9 THRONES

CHAPTER 66: NEWS OF THE EMPEROR OF THE GOLDEN FLAMES

The next few days were normal for Vann, although there was an additional Yun Tian who often talked around Vann while treating others coldly, even he did not give good treatment to Torti. But there is no major change to Vann's daily life, he is just busy studying in class while letting Lifure start preparations to open a drugstore.

As Vann had said, Lifure had actually managed to purchase a shop in a pretty strategic location on the city under the mountain foot of the Wood Sword Academy. If there is no mistake, the store should be opened soon after making some repairs there.

Yet suddenly a news shocked the entire Wood Sword Academy. No, the news not only shocked the Wood Sword Academy but the entire Talper Province and the main strength of human cultivators were shocked by the news.

The news that appeared was none other than about Zerten. While he was under the captivity of the Golden Flame Emperor, the people from the Human Protector Alliance were trying to obtain useful information from Zerten regarding the monsters.

But before they got any information, Zerten had already been killed by the monsters in the prison of the Human Protector Alliance.

Though the Zerten prison guarded dozens of high-level cultivators and the Golden Fire Emperor, it could be said that its guard was extremely frightening.

But some monsters attacked the prison where Zerten was, a strange monster able to hold back the Golden Flame Emperor and the other guards. While the other monsters took the opportunity, when the Golden Flame Emperor and the guards were distracted by the main monster then they killed Zerten and fled the place alive.

In the end they did not get any useful news from Zerten until his death, other than that most of the human cultivators were embarrassed.

They imprisoned Zerten in their territory, but the monsters managed to invade and kill Zerten from the human territory without being injured in the slightest, many other human cultivators considered this fight to be their defeat from the monsters.

Therefore, many people blamed the Golden Flame Emperor who was considered to be failing to deal with the demons.

Before the matter became even bigger, the throne holders who were always silent finally moved.

After making sure the Golden Flame Emperor did not cooperate with the monsters, his defeat was only because he was unprepared against the enemy's sudden attack while the enemy made sufficient preparations. Because of this, it was not strange that the Golden Fire Emperor lost.

By the decree of the throne holders, the name of the Golden Fire Emperor was successfully cleared.

However he still had to clear his name, so the Golden Fire Emperor destroyed several branch pillars under his fury.

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The group of people who were most shocked about this news was the Wood Sword Academy because Zerten had once been the head of their academy, who thought the academy's famous head of power was killed in prison by monsters.

2 days later, Zerten's corpse was returned to the Wood Sword Academy.

Although it had been captured by the Human Protector Alliance, Hasel and several other academy officials knew about Zerten's purpose in killing many Qi Gathering disciples. Zerten had never planned to betray helping monsters, he was only busy searching for the original 5 Element Sword Technique to such a cruelty.

Then all the higher-ups in the Wood Sword Academy decided to bury Zerten in the academy as the previous academy's head, all the disciples invited to see Zerten one last time.

Yun Tian did not care about Zerten's corpse at all, according to him Zerten's life and death had nothing to do with him nor the Yun Family.

But Vann was different, when he saw Zerten's corpse then Vann's hand clasped firmly.

But the figure that was scary for Vann was killed very easily in prison, especially if the monster targeted Vann, then Vann would not have a chance to fight.

Vann's eyes are now shining with determination, he must become strong as quickly as possible so that he does not end up like Zerten, he must try his best to survive.

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All students can return to their homes when the funeral is over, there are no classes that the students of the Wood Sword Academy must attend on that day.

Vann spoke briefly with Torti and Yun Tian before deciding to return home.

Torti and Yun Tian looked towards Vann who was leaving before looking at each other, they felt Vann a little different just now.

If anyone had asked them what was different from Vann, they would have had trouble answering it because there was not the slightest difference.

Vann who had returned to his home took all the treasures he had obtained from the monthly match.

After hesitating for a bit, Vann decided to put on the 20 low-level cultivation crystals he had obtained from selling Medicinal Qi as well a few days ago.

At first Vann planned on wearing the low-level cultivation crystal he had just obtained in order to help Lifure if his drugstore ran into trouble at the beginning.

The problem was that now that Vann was having a crisis, he felt that he was not much different from an ant to those strong cultivators.

It seemed like the victory in the monthly match made Vann too confident, but he forgot something important that Vann cultivation was now the most basic cultivation stage, Qi Gathering.

There were hundreds of thousands to millions of cultivators who were stronger than Vann, he was still far from the strongest position.

Let alone trying to chase after Luna, with Vann's current strength it is difficult for Vann to survive.

The cultivator continent was different from the other regions where most of the people were without life force, as long as people were not careful in the Cultivator World then they might lose their lives at any time be it by monsters or the attacks of the human group themselves.

Vann started absorbing the low-level cultivation crystals in his hands, he planned on spending all the treasures he had accumulated in order to be able to reach Qi Fondation.

Although Qi Fondation was still far from the best strength among cultivators, at least the stronger Vann was the more likely he was to survive.

A powerful aura continued to gather around Vann's house, if there was someone who felt an aura around the house, they would have found there was an aura that continued to strengthen there.

But there's nobody around Vann's house right now, most of the teachers and the academy's higher-ups were busy taking care of Zerten's funeral which made them not feel the aura change on Vann's house whereas the other disciples living around Vann's house were too weak which caused them not to I felt the aura change.

Slowly the aura present in Vann's house exploded, a powerful force of pressure emerged from behind the explosion of aura just now that signified Vann's cultivation successfully increased.