Chapter 49: Give Me Money And I Won’t Participate
When Li Ye was sent back, many classmates were already waiting at the entrance.
Seeing him being sent back in a military mountain vehicle, everyone showed curiosity.
Deng Hao and Jia Dong went up to greet him. The latter glanced at Yang Jie whose arm was fixed and asked, “Brother Ye, what happened?”
“Encountered a demonic creature, nothing serious.
Li Ye said, then looked at the crowd, “Why are you all here? Did you come back so quickly?”
“Isn’t it all thanks to you!”
Yao Lèdān had just approached and said grumpily upon hearing this, “With you, the great Vajra Li, making a move, where’s there any chance for us ordinary people? We couldn’t even find a single demonic creature, so we could only come back to rest. Being bitten by bugs in the mountains is nowhere near as comfortable as staying in the bus.”
Did they want to come back?
Two hours earlier, they couldn’t find any demonic creatures at all, only occasionally seeing Li Ye patrolling in the air with qi circles rippling under his feet.
What was there to fight?
They very straightforwardly gave up searching for demonic creatures and came back to wait obediently.
Afterward, Gu Yang started calling everyone one by one, and with drones providing guidance, the few remaining diehards also came back.
While Yao Lèdān was speaking, the soldier who brought them turned to Gu Yang and said a few words before driving away.
Gu Yang looked at Li Ye with some helplessness, clapped his hands, and said to the classmates still outside the bus, “Alright, it’s over for today, and it’s getting late, so let’s head back first.”
The group headed to the bus, drove out from the mountain path, and went to school. By the time they arrived, it was already late. Li Ye changed into a spare school uniform in the venue before going home.
When he got home, his parents were already there.
“How did it go?”
Seeing Li Ye, Li Haihua hurriedly asked, “Today’s the experience for the Martial Arts Track, right? How did it feel?”
Liu Qingxia chimed in, “Was it dangerous? You’re not injured, right?”
They had heard Li Ye talk about the Martial Arts Students’ experience before and even went to learn about it themselves. They were naturally very worried about this kind of experience where there was a chance of death and a high probability of injury.
“It was just simply fighting some specially prepared demonic creatures to hone skills and experience. Not dangerous.”
Li Ye simply washed his hands, then took out his Five Flavors Chopsticks and started eating after sitting down.
There were still a lot of ingredients obtained from the Disinfection Bureau. Every time Li Ye came home, they would make some, plus they bought some ingredients themselves.
No matter how much they emphasized otherwise, his parents still bought some. After Li Ye tried advising them and saw it was useless, he simply let them be. The current expenses were manageable, plus he had his own salary, so it wasn’t that tight.
The 200,000 debt no longer seemed like a big deal to Li Ye. Tomorrow he could ask how the things he obtained from the experience points were calculated in terms of money.
After dinner, Li Ye washed up, returned to his room, and went to sleep.
After reaching Three Dragon Gates, there was no need to practice moves anymore; he was basically proficient. Normal training also didn’t have as good an effect as experience because experience involved real deadly fights.
Today’s battle on Dragon Mountain had been extremely satisfying for him.
That’s how it should be. With authority in hand, battles should be like this. The feeling of annihilating enemies with a raise of the hand satisfied him greatly.
This involuntarily reminded Li Ye of that painting in Pan Zhengyang’s office. He wondered when he could become like that.
The next day, Li Ye arrived at school early. As soon as he reached the venue, Gu Yang, who had been waiting for a bit, called him to the office.
“Li Ye.”
He had Li Ye sit down, his expression somewhat complex. “First, let me tell you about the score. For yesterday’s experience, you totally annihilated 84 demonic creatures, plus one extra-spec one. The supervisors calculated it—you came into contact with it and know it’s military-related.”
“The military side suggested giving extra points. After consideration here at school, plus your actions in identifying the demonic creature and rescuing classmates, we’ve rounded it up for you to a full 100 points.”
“For the points, we’ll convert them for you: 5,000 per point normally, but as a main force contestant, with a 10% premium, it’s 5,500. Since they’re all corpses, we can’t calculate based on live value. I know you sold a live Green Bamboo Dart Mantis to Yao Lèdān, which is a better price than selling to the school, but we’re not prohibiting private sales, so no issue there.”
“1 point can be exchanged for one Nutritional Supplement. If you want other high-quality ingredients, you can also commission the school to get them for you.”
Hearing this, Li Ye showed surprise. “That much?”
100 points meant he earned 550,000 in one day yesterday?
Was experience this profitable?!
“It’s actually not bad, because no matter what kind of demonic creature you kill at the experience points—Ironclad Pig or Green Bamboo Dart Mantis—there’s definitely a value difference between them, but if they’re corpses, it’s uniformly 1 point. In a sense, the school is definitely making money.”
