139: Chapter 139 Who is this good person, arriving at school with meritorious service?

"Teacher, I'm not dreaming, am I?"

Xiao Yan's jaw almost hit the floor as he asked Yao Lao in his mind.

"It's real," Yao Lao said with a hint of inexplicable excitement. "That's why I said your Xiao Family is about to produce a dragon. With the talent he's shown, he has a chance to charge for the Dou Zun realm before he's thirty."

"My brother is too awesome," Xiao Yan said with a proud smile. "I feel like I can totally just coast in the future."

"This old man feels like he can coast too," Yao Lao chuckled, but quickly turned serious. "No ambition. Thinking about coasting at such a young age? You even said last time that when Xiao Ting goes to Xun'er's family to propose, you'd help him back up his claim."

"Teacher, it's not that I don't want to help him, it's that I have self-awareness," Xiao Yan's mouth twitched. "With the talent Brother Ting is showing now, as long as the faction behind Xun'er isn't stupid, they won't stop them from being together, right?"

Thinking of the strength of the Gu Clan, Yao Lao couldn't help but pull back his smile. "Hard to say."

"Huh?" Xiao Yan sucked in a breath of cold air. "Brother Ting is already this awesome, and it's still hard to say?"

"Yes," Yao Lao said after a slight pause. "If Xun'er's status was ordinary, or her bloodline level wasn't high, there'd be no problem for the kid to be with her. But if her status in that clan is extraordinary, or her bloodline level is very high, then never mind a fifteen-year-old Dou Wang—even a fifteen-year-old Dou Zun would be useless."

"Before stepping into the realm of Peak Dou Zun, he won't be recognized by them."

Hearing this, Xiao Yan was shocked and asked in disbelief, "Teacher, if Brother Ting is a Dou Zun at fifteen, doesn't that prove he has a chance to break through to Peak Dou Zun?"

"It doesn't!" Yao Lao answered with absolute certainty. "Peak Dou Zun, Nine Transformations to Sainthood—to step into that level, talent, opportunity, resources, and cultivation techniques are all indispensable!"

"You practice the Burning Technique, which has now been proven to evolve by devouring Heavenly Flames. You actually have a few more chances than him."

These words made Xiao Yan's gaze turn serious. "If that's the case, then it seems I can't coast yet. In the future, I might still have a chance to..."

Xiao Ting didn't know about the conversation between Xiao Yan and Yao Lao. Hearing the discussions around him, he asked the teacher in charge of recording, "Instructor, may I ask why you haven't recorded it yet? Is there a problem?"

"This..." The instructor cast an inquiring look toward Hu Gan.

Xiao Ting's results were too exaggerated. Even he suspected that the Testing Magic Stone Tablet had made a mistake.

Hu Gan was also shocked by the cultivation level Xiao Ting displayed. Originally, he guessed the boy's cultivation was more than a six-star Dou Ling, perhaps reaching seven-star or eight-star to become a high-level Dou Ling, which would already be extremely exaggerated.

In the end, it actually reached two-star Dou Wang, a level sufficient to serve as an Elder in the Jia Nan Academy.

But he didn't question the result like the others. Not only had the Testing Magic Stone Tablet never made a mistake, but looking at the expressions of Xiao Ting, Xun'er, and the others, he knew there was no problem with this cultivation level.

"Student Xiao Ting's results are fine, go ahead and record them." Hu Gan raised his hand and took out a communication jade slip, speaking with a smile. "With this result, he can directly enter the Inner Academy to study and will receive special treatment. This old man will contact the Great Elder to come and pick him up."

Xiao Ting was already a Dou Wang expert, yet he still came to Jia Nan Academy to study; the most likely reason was the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower.

The Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower produced Origin Heart Flame at intervals. Cultivating under the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower after using it was beneficial even for Dou Wang experts.

If one was a fire-attribute cultivator, the benefits would be even more obvious.

"I'll have to trouble the Vice Dean then," Xiao Ting nodded with a smile.

He didn't plan on wasting time in the Outer Academy either.

As for Xun'er and the other girls, with his strength, he could leave the Inner Academy at any time to find them.

"By the way, Vice Dean, I have a question," Xiao Ting suddenly spoke up after Hu Gan finished his transmission.

"What is it?" Hu Gan asked curiously.

"Does the academy give rewards for killing people from the Demon Flame Valley?" Xiao Ting asked directly.

Demon Flame Valley!?

Hearing those three words, the expressions and gazes of many instructors and Elders present changed.

That was the mortal enemy of Jia Nan Academy. Every year, members of the Law Enforcement Team, students out for experience, and Elders or instructors died at the hands of people from the Demon Flame Valley.

"That's right, there are rewards for killing people from the Demon Flame Valley, and the rewards are extremely generous." Huo Qinger thought of her biological brother who had died miserably at the hands of a Demon Flame Valley Elder. Her eyes turned cold as she spoke with intense killing intent. "You are a Dou Wang expert. If you can kill a Dou Wang level Elder of the Demon Flame Valley, you can enter the Sutra Pavilion and choose any item once, or exchange it for other rewards with the Inner Academy's Great Elder."

"The rewards are right there, it's just that few people can actually do it."

"Huo Qinger, you don't need to say so much." Hearing Huo Qinger encourage Xiao Ting to kill a Demon Flame Valley Elder, Ruo Lin feared the latter might do something rash in his youthful arrogance. She immediately said, "Demon Flame Valley and our Jia Nan Academy have a poor relationship, and there are often killings."

"If Student Xiao Ting wants merit, he can go kill a few Dou Ling level deacons of the Demon Flame Valley in the future; those can also be exchanged for many good things."

At this point, Instructor Ruo Lin asked with some confusion, "Student Xiao Ting, how do you know about this?"

Xiao Ting clearly didn't even know about the flight ban within a hundred miles of Peace Town, so how did he know that killing Demon Flame Valley people earned merit at Jia Nan Academy?

"I suppose a Demon Flame Valley Elder told me." Xiao Ting waved his hand forward slightly with a smile. "On my way to Jia Nan Academy, I ran into a few blind Great Dou Masters who wanted to rob me. One of them was already a half-step Dou Ling, but I killed them all with one sword strike each."

Han Yue: "..."

She felt somewhat offended.

"After I killed those people, an old man leaning on a skull-headed cane appeared. He said I killed his targets and that those people were the blood food he had his eye on."

"I had already taken their storage rings and wasn't interested in their corpses, so I agreed to give the bodies to the old man as long as he told me the direction of Peace Town."

"He asked me what I was doing in Peace Town, and I told him I was a new student at Jia Nan Academy reporting for duty."

"When he heard that, he laughed and said it was a stroke of luck from heaven. He had just been promoted to a Demon Flame Valley Elder, and here was a genius from Jia Nan Academy for him to kill."

"He attacked me, so I killed him instead. He was just a mere one-star Dou Wang."

Everyone: "..."

Do you even hear what you're saying?

While complaining inwardly, everyone looked toward the ground.

Xiao Ting released the corpse of an old man. The clothes on his body were tattered, he was missing an arm, and there were traces of fire burns all over him.

"Hiss!"

The sound of people sucking in cold air rang out again.

So, on his way to report to Jia Nan Academy's Peace Town, Xiao Ting had incidentally taken care of a Dou Wang Elder from the Demon Flame Valley?

Bringing merit to report for school was simply unheard of.

Xiao Ting had shocked the entire audience once again.