Chapter 170: Chapter 143: Demon Beast Realm

She got straight to the point and told Fang Xiu the whole story.

"Don’t tell me it was you, Vice Hall Master!"

Fang Xiu looked at Li Mu and asked.

"Of course not. I hadn’t even had my Awakening back then. But... it was my grandfather!"

Li Mu said helplessly.

Although she wasn’t the one who had done it, the matter was still related to her to some extent. At the very least, her grandfather was the one responsible.

It was their family’s responsibility as well.

"The old man is getting more mischievous the older he gets!"

Fang Xiu said with a slight nod.

Dark lines seemed to streak across Li Mu’s face. "It was when my grandfather had just had his Awakening. He created it by accident. He was just a kid back then!"

"In that case, this place has really been around for a long time!"

Fang Xiu nodded slightly.

For once, he didn’t retort.

"So? Will you go?"

Li Mu saw that Fang Xiu wasn’t asking many questions.

So she added to her argument.

If Fang Xiu wanted to go, the place would be a perfect fit for him.

It wasn’t a place that just any Awakened could enter.

Only those with powerful enough Talent had a chance to enter.

Furthermore, their abilities needed to be approved.

Otherwise, going inside without making significant progress was a death sentence.

Even Li Mu, who had an Awakened Space Ability, hadn’t had the chance to enter.

Her escape speed was more than sufficient.

But she was only Level 35, and her Cultivation was too slow, so it wasn’t suitable for her.

"Benefits."

Fang Xiu looked at Li Mu and said.

"Huh?"

Li Mu was stunned.

’Benefits?’

"Other people are begging me for a chance to go, and they can’t even get in!"

Li Mu said in exasperation.

"Mhm. Begging me, and they still can’t go."

Fang Xiu nodded slightly, parroting her.

"That’s not it... That place is where you can rapidly improve your Power and gain combat experience."

Li Mu tried again.

’Isn’t that a benefit?’

"I had my Awakening just one month ago and I’m already Level 26. At Level 15, I was able to kill a Level 40 BOSS. What do you think?"

Fang Xiu countered with a question of his own.

Li Mu fell silent.

’That’s right. I’d forgotten about that.’

’Cultivation speed? He had gained nearly twenty Levels in a month. Did he really need to go anywhere for that?’

’Combat experience? Even with the richest combat experience, could anyone fight someone twenty-five levels above them?’

’That was fundamentally an impossible feat.’

’But Fang Xiu had done it.’

Only then did Li Mu truly realize just how terrifying Fang Xiu’s Talent was.

’Is he really human?’

"Benefits... benefits..."

At that moment, Li Mu couldn’t think of any benefits to offer him.

’This was proving to be incredibly difficult.’

’If it were anyone else, they would be the ones offering her benefits just for the chance to get in.’

’But Fang Xiu was different. With a Talent like his, he had no reason to want to go.’

And so, for a moment, the Vice Hall Master of the Awakening Hall was stumped.

"This counts as me cleaning up your family’s mess, right?"

Fang Xiu said bluntly, "So what about the salary? You’ll have to provide a full benefits package, right? Are weekends off? You don’t pay for overtime? It should be triple pay, at least!"

Li Mu: "..."

Xiang Babang: "..."

’So *those* are the kinds of benefits you’re talking about?’

’I almost thought you were going to ask for a Divine Artifact.’

Of course, she didn’t know that Fang Xiu wasn’t all that impressed by Divine Artifacts.

After all, he possessed a blueprint for a Divine Artifact with a guaranteed 100% success rate, one that even came with a Skill.

"Yes, all of that is possible!"

Li Mu nodded.

But Fang Xiu continued, "Aside from all that, I have other demands."

"Name them. As long as it’s something the Awakening Hall can do, I can agree to it."

As the Vice Hall Master of the Awakening Hall, Li Mu had the authority to say as much.

"I can go, but not right now. I still want to experience college life. You’ll also have to issue me a graduation diploma, otherwise it’ll be hard to find a job later!"

Fang Xiu’s real objective was the item beneath the statue.

’I can’t really learn much here, anyway.’

’After all, he was already Level 26; he could be a teacher himself.’

Therefore, Fang Xiu needed time to Sacrifice that object.

Things would be much easier after that.

"Fine, I can agree to that on Li Mu’s behalf!"

