Chapter 366: Factions! Arrival!

"Your two little girlfriends didn't come see you off?"

Ling Shuang, who seemed not to have noticed Xu Jingming's gaze, leaned back in her seat and stretched her body in a relaxed manner.

"Uh... they're still sleeping."

Xu Jingming gave a dry cough and decisively chose to change the subject:

"Instructor Ling... Teacher Ling, don't you have a fighter jet? Why do you still have to come to this airport to take a plane?"

Ling Shuang's ultra-long-range teleportation requires someone to transmit the spatial coordinates, so it being unusable is understandable.

But that supersonic fighter jet of hers, which can be stored in a spatial ring — wouldn't it be a shame not to take it out and use it?

"That fighter jet belongs to the school. Since I'm no longer serving as Vice Principal of Magic University, naturally I have no way to continue using it."

Ling Shuang explained softly, then continued:

"There's still a while before boarding, which is perfect for briefing you on the situation at Lei Ting Wu Guan.

So you won't go into the training camp completely in the dark."

"This student is all ears." Xu Jingming said with a smile.

"Just like Magic University, the Prodigy Training Camp of Lei Ting Wu Guan also takes competition as its main theme.

However, Magic University has the National Education Bureau backing it up, providing abundant resources.

Even with competition, it can't be called too intense."

Ling Shuang's beautiful eyes, with a beauty mark at the corner, looked at Xu Jingming:

"But it's different at Lei Ting Wu Guan's Prodigy Training Camp — this kind of competition will be even fiercer!

Cultivation resources, training rooms, combat technique manuals — all of these you have to fight for! Scramble for!

Director Su promised to open the combat technique manuals to you for free, so you don't need to worry too much about that part.

But the other cultivation resources still require you to work hard to obtain."

After a pause, Ling Shuang added: "Also, there's one more point you need to pay special attention to.

Lei Ting Wu Guan isn't a monolithic block; broadly speaking, it's divided into two factions.

One side is Director Su's side, and the other faction originates from Vice Director Hu Jinyu.

You were recruited by Director Su, so you likewise belong to her side. Of course, so do I."

"Understood."

Where there is interest, there is struggle—this principle Xu Jingming still understood.

Even some large clans with blood ties are internally divided into several factions.

Lei Ting Wu Guan, established for nearly two hundred years, having such a situation is perfectly normal.

The only thing that puzzled him, though, was that a vice director would actually dare to oppose the director.

Where did that courage come from?

"Vice Director Hu Jinyu is also a ninth-tier Wu Sheng, a senior veteran of Lei Ting Wu Guan, with great influence."

Ling Shuang, who had read the confusion on Xu Jingming's face, explained.

Another point she didn't mention was that behind this vice director stood the Li family, a ninth-tier Wu Sheng clan.

Otherwise, relying on himself alone, he would never dare to challenge the director's authority.

"Precisely because of these two factions within Lei Ting Wu Guan,

among the students, there's also a vague situation of the two sides suppressing each other.

This time entering the training camp, as someone on the director's faction, you should also face their targeting.

You'd best be mentally prepared to handle this pressure."

Ling Shuang said slowly.

In fact, even she herself, after returning to the training camp, would likewise face some pressure.

But with an S-grade ability and her level already at the mid-stage of the eighth tier, she had long been prepared to face this pressure.

Otherwise, she wouldn't have chosen to return.

"Pressure?"

Xu Jingming grinned, not bothered in the slightest: "Teacher Ling, do you think I'd be afraid of them?

Whoever dares to provoke me, I'll just fight back directly.

Honestly, I really want to see what kind of strength these geniuses from the Prodigy Training Camp actually have."

With his level at the upper stage of the fourth tier and his Thunderous Indestructible Body at the sixth layer,

up to now, he still hadn't met a single person who could make him go all out.

If the Prodigy Training Camp had opponents like that, it would make him even more eager.

"Fair enough." A faint smile also appeared on Ling Shuang's pretty face.

Thinking it over carefully, Xu Jingming really hadn't taken any losses in this school year at Magic University!

Whether it was Lei Zhou at the beginning, or Li Chengzhi later on.

Even the S-grade reinforcement from Qingjing Ability University had been suppressed terribly by Xu Jingming......

The departure time on the ticket was 9:23 AM.

Not long after Xu Jingming and Ling Shuang met up, the two of them officially boarded and took off.

Come to think of it, this was Xu Jingming's first time taking a commercial flight in the Great Xia.

Unlike the fighter jet Ling Shuang had piloted before, this commercial flight was a bit slower.

Its top speed was only about twice the speed of sound.

Of course, that was just the maximum speed — whenever the radar detected flocks of flying vicious beasts ahead,

they would slow down as much as possible and detour around them.

Just like that, the entire flight went through without incident, taking a little over four hours.

It was only at one in the afternoon that they arrived at Ningnan City in Gui Province.

Magic Capital is one of the most prosperous cities in the entire Great Xia Nation.

Xu Jingming had thought the Magic Capital airport was already luxurious enough.

But when they arrived at Ningnan City airport, he was still slightly shocked.

The entire airport hall — the ceiling alone was a good thirty or forty meters high!

The entire ceiling was covered with a massive starry sky map, inlaid with crystals of unknown names used to simulate stars.

At first glance, the entire ceiling looked just like a real starry sky.

The airport hall floor was also so polished it could serve as a mirror — any girl in a skirt walking on it would risk a wardrobe malfunction.

Besides that, what shocked Xu Jingming the most was—

Fourth-tier and fifth-tier ability users, rarely seen in other cities, seemed to be everywhere here.

Even in the short while since he'd arrived, he'd already spotted more than one sixth-tier ability user!

"Could Ningnan City's economy really be this developed? Not only are the buildings luxurious, there are even this many high-tier ability users."

Xu Jingming couldn't help clicking his tongue in wonder at the scene before him.

"Our Great Xia has a total of thirteen Demon Nests. The No. 4 Demon Nest isn't the most dangerous one, but it is the largest by area.

Although Magic Capital is prosperous, it only relies on the entertainment industry and commerce.

And because of the No. 4 Demon Nest's existence, a large number of legions and guilds are stationed here in Ningnan City.

Even the headquarters of our Lei Ting Wu Guan and the Berserker Bear Wu Guan are both here.

Comparatively speaking, Ningnan City naturally looks a bit more developed."

Hearing Ling Shuang, standing beside Xu Jingming, said with a light laugh.

With her fair features and graceful figure, she had drawn many an admiring glance in the airport hall ever since getting off the plane.

But the faint aura of an eighth-tier Grand Master emanating from Hearing Ling Shuang

made those gazes dare only linger briefly before immediately looking away.

"Fair enough." Xu Jingming nodded along.

The entire No. 4 Demon Nest covers a full 120,000 square kilometers, taking up nearly half of Gui Province.

It's perfectly normal that it would attract large numbers of high-tier ability users to hunt fierce beasts.

"But Teacher Ling, how do we get there next? Take a cab?"

"Take a cab? No need. Once we're in Ningnan City, I'll just take you there directly."

Hearing Ling Shuang extended her jade-like hand and grabbed Xu Jingming's shoulder.

Then, under the stunned gazes of everyone in the airport, her swaying figure stepped into a spatial gate that had condensed beside them and vanished.