Chapter 237: The Mysterious Visitor at Jia Nan Academy!

  "Don't you dare! My father is a Dou King, a powerhouse. If you kill me here, you'll have no p Bck Mist City," Wan Hai said while threateningly, even as he backed towards the door.

  Just then, a yellow fog enveloped him, and Xiao Yi Xian walked lightly past him.

  "Sigh, another flict with a Dou King. It seems it's time to move on to the city," Xiao Yi Xian sighed as she left the shop.

  Afterward, she leaped across several streets and headed straight for the city gates.

  After Xiao Yi Xia, the other ers and shop assistants who had been frozen in shock all screamed and ran out.

  "Run! The sed young master of the Wan family is dead!"

  As simir excmations spread through the streets, a white-robed youth sitting on the sed floor of a teahouse unsciously crushed the teacup in his hand.

  He then leaped down to the street, randomly grabbed a passerby, and demanded loudly, "Tell me, is it true that the sed young master of the Wan family is dead?"

  "Yes, he died over there..." the middle-aged man said, pointing in a dire.

  After hearing the man's description, the white-robed youth's face gradually darkened, and he rushed to the shop where Wan Hai had died.

  "Little Hai, rest assured, I will avenge you," he decred mournfully upon seeing Wan Hai's bed corpse.

  An hour ter, a white-robed elder suddenly flew over Bck Mist City, heading in a certain dire.

  ...

  At the Yu, by the edge of the Jiucai Valley's cold pond, Qinglin skillfully pced a green pearl into a jade bottle, then turo the petite Cai'er and said, "Cai'er sister, the teacher said that it might take a year for the senior brothers and sisters to plete their training. That means if I collect 365 pearls, they all e back."

  "Yiya, yiya!"

  "Yes, Qinglin sister, once you collect 365 pearls, they will e back!" Cai'er replied softly.

  Hearing Cai'er's response, Qinglin stared bnkly at the valley's somewhat ethereal sky, then shook her head and said, "No, I 't just keep ting the days. The teacher said before he left that he hoped I could fully develop the power of the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils through practig the Heavenly Seique."

  After saying this, Qinglin looked apologetically at Cai'er and said, "Cai'er, I might not be able to py with you in the ing period. you help me put the collected pearls into these jade bottles?"

  Hearing Xiao Yi Xian's words, a plex look appeared in Cai'er's eyes, but she nodded.

  "Yiya!"

  "Go practice, Qinglin sister. Cai'er will be fine."

  "Okay!" Qinglin nodded firmly, grateful for Cai'er's uanding.

  After Qinglin decided to seclude herself for cultivation, in the main hall of the Yu, a beautiful figure seated at the ter of the hall slowly opened her eyes.

  "Husband, where are you now? I miss you so much!"

  Murmuring to herself, she held a jade talisman in her hand.

  Staring bnkly at the talisman, Yun Yun remembered Gu He's words before he left, "No matter how far away I am, if you crush this talisman, I will e to you instantly."

  "Would he really e back if I crush it now?" Yun Yun tightened her grip oalisman.

  After a long struggle, Yun Yun ultimately chose not to crush the jade talisman.

  The reason she hesitated was that she felt that if the talisman really possessed such miraculous power, it must e at a great cost to its creator.

  ...

  Jia Nan Academy, an a institution situated at the heart of the ti, has produced tless peak powerhouses over the turies. Eae of these individuals has held great fame across the nd, making a name for themselves in various ers of the world.

  The most terrifying aspect of an academy is not necessarily the strength of its faculty, but the thousands of powerful individuals it has produced. If Jia Nan Academy ever faced a crisis, the collective force of these alumni, if summoned back, would be unimaginably formidable.

  Despite the tless academies across the ti, Jia Nan Academy’s reputation remains unsurpassed. This speaks volumes of the profouage of this a institution, ed in an aura of antiquity.

  People of all races across the tiake great pride in being able to ehis prestigious academy. However, the academy's stri admission criteria have left many aspirants disheartened.

  At this moment, in the vast circur pza of Jia Nan Academy’s outer court, tless students were gathered. Each of them was dressed in light blue robes, and on the chest of each robe was a cerulean badge, engraved with a dagger stained with a hint of crimson blood.

  From above, the pza was a sea of heads, buzzing with noise reag the skies.

  At this time, an elderly man, who was leisurely sitting in the grandstand with a cup of tea, suddenly furrowed his brows a in a hurry.

  Shortly after, he appeared at the entrance of Jia Nan Academy.

  A white-robed figure was already standing at the gate.

  "Who goes there?" the outer court dean, Hu Qian, called out, eyeing the mysterious visitor who had suddenly appeared at the entrance of Jia Nan Academy.

  "I am Gu He," the figure in white robes replied calmly.

  Upon hearing this, Hu Qian was initially startled, then seemed to realize something, his eyes narrowing slightly in surprise. "You are... Gu He, the Alchemy King of the Jia Ma Empire?"

  "Indeed, it is me," Gu He nodded.

  A smile appeared on Hu Qian's face, his curiosity piqued. "I am Hu Qian, the dean of the outer court. May I ask what brings the Alchemy King to Jia Nan Academy?"

  Hearing Hu Qian's question, Gu He stated directly, "I have traveled a great distah the hope of joining the inner court of Jia Nan Academy. I wonder if the Academy could aodate me."

  "To join the inner court... Indeed, with the Alchemy King's renown, serving merely as an instructor ier court would indeed be an uilization of talents," Hu Qian replied with uanding, then added with a hint of difficulty, "However, I am not authorized to make such decisiarding the inner court. I will immediately inform the Elder of the inner court about this matter. As for the oute, it is beyond my trol."

  "Then I must trouble Dean Hu Qian with this matter," Gu He said, bowing slightly.

  "It's no trouble at all. Please, Alchemy King, rest for a while, and I will head to the inner court immediately," Hu Qian replied before quickly heading towards the inner court.

  (End of Chapter)