Grand Elder Su Qian watched as dozens of students darted into the dense forest. Only after another four or five minutes did he give a slight wave to the twenty or so older students, signaling that they could move.
Seeing this, the group of older students beamed with delight and scrambled after them into the forest behind, afraid someone else would snatch their prey first.
The older students willing to lower themselves and take part in the Fire Energy Hunting Competition mostly shared two traits.
First, they were poor.
Second, within the Inner Academy, both their strength and status were utterly unremarkable.
Even the Black White Twin Devils Team stationed at the end of the forest, those two Dou Ling experts, were not particularly outstanding among the Inner Academy's Dou Ling ranks. They belonged to the very ordinary sort.
Otherwise, there were plenty of ways to earn Fire Energy in the Inner Academy, and the stronger one was, the easier it became. There was no need to set their sights on this group of new students. Not only would it draw criticism, it could easily make enemies.
"You go as well. Keep a closer eye on things," Su Qian said to the Middle-aged Men behind him.
Although he had already warned them not to let any lives be lost.
Once a fight truly broke out, however, a group of hot-blooded young people in the prime of their arrogance could still very easily lose their heads.
So it was necessary to have a few supervisors who could oversee the overall situation.
The Middle-aged Men nodded slightly and immediately headed into the forest.
With that, only Grand Elder Su Qian, Qin Elder, and the Outer Academy's Vice Dean Hu Gan remained in the field.
"What is that boy's background?"
Su Qian looked