Chapter 173: Wanggu Pass, Forming a Team

After leaving Su Mu's villa, Chen Fan stopped by Principal Huangfu's office on the way.

He was preparing to set off for Wanggu Pass tomorrow, and before leaving, he still needed to ask Principal Huangfu for leave.

Principal Huangfu's office was located on the top floor of the main teaching building of the National Martial Arts University. There were floor-to-ceiling windows all around, and standing here, one could overlook the entire National Martial Arts University.

Seeing Chen Fan arrive, Principal Huangfu was extremely happy and personally brewed a cup of tea for Chen Fan.

"This tea of mine is good stuff, named 'Puyun Spirit Tea', produced from an other-dimensional space in the Yun-Gui area. The yield is extremely small, and long-term drinking is very beneficial for the improvement of abilities. I'm usually reluctant to let ordinary people taste it."

Chen Fan picked up the teacup in front of him and took a small sip. After the tea soup entered his body, all the fatigue over his whole body was swept away.

"Good tea." Chen Fan exclaimed somewhat.

"Haha, count you kid as knowing goods. This kind of thing can't be bought even with money."

Principal Huangfu laughed somewhat proudly, and only then did he ask: "Why did you run to my place today?"

Chen Fan sat up straight: "Principal Huangfu, I plan to set off for Wanggu Pass early tomorrow morning, so I've come to ask you for leave."

"Mm, how many days do you need for this trip?"

"Maybe about a week." Chen Fan said uncertainly. After all, finding strange beasts with dragon bloodline was not easy.

"Can do." Principal Huangfu nodded and said: "I already told your teachers of various subjects before, you can attend classes flexibly. This is a privilege the school gives you."

"Thank you, Principal Huangfu." Chen Fan thanked him politely.

"However, when you go out, you must be careful." Principal Huangfu took out a transparent jade tablet and handed it toward Chen Fan: "Inside this is sealed a mental power of mine. After crushing it, it can form a mental barrier, enough to withstand the attack of a 6th-rank ability user. The effect is 5 minutes. You take this and use it to save your life at a critical moment."

"Principal, this is too precious, isn't it?" Chen Fan took it with both hands, feeling extremely moved in his heart. Condensing this kind of thing consumes a lot of mental energy. Principal Huangfu must have consumed a lot of mental power these past two days.

Principal Huangfu waved his hand and said: "When you come back, I plan to organize a sparring match between your two freshman teams. You must perform well then."

"Don't worry, Principal."

Early the next morning, Chen Fan said goodbye to Zhao Mingze and the others and went to the Changan City High-Speed Railway Station alone.

There was a direct high-speed train from Changan City to Wanggu Pass, which only took 40 minutes and was very convenient.

At nine in the morning, Chen Fan arrived here.

Wanggu Pass is different from Yuliang Pass. It is located at the junction of Shaanbei Province and Jindong Province and was also a famous military stronghold in history.

The strange beasts in this other-dimensional space are extremely powerful, and incidents of beast tides rushing the pass happen from time to time. Therefore, the legion stationed here has a full ten thousand people, and the legion commander's strength is as high as the 8th-rank peak.

A small town is located next to the military camp.

Inside the town are shops, inns, as well as hotels and restaurants, etc.

These shops specifically serve ability users who come here to hunt strange beasts.

Chen Fan didn't enter the other-dimensional space in the first instance but wandered around the town. After all, this place had its own characteristics.

On the streets of the town, it was extremely lively. Besides merchants selling strange beast corpses, there were also many teams recruiting new members.

"Are there any ability users above 2nd-rank? Requirements: good at defense, remuneration is negotiable."

"Is anyone traveling together to find spirit medicine? Our team lacks a main attacker."

"Is anyone going to Qingyu Forest? We can travel together, but the requirement is that the strength exceeds 2nd-rank mid-stage."

"Qingyu Forest?" A voice on the side of the road caught Chen Fan's attention.

Among the materials Su Mu gave him, there were several strange beasts inhabiting Qingyu Forest.

Seeing Chen Fan stop here, the young man who had just shouted gathered over.

"Brother, are you going to Qingyu Forest? We can form a team and go." This young man was extremely burly, actually a head taller than Chen Fan.

Seeing Chen Fan hesitate, he added: "Brother, you might not know, but in the Luanzang Valley of Qingyu Forest, a group of Purple Flame Two-Tailed Foxes recently migrated there. This group of guys is cunning, specifically picking on ability users who are alone to attack. When there are many people, they don't dare to come out instead."

"We have already gathered four people, preparing to gather one more before setting off. Do you want to join?"

Chen Fan looked in the direction the young man pointed. In a coffee shop on the side, two men and one woman, a total of three people, were sitting.

After Chen Fan hesitated slightly, he agreed.

One, the strength of this group of people was not strong. If they really wanted to take action against him, he could easily counter-control them. Two, he was coming to Wanggu Pass for the first time, unfamiliar with the place, and he was happy to have someone lead the way.

"Fine, brother, you go to that side and order a cup of coffee to wait for a while, just tell the waiter to put it on my account. I'll find one more person going to Qingyu Forest."

Seeing Chen Fan agree, this young man became much more enthusiastic.

Chen Fan nodded and stepped into this coffee shop, coming before the three people.

The three were not old and should be students of some ability university nearby.

Among them, the two boys, one fat and one thin, only raised their heads to glance at Chen Fan, a trace of disdain appearing at the corners of their mouths, and then they lowered their heads to play with their phones on their own.

Only that girl cast a friendly gaze toward Chen Fan.

Chen Fan greeted her with a slight smile and didn't say more.

Chen Fan had long since changed his appearance through the mimicry ability. Now there were countless mercenary groups wanting to kill him, so he naturally wouldn't be stupid enough to show his true face.

He gave this identity a name, called Xiao Fan, a sophomore at the National Martial Arts University.

Not long after, the burly young man outside brought a young man dressed in white inside.

This young man in white carried a three-foot green sword in his hand, looking heroic and spirited. In terms of aura, he was much stronger than everyone sitting there.

The two youths who were originally lowering their heads playing with their phones were stunned after seeing the young man in white clearly, but soon fawning expressions appeared.

The two stood up quickly and ran over in small steps.

"Brother Lin, you are also going to Qingyu Forest?!"

"Mm." The young man in white nodded with a smile: "Like you guys, doing a task."

The graduation requirements of ability universities and ordinary liberal arts universities are completely different.

In ordinary liberal arts universities, students need to complete a graduation thesis and pass the defense to be allowed to graduate.

But in ability universities, the requirement for graduation assessment is task points.

Many tasks will be released on the school's official website, each task corresponding to a certain number of points. Students can autonomously choose to claim tasks.

After completing them, they can obtain points, and only when they accumulate a certain value will the school allow you to graduate.

Therefore, in ability universities, senior students almost spend their last year exhausted doing tasks.

Although the two youths, one fat and one thin, were extremely disdainful of Chen Fan, they appeared extremely humble before this Lin-surnamed young man in white: "Brother Lin, with your strength, your points should be reaching the graduation requirements of our Jindong Martial Arts University, right?"

"Still short of two hundred points. After finishing this task, it will be enough." The young man in white said with a smile.

"A task of two hundred points? However, the two youths on the side were extremely shocked: "Brother Lin, a task of two hundred points is afraid that only a 3rd-rank mid-stage one can complete it? Your strength wouldn't have broken through again, would it?" ===== CHAPTER 174 =====