People in Doupo: Unparalleled Talents Actually Bring a System

Chapter 35 Tribute

The next morning, Xiao Ling woke up from his sleep.

He sat down in the living room and began reading books on alchemy.

Everyone came down the stairs one after another and greeted each other.

After the last person, Lin Yan, arrived, Lin Xiuya asked, "Let's go and settle the issue of power today to avoid trouble later."

Xiao Ling nodded without commenting, and said, "I'll leave the recruitment of members and the management of the faction to you. I'll only be responsible for refining medicine for you. If faction members ask me to refine medicine, they can get a discount. Just consider it as a benefit of joining the faction."

"Don't worry, I will handle these things seriously. Just treat it as an opportunity to exercise my abilities." Lin Xiuya replied.

"Okay, I'll leave it to you. I'll go out for a walk and try out the effect of the Tianfen Refining Qi Tower." After Xiao Ling finished speaking, he waved to everyone and left the dormitory.

Walking out of the pavilion, there is a green avenue, and on both sides of the avenue are the residences of other freshmen of this class. Han Yue and Xiao Xun'er's room is for two people, and it is right next to the dormitory of Xiao Ling and others.

Of course, compared with the small pavilion of Xiao Ling and his companions, the other houses are a little bit simpler. It seems that not everyone can enjoy this kind of treatment.

There wasn't a single freshman on the road at this time. Perhaps the fire hunting competition was too tiring for the freshmen, so they didn't get up so early.

Xiao Ling walked towards the dormitory of the two girls, and after a quick look, he found that Han Yue was already practicing fighting skills in the yard. Xiao Xun'er should not have gotten up yet, so she didn't notice her. Seeing this, Xiao Ling didn't plan to disturb Han Yue's practice, and walked to other places.

Nearly ten minutes later, Xiao Ling, who was walking slowly, slowed down his pace and looked up at the end of the road. There was a group of people blocking the intersection.

Seeing this scene, Xiao Ling couldn't help but frowned, guessing that this should be the old student who collected the tribute.

When they reached the exit of the avenue, Xiao Ling did not intend to pay attention to them. He found a direction where no one was blocking the way and walked in.

At this moment, seven or eight senior students wearing tower-shaped badges on their chests surrounded him, with ferocious looks on their faces.

Xiao Ling, who didn't want to waste time, saw that these people actually treated him as a soft persimmon, so he stretched out his hand and a spear appeared in his hand. He said in a bad tone: "Don't waste my time, or you will be in trouble."

A burly-looking man in black was very arrogant. He said to Xiao Ling with disdain: "Boy, hand over the fire energy card quickly, or you will be in trouble." As he said that, he raised his hand and punched Xiao Ling.

By slightly shifting his body position, Xiao Ling easily dodged the man's punch, and knocked him to the ground with a backhand shot. Then he activated the suction palm to suck the man back in front of him, and lifted him up by pinching his neck with one hand.

When everyone saw this scene, they all activated their fighting spirit and prepared to beat up Xiao Ling together.

At this moment, an old student came from a distance and shouted at these people: "Stop it now."

Then he smiled at Xiao Ling and said, "This guy is talking nonsense. Xiao Ling, you should leave. The rest of you, hurry up and get out of the way."

Xiao Ling nodded slightly. He didn't want to waste time on such trivial matters. He said in a cold tone, "It has nothing to do with me if you rob others. Don't waste my and my friends' time. Otherwise, don't blame me for not being gentle with you in the future."

Looking at Xiao Ling's back, the burly man in black pried his companion's hand apart and asked in confusion, "Why did you let that guy leave? Didn't Brother Li Zhengyu say that the tribute fee of every new student must be collected? Although this person can enter the inner courtyard at such a young age, his talent is good, but his strength should not be high. He also came in at the bottom. Why should we, the great fighting masters, be afraid of him?"

The young man who had just arrived rolled his eyes at him when he heard this, and said in a serious tone, "You sneaked in? That's because you were not here yesterday and didn't see Xiao Ling and five other people robbing all the old fire energy. Otherwise, you wouldn't have said that."

