Reborn as the Candle Dragon, I became the strongest academy guardian beast.

Time flies, and three days have passed.

As the martial arts tournament draws near, the entire Azure Dragon Academy is shrouded in an unprecedented atmosphere of tension.

All students are working harder than ever before, and their sweat-drenched figures can be seen on the playground from morning till night. The lights in the library and training rooms often stay on until late at night.

Although Qinglong Academy's overall strength and martial arts resources are far inferior to the other three academies, it has a huge advantage—unprecedented unity!

The teacher shared all his knowledge, and the students learned from each other and encouraged one another...

At the same time, the White Tiger Academy's targeting of the Azure Dragon Academy is becoming increasingly serious.

Students from the two schools often clash off-campus, and in most cases, Qinglong Academy is at a disadvantage.

But the students of Qinglong Academy are not pushovers.

Even if they can't win, they'll do everything in their power to leave their opponent with some injuries.

Martial arts training room.

"Senior, push harder!"

"Not enough, please use a little more force!"

Lin Fan was shirtless, sweat mixed with blood rolling down his strong muscles.

At this moment, his body was covered with wounds, and his skin was marked with charred marks from being burned by lightning.

Lin Fan showed no sign of pain; on the contrary, he appeared unusually excited, his eyes burning with excitement.

Standing opposite him, Zhang Tao, a second-year member of the school team, was already hesitant to strike: "Junior, are you sure you can take it?"

Three days ago, Lin Fan found Zhang Tao, who possessed a lightning-type martial soul, and bluntly expressed his hope that Zhang Tao could help him temper his physical body.

As a senior in the second year, I should take care of promising juniors.

So Zhang Tao readily agreed.

But he never expected that Lin Fan's training methods would be so crazy.

The method he described for tempering his physical body was to have Zhang Tao use him as a punching bag and hit him with all his might!

Zhang Tao possesses the strength of a third-tier, fifth-level cultivator, placing him firmly in the top three of the entire second-year program.

He thought Lin Fan would soon be unable to hold on.

Unexpectedly, the fight lasted for three days.

Three days passed, and Lin Fan not only showed no sign of stopping, but instead kept making him increase the intensity.

"It's okay, I can handle it!"

Faced with Zhang Tao's question, Lin Fan answered without hesitation.

"What a terrifying will!" Zhang Tao gritted his teeth, filled with admiration.

Lin Fan's willpower made him feel inferior!

Without further hesitation, lightning crackled in Zhang Tao's palm, and a giant wolf phantom howled at the sky behind him before slamming solidly into Lin Fan's chest.

"boom!"

Lin Fan gritted his teeth and remained silent.

The excitement in his eyes grew stronger and stronger.

Lin Fan could clearly feel that every time he was struck by lightning, his body was getting stronger at a visible speed.

This feeling is absolutely addictive!

……

Library.

"Teacher, could you please return this book for me?"

Xu Liyue carried a thick stack of martial arts techniques and skills and handed them to the female teacher who was on duty.

"Student, you've only borrowed these books for less than an hour, and you want to return them so soon?" the female teacher asked, somewhat surprised.

"Yes, I've read them all." Xu Liyue nodded lightly, as if she were talking about something perfectly ordinary.

Upon hearing this, the female teacher's pupils trembled.

She remembered!

Isn't this the girl who learned the "Burning Heaven Technique" in just a few minutes?

The female teacher immediately shut her mouth, not daring to ask any more questions.

Her fragile heart simply couldn't withstand any more blows.

"Teacher, does the school have any other libraries?" Xu Liyue suddenly asked.

"No, there's only this one." The female teacher shook her head.

"All right."

Xu Liyue sighed helplessly.

Xu Liyue's ability to read so many books in such a short time is not due to greed or a lack of thorough understanding.

In fact, she is integrating the essence of different techniques to develop her own unique technique.

