Watching the Contest

Lin Qing shook her head.

"No need. You just need to beat up those Inner Academy students during the Fire Energy Hunting Contest and take their Fire Energy. If you want, that's fine too!"

Building influence within the Inner Academy now wouldn't be of much use to him. If he wanted talent, he'd be better off cooperating directly with the academy and having them recommend people.

"Then I won't!"

Xiao Yi Xian nodded. If Lin Qing didn't need her, then she didn't need to care too much about him.

Two days later, Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin, along with more than forty other people, embarked on their journey to the Inner Academy.

After bidding farewell to Xiao Yu and the others, Lin Qing and Zi Yan followed the group and flew towards the Inner Academy.

However, the two of them flew alongside, rather than riding Griffin.

The vast forest is teeming with all sorts of Magical Beast. Every so often, a ferocious Magical Beast bursts out of the forest, roaring at the Griffin formations in the sky. Occasionally, some Flying Magical Beast will also come in pursuit.

Whenever these Magical Beast approached within a hundred meters of the formation, they would be frightened away by the aura of Hu Gan and the others, as well as the oppressive aura emanating from Lin Qing. Of course, some of the more cruel and less intelligent Magical Beast beasts would launch a death charge without fear of death.

They flew through a trail of blood mist, with all sorts of Flying Magical Beast charging towards them one after another, only to be killed. Fortunately, the high-level Magical Beast had gained intelligence and knew that the group was not someone they could mess with.

After nearly an hour of this almost brutal collision, the Griffin formation finally slowed down and stopped outside a bottomless ravine. Apart from the ravine, the rest of the area was still covered in endless greenery. This ravine was not far from the Inner Academy.

Upon seeing the formation stop, the trainees on the Griffin began to discuss amongst themselves. "What happened?"

"Aren't we going to the Inner Academy?"

"Landing!"

Hu Gan ignored the students' discussions, smiled and waved his hand. Then, ten Griffin, accompanied by shadows and gusts of wind, landed steadily on an open space.

"Wasn't this supposed to be the Inner Academy? Where is this?"

"Yes!"

Faced with the students' questions, Hu Gan smiled faintly, "The Inner Academy isn't so easy to get into."

Then, under everyone's gaze, he slowly walked forward for about ten steps, then stopped, waved his hand, and a burst of energy shot out from his hand, finally shooting towards the space in front of him. When the energy passed through a certain empty space, it brought up a series of ripples like water. These ripples fluctuated rapidly, and finally, a pale silver door that was seven or eight zhang tall appeared out of thin air!

This was the Spatial Barrier of the Inner Academy. Seeing this strange scene, everyone else was startled. Clearly, they had not expected that this seemingly ordinary place would hide such a mystery.

The silver gate, under everyone's watchful eyes, slowly opened with a crisp sound. The scene behind the gate was the same dense forest as before, seemingly no different from the forest they were looking at.

"So, Elder Lin, would you like to see the selection competition?"

Hu Gan turned around and looked at Lin Qing and Zi Yan with a smile. He knew that they were also people who liked to watch a good show, which could be seen from their suggestion to hold a large-scale free-for-all from now on.

"Haha, alright then, Vice Principal, Zi Yan and I will just keep you company from now on!"

Lin Qing chuckled.

He then entered the Inner Academy Barrier with Hu Gan and the others. After entering the Barrier, Lin Qing encountered old acquaintances, Elder Su and Elder Lei. The two of them were a little unstable, and the surrounding space was constantly distorting. Obviously, after so many years of accumulation and the Sect-Breaking Pill, the two of them had broken through from the Dou Emperor Peak to the One-Star Dou Ancestor. However, because they had just broken through, they could not perfectly conceal their aura.

Behind the two of them were several middle-aged instructors, and behind them were about twenty students from the Inner Academy.

"Elder Lin!" ×2

Elder Su and Elder Lei bowed to Lin Qing.

"Congratulations to the two elders! Your wish has finally come true!"

Lin Qing returned the greeting.

"Cough cough!"

Hu Gan to the side, coughed slightly, feeling a bit sore. He could let it go since his old friend hadn't noticed him; after all, he was just a Vice Principal, not comparable to Lin Qing, a Sixth-Grade Alchemist.

However, he didn't have any Sect-Breaking Pill, while some of his old colleagues who were originally at the Dou Emperor Peak, had obtained Sect-Breaking Pill and had already begun to break through, while he was still stuck at the Dou Emperor Peak.

He had already decided that he would go back and give his granddaughter another beating, and then gather the Medicinal Herb to ask Lin Qing to refine a Sect-Breaking Pill for him.

"Hey! Isn't this Old Hu? You're always so punctual! I trust you with escorting the new students. How are the new students this year?"

Elder Su and the other man also noticed Hu Gan to the side. Elder Su teased Hu Gan.

"Not bad, better than last year. Elder Lin's sister has reached the Dou Ling." Hu Gan smiled, unperturbed by Elder Su's teasing. "I didn't expect you two old folks to take this step first."

After speaking, Hu Gan beckoned to the five people, including Xiao Yi Xian. Once they were beside him, Hu Gan pointed to Elder Su and said, "These two are the Inner Academy elders, this one is Elder Su, and this one is Elder Lei."

Then he said to the five of them, "From now on, if you need anything in the Inner Academy, you can go to them. Of course, if either of you has family members, you can go to your own family members!"

The last sentence was addressed to Xiao Yi Xian and her companion, as well as the senior student behind them. The former meant she didn't want them to suffer any injustice, while the latter was a warning to them not to cause trouble.

Upon hearing Hu Gan's words, the older students who were about to whistle and tease him immediately became much more obedient.

"It seems the Inner Academy is going to be quite lively!" Elder Su stroked his beard and laughed. Although he didn't know much about Lin Qing's two younger sisters, one of them had reached the Dou Ling level, which qualified her to enter the top 100 of the Inner Academy's Strong Ranking. It had been many years since a freshman had entered the top 100, and that student eventually graduated as a Dou Emperor. That student could be considered the most outstanding graduate to date.

The other student, who is also so young, can be considered a prodigy, so it's a foregone conclusion that the two of them will surpass that student.

Then the two elders explained to the fifty people the benefits of the Inner Academy, the rules of Fire Energy and the Fire Energy Hunting Contest, as well as some rewards, and then announced the start of the competition.

After all the new students had entered the dense forest, more than ten minutes later, Elder Su waved to the senior students, who then rushed into the forest, scrambling to catch up with the new students.

The upperclassmen who signed up were basically there for the freshmen's Fire Energy or with the idea of beating up the younger students.

As the curtain rose, Lin Qing led Zi Yan to a spot to watch the play.