Chapter 14 Dean of Nuoding Academy
Early morning, Nuoding Academy.
Back mountain.
Zhou Chen sat cross-legged on the mountaintop, five centers facing heaven. With every breath, his whole person emitted a layer of hazy golden light.
"Hu..."
After a long while, he exhaled a long arrow of white air. After sitting quietly for a while, he opened his eyes again.
"Spirit power is indeed much more condensed."
Standing up, Zhou Chen drew a circle with both hands, concluding his practice.
All along, his spirit power had been forcibly infused by external forces. Although his spirit power was as high as Rank 39, it was incomparable insubstantial and often uncontrollable.
However, the Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon he cultivated was a top-tier immortal cultivation technique. After these few days of cultivation, his spirit power had condensed a lot, almost able to be used as easily as an arm or finger.
At this time, the sun had gradually risen. Zhou Chen looked at the sky and walked toward the main gate of Nuoding Academy.
He had already agreed with Yu Xiaogang and Tang San to go to the Spirit Hunting Forest together today to help the two hunt for spirit rings.
Especially Yu Xiaogang. Having taken the pill and broken through Rank 30, he needed a thousand-year purple spirit ring, so he had to hunt a thousand-year spirit beast.
Regarding this, Zhou Chen had originally refused. Anyway, he had a System and simply did not need to hunt spirit beasts to obtain spirit rings.
But there was no helping it; Tang San was now his little admirer, and Yu Xiaogang was his subordinate. As the boss, if you did not help when your little brothers had issues, who would dare to follow you in the future?
If people's hearts were scattered, the team would be hard to lead.
Thus, Zhou Chen had to accept this task.
Walking slowly all the way, when Zhou Chen arrived at the academy's main gate, Yu Xiaogang and Tang San had already been waiting for a long time.
Besides the two, there was also a middle-aged man of similar age to Yu Xiaogang.
The middle-aged man wore a long robe. His appearance was a bit more handsome than Yu Xiaogang, his chin protruded slightly, and he wore a gentle smile on his face.
This middle-aged man smiled and said: "Xiaogang, is this the hidden family..."
Yu Xiaogang nodded.
"Indeed a man of striking appearance."
The middle-aged man took two steps, came in front of Zhou Chen, and smiled gently: "I am Marcus, the Dean of Nuoding Academy. Welcome to our academy."
"Hello."
Zhou Chen smiled kindly and exchanged pleasantries: "You are also here to help, right?"
"Yes... Wait, you are too?"
Marcus looked dumbfounded.
He thought Zhou Chen had also reached an upgrade bottleneck and wanted to hunt for a spirit ring, but he did not expect that this kid was actually here to help!
But this kid was only six years old!
Even if Zhou Chen was as extravagantly praised by Yu Xiaogang as being from some powerful hidden family, at such a young age, he would at most be a Spirit Master around Rank 10. What help could he offer?
It would be good enough if he did not get sat to death by a spirit beast.
Marcus looked at Yu Xiaogang in bewilderment, while Yu Xiaogang gave a bitter smile but did not speak, only nodding silently.
A few days ago, when helping Zhou Chen research his first spirit skill, Yu Xiaogang had been just as shocked as Marcus.
"Alright, let us set off."
Although Marcus was confused, he was quite confident in his strength as a Rank 42 Spirit Ancestor. Even if Zhou Chen was a burden, he had the confidence to look after him.
Saying this, he clapped his hands, and a coachman drove a quite spacious and solid four-wheeled carriage out of the academy.
"The Spirit Hunting Forest outside Nuoding City is nearly four hundred miles away from the academy. It is faster for us to take a carriage." Marcus explained.
"You have been thoughtful."
Zhou Chen said with a hint of gratitude.
Thanking others more would not cost him a piece of flesh, and it could also form a good relationship, so why not do it?
Moreover, Zhou Chen was also very interested in this person, Marcus.
He might have to stay at Nuoding Academy for the next few years. If he could subdue Marcus and have him join Ziwei Palace, then Nuoding Academy would be within his control!
Soon, everyone boarded the carriage, left the city, and headed toward the Spirit Hunting Forest.
Along the way, Yu Xiaogang chattered endlessly, introducing knowledge about hunting spirit beasts and obtaining spirit rings to Tang San. He even gave the invaluable spatial spirit tool—Twenty-Four Bridges Moonlit Night—to Tang San.
One had to know that even Zhou Chen, who possessed a System, did not have a spatial spirit tool yet!
The four-hundred-mile journey was neither long nor short. It was not until noon the next day that they arrived at the destination of this trip, the Spirit Hunting Forest.
The Spirit Hunting Forest was an artificial forest provided by the Heaven Dou Empire specifically for Spirit Masters who were about to advance to obtain spirit rings. A batch of spirit beasts was raised in captivity inside for Spirit Masters to hunt.
However, these spirit beasts were mostly ten-year and hundred-year ones; thousand-year spirit beasts rarely appeared. As for spirit beasts over ten thousand years old, there were basically none.
Lifting the curtain on the carriage window, Zhou Chen looked out. He saw that on the open ground at the periphery of the Spirit Hunting Forest, there were crowded rows of shops and stalls selling food, medicine, weapons, and armor. There were also various mercenaries posting bounties, and all kinds of shouting sounds rose one after another.
"Have a warrant, teaming up to hunt three-hundred-year spirit beasts, still need five people."
"Insect repellent powder, can drive away snakes, insects, rats, and ants; three silver spirit coins a bottle."
"..."
"Let's get off the carriage and buy some supplies," Zhou Chen suggested.
With a tycoon paying, everyone naturally had no objections. They got off the carriage and bought wildly, yet they only spent less than ten gold spirit coins.
For Zhou Chen, this was simply a drop in the bucket.
Once everyone finished their purchases, they abandoned the carriage. Led by the Grandmaster and Marcus, they walked toward the depths of the market.
That was where the true Spirit Hunting Forest lay.
However, what Zhou Chen and the others did not discover was that not far behind them, there was a pair of clear, beautiful eyes filled with charm.
"Elder Chrysanthemum, it should be him."
"Are you sure?" An effeminate voice sounded.
"Of course I am sure."
Hearing these words, Hu Liena stepped down from a luxurious carriage bearing the Spirit Hall insignia. Looking at Zhou Chen's distant back figure, she smiled and said:
"He looks so good-looking; it would be hard not to recognize him!"
(End of this chapter)
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