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July 10th.

Shi Yan was on his way to the Registration area.

It had been ten days since he came to school and with his hardwork and wits, he was able to gather 35k credits altogether.

Now he was on his way to pay the debt and get rid of his debtee status and credit demerit.

With the rejection letters tasks that were posted for him, he was easily able to earn the remaining amount.

Fortunately the task panel only showed the tasks that were issued to his name to him or rejected students would have beaten him up like it was the end of the world.

He just wrote things like that.

But the happiness of the credits turned into nothingness whenever he heard the whispering around him.

The calligraphy on his chest was already taken care off by the female the next day but the ones on his face was something that even she had no idea of.

She can only conclude that it must be the work of the fourth or fifth year students, considering it was a top grade inscription.

Now whenever Yan saw his face, his anger diverted from his original goal.

"I should focus on getting rid of my debt."

Yan shook his head to get rid of the useless thoughts and ran towards the direction of the Registration area.

In the past ten days, he got to know the reason for why there were no transportation in the academy.

It was to make the lazy students suffer.

The students in the Martial Master Realm could use their spiritual power to fly, they can even carry others with them as well.

With the resources that the university provides, if the students were to work hard and practice well, they can become a Martial Master in less than one month.

A title held by the one who was responsible for the name of the extortion area. She became the first debtee status student to become a Martial Master in a month by using the uni store's resources.

But the teachers at the Shen Hai University knew that not everyone can become a successful person among the heaps of monkeys, so they just took everything that could make a normal humans life easy.

The distance between each and every department was set to be at least ten kilometres apart. The transportation system was annulled and the tasks with heavy physical activities were raised both in price and quantity.

Even the yearly free food was shortened to three months, just enough that the students would form a habit of it and had a tough time eating normal human food again.

If a student dreamed that he can be lazy and take his time to become a Martial Master while joining the academy, he will have a hell to follow.

And this method actually worked quite well considering that over 99% of the first years become Martial Masters by the first two months.

As for transporting stuff and normal people, what are the officials and Student Council for?

Shi Yan reached the registration area ans went towards the receptionist that he first met.

"I am here to pay my debt."

Shi Yan said to the reception with sweat flowing down his body. He had to run on his way to reach the registration area.

The receptionist looked at him and then asked for his Martial Card.

He gave her his Martial Card and she did some fumbling, checked some records and returned his Martial Card to him.

"The debt has been paid. Your status has been restored to free student. You can now use the credit system freely."

The receptionist looked at Yan and continued while looking at his face, especially the 'baby Dragon'.

"You need to up your game student. The other loan taking students have repaid their loans a week ago. You are the last one. But still, good luck to you and beware of the seniors."

"I will."

He bowed a little to her and left the registration area.

....

Three hours later.

Near the Task Hall.

Yan was sitting on a public bench and peering through the different products at the uni store.

..

My cultivation speed has not been significant at all. It's still the same as it was 10 days ago. Half filled with spiritual energy.

On the other hand I have the Sunshine Body Strengthening Art to enhance my body.

It has given me rapid results and in just ten days, my strength had tripled while I can easily run for 15 minutes straight without stopping or feeling out of breath.

It's also passive and relies on sunlight.

I AM Superman!

Just joking.

I currently have 15k credits with me. If I convert 1 million Yuan, I would get 1000 credits.

Currently not worth it.

What can I buy with this amount of money?

Do I even need to buy anything with this amount of money?

Hmm.

Let's save it for now. Three days later, I have to leave for my task and I will decide what to do later on.

For now, let's do some more rejection writing jobs and get enough credits to buy a bottle of Spirit Cleansing Pill.

With that, I will be able to reach the Martial Master Realm in three months. Probably.

Yan got up from the public bench and went to the Task Hall.

"I really hope it was true."

.....

13th of July.

It was five am in the morning and Shi Yan had been waiting for the approval of his departure permit.

It was the day of the task that he had been patiently waiting since the beginning and he was feeling hurried.

"Workman Task. Need students to load and unload 20 trucks worth of cargo. Location - Zone 17. Long task. 5k credits per person."

He looked at the task requirements and his acceptance letter.

"I will get the permit. I don't have any debt."

Five minutes later, his turn came and just as he had thought, he got the approval and was transported to the transport area.

It was the only area in the whole Shen Hai University where transport vehicles could be seen, although all of them were flying instead of driving on the roads but who cares.

Yan didn't. He went to the vehicle that he was to take for his journey to zone 17.

It was a bus type vehicle with the same exact dimensions to that off a bus except the inside was tens of times longer and the seats were like a subway.

Yan paid no mind to minor details and chose a seat to sit. He looked around him and saw other students sitting quite apart from each other.

'Must be introverts.'

He thought and closed his eyes while waiting for the bus type vehicle to leave.

He needed to, unlike the soul cab, this bus had a proper schedule of when to depart and when to arrive.