"Really? How is that possible?" The man in black was a little bit incredulous when he heard this. In the Fire Energy Hunting Competition, there were many Douling masters, and they were ranked in the upper middle level in the entire inner courtyard. How could they be robbed by a kid who looked more than ten years younger than them? He couldn't accept it.

The man shook his head and said, "That's not the case. Especially Xiao Ling, who is only ten years old this year and has already reached the level of a Great Fighter. He is also a fourth-grade peak alchemist. This talent is not something that we can compare to. Now you know why I won't let you do it again."

"And his friends are all very talented and strong. We don't need to provoke them. Judging from Xiao Ling's attitude, he doesn't intend to care about other freshmen. We just accept these."

"I understand." The man in black was speechless.

When the other senior students who were not familiar with Xiao Ling's situation heard this, they also put Xiao Ling in a position that should not be provoked.

Xiao Ling didn't care much about this little episode.

Xiao Ling knew a little about the tribute fee, which was paid by the freshmen to the old students.

This kind of thing should be considered an unspoken rule in the Canaan College.

This tradition is not stipulated by the college. The college only encourages competition. This kind of thing should be said to be an unspoken rule that arises spontaneously with the encouragement of the college.

Xiao Ling had discovered a long time ago, and he didn't know who started it first, but the old students in both the outer and inner courtyards liked to train the freshmen.

After each batch of freshmen are trained by senior students, in order to balance their mentality, they will start to target the freshmen after them when they become senior students, and the cycle repeats itself.

Xiao Ling didn't care about this kind of thing and didn't intend to intervene. He wouldn't set up a faction to clean up the mess for the freshmen like Xiao Yan did in the original novel. Every time his subordinates were bullied, he would ask Xiao Yan to come to the rescue. This kind of thing was a waste of time and thankless.

Xiao Ling and his companions planned to create their own power in order to make their practice more convenient. In the future, if they wanted to find something, they only needed to arrange their subordinates to look for it, and it would also be more convenient to inquire about some information.

……

Without thinking any more about these trivial matters, Xiao Ling took out the map of the inner courtyard that he had asked Elder Su for yesterday, confirmed the location of the Tianfen Qi Training Tower, and then accelerated along the instructions on the map.

The area of ​​the inner courtyard was indeed very large, as Xiao Ling had expected.

He ran for nearly half an hour, but still did not reach the boundary of the inner courtyard.

Along the way, Xiao Ling also felt the atmosphere of the inner courtyard more deeply.

On the way to the Tianfen Qi Training Tower, you can often see students fighting in public. Outside these circles, there are still many people watching, obviously they are used to it. Some of the talkative people shouted at the occasional flaws of the two people fighting, which made the two people in the circle more and more frightened. In the end, they could only withdraw with depressed faces.

This made Xiao Ling sigh: "The atmosphere in the inner courtyard is really very tough. Although this kind of frequent sparring and fighting is not prohibited in the outer courtyard, few people will spar with others unless there is a grudge. After Lin Yan comes to the inner courtyard, he should be able to spar with others to his heart's content."

After running for another twenty minutes or so, he glanced around and was somewhat surprised to find that, for some reason, more and more people were flocking to this road heading north, and each of them was running at their maximum speed. As a result, Xiao Ling could only see figures flashing past above the woods on both sides and the sound of breaking wind.

Seeing this, Xiao Ling roughly understood that they should be reaching the Tianfen Qi Training Tower soon. So he increased his speed and rushed forward.

Chapter 36: Tianfen Qi Training Tower

Stopping on a small hill, Xiao Ling looked forward. What appeared in Xiao Ling's sight was a sunken terrain. In the sunken land, a huge black tower was buried deep underground, with only a part of the tower top and a layer of black entrance exposed on the ground. This is the essence of the inner courtyard, the Tianfen Qi Training Tower.

The entrance of the Tianfen Qi Training Tower was already surrounded by a dense crowd of people. This scene made Xiao Ling realize how popular the Tianfen Qi Training Tower was in the inner courtyard.

Without much hesitation, Xiao Ling squeezed into the crowd and quickly squeezed to the front with his strong physical strength. He found an empty space with few people and stood there.

