Battle Through the Heavens: Xiao Yan, who was kidnapped to another world

"Um, are there no cultivation courses in the inner courtyard?" Seeing that Elder Su was about to leave, Xiao Yu hurriedly asked.

"The inner academy doesn't need that kind of thing. As long as you have enough 'fire energy,' you can enter the 'Heavenly Flame Refining Tower' and cultivate there. It's more effective than any course. Oh, right, I almost forgot. The academy organizes students to enter the 'Heavenly Flame Refining Tower' once a week. If we're talking about courses, then this should count, right?"

"As for the rest, you can ask Ziyan. That girl doesn't have many friends in the inner courtyard, so I hope you can treat her well." After thinking for a moment, Elder Su lowered his voice, looked at Xiao Yan, and said seriously.

"Of course." Xiao Yan nodded. Even disregarding the bloodline connection, he wouldn't hurt Zi Yan just because of her adorable appearance!

"If there are no problems, you can rest now. If you need anything, you can come find me." Elder Su waved to the five people, then turned and walked towards the door, finally disappearing from Xiao Yan and the others' sight.

Watching Elder Su leave, Xiao Yan clapped his hands and smiled at Xun'er and the other three, saying, "Let's tidy up the rooms. From now on, this will be our long-term base!"

"Mm." Xun'er and the other three nodded with smiles, then dispersed to find their own rooms.

Chapter 218 White Gang

Early in the morning, as Xiao Yan walked out of the small building, he coincidentally ran into Luo Mu, whom he had met at the end of the Fire Energy Hunting Competition the day before. When Xiao Yan saw him, Luo Mu was leaving a dormitory for freshmen with a few people.

"I remember your name is... Xiao Yan?" When Xiao Yan saw him, Luo Mu also happened to notice Xiao Yan and immediately led the people behind him to Xiao Yan's side.

"Is there something you need?" Xiao Yan asked casually, looking at the group of people surrounding him.

“Hey, that’s great, I like you just the way you are,” Luo Mu clapped his hands and laughed, “Have you heard of the freshman tribute fee?” Then his expression changed and he asked “seriously”.

"Never heard of it, what is that?" Xiao Yan scoffed.

What's this "new student tribute fee"? It's just collecting protection money. They might even recruit some newcomers to their own faction. After hearing the elder say yesterday that the inner academy allows students to form factions, Xiao Yan laughed and complained to Xun'er and the others, saying that those people might come after them.

“It’s okay if you haven’t heard of it. Come on, let me tell you about it…” Luo Mu said with a smile, while waving his hand to let the others release their battle qi.

In an instant, the auras of multiple Dou Ling level beings pressed down on Xiao Yan.

"What about this so-called tribute fee for new students..." Then, Luo Mu raised his right hand, seemingly wanting to put it on Xiao Yan's shoulder. Although Xiao Yan slapped it away immediately, after a brief moment of surprise, he laughed even more happily.

For the next half minute, Luo Mu launched into a long and detailed explanation of the freshman tribute fee. During this time, Xiao Yan saw another group of senior students enter the freshman dormitory where Luo Mu had come out earlier. By slightly releasing his soul power, he heard that the senior students were also asking for the freshman tribute fee. Judging from the freshmen's expressions, they seemed to have not intended to provoke Luo Mu and his group directly, so they handed it over once. However, they did not expect a second group to come.

Further away, there were third and fourth groups of people...

Given the number of these senior students, apart from Xiao Yan and a few others, I doubt anyone among the freshmen could hand over the required amount of fire energy.

"Hey, what are you looking at?" After Luo Mu finished speaking, he was about to ask Xiao Yan for the tribute fee when he noticed that Xiao Yan's gaze was directed towards the outside of the freshman dormitory area.

"Besides the arena, are people not allowed to take lives in other places in the inner courtyard?" Xiao Yan suddenly asked after withdrawing his gaze.

“That’s right, we can’t kill anyone,” Luo Mu raised an eyebrow in surprise. “However, injuries are inevitable in sparring, right? Besides, this new student tribute fee is a prerequisite for new students not to be treated unfairly at Canaan Academy!”

Luo Mu laughed arrogantly. He had accepted that Xiao Yan had the Brute King by his side yesterday, and he had also accepted that Xiao Yan had handed over his fire energy. But in order to collect the tribute fee today, and more importantly, to collect Xiao Yan's tribute fee, he had gotten up very early, just to make things difficult for Xiao Yan. In his opinion, even if Xiao Yan and that Brute King had a good relationship, one was still an upperclassman and the other was a freshman. How could that Brute King possibly live in the freshman area?

