The Legend of the Demon Hunter

The sky gradually darkened, and the setting sun shone on Swan Lake, making the lake sparkle, as if red paint had dyed the entire lake red, spreading from the lakeside to the sky. It was low tide, and waves of water came and went, gradually moving away from the shore.

The man looked out the window at the Swan Lake. There was a small island in the middle of the lake, so far away that it was almost invisible. He looked at the island for a moment and said to Chen Xuelan, "Teacher Chen, please bring the last three students on this list tomorrow. I will take them to the island in the middle of the lake."

Hearing this, Chen Xuelan froze. She was stunned for a long time and said slowly: "The lake island is where the dean is in seclusion."

"Yes, I know. But these three are very important to the academy. I will feel at ease only if I arrange them to practice on the island in the middle of the lake. And the one who ranks first among them will be taught by me personally."

"What about the affairs of the college?" Chen Xuelan asked.

"Just leave it to the Council of Elders to manage!" the man replied indifferently.

"But you have always been at odds with the Council of Elders..." Chen Xuelan asked puzzledly.

"Although the old guys in the Elders' Council are a bit pedantic, I know that they are still loyal to the college. But I will have to trouble you and Yu Han to pay more attention to the school's developments in the future. If there is anything, you can also send a message to me." After the man said this, he bowed to Chen Xuelan.

Seeing the man's determination, Chen Xuelan said nothing more and quietly left the room. But she knew very well that the vice president had been fighting fiercely with the elders' council over the years to keep his position, but now he gave up his years of hard work for three students and handed over the management power of the school.

Is it really that important? Chen Xuelan thought to herself.

Walking down the stairs, she saw a young man in black standing quietly in the living room. He was obviously looking for the vice president, but he knew she was there, so he stood far away downstairs waiting. When the man saw Chen Xuelan, he greeted her respectfully: "Teacher Chen!"

Chen Xuelan smiled at him, and with this smile, her kind look returned to her face.

Then Chen Xuelan walked out of the building.

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Xiao Zhu lay on his bed in the dormitory. The rush of the past three months plus today's entrance exam seemed to come flooding back to him in an instant. He suddenly felt exhausted and soon fell into a deep sleep.

He slept until the next day when the sun rose. He got up and looked carefully at his dormitory. It was a single room. Although it was small, it was fully furnished. But when he recalled the time when he paid the accommodation fee yesterday, he suddenly felt a pain in his heart. The annual fee for this room almost consumed all his savings.

This was all thanks to Xia Shi giving him her father's storage bracelet, otherwise he wouldn't even be able to afford the accommodation costs. This Novan City is worthy of being the capital of the Rhine Empire, and its consumption level is far higher than that of Fuguang Town.

In fact, what Xiao Zhu didn't know was that because of the existence of the Demon-Slaying Array, Nuowan City had enjoyed a hundred years of peace and prosperity. As a result, countless outsiders poured into the city, all wanting to settle down in Nuowan City and seek a peaceful life, which also made the land of Nuowan City as precious as gold.

Xiao Zhu had nothing to do that day, so he strolled around Nuowan College, while also observing the overall situation of the college.

The front yard of the college is very large, and it takes more than half an hour to walk around it. It is where students teach, train, and stay, but it actually only occupies about one-tenth of the entire Novan College.

The area of ​​the college's backyard is much larger than the front yard, but it is covered by a huge lake called Swan Lake. There is only a small building built on the shore of Swan Lake, which is where the college teachers live.

The management of Novan College was very lax, and students were allowed to go to both the front and back yards, except for entering Swan Lake. It was said that this was because the other shore of Swan Lake was outside the Demon-Slaying Formation, and they were afraid that students might accidentally go outside the formation and get themselves into danger.

Xiao Zhu was standing in front of the tallest building in the college at this time, which was the library of Novan College.

He walked up the steps and entered the library, where a dazzling array of books came into view.

The library has eight floors, the first seven floors are all books on the Five Spirits, and only the eighth floor is filled with books for the alien bloodline. The books on the bookshelf are stored in different categories according to the bloodline type. Ordinary demon hunters only need to find books that suit their bloodline, but Xiao Zhu has a psychic bloodline, which means he can study all the books on the Five Spirits. In this way, the amount of books he needs to study is five times that of others!

Xiao Zhu knew this clearly, so he came to the library immediately to find a spell suitable for him to learn. After all, he had only learned three spells since his bloodline awakened, the Fire Blade Spell of the Fire Element, the Rock Wall Spell of the Earth Element, and the Petrification Spell. Although he still had a book of the Vine Spell that Xia Meitao left for him, he had not yet awakened his wood bloodline, so he had not yet mastered it.

Xiao Zhu browsed for a whole morning and finally picked out four books he liked. Just as he was about to borrow them and take them out of the library, a hunchbacked, ragged old man stopped him at the door of the library. He looked at the four books in Xiao Zhu's hand and said lazily, "Thirty-nine silver coins."

"What?" Xiao Zhu was stunned, not yet understanding what the old man meant.

Seeing the young man standing there in a daze, the old man knew that he was a rookie who came to the library for the first time, so he added unhappily, "I'm talking about the borrowing fee for the book in your hand, thirty-nine silver coins."

"Thirty-nine silver coins... so expensive?" Xiao Zhu looked at the old man in disbelief. He paid a hundred silver coins for a year's accommodation fee to the academy yesterday, which already seemed like a sky-high price to him. Now, just to borrow a few books, the cost was completely beyond his comprehension.

The old man had been a librarian for many years, and he knew at a glance that Xiao Zhu didn't have enough money. He gloated and said, "Why? No money?"

Xiao Zhu was stunned by the old man's question. He touched the only eleven silver coins left in his pocket and said, "Excuse me, teacher, why are the book borrowing fees here so expensive?"

The old man snorted and said impatiently, "Why didn't you ask before you came? You actually need an old man to explain it to you? Have you seen the covers of the four books in your hand? The one with the blue cover is an intermediate spell book, and the borrowing fee is thirty silver coins. The other three with white covers are elementary spell books, and the borrowing fee is three silver coins each."

"Intermediate and elementary, then may I ask if there is a book of advanced spells?" Although Xiao Zhu was afraid of the old man with a bad temper and a very bad attitude, he still couldn't help but ask curiously.

"Go to the seventh floor and find the book with an orange cover. The borrowing fee is three hundred silver coins." The old man replied coldly, then closed his eyes, too lazy to pay attention to Xiao Zhu.

After talking with the librarian, Xiao Zhu finally understood the rules of the library, so he returned the two books, leaving only the two books with white covers, paid six silver coins for the borrowing fee, and walked out of the library. The two books were Fireball of the Fire Department and Dungeon of the Earth Department.

He never expected that money would become his first problem in entering Novan College.

It seems that I have to find a way to make money on my own next.