"That's what we planned too, but Elder Su said that he would send a steward over today to deliver the firepower for the hunting competition to us, so we want to wait here for a while."
Jiang Yanshu changed into a red outfit today, which was less flashy and more capable. She followed Jiayun and sat on the other side of Xiao Ming. As she spoke, a fragrance penetrated Xiao Ming's nose.
"Oh, are you planning to go together?"
Xiao Ming was a little surprised when he heard this. Why hadn't he seen each other all night? The relationship between the two women seemed to have improved a lot. Could it be that he had listened to what Elder Su said?
"The two of us plan to go together, and we have to take care of them. As for Buck and his friends, their ideas are probably similar to ours, but they didn't say they wanted to hang out in the inner courtyard with us."
"Ignore Buck and the others, what do you think, do you want to wait for us to go together?" Jiang Yanshu explained with a smile, and then asked.
Do you want to join them?
Lowering his eyes, Xiao Ming drank the remaining tea in the cup, placed the cup on the table, and stood up.
"Let's forget it. Who knows when the steward who delivers the fire power will arrive? I'll leave first."
With that said, Xiao Ming waved to them and slowly walked towards the gate.
Walking out of the pavilion, there is a green avenue, and on both sides of the avenue are the residences of other freshmen of this batch.
Of course, compared with the small pavilion of Xiao Ming and the other five, theirs is a little more humble. From this point of view, it seems that not everyone has this kind of treatment.
There were no freshmen on the road at this time. It must have been that the Fire Energy Hunting Competition had given the freshmen a lot of trouble, so they didn't get up so early.
Xiao Ming didn't pay much attention to whether there was anyone on the street. He tapped his toes on the ground, and his body turned into a wisp of smoke and quickly swept towards the end of the avenue.
Nearly four or five minutes later, Xiao Ming, who was speeding along, slowed down and looked up at the end of the road, where a group of people appeared blocking the intersection.
Xiao Ming frowned as he looked at them. When he reached the exit of the avenue, Xiao Ming stopped and asked the seven or eight old students wearing tower-shaped badges on their chests:
"I don't know what you mean?"
"Of course I'm collecting tribute fees, why don't you kid..."
A rather silly-looking man in black yelled at Xiao Ming very arrogantly, but when he was halfway through shouting, his companion covered his mouth.
"This guy is talking nonsense. Junior Xiao Ming, please leave. You guys, please get out of the way quickly."
"Oh, okay, okay."
The person who spoke seemed to be the leader of the group. Under his order, several old students hurriedly moved out of the way.
Hmm? Tribute fee?
Xiao Ming glanced at the old student who answered him. Although he only said half of what he said, he still revealed an important piece of information: tribute fee.
Xiao Ming still knows a little bit about the tribute fee. It is paid by new students to the forces of old students.
This thing can be regarded as a tradition of Canaan Academy.
This tradition is not stipulated by the college. The college only encourages competition. It should be said that this kind of thing is an unspoken rule that arises on its own under the encouragement of the college.
Xiao Ming had discovered a long time ago that he didn't know who started it first. Both the old students in the outer courtyard and the inner courtyard liked to train the new students.
After each new student is trained by the old students, in order to balance their mentality, they will attack the new students after they become old students, and the cycle repeats.
When Xiao Ming was enrolling students in the outer branch of Canaan College, he was left outside in the sun for a while.
At that time, because he had no immediate interests to lose and he didn't want to attract attention, he didn't say anything about resisting.
Even if he finally wanted to show off his skills because of Xiao Shan's mutterings, instructor Ge Hu didn't give him a chance.
But this time the tribute fee is different. If Laosheng dares to ask him for the so-called tribute fee, Xiao Ming will definitely give them a swollen face and tell them who they can and cannot mess with.
He dared to steal the fire energy of 50 old students in the fire energy hunting competition. Can he accept this injustice?
Fortunately, these old students were quite smart and did not ask him for tribute fees.
This made Xiao Ming nod, very satisfied with their attitude.
Without saying anything to the old students who were preparing to block the door, Xiao Ming tiptoed, quickly passed through them, and walked away.
Looking at Xiao Ming's back, the man in black, who looked a little silly, opened his companion's hand and asked in confusion.
"Why let that kid leave? Didn't Brother Lei Yun say that every new student must collect all the tribute fees? Although this person can enter the inner courtyard at such a young age, his talent is good, but his strength should not be high, and he is also at the bottom.
He came in, why are we, the great fighting masters, afraid of what he will do."
"The one who came in at the bottom? That's because you were not here yesterday and didn't see Xiao Ming beat Wu Tao and the others until they vomited blood. Otherwise, you wouldn't have said such a thing." The leader said silently.
"He defeated Wu Tao?"
The man in black was a little unbelievable when he heard this. Wu Tao was at the Dou Ling level, ranking in the middle and upper reaches of the entire inner courtyard. How could he be defeated by a child who looked more than ten years younger than them?
He couldn't accept it.
"Oh, he not only defeated Wu Tao, but also robbed all the fire energy of the team participating in the Fire Energy Hunting Competition. His methods were really cruel. Now you know why I asked you to make way for him just now."
"I...got it." Qing in black was speechless and choked.
This new student named Xiao Ming can defeat Wu Tao, plus Wu Tao's teammates. No wonder he had to make way for him just now.
If they don't give way, the combined number of them might not be enough to fight.
When other old students who didn't know Xiao Ming's situation heard this, they also put Xiao Ming in a position that they couldn't mess with.
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When Xiao Ming walked out of the freshman area, he randomly grabbed an old student and asked for directions. Although the other student was a little surprised at his age, he still informed him of the specific location of the Tianfen Qi Refining Tower.
After learning the specific location and thinking of the size of the inner courtyard he saw on the hillside yesterday, Xiao Ming activated his fighting skills and rushed north.
The area of the inner courtyard was indeed not beyond Xiao Ming's expectation, it was very large.
He stretched out and ran wildly for nearly half an hour, but he still did not reach the limit of the inner courtyard.
During this half-hour journey, Xiao Ming got a glimpse of the atmosphere of the inner courtyard.
During this journey, he actually saw more than twenty fighting circles that were fiercely competing with each other.
Outside these circles, there are still many people watching, and they have become accustomed to being conspicuous.
This made Xiao Ming sigh with emotion: "The atmosphere in the inner courtyard is indeed very tough. Although such frequent sparring competitions are not prohibited in the outer courtyard, unless there is a grudge, few people will find other people to compete with each other."
After sighing, Xiao Ming quickened his pace.
Finally, after more than ten minutes, Xiao Ming found that there were more and more people on his way to the north.
These people in the same direction as him were all using their speed to the extreme. In the woods on both sides, there were constant figures passing by and the sound of the whistling wind.
Seeing this scene, Xiao Ming felt happy.
This inner courtyard is ridiculously big, and he actually ran for nearly fifty minutes while performing his fighting skills, and now he has arrived.