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Chapter 17: Great Demon

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

He circulated his mental power and controlled the Fire Element to come to an empty room in the depths.

“The pure power of the Fire Element is too weak. I need to condense the Fire Element into flames, fireballs, fire dragons…”

Just as he was thinking of ways to strengthen the Fire Element in his hand, a miracle happened.

The Fire Element in his hand seemed to have magic power, constantly attracting the Fire Element in the surrounding air to gather.

More and more Fire Elements gathered together and turned into flames.

“How magical.” Zhou Xuan saw this and was overjoyed. “This is far from enough. I want more.”

He controlled the most primitive wisp of Fire Element to attract more Fire Elements over.

The Fire Elements in the air gathered continuously, making the flame burn brighter and brighter until it finally turned into a fireball.

The fireball burned fiercely and was filled with a scorching heat, illuminating the dim room.

Even flames were divided into grades. There were ordinary flames, spiritual flames, divine flames, primordial flames, and so on.

The ball of fire in Zhou Xuan’s hand was formed by the purest Fire Element. It had already surpassed the scope of ordinary fire and was considered a spiritual fire. Its damage was unimaginably strong.

Miraculously, the fireball burned on Zhou Xuan’s palm, but it did not cause any damage to him.

These were flames that belonged to him. They would not hurt him.

The process of condensing the Fire Element lasted until noon.

The Fire Element was floating in the air. The Fire Elements in the Demon-Suppressing Pagoda had basically been condensed into this ball.

If he wanted to strengthen the flames, he needed to gather Fire Elements elsewhere.

Bang! The bell rang at the same time, signaling that it was time to eat.

“Time sure flies.” Zhou Xuan came back to his senses and realized that more than two hours had passed.

“Let’s not play with fire for now. Let’s go and cook first.”

Although he had eaten a roasted lamb leg in the middle, he had consumed a lot of energy because he had been using his mental power to control the Fire Element.

At this moment, he felt hungry again.

Hence, he ran towards the academy’s canteen.

The auntie in the canteen was still trembling badly.

As a result, Zhou Xuan had to order two more dishes.

A bowl of chicken demon soup, a portion of stir-fried deer demon meat, a portion of steamed bear demon palm, and a portion of turtle demon egg.

The main food was naturally the fragrant and soft white steamed buns.

He felt that his appetite had increased recently. Two or three steamed buns were already insufficient. He needed to eat five.

Due to his limited wealth, he naturally ate the cheapest things. Usually, it was Bronze realm demon beast meat.

The same chicken demon soup was divided into several levels. There was bronze-level chicken demon soup, silver-level chicken demon soup, gold-level chicken demon soup, and even platinum-level chicken demon soup.

The higher the level of the chicken demon soup, the more nourishing it was and the more resistant it was to hunger. Naturally, the price was also more expensive.

Although Zhou Xuan was eating the cheapest food, he was still eating with relish.

“When I have money one day, I want to order the most expensive food,” he muttered inwardly. “And I want double portions.”

With such longing, he touched his pocket and had no choice but to return to reality.

“I don’t have much money left. Looks like I have to think of a way to earn some money.”

Now that he was doing odd jobs in the Demon Subduing Pagoda, he did not receive any salary. The advantage was that he could occasionally go to class or go to the Treasure Pavilion to learn some basic cultivation techniques.

However, for someone of his status, there was a limit to the number of times he could do it. He only had two chances every month.

Last month, he had also attended two classes and browsed through two of the most basic cultivation techniques in the Scripture Depository.

However, the gains from his cultivation in the past two days far exceeded those.

Now that he had the system, there was no need for him to freeload lessons or learn those basic cultivation techniques.

However, on second thought, he shook his head slightly. In order not to arouse suspicion, he still needed to freeload lessons and browse the basic cultivation techniques in the Scripture Depository.

At the very least, he had to put in enough effort on the surface.

On the way back, he remembered the identity of the man in black last night.

Killers like that were basically famous in the Law Enforcement Bureau.

If one captured them, there would be a bounty.

That was a way to earn money.

However, those assassins hid themselves very well. Their identities were not easily exposed and were very difficult to catch.

“This method of earning money doesn’t seem to work.” Zhou Xuan shook his head slightly. “Forget it, I’ll think of a way slowly.”

After dinner, he went to the supermarket and bought some seasonings, salt, chili noodles, cumin, and so on.

With these seasonings, it would be even more delicious to make barbecue in the future.

When he returned to the Demon Subduing Tower and placed the seasonings, he realized that a few people had come.

“Instructor Lu is also here. What is he doing?” He was a little curious and stood at the side to watch.

The Instructor Lu he was talking about was Lu Zhenxiong. He was an advanced instructor in the academy and was also Song Fan’s current instructor.

During the beast tide crisis in Yang City three months ago, Lu Zhenxiong and the others went to suppress the demon beasts.

Zhou Xuan and Song Fan had their lives saved by Lu Zhenxiong. In the end, they had come to this Demon Subduing Academy.

It was said that Lu Zhenxiong was a Star Brilliance-level Demon Hunter with extraordinary cultivation. However, Zhou Xuan did not know the exact star he was at.

As Lu Zhenxiong and the others appeared, some students also arrived one after another.

The usually deserted back mountain suddenly became lively. This was a rare occurrence.

In the end, even Song Fan and Chen Yueru came. Of course, the husky and the little she-wolf were also by their side.

Chen Yueru had developed far better than ordinary women. Not only was she taller, but her figure was also curvaceous.

Song Fan stood beside her, his face full of pride.

“Little Xuan.” Song Fan greeted Zhou Xuan from afar.

“Why are you guys here too?” Zhou Xuan looked at Song Fan curiously.

As expected, Song Fan knew more.

He explained, “Instructor Lu and the others caught a great demon. Let’s take a look.”

“A great demon?” Zhou Xuan’s heart skipped a beat. “Only a demon beast whose strength is at least at the Star Brilliance level can be called a great demon.”

Song Fan nodded and said, “The great demon that Instructor Lu and the others caught has a big background. It was one of the culprits of the tragedy in Yang City three months ago. At that time, it launched a beast tide with the other big demons and caused the tragedy in Yang City. After this period of pursuit, Instructor Lu and the others finally found it and captured it. They plan to lock it up in the Demon Subduing Pagoda and interrogate it strictly.”

“It really deserves to die.” Zhou Xuan’s eyes narrowed.

When he thought of the tragedy in Yang City, he felt as if there was a knot in his heart. He felt very uncomfortable.

“That’s right,” Song Fan said in a low voice. “Yang City was in such a miserable state back then. It wouldn’t be too much to kill a culprit like it ten thousand times.”

Zhou Xuan and Song Fan were the survivors of the Yang City tragedy. They hated the demon beasts that caused the tragedy in Yang City.

At that time, the beast tide in Yang City could be said to have caused a sensation. Those who saw it cried and those who heard it were sad.

When the surrounding students heard that Lu Zhenxiong and the others had captured such a great demon, they specially came to watch.

Chen Yueru looked into the distance and said, “I heard that it was Instructor Lu and two other advanced instructors who attacked together to capture that great demon. Those two advanced instructors are both Star Brilliance Eight-Star cultivators. Instructor Lu is even a Star Brilliance Nine-Star cultivator. This is enough to show how terrifying that great demon is.”

Zhou Xuan’s expression was solemn as he said in a low voice, “I wonder if we can find out the real reason for the tragedy in Yang City after capturing this great demon?”

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