Return to the Gama Empire! A Glorious Homecoming!

Return to the Gama Empire! A Glorious Homecoming!

Host: Jiang Han

Age: 21

Appearance: Unprecedented

Figure: One of a kind

Cultivation: Peak Dou Huang

Other: Extreme Blade Three Styles, Godslayer

Once everything was over, Jiang Han left the cave in great satisfaction and swiftly returned to the plaza.

"Here he goes again."

Noticing Jiang Han take his seat, Hu Qian sighed helplessly.

However.

After waiting left and right, he never received Jiang Han's gaze.

The other man was enthusiastically chatting with Teacher Ruo Lin, laughing and talking away.

"Teacher Ruo Lin, what are the requirements for becoming an Inner Courtyard Elder?" Jiang Han suddenly changed the subject amid their banter.

Ruo Lin looked at Jiang Han in surprise. "Don't tell me you're already thinking about a promotion!"

"I was just asking." Jiang Han laughed it off.

If he had known where the Inner Courtyard entrance was, then with his current strength, he could have slipped inside unnoticed.

Then, he could disguise himself as a new Inner Courtyard student and conceal his identity until he achieved his great objective.

"Becoming an Inner Courtyard Elder is the ultimate goal of us Outer Courtyard teachers."

Ruo Lin's eyes were filled with longing. "Unfortunately, ninety-nine percent of teachers can only remain in the Outer Courtyard for their entire lives. Without some opportunity, I probably won't be able to become an Inner Courtyard Elder either."

At this point, Ruo Lin stared at Jiang Han. "But with your talent, your chances are still quite good. First, you need to serve in the Outer Courtyard for a full year. Second, you need to advance to become a Dou Wang."

"Once you meet those two requirements, you can apply to the Dean."

Finally, Teacher Ruo Lin gave Jiang Han an encouraging gesture.

"Then there are still eleven months left."

Jiang Han calculated the time.

As for the second condition, he had already far surpassed a Dou Wang.

Time was like sand slipping through one's fingers, and another month passed before he knew it.

Over that month, Jiang Han had thoroughly made his presence known. In the Outer Courtyard, he had become a household name.

He was no longer afraid of becoming famous; he was only afraid that no one would know how diligently he worked.

What if, when he applied to become an Inner Courtyard Elder a year later, Vice Dean Hu rejected him on the grounds that he spent every day slacking off?

"Jiang Han, take care on your journey."

That day, Teacher Ruo Lin bid Jiang Han farewell somewhat reluctantly.

"Tell those little ones that I'll be back soon."

After two months together, Jiang Han and Ruo Lin's friendship had reached another level.

With that, Jiang Han turned and leaped onto a gryphon, flying away into the distance.

Seven days earlier, he had already informed Ruo Lin that he needed to return to the Gama Empire.

For his trip to Jia Nan Academy, Jiang Han had planned his targets in this order:

Vice Dean Hu Qian, Chief Grand Elder Su Qian, the Library Pavilion Thousand-Hundred Second Elder, and finally Jia Nan Academy's founder, Mang Tianchi.

During this process, Jiang Han also wanted to take a look at the Fallen Heart Flame.

After all, Strange Fire was an indispensable part of this world.

Whether it was Tou She Ancient God, the last Dou Di, or Xiao Yan, who would win the future battle of the two Dou Dis, their paths to becoming Dou Dis both involved fusing every Strange Fire.

Perhaps simply taking a look at a Strange Fire might bring him some unexpected gains.

At first, he had set his sights on the Fallen Heart Flame.

Unfortunately, he did not even know where the Inner Courtyard was.

Fortunately, after counting on his fingers, Medusa should have found the Azure Lotus Core Flame by now.

Jiang Han had traveled from the Gama Empire to Jia Nan Academy by horned horse, sightseeing along the way, and it had taken him more than a year.

But traveling back to the Gama Empire from Jia Nan Academy at full speed took only a month.

Along the way, as he passed through the Black-Corner Region, some fools had even drawn their blades at Jiang Han.

As for the outcome, those people naturally died by their own blades.

When passing through bustling areas, Jiang Han traveled discreetly. In uninhabited forests and mountains, he spread his wings and soared against the wind at full speed.

As the distance closed.

Ghost Suppression Pass, the border fortress at the westernmost edge of the Gama Empire, appeared in Jiang Han's sight.

"Things have changed, and so have people!"

Looking at the familiar, towering city walls of Ghost Suppression Pass, Jiang Han could not help but sigh.

For some reason, he found this slightly wistful sentiment incredibly satisfying.

The city walls were still the same, but he was no longer the Dou Ling youth who had left more than a year ago.

Jiang Han walked with unhurried steps, measuring the soil of his homeland with his feet.

That feeling of returning home in glory was truly...

"That's him!"

"The servant the Nalan Family offered a hundred thousand for!"

Before Jiang Han could even step into Ghost Suppression Pass, the sharp whistle of arrow feathers rang in his ears.

He looked up.

Countless stern guards had appeared atop the towering city walls.

At every firing port sat special heavy crossbows crafted from rare metals—the so-called Qi-Breaking Triple Crossbows, Divine Fire Bows, Soul-Piercing Arrows, and more.

Amid piercing whistles!

A dense rain of arrows shot toward Jiang Han like an enormous net blanketing the sky.

Every arrow was incomparably sharp, tearing through the air. Some were coated in deadly poison, while others were wrapped in raging flames.

A volley of ten thousand arrows!

Any Great Master Fighter, or even a Dou Ling, would have no chance of survival under such an assault.

That was because these specially crafted arrows could directly pierce a Great Master Fighter's Dou Qi Armor!

"Hm?"

Jiang Han was completely dumbfounded.

What was going on?

He treated his homeland like his first love, yet his homeland greeted him with a volley of arrows?

Before he had time to ask why, Jiang Han immediately released his Dou Qi, forming an impregnable suit of armor.

He felt no fear whatsoever. As his body shifted, he deftly dodged the arrows.

Arrow after arrow whistled past his body.

For those he truly could not avoid, Jiang Han simply let them strike his armor.

He did not feel a thing.

In fact, Jiang Han even somewhat enjoyed receiving this weighty love from his homeland.

He danced a waltz amid the arrows.

After every arrow had been fired, hundreds or even thousands of soldiers in military armor charged at Jiang Han from atop the walls and behind the city gates.

Jiang Han swept his gaze over them. The strongest among them was merely the general at their head.

He was only a nine-star Great Master Fighter.

To capture bandits, capture their leader first!

Jiang Han smiled and went to meet him.

With a slight movement of his feet, he appeared before the general like a ghost.

Then, his right palm shot out like lightning and lightly struck the man's chest.

Though the blow was as light as a feather to Jiang Han, to the general, it was like being struck by a ten-thousand-pound cauldron. His chest caved deeply inward on the spot.

A corpse deader than dead shot into the army of soldiers like a cannonball.

"The general is dead... dead!"

"The information on the wanted notice was wrong!"

"He's not a Great Master Fighter at all! He must be a Dou Ling!"

The soldiers nearest to the corpse turned deathly pale, every trace of color draining from their faces.

"Avenge the general!"

More than a dozen deputy generals with only Dou Master strength charged forward without fear of death. Holding long spears wreathed in faint Dou Qi light, they viciously thrust them toward Jiang Han's head, brimming with killing intent.

Jiang Han had no sympathy for their unwavering loyalty.

He kept killing.

He killed until the remaining soldiers recognized reality.