After driving off the senior students who had come to cause trouble, Xiao Yan entered the Pavilion with Xiao Xun'er and the others to discuss the Flame Alliance's development.
The Flame Alliance would earn Fire Energy through alchemy, which meant its members would need to hunt Magical Beasts for Magic Cores and medicinal ingredients;
New students alone would not be enough for the Flame Alliance. It also needed senior students, who understood the Inner Academy's rules better and were more familiar with its surroundings;
At the same time, the Flame Alliance needed to grow its own medicinal ingredients, establishing a Medicinal Field it could draw on continually and reducing the need for future expeditions.
Bai Cheng and the others had little experience and no ideas of their own. Hearing Xiao Yan's plans, they followed his lead and decided to try them out. They were still young and had plenty of room to make mistakes.
Word spread of the senior students' defeat, the new students' strength, and Xiao Yan's status as a Fourth-Rank Alchemist. The senior students were badly shaken, and for the time being, no faction came to harass them.
The next day, Xiao Yan brought out Blue Eagle and flew with Xiao Xun'er, Xiao Yi Xian, and Han Yue toward the Inner Academy's most important location: the Burning Heaven Qi Refining Tower.
Han Yue said worriedly, "The senior students took quite a beating yesterday. I'm afraid they won't let it go. Alliance Leader, is it all right for us to leave?"
Xiao Yan said, "It's precisely because they won't let it go that we need to improve our strength as quickly as possible. We gained so much Fire Energy from the Fire-Energy Hunting Competition. If we don't use it in the Burning Heaven Qi Refining Tower, the senior students