The senior students robbed to tears
In the dense forest, scattered sunlight filters through the leaves, casting dappled patterns on the ground covered with fallen leaves, giving the entire forest a slightly dreamlike appearance.
The Fire Energy Hunting Competition has begun.
Meanwhile, the five teams of senior students, totaling twenty-five people, had spread throughout the entire forest.
In fact, the annual Fire Energy Hunting Competition is a perk for the returning students.
After all, how much real ability can a student who has just passed the Inner Academy Selection Tournament possibly possess?
Compared to the seasoned veterans in the Inner Academy, the freshmen are still too inexperienced!
This naturally refers to their strength!
Therefore, every year, countless senior students sign up to participate in the Fire Energy Hunting Competition.
Because this is their chance to openly and legitimately seize Fire Energy!
Besides, they all basically went through the same thing back then, so naturally they want to take good care of their juniors now.
And that's the main reason!
But how much Fire Energy a newborn possess?
That little bit of Fire Energy was nothing more than a drop in the ocean for them.
The reason these senior students are so eager to sign up for the Fire Energy Hunting Competition is because they want to pass on their past experiences to the younger generation, right?
Perhaps this gives them a sense of pleasure?
Therefore, the senior students who sign up for the Fire Energy Hunting Competition are usually not on the Inner Academy Strong Ranking.
Because they disdain doing such things!
Meanwhile, the lower-level students in the Inner Academy, who are less capable, will not sign up for the sake of fearing a disastrous failure and losing face.
Therefore, those who sign up to participate in this kind of thing are basically those in the Inner Academy whose strength is neither high nor low.
In addition, it's possible that news of Xiao Yan's earlier instant kill of Zhou Kang, who was Two-Star Dou Ling, reached the Inner Academy.
This also resulted in the veterans participating in the Fire Energy Hunting Competition in this life being significantly stronger than those in the Original Work.
But that's all...
"Bang"
"Boom!"
A loud bang echoed through the forest.
"Hey, another team taken down!"
Xiao Yan loosened the muscles in his hands and walked over to the five senior students who were lying on the ground.
"Damn it, how could such a thing happen?"
"Am I dreaming?"
"I've been in the Inner Academy for three years now, haven't I? I'm not a freshman anymore, am I?"
"I was robbed when I was a freshman, so why am I still the one who got robbed now?"
"Who exactly is a freshman?"
The five senior students, lying on the ground unable to get up, could only silently gaze at the heavens.
They all felt an urge to cry!
Just as they said, as senior students, they signed up for this Fire Energy Hunting Competition to snatch up new students!
Now look what's happened, they've been robbed instead!
Is there any justice in this world?
Is there no law left?
"Ah, seniors, why do you all make such faces? I suppose you were already prepared for us to take our Fire Energy back before you even tried to steal it from us?"
Xiao Yan shrugged and smiled easily.
However, his words were undoubtedly a devastating blow to the five senior students lying on the ground!
No, they weren't prepared to be robbed at all!
However unwilling they may be, the current situation is beyond their control; what can they do?
Sure enough, a group of malicious freshmen have now surrounded the five senior students, grinning maliciously, which has caused them great psychological trauma!
Finally, the five senior students tearfully handed over their Fire Crystal Card, allowing Xiao Yan and his group to swipe away half of their Fire Energy.
To be honest, the senior student has a lot of Fire Energy!
Even though Xiao Yan and his group only used half of the Fire Energy Card from each senior student, when distributed equally among the new students who followed him, each student would still receive at least six or seven points.
It should be noted that apart from Xiao Yan and the other top ten freshmen in the Inner Academy Selection Tournament, the remaining freshmen each only had ten Fire Energy when they entered the academy!
Now that their assets have increased by more than half, how could the new students not be happy?
To tell this story, we have to start from the beginning.
After the Elder from the Inner Academy announced the start of the Fire Energy Hunting Competition, five teams, totaling twenty-five senior students, went into the forest to lie in ambush.
Because of the uproar caused when Xiao Yan and his two companions entered the academy, five of the twenty-five senior students possessed four to Six-Star Dou Ling, making them the captains of the five teams.
Of the remaining people, there are ten Dou Ling who are at the first to Three-Star Dou Venerable!
Even the ten weakest senior students possessed the cultivation level of a late-stage Da Dou Shi.
It's no exaggeration to say that even though they are outnumbered, these 25 senior students would absolutely crush the freshmen except for Xiao Yan, Xun'er, and Nalan Yanran!
For this reason, unlike previous years, most of the fifty freshmen who passed the Inner Academy Selection Tournament this year chose to stick together with Xiao Yan after his suggestion!
After all, if the others didn't follow Xiao Yan and encountered a group of senior students, they were guaranteed to get robbed!
Of course, a small number of freshmen still choose to be lone wolves.
Part of this is related to certain students on the Inner Academy's Strong Ranking. Basically, as long as they mention the name of the person they rely on, these senior students, out of fear, will not try to seize their Fire Energy.
For example, there's one called Bai Shan.
In addition, some people wanted to take advantage of the chaos, thinking they could evade the senior students' detection and quietly compete for a ranking in the Inner Academy.
After excluding these people, there were still about forty new students following Xiao Yan.
With his own strength, Xiao Yan successfully became the captain of the group!
And so, with nearly forty people, they continued their advance.
Just now, they were the third senior team to snatch the ball from the field!
As for Xiao Yan, those who follow him will at least get a sip of soup if he gets a bite of meat!
Sure enough, after he robbed the three groups of senior students who were blocking his way, he immediately distributed all the Fire Energy he had taken from the senior students equally among the students who followed him.
Xiao Yan's actions directly won him the hearts of these new followers!
Therefore, if nothing unexpected happens, once they enter the Inner Academy, these new students will be Xiao Yan's biggest base if he wants to establish a force!
Normally, freshmen in the same year, as long as there isn't any major friction, will have a good relationship after entering the Inner Academy.
Now that Xiao Yan has pulled this stunt, he has gathered more than 80% of the freshmen in this year's class around him!
After all, even with Xiao Yan's current strength, he would be considered close to the upper echelons within the Inner Academy.
If he were to establish a power base, based on the camaraderie among the freshmen and the favor Xiao Yan had shown him, these freshmen would definitely prioritize Xiao Yan if they wanted to join a particular faction!
Xun'er and Nalan Yanran, who witnessed all of this, were secretly happy for Xiao Yan.
Xiao Yu also looked at Xiao Yan with a complex yet admiring gaze.
"Alright, let's go find the next group of returning students!"
After returning the half-scraped Fire Crystal Card to the senior student who was lying on the ground with tears streaming down his face, Xiao Yan spoke.
Therefore, no one objected!
Xiao Yan's prestige among these new students is now terrifyingly high!
Afterwards, Xiao Yan and his group continued forward, searching for the last two groups of senior students!
As for those who remained, only five senior students were left with increasingly vacant eyes.
Oh, right, before this, the senior students in the other two teams were in the same situation...