Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
This is the South Courtyard? It is indeed grander than the West Courtyard!
The sun was beginning to set, and Jiang Yi immediately followed Qian Wanguan’s instructions and found the South Courtyard after dinner. According to the rules, he would not have been able to enter the South Courtyard. However, the school gave him five hundred points in exchange to cover up what had happened today. Hence, they gave him an opportunity to enter the South Courtyard—a place which normally denied Ordinary Cadets otherwise.
Now that Mentor Zhao was dead, the college would definitely send another mentor to replace Mentor Zhao. It was uncertain if Qian Wanguan could make another arrangement through his connections. Hence, Jiang Yi needed to hunt for demonic beasts in the day and only had time to come around at night.
Martial Arts Demonstration Hall, Elixir Cultivation Pavilion, Hall of Mechanisms, Hall of Divine Monument…
As he was walking, Jiang Yi saw many facilities which were used to help in the cultivation. According to Qian Wanguan, those chambers had miraculous effects. For example, the puppets in the Martial Arts Demonstration Hall could help cadets achieve Phenomenal Stage in their martial skills. The Elixir Cultivation Pavilion allowed martial artists to increase their physical tolerance through an elixir bath, while the Hall of Mechanisms helped to train people’s agility and reflexes through the countless traps set up inside it.
Jiang Yi did not care about the facilities in front of him. He stopped in front of a grand hall, and it was the most mystical place in the college, the Hall of Divine Monument!
There were six stone monuments inside the Hall of Divine Monuments. According to Qian Wanguan, since the founding of Mt. Spirit Beast College, it had produced a total of six heaven-defying masters over thousands of years. All of six of them had invincible skills which were unbeatable across the continent. When they were at the peak of their power, the College Principal of their respective era would personally request them to leave some martial dao realizations on the stone monuments. They would then be put inside the Hall of Divine Monument to serve as an inspiration for all the college’s students to try and comprehend.
The unmatched martial experts left a scarce amount of martial dao realization, but they were still worth worshiping. However, people had different views on martial dao, and not everyone would be able to comprehend those martial dao realizations left by these unmatched martial experts.
The problem lied right there!
Due to their mysterious powers, the words left on the six stone monuments had allowed more than hundreds of people to drastically improve their martial skills! Among them, thirty-six people attained special enlightenment, and most of them became some of the best combatants in the continent.
Since then, the Hall of Divine Monument had an abnormally esteemed status. Three hundred points were needed to enter the hall for two hours per entry. One million purple gold was needed to gain entry to the hall if purple gold was used instead of points.
Jiang Yi stood outside the grand hall for a while before deciding that he could not bear to use three hundred points in exchange for the hall entry. What could he comprehend in two hours? Mt. Spirit Beast College had millions of students since it opened, and the number of people who went into the hall was comparable to the overpopulation of carps in the river. However, only a few hundred people truly managed to gain some benefits, and he did not dare to take that risk.
In the end, he stopped in front of a row of grand halls which were the college’s cultivation rooms. The cultivation rooms had powerful spirit concentration arrays which were more powerful than that of the Martial Arts Hall. It would accelerate the cultivation speed by three times, and it was exactly what Jiang Yi needed the most—to increase the level of his essence force.
Jiang Yi casually entered one of the halls but was stopped by two guards wearing white protective armors. One of them looked at Jiang Yi indifferently and said coldly, “This is the cultivation room. Unauthorized people are prohibited from entering.”
Jiang Yi did not want to be bothered by the stuck-up guards so he just casually took out his jade token and waved it at them before proceeding forward.
The jade token was given to him by the college, and it was used to record points. Having the jade token meant that he would be qualified to enter many chambers in the South Courtyard.
Once he walked inside, Jiang Yi realized that there were many individual rooms inside the great hall. All the rooms were tightly shut, and there was a man wearing a mentor’s robe, sitting cross-legged on the stage at the corner of the hall. He saw Jiang Yi walking in and said indifferently, “Cultivation Room Number One is full; go to another cultivation room.”
