  Everyone is boiling!

  "What a joke! He actually did it! What kind of sacredness is this!"

  "Have you guys noticed anything? He didn't bring anything with him when he came!"

  "You're saying..."

  "Not bad, he must be wearing a space ring on his hand!"

  "I really didn't expect that! I thought it was just an ornament! Then his identity must not be simple! To know that among the core disciples, only Sword Dust, Xu Ning, and Li Mu have a spatial ring."

  "I thought it was just a small worm at first, but it turned out to be a real dragon! I'm really blind!"

  Li Fengfei's mouth agape, stared at Xu Hua in shock: "You... you, didn't expect... you actually really did it!"

  Duanmu nodded slightly, Xu Hua was only thinking about the points.

  "Can you give me the points now?"

  "Of course!" Li Fengfei immediately helped Xu Hua deduct 40,000 points!

  Xu Hua looked at the token in his hand, the 0 on it had changed to 40,000, he could finally be promoted to a core disciple!

  Li Fengfei looked at Xu Hua with blinking eyes and asked: "How did you do it!"

  "What?" Xu Hua asked in confusion.

  "Don't try to fool me, you completed the task in just a few days, how did you manage that?!"

  "What else can be done! Just kill him directly!"

  "You know I'm not asking that, how did you find him, even if Sword Dust Big Brother searched for three months and couldn't find him." Li Fengfei pouted.

  Xu Hua stared at her intently, making her feel embarrassed, before saying: "Why should I tell you."

  "Such a petty person, without any dignity at all." No one had ever dared to speak to her like that before. At home, her parents spoiled her, and in college, she was well-liked by everyone, plus her older brother was Li Mu, so who would dare offend her? But the person in front of her today completely disregarded her.

  "Alright, go have fun! I'm going to upgrade my core student status!" Xu Hua turned and left, while Li Fengfei was so angry that her chest was trembling, making all the men present drool. It's really turbulent.

  "After Xu Hua disappeared, she pouted and smiled: "What an interesting guy, some people are really something!"

  ……

  "Are you applying to become a core disciple? Do you have enough points?" It was still the two people who had received Xu Hua last time, and they saw that the man who had been beaten by Xu Hua until he was almost crippled last time had an odd expression on his face. He thought: This kid is really abnormal! He's only been in the mansion for less than a month and has already accumulated over 10,000 points.

  "Take it and see!" Xu Hua directly threw his token at him.

  "40... 400,000 points! You little scamp went and robbed a core student?"

  Xu Hua said in confusion, "You can rob students of their points? Why didn't you say so earlier! If I had known, I wouldn't have had to run all the way to kill that Blood Butcher!"

  "What! Bloodthirsty... Butcher! You said you took down the Bloodthirsty Butcher! Yeah, the reward for the Bloodthirsty Butcher is exactly 40,000 points! What a joke, in just these few days you found and killed the Bloodthirsty Butcher!" This surprised him even more than when Gemini rose to Martial Emperor.

  "Alright, let's talk about it later when I'm gone! First, settle the assessment of my core students! I still have things to do!"

  "No need to test, I'll just do it for you. What a joke! I don't want to be bullied by you! Honestly, you're too disrespectful to your teacher. At least I'm a teacher, can't you be more considerate?" The man looked at Xu Hua with resentment.

  Xu Hua also said in a bad mood: "You didn't think about it either, what were you doing at that time? You didn't have the slightest appearance of a teacher. How did I know you would be teachers?! Aren't you all right now?"

  "You're ruthless!" The man almost fainted, and immediately another person handed Xu Hua's token to him. "Hey, it's all right! You're now a core student!"

  Xu Hua took his token and quickly headed to the library of the Academy, he now wanted to see more information. He was going to step onto the peak of martial arts, so he would inevitably come into contact with those powerful forces on the Tianxuan Continent. He had too little information about the entire Tianxuan Continent, and he must make up for it!

  ……

  In front of the Second Treasure Pavilion, Xu Hua was stopped by an old man.

  "Get 100 points for one entry."

  100 points are nothing but a drop in the bucket for Xuhua, who has tens of thousands of points. After deducting the points, Xuhua enters the first level and starts searching for the information he needs!

  Xu Hua didn't know that he was now famous throughout the entire school, not only were the students discussing him, but also the higher-ups of the school had started debating about him.

  At this moment, Xu Hua was flipping through various books in the library, with an incredibly fast speed, but none of them were related to martial arts. In just half a day, Xu Hua had already read half of the books on this floor, feeling that time was almost up, he returned to his own courtyard.

  The next day, Xu Hua finished reading all the materials he needed on the first floor. It took him five more days to finish reading the materials he needed on the second floor. At this point, Xu Hua's understanding of the entire continent had also deepened, no longer limited to a single country's one-acre-three-part land. However, this was still far from enough. To truly step onto the pinnacle of martial arts, all forces across the continent could become opponents, so the more he grasped, the better.

  In these few days in the Second Pavilion of the Book Collection, Xu Hua only found a small number of low-level martial arts books. The true advanced skills still require points to be exchanged at the Martial Arts Building.

  Returning to his own courtyard, the sky was still early, Xu Hua started practicing fist techniques in the empty space behind him, and what he was practicing was indeed "Dragon Elephant Fist". Back and forth, it was just a few moves, but Xu Hua became more and more proficient. When he finished his practice, he suddenly discovered that an old man had appeared behind him at some point, and he was greatly shocked, shouting in his heart: Master, a master far superior to himself!