9 THRONES

CHAPTER 45: GOING HUNTING

The newly-awakened Vann immediately stood up from the spot where he was sitting, then Vann took out the iron sword that was still left in the box before rushing off towards the designated gathering place. However there was a time limit before it was considered a failure due to being late, Vann had no interest in failing even before starting to fight.

When Vann was just about to leave, Lifure who was reading the book couldn't help but ask "Master, where are you going? Are you planning on taking part in the monthly match you told me about a few days ago?".

"My goal was indeed to go to the monthly match" Vann said nodding, then a cruel smile appeared on his face "But for now, my main goal is to go hunting".

Without waiting for Lifure to speak even more, Vann jumped away. Vann's movements were really very fast, even Lifure only saw a hint of Vann's shadow before discovering that he had already disappeared.

Staring at Vann who was leaving, Lifure tilted her head full of confusion "Go hunting? Didn't you say a few days ago that he would join something called a monthly match? Very quaint".

Lifure did not think about this matter further, he had to start practicing making Medicinal Qi right now as he finished studying all of the Medicine Qi issues in the book. Now that the book was not very useful anymore to develop Lifure's Qi Medicine manufacture, what he needed was hands-on training. Therefore, Vann left some of the medicinal ingredients Kyuro had made to Lifure, let Lifure utilize the empty classes at night like Vann had once done before.

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When the gathering time stayed another minute, there were quite a number of people standing around the Soul Forest.

A large number of them happened to be near the Huta Soul, so they could come to the forest in a very short time.

An old man of about 50 years old who was none other than the teacher of the Wood Sword Academy was standing still in his place while continuing to stare at the clock, he said grimly "Live another 1 minute, he said, there's not much time".

"Teacher Katra, why do you look so worried like that? Was it because the disciples from the Wood Sword Academy who had come were less than 20 people? It seemed like the news was true, the more days then the strength of the Wood Sword Academy weakened even more. It is not strange that there are many people who would prefer to study in our Fire Animal Academy, perhaps in a few more years, your Wood Sword Academy will be thrown from the 4 greatest powers in Talper Province", the mocking voice of a man was heard from behind a 50-year-old man named Katra.

Hearing that voice, Katra's face became gloomy "Teacher Lavein, wasn't it too soon to say that? In the end, your Fire Beast Academy isn't necessarily stronger than the Wood Sword Academy?".

"Are you unable to see his daze?", said Lavein shaking his head and still smiling mockingly "On our side, there are about 30 people arriving here now, we are far superior to you!".

the 2 male teachers stared at each other with hostility, although they were both appointed as the organizers at the initial match of the monthly fight.

Among the 4 great powers of Talper Province, the Wood Sword Academy was most hostile to the Fire Animal Academy. The main reason was that they were both academies, therefore the 2 academies felt they were competing against each other and the other party was a bully.

Be it the Mask Sect or the Yun Family were also aware of the enmity matter of the 2 academies, yet they did not plan to help resolve the existing hostilities.

Not to mention there were no losses for them from that 2-strength fight, what they needed to do was just sit watching the 2 tigers fight each other.

As time nears its end, the people who arrive become even more numerous.

In the end the people from the Wood Sword Academy and the Fire Animal Academy became balanced by 200 people.

As the 2 organizers thought their academy would balance each other, a shocking figure appeared in the last 5 seconds.

Vann who was wearing the uniform of the Wood Sword Academy arrived in front of the Soul Forest.

Seeing that time was up, Katra shouted excitedly "Time is up! Master Lavein, it seems like our Wood Sword Academy has not weakened yet! At least we're still stronger than your academy".

Lavein was really angry, he looked at Katra before heading towards Vann then turning away hatefully "Don't be happy that fast just because you're a little lucky. Moreover, the number is not a problem, the most important thing is strength! I'll show you, my disciple will get the victory this time".

Katra rolled his eyes at Lavein's words "Aren't you the one who started bragging first due to the larger number of disciples than the Wood Sword Academy? When you lose, your words change immediately".

The newly arrived Vann observed all the other participants, today is just a special battle of Qi Gathering. Those with strength above the Qi Gathering also faced a match in a different place or time, so the nearly 1000 disciples gathered near the Soul Forest were the most talented Qi Gathering disciples in Talper Province.

Katra stepped forward to everyone and clapped his hands for the attention of the disciples towards him "You all managed to arrive on time, this is the time to move on to the next stage. The next monthly match is a fight in the Soul Forest, you all will stay and fight each other in the Soul Forest for 2 days! Now I'll explain the rules to you, don't kill each other! Don't try to think that we can't figure out your murder, no matter what you do either it's hiding the body to burn it, we'll know".

"The combined cultivators have already made sure the monsters in the Soul Forest are mostly Qi Gathering, only 1 to 5 Qi Fondation-powered monsters keep you from worrying. Every time you defeat a monster, they will drop a token that will play an important role in advancing to the next stage! Those who can progress to the next stage are only those who are in the top 100 most token owners, so you have to work hard to collect tokens".

"The way to collect tokens is to kill monsters or defeat colleagues from the same or different academies to collect the tokens they have. But you still can't kill each other, do you understand?".

"We understand!", cried everyone excitedly, after all most of them had never gone to the forest to fight monsters or other comrades.

"If you now understand, then the monthly match of the early stage, collecting tokens in the Soul Forest has already begun!", cried Katra as he raised his hand indicating the fight had begun.