"Get lost! You think you can collect protection money from me? Do you even have the power to do that?!"

Before Xiao Yan could speak, an extremely fierce voice suddenly came from a freshman dormitory not far away. The next moment, several senior students with tower-shaped badges pinned to their chests were kicked out by a fiery red figure.

"What are you looking at? Haven't you ever seen a woman before?" Noticing the gazes of a group of people focused on her, Hu Jia, angered by the protection money collectors, glared back at them. "Hey, Xiao Yan, you're not planning to pay protection money, are you?"

After looking around, Hu Jia also noticed the situation around Xiao Yan. The aura of the five or six Dou Ling made her pause for a moment, but she quickly continued to speak.

“I don’t have such a good temper,” Xiao Yan chuckled. “Luo Mu…is that your name?” After turning his gaze away from Hu Jia, he focused on Luo Mu.

"What's wrong?" Upon hearing that Xiao Yan didn't intend to pay the tribute fee, Luo Mu's face immediately relaxed. He snorted coldly at Xiao Yan's question and asked disdainfully.

"Who is your boss? Is he on the Strong Ranking?" Xiao Yan raised his right hand, tidied his hair, and asked casually.

"My boss?" Luo Mu sneered. "Wait until you escape from our gang before you go to the inner courtyard and find out my boss's name! Come at me!" With a wave of his hand, he immediately prepared to beat up Xiao Yan with several other members of his gang.

"Xiao..."

Upon hearing Luo Mu's words, Hu Jia, knowing that these people were planning to join forces against Xiao Yan, subconsciously spoke up, wanting to lend a hand. However, before she could finish speaking, the six people led by Luo Mu were sent flying backward. Judging from their injuries, they had only been slapped by Xiao Yan!

"Hiss... Wait a minute, you've been hiding your strength all along during the inner court selection competition?!"

The six fighting spirits were dealt with in an instant. Hu Jia gasped and then suddenly realized what had happened.

"What time is it? You're still worried about that?" Xiao Yan glanced at Hu Jia with disdain, then walked to Luo Mu, who was lying on the ground unable to move, and looked at him. "Now, you should tell me the name of your 'boss', right?"

The group of senior students who had been watching Xiao Yan and Luo Mu held their breath after seeing that even Luo Mu and his Dou Ling couldn't last long. Some of them even took a few steps back in fear. They were collecting protection money, but they had never heard of any freshmen who looked like they could be on the strong list among those they were collecting protection money from!

"...Bai Cheng, ranked thirty-fourth on the Power Ranking, a six-star Dou Ling..."

The slap he just received made Luo Mu realize the gap between himself and Xiao Yan. After a brief hesitation, he honestly revealed the name and strength of the leader of his faction, the "White Gang".

"I admit you're strong, but don't get too cocky!" After revealing all the information, Luo Mu stubbornly retorted, "You're probably only a three or four-star Dou Ling at most, right? My boss is a six-star Dou Ling, he just needs to wait until the one-month freshman protection period ends..."

"No need to wait," Xiao Yan said, yawning.

"Wh-what?" Luo Mu was stunned.

“I said, no need to wait,” Xiao Yan glanced at him, “Tomorrow, at ten o’clock tomorrow morning, just one match in the inner courtyard arena, as for the bets…” After thinking for a moment, Xiao Yan gently stroked his storage ring with his right hand, and a jade bottle fell into his hand.

"Ice Marrow Pill, a fourth-grade pill, can remove fire poison," Xiao Yan's lips curled slightly. "The pill's grade isn't high, but I think for those of you who can only suppress fire poison with inferior pills, this Ice Spirit Pill is quite a precious thing, isn't it?"

Xiao Yan had noticed yesterday that these senior students of the inner courtyard had the aura of strange fire in their bodies, but compared to the aura of strange fire, the most crucial thing was the fire poison in their bodies, and the pills that seemed to be used to suppress the fire poison.

Perhaps the refiner lacked the necessary skills? Or perhaps they simply felt that eliminating everything at once would make subsequent business difficult?

Although Xiao Yan didn't know who sold those pills, he could clearly feel the obvious "inferior quality" of them. So last night, Xiao Yan took some time to refine a batch of Ice Spirit Pills.