Fifteen minutes later, the bus took off and Yan decided to open his eyes.

His eyes met with another pair of eyes with less than an inch distance between them.

Yan would have thrown a punch if not for the fact that he had crossed his arms in front of his chest when he closed his eyes and it took a moment to free his hands.

A moment that the owner of the pair of eyes took and backed off.

"Sorry, I was just intrigued by the domineering words that you tattooed on your cheeks. They are spiritual imprints. Quite fine and delicate at that. The practitioner must be an expert."

The owner of the eyes said to Yan apologetically. Yan looked at him and then at the tangerine badge on his collar.

"A first year."

Yan mumbled.

"So are you. Name's Li Chen. What about yours?"

Li Chen asked while looking forward to the answer.

"Shi Yan."

Yan answered.

"Where are you going?"

Li Chen continued.

"Zone 17." [Yan]

"Zone 17... ah, the Workman task. I checked that and asked the seniors, they are really friendly, and found that it was a waste of time. The reward is too low considering the taskand it will take around two weeks by a rough estimate. Capable students can easily earn 50k credits in that time. "

"If you work hard, even 100k credit is possible as well... Sorry, I have the habit of getting lost into my chatterings."

"..." [Yan]

"I wasn't trying to say that you are a fool to choose that task, I just meant that the task isn't worth the effort. It must be a troll task by some seniors who liked to mess with the juniors. Along with the fact that it is a repeatable task with no end."

"Like some seniors told me about the various tales of the Shen Hai University, like there is an area called Extortion area in the second years area where freshman male students are often striped of their clothes while the female had their nails done wrong."

"Isn't that unfair and partial towards the males? Not just that but there is this place in the third year's area where some senior students occasionally held nude gatherings and parties by themselves, saying that it is their way to connect with the world better."

"The Student Council had been trying really hard to crack them down but they still haven't been able to do so... I wonder how they invite the others."

"I am interested in them at all, okay. I just wanted to know a little bit. By the way, do you know that the Martial Elder realm has been set as the prerequisite for the selection of the students in the Elegant Rose academy."

"That second rank University amongst the 350 Martial universities of the Great Xia. I really would have liked to go there. I heard from a friend of mine that the spiritual energy density is 18 times higher than the normal world."

"And that's just the public zone that is available to everyone. The special zones must be a heaven compared to our Shen Hai."

"Well, I wasn't saying Shen Hai academy is bad. It ranks pretty high in the 350 martial universities of Great Xia, ranking at 200 to be exact. Even then, the facilities here are quite better than many of the other universities of the same level."

"Some things are still lacking but it doesn't matter."

"Like the school lunches are good on the spiritual food scale. You know spiritual food scale. It was a system of measurement that was formed by the Martial lords who took cooking as a professional to grade the food of the Martial Practitioner's into various levels."

"Our school's food is ranked 11. But the paid food in the various resturants and villas in the vicinity can easily get a 7. Quite good."

"By the way, you know..."

"..." [Yan]

"I am sorry, I just let myself out. I haven't talked to anyone since I came to the academy."

"..." [(⁠●⁠_⁠_⁠●⁠)] [Yan]

"... The seniors came to talk to me and told me all those things, I didn't talk to them... Hahaha. Sorry."

Li Chen apologized a few time and become silent.

"Where are you going?" [Yan]

Yan asked. He was interested in the things that the person in front of him spouted, but he didn't realise what a mistake he made.

"I am going to zone 9 to enter the Beast Planet. Don't worry, I am not planning on going there to fight. I need to buy a Fiery Polka berry to use in my cultivation. A single berry cost 50k in the University store but you can get them at under a thousand in the transfer area since many of the students of different academies sell things there."

"Since the things are directly taken from the Beast Planet, they cost quite cheaper and many seniors and wanderers who have extras sell them to others quite easily. I am at the final part of my Martial Apprentice realm and require different items as per the cultivation technique that I cultivate. Henceforth, I am here for it."

"But getting the permission was quite hard as the senior at the reception thought that I was going to enter the Transfer point to fight the beasts. I am not a fool, even the lowest of the beasts have the strength of a Martial Master and Martial Apprentice realm 'experts' like us are no different from normal people."

"Heck, we can die from falling from the stairs. We are just humans! Only when we are Martial Masters that we gain power to fight against the beasts."

"Did you know that the Martial Union had been planning on expanding their area in the Beast Planet. They have already began to target the Esna and Rizaar region. Apparently that's what the beasts called it. My friend said. They have quite a weird naming sense."

"...?" [Yan]

"But who are we to speak off, to the beasts, our names might sound like gibberish."

"By the way, do you know that the Union had discarded the plan to move towards Sarvyoon forest due to the immense loss that they had."

"Now they had abandoned that direction all together and plans to attack East."

"My brother was also in that expedition and said he was thankful that the Sarvyoon forest was quite far away from the base or the beasts might have formed a beast tide and ended zone 9."

"What do you think?"