The Inner Academy of Jia Nan Academy offered a five-year course. Outstanding students who wished to stay could remain for up to another two years to cultivate more quickly.
The benefits of cultivating inside the [Skyburner Qi Refining Tower], which relied on the fallen heart flame, had every student flocking to it like ducks to water.
But both the spaces available and the benefits of cultivating inside the tower were limited. Coupled with the rather fierce disposition of the Inner Academy students, this meant impromptu sparring matches broke out from time to time.
During the two months since Xiao Yan and his companions had entered the Inner Academy, they had encountered plenty of such incidents, though they had managed to avoid most of them.
Overall, this was good news for Xiao Yan.
If he wanted to plot a way to obtain the fallen heart flame, the Skyburner Qi Refining Tower was his best avenue.
Besides... after entering the Inner Academy, Qing Lin had given him, Xiao Xun'er, and the other students who had entered alongside them quite a surprise.
They had thought a fifth-rank magical beast was only absurdly overpowered in the Outer Academy. As it turned out, it was absurdly overpowered in the Inner Academy too...
"Junior Sister Qing Lin, is your Pan Gate still recruiting?"
A senior female student who had enrolled a few years before them asked Qing Lin with an ingratiating smile.
"Go ask Sister Xun'er and Brother Xiao Yan! Why are you asking me?"
Qing Lin was so sick of being asked that she was starting to want to unleash her lion and let him bite people.
She had come to the Inner Academy to investigate powerful magical beasts, yet she could find out nothing here. Whenever she asked where powerful magical beasts could be