Seeing the Tianfen Qi Training Tower from a closer distance, Xiao Ling discovered that the space around the tower seemed to be slightly twisted and wrinkled.

"This space lock should have been left by Mang Tianchi a long time ago. It has been so long and he didn't come back to repair it. Han Feng just brought a few Dou Huangs to break the space lock." Thinking of the plot of the original novel, Xiao Ling complained in his heart.

Time passes by little by little while waiting.

“Boom!

Suddenly, the sound of an ancient bell rang out in the area, and as the bell rang, the noisy sounds in the field suddenly stopped.

"Open the tower!"

The bell chimed, and an old voice seemed to come from the tower.

Shortly after the old voice fell, the closed dark door slowly opened with a creaking sound, and a faint hot breath seeped out, causing the temperature of the world to rise slightly.

"Enter the tower!"

The old voice sounded again, and there was a sound of breaking wind, and figures rushed towards the tower gate in an overwhelming manner.

Seeing this scene, Xiao Ling also set off and walked into the tower. Remembering that he would feel uncomfortable the first time he entered, he took out a third-grade Qingxin Pill and stuffed it into his mouth, intending to take the drug directly if he felt uncomfortable.

The moment Xiao Ling's feet landed on the ground after entering the tower gate, his body suddenly solidified, his white face was like burning charcoal, and streams of faint white mist, with a sizzling sound like barbecue, seeped out from his body.

Feeling something strange in his body, Xiao Ling didn't hesitate too much and directly took the Qingxin Pill in his mouth. He immediately felt that the discomfort in his body disappeared and he felt refreshed.

Although no abnormal reaction appeared for the time being, Xiao Ling still sensed a cluster of strange flames that suddenly appeared inexplicably from his body. This cluster of flames was invisible and colorless. It should be the branch flame of the Fallen Heart Flame. He had to find a room to practice for a while and let his body adapt to this situation as soon as possible. Otherwise, after the effect of the Qingxin Pill faded, his body would be harmed. At the very least, he would have to rest for a few days, and at worst, his tendons and veins would be damaged and he would not be able to practice fighting spirit.

He muttered to himself, "I don't know what the school is thinking. They didn't even tell the freshmen about this kind of dangerous situation. If I hadn't read the original novel and been prepared, I would have been seriously injured without Xiao Yan's strange fire to protect me."

There were some people around who knew Xiao Ling, and they knew that he was the one who had snatched away all of the old man's fire energy in the fire energy hunting competition. Noticing Xiao Ling's reaction just now at the entrance of the Tianfen Qi Training Tower, they originally stopped and planned to gloat over his misfortune. No matter how talented he was, he still had to suffer in front of the Tianfen Qi Training Tower.

It seems that these people already knew that Xiao Ling would encounter this situation after entering, but they deliberately didn't say anything. Their purpose was to see Xiao Ling make a fool of himself.

But what they didn't expect was that Xiao Ling broke free from the burning heart fire in an instant. You know, they all suffered a lot here before they could enter here to practice.

After lightly glancing at those who wanted to see him make a fool of himself, Xiao Ling walked straight into the Tianfen Qi Training Tower.

"Hiss, how did this person recover in an instant?"

"How did he escape from the burning of the heart fire by himself?"

“Is this the gap between geniuses and us?”

……

The first time he came to the Tianfen Refining Qi Tower, which was buried deep underground with only a section of the tower tip exposed, the area inside the tower was somewhat beyond Xiao Ling's expectations. As he walked along the way, Xiao Ling discovered that the space inside the first floor of the tower alone was probably enough for 500 people to practice at the same time.

In the circular space inside the tower, there are training rooms of different sizes. However, most of these training rooms are now occupied, and there are some small red signs hanging above the doors of these rooms. However, the words written on the signs are not the same. Xiao Ling stopped and took a look. It turned out that these small red signs had words representing three levels: advanced, intermediate, and low. These should be the levels of the training rooms in the so-called Tianfen Refining Qi Tower.

As he walked slowly from east to south, Xiao Ling discovered that it seemed that all the advanced training rooms were close to the center of the tower, while outside them were the intermediate training rooms and even lower-level training rooms.

