131: Group chat

Just as Xu Yan was troubled by how to expand his client base, several notification sounds from the group chat with Lin Heng and the others caught his attention.

Picking up his phone and opening the group chat, he saw that Lin Heng and the others were chatting very animatedly, and his name was mentioned several times in their conversation.

Jing Xing: @Xu Yan, because you, from the Cultivation Department, took first place in the entrance exam last semester, the Combat Department freshmen didn't have a very good time under the teachers last semester. They kept using you to mock us. Many people in the Combat Department hold quite a grudge against you.

Jing Xing: After a semester of study and the resources invested by the Academy, those people's strength has rapidly improved. Additionally, the Combat Department teachers have introduced some incentive measures, and defeating you is one of the best rewards among them. So, whether for those rewards or to get revenge on you, many people will probably come looking for you after school starts.

Chen Yan: The Combat Department did grow quickly under the teachers' pressure last semester, but most of them are still at General Rank, right? Where do they get the confidence to challenge Xu Yan?

Mu Jin: Obviously, they've become a bit conceited due to their rapid increase in strength, plus the rewards given by the teachers are too generous, even I'm tempted. And, although most students in the Combat Department are still at General Rank, there are a few who, like us, had already broken through to Commander Rank before the end of last semester.

Mu Jin: Furthermore, besides those people, don't any of you have any ideas? I, for one, want to fight Xu Yan again, even without those rewards.

Lin Heng: Indeed, during the entrance exam, because I didn't have many powerful moves, I was suppressed the entire time, to the point where some people thought I only got second place by luck. @Xu Yan, this time, I will reclaim everything that belongs to me... Looking at the messages in the group chat, Xu Yan roughly understood what had happened. It was nothing more than a group of losers from last semester who, after a semester of development, felt confident again and planned to seek revenge and claim rewards from him.

Xu Yan had no fear whatsoever towards these challengers who might come looking for him after school started.

If it were before the end of last semester, when Zhu Yan was still in her slumbering transformation, and Wuxiang and Xiong Nian were stuck at the Commander Rank threshold, facing those opponents from the Combat Department who had broken through to Commander Rank before him, he might not have been able to defeat them.

But now, putting everything else aside, just Zhu Yan, who has already broken through to Commander Rank Level 7 and mastered a pseudo-domain and pseudo-Power of Heaven and Earth, already makes Xu Yan invincible.

It can be said that below the Monarch Rank, he basically has no opponent.

However, the content of their conversation gave Xu Yan, who was originally at a loss as to how to expand his new client base, a new inspiration.

If the situation after school starts is really as Lin Heng and the others described, then isn't this an excellent opportunity to expand his new client base?

Instead of actively developing clients, it would be better to use this opportunity to wait for those from the Combat Department to actively seek him out and challenge him.

At first, because they wouldn't know his strength, those who came might be Combat Department students still at General Rank. These people, whether in terms of usable resources or academic credits, were still at the General Rank stage, earning too little, and would not be Xu Yan's target clients at all.

But as long as he let the Commander Rank Xiong Nian and Wuxiang win a few matches with overwhelming dominance,

After realizing the gap between themselves and Xu Yan, the remaining ones would actively give up the idea of continuing to challenge Xu Yan, and let those truly capable Commander Rank individuals step forward.

Unlike those at General Rank, those who could break through to Commander Rank in the first semester had sufficiently outstanding strength to receive preferential resources from the Combat Department.

Coupled with the rewards from taking on missions or exploring secret realms, they could completely customize exclusive resources from Xu Yan with surplus academic credits, without affecting their own strength improvement speed.

Xu Yan gains resources and academic credits, and those people get extra improvements. Isn't it a win-win situation?

Thinking this, Xu Yan not only felt no impatience or worry towards the Combat Department students who might actively challenge him next, but was instead filled with anticipation.

And while Xu Yan was thinking, Lin Heng's message reappeared in the group chat.

Lin Heng: @Xu Yan, by the way, have you broken through to Commander Rank yet? If not, instead of letting others benefit, why don't we keep the good stuff in the family? Let's have a match ourselves, without Monarch Rank combat power. How about we split the rewards 50/50 if I win?

Seeing Lin Heng's message in the group chat, Xu Yan didn't humor him and retorted directly.

Xu Yan: @Lin Heng, if you want to know, you can come and scout the way for your Combat Department classmates and see if I can still make you run away with your head in your hands like during the entrance exam.

Xu Yan's reply immediately made the already heated group chat even livelier.

Jing Xing and the others had originally intended to remind Xu Yan that the Combat Department might challenge him after school started. Now that Xu Yan knew about it, there was no need to continue discussing that aspect.

So, the three of them turned the topic to egging Lin Heng on to fight Xu Yan, wanting Lin Heng to test the waters for them and probe Xu Yan's current strength.

Jing Xing: @Lin Heng, he's directly bringing up your past failures. Can you tolerate that?

Chen Yan: @Lin Heng, I know I couldn't tolerate it.

Mu Jin: How about it, @Lin Heng, you go try? You've already lost once anyway, losing again isn't a big deal.

Facing Jing Xing and the others' extremely clumsy instigation and provocation, Lin Heng did not get carried away.

Lin Heng: Get lost, get lost, get lost! If you want to go, go yourselves. Xu Yan said that, and with his personality, isn't it obvious there's a trap? I'm not an idiot; why would I go seek death before gathering enough information?

Afterward, the content of the group chat returned to the four Combat Department members bickering, with Xu Yan fanning the flames from the side.

After contentedly closing the group chat, Xu Yan began to eagerly await the challenges that the Combat Department students might initiate against him.

However, before that, Xu Yan found the phone number of the Cultivation Department's freshman Counselor in his phone and dialed it.

Since the Combat Department is letting students treat him as a big boss to farm, it's perfectly reasonable for him to ask for some appearance fees, right? He's not without backing; the trump card major of the Third Academy is still the Cultivation Department.