Fang Biya

Over the past few days, many people had been exchanging their points for Bone Tempering Pills. Even the laziest among them would make an effort at a time like this. A few more people doing the same would never arouse anyone's suspicion.

So whenever Huo Hai went out, he secretly exchanged his points for all the Bone Tempering Pills he needed. It was a rare opportunity. Ordinarily, he could never have finished the job in a day or two. But with the challenge matches in full swing, no one thought anything of it even when the Academy ran temporarily short of the pills.

Huo Hai had also discovered the betting pool the Academy had opened. It was the Academy's first time running anything like it, so there was no rule against contestants placing bets. At the start, few people thought he could hold out until the end.

The odds had been quite generous back then. Huo Hai was short on points after the last Black Market auction, so he put every point he had on himself to win.

At first, the Academy clerk who took his bet thought he had made a tidy profit. Several days later, he was having second thoughts. If Huo Hai really held out to the end, the Academy would have to pay out hundreds of thousands of points. Even for the Academy, that was enough to hurt.

The Academy would not earn points from this betting pool. It would lose some instead, as though it had worked for the bettors for nothing. The clerk who had accepted Huo Hai's wager would probably be punished severely too.

On the tenth and final day, Huo Hai reached the open ground early in the morning. The night before, he had felt that his soul had fully recovered from