"Boss, everyone's here. All the Da Dou Shi from this year's freshmen are here."
Yuwen Chengji spoke up beside Su Yun.
Su Yun glanced at the group; there were only seventeen people in total, not many, but enough.
"I won't go into anything else; they should have already told you everything. Just follow my instructions from now on, and you'll receive Purple Heart Barrier-Breaking Pill as your reward afterward."
Upon hearing about the Purple Heart Barrier-Breaking Pill, everyone's eyes lit up. Pills that enhance strength have always been priceless, and now they could obtain them for free. Their eyes were filled with barely suppressed excitement.
Looking at the students with shining eyes, Su Yun knew that none of his men had failed to explain things clearly or uphold the rules.
Now that the rules are established, things become much easier.
Su Yun raised his hand and waved it, and a bunch of Soul Tool turrets appeared in front of everyone.
"Come, I'll teach you a new skill. It's called: Artillery Barrage."
"Sigh, it's the same every year with freshmen. They're all so amazing in the Outer Academy, but once they get to the Inner Academy, they realize they're weaklings. Tsk tsk, how boring."
"Exactly, it's the same every year. I wonder when they'll come up with something new."
No sooner had the senior student in the Inner Academy finished speaking than the new trick he had been hoping for appeared: it seemed as if a new batch of stars had appeared in the sky sometime during the night.
"Hmm? These stars are pretty. Wait, why do they seem to be getting bigger?"
"No, that's not a star! It's a sneak attack! Defend! Defend now!"
At the command of the senior student leading the group, all the senior students conjured up Dou Qi Armor to resist the sudden attack.
It wasn't that they didn't want to dodge, but the intensity of the artillery fire made it impossible for them to avoid it.
After a barrage of bombardments, before they even knew where the enemy was, they were met with a second wave of Artillery Barrage.
"Damn it, these freshmen have no sportsmanship! They actually tried to cheat and ambush us upperclassmen!"
"Find those guys right now, I'm going to teach them a lesson!"
I was so angry I could scream, but I couldn't find anyone after searching for ages.
Because this is a competition between students, Su Yun's Soul Tool are very limited in power, trading range for power to ensure that the rays from the Soul Tool won't kill anyone.
Of course, they won't kill anyone in one go. If they keep going, the academy's elders will have to step in, and then these senior students will naturally be eliminated.
It would be perfectly natural for Su Yun to go and collect the spoils of war at that time.
As for those senior students coming to confront Su Yun, they are seriously underestimating Su Yun's soul perception ability.
With his exceptionally strong soul perception, Su Yun was always the one doing the beating, and no one else had the chance to find Su Yun and launch a counterattack.
As the Black Fiend Team were gradually worn Dou Qi by the relentless barrage of fire, Elder Su Qian remained silent for a long time.
"From now on, add a rule to the Fire Energy Hunting Competition: you're not allowed to use weird weapons to beat up senior students through sneak attacks."
"Yes, Elder, how about this year's Fire Energy Hunting Competition...?"
"No need. It's his skill to get his hands on things that no one else has ever seen before. It might not be a bad thing to put the trainees through some special situations."
After Su Qian finished speaking, she silently shook her head. "Forget it, let's not add that rule. It's not necessarily a bad thing for some freshmen to have some special methods. Although this way we won't be able to educate the freshmen, thinking about it carefully, it's not a bad thing to educate the upperclassmen."
"..."
The elder beside Su Qian remained silent, saying nothing.
Su Qian doesn't come to watch every freshman competition, but he has always been in charge of the Fire Energy Hunting Competition for freshmen entering the Inner Academy.
Su Qian said that it would be right to educate these senior students, let them learn some new things, and understand that there are always people more capable than themselves.
The problem is with these senior students. If he remembers correctly, just last year, they were brutally beaten up by the previous year's senior students, who then stole their Fire Energy.
Last year, seniors were Fire Energy of freshmen; this year, freshmen are Fire Energy of seniors. It sounds fair enough, but...
The elder sighed, then said nothing more, concluding that these senior students were just unlucky.
With the Black Fiend Team eliminated, only the White Fiend Team remained, struggling to hold on, and the Fire Energy Hunting Competition quickly came to an end.
Nothing unexpected happened, and many of the methods Su Yun had prepared were not even needed.
Su Yun had initially thought there might be a head-on confrontation, but it turned out Su Yun was overthinking it. There was no direct confrontation at all; they simply wore down their opponent little by little with artillery fire.
After the battle, Su Yun personally received the benefits of the Azure Fire Crystal Card, while the others were each given an additional fifty days of Fire Energy as a reward.
Of course, Su Yun conveniently collected all the other people's Fire Energy items.
The exchange of elixirs for Fire Energy was agreed upon from the beginning, and no one had any objections to it.
After the Fire Energy Hunting Competition ended, it was time for the part Su Yun was most looking forward to.
After a day of rest, without any hesitation, Su Yun headed to the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower where the Fallen Heart Flame was located.
As soon as I arrived at the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower, a burning pain shot through my chest.
"Ugh, this is burning my heart!"
"But that's exactly the feeling I wanted."
Strands of Dou Qi, under Su Yun's control, passed through the energy reflected by the Fallen Heart Flame. Before long, the negligible energy reflected in Su Yun's body by the Fallen Heart Flame was completely consumed.
After that feeling subsided, Su Yun strode towards the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower and chose a good spot.
No one bothered them along the way, because Su Yun was dressed in an alchemist's robes to avoid any unnecessary trouble.
Sitting cross-legged in a good spot on the first level of the Blazing Sky Artifact Refining Tower, feeling his Dou Qi become even purer after Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower, Su Yun couldn't help but smile.
The speed of cultivation here is much faster than his normal cultivation, and this is only the first level. As long as he continues to get used to it, going to the lower levels, it wouldn't be a big deal for him to reach the Dou Wang level within three years.
After twelve hours of cultivation, Su Yun's Fire Crystal Card popped out of its slot, and the Fallen Heart Flame energy that had been continuously appearing in Su Yun's body also disappeared.
Opening his eyes, Su Yun took out a mirror from his Storage Ring, preparing to check the extent to which Fire Energy was corroding his body.
But to Su Yun's surprise, he couldn't find the slightest trace of Fire Energy in his eyes.
His gaze casually swept across the eyes of the others, and in the depths of their eyes, one could clearly see a trace of Fire Energy.
But Su Yun didn't leave a single trace of Fire Energy.
Looking inward, Su Yun discovered that the Snow Empress's Snow Pill was emitting a faint chilling aura, suppressing all the Fire Energy within Su Yun Su Yun's body that was trying to interfere with him.