In the deep and mysterious land, three crimson moons hang high in the sky, emitting a faint red light.

The ancient trees are densely packed and extremely lush. Waves of unknown birds are singing back and forth in this dark forest, making the entire secret realm look unfathomable.

In the southeast of this secret place, tall, high-tech, modern buildings stand upright.

There is a clear sense of separation between the modern buildings and this ancient secret place, as if an interstellar product suddenly appeared in the primitive jungle.

At this moment, the entire building complex was brightly lit in the dark night.

Outside the building, thick layers of protective shields that faintly shimmer with silver light separate the secret realm from the building complex.

Countless insects attracted by the light kept hitting the protective shield.

This group of insects was like wind and fog, rushing towards us with buzzing sounds.

In this swarm of insects... some are ordinary insects, while others are low-level insect-like beasts with little thinking ability. They follow their biological instincts and chase towards the light.

But no matter what kind of insects they are, whenever they hit the protective shield, a red light will immediately flash on the shield!

This red light, with its strong energy fluctuations and high temperature of over a thousand degrees, instantly burned these insects and some low-level insect-like beasts to ashes, turning them into gray powder.

Whenever other low-level insectoid beasts were burned to ashes, they let out shrill screams...

Some insect-like beasts, or other beasts with higher IQs, that were attracted by the flames would retreat on their own initiative, with fear in their eyes.

suddenly!

A small space door suddenly appeared in front of the energy shield.

A tall and slender woman with delicate eyebrows and eyes, and a complexion as white as fine mutton-fat jade, walked out of the space gate barefoot.

The other person's expression was impassive, and her jade-like skin, illuminated by the light, seemed to reveal faint blue veins. Her golden hair, even more dazzling under the light, seemed to flow without a breeze, or to glow naturally, tinged with a faint, luminous halo.

The blonde girl walked barefoot on the grass, feeling the scent of the weeds and the fluffy soil at her toes.

Bai Yue lowered his head slightly, and a faint golden light flashed in his empty and unfocused eyes. His originally bare feet were now covered with a pair of black boots. With the appearance of the boots, the simple T-shirt on his body also turned into a black jacket.

The low-key black long trench coat is embroidered with exquisite and low-key golden patterns, which are complicated yet give people a sense of nobility and elegance.

With the appearance of the black windbreaker, the originally delicate and gentle face seemed to become tough at this moment.

He had narrow and long eyebrows, sword-like brows, and cold eyes. His porcelain-white skin was obviously stained with a little sickly paleness, and his Adam's apple moved slightly on his smooth and white neck.

It was just a blink of an eye, and the girl who originally looked delicate, gentle and elegant turned into a handsome, noble, but sickly boy in an instant!

The young man casually tied up his long golden hair. Although his face was pale, his straight back was like a sword drawn from its sheath.

Every gesture is filled with bloody murderous aura! Yet, his temperament and appearance make him look particularly elegant and noble!

Perhaps the boy's change in that instant was too great, and many of the strange beasts in the jungle who had not yet left the jungle opened their eyes wide.

They held their breath, as if they couldn't believe their eyes.

As a group of strange beasts with the same intelligence, they can easily distinguish between men and women in human society.

But now...? ?

A sudden transformation? ? ? !

The beast didn’t understand and was shocked!

There was a mischievous monkey-like creature in the jungle. It subconsciously grabbed onto a tree trunk and leaped forward a distance...

But as the blond boy in front of it slightly raised his thin eyelids, the monkey beast seemed to be under a spell of immobilization, standing there in a daze!

Baiyue raised his eyebrows slightly and withdrew his gaze from the other strange beasts in the jungle.

He raised his hand slightly, and the originally thick energy shield seemed to be suddenly affected by an invisible energy, clearing a large area of ​​space in an instant.

The semicircular high-temperature energy shield that enveloped the entire outer space of the academy was like a piece of butter dropped into a hot pan, completely melting with a sizzling sound.

The young man had an indifferent expression as he leisurely walked into the energy shield. He glanced at the situation inside the academy, his eyes cold as ice without any warmth.

Baiyue raised his head slightly, but did not walk around. He just glanced around with his unfocused, empty eyes, and finally his eyes slowly stopped on a seven-story tower in the northwest corner of the building complex.

"Heh~" The young man laughed, but the smile did not reach his eyes.

He slowly withdrew his gaze, without using any spatial abilities, but instead walked slowly towards the 7-story tower opposite, step by step, as if he was walking in his own back garden.

…

The ancient training tower is surrounded by bluestone. Clusters of green moss, bearing the traces of time, gradually cover most of the training tower.

