36. Choose to leave the team.

No one seemed to believe what Chen Danshou said. They couldn't possibly believe that because for them Chen Danshou was too talented in cultivation to reach level 9 at age sixteen. If they knew that Danshou had achieved it in only a few months, all these students would want to kill themselves with blocks of tofu. Looking around, Danshou saw expressions of disbelief on all the faces from these different academies students. Shrugging, Danshou did not try to explain further. Despite wanting to believe it, Ju Liyu felt that what Junior Brother Chen said was the truth. Swallowing hard, Ju Liyu felt that a great opportunity would occur to Junior Brother Chen so that the young man wearing this silver mask could have some amazing abilities now."What are your plans after this, Junior brother Chen?" Ju Liyu asked Chen Danshou. During Chen Danshou's cultivated meditation, Ju Liyu with Ji Shuishang and Chu Seji had done a transaction involving two demon core beasts that they got from Chen Danshou. Meryu Academy didn't get demon beast cores because it waived the rights for both demon beast cores in exchange for some more useful medicinal herbs. Water Academy gets demon beast cores from Red Fire-snake while Fire Academy gets demon beast cores from Adult-Fire Cow. The two academies exchanged the medicinal herbs they got in the training ground to get this demon beast core from the Meryu Academy's hands."This Junior Brother still wants to do combat practice inside this training ground with those demon beasts.""Alright then. Senior brother and other team members must return to Meryu Academy because medicinal herbs exchanged with the Water and Fire Academy are included in one of the missions taken by our team. We all have to report it to the Academy's Mission Hall. ""Okay, then, see you later, Senior brother Ju.""This Senior brother hopes for you to take good care of yourself, Junior Brother Chen. In five months from now, the inter-academy competition will begin. This Senior brother hopes you can represent the outer core student competition.""Outer core student competition?""Yea, you have to increase your combat experience on the training ground, but don't let your cultivation level to level up and become Heaven-level cultivator so you can participate in the competition."Ju Liyu didn't forget to give Chen Danshou soft warning because remembering this young man's talent, Ju Liyu knew that he could level up to become a Heaven-level cultivator more easily than others. If that happens, the outer core level student competition, Meryu Akademi will lose one of their participants who can help them get into the top ten.Chen Danshou sees that Ju Liyu looked sure that he would like to enter the inter-academy competition, finding it rather difficult to refuse. Living in a past life as a nerd made this young man somewhat reluctant to enter any competition. He prefers to be a low-profile person.'Young master, you must enter this inter-academies competition. Fighting with other young talented human cultivators can add to your combat experience. As a cultivator, young masters must fight not only with demon beasts but also human cultivators because, in this life journey as a human cultivator, you will face many human cultivators fighting for opportunities with you. Following this competition will prepare you well.''Okay then, I would join the competition.'After giving warnings to Chen Danshou, Ju Liyu and all members of the Meryu Academy team parted ways with him. The members of the other academy also had to report back to the demon beast cores they had gotten so they also bid farewell to Chen Danshou, leaving the young man alone in front of the cave, a former den of Red-Fire snakes.

A few kilometres from where Chen Danshou was, a group of teams from the Nerad Academy sitting around Fu Yunche; the team leader from Nerad Academy who was enjoying wild beast meat cooked by one of the female members of the team. Fu Yunche slowly chewed on the wild beast meat made by the Demon Beast chef apprentice who is one of the Fu family's descendants from the branch family.Fu Clan is one of the biggest clans in the Nerad Kingdom. Fu Clan could be one of the biggest clans there because the founder of Fu Clan once deceived one of the female Demon Beast chefs from a larger kingdom to marry him. This makes the Fu Clan have a Demon Beast chef from generation to generation because the Demon Beast chef is sharing her abilities as a Demon Beast chef to the members of the Fu clan.Unfortunately, the Demon Beast chef apprentice that Fu Yunche could take to follow him to Nerad Academy was still unable to cook demon beast meat above the Qi-level demon beast. Qi-level demon beasts have energy content only slightly exceeding wild beast meat in this training ground, so the Demon Beast apprentice chef is forced to practice using wild demon beasts that are easier to find in this training ground. Fortunately, the Demon Beast chef apprentice's training results are still good enough to eat, so Fu Yunche doesn't complain."Leader Fu-"One of the Nerad Academy's team members sent by Fu Yunche to oversee the conditions at the Meryu Academy's team returned after watching them for a long time."What are the results of your surveillance?"Without further ado, the team members Fu Yunche sent immediately told Fu Yunche the results of his observations. This team member can blend in with trees so that he can spy on others inside the forest without being noticed. This team member told Fu Yunche everything he knew after left by Nerad Academy's team in the area near Meryu Academy stayed."What?! Are you sure that new outer student killed Red-Fire snake alone?!""Yes! Like your guess, team leader Fu, that new student is dangerous.""We need to kill that new student!" Deep killing intent radiated from within Fu Yunche's body making the other team members look scared."Leader Fu, after we kill that new student, can you give me the demon beast meats he owns for me to practice my cooking skill?" asked Fu Weilan; the Demon Beast apprentice chef.This young woman is one of the talented Demon Beast apprentice chefs from the Branch clan. This woman was the one who sent herself to joining with Fu Yunche and went to Nerad Academy together with him because this woman knew Fu Yunche was one of the heir candidates in the Fu Clan. She wants to become one of his subordinate so she can live luxuriously later.