Chapter 767: I've Met Zhang Xuan

"How much?"

Seeing the bitter smile on the other's face, as if he couldn't believe it, Dong Xin found it strange: "Since he's a new student, his cultivation is at most at the peak of the Harmonious Spirit realm. Even if he breaks through to the Bridge Heaven realm, in one day, killing three peak Harmonious Spirit realm spirit beasts would be impressive. Three... 120 points. Could he possibly exceed a thousand points?"

Killing an early Harmonious Spirit realm beast yields 10 points, a peak one 40. Killing three beasts of the same level in a day is already remarkable. Even if multiplied tenfold, that's only a thousand points.

Surely that's not enough to shock the dignified president of the Cangyue Society, a six-star lower-rank master teacher?

"A thousand points? If it were that little, I wouldn't be so astonished!"

Knowing she couldn't guess, Long Cangyue shook his head: "He got a total of 43,724 points..."

"How much? F-forty... thousand points?"

Her body swayed, and Dong Xin nearly fainted.

She had personally captured these spirit beasts and knew how difficult it was.

These were creatures that had repeatedly harmed people, more ferocious than those caged pets, and each was cunning. A new student who just arrived at the academy got over forty thousand points... This joke was too much!

How many spirit beasts had he killed to achieve such a result?

Had he single-handedly slaughtered all the spirit beasts on the mountain?

"Well, it wasn't from killing spirit beasts, but from... taming them!" Long Cangyue said.

"Taming?" Dong Xin's voice turned shrill.

Taming was harder than killing. Even for a renowned genius like her from the Beast Taming Academy, taming one required months or even years to reach the required affinity level. In less than a day... and with over forty thousand points, how many had he tamed?

Seeming to read her confusion, Long Cangyue continued: "He tamed over four hundred in total, and... reportedly finished within an hour!"

"An hour..." Dong Xin swallowed.

Even she couldn't do that.

"With so many points and taming so many spirit beasts, he immediately caught Dean Mi's favor, who wanted to take him as a disciple!" Long Cangyue said.

"Take him as a disciple? Dean Mi is taking a disciple?"

Dong Xin was stunned. She had been striving all along to become Dean Mi's disciple, but this six-star upper-rank master teacher, one of the Ten Elders, had never agreed.

She thought Dean Mi would never take a disciple in his lifetime, but this new student had moved him.

"Yes, but the most bizarre part is... this guy actually refused!" Long Cangyue rolled his eyes.

When he first heard the news, he was dumbfounded too.

Refusing Dean Mi, one of the Ten Elders... this guy had some nerve.

Dong Xin felt like she was listening to a fairy tale.

So many people vied to be his student, but he wouldn't take them. This guy refused... was he insane?

"Don't get excited yet. The even stranger part is that when this guy heard many people failed the assessment, he gave away all his points!" Long Cangyue said.

"Gave away?"

Dong Xin blinked and swayed again: "New student entry points can be exchanged for academic credits... With these points, getting ten credits would be easy! Even if he didn't want credits, he could exchange for top-grade spirit stones, easily apply for twenty... and he gave them away?"

"They can be exchanged for credits and spirit stones?"

While she was lamenting, Zhang Xuan, hidden in the bushes, felt his chest churn. He nearly spat blood and fainted on the spot.

If he had known these could be exchanged for credits and spirit stones, why would he have wasted the whole afternoon on the mountaintop? He would have rushed to capture spirit beasts!

Why not earn a million or two million points in a day?

If nothing else, he could have thrown out the Violet Yang Beast...

Harmonious Spirit realm beast: 10 points, Bridge Heaven realm: 100, Return to Origin realm: 1000, Void Step realm: 10,000, Cocoon Seal realm: 100,000, Half-Saint: 1,000,000, Sub-Saint: 10,000,000, Saint Domain... at least over 100,000,000!

And this beast was at peak Saint Domain first layer, which meant... 400,000,000 points!

At that rate, wouldn't he get 100,000 credits or 200,000 top-grade spirit stones in one go?

His vision blurring, Zhang Xuan regretted it bitterly.

If he really had that many credits and spirit stones, where couldn't he go?

Why stay in this lousy place?

He would have long since browsed the library and headed to the Sealed Empire.

"I'll go find Elder Mi later and see... if I can exchange the Violet Yang Beast for points..."

Feeling deeply resentful, he thought for a moment and could only shake his head helplessly: "First, the new student assessment is over. Even if I could exchange, it's hard to explain how the Violet Yang Beast was beaten and captured..."

The Heterodox puppet was his biggest trump card and couldn't be revealed. Though full of frustration, he had to let it go.

"To be honest, even I have to admire how generous this guy is!"

Long Cangyue continued: "Of course, that's nothing. If you knew what he did next, you'd go crazy!"

"Oh?" Suppressing her shock, Dong Xin looked at him again.

