Chapter 82: Factional Strife

At this moment, Qin Heng’s voice came from outside the door, “Big brother, something bad has happened, come and take a look!”

Ye Xuan’s face turned dark as he opened the door and glared at Qin Heng, “What happened? If this isn’t a big deal, I’ll make something big happen.”

Qin Heng glanced at Ye Xuan’s dark face and saw Su Mengli with a blush on her face. He instantly knew that he had disturbed Ye Xuan’s good time.

He hurriedly explained, “It’s like this, today a group of unexpected guests came to our Awakening Academy. They directly challenged the students of our academy. The person leading them seems to know the dean, and whatever they said to the dean, the dean agreed to it. Our people have to give up a spirit stone for every loss, and so far, we haven’t won a single round. We need you, boss.”

Upon hearing this, Ye Xuan’s expression changed. Who were these people who came? And the dean actually didn’t care? He said, “Alright, let’s go take a look.”

Then, Qin Heng led Ye Xuan and Su Mengli to the academy’s martial arts arena.

At this moment, there were many people gathered in the martial arts arena, including several students who looked bruised and beaten, obviously having been beaten up. Dean Lin Xu’s expression didn’t look too good, but he didn’t make a move, just standing there.

After Ye Xuan and Su Mengli arrived, they heard a voice saying, “Lin Xu, are these the so-called geniuses you’ve been consuming resources to cultivate? Their talent is quite high, but what’s the use? In actual combat, they are just being beaten by us. Do you really think that showing off their talent can scare away the group of mutated beasts? When a real serious mutated beast invasion happens, it will still rely on us, not your students. What use are your students?”

Lin Xu calmly said, “My students need time to grow!”

The person continued, “Excuses! Slow step by step! Your students need time to grow, but will the mutated beasts that are pressing closer and closer give them time? The reason they can cultivate comfortably here is because we are fighting in the front lines. But now, the resources we risked our lives to obtain can’t even be distributed to ourselves, while your students are swimming in wealth. Why?”

Upon hearing this, Ye Xuan knew what was going on. This situation had happened in his previous life and lasted for a long time. Even as the threat of mutated beasts grew, this contradiction couldn’t be completely resolved.

All awakened individuals were divided into two types: those who awakened autonomously and those who were stimulated to awaken by Awakening Spiritual Sheres.

The former were very few in number, but those who awakened autonomously had an initial development degree of at least ten percent, and their initial awakened abilities were not weak. However, autonomous awakening depended entirely on luck and couldn’t be decided by anyone.

The latter was awakened by using Awakening Spiritual Sheres and then recruited by major universities for systematic training, absorbing spirit stones to enhance their strength.

Originally, there wasn’t much difference between the two. For example, Lin Xu was also an autonomous awakener and one of the best among them. But now he was the dean of the academy, leading a group of Awakening Spiritual Shere awakeners to grow.

However, with the establishment of awakening academies in major universities and the country’s consolidation of resources, which were distributed to major universities for systematic training of awakened individuals, this contradiction arose.

Awakening academy awakeners were called academy faction, and they awakened by using Awakening Spiritual Sheres, following a systematic growth path, absorbing spirit stones to enhance their strength.

On the other hand, ordinary autonomous awakeners in society were called the martial world faction. After awakening autonomously, they relied on their own abilities to fight against mutated beasts and assist relevant departments in dealing with mutated beast crises, making significant contributions.

Lin Xu, who used to be a big shot in the martial world faction, had a great reputation in the circle of the magic city’s martial world. Therefore, the supermarket owner recognized Lin Xu.

Now, under the arrangements from above, Lin Xu became the dean and turned into the academy faction, cultivating students. However, the martial world faction was very dissatisfied.

All the mining of spirit stones carried a considerable amount of danger. The degree of mutated beast mutation near the spirit stone mine was much higher than in other places. When capturing a spirit stone mine, there were often many casualties, most of which were paid by martial world faction awakeners.

However, the spirit stone mines they captured were distributed by the higher-ups, and what they could get was less than one-tenth. Most of it was dispatched and arranged for the awakening academy, used for the growth of academy students.

Lin Xu was also very clear about this. He also felt that the grievances of the martial world faction awakeners were understandable. So now, a group of martial world faction awakeners came to the academy to challenge and set rules.

If they won a match, they would take away a spirit stone. Lin Xu, this ruthless person, had nothing to say and let them take away these spirit stones.

At this moment, Lin Xu noticed that Ye Xuan had walked over.

He directly said, “Ye Xuan, after this match is over, it’s your turn. If you can defeat them ten times in a row, I guarantee that you can move more in the academy from now on!”

After hearing Lin Xu’s words, Ye Xuan asked directly, “Are you serious?”

Lin Xu patted his chest and said, “I, Lin Xu, never lie.”

“Good, leave this to me!”

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