THE LIGHTNING EMPEROR

Arrive at the border

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Fang An made his journey day and night, he only rested for a maximum of 5 hours, and day after day he continued to pass along with his Spirit Beast.

The rain, the windstorm, the heat, the jokes, facing the problems together made the journey of Fang An and the Ice Lion even more exciting, and the days changed months, and the, without feeling it had been almost three months they had adventured on a trip to the Heaven Wind Peak Academy.

This time Fang An could already see the expanse of dense Forest before him, however, Fang An saw in the other direction that there was a city that was about a few kilometers away from the dense forest, which was, and of course there is the safest way to go to the giant wall that looks very far at the end of the forest.

"It looks like the wall is the border of the territory of the Green Land Continent and the White Fort! Ice Lion, we're almost at the border already" Fang An said with a heart that felt greatly relieved.

"Fang An, remember the ice woman's message, you can't fly over that wall later!" wang Lao Yi said.

"Yes teacher!" replied Fang An.

"Then what about your plan to look for the existence of the Magma Tree Root?" Feng Huang asked.

"Of course I'll look for it first before going to the far wall!" fang An replied as he stared at Lebat Forest which looked very dark.

"Is this the Black Forest?"

Fang An looked at the forest which was three times wider than the Perverted Forest, the wood was shady and tall.

According to the news, inside the Black Forest there were a lot of Earth 3 Anim Beasts, this made Fang An feel a bit hesitant to enter the forest.

Naturally Fang An had not been too strong if he had to go head-to-head with the Earth 3 Anim Beast, but if it was just one tail alone, Fang An might still be able to deal with it with the Ice Lion.

It's just that in the Black Forest there are so many Earth 3 Anim Beasts hanging around, if Fang An meets the Earth 3 Anim Beast by three, only, then it was certain that Fang An would not be able to come out alive from within that forest.

"Finding the most valuable objects must face challenges of this weight! I don't know if I can find that Magma Tree Root without having to encounter any trouble or not!" fang An murmured whose feelings were filled with a sense of worry.

"It's all up to you Fang An, but if you want to listen to my advice, it would be nice for you to go to that Academy first, there you can train to get stronger, so you can train, and once you have reached the Yu Jing stage, you can go pick up that Magma Tree Root!" wang Lao Yi said.

"But teacher, I should be able to find this Magma Tree Root, because the Sun Pill is so I need to improve my Fire Element Spirit Root, he said, thus I can refine a Tier 5 Pill and I will be able to refine a Ying and Yang Dragon Pill!" fang An said.

"There are many other ways that you can improve your Fire Element Spirit Root Fang An, although not the result is not the same as the Sun Pill, either, yet you are still not too late to look for him back when you are already really strong!" said Feng Huang.

Of course the two teachers did not want Fang An to take too much risk to face the Earth 3 Anim Beasts, even though Wang Lao Yi and Feng Huang could help him later on, it would be nice if Fang An waited until he was really able to deal with the Anim Beast Earth 3.

It was just that Fang An felt impatient to immediately discover the existence of the Magma Tree Root, even though he knew how great the danger was within the Black Forest.

"Don't act rashly by obeying the selfishness of your wish Fang An, remember that you only have two years and seven months left, if you fail to reach Yu Jing's stage at the agreed time, then not only will you lose against Fu Jianzi, even you have failed to protect your Clan which must have made your entire Clan hope to be wiped out!" wang Lao Yi said.

Fang An instantly fell silent after Wang Lao Yi reminded him of the expectations his entire clan members had for him, he only let out a long sigh and ended up staring at the extremely distant wall at the end of the Black Forest.

"Alright, I will take the Magma Tree Root when I return to Chang Lan City!" fang An said then he immediately flew away without stopping in the Black Forest.

Fortunately there were no Anim Beasts blocking their journey so they could fly through the Black Forest without any obstacles. After successfully flying through the Black Forest, they could clearly see the height of the Guardrail Wall.

Within a distance of over 3 kilometers, it turned out that there was a city of greater width than Chang Lan City, and the city was outside the barrier wall, the city was still in the territory of the Green Land Continent.

The Ice Lion flew lower above the big city, after finding a safe place to land, the two of them immediately went down and together they walked on foot following the path that led to the Gate that was on the Border Wall.

Many people who passed by on the street even walked along with their respective Spirit Beasts.

"It seems that in this city there are many practitioners? No wonder this city is bigger than Chang Lan City which is the center of the capital, if I may argue, this city is more suitable to be the capital!" muttered Fang An.

"If this city wasn't on the border, it would definitely be the main city, even if I thought it was the largest city in the entire Green Land Continent, it's just that the position of existence is what makes this city not used as the main city for government!" wang Lao Yi said.

Wang Lao Yi certainly understood all the paths of government considering that he had also lived for quite a long time and had also been the leader and owner of the Sect in his territory.

If a government is located close enough to its borders, political conflict is inevitable, certainly there will be a lot of officials who want to curry favor trying to do dirty politics with the next ruler, ranging from selling economic information, defense information and some other important confidential information.

The proof is that even though the center of government is very far from the border, there are still many individuals who abuse their positions by doing dirty business between regions.