“Crack!——”

“Crack!——”

With two soft sounds, the two stone doors on the third floor of the training tower opened.

Two young men in simple sportswear walked out of the stone gate one after the other.

The crew-haired young man rubbed his aching neck and said excitedly, "Our school's training tower is truly world-renowned... I've been training here for three days, and it feels like I've been training outside for three years. Not only is it harder to get injured while training combat techniques, and I don't get tired, but my brain is even clearer and my body is full of energy!"

"Even the training speed of the contracted beast is much faster than that in my beast-taming space. You should know that I have awakened an SS-level beast-taming space! The contracted beast in it has a training speed 30 times faster! It's a pity that the school does not allow contracted beasts to train here." He only dared to secretly let the contracted beast out to try it out when he was alone in the training room.

"I don't know how this training tower in our school was built. If we could build one like this at home, wouldn't we be able to surpass others quickly?"

“Crack, crack—!”

The bald young man next to him twisted his tense neck. The muscle tension caused by long-term high-intensity training slowly eased with each turn of his neck.

The bald young man flexed his arm muscles, grinned, and said in a deep voice, "Do you think you're the only one in the world who wants to build a cultivation tower like this? With so many people around the world, who wouldn't be envious of the tower's benefits? But for nearly a thousand years, no one has been able to uncover its secrets."

"Nearly a thousand years? Doesn't the academy's history say this training tower was only built a little over 700 years ago?"

The young man with a crew cut frowned and looked at his friend beside him, waiting for the other party to continue.

The bald young man was not stingy. As he walked out, he whispered, "Our family has a history book that has been passed down for thousands of years. It records that the training tower has actually existed for more than a thousand years."

The bald young man glanced around and saw that there was no one in the tower. Everyone was in their own training rooms. The heavy stone door had excellent sound insulation and he could not hear any movement outside at all.

He looked at his friend and continued, "In fact, the cultivation towers within the six academies appeared as early as when the secret realm and Blue Star merged. I heard that the cultivation towers weren't called cultivation towers at the time, but were just some kind of unknown treasure. Eventually, they were obtained by the principals of the six academies and divided into six..."

The bald young man spoke in a very low voice.

"What? It's some kind of treasure?"

The young man with a crew cut's heart skipped a beat and he instinctively looked down at the training tower.

The massive stone tower exudes a solemn and ancient atmosphere, seemingly out of place with the other high-tech, modern buildings in the college.

However……

It is clearly a stone tower built with stones, but no one knows what materials and methods were used.

Both the sound insulation and sturdiness are far superior to the advanced training rooms in the city base.

In addition, each training room is equipped with various memory alloy plates and training equipment, making it almost the favorite training place for all students!

“No wonder, in other places in the school, my contracted beast could only sense the rich energy belonging to the six-star secret realm, but I couldn’t feel anything…” The young man with a crew cut licked his upper palate, “But after entering the training tower, not only can I feel a faint energy entering my body, replenishing my blood and dispelling my fatigue, but also after absorbing that energy, my physical fitness is visibly improving step by step.” Not to mention the benefits to the exotic beasts… much more than to humans like them.

The young man with a crew cut subconsciously looked up and down at the stone tower, not knowing where the treasure was hidden in this training tower.

Come to think of it, only those treasures that come out of the secret realm can have such magical effects.

“Okay…”

Seeing his friend's face full of curiosity, he wanted to turn the training tower upside down to search for the secret treasure.

The bald young man rolled his eyes, put his arm on his friend's shoulder, and said nonchalantly, "Do you think no one else has coveted this treasure over the years? But with so many people coming in and out of the six major colleges every year, no one has ever been able to find that treasure."

The bald young man raised his eyebrows and sneered, "That thing must have been hidden very deep in the academy, otherwise it would be impossible for no one to find it for over 700 years."

"Besides, even if we find him, what's the point? He'll be hunted down by the instructors and students of the six major academies. Where else in the world can he hide?" The bald young man patted his brother's shoulder and said, "Let's take advantage of these few years of studying at the academy to earn some points. We can use them to exchange for training time. Ten points per hour. That's not bad..."

The bald young man smiled and said, "When we graduate from the academy, our bodies, tempered by the training tower, will be able to extend our lifespans by at least 30 years on average... This is far more powerful than those expensive natural treasures!"

Generally speaking, natural treasures can only enhance the strength of contracted beasts, but cannot prolong their lives.

Not to mention the natural treasures that are edible for humans.

As for those natural treasures that can be used by humans and can also enhance and prolong human lifespan...

Tsk tsk tsk, none of them are cheap.

Those old men and women who have power, status and money are willing to pay a huge price to exchange for these rare treasures.

