Yang Tianci sneered inwardly, but his expression remained gentle.

"You two should not underestimate that Air Jellyfish King. Its current strength is almost equal to that of a Grand Martial Master, comparable to a powerhouse with over 500 health points. Do not lose your lives."

Jiang Wuyuan glanced at him: "Neither of us has a Qi and Blood value of more than one hundred. What use are you to us?"

Yang Tianci smiled mysteriously: "Don't worry, I called you here because I have a way to deal with it."

During this training trip to the wilderness, my clan gave me a special scroll. Using it allows me to unleash an attack roughly equivalent to a Grand Martial Master, enough to instantly kill that air jellyfish. However…”

"Just what?" Huo Ling asked curiously.

"However, there is a long chant before using this scroll, and I cannot be harmed during that time, which is why I need to ask several friends for help."

Yang Tianci said helplessly, "These two are my teammates, Brother Zhang and Brother Feng. They are both martial arts masters. They will hold off the Air Jellyfish King head-on, while the other two students only need to deal with the remaining low-level Air Jellyfish."

Once the chanting ends, we will achieve a great victory.

Jiang Wuyuan pretended to ponder for a moment.

"As you said, we'll split the spoils after it's all over?"

“A 40/60 split. You get 40% and we get 60%,” Yang Tianci said with a smile.

Jiang Wuyuan and Huo Ling exchanged a glance and nodded.

"We agree."

Yang Tianci smiled with satisfaction: "In that case, you two should take a good rest first. Air jellyfish are generally active at night, and during the day they live in the water, which makes it inconvenient for us to take action. At night they will come to the ground to forage, and that will be our opportunity."

By the way, I still don't know how to address these two students.

“My surname is Jiang, and his surname is Ling.”

"Surname Ling? That's quite rare." Yang Tianci smiled, not delving into it further, and simply told the person to go and rest.

Jiang Wuyuan and his companion walked a distance and set up camp not too close to Yang Tianci.

The area was very quiet, which showed that the three people had indeed thoroughly cleared out the monsters in the vicinity.

"Ice cube, Yang Tianci doesn't seem like a good person to me." Huo Ling looked around to make sure no one was watching before telling Jiang Wuyuan what he had seen and heard, including the fact that the head of the Yang family only had one daughter.

"His identity is not important. But his real target should be the blood crystal inside that peak second-tier magical beast."

Blood crystals are expensive, but the Yang family is so wealthy that they shouldn't be unable to afford them.

Jiang Wuyuan had actually seen through the falsity of Yang Tianci's identity long ago.

Blood crystals are one of the tools used to enhance blood and qi.

Cultivators can absorb the blood and qi from the blood crystal to enhance their own blood and qi.

Furthermore, the higher the grade of the blood crystal, the more blood and qi it contains.

However, cultivators usually cannot absorb blood crystals that are too far above their level.

For example, a martial artist's limit is absorbing the blood crystals of second- or third-tier magical beasts.

If one forcibly absorbs a higher-level blood crystal, there is a risk of exploding and dying.

With the college entrance examination just around the corner, a blood crystal from a second-tier peak magical beast is undoubtedly the best choice.

It's probably because of this that Yang Tianci brought his men to the wilderness area.

But he hadn't expected the jellyfish queen to be so troublesome.

"Since Yang Tianci said that he was related to the Yang family, it should not be entirely a lie. The most likely explanation is that he is a member of a collateral branch of the Yang family."

Making scrolls is not difficult, provided that a stronger person of a higher level is needed to make them.

The fact that he could produce a scroll comparable to that of a Grand Martial Master means there must be a Grand Martial Master-level expert in his family.

Jiang Wuyuan said calmly.

Huo Ling raised an eyebrow, almost jumping up: "So he's not planning to kill and rob us, is he?"

Jiang Wuyuan curled his lips but did not reply.

"There's some monster meat left over from last night, let's grill it and eat it now."

Upon hearing that they were going to eat, Huo Ling immediately forgot about the topic from a moment ago: "Okay, I'll go grill it."

He took the meat from Jiang Wuyuan's hand and excitedly went to gather firewood.

It's always cool by the lake.

The place Jiang Wuyuan chose was closer to the water source, and they could even hear the sound of the wind blowing across the water and splashing water.

It was already afternoon, and the setting sun cast a golden veil over the shimmering lake.

Jiang Wuyuan's expression couldn't help but relax a little.

He has been on edge ever since his parents passed away.

His parents were warriors who fought against foreign invaders, and he was instilled with this idea from a young age.

However, the hardships and bitterness along the way cannot be explained in just a few words.

Now that he's grown up, the people and human nature he has to face, and even the path he will take in the future, are much more complex than when he was a child.

[Apprentice~]

The sword spirit seemed to sense his feelings. [What are you thinking about?]

Jiang Wuyuan snapped back to reality.

[Teacher, are the paths of the strong always fraught with hardship?]

The sword spirit seemed to smile.

The more outstanding you are, the more difficult this path will inevitably be. Even having powerful backers cannot prevent it.

And the only thing you can do is keep moving forward until you reach a point where no one can threaten you anymore.

You are exceptionally talented, and your character is even more admirable; do not wallow in self-pity.

Jiang Wuyuan listened silently.

"The barbecue is ready!" Huo Ling ran over and handed a skewer of meat on a wooden stick to Jiang Wuyuan. "Try it, I grilled it so tenderly, it's definitely no worse than yours."

Jiang Wuyuan thanked him and took the meat skewers from him.

"If you still can't figure out how to grill meat after two days of learning, wouldn't that tarnish your reputation as a genius?"

"How can they be the same?" Huo Ling pouted. "But the ones I baked this time were really delicious."

Jiang Wuyuan took a bite of the roasted meat and reluctantly agreed.

"Turn off the fire, finish eating and get some rest. We have a tough battle to fight tonight."

"Okay."