40 Chapter 40

The next day, Kence and Sven went to their General Cultivation Class. At this time the arrogance of the students greatly lessened at seeing the disparity in strength from people only a year higher than them. The life in the academy was peaceful and their strength soar to the skies as they absorb more of their Origin Blood

They were filled with confidence and arrogance before as they thought they are extremely talented. Who would have thought that even withstanding five attacks from their seniors was as hard as scaling the heavens? They can't believe it and they were unwilling to. Too bad, reality slapped them on their faces

"Kence!" Seeing his friend Calter, immediately went to Kence and hug him. As of now, although Kence was still traumatized but all of his attention was focused on making himself stronger. It was the only thing on his mind now

Calter was sensible to not mention anything that happened that night as to not make Kence uncomfortable. Kence smiled and he hugged back his friend. Since Calter was the same as normal it means nothing bad happened to him at the party. Well... Kence didn't know it but Calter was the one that did bad things that night

The three went to their usual places at the back of the class and waited for their teacher. In normal times, Kence and Calter would already start chatting with each other but now Kence wasn't in the mood. He was awfully quiet even when Calter chatted enthusiastically at him. Calter sighed in helplessness, it seems like Kence was really traumatized

After a few minutes Narry entered the room and the students settled down. The teacher has a huge smile on his face as if he was happy a how the banquet crushed the students' self confidence

He was grinning too much that it made the students extremely irritated. Some even gritted their teeth while looking at Narry angrily. Narry didn't care though as he was happy. At least, their arrogance won't get into their heads now and will they will strive to become even more powerful

"I'm sure all of you had one hell of a night!" Narry said while mocking the students which immediately made them annoyed. "I know your lives inside the academy were incredibly peaceful but from now on that will change!"

"The academy will remove its veil and show to you why it is one of the best among the countless academies in the various Dukedom!"

The students started having a bad feeling about this, especially by how their teacher was smiling. He was clearly really enjoying other people's misfortune

"If you think the academy will give the resources you need while only wanting you to show improvements in a peaceful place then you all are terribly wrong! There is no free lunch in this world!"

"From now on there would be an elimination. As of now with the resources provided to all of you, you have a head start from those in the normal class. However! Once they reached the same rank as you all are, they would have the right to challenge you"

"If you win then that's good, you can stay in the Elite Class. But if you lose then you will be demoted in the normal class where the resources are lower!"

"Some of you may show good talent from the start but fell behind as time goes by. Those at the bottom can be caught up by the talented students from the normal class any time now!"

Some of the students' face paled at hearing that. They were the ones that fell too much behind from the rest of their classmates. If would be a great shame if they were demoted to the normal class. The academy gave them various resources yet they were overtaken by cultivators from the normal class. How can they take that?

"I'm sure you all know that the more Origin Blood you absorb the harder it was to advance so I advise you not to blindly rush your cultivation bases. It was far too common for cultivators that absorbed only 50% of their Origin Blood but has great foundation defeat those who blindly rush to absorb 99% of Origin Blood"

"Your seniors told the truth, most of them has around 45-50% absorbed Origin Blood but they focused on their body and skill! The stronger the body the more Bloodline Power it can withstand. While the stronger your connection to your Origin Soul, the more you will be skillful in utilizing its power!"

"I advise you all to focus on building up your foundation as it will greatly help you reach higher heights!"

The students were enlightened, so that's why the seniors are that powerful! It was both their body strength and connection to their Bloodline! As Bloodline power was not exactly theirs yet, it was like they were using a borrowed power. It naturally made them to not be able to properly utilize the power. But if they gained stronger connection to their Origin Blood then even if the power was not theirs it would still make them be skillful

This was the difference from those who have the foundation and not! To think they hadn't realized it before

"From now on the real hell starts! Every resources that you want you need to work hard and get it. There would be missions for you to accomplish with corresponding prices. Most of it were killing Blood Beast but of course it is up to you if you want to take the mission or not!"

"Aside from that, except for special circumstances you are all required to kill one Blood Beast at your level and give the academy the most important. If you don't have enough confidence to defeat Blood Beast at your level then you also can kill three Blood Beast a small realm lower than you"

"That will be all for today, you can start hunting now!" Narry exited the classroom while letting the students figure out things by themselves. Some immediately formed groups since the teacher didn't said that it was not allowed

A lot of students want to form group with Calter or Sven but they were all rejected. Although Kence also has high talent but they didn't want to join with someone that chickened out on killing a Blood Beast from the competition before

"Why don't we three form a group?" Calter asked with a friendly smile. If he's going to join a group, he would only join one where Kence is a member. The other students only want him for their own convenience, they were hoping to reap some benefits. But Kence is different!