Xiao Yan originally planned to use these Ice Marrow Pills to exchange for a chance to fight against a "master" ranked around the top fifty on the Strong Ranking and take that ranking. But since Luo Mu delivered them to his door and even brought a leader ranked thirty-four, the Ice Marrow Pills were left over.

“If your boss loses… five hundred fire energy,” Xiao Yan smiled, “I hope your boss isn’t the kind of coward who wouldn’t even dare to accept a challenge from a freshman!”

Not long after, news that Xiao Yan had challenged Bai Cheng, the leader of the White Gang and a powerhouse ranked thirty-fourth on the Strong List, spread throughout the entire Inner Academy. This news caused a huge stir. All the senior students who knew that Xiao Yan was a new student lamented that the world was going to the dogs. A newbie who had just entered the Inner Academy dared to challenge a powerhouse on the Strong List. Did they really think that the Inner Academy Arena allowed to have deaths and injuries?

However, after learning that Xiao Yan's wager was a fourth-grade pill, and one that could perfectly cure fire poison, many senior students frowned, even suspecting that the freshman did this to promote his pill, or perhaps to join the White Gang with the help of this pill.

Because most people were focused on the Ice Marrow Pill, the news that Xiao Yan had defeated six Dou Ling in less than a second did not spread widely.

Inside a room in the inner courtyard, there were more than a dozen people, some standing and some sitting, all with a somewhat solemn expression on their faces.

"So, Xiao Yan defeated all six of you in less than a second with six moves?" In the room, looking at the six people standing there somewhat ashamed, a man frowned and asked.

“Yes,” Romulus chuckled dryly, “I didn’t even see his movements clearly…”

As Luo Mu finished speaking, the other five echoed him one after another, but in the end, they all just wanted to make their defeat by Xiao Yan seem more reasonable.

At the head of the room, a man leaned back in his chair, his chin resting on his hand. If Xiao Yan and the other freshmen who had just entered the inner courtyard yesterday were here, they would probably be surprised by his striking resemblance to Bai Shan. However, compared to Bai Shan, this man looked more mature and colder. He was Bai Cheng, the leader of the "Bai Gang" in the inner courtyard and a six-star Dou Ling ranked thirty-fourth on the inner courtyard's strength list.

After casually glancing at the six people in front of him, Bai Cheng turned his head to the side, where Bai Shan, who had a cold expression, was sitting. "Is the fourth-grade pill that Xiao Yan mentioned that can cure fire poison true?"

“Cousin, Xiao Yan must have been hiding his strength during the inner court selection competition, but judging from his fight with Lu Mu at that time, he is indeed an alchemist,” Bai Shan nodded after seeing that Bai Cheng had read it, and said calmly, “As for his grade… judging from his ability to refine the Three-Pattern Azure Spirit Pill, he is at least a fourth-grade alchemist.”

If nothing unexpected happens, the Ice Marrow Pill should be genuine, but whether it can completely cure the fire poison is uncertain.

“If it’s true, that’s fine,” Bai Cheng nodded slightly. “The quality of the pills that Han Xian, that bastard, has been much worse this year. Although they can suppress the fire poison, they are still not enough. The emergence of a new fourth-grade alchemist can put some pressure on him. At least, the pills he provides in the future will not be as inferior as before.”

Han Xian, the leader of the Medicine Clan of the Inner Academy, is one of the few fourth-grade alchemists among the Inner Academy students. His Medicine Clan almost monopolizes all the medicinal materials and pills in the Inner Academy. As a result, the quality of the pills he provides to other forces has gradually declined.

"So... Boss, you've agreed to Xiao Yan's challenge?" Luo Mu asked in a low voice.

"He said that, how could I possibly avoid a fight?" Bai Cheng chuckled. "To defeat you all in six moves in a short time... There are quite a few people on the Strong Ranking who can do that. After all, only Luo Mu is a two-star Dou Ling, while Chen Lang and the others only recently advanced to Dou Ling."

Not to mention he's also an alchemist. I don't think an alchemist can be that strong; at most, he can only bully people of lower levels!

Indeed, for most people on the Dou Qi Continent, it is common knowledge that alchemists are not strong in combat. Take Han Xian, the fourth-grade alchemist in the inner academy, for example. Although he is also a six-star Dou Ling, he could not last more than a hundred moves against Bai Cheng.

'So what if you're a six-star Dou Ling like Han Xian?' Bai Cheng chuckled inwardly. 'I can take down Han Xian, how could I possibly lose to you?'