After integrating and deducing techniques and combat skills such as "Burning Heaven Technique", "Exploding Flames", and "Fire Phoenix Technique", Xu Liyue created a technique that she named "Phoenix True Fire Technique".

Xu Liyue estimated that the strength of this cultivation technique was enough to reach the S-level.

But that wasn't enough. Xu Liyue could vaguely sense that there were still flaws in the Phoenix True Fire Technique that she hadn't noticed.

She needs more books to enrich her knowledge so that she can make further deductions.

"I've already mastered all the fire-based techniques and combat skills of rank A and above in the library. It seems I'll have to ask the headmaster if I can borrow some from other schools..."

Xu Liyue left the library with a murmur, completely unaware that the female teacher was watching her back with trembling pupils and an expression of utter despair.

……

Outside Ningchuan City.

Tier 4 dungeon, Black Bear Ridge.

Inside the instance, a group of martial artists were discussing a black bear carcass.

"Have you heard? This black bear committed suicide by running into a tree this morning."

"Huh? You're kidding, right? A ferocious beast can actually commit suicide!"

"Why would I lie to you? I heard that this black bear has been hibernating recently, but for the past few days, someone has been casting three super-large forbidden spells in Black Bear Ridge every night. After casting them, they run away. It has been suffering from insomnia for several days and still hasn't caught the culprit. Finally, this morning, it got so angry that it ran into a tree and committed suicide."

"If that's true, it's terrible. It was a terrifying beast, after all. It's such a pathetic death..."

Chu Yunfeng looked somewhat embarrassed in the crowd.

Since receiving guidance from Su Chen, he has focused his training on the [Nine Heavens Thunder Spell].

Because there were too many people in the first and second tier dungeons, and he was worried about accidentally hurting others, he chose this fourth tier dungeon instead.

With Chu Yunfeng's current strength, he is not yet capable of dealing with a ferocious beast of the Fear level.

So every day, he would cast three [Nine Heavens Thunder Spells] at Black Bear Ridge, then turn around and run away from the instance, waiting for the cooldown to finish the next day before casting them again.

Unexpectedly, this action actually drove a fearsome black bear to commit suicide.

Of course, the result was good.

It is said that this black bear is extremely cunning and likes to play the fool to catch humans. It pretends to be injured and then suddenly attacks humans. Several martial artists have died at its hands.

By killing it, I can consider myself to have rid the people of a scourge.

……

[Ding! Detected a significant increase in Lin Fan's physical strength. Evolution points returned: 2000!]

[Ding! Detected Xu Liyue's self-created S-rank cultivation technique, "Phoenix True Fire Technique." Evolution Points refunded: 3000!]

[Ding! Detected that Chu Yunfeng killed a Fear-level Black Bear. Evolution Points refunded: 1500!]

[Ding! Zheng Yuanshan has recovered from his injuries after drinking Qingxuan Nourishing Tea for three consecutive days, and his cultivation level has risen to the eighth level of the fifth rank. Evolution points returned: 4000]

[Acquired Ability: Spatial Manipulation (lv1)]

Qinglong Academy.

Su Chen was lazily curled up, enjoying the warm sunbathing.

These past few days, seeing the whole school working so hard, he was also deeply inspired and planned to go to the dungeon and wreak havoc.

Before we even set off, we received a notification from the system.

Su Chen then turned over and decided to continue sunbathing.

The evolution points returned to just a few people are enough to keep us busy for a while.

Where is there any need for him to make an effort?

We can't use it all.

We can't possibly use it all!

I don't know how long I slept.

When Su Chen opened his eyes, he found that Lin Fan, Xu Liyue, and Chu Yunfeng had all returned to the school and were surrounding him.

"Teacher, you're awake."

Seeing that Su Chen had finally woken up, Xu Liyue smiled slightly and waved the three tickets in her hand: "The principal just gave me three tickets to Yunlan Martial Arts Hall, saying that we have been training too hard lately and it is time to take a break and rest."

"Teacher, could you come with us later?"