Xiao Yan's batch of new students had been in the Inner Academy for four days.
Everyone was still familiarizing themselves with everything in the Inner Academy.
The news of Xiao Yan leading the new students in robbing the older students had also spread throughout the Inner Academy.
However, Xiao Yan's thorny behavior had thoroughly enraged the older students of the Inner Academy.
Thus, over the past three days, older-student factions had come to demand tribute fees from the new students.
The tribute fee demanded from the new students was not much—two days of Fire Energy per person.
After learning that this was a rule of the Inner Academy, the new students did not resist too strongly. Wincing, they handed over the "money" to avoid trouble.
But what happened next was something the new students could not tolerate.
After the first older-student faction received tribute from the new students, the other factions followed one after another to collect tribute fees as well.
This clearly did not conform to the rules of the Inner Academy. The older students were deliberately causing trouble, using this to suppress the soaring morale of the new students.
Faced with one older-student faction after another coming to collect fees, the new students naturally could not obediently pay them.
Otherwise, with over a thousand older students and nearly twenty factions in the Inner Academy, if every faction came to collect a round of tribute fees, even all twenty-five days of Fire Energy possessed by the new students would not be enough.
The new students, whose spirit of resistance had been roused by Xiao Yan, were hardly the sort to let others bully them.
On the second day, forty-five new students found Xiao Yan, pushed him forward as their leader, and established a new-student faction.
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