After gathering all of the space belts, Tie Ta brought them back to Jian Chen and began to count the monster cores one by one. In total, they had only 12 monster cores, all of which were Class 2 Monster Cores.
Jian Chen laughed as he grabbed 6 of the monster cores and put them in their own space belts before saying, “Tie Ta, let’s split these in half, you get 6, I get 6.”
“Alright!” Tie Ta said as he placed his share into his own space belt.
But when the 5 heard Tie Ta’s name, all 5 of them went still, as their faces became unsightly to look at. When it came to his name, everyone in Kargath Academy had heard of him since he was the headmaster’s apprentice. Although he wasn’t a Saint, when it came to the entire school, no one dared to mess with him.
By this point, the 5 students started to regret their actions so much that their intestines became green. If they had known earlier that one of them was Tie Ta, then they wouldn’t have tried to steal from the headmaster’s apprentice no matter what. But now, not only were they robbed of what they were trying to steal, but they couldn’t even get revenge now that they knew who he was; their sufferings couldn’t be summed up in words.
TL Note: Intestines go green after the body dies. Basically they regret their actions so much they want to die.
After storing all of the Class 2 Monster Cores, Tie Ta was smiling even brighter. “Changyang Xiang Tian, it’s because you’re so amazing and beat all 5 of them so quickly. I, Tie Ta, just can’t compare to you at all.”
Jian Chen laughed and said, “Alright, let’s get back on the road now and hope we can kill a few more magical beasts for the sake of our cultivation,”
Soon after, Jian Chen and Tie Ta didn’t see the paralyzed looks of the 5 students on the floor as they walked away.
When the two disappeared into the forest, one of the youths started to curse out loud, “F*cking hell, what bad luck we have! To think we came across the apprentice of the headmaster and then failed the assignment. Not only that, but we had our monster cores stolen away from us without us being able to get revenge. Such wretched luck!”
The youth who had carried the sledge hammer earlier said in a hoarse voice, “That’s not all of it, don’t forget that it wasn’t just Tie Ta who attacked us; there was another.”
Everyone’s eyes lit up, “You’re talking about Changyang Xiang Tian.”
The sledgehammer student nodded his head, “That’s right, Tie Ta has the support of the headmaster, so we can’t get revenge on him. But Changyang Xiang Tian doesn’t have that same support.”
“But Changyang Xiang Tian’s strength is so strong though. The 5 of us couldn’t beat him while he was alone, how would we ever beat him?” Another person asked.
“That’s right, and the most important fact was that Changyang Xiang Tian was far too fast, we couldn’t even dodge any of his attacks.” One of the sword wielders said; it was the very same person who had his thigh pierced by Jian Chen.
Then, the person with the axe opened his mouth suddenly, “You guys forget that Changyang Xiang Tian already offended a lot of people at the academy like Lord Cheng and Master Luo, whose strength is higher than ours. If we can find an opportunity to join them, sooner or later we’ll find a chance to strike at him.”
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In the blink of an eye, the colors of the sky began to dim. The magical beasts in the 3rd region were far less abundant than the ones in the 2nd region.Half a day had passed, but Jian Chen and Tie Ta had only found a few magical beasts. Everytime they encountered one, they experienced an arduous battle to kill it. Within that afternoon, the two of them had only gained another 7 Class 2 Monster Cores. Compared to their bounty in the 2nd region, this number was clearly insignificant. But when they thought about how the 5 students who attacked them earlier had only gained 12 Class 2 Monster Cores in 2 days despite being Saints, their hearts felt a bit more relieved.
It was a lot more restless in the 3rd region than the 2nd, since the monsters were a lot harder to kill. Also, since the number of monsters were less, more people were willing to rob others for their cores. After Jian Chen and Tie Ta had fought against the 5 students from before, they had another 3 encounters with robbers. At the very least each group had 4 people in it and at the most a group had 7 of them. But in the end, they had overcome each challenge victorious, and took all of the monster cores from the other groups. But what had made Jian Chen depressed was that the group of 4 that attacked them earlier didn’t have a single monster core, but the other 2 groups had a total of 33 Class 2 Monster Cores in the end.