This is why the six major international colleges are recognized as the best schools in the world!

It is also the place that all beast masters yearn for the most! Not only students yearn for it, but also those high-level beast masters yearn for it!

Dadada——!

The two walked down from the third floor along the cobblestone path.

However……

Just as the two young men with crew cuts were coming down from the corner of the second floor and heading towards the first floor.

A young man in a black windbreaker with long golden hair, a handsome and noble face, but looking pale and thin, was walking forward step by step.

The other person's footsteps were extremely light, but he walked very fast. Every step he took was like a model on the catwalk, aloof, indifferent and reserved, like a gurgling spring in the mountains, or like a frosty rose that kept people away from him, cold and simple yet well-organized.

"...Huh? I didn't expect there would be two little blood-sucking bugs here." The blond boy's eyes were cold, and although the corners of his lips were raised, there was no warmth at all.

“Sizzle, sizzle~~”

In the aisle, a fifth-grade spiritual crystal stone that was emitting a faint glow uttered a painful groan along with the cold voice of the blond boy, and exploded with a bang!

Gravel scattered everywhere!

“Whoosh!——”

“Whoosh!——”

The gravel flew through the air, making two sounds of breaking through the air.

The young man with a crew cut and the bald man both widened their eyes in horror and didn't have time to react.

Two fragments of the spiritual crystal stone had already passed through their necks, leaving a horrific wound!

Blood gushed out in an instant!

"Who are you?"

"You are not a student of our school? Why did you break into the training tower?"

The two young men with crew cuts had their heartbeats speeding up, and the beats were like thunder drums!

The two of them tried their best to cover the painful and bleeding wounds on their necks, feeling that their hearts were about to jump out of their chests!

An inexplicable feeling of horror arose from the bottom of their hearts.

Almost as a conditioned reflex, the two of them instinctively summoned their contracted beasts and wanted to attack each other.

However.

One breath...

Two breaths...

Three breaths...

The contracted beast that could be summoned instantly on normal days did not react at all this time. Instead, the wounds on the two men's necks became more and more painful, and the blood flowed more and more.

"...Ah~ It seems your contracted beast doesn't want to respond to your summons..."

Baiyue tilted his head, and his golden hair fell down along the boy's tough cheeks, softening his outline but failing to soften his tone.

The young man raised his cat eyes slightly and said in a cold voice: "Oh~ What a pity, the fragments of the spiritual light crystal are too small~ Otherwise, they would have directly cut your throat and carotid artery~"

"...How about you let me try again?"

"After all, there's a price to pay for using my spinal cord, don't you think?" Baiyue raised the corners of his mouth, and suddenly his smile became particularly gentle and brilliant.

But the young man with a crew cut and the young man with a bald head both opened their eyes wide and remained silent!

"You, you you!" The bald young man was so frightened that he couldn't speak. He trembled and endured the pain.

But he subconsciously recalled a mythical story circulated in the family history book—

In ancient times, mythical beasts protected humans and taught them language, writing, how to make fire and hunt.

But humans dug out its eyes, opened its chest, took out its heart and flesh, dug out every bone in its body, ground it into powder, and swallowed it.

So, in this story, there is also a spinal cord?

The bald young man's pupils suddenly shrank, and he blurted out subconsciously: "You, you are, you are that divine beast, are you here for revenge? Ah... Ahhhh...!"

But just as the bald young man finished speaking, his body suddenly combusted!

It was like the group of moths that had previously hit the protective shield were instantly burned to ashes by the high-temperature white flames!

But this fire didn't seem to be an ordinary flame. Even the ashes turned into green smoke in the blink of an eye.

It disappears without a trace as soon as the wind blows!

The young man with a crew cut held his bleeding neck, fell to the ground in horror with a snap, and shrank into the corner.

He was like a duck with its throat pinched. Apart from being able to make a loud sound like a broken gong, he was so scared that he couldn't even utter a complete sentence!

Bai Yue lowered her head, smiling innocently and gently, "Ah~ I forgot to mention that since I was resurrected, I have changed the rules of the world... Anyone who discovers my identity and reveals it to others will be burned to ashes by the flames of the rules~ Oh, I said it wrong, it should be air~"

Baiyue chuckled: "Tell me... why did he say that last sentence just now?"

"Do you want to go see your principal now?"

The blond boy leaned forward, tilted his head seductively, and said with a gentle yet sincere smile, "I'll tell you a secret, okay? When I was just resurrected, my strength was very weak. Two random ninth-level beast masters could kill me. I remember that the current principal of your school is a ninth-level beast master, right?"

"Don't you really want a training tower? Kill me and you'll have one~"