The man in black came abruptly and walked without a trace.

In the empty alley, only a puddle of blood on the ground proves that the killer has ever appeared.

"The Ghost Shadow Sect's method of concealing aura is really powerful, and the cultivation of this man in black just now can be hidden so that I can't detect it at all. And this atomization method is also very weird......"

Li Yuan's expression was serious.

If it hadn't been for Xiao Yun's reminder in advance, he wouldn't have known that the killer of the Ghost Shadow Sect would have found him so quickly.

He couldn't even sense the breath of the other party when the man in black stood in front of him just now, this kind of concealment technique was too clever, no wonder the Ghost Shadow Sect would become a killer sect that everyone feared as a lone monk.

"This time they underestimated my strength, and next time I'm afraid they will send a master from the Yuan Realm. If everyone in the Ghost Shadow Sect had such a strange body and concealment technique, my life would not be easy. Li Yuan said secretly in his heart.

It is impossible to be vigilant all the time, and it is a very uncomfortable feeling to be surrounded by hungry wolves, and if he relaxes the slightest, the enemy may take advantage of the situation and inflict a fatal blow on him.

Li Yuan sighed, walked out of the alley, and muttered, "It seems that it is really necessary to join the Huangting Academy. Not to mention anything else, the eighteenth-layer purgatory of Huangting Academy must be a place where the Ghost Shadow Sect cannot set foot in. ”

Out of the alley, Xiaoyun was sitting on a stool at the door of the grocery store opposite, bowing his head and playing with the feathers on his arm.

Seeing him come back safely, Zhanyan smiled and said, "Master, are you okay, the person who is following seems to be gone, and I can't feel his breath." ”

With a happy face, I really don't know if it's because of the safety of his master, or because of her own safety.

For this little banshee who was extremely afraid of death, Li Yuan was a little helpless, and replied: "That person is estimated to be unable to live, but there will definitely be stronger people to retaliate later." You have a stronger perception than me, you have to pay attention to your surroundings at all times, and tell me in time if someone is sneaking close, otherwise you will be unlucky when I die. ”

"Well, leave it to me. Xiaoyun nodded vigorously.

She has a lot of motivation and enthusiasm for ensuring the safety of her life.

"Let's go, let's go to Huangting Academy. ”

Li Yuan took her, quickened her pace, and headed straight to the northwest.

The east and south sides of Pangshan City are next to the Cangyun River, while the west and north sides are leaning against a rolling mountain range.

Huangting Academy is located in the northwest corner of the city, which is the highest place, occupying tens of thousands of acres of land in the inner city, almost as big as a city in other places.

Before I arrived at the Huangting Academy, I could already see the Xianmen Academy standing on the hillside from a long distance.

Along the way, Li Yuan heard a lot of news related to Huangting Academy from passers-by.

For example, this academy is the place where the largest number of immortal cultivators are taught in Pangshan County, and every year, a group of children with a number of more than 500 people enter the academy and then successfully become forging monks. If the family has sufficient wealth and pays enough silver taels and spirit stones, they can continue to cultivate to the Qi Refining Realm, or even the Condensing True Realm.

For another example, the current dean of the Huangting Academy, the "Thousand Machines Venerable", is a super powerhouse who has cultivated to reach the peak of the Xuantong Realm, and has been guarding the city for hundreds of years. Together with the county guard who is a powerhouse in the Xuantong Realm, that is, Yang Kaishan, the city lord of Pangshan City, they are all apprentices trained by him.

Such an institution full of peach and plums naturally attracted a large number of mortals and immortal cultivators to come to study.

Especially for some secular families with low status who can't get the cultivation of the mind method by any means, they take the tuition fee of Huangting Academy as their biggest goal, and do their best to send their children to cultivate immortals, hoping that the children can be extraordinary, and glorify their ancestors.

Therefore, the vicinity of the northwest corner of Pangshan City has always been one of the most visited places in the entire city.

It was September now, which happened to be the month when Huang Ting Academy recruited new disciples once a year, and there were especially many people in the vicinity of the Academy.

When Li Yuan and Xiaoyun came to the gate of the academy, it happened to be the most crowded time of the day, and there was a huge courtyard of the academy, gathering at least hundreds of people.

Most of these people are still ordinary people, and a group of adults and their children gather under a sign that reads "Lower Academy".

The "Lower Academy" is a place that recruits children and guides young people on the path of cultivating immortals.

On the other side, there is the "outer courtyard" that can only be entered after reaching the Qi Refining Realm.

There are many fewer people under the "Outer Courtyard" sign, only less than 100 people, almost all of them are young children.

The reason why there are few people is not that people who have reached the Qi Refining Realm do not want to come to Huangting Academy to study, but because the fees in the outer courtyard are too expensive.

The lower academy only needs one hundred taels of silver every year, but the outer academy has to pay a full hundred lower-grade spirit stones every year, which is equivalent to a medium-grade magic weapon every year, and it is impossible for a Qi refining period cultivator who has no family background to take it.

However, this question is not a problem for Li Yuan at all.

There was a long line under the "Outer Courtyard" sign, and it took a lot of work for dozens of people to do it one by one.

He didn't want to waste any more time, so he walked directly to the front, took out a high-grade spirit stone from the small cosmic ring, and threw it on the table.

"I'm here to enroll, and it's tuition. ”

In a word, crisp and clean.

The high-grade spirit stone exudes a transparent color, which is not comparable to the bluestone-like turbid low-grade spirit stone.

Although the nominal value is a hundred times that of the lower-grade spirit stones, in fact, when they are resold on the black market, basically each high-grade spirit stone can be exchanged for at least one hundred and thirty lower-grade spirit stones.

Li Yuan's move can be said to be arrogant and rude.

The other people in the queue who were going to sign up for the outer courtyard immediately became dissatisfied.

The fourteen or fifteen-year-old thin boy at the front was the first to snort: "I really don't know the etiquette, even if you have money, you have to line up well, our Huangting Academy is not just anyone can enter, especially arrogant people!"

Obviously, this is not the first time that this young man has come to the outer courtyard, and the conditions at home will not be very bad, and he is very unsightly to his swaggering behavior.

The person in charge of recruiting disciples was a young man in his thirties, and after listening to the young man's words, he nodded and said, "Yes, if you want to enter the academy, you must abide by our rules. Go to the back and line up, sooner or later it will be your turn. As he spoke, he played with the high-grade spirit stone twice, and threw it back to Li Yuan.

Dozens of pairs of disdainful eyes looked at Li Yuan, with a look of deep hatred.

Li Yuan couldn't cry or laugh, put the top-grade spirit stone back on the table, and said, "Just give me the identity certificate of a disciple of the outer court, I don't need to study with the class." ”

As he spoke, the aura of cultivation was spread, and the momentum of the middle stage of condensation was released without reservation, and a gust of wind blew around, and several people who were close were oppressed by the powerful momentum.

The young man who was in charge of recruiting disciples was just a monk who had just stepped into the Condensing Truth Realm, and was taken aback by his domineering cultivation, and after a while, he came to his senses and asked in disbelief, "You...... What kind of person are you? With your cultivation, it is more than enough to be a master in the outer courtyard, so why should you be an ordinary disciple?"

Li Yuan shrugged his shoulders and replied, "It's fun." ”