How New Students Normally Enter the Inner Academy

Watching the five of them leave with heavy thoughts, Hu Gan nodded in satisfaction.

"That's more like it. You have to be nervous. Once you reach the Inner Academy, I just hope you won't be scared silly by the Strong Ranking, which is full of Dou Wang experts~"

Who could have imagined that five powerful students who surpassed Dou Ling could exist in the Inner Academy at the same time?

The strongest of them had already broken through to Dou Emperor a year ago. Who knew what level he had reached by now?

If this old bag of bones really fought that brat, he might not necessarily be able to beat him.

Two days later, the top fifty contestants of this Inner Academy Selection Tournament arrived at the Inner Academy, located deep within the Magic Beast Forest, under the protection of the academy's many experts.

A quarter of an hour later, as they watched this year's new students obediently follow the rules of the Fire Energy Hunting Competition and hurry into that stretch of forest, the old students finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Looks like this year's Fire Energy Hunting Competition can proceed normally. It's only been a year, yet this old man actually misses a normal Fire Energy Hunting Competition. Hahaha..."

Watching the old students head toward the forest on the other side as well, the elders in charge of this Fire Energy Hunting Competition could not help but relax. They chatted and laughed with Hu Gan and the others, who had yet to leave.

Compared to the brutish behavior of those two monsters, who robbed new and old students alike at every turn, this normal Fire Energy Hunting Competition seemed so much more interesting.

"Alas, this batch of old students lived through the era of Great Oppression. Their strength is clearly a cut above that of the old students from the previous few years. I hope these new students can handle them."

"Indeed. The old students' average strength has reached four- and five-star Da Dou Shi. They're almost on par with the top five new students of this year..."

While the elders were talking, some new students had already run into old students, and a very brief battle broke out.

The result was far from pleasant.

Elsewhere, the top five new students of this year had already reached a preliminary agreement to cooperate, and they clashed with a team of old students.

Geniuses truly deserved to be called geniuses. Even though those old students had an age advantage and their cultivation was not much weaker, they still lost to these five most outstanding new students.

After a mixture of threats and inducements, the five learned some information about the Inner Academy from the old students.

What did it mean that there were several Dou Wang experts in the Inner Academy?

What was the indiscriminate era of Great Oppression?

What was the Inner Academy's One Emperor Four Kings structure?

All this talk of Dou Wang and Dou Emperor experts put enormous pressure on these Da Dou Shi.

"Fortunately, the three great fiends are focused on cultivation, and the two established powerhouses are busy chasing after them. We don't need to worry about facing Dou Wang experts the moment we enter the Inner Academy."

Xiao Yan breathed a sigh of relief. Unless necessary, he did not want to meet that unfathomable Senior Wu Yong.

Before leaving the Outer Academy, Mentor Ruolin had told him and Xun Er that if they truly had no other choice, they could seek help from their senior.

At that moment, Xiao Xun Er, whose thoughts had always been on her Brother Xiao Yan, was also deeply shocked by how terrifying the Inner Academy's geniuses were.

"Brother Xiao Yan is right. As long as we stick together, we still have a chance against those old students."

"Xun Er is right!"

Hu Jia, who liked women, nodded. As long as they were not expected to stubbornly fight those monsters, she did not mind anything else.

The other two boys nodded as well. If these old students were all at this level, they still had a considerable chance of getting through this Fire Energy Hunting Competition.

If things could really continue developing so smoothly...

Night fell. After they encountered the Black Sha Team and one of them was scared off by the Black Sha Team's terrifying strength, the most outstanding members of this batch of new students met their first obstacle after entering the Inner Academy.

Even if they paid a considerable price to overcome the Black Sha Team, their first obstacle, many more obstacles would follow one after another.

The White Sha Team, an old-student organization that collected tribute fees from new students...

One trump card after another was forced into the open. The united new students formed a new-student organization, and this group of new students finally gained an initial foothold in the Inner Academy.

However, to truly survive in the Inner Academy—and live well—they needed to increase income and reduce expenditure.

Fire Energy in particular was coveted by countless students in the Inner Academy.

The establishment of a new faction would inevitably impact the Inner Academy's original balance. Intentionally or otherwise, it would also affect the interests of other old-student organizations.

There were no eternal enemies in this world, only eternal interests.

Opposing sides driven into conflict by profit existed everywhere.

The new-student organization established by Xiao Yan and the others currently relied on selling pills refined by Xiao Yan as its main source of Fire Energy.

Unfortunately, there was already an organization in the Inner Academy that similarly traded pills for Fire Energy.

Thus, Xiao Yan had only just finished refining pills and had not cultivated in the Tianfen Qi Refining Tower for long before his cultivation was interrupted again.

In less than two months since entering the Inner Academy, Xiao Yan and his fellow new students had already faced three waves of pressure from old students.

And this was how new students normally entered the Inner Academy.

It was absolutely not about some monster appearing among the new students and crazily oppressing every single one of them, forcing new and old students to unite...

Perhaps Xiao Yan's group of new students was especially resilient, drawing the interest of quite a few old students~

The old students who had originally had no interest in bullying these new students—especially those who, because of the previous two eras of "Great Oppression," had never taken part in such things—saw such interesting new students and suddenly found their hands itching...

With the appearance of a seven-star peak Dou Ling old student, Xiao Yan defeated him at the cost of severe injuries.

Only then did this new-student organization finally earn a place in the Inner Academy.

"These three months have been the most exciting three months I've ever experienced..."

Lying in bed, Xiao Yan sighed with emotion. The competition in the Inner Academy was truly too intense, so intense that even he was struggling to bear it.

"There's no helping it. Those monsters oppressed the old students too badly. Even an eight-star Dou Ling joined in. Luckily, Student Xun Er stepped in."

Wu Hao sighed. Hu Jia was next door caring for the equally weak and bedridden Xun Er, while he was caring for Xiao Yan. This counted as a kind of tacit understanding between them.

"Exactly. Only after truly entering the Inner Academy can one understand how intense the competition is now. I heard that eight-star Dou Ling only ranked twenty-ninth on the Strong Ranking!?"

Xiao Yan was almost beginning to doubt his life. Just how badly had these old students been oppressed to be driven this far?

Nine-star Dou Ling could not even make the top ten, while eight-star Dou Ling could not make the top twenty. How absurdly competitive had this become?!

If he did not have a Di-tier Dou Technique as his trump card, he truly would not have been able to deal with these old students at all.

Two days later, Xiao Yan's injuries had initially healed when he heard that the two recently advanced Dou Wang experts in the Inner Academy were going to fight.

Ignoring his injuries, Xiao Yan brought everyone to the Inner Academy arena, eagerly awaiting the coming Dou Wang battle.