Somewhere in the inner courtyard, near the jungle.

"A contest between a freshman who just entered the inner courtyard and that trash Bai Cheng?" The gray-robed man, who had just left the jungle and overheard the conversations of passersby, had a glint in his eyes. "And the stakes are even pills that can cure fire poison..."

The gray-clad man's eyes were filled with an unusual red light, which was mixed with endless rage. Generally speaking, this condition of the gray-clad man is called fire poison invading the body, and judging from the fact that his eyes were almost entirely filled with red light, the man's fire poison invading the body was extremely serious.

"Heh, no matter who wins tomorrow's competition, this Ice Marrow Pill is mine..." The gray-robed man grinned and chuckled in a low voice.

*

"A pill that can completely cure fire poison?" Upon hearing this news, a woman in a silver dress and silver hair had a slight glint in her eyes. As a native of Zhongzhou, she was no stranger to pills that could completely cure fire poison. If she hadn't already used up all her vacation days this year, she would have gone back to ask for a few.

"Go and see."

The woman quickly made up her mind.

*

"A fourth-grade elixir that can completely cure fire poison?" The man holding a jet-black spear as tall as himself paused slightly upon hearing his sister's words. "Such a thing actually exists? Indeed, the world is vast; we shouldn't look down on alchemists from outside the Central Continent..."

"No one has ever said he wasn't an alchemist from Zhongzhou, has they?" the woman in the snow fox fur dress said softly.

"If a fourth-grade pill has this effect, how could the pills the family gave us be fifth-grade?" The man smiled casually. "Let's go take a look tomorrow. If there really is a fourth-grade pill that can completely cure fire poison, it will be of great benefit to the family."

"Fine," the woman said, pursing her lips.

Chapter 219 Encounter

The arena is the most popular area in the inner courtyard.

Generally speaking, the arena, a place with a slightly bloody atmosphere, is completely different from the atmosphere of the academy. However, in the inner courtyard of Canaan Academy, these things are not avoided at all.

However, it is precisely because of the existence of the arena that the students from Canaan Academy do not, like students from other academies, only know how to fight superficially and become weak-kneed when they are in a brutal life-or-death battle.

In the arena, with fire energy as one of the prizes for winning, countless students fight every day. While some want to gain insights and breakthroughs from the battles, there are also quite a few who want to get the prizes, and in fact, these are the most numerous.

Today, the arena was as crowded as ever, a sea of ​​black heads as far as the eye could see, and the extremely noisy noise rang in everyone's ears, causing some people who were not used to it to have a headache.

"Neither side has arrived yet?"

In a good vantage point in the arena, several figures leaned against the railing, gazing at a certain arena below. According to what the White Gang had said yesterday, that arena was where Xiao Yan and Bai Cheng were fighting.

"There's still time," the silver-haired woman, who was also looking at the arena, said casually.

"Speaking of which, I didn't expect you, Liu Qing, to be interested in watching their match. I thought you were only interested in people ranked ahead of you," the silver-haired woman said calmly after glancing at the man carrying the huge black spear who had spoken earlier.

“I’m quite interested in a fourth-grade pill that can cure fire poison,” Liu Qing said without any hesitation about his thoughts on the Ice Marrow Pill. “If I have the chance, I plan to get the Ice Marrow Pill formula from Xiao Yan.”

"Didn't you bring a lot of pills from your family that can cure fire poison?" The silver-haired woman asked with some surprise upon hearing Liu Qing's words.

“But that’s a fifth-grade pill,” Liu Qing shrugged. “Even though the family has always controlled the spatial passage in Tianhuang City, that kind of pill isn’t something you can just take casually.”

“At least you siblings have several,” the woman said, pursing her lips. “Someone like me can only rely on the medicine from the Medicine Guild for emergencies unless I go back for holidays.”

"Who told you, Han Yue, that your family is affiliated with the North Pavilion of the Wind and Thunder Pavilion?" Liu Qing said with a smile. "If you were affiliated with the East Pavilion, wouldn't a mere fifth-grade pill be in such short supply?"

"Who knows?" Upon hearing Liu Qing's words, the silver-haired woman, Han Yue, shrugged, looking noncommittal.

"Alright, alright, how dare you two say such things in front of me?" A handsome man interrupted Liu Qing and Han Yue's conversation. "You both came in with some knowledge of the inner courtyard, while I'm the only one who came here without knowing anything or being prepared at all!"