Looking at these training rooms, Xiao Ling muttered in his heart: "The fire energy cost of this first floor is the same, but the academy divides the training rooms into different levels. In order to compete for the good training rooms, there must be a lot of fighting here every day. Canaan Academy really demonstrates the principle of the survival of the fittest."

As Xiao Ling walked, his steps suddenly stopped. He looked forward along the direction of his sight and found that he had reached the center of the tower...

Looking at the bottomless black hole in front of him in some astonishment, Xiao Ling slowly took two steps forward, came to the edge of the black hole, and carefully looked down. The pitch-black darkness spread to the end of his sight. The strange darkness with almost no light made Xiao Ling feel a little dizzy.

This black hole seems to run through the entire Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower. If it were not covered by the tower's spire, this dark and deep hole might be visible from the sky at a glance.

In this dark deep cave, if you sense it carefully, you seem to be able to sense that the air here is much hotter than other places. It feels as if there is something at the bottom of the deep cave that is continuously emitting heat to provide to the entire Tianfen Refining Gas Tower.

"This should be the passage leading to the underground magma world. Inside, there are two Fallen Heart Flames, a Dou Zun soul, countless fire lizardmen, a nine-star Dou Sheng Taixu ancient dragon, and the ancient emperor cave that countless people are fascinated by." Thinking about the opportunities inside, Xiao Ling's heart was a little hot.

He shook his head and stopped thinking about these trivial things. Now he was just a small fighting master. He didn't even have the strength to come into contact with the opportunities here. For now, he had to improve his strength as soon as possible.

Chapter 37: Tempering Dou Qi

After leaving the area around the fire well, Xiao Ling walked towards the training room.

Xiao Ling randomly found a low-level training room and walked in, intending to first familiarize himself with the method of using the Fallen Heart Flame to temper his fighting spirit.

Then he closed the door he had opened when he came in, and Xiao Ling began to carefully look at the environment of the training room.

This training room is for one person to practice. In the center of the room, there is a black stone platform that can only accommodate two people sitting on the ground. The platform is about two inches above the ground.

Xiao Ling walked forward and carefully touched the black table with his palm. A faint warmth came through his fingertips. Under this strange warmth, it seemed that the circulation speed of the fighting spirit in his body became a little more active.

"The effect of this Tianfen Qi Training Tower is really obvious, especially for fire-attribute practitioners. It is really twice the result with half the effort to practice in such a place. I really don't know what the effect will be after swallowing that big Fallen Heart Flame." Xiao Ling muttered to himself, then turned over and climbed onto the stone platform.

Sitting cross-legged on the stone platform, feeling the increasingly strong warmth, Xiao Ling let out a long breath, snapped his fingers, and a green fire crystal card appeared in his palm.

He held the Green Fire Crystal Card tightly in both hands and then carefully inserted it into the groove in front of him. There was a slight clicking sound and a faint light burst out from the groove. With the appearance of the light, Xiao Ling clearly saw that the number on the Green Fire Crystal Card immediately decreased by one. Obviously, this should be the deduction of one day's practice fee, that is, one fire energy.

Not long after the fire energy was deducted, Xiao Ling slowly closed his eyes, formed a cultivation seal with his hands, and his body did not move at all, like an old monk in meditation.

In the lonely and peaceful mind, there is only the sound of a long and steady heartbeat, slowly echoing. After entering the state of cultivation, Xiao Ling's perception of the energy between the surrounding heaven and earth has become more acute. He can feel the astonishingly rich and hot energy in this training room. People who practice fire-attributed exercises in such a place will undoubtedly achieve more significant results than others.

"puff……"

His mind became more and more peaceful. Suddenly, a low and subtle sound was heard. Then, a cluster of flames that seemed invisible but had strange fluctuations appeared without warning not far from Xiao Ling's heart. A trace of warmth emanated slowly, making Xiao Ling's body steaming hot.

As he focused his attention on the invisible flame, Xiao Ling once again felt the palpitations of the Fallen Heart Flame's mysterious appearance. Even though he was now on high alert, he still didn't realize how the flame appeared...