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Jia Nan Academy, located in the Black-Corner Region, has remained very peaceful over the years.
However, all of this relies on the inherent strength of Jia Nan Academy itself!
Such an academy might not be considered much if placed in the Central Plains.
But in the Northwestern Region, it is absolutely a colossus-like existence!
Even though the Headmaster of Jia Nan Academy, Mang Tianchi, is absent from the academy year-round, Jia Nan Academy's strength is likely only rivaled by the overlord-level power of the Sky Serpent Empire in the entire Northwestern Region.
With such strength, even though Jia Nan Academy is built in the most chaotic Black-Corner Region of the Northwestern Region, few people dare to act presumptuously.
Especially three years ago, following the destruction of the ambitious Black Prison Alliance within the Black-Corner Region, no faction dares to pluck the tiger's whiskers of Jia Nan Academy now.
Consequently, the number of students entering Jia Nan Academy has been increasing day by day over the years!
Even from the Central Plains side, more and more factions are choosing to send the younger generations of their families to study at Jia Nan Academy. After all, Jia Nan Academy's teaching philosophy aligns with the wishes of most people.
Moreover, Jia Nan Academy possesses a place like the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower that can assist others in their cultivation, which naturally attracts even more students to enroll. Because of this, students studying at Jia Nan Academy feel very proud.
As it happened, it was another year of the new student enrollment season at Jia Nan Academy. At the same time, a batch of students from the Outer Academy had promoted into the Inner Academy.
The Inner Academy students were split between using the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower to cultivate and working hard to compete for rankings on the Inner Academy Strong Ranking. However, for the Inner Academy students, there was one point that was quite painful.
That was the fact that entering the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower to cultivate required the consumption of Fire Energy. This left many students who weren't strong and didn't have much Fire Energy on them completely unable to enter for cultivation.
Particularly the new students who had just promoted from the Outer Academy and experienced a Fire Energy Hunting Competition—resulting in the Fire Energy they had just received being snatched away by the seniors—were even more penniless!
Under these circumstances, it was nearly impossible for them to enter the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower to cultivate!
Normally, they would now have to start doing various missions to obtain Fire Energy. Well, that was the situation in Jia Nan Academy in previous years. This year, however, there were some changes.
Since an unknown point in time, the students of Jia Nan Academy had heard a rumor!
That was, besides the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower, a new good place had appeared within the academy.
The Trial Ground!
This was the name circulating among most of the students.
As for who was the first to spread this name, it was already impossible to investigate. The current Inner Academy students simply knew of such a place and such a name. Most students didn't even know what the Trial Ground was used for!
Indeed, although Xiao Lin had spent a year using his own pavilion as the center to establish this Trial Ground, he hadn't actually publicized it to the outside world.
On Grand Elder Su Qian's side, seeing that Xiao Lin had no intention of publicizing the Trial Ground everywhere, he didn't think to do the unnecessary favor of helping with publicity. Since Xiao Lin was responsible for this matter, he chose not to ask too many questions.
As for why Xiao Lin didn't publicize the Trial Ground after building it, there were actually reasons. Firstly, because this Trial Ground was newly opened by him, it was inevitable that some minor issues would appear.
If he publicized it to the entire academy directly and everyone came only to find a bunch of bugs, he would lose all face. He was, after all, a dignified Seven-Star Dou Zong powerhouse. Losing face in front of so many students was still quite embarrassing for Xiao Lin.
Therefore, letting a small number of "fated people" come to challenge the Trial Ground first so that Xiao Lin could discover those problems in advance was very necessary. He didn't want the students of the academy to lose trust in this place because the Trial Ground had too many bugs.
This was not something Xiao Lin wanted to see.
As for the second reason, it was even simpler.
The students who came to challenge the Trial Ground first should have some rewards. Xiao Lin was, after all, an Elder of Jia Nan Academy now. He had quite a few good things on him, including but not limited to various cultivation techniques, Dou Techniques, Medicinal Pills, and so on.
Three years ago, after Xiao Lin single-handedly planned the destruction of the Black Prison Alliance, didn't he subsequently take half of the Black Prison Alliance's resources?
Also, when he killed the Black Prison Alliance Leader, Kuang Feiyu, he had directly made off with the other's storage ring. Grand Elder Su Qian hadn't wanted a single one of these things, letting Xiao Lin keep them for himself.
In the words of Grand Elder Su Qian: although Xiao Lin was a part of Jia Nan Academy, this plan was his idea, and the destruction of the Black Prison Alliance was his doing.
Jia Nan Academy had only provided a negligible amount of information, so there was naturally no reason to make Xiao Lin hand over these things.
It must be said that Jia Nan Academy's ability to attract so many students to study there was largely due to the reasonableness of the management, which was a very important factor.
Thus, Xiao Lin currently had quite a few good things on his person. Although he couldn't use most of these things, for the students of the academy, they were absolutely things that could be sought but not easily found!
Not to mention anything else, if Xiao Lin randomly threw out a Tier 5 Medicinal Pill or some Dou Techniques and cultivation techniques now, these students would all go crazy trying to grab them.
Furthermore, during his years as an Elder of Jia Nan Academy, the academy would deposit a sum of Fire Energy into his Fire Crystal Card every year.
Xiao Lin had never used this Fire Energy.
Because when he entered the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower to cultivate, it was free!
So, to put it more directly, this sum of Fire Energy in his hands could be used as rewards for the students who challenged the Trial Ground!
It was precisely because of this that even though the Trial Ground had already been opened by Xiao Lin, he did not do any publicity.
Everything followed the principle of "leaving it to fate."
If a student of Jia Nan Academy accidentally entered the Trial Ground and performed brilliantly within it, regardless of whether they ultimately succeeded in clearing it, Xiao Lin would give them a little something.
Of course, in many instances, Xiao Lin would directly place the rewards within those formations, letting the students who entered find their own way to get them.
Under these circumstances, even if only a few students discovered the existence of the Trial Ground by chance at first, as more students came to the Trial Ground later, its reputation would naturally spread.
Xiao Lin didn't need to worry about these things.
He only needed to observe the students as they challenged the various formations of the Trial Ground, discovering the strengths of those formations to utilize them and the weaknesses to correct them.
At the same time, due to these students' challenges, Xiao Lin gradually fixed the various minor problems within the Trial Ground. After roughly another half-year had passed, the existence of the Trial Ground was almost known to everyone within Jia Nan Academy.
This trial location, originally prepared for the students, sometimes even saw some teachers from the academy trying to challenge it. Unlike the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower, which existed specifically for cultivation, the Trial Ground, as the name implied, focused on the words "Trial."
The various formations Xiao Lin set up were more for tempering the combat strength of the person entering the array!
One must know that one's realm does not entirely equate to strength. After all, even people of equal realms have differences in strength.
The Trial Ground existed essentially for this purpose.
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