9 THRONES

CHAPTER 67: QI FONDATION

In the morning at the Wood Sword Academy, although the new academy party carried out the funeral of the previous head of the academy, Zerten yesterday but at the students already had to return to the classroom again now.

The Wood Sword Academy was only a small academy with no mid-level cultivators except Zerten, therefore the Human Protector Alliance would choose the next academy head.

There was a requirement to become the head of a low-level cultivation academy that was to have the strength of a mid-level cultivator. So even though Hasel or Githa had gained a lot of support from teachers or students, they still could not become the head of the academy without the strength of a mid-level cultivator.

For that reason, the Wood Sword Academy side handed the decision of selecting the new academy head to the Human Protector Alliance.

Why would there have to be a mid-level cultivator to become the head of the academy? The answer is that academies and sects are the means used by throne holders to fight monsters, on the other hand monsters also hate academies and various sects that always try to fight them.

So monsters always try to attack the academy or sect for as long as there is an opportunity, if a low-level academy is not protected by a single intermediate-level cultivator, monsters definitely take advantage of the opportunity to destroy that academy.

Moreover, every academy or sect had resources, weapon artifacts and fighting technique books, monsters could also use all that so they were happy to attack the academy or sect of human cultivators in order to obtain their treasures.

Vann slowly opened his eyes and stood up from the bed. With Vann's current strength, the selection of the academy's head had absolutely nothing to do with Vann. After all the people who were most affected by the new academy's head were the teachers and the academy's higher-ups, whereas they were the students, in general they would not be affected in the least.

When he just put his foot on the ground, Vann found his foot was stepping on a cultivation crystal that had been empty, the cultivation energy in the crystal no longer existed.

Vann realized around his bed that there were now dozens of empty low-level cultivation crystals, these all came from Vann absorbing as well as increasing his strength yesterday.

Shaking his head, Vann began to clear the empty cultivation crystal scattered on the floor or his bed.

After clearing the cultivation crystal, Vann put on the academy clothes and prepared to set off.

Actually Vann did not plan to go to class, but rather he had to report his changes yesterday to the academy.

Vann clasped his fist with a smile, a powerful force gathered in Vann's fist.

As Vann prepared to try his new powers by hitting the wall, Vann stopped his movements because he was afraid that his fists might damage the walls of the house.

Thinking for a while, Vann retracted the aura around his fist. If he plans to test how much his strength develops, Vann thinks about trying it out in the academy's training room later.

Walking away from his room, Vann found Lifure who was busy collecting Medicinal Qi.

"Master, morning" said Lifure who greeted Vann and then closed his bag filled with Medicinal Qi.

"Are you planning to leave? Where are you going so early?", asked Vann curiously, however Lifure had always fallen asleep in the morning.

Hearing Vann's question, Lifure rolled her eyes "Master, have you forgotten? Your drugstore will open today, I have to leave now before the store opens!".

"Good work, thank you for your hard work. The rules remain the same, some of the profits of the store will be used as a salary for you. Not only that, you can use some of the proceeds from the store to develop the drugstore" Vann said.

Lifure nodded in agreement "I understand, sir! You don't have to thank me, however I do have to help you manage the store. Moreover, I like to make cultivation medicine or manage a shop rather than just sitting here quietly".

After speaking for a while longer, Vann and Lifure went towards their respective goals.

Lifure planned to go down the mountain and go to the city, their shop was in the city under the mountain.

While Vann will go up to the upper mountain settlement. According to what Vann knew, the above settlements were for the elite disciples whereas the settlements that were above the elite disciples belonged to the teachers.

Vann planned to report the cultivation development of his, therefore he would most likely have to report it to the teachers.

But when Vann was just planning to go upstairs, a man's voice sounded "Vann, what are you doing here? Soon the class will start, if you don't hurry then you'll be late".

Vann turned to find Hasel who seemed to be planning to go to class as well to teach, Hasel's face was still as cold as the earliest time Vann met him.

Without waiting for Vann to explain, Hasel instantly realized something "You managed to reach Qi Fondation? Even if you get the Fondation Medication, who thinks your strength improves with just a few days. No, you changed from a Qi Gathering of level 1 to a Qi Foundation for about a month. Whereas you were supposed to have a tier 1 talent, I am now starting to doubt whether your previous aptitude test was correct".

Vann was not surprised if Hasel found out he had reached Qi Fondation, more precisely Vann had succeeded since last night.

As the power of Soul Wandering, Hasel could certainly see Vann's Qi Fondation cultivation without any problems.

"Teacher Hasel, I plan to report on my increase in strength. After all those who reached Qi Fondation would be considered elite disciples right? Therefore, I did not go to class but to the teachers' quarters. Previously Torti had told me, a disciple who was planning to become an elite disciple had to report it to the teacher in the upper settlement. After successfully passing the test given, I was only considered an elite disciple of the Wood Sword Academy" Vann said.

"You're right, I don't think there's a little problem coming late to class today, I'll take you upstairs", said Hasel waving his hand indicating Vann could follow him to take the elite disciple test.

Vann was a little surprised, he did not expect Hasel to spend his time helping Vann towards the settlement of the teachers.

Vann followed Hasel as quickly as possible, they began to climb up the mountain through the stairs.

While on the way, Vann asked curiously "Master Hasel, can I find out about the test of being an elite disciple?".

"Did Torti not tell you?", asked Hasel.

"No, Torti was not aware of the test problem because he had never followed it" Vann explained.

Hasel nodded "Test being an elite disciple is no secret at all, so it doesn't matter to me to tell you about what to do on the test in order to pass".