"So you're the little bastard who completed the Monkey Wine mission but only handed over a portion."
Elder Mu's eyes lit up. He reached out and curled his fingers, drawing the wine flask from Xu Yang's hand through the air, then immediately took a swig.
"Good wine! If I could enter Jade Dragon Mountain, I'd clean out every drop of Monkey Wine those little monkeys had."
Xu Yang's interest stirred. "Your cultivation reaches heaven and earth. Surely a mere Jade Dragon Mountain couldn't stop you?"
"That's where you're wrong. If I could enter Jade Dragon Mountain, there'd be no need to post missions for you youngsters to fetch this Monkey Wine."
Apparently unwilling to discuss it further, Elder Mu waved a hand. "What arts do you want to exchange for? Give me your tokens."
Xu Yang stopped asking and stepped forward to hand over all his tokens.
"What have you been doing these past six months, brat? How did you get so many academic credits?" Elder Mu's eyes widened.
Even a Spirit Bone Prodigy like Qi Ning couldn't possibly accumulate so many academic credits in half a year.
Xu Yang held nothing back, explaining how Ma Daxing had ambushed him, only to be killed instead, and how he had collected the bounty.
"Young Master Jade... that's probably the brat from the Han Family."
Elder Mu's gaze chilled. "You left no one alive, brat. You've landed yourself in serious trouble."
Xu Yang's pupils contracted slightly. "Han Yu?"
"That's right. Only that brat would dare set his sights on the Heavenly Strategy Academy's Blackwater Spirit Loach King." Elder Mu nodded.
Xu Yang had never met Han Yu, but he had heard the name-or rather, seen it on the Heavenly Strategy Wind and Cloud Rankings.
The man had once ranked fourth on the