Chapter 92

The one who was most excited was Yun Xiaodao. As soon as he stepped out of the mystic realm, he shouted about going to find the evil-eyed man to demand a thousand true qi pills. Zhu Rong, seeing Yun Xiaodao win a thousand true qi pills so easily, was filled with envy.

If calculated at five hundred crystals per true qi pill, a thousand true qi pills would be worth five hundred thousand crystals, which was definitely a huge sum!

"Brother Shen, I'll take one and you take nine of these thousand true qi pills. After all, I only took on the bet, and I didn't expect to win so much!" Yun Xiaodao said with a smile. Although the amount was large, it didn't mean much to him. Over the years, he had consumed far more than this.

Shen Xiang, seeing that Yun Xiaodao didn't care about the true qi pills, couldn't help but secretly marvel. However, he remembered that the Yun family was one of the four major families in Taiwu State, so it wasn't surprising. A major family controlled large amounts of crystal mines, medicinal herbs, and beast monsters. Although they weren't as powerful as the major sects, they were still among the wealthiest.

"Fatso, your Zhu family is on par with our Yun family, and you should be richer because you are all so stingy and cunning!" Yun Xiaodao patted Zhu Rong's back and laughed.

Zhu Rong just snorted. From his physique, it was clear that his family was quite wealthy.

Zhang De shook his head and sighed, "Having a good background can save you decades of hard work!"

Shen Xiang and the others followed Zhu Rong to the 329th Martial Academy. This was the weakest of the inner martial academies and the place where new entrants to the inner martial academy must go.

"No one here?" Yun Xiaodao asked in confusion, then shouted, "Is anyone here? Come out to welcome the newbies!"

Zhu Rong pursed his lips and said, "Don't shout. No one has entered the inner gate for years, and it has always been like this!"

Shen Xiang asked, "So, all the people from this inner martial academy have moved to higher-ranked martial academies? But if that's the case, there should be some who were demoted."

Zhu Rong nodded, "That's true, but the inner martial academy disciples have many, heavy, and dangerous tasks! Although there are over three hundred inner martial academies, each one has no more than ten inner gate disciples. The one I'm in now only has five people!"

The benefits of the inner martial academy are very good. Each month, they can receive thirty true qi pills and three thousand crystals, and one true essence pill per year. When they go on missions, they can also get some healing and detoxifying pills, and there are rewards after completing the missions. Zhu Rong's precious White Jade Powder came from such a mission.

"All the people in this inner martial academy are dead. The 300th to 329th inner martial academies are all empty." Zhu Rong's expression became serious. The inner gate disciples had their own missions and were not as glamorous as they seemed.

"Why didn't you take me to the 300th?" Yun Xiaodao gave him a dirty look.

"Yun brat, I'm doing this for your own good. The lower the number, the more dangerous the missions. You should wait until Shen Xiang reaches the tenth level of the Mortal Martial Realm before gradually advancing!" Zhu Rong said.

Shen Xiang also agreed, "We just entered the inner gate, and we can learn more advanced martial arts. Once we master them and stabilize our strength, we can advance!"

"Let's work hard. I'm only at the 200th martial academy, which took me a long time to reach. Clean up well, I'm leaving." Zhu Rong left quickly, worried that Shen Xiang might ask him for help with the cleaning.

The martial academy contained many small residences, so Shen Xiang and the others wouldn't have to walk to the academy every day.

"I'm not staying here, you two can handle it!" Yun Xiaodao laughed and left.

Because no one had lived here for years, there was a lot of dust and fallen leaves. Shen Xiang and Zhang De spent half a day cleaning before it was finally tidy.

In a room filled with various training equipment, Shen Xiang found that these tools were not very useful, either too light or requiring a lot of time to train with.

"These things are just for passing time. Real cultivation involves various extreme training methods or going out to gain experience." Zhang De said.

Just then, Yun Xiaodao returned, excitedly shouting, "Brother Shen, I went to that evil-eyed guy to get the true qi pills. He gave them to me without any fuss. Come and check if they are fake."

Shen Xiang didn't take the bet seriously and thought that getting the thousand true qi pills might be troublesome and could even lead to conflict.

Yun Xiaodao took out ten jade boxes, each containing a hundred true qi pills. After Shen Xiang inspected them, he confirmed that they were not fake, although their quality was not as good as the ones he had refined, they met the standard requirements.

Yun Xiaodao only wanted one box, and Shen Xiang originally wanted to give one box to Zhang De, but Zhang De refused to accept it and eventually bought it at half price.

Zhu Rong had once given Shen Xiang a box of White Jade Powder. To thank Zhu Rong, Shen Xiang gave him a box, but Zhu Rong still looked jealous when he received it and even tried to buy three boxes at half price, but Yun Xiaodao kicked him away.

"Shameless fatso!" Yun Xiaodao shouted.

"We are now inner gate disciples. Let's go and collect our items and look for good Xuan and Earth-level martial arts in the inner martial arts library." Yun Xiaodao said excitedly and rushed out of the academy.

The place to collect items was set up by the Great Pill Hall in the inner martial academy, managed by a True Martial Realm disciple. Shen Xiang received thirty true qi pills, one true essence pill, three thousand crystals, and a handy nine-section ordinary weapon, a large dragon-headed saber!

Yun Xiaodao and Zhang De casually picked up a weapon each; they didn't value weapons much.

On the way to the inner martial arts library, Yun Xiaodao saw Shen Xiang playing with the dragon-headed steel saber and asked, "Brother Shen, what's so good about this nine-section ordinary weapon? Zhang Lao and I use spirit weapons."

Shen Xiang was taken aback and immediately understood why they had casually picked up their weapons. They actually had spirit weapons!

The cheapest one-section spirit weapon required over ten thousand crystals, so it wasn't surprising that they had them.

"I've never seen a spirit weapon before. What are they like?" Shen Xiang asked curiously.

Yun Xiaodao took out a broadsword and said proudly, "This is a five-section spirit weapon, the Heavenly Wolf Sword. It costs one million crystals and is forged from the bones of a Diamond Iron Wolf, making it incredibly hard! The blade is engraved with spirit patterns, which can absorb and fuse spirit true qi, making the original true qi even stronger! The blade has meridians like a human body, allowing true qi to flow smoothly. The hilt is embedded with the beast core of the Diamond Iron Wolf, and when the beast core's true qi is activated, it becomes even more powerful!"

Shen Xiang could indeed see many beautiful and mysterious patterns on the blade, which shone brilliantly in the sunlight, looking very impressive.

"This is one of the top five-section spirit weapons! Although it only costs one million, its overall value is much higher. It was forged by a well-known alchemist through the Yun family's connections." Zhang De said with a mix of envy and admiration.

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