Days passed in the blink of an eye,
Chen Shu and the others enjoyed a rare period of peace.
The fierce beast incident concluded, and Huaxia Academy gradually became lively again. After the trials, everyone had grown to varying degrees.
"Brothers, stop playing!"
Chen Shu spoke, "Help me with something!"
"What is it?"
A Liang and the others, who were in the middle of a game, turned to look at Chen Shu.
"Help me deal with some fierce beasts, and show off a bit!"
"Really?"
Upon hearing this, A Liang and the others immediately became interested.
Half an hour later,
On the academy's large sports field, all sorts of fierce beasts were displayed, and they were all dead lord-level beasts.
At a glance, it was enough to shock anyone!
These were the lord-level beasts Chen Shu had hunted in the [Blazing Volcano], but he hadn't had time to deal with them until now.
"What's going on?"
The newly enrolled freshmen were a bit confused, saying, "Are these rewards for us?"
"Very likely. We guarded the异空间 for over a month, so it's reasonable to give us some lord-level beasts."
Someone beside them chimed in,
At that moment, a group of freshmen felt a sense of anticipation and even wanted to step forward.
The older students who had passed by instantly blocked them,
"What are you doing?!"
"Taking the materials from the fierce beasts below..."
The freshmen said as a matter of course, "There's a fire-attribute lord-level beast material down there, which I can use."
"?"
The older students' mouths twitched. Were they trying to give away free kills right after returning to school?
"Can't you see the person in the middle?"
"Huh?"
Only then did the freshmen notice that they had previously focused their gaze on the lord-level beast materials.
"I think he looks familiar..."
"The whole country finds him familiar. Haven't you heard of the Nanjiang Bandit?"
"Holy cow!"
The freshmen's expressions jolted, and they instantly recalled, becoming extremely excited,
"He's that legend? I came to the academy specifically to see him!"
"Is it really senior Chen Shu?"
Another person's eyes held admiration, saying, "No wonder he has such a strong bandit aura..."
"Since you know him, it's best not to approach him."
The older students breathed a sigh of relief. It was truly outrageous that these freshmen were eyeing the fierce beasts below.
The freshmen nodded, taking the advice to heart,
They could only gaze from afar at the legendary Nanjiang Bandit!
Gradually, the crowd of onlookers grew, with most of them being freshmen.
Many had never seen Chen Shu in person, so they naturally wanted to catch a glimpse of him.
Coupled with the hundreds of dead lord-level beasts beside Chen Shu, the visual impact was immense.
Just then, a large red bird appeared in the distance and quickly arrived above the sports field.
"Chen Pi, what kind of nonsense are you guys up to again?"
Qin Tian leaped down, landing steadily on the ground of the sports field.
Chen Shu replied, "Didn't do anything, just dealing with spoils of war!"
"..."
Qin Tian glanced at the widespread lord-level beasts, and even he felt a pang of desire.
He said, "The incident is over. In a week, you can go to the Imperial Dragon Guard department to collect your rewards."
"Imperial Dragon Guard?"
Chen Shu was slightly taken aback and asked, "Aren't the school giving it?"
"We can't afford it anymore..."
Qin Tian spread his hands. Huaxia Academy had been almost drained by Chen Shu, and there were hardly any treasures left.
"..."
Chen Shu's mouth twitched, and he said, "I haven't finished consuming all the Grade 1 potions yet..."
Qin Tian explained, "The rewards from the Imperial Dragon Guard will include Grade 1 potions, and their effects are the same."
"Is that so..."
Chen Shu nodded, understanding.
"A Liang, your rewards will be distributed by the academy. You can find Old Liu then."
With that, Qin Tian rode his contracted spirit away from the sports field.
Chen Shu and the others spent half a day extracting the core materials and Beast Taming Pearls from the lord-level fierce beasts.
There were both Silver and Black Iron grade beasts among them, with a total value of about one billion. The main harvest from the [Blazing Volcano] was that Silver King beast, valued at several billion!
"Alright, everyone gets ten million as hard work pay!"
Chen Shu clapped his hands and said with a smile.
"So generous?"
A Liang and the others were a bit incredulous. Just processing some fierce beasts and getting ten million wasn't like the Bandit's usual style.
"You've all worked hard this past month!"
Chen Shu patted everyone's shoulders one by one and turned to leave.
"?"
A Liang and the others were slightly stunned, then instantly understood.
The group of them rushed forward and tackled Chen Shu, saying,
"Damn it! You mean all the hard work pay!"
"No, don't be impulsive."
Chen Shu quickly said, "I know it's a lot, but even if you didn't contribute, you still labored."
"Labor? What labor!"
A Liang and the others immediately took action, pinning Chen Shu firmly to the ground.
Ultimately, after a round of negotiation, Chen Shu took forty percent, and A Liang and the others took the remaining sixty percent.
Although Chen Shu was the main force, the others had helped to intercept the Golden Variant fierce beasts, and their auxiliary contracted spirits had played crucial roles.
"Satisfied now!"
Chen Shu spread his hands, a hint of helplessness in his eyes.
"That's more like it."
A Liang and the others nodded and left the sports field together.
As for the lord-level beast meat on the ground, it was given to the other students at the academy.
Although it wasn't as beneficial as King-level flesh, it was at least a rare ingredient.
...
"A Liang, can you help sell the materials?"
Chen Shu handed over the harvested materials to A Liang, relying on his strong background.
"Okay!"
A Liang nodded and said, "If any of you need materials, purchase them at market price."
"No problem!"
Everyone agreed to the arrangement.
Wang Jue said, "Tomorrow, let's go to an appraisal agency to see if there are any skills we need."
Now that the lord-level materials were all mixed together, no one knew what skills could be learned from each material, so an appraisal was necessary.
"You guys discuss it yourselves. I don't need any skills."
Chen Shu nodded, summoned his space rabbit, and his eyes shone with excitement.
A Liang asked, "Don't you need any? There are Golden Lord-level beast materials among them."
"No need, they aren't very suitable for my contracted spirit."
Chen Shu shook his head. His skills were already monstrous enough, and he only needed to level them up for now.
"Whoosh! Whoosh!"
Just then, the space rabbit's eyes flickered, releasing its divine skill [Space Mystique].
Four spatial imprints appeared on Chen Shu's body.
"The improvement is even greater than I imagined?"
Chen Shu raised an eyebrow. The system's option had asked him to deal with the fierce beast incident, and the reward was 10% of the space rabbit's attributes.
He had initially thought it would only add one imprint to [Space Mystique], but it had actually added two.
"Is this skill growing this fast?"
Chen Shu's eyes held a hint of surprise. If it became a high-level contracted spirit in the future, the monstrousness of this skill would be unimaginable.
"Huh?"
A Liang and the others turned their heads, also looking shocked.
They remembered that this fat rabbit could only release two imprints before.
"Your contracted spirit has gotten stronger again?"
"It's been a month or two. Isn't a little growth normal?"
"..."
Everyone fell silent. The problem was, you haven't done anything in these past one or two months!
After a long pause, A Liang recalled what the Great Snow King had said before, and his heart became filled with resentment.
"Why aren't you human? Why do you have to be so monstrous..."
"If you're not monstrous when you're young, will you be monstrous when you're old?"
Chen Shu sighed and said, "It's not me who's monstrous, it's my twenty-two years old."