This time, it was Xiang Babang who spoke up, having been watching the show unfold.

"There, the teacher agrees!"

Li Mu nodded and said to Fang Xiu.

’Spending some time studying and experiencing college life would make his life complete.’

"Mhm. My second point is that I need to go home on the weekends. If it’s too far, I’ll pass on the offer."

Fang Xiu continued.

’After all, he still had a Gate World at home. It wouldn’t do for anyone else to discover it. For that reason, even if he couldn’t go home every day, he at least needed to be able to make one trip home each day.’

"That’s not a problem either. The distance isn’t too great. I can even use my Space Superpower to shuttle you back and forth."

Li Mu said, quickly adding, "But that’s excluding times when the Demon Beast Realm opens!"

"Hm? The Demon Beast Realm? What’s that?"

Fang Xiu asked.

Li Mu thought for a moment before saying, "Humans can connect a Space Passage to a Gate World. Well, some Demon Beasts have Space Abilities too."

"There was an accident where a powerful Space System Demon Beast self-destructed, creating a Demon Beast Realm."

"The Demon Beasts in this realm are all at least Level 50. It occasionally opens up, bordering the training ground. When that happens, a huge number of Demon Beasts pour in."

"However, humanity’s experts always step in to suppress them. It’s thanks to the training ground’s existence that it doesn’t border Qingzhou City directly."

Li Mu explained briefly to Fang Xiu.

Fang Xiu’s brow furrowed slightly. He had lived in Qingzhou City his whole life and had never seen or heard of a Demon Beast Realm.

’But he knew Li Mu wouldn’t lie to him about something like this.’

’If she said it, then it must be true.’

’I never expected that the training ground was actually protecting Qingzhou City.’

"Even though you’re only Level 26, when the Demon Beast Realm appears, no Awakened will back down. Do you understand what I mean?"

Li Mu looked at Fang Xiu and asked.

Fang Xiu nodded slightly.

He had no objections to that sort of thing.

"Mhm, the Demon Beast Realm has been acting up recently. For the time being, just focus on your studies. Yue Tianrui and the others should be able to resolve it."

Li Mu nodded slightly.

"Yue Tianrui?"

Fang Xiu hadn’t expected to hear his high school principal’s name here.

’No wonder Teacher Xia Yunmeng had said the principal left in a hurry.’

’It was because the Demon Beast Realm had started to become unstable.’

"Correct, the principal of your Qingzhou City No. 1 High School. After all, he’s the second-strongest expert in Qingzhou City. He can’t refuse a duty like this."

Li Mu smiled and said, "But he volunteers for it. He goes every time the Demon Beast Realm appears."

"Huh? The principal is that powerful, but he’s only the second-strongest in Qingzhou City?"

’If I’m not mistaken, the principal is a Level 66 Power System Boxing Master.’

’With that kind of Power, he’s still only number two in all of Qingzhou City.’

’Just how many hidden experts does Qingzhou City have?’

"Then who’s number one?"

Fang Xiu asked, genuinely curious now.

’The number one must be even stronger than him.’

’That person must be an expert above Level 66, at the very least.’

’I never thought Qingzhou City had another Level 60+ expert.’

"The number one isn’t a Qingzhou City native, but he’s lived here for many years. He retired from the front lines, and his Power is immense."

At this point, Li Mu held nothing back from Fang Xiu.

As she spoke, her eyes filled with a trace of worship.

She paused for a moment before continuing, "He is a Level 70 Fire Element Awakener, and his name... is Zhao Yao!"

"Uncle Zhao?"

Fang Xiu was dumbfounded.

’The middle-aged man who runs the corner store and is always lying in his rocking chair.’

’He’s a Level 70 Fire Element Awakener?’

’The strongest Awakened in all of Qingzhou City, several levels higher than Principal Yue Tianrui?’

’It was common knowledge that leveling up past Level 50 was incredibly difficult.’

’Being able to cultivate to Level 70 meant that Zhao Yao’s Talent was also extremely high.’

"You know Mr. Zhao?"

Li Mu hadn’t expected that Fang Xiu would actually know Zhao Yao.

"Mhm."

Fang Xiu nodded, then said, "I want to go to the Demon Beast Realm!"

"Now?"

Li Mu froze, then asked.

Fang Xiu nodded and said seriously, "Yes. Right now!"

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