Give Me Money and I Won't Participate

When Li Ye was sent back, many classmates were already waiting at the entrance.

Seeing him brought back by a military mountain bike, everyone looked curious.

Deng Hao and Jia Dong went up to him. The latter glanced at Yang Jie, whose arm was bandaged, and asked, "Brother Ye, what happened?"

"Ran into a demon, it's nothing serious."

Li Ye said, then looked at the crowd, "Why are you all here? Did you come back so quickly?"

"All thanks to you!" Yao Le Dan said indignantly as she approached, "With you, Brother Li, going all out, where's the chance for us ordinary people? We couldn't even find a single demon, so we had to come back and rest. Getting bitten by bugs in the mountains is nowhere near as comfortable as lounging in a car."

Was it that they wanted to come back?

Two hours earlier, they couldn't find any demons at all. They could only occasionally see Li Ye cruising through the air, creating ripples of energy beneath his feet.

What was the point of fighting then?

They decisively gave up looking for demons and returned to wait obediently.

Afterward, Gu Yang started making calls one by one. With the drone providing guidance, the few remaining persistent students also returned.

As Yao Le Dan was speaking, the soldier who brought them spoke a few words to Gu Yang and then drove away.

Gu Yang looked at Li Ye with a hint of helplessness. He clapped his hands and said to the students still outside the bus, "Alright, that's it for today. It's getting late, let's head back first."

The group headed to the bus and drove out of the mountain road towards the school. By the time they arrived, it was already late. Li Ye changed into a spare school uniform in the venue before heading home.

When he got home, his parents were already there.

"How was it?" Li Haihua asked eagerly upon seeing Li Ye, "It was the Martial Arts Major's practical training today, right? How did it feel?"

Liu Qingxia chimed in, "Was it dangerous? You didn't get hurt, did you?"

They had heard Li Ye talk about the Martial Arts Students' practical training before, and had even gone to learn more about it. For training that had a chance of resulting in death and a high probability of injury, they were naturally very worried.

"It was just a simple fight against some specially prepared demons, meant to hone skills and experience. It wasn't dangerous." Li Ye washed his hands simply and sat at the table, taking out his Five Flavors Chopsticks to start eating.

There was still plenty of ingredients from the Pest Control Bureau. Li Ye made some every time he came home, and they also bought some ingredients themselves.

No matter how much he emphasized it, his parents would still buy some. Li Ye had tried to dissuade them, but when he found it useless, he simply let them be. The current expenses were manageable, and with his own salary, it wasn't that pressing.

The debt of 200,000 yuan didn't seem like a big problem to Li Ye now. Tomorrow, he could ask how the items he obtained from the Training Points were valued.

After dinner, Li Ye washed up and went to bed.

Since breaking through the Three Dragon Gate, he no longer needed to practice moves; he was basically proficient. Normal training wasn't as effective as practical training because practical training was a fight to the death.

He felt incredibly comfortable during the battle on Dragon Mountain today.

This was how it should be. With Authority, combat should feel like this. The feeling of annihilating enemies with a raise of his hand left him very satisfied.

This made Li Ye think of the painting in Pan Zhengyang's office. He wondered when he would be able to become like that.

The next day, Li Ye arrived at school early. As soon as he got to the venue, Gu Yang, who had been waiting for a while, called him to his office.

"Li Ye..." Gu Yang had him sit down, his expression somewhat complex. "Let me first tell you about your points. For yesterday's practical training, you annihilated a total of 84 demons, plus one out-of-specimen. The surveillance confirmed it, and it was military-grade."

"The military suggested giving you more points. After consideration, and factoring in your recognition of the demon and your actions in rescuing classmates, we've rounded it up to 100 points."

"As for the points, let me convert them for you. Purely converted to money, it's 5,000 yuan per point. You were the main player, so with a 10% premium, that's 5,500. Since they were all corpses, we couldn't calculate them based on live value. I know you sold a live Green Bamboo Dart Mantis to Yao Le Dan, which was better than selling it to the school, but we don't prohibit private sales, so that's not an issue."

"One point can be exchanged for a Nutrient Solution. If you want other high-quality ingredients, you can also ask the school to procure them for you."

Hearing this, Li Ye showed surprise. "That much?"

With 100 points, didn't he just earn 550,000 yuan yesterday?

Was practical training this profitable?!

"It's actually alright. Regardless of what kind of demon you kill in the training grounds, whether it's an Ironclad Boar or a Green Bamboo Dart Mantis, there's definitely a difference in value. But if they're corpses, they're uniformly counted as 1 point. In a way, the school is definitely making a profit."

The demons in the training grounds were naturally different; some were valuable, and some were not. The school's fair pricing was also here, where everything was calculated in terms of points.