Hu Yaoyao and Xue Zhenyang didn't interrupt, but their faces showed no surprise; they probably already knew these things.

"After passing the assessment, this guy went to the Artifact Refiner Academy that same day. Somehow, he collapsed the record channel and even half of the guild branch..."

Long Cangyue continued.

"The record channel? The guild branch?" Dong Xin gasped: "Didn't Vice Dean Yuan kill him?"

As a senior student, she knew Vice Dean Yuan's temper: he valued rules and was upright.

Collapsing the record channel and even half the Artificer Guild's main hall... it was lucky he wasn't strangled on the spot.

"Kill him? How could that be... Not only was he not killed, but Vice Dean Yuan treated him extremely well, personally taking him to take the artifact refiner exam! As a result, this guy went from an artifact refiner apprentice to a six-star artifact refiner in two hours!"

Long Cangyue continued.

"Two hours... from one star to six stars?" Dong Xin felt like she was about to vomit blood.

She could accept the previous things; geniuses really existed, and being better than them wasn't a big deal. But going from one-star to six-star artifact refiner in two hours? What was that?

More importantly, to take the six-star master teacher exam, one's cultivation had to reach the Cocoon Seal realm of the ninth layer of Mortal Transformation; otherwise, the true qi purity wouldn't be enough to generate sufficient flame heat to refine many ores.

Are you telling me a story?

"This incident shocked Dean Zhao, who insisted on taking him as a junior disciple on behalf of his master... and this guy refused again!"

Knowing she found it hard to believe, Long Cangyue knew explanation was useless and finished telling all the information he knew.

What Zhang Xuan had done at the Artifact Refiner Academy was seen by many students; it couldn't be hidden, and a little inquiry would reveal everything.

"Dean Mi taking a disciple, Dean Zhao recognizing a junior... and he refused both?"

Swallowing, Dong Xin looked over: "This new student is indeed bizarre, but... what does he have to do with your society making money?"

What had puzzled her earlier was why, when a new student arrived, these societies said they had no money, and then they brought up this guy. Was it related to their failure to make money?

"Of course it's related! As you know, the most profitable thing at the start of the new term is selling the 'Faculty Handbook'. But this guy somehow got a more detailed and accurate version and gave it away for free to new students... Who would buy ours? Not only did they not buy, but they also cursed us, and many new students who were planning to join our societies withdrew!"

Long Cangyue smiled bitterly.

This incident had caused the Cangyue Society a great loss, which was why he had noticed this new student named Zhang Xuan. Upon investigation, he had gathered so much information.

If it were any other new student, he would have beaten him up long ago to teach him the rules. But this guy... Dean Mi and Dean Zhao were eager to have him; even if they wanted to act, they dared not!

"..."

Dong Xin's mouth fell open.

Indeed, with a free and better version, who would spend a hundred mid-grade spirit stones on an expensive one?

"Then... is there no way?"

"What way? This guy's cultivation isn't high, but he has Dean Mi and Dean Zhao, two of the Ten Elders, backing him. I really don't know what to do... Since you're all here, let's discuss this matter too!"

Long Cangyue sighed and looked at them eagerly: "He's disrupting the market and putting us in a passive position. We must punish him, or the prestige of our four great societies will be ruined, and no one will listen to us anymore!"

"Yes, we must punish him!" Xue Zhenyang also narrowed his eyes and snorted.

"How should we punish him?" Dong Xin looked over.

"This..."

Long Cangyue and Xue Zhenyang exchanged glances and smiled bitterly.

As long as they touched this guy, Dean Mi and Dean Zhao were insurmountable obstacles. If there were a way, they would have acted long ago; why wait until now?

"Speaking of this guy, I met him today!"

Just as everyone was tangled in confusion, Hu Yaoyao, who was off to the side, smiled lightly and spoke.

"You met him?" The others looked over.

These past few days, they had been scared half to death by various news about this Zhang Xuan, but they had never seen the real person.

They had no idea what the guy who had stirred up the whole academy looked like.

"Well, everyone must know the second-year beauty genius Luo Qiqi!"

Hu Yaoyao looked at them.

"Of course!" Dong Xin nodded.

Women care about appearance, and as fellow members of the school beauty rankings, how could they not pay attention?

This Luo Qiqi had entered the academy only last year and, in less than a year, had gone from peak four-star to lower-rank five-star, an astonishing rate of progress.

"I just saw her with this Zhang Xuan, and she called him teacher!" Hu Yaoyao said.

"Teacher?"

"Luo Qiqi called him teacher? You... aren't joking?"

"This Luo Qiqi has a mysterious background. She's said to be a princess of some empire, but I've inquired many times and never got a definite answer... Someone like that actually bows to a new student as her teacher?"

Long Cangyue, Xue Zhenyang, and the others couldn't believe it.