"This school training session is special preparation for the Tianshui City High School Fighting Tournament."
Their homeroom teacher, Qiu Xue, immediately said, "This training session is free. Those eligible to participate are mostly among the school's top ten students, and the two of you are among them."
"However, students can also pay a hefty fee to join this training session, though there can't be more than ten of them. That means there will be twenty people in total."
She held up two fingers.
"But, Teacher, I heard that students from other schools will be joining this training session too." Jiang Yaru was well informed; she had heard all sorts of rumors from her friends.
Qiu Xue nodded. "That's right. We're planning to go to Beast Island for the training, and the expenses are considerable. The cost would be far too high for a single school to bear.
"So the school administrators have joined forces with other middle schools. Ten schools in total are putting on this training session together, and students from those schools will be taking part too."
Ten schools?!
Xia Ping's eyes flickered. This was quite the undertaking. It really had been the right move to place well in the Fighting Tournament. Ordinary students would never have been eligible for training like this.
Sometimes, the path of martial arts was simply like that: the strong grew stronger, while the weak grew weaker. The resources and training available to the two groups were on entirely different levels, so the gap between them only widened.
"Since this training session will take place on Beast Island,"
Qiu Xue continued, "the island is home to all kinds of powerful, terrifying beasts. There's a certain degree of danger involved in training on such a remote island."
"So you must sign a liability waiver