A few minutes earlier.
"What's going on with A-Shan? I told him to chase a new student. Why hasn't he come back after so long? Don't tell me he let him get away?"
In the dense forest, after robbing the four members of the brawny man's group of their fire energy, the black-clad young man frowned when he realized Qiu Shan had yet to return.
"Ye Ge, should we go take a look? Maybe someone else snatched the 'prey,' and A-Shan is confronting them right now!"
A young man suggested.
"Mm, alright. Let's go take a look."
The black-clad young man, Ye Ge, nodded.
"Humph! You new students had better behave yourselves from now on. The Inner Academy is a place that eats people alive!"
Having made up his mind, Ye Ge snorted coldly and kicked the brawny man to the ground again. As he spoke, he led the three young men beside him toward the direction Qiu Shan had left in earlier.
"Pah! You despicable bastards, you'll get what's coming to you!"
The brawny man was kicked hard enough to break out in a cold sweat, rolling about on the ground. Yet as he watched Ye Ge and the others leave, he still spat out a mouthful of blood-tinged saliva and gritted out furiously.
Although they had not taken much fire energy from the brawny man's group, Ye Ge and the others were all in high spirits.
After all, they had finally made their first score and gotten off to a good start.
Activating their movement techniques, the four swiftly flitted across the treetops, tracking Qiu Shan in the direction he had gone.
Following the footprints on the ground, the four quickly reached their destination.
But from afar, they saw Qiu Shan kneeling on the ground before two