On August 27, 843 in the Shenwu calendar, Shang Xia, who had been away from Tongyou City for nearly three months, finally left the Battle Domain of the Two Realms and returned.

At this time, the vacation of Tongyou Academy has long ended.

After eliminating about one-third of the students in the original six rooms of the outer house, and about one-third of the repeaters, all the rest were promoted to the inner house and became the official students of Tongyou Academy.

Originally, this number could reach more than 110 people, but this time when he went to Tongyou Peak to practice, he encountered various accidents on the way, and despite the care of all parties, he still lost more than 20 people in the end, and only 90 people returned to Tongyou Academy safely.

These 90 people, plus about 30 students who had been repeaters in the previous session, after making up 120 people, every 20 people counted as one room, and it was still divided into six rooms.

This is different from the usual, although there have been changes in the past, but they are not divided into three or four rooms, and there are at least thirty or forty people in each room, and there has never been a six-room as now, and the number of people in each room is also the smallest in the past.

"Twenty years of accumulation in Tongyou Academy, it's finally time to accumulate steadily!" Shang Xi sighed softly.

In the past, there were very few talents available in the Tongyou Academy, and the two realms of the war domain also involved a large part of the energy.

After twenty years of training, the current Tongyou Academy has enough manpower to serve as a guide and teacher, coupled with the defeat of Siling Mountain, Tongyou Peak has completely grasped the initiative of the two realms of war, and it can also make the academy spare some manpower and energy to promote the development of the academy.

"The more rooms are divided, the more cultivation material subsidies the academy needs to provide, and the number of people in each room decreases, which means that the average resource subsidy for each student will be greatly increased, and the number of students receiving guidance and guidance from the instructors will also increase. Shang Xi then analyzed.

Shang Xia looked depressed and said, "I've been absent from school for nearly a month, won't I lose this month's resource subsidy?"

Shang Xi said angrily: "Can you still miss that little thing?"

Shang Xia looked like a miser, and said, "Of course it should be mine, no matter how small the mosquito is, it is still meat!"

Shang Xi smiled: "Then you can try to explain the reason to the academy and apply for a reissue!"

Shang Xia smiled and asked instead, "I wonder if there will be changes in the outer house this year?"

"There was a change back then!"

Peng Lanqing, the teacher of the outer house, came over at some point and said with a smile: "The college originally planned to expand the scale of recruiting students from the outer house to a total of 400 people in eight rooms this year, but later it was increased to 500 people in ten rooms. ”

Shang Xia exclaimed, "So many?"

Peng Lanqing said with a smile: "Don't look at the increase in the number of students, but these five hundred people will definitely not exceed one hundred and fifty students who are promoted to the inner house every year!"

Shang Xia thought for a while and said, "This is to raise the threshold for entering the inner house?"

Peng Lanqing said: "It's to cultivate better martial artists, Yanzhou martial artists!"

Shang Xi suddenly said, "The scope of enrollment will also expand, right?"

Peng Lanqing said in a deep voice: "Yes, including those old Yan people who have settled in other states!"

After saying goodbye to Liu Qinglan, Kang Ci and others, the new patriarch of the Shang family, Shang Ke, took a convoy of merchants loaded with all kinds of materials, and after leaving the academy, he walked through the streets of the city and headed towards the Shang Mansion all the way, attracting the attention of countless people along the way.

Perhaps because he had been away for too long and was homesick, the merchant's convoy was in a hurry, and when Shang Xia was in the academy, he didn't even have time to ask which room he was assigned to.

In just three months, the city has changed dramatically.

After coming out of Tongyou Academy, the flow of people coming and going on the streets of the city increased significantly.

But judging from the way they dress, in addition to the locals of Tongyou City, there are still many foreign warriors wandering the streets.

Although the swelling population has made Tongyou City seem much busier on the surface, compared to before, the city has also lost its former cleanliness, and the order seems a little scattered.

On the way back to Shangfu, Shang Xia even saw two or three collapsed shops, and several of them also had traces of fire and ice erosion that were obviously left by the martial artists after the battle.

"It's not been peaceful in Tongyou City lately!"

Shang Xia, who was riding a red cloud beast at the front of the convoy, suddenly sighed in his voice.

"Childe!"

Shang Xia let out an "um", turned around, and saw Yan Qi instigating the reins, causing the Red Cloud Beast under his crotch to speed up his pace and come to him.

Before, in the Two Realms Battle Domain, Yan Qi had been following Shang Xi to run errands after advancing to the martial arts conception, and Shang Xia hadn't seen him for a long time.

"Seventh Uncle, what's the matter?" Shang Xia asked with a smile.

Yan Qi's expression looked a little dignified at this time, and said, "Childe, the fifth master didn't follow the team!"

Shang Xia was stunned, and when he looked back, he found that Shang Ke didn't know when he had left.

"The fourth-order martial artist is high and high, has he already returned to the family first?" Shang Xia said with some disapproval.

Yan Qi shook his head and said, "Even if the fifth master wants to leave, he won't be so quiet, he should always inform everyone, but you see now, except for Miss Xi, no one seems to have noticed that the fifth master has left, and Miss Xi seems to be a little uneasy now, she obviously doesn't know when the fifth master left!"

Shang Xia looked at Shang Xi, and it happened that her eyes also looked over, and the aunt and nephew seemed to understand what they were thinking in an instant.

However, Shang Xia still had a disapproving expression, and said with a smile: "Why, in broad daylight, is it possible that there are still people in this hidden city who dare to openly rob the road, and it is still our business?"

As he spoke, Shang Xia's gaze made a slight gesture in the direction of a carriage not far behind him, and a merchant warrior understood, opened a black cloth-covered birdcage in the carriage, and a black shadow burst out of it, and flew into the air in the blink of an eye.

Faintly, a "chirp" disappeared as the birdcage was covered with a black cloth.

"How many third-order martial artists are there in the convoy?" Shang Xia asked in a low voice.

Yan Qi said: "Only Miss Xi and my seventh child, there was originally another one, and now he is sitting in Tongyoufeng instead of the fifth master." ”

Shang Xia sighed: "It's a pity that that the thief bird is reluctant to leave the Two Realms Battle Domain, otherwise with that Thunderbird, it can at least top most of the third-order martial artists!"

As soon as Shang Xia's words fell, a loud and high-pitched sound suddenly came from the sky overhead.

Shang Xia's face changed, and he shouted, "Stop, everyone is on guard!"

After that, Shang Xia rode forward, and behind him, Yan Qi hurriedly rode his horse to follow closely behind.

Suddenly, on the side of the street, there was an old Yan man dressed as a warrior, who seemed to be stopping there to watch the excitement, and at the moment when Shang Xia passed by, he took out a short fork from his cuff and stabbed it towards the abdomen of the Red Cloud Beast.

At the same time, a long rope suddenly flew out of the window on the second floor of a restaurant next to the street, and a vendor selling chaos across the street suddenly overturned the hot soup pot, grabbed the flat pole next to him, and jumped up.

It's a well-orchestrated kill!

Once Shang Xia's crotch was stabbed in the abdomen by a short fork, he could only jump up from the back of the Red Cloud Beast, so that a long rope would take it by surprise and restrain it from mid-air, while the vendor selling chaos would take advantage of his immobility to make up for the final blow!