But Gu Yang still felt a sense of emotion. He had been guiding Martial Arts Students for over ten years. There were students who took the Breakthrough Realm path, but few were as ruthless as Li Ye.

Xiang Feipeng also took the Breakthrough Realm path. Despite his usual arrogance, he would only earn a dozen points at most from a training session, which didn't have much impact on others.

After all, finding demons also took time.

For normal Martial Arts Students at No. 14 Middle School, most were at the First Dragon Gate to Three Dragon Gate level, with Three Dragon Gate being considered advanced. When they went for training, managing to kill two demons in a day was considered good.

Moreover, practical training wasn't something they did every day. As a guiding teacher, he also paid attention to the students' rest intervals, allowing them to digest their martial arts and improve their Blood Essence in between.

The duration of one practical training session was maintained for a long period.

Thinking this, he sighed. "You've cleared out the training grounds, and it's ended early. This is also why I'm looking for you. Let's discuss this: in future training, can you hold back a bit? The school's training grounds aren't an ATM; their original purpose was for students to gain experience."

The generation of training grounds was due to natural resource points like mountains, forests, and lakes overflowing with natural demons. However, considering the ecosystem, they couldn't be completely cleared. Clearing them periodically was time-consuming and labor-intensive, so they let the students do it.

At the students' pace, it was just right to maintain a good cycle with the birth rate of demons in the training grounds, while also allowing students to hone their abilities. It was a win-win situation.

Over time, it gradually developed into a rule.

However, a long time ago, the mortality rate for Martial Arts Students was quite high. It's just that in recent years, technology has also become powerful, and they have gained the strength to control the number of these demons, so it gradually evolved into intentionally releasing demons for students to train.

Training Points are for all-around development, from knowledge to tracking, from reaction to martial arts, including team cooperation and individual courage, all grow through training.

But now Li Ye has ruined it.

The others served no training purpose at all.

In terms of martial arts, Li Ye defeating Xiang Feipeng was acceptable; it could be said he had powerful martial arts, perhaps with a good burst of strength. But being able to single-handedly wipe out a training point was terrifying.

At Middle School Fourteen, only the invited Fu Chuxue could achieve this, which is why she didn't participate in training.

Now, there's Li Ye.

Li Ye heard this and said, "I also completed the training on my own. If you ask me to stop, who will make up for the part I'm missing? I also need cultivation resources. Teacher Gu, you probably don't know, but my family is just ordinary. My current level is entirely due to my own efforts."

It's not that training points can't be given up, but the premise is that his interests cannot be harmed.

He also needs to cultivate, so he won't concede an inch.

"Alright, I knew you wouldn't agree. Then we'll propose a second plan."

Gu Yang rubbed his temples. "For students like you, who are ahead in their Breakthrough Realm path and are considered to not need training by default, the school has another solution."

"After discussions last night, the school has specifically permitted you to not participate in training. Instead, each time training occurs, we will compensate you with four hundred points based on the current amount, how about that?"

"We can do that?" Li Ye asked.

"There's no precedent for students like you. Apart from martial arts competitions, you don't have to participate in anything else. If you perform well in the martial arts competition, the rewards will be calculated separately, and we guarantee they will be generous."

With this kind of strength, participating in the martial arts competition would certainly be no problem.

Li Ye narrowed his eyes slightly, calculating in his mind, then he looked up. "That's not right. I remember this Dragon Mountain training point started before the summer break, and it usually ends before the martial arts competition."

"Next week is the district martial arts competition, in December is the city competition, and in April is the provincial competition. The training finishes right before the summer break. The Dragon Mountain training was also selected in April. Excluding the two months of summer vacation, there's still a long time for training."

"The training ended early, but there were still over eighty points worth of content. If you look carefully, there should be some more. Calculating it as 100 points is reasonable. But what about May and June? It's impossible for it to be less than a week, right? I'll calculate it as 200 points per month, which is acceptable. Considering everything, you can't just give me 400 points."

Li Ye held up two fingers. "I don't want anything else. Give me six hundred Nutrient Solutions per training session, and thirty thousand yuan, and I won't participate."

After finishing his calculations, Li Ye was fearless.

As for being expelled...

Don't be ridiculous.

Li Ye wasn't a real seventeen or eighteen-year-old student who could be scared off; he had backing.

Besides, getting 100 points in a day wasn't his limit; it was the limit of the number of training demons. If he were to start from scratch, he could still achieve it in a day.

If this record got out, Middle School Fourteen might not want him, but plenty of other schools would.

Moreover, according to the rules, it was rightfully his. Why should he concede anything?

And he only wanted Nutrient Solutions. This shouldn't be too difficult for the school to provide. As for the thirty thousand yuan... six hundred points is three million. He was the main player, with a 10% premium, so thirty thousand yuan was also deserved.

Not a single cent was something he shouldn't have received.

It was reasonable and fair.