"But I'm weak... I'll just become a burden to the both of you..." Kence said with a complicated expression and Sven flicked his forehead

"Just join the team why do you need to talk too much?" Sven said in annoyance. This greatly shock Calter. Sven was the person that didn't like to get touched or touch someone but today he actually voluntarily touched someone. Although... it was flicking one's forehead but there was still a skin to skin contact! That's like the first time Calter saw something like that

"Okay fine, if you two want me in the group then I'll join you. But don't complain if I become a burden" Kence said and sighed

"Yehey!" Calter said happily and went to hug Kence. "Easy, easy! Why are you that excited?" Kence chuckled at his friend

"How can I not be excited and how can you not be excited?! This is our first time fighting together! You are such a bad friend!" Calter said with a wronged voice and expression. He was like an entirely different person from the one that did something to Zairon that night. The disparity was too vast that almost no one would believe that they are just the same person

"Fine, fine I'm excited now" Kence shake his head at how childish this friend of his but then he remembered what Sven said and decided to ask Calter about it

"Can I ask for a favor?" Kence was embarrass at troubling his friend like this this but if he has other choice, he won't ask Calter for it

"Of course!" Calter said and hit his chest using his fist "Leave it to me!" His voice was filled with confidence as if he can do anything. Well, in the entire Dukedom as the most talented cultivator in the younger generation he really can do a lot of things. Even influential people in the Dukedom would try to curry favor with him. If he grew up to become a Patriarch then establishing a good relationship to him from the start was the best thing to do

It's hard for Calter to owe favors on other people once he grew strong enough

"Well...uh.... Sven wants me to ask you if you can sell pills for us" Until now, he doesn't know why they need to ask Calter for it when even he can do it. It's not hard selling one's pill in the academy especially since the academy always required resources

"Oh? If it's just that, sure I can do that. Sven, what pills do you want to sell?" Calter's eyes flashed with a strange light then looked at Sven while smiling. Calter always knew that this Sven was not simple and see through his veil and knew the true him. A person like Sven, to need Calter to sell his pills it was bound to be something precious

"Rank 0 Soul-Body pills with 100% purity" although Calter already expected that it was something precious he would have never expected that it was actually that famous but rare pill!

"A-are you serious? I did not hear it wrong right? You said a Rank 0 Soul-Body Pill?" Calter asked in disbelief. If Sven really has that kind of pills then not to mention helping him sell it, Calter would directly buy it using his Clan's money. If they heard what pills he would buy then his Clan would happily give all the money he needs

"You heard it right" Sven said while smirking like a devil. A pill that precious would arouse greed and suspicions if they knew it was made by Sven. He's just a ten-year-old kid and only started cultivating and practicing alchemy, how can he possibly do a miracle like that

"I'm willing! I'll directly buy all the pills you have!" Calter said excitedly, he doesn't care where Sven got those pills. But if he can buy that pill his standing in the Clan would once again rise

"But of course, you know what things you can and can't do if you want me to sell it to you. If you did well then I can give you a steady supply of those pills" Calter nodded his head. If words got Sven has a constant supply of the pill then trouble would come knocking at him

Actually, although the pill was Rank 0 its difficulty was the same as some of Rank 1 Pills with medium difficulty. Even the lowest Rank 1 Pill would at least be 1 gold coin. The Soul-Body Pill is precious as it can nourish both the body and soul

As one constantly used a certain kind of pill to boost one's aspect, they will slowly gain resistance to that pill. That's why, a pill like Soul-Body Pill is precious as it can improve two aspects in one pill. If it's just that then the pill would be precious but not enough for Calter's Clan to want and hoard it

The thing is, Sven claimed that the pills have 100% purity! That means it doesn't have any impurities. The impurities on the pills will slowly build up and harm a cultivator. There are pills that can clean one's body from pill impurities but even the lowest kind was expensive

To make a pill with no impurities was too hard! Even Calter's Clan greatest Alchemist can't make too much of a Rank 0 Body-Soul pill with no impurity. Even if he can, it won't be worth it. He can just make another random pill and he would be able to sell it for more money

Thus, as long as the price was not too bad Calter's Clan would surely buy all of Sven's pills without any second thoughts!