Jiang Yi rubbed his nose in embarrassment and walked out, only to find that the next six halls were full as well. It wasn’t until the seventh cultivation room did he find an empty room. There was also an elder sitting cross-legged on the stage. He took a quick glance at Jiang Yi and held out his hand. Jiang Yi stared at him blankly for a moment before quickly realizing that he had to pass over the jade token.
“One point is needed for half a day of cultivation; two points are needed for one day of cultivation; and so on. One point will be deducted even if it was less than half a day. You can come and get your jade token after you exit seclusion.”
The elder faintly waved his hand to dismiss Jiang Yi. He was about to enter the room when a person darted into the hall, tossing a jade token at the elder and dashing into the room.
“En?”
Jiang Yi’s expression changed. Was that person trying to snatch the room that he finally found after so much effort?
He quickly rushed forward and blocked the door before giving the person a cold stare, “Hey, have you heard of ‘first come, first serve?’ ”
“What are you talking about? Get lost! I am rushing to go into seclusion! And why is a Write-In Cadet like you cultivating?!”
The person glared at Jiang Yi and started swearing. He looked like he had too much alcohol while donned in the college’s black warrior robe with a white star on his chest. He was definitely an Ordinary Cadet, and his power had reached the first stage of the Purple Mansion Realm—hence, naturally despising Jiang Yi.
Jiang Yi did not waver, but his expression darkened and said coldly, “Mr. Cadet, please mind your words! If you swear at me again, I will report you to the college’s law enforcement team and let them decide about the issue here.”
“What is all the noise for?”
The mentor in the cultivation room suddenly opened his mouth, and Jiang Yi thought that he would help him. Instead, the mentor lamented impatiently, “This is the cultivation room and not the Battle Arena. You guys can go to the Battle Arena and settle any disagreement there, but I will kick both of you out from here if I hear another noise.”
“Eh…”
Jiang Yi’s expression sank completely; the mentor was obviously helping the other person? He was only at the fifth stage of the Cast Tripod Realm while that person was at the first stage of the Purple Mansion Realm? But the mentor actually told them to go and settle the scores at the Battle Arena? Wasn’t it obvious that he was chasing him out?
“Hurhur!”
After hearing what the mentor said, that Ordinary Cadet—who was probably two to three years older—looked at Jiang Yi with slanted eyes and sneered proudly, “You can either get lost or go to the Battle Arena? Brat, don’t push your luck while you still have a choice.”
Jiang Yi laughed from extreme anger. He already had a stomach full of boiling blood after finding out that Mentor Zhao tried to kill him by going into cahoots with the assassins. He was even more enraged and displeased after hearing the college’s judgment. He could no longer hold in his hostility and viciousness. He laughed coldly and said, “We can go to the Battle Arena, but we can’t do it without having something at stake, can we?”
“Eh?”
That person thought he heard Jiang Yi wrong and blinked his eyes in confusion. But after seeing how serious Jiang Yi was, his face was immediately lit up with smiles and said, “Alright, what do you want to gamble with? What about fifty points? I can let you start off with ten blows, and I will only defend while you attack!”
“We can bet with our points?”
Jiang Yi’s eyes twinkled, and he was secretly surprised at the sound of the suggestion. He shifted his eyes and revealed a face filled with the intention to mock and deride. “Fifty points is too low. We should have a bigger stake at hand … how about three hundred points?!”
“Oh!”
The cadet hesitated for a moment. Although there were many ways to accumulate points for an Ordinary Cadet and he never had to worry about accumulating points due to his esteemed status, three hundred points was not a small sum. Also, Jiang Yi looked like he was only a Write-In Cadet at the fifth stage of the Cast Tripod Realm. But there would always be a risk, wouldn’t it?
Jiang Yi gave a cold laugh and sneered, “Chickening out? Get lost if you don’t dare to take on the challenge!”
“You!”
Looking at the stranger in front of him, the cadet realized that Jiang Yi was definitely not one of the ferocious individuals among the Write-In Cadets. His expression changed instantly, and he gritted his teeth and shouted, “Let’s go! I will bet with you!”