The demonic creatures at experience points naturally vary, some valuable and some not. The school’s fair pricing is here, anyway counted in points.
But Gu Yang still felt some emotion. He had been guiding Martial Arts Students for ten years or so. There were those who took the breakthrough route, but few were as ruthless as Li Ye.
Xiang Feipeng also took the breakthrough route and was so arrogant usually, but after one trip to the experience points, he at most got a dozen points, not much impact on others.
After all, finding demonic creatures takes time.
Normal Martial Arts Students at No. 14 Middle School are mostly at One Dragon Gate to Three Dragon Gates—Three Dragon Gates is already rare. For them, grinding down two in a day is already good.
Moreover, experience isn’t done every day. As the guiding teacher, he also paid attention to students’ rest intervals to digest martial arts and improve qi and blood in between.
The cycle of each experience session is maintained for a long time.
Thinking this way, he sighed. “You cleared out the experience points and ended it early—that’s also why I called you. Let’s discuss: in future experiences, could you hold back a bit? The school’s experience points aren’t an ATM; the intent is for classmates to train.”
The experience points exist because natural resource points like mountains, forests, and lakes overflow with natural demonic creatures, but considering ecology, they can’t be fully cleared. Timed clearances are time- and labor-intensive, so students are brought in to do it.
At students’ speed, it perfectly cycles with the demonic creatures’ generation rate at experience points, while also training students’ abilities—a win-win.
Over time, it slowly developed into a rule.
But long ago, Martial Arts Students’ mortality rate was quite high. Only in recent years with stronger technology and the power to control demonic creature numbers has it slowly turned into deliberately releasing demonic creatures for students to experience.
Experience points provide all-around training, from knowledge to tracking, reaction to martial arts, including team coordination and personal courage—all grown through experience.
But now Li Ye had disrupted it.
The others got no experience effect at all.
In terms of martial arts, Li Ye defeating Xiang Feipeng was fine—could only say his martial arts were strong, perhaps good at bursts. But single-handedly annihilating an experience point was terrifying.
No. 14 Middle School only had the invited Fu Chuxue who could do it, so she didn’t participate in experiences either.
Now there was one more Li Ye.
Hearing this, Li Ye said, “I also completed the experience relying on myself alone. If you want me to hold back, who makes up for what I lack? I also lack cultivation resources. Teacher Gu probably doesn’t know—my family is just ordinary. Reaching this realm is all due to my own efforts.”
Experience points aren’t impossible to yield, but the premise is it doesn’t harm his interests.
He also needed to cultivate, so he wouldn’t yield a single point.
“Alright, I knew you wouldn’t agree, so we’ll go with the second option.”
Gu Yang rubbed his brow. “For students like you—um, breakthrough route far ahead, by default no longer needing experience—the school has another solution.”
“After last night’s discussion, the school specially approves you not participating in experiences, and for each experience session, we’ll compensate you with 400 points at this rate. How’s that?”
“Can it be done like that?” Li Ye said.
“Students like you have precedents. Besides the Martial Arts Competition, you don’t have to participate in anything else. If you achieve results in the Martial Arts Competition, rewards are separate and guaranteed generous.”
With this strength, participating in the Martial Arts Competition would definitely be no problem.
Li Ye narrowed his eyes slightly, calculating inwardly, then raised his head. “That doesn’t seem right. I remember this Dragon Mountain experience point started before summer vacation and usually ends before the Martial Arts Competition.”
“Next week is the September district Martial Arts Competition, December is the city Martial Arts Competition, April is the Provincial Martial Arts Competition. Experience ends right before summer vacation. Dragon Mountain’s experience was also selected in April. Excluding two months of summer vacation, there’s still a long time for experience.”
“Experience ended early, yet there’s still over 80 points worth. Carefully searching should find some more—100 points is reasonable. But what about May and June? Can’t be less than a week’s worth, right? I calculate 200 points per month, overall you can’t give me just 400.”
Li Ye held up two fingers. “I don’t want other things—give me 600 Nutritional Supplements per experience session, plus 300,000, and I won’t participate.”
Having calculated the accounts, Li Ye was confident.
As for being expelled…
Don’t joke.
Li Ye wasn’t really a naive seventeen- or eighteen-year-old student to be scared. He had backing.
Moreover, getting 100 points in one day wasn’t his limit—it was the limit of experience demonic creatures. If starting from scratch, he could still take it down in one day.
Once this battle record spreads, if No. 14 Middle School doesn’t want him, plenty of schools will.
Besides, by the rules, it’s what he deserves—nothing to yield.
And he only wanted Nutritional Supplements, which shouldn’t be hard for the school. As for 300,000—600 points is 3 million, and as main force with 10% premium, 300,000 is also deserved.
Not a single cent was undeserved.
Reasonable and fair.
