Three days later, outside Peace Town, Jia Nan Academy.
A young man was walking toward Peace Town; looking at his appearance, it was Xiao Ling.
Seeing Peace Town appear in his line of sight, Xiao Ling let out a long breath.
His tense nerves from the past few days finally relaxed slightly.
Xiao Ling’s past few days had not been easy.
On the way back, he frequently encountered people coming to assassinate and rob him.
This made Xiao Ling unable to relax for even a moment, resulting in extremely poor quality of rest.
He shook his head.
His strength was still too weak; if he were a Battle King or Battle Emperor, he would be able to walk through these places sideways.
Feeling the dozens of storage rings in his pocket, Xiao Ling couldn’t help but show a slight smile.
To ensure safety, these rings had not been sorted yet.
He muttered to himself, “Although the assets of Great Battle Masters and Battle Masters shouldn’t be much, with so many, I might be able to pull out some good things.
It feels like opening blind boxes.”
Without thinking more about miscellaneous things, Xiao Ling circulated his Battle Qi and sprinted toward the gates of Peace Town.
On this dirt road, there were many pedestrians.
These people were clearly coming from the Black Corner Region; they possessed a fierce aura that Xiao Ling was familiar with.
It was clear they had been tempered through the constant fighting and struggles of the Black Corner Region.
However, no matter how fierce these people were, within a hundred miles of Jia Nan Academy, they could only restrain their tempers.
Looking at these passersby, whose facial expressions became quite strange because they were trying hard to hide the killing intent in their hearts, Xiao Ling sighed in his heart.
“Jia Nan Academy’s prestige remains; people around here don’t dare to be presumptuous.” He shook his head and ignored them.
Following this dirt road lined with lush trees, Xiao Ling enjoyed the rare tranquility of the Black Corner Region and slowly approached the small town.
After running for a few minutes, Xiao Ling stopped at the entrance of the town.
He looked up at the plaque at the town gate.
The name was very ordinary and common; if it were placed in the Black Corner Region, it would probably be torn down by the next day.
“Peace Town.” This was the first small town one entered from the Black Corner Region into the surroundings of Jia Nan Academy!
Glancing at the crowd by the Dead Spirit Tree who were gasping in surprise at the corpses of Battle Kings and Battle Emperors, Xiao Ling stepped into Peace Town.
As soon as he entered the town, Xiao Ling saw a middle-aged man leading a dozen young men and women dressed in pale blue robes, recording identity data for those who had just entered Peace Town.
However, those passersby seemed very unwilling to swallow this pill.
In response, the middle-aged leader only let out a cold laugh and said, “Anyone entering Peace Town must report their identity, name, and so on.
Otherwise, they will be directly expelled.”
“In addition, you must swallow that pill, which is a type of pill refined by the academy’s Alchemy Department to sense killing intent.
Rest assured, it is not poison.
If you harbor killing intent within the town, the pill will emit a red light from your body.
Our Law Enforcement Team will follow the red light to find you, and you should know how my Jia Nan Academy deals with those who bring the habits of the Black Corner Region here…
When you plan to leave the town, you can go to the antidote distribution point in the center of town to receive the antidote.
However, as soon as the antidote is in hand, a Law Enforcement Team will supervise you all the way out of the town.”
“If you don’t swallow the pill, you can leave now.”
After explaining these rules, the middle-aged leader ignored the resisting passersby.
After all, Peace Town was not a place where these people could run wild, and Jia Nan Academy was not afraid of people from the Black Corner Region coming to provoke them.
The corpses on the nearby Dead Spirit Tree were the result.
Just because on the crown of the large tree not far from the town gate, corpses were hanging one after another.
Some were already dried, but some were still very fresh.
When the breeze blew through the treetops, it moved the corpses, making a hair-raising creaking sound.
The reputation of this Dead Spirit Tree had almost reached a point that made people tremble with fear.
Many who had stayed in the Black Corner Region for some years would never forget the life-and-death battle between the Black Corner Region and Jia Nan Academy.
The exact cause of that bloody battle was no longer scrutinized by many, but the only thing that everyone could know was that after that bloody battle, the corpses of two Battle Kings and one Battle Emperor were hung on this Dead Spirit Tree using almost cruel methods.
From then on, no expert from the Black Corner Region dared to come here to cause trouble.
Even if there were occasional disturbances, in less than an hour, the person who caused the disturbance would become a fresh corpse on the Dead Spirit Tree.
Xiao Ling walked toward the crowd, found a senior sister he had seen in the Outer Academy, walked up to her, and said with a smile, “Senior Sister Li Xi, long time no see.
I’ve just come back from training in the Black Corner Region.
Can you let me go directly into the school?”
Seeing this handsome face, the senior sister’s face turned red.
She naturally recognized Xiao Ling; Xiao Ling was very famous in the Outer Academy and was very gentle.
She had even touched his head when Xiao Ling was eight years old, but she didn’t expect that after two years, he had grown more and more handsome.
She shook her head and quickly said, “So it’s Junior Xiao Ling!
Of course you can go straight in.
Do you need our help?”
Hearing Xiao Ling’s name, the people around all turned their attention over here.
Seeing it was the famous genius of the Outer Academy, Xiao Ling, they all began to discuss.
“Is that the first genius of Jia Nan Academy, Junior Xiao Ling?
He’s so handsome.”
“Junior Xiao Ling broke through to Great Battle Master at the age of ten.
He’s truly a genius!”
“If I could have half of his talent, I would be satisfied!”
Ignoring the discussions of the people around him, Xiao Ling replied to Li Xi, “I am not injured.
Thank you for your concern, Senior Sister.
Goodbye.” With a wave of his hand, Xiao Ling walked toward the school.
Peace Town was still quite far from Jia Nan City.
By the time Xiao Ling arrived at the academy on a flying monster, it was already late at night.
Seeing that it was dark, Xiao Ling planned to see Xiao Xun’er tomorrow.
He would count his harvest today first.
He sat down in a chair and took out the storage rings in his pocket; there were twenty-seven rings in total.
His soul perception entered them and took out the items one by one.
He threw the miscellaneous items aside, ignoring them.
First was the gold coins, a total of over two hundred thousand gold coins, which was not bad.
There were also some medicinal materials for low-level pills, all for restoring Battle Qi and healing injuries.
There were only two Qi Gathering Powders, which were of no use to Xiao Ling.
There were also some battle skills and cultivation techniques of various attributes.
They were all Mysterious-level and Yellow-level, none of which could compare to the battle skills Xiao Ling was currently using.
Xiao Ling thought for a while and muttered in his heart, “The next time Mentor Ruo Lin goes to recruit students, I’ll have her help bring these to the Xiao family.
Once one of the eight ancient clans, and now only one wind-attribute Mysterious-level middle-grade technique is usable.
If the clan leader wasn’t wind-attribute, they wouldn’t even have anything to practice.”
He shook his head and thought no more; he was truly too tired and needed to rest well.
He took a bath, drank a cup of coke, and Xiao Ling entered a long-overdue dreamland.