Although it seems that there is no conflict between the Green Mainland Continent and the White Fortress, it is not impossible if both sides will secretly extract information from the strengths and weaknesses of their neighbors, after that war will certainly occur by involving many corrupt officials who are greedy to bring down their own government for personal gain, of course, who will be the victim is the people.

"If my Clan were in the position of the Chang Clan, I would definitely be made dizzy by a matter like this!" fang An said.

"Not really, in a government, anyone can be a leader, but on condition that, at least, that person has a smart mind and is in control of political science, if you can't have that, you can't have that, there must be someone else within the Clan who has it, you only need to control from behind!" wang Lao Yi said.

Fang An continued walking until he approached the gate, when he was about to step again, suddenly two men dressed in white with a warrior-like design stopped him.

"Stop, where are you going?" ask one of the soldiers.

"I want to go to the White Beteng region and my goal is to go to the Heaven Wind Peak Academy!" fang An said as he took out the jade slab Bing Rong gave him.

One of the soldiers examined the jade then both soldiers both nodded and handed it back to Fang An saying, "So you are a new student to the Academy! The gate will be open during the day, maybe soon, so wait and be ready to queue up with the others."

"Inter?" Fang An was surprised to hear that.

"Truely, every day during the day, the people who would enter the White Fort region would be checked, all for the sake of security in the White Fort Region, he said, my advice if you don't want to queue for too long, you better not go anywhere, you just wait here, so once the door is opened, you can get a queue at least in the first row!" said the soldier.

Fang An looked at the Ice Lion behind him then he again asked the soldier. "Are Spirit Beasts also allowed to enter?" tanyakanya.

"Of course, there is no prohibition for the Spirit Beast to join, as long as the Spirit Beast leaves with its master!" the answer.

"Thank you!" replied Fang An.

"Then you can wait here or join the other prospective students there!" said the soldier while pointing in the intended direction.

Fang An turned his head and saw that there were about seven young men and three old men were not far away from him, one of the young men who was sitting with the other two along with his Spirit Beast was staring at Fang An, one of them waved his hand to Fang An to come join him.

"I thought I was the only one going to the Academy, but there were others!" said Fang An and then he with the Ice Lion approached the young man who called out to him.

Of course Fang An never thought, once he arrived at the border, he would be able to enter immediately by showing his jade slab, but it turned out that the door would only be opened during the day.

"Hi friend, are you also going to the Heaven Wind Peak Academy?" ask a fat young man who previously called him.

"Yes!" replied Fang An.

"Then our destination is the same, we'll all be there too! What if we go there together?" ask the young man.

"No problem!" replied Fang An.

"Good friend, my name is Yan Hang from Tangyi Village, and this is my Spirit Beast!" said Yan Hang.

"My name is Fang An from Chang Lan!" fang An said.

"Fang An? Are you from the Fang Clan's members?" asked Yan Hang.

"Yes, why?"

"Ah that's okay, I'm just surprised that I will meet one of the youths from the Clan who dares to conflict with the Peach Tree Mountain Sect!" said Yan Hang.

Fang An only smiled faintly then he noticed the others who looked indifferent to him and Yan Hang, "Are they also from the same village as you?" ask Fang An.

"No, we just met here, just that they're a little bit arrogant, because they're from among the people!" yan Hang replied in a soft voice so as not to be heard by them.

Fang An's gaze was fixed on the three old men who were chatting together, and judging from his clothes, they were like one family and from their clothes could also be guessed if they were indeed rich people.

Yan Hang could see Fang An's gaze pointing at the three old men, he poked Fang An's arm while whispering, "They are one family, and the three of them are delivering the beautiful girl!" said Yan Hang.

"Owh..!" Fang An only nodded then he did not care about everything except Yan Hang who looked very cheerful and easily familiar with anyone he just knew.

Fang An could sense their abilities all included with four Spirit Beasts each, he said, Yan Hang was a peak practitioner of Yu Zhe and his Spirit Beast was a Black Grasshopper as big as a newborn calf, and that Grasshopper had the ability of Earth 1.

Likewise with the girl who was ushered in by the three old men, her abilities were at the peak stage of Yu Zhe, whereas the girl also had her Spirit Beast a large bee-type with wings similar to dragonfly wings, and then the Spirit Beast girl also had the ability of Earth 1.

However there was one young man older than Fang An who had the most ability, the young man had the ability of Yu Zhi Level 4 and the young man did not have a Spirit Beast, he said, it was just that the young man looked like he was extremely haughty and arrogant.

From the looks of it it seemed like the young man had not been able to sense the abilities of others who were busting on it, so he could only sense the abilities of the six would-be disciples who were average just at the Yu Zhi stage, so he could only sense that the ability of the six would-be disciples was only at Yu Zhi stage, he therefore felt the strongest on his own and did not realize that the four Spirit Beasts in their group were frightened when the Ice Lion was beside Fang An, certainly the young man did not realize or did not know if the newly joined white-haired young man had a much higher ability than all.

After a while, the sound of bells could be heard echoing from the top of the wall, and it signified that the Wall Gate would be opened.

"Let's get the front row!" bring Yan Hang.

Fang An and all of them immediately got up and instantly also people from various directions started to arrive like ants, it made Fang An startled and fortunately, only, Yan Hang immediately pulled him over until finally the group of aspiring academy disciples were in the front row.