Jaeger smiled, "I know a little more than you, so I managed to get some information about that circle. Veron, Paris, and Parlie have teamed up to investigate the cause of this planet's evolution. They might have already gone to the capital, but that's not a place we can set foot in. I'll be satisfied with just occupying an area and finding a mine, there's no need to fight those monsters."
"Parlie?
Parlie from Planet Third Gravity? "Jeraldine exclaimed, her face pale.
Jaeger's gaze turned serious, "That's right, Parlie. He's famous among the Great Yu Empire's youths, and he almost joined the Great Yu Youth Council. He's a peak Sentinel with a power level of 3,000."
Lu Yin was shocked. He hadn't expected this group of students to have been unprepared. They had been silently assigned to different tasks, and only the top powerhouses would complete the missions. Vesta and Orton were at the bottom, while Jeraldine was barely at the level of Terence and Jaeger. The top powerhouses weren't even in the Su Province; they were closer to the capital, where the cruelest training grounds were.
"As far as I know, there are three top teams in the Chinese region on this planet. One is Parlie's team, and I don't know who the other two are, but they're definitely top experts from the various academies. They're monsters that can compete with the second batch of students. Their goal isn't the planet's trial, but the legendary territory's trial. Right now, it's just a warm-up," Jaeger said solemnly.
Jeraldine was silent. She knew too little and her level was too low.
"Alright, I've told you everything you need to know. It's time," Jaeger suddenly said.
"Time for what?" Jaeger laughed.
Jaeger laughed strangely. "Time to make you happy."
Jeraldine's heart sank when she saw Jaeger's smile, "You poisoned the tea?"
"Of course not. It's not that easy to poison someone. Gadgets can detect the composition of substances to a certain extent. What I used is good stuff. Strength Enhancement Powder." Jaeger retrieved a crystal bottle from his cosmic ring. There were three green leaves on it.
"Shamrock Enterprises' medicine? What's this?" Jaeger asked.
"Try activating the energy in your body," Jaeger said proudly.
He placed a hand on her shoulder, "Don't act rashly." He then looked at Jaeger, "The Astral Powder is a potion for Melders that allows them to control all the star energy in their body in an instant. A Sentinel would be drained of star energy if they used it, and they'd be seriously injured by the backlash.
Jaeger was surprised, "You know?
Oh, you said your grandfather was the headmaster?
Looks like he has some background. "
Lu Yin's gaze turned cold. "Cultivators below the Melder realm cannot use star energy after consuming the Cultivation Enhancement Powder. What are you trying to do by spending so much on it?"
Jaeger put away the crystal bottle and said proudly, "Jinling is a good place. It has a special status in this country. If I can occupy Jinling, this achievement will make me even more dazzling. Besides …" Jaeger looked at Jeraldine greedily and said, "I've always wanted to taste the beauties of the Imperial Military Academy."
"Jaeger," Jaeger, "Jaeger,"
"Jaeger," Jaeger
How can you say that? I gave you a tonic. You can only blame yourself for not being able to take it. "
In the corner, the two students from Blue Mountain Academy were writhing and making noises.
Jaeger glanced over and frowned, "Useless things, you still need me to save you." He waved his hand and tore their chains apart with a gust of wind.
"Senior, watch out!" the two yelled.
Jaeger turned around, and his pupils shrank. A powerful impact accompanied by an intense pressure from his abdomen had blasted him out of the barracks and into the abandoned fields behind the barracks. Lu Yin leaped out and raised a hand, causing ripples to form in the air. He pressed down with a single palm, causing a terrifying shockwave to bombard the ground. Jaeger fell to the ground and was struck again. He barely managed to raise his hands to block the attack, but he was still blasted into the ground. Both of his arms were broken, and he spat out a mouthful of blood before fainting.
Jaeger fell to the ground and looked at him coldly; the Shockwave Palm and Spacerender Palm only required physical strength and did not require star energy.
Countless cultivators surrounded the camp and stared at the half-dead Jaeger in shock, not daring to move.
Jaeger glanced at them coldly before looking at the two students from Blue Mountain Academy. Their faces were pale, but they obediently stayed where they were.
Jaeger heaved a sigh of relief, but at the same time, she was shocked. She knew that the Spacerender Palm was powerful, but she hadn't expected it to be able to crush Jaeger. Jaeger's physical strength alone was enough to fight the top three powerhouses of the various academies.
"Let me ask you, are the gale crystals real?"
Jaeger asked the two students. He had asked them before, and their answers had been the same as Jaeger's, but he didn't believe them now.
They looked at each other and whispered, "The gale crystals do exist, but the mutated birds are not to be trifled with. There's a huge strange bird that might be a Melder, and one of our classmates died under its claws."
Jaeger glared at Jaeger; she didn't want to provoke a Melder.
"The effects of the drug will dissipate in half an hour. Bring these people back to Jinling then," Lu Yin said to Jeraldine before walking out of the barracks.
Feng Hong and a few other captains were already waiting outside. A group of cultivators from Anhui were under Jaeger's control, but they weren't sad about Jaeger's death. Instead, they heaved a sigh of relief; Jaeger's control over them came from his strength.
"Let them go. Those who are willing to join the camp can stay. Those who don't can leave," Jaeger said.
Feng Hong nodded and immediately made the arrangements.
Not long after, Feng Hong returned and whispered, "I'm sorry, Hidden Sage, we still need you to save us."
Jaeger smiled, "He's a Realm of Sky powerhouse, so there's no other way. Tell me about the cleanup."
"Yes, the zombies from Nanjing to Yuxiang have all been cleared out. We also cleared out a group of mutant beasts, but not all of them. They're very strong, so we can only mark some of their territories on the map as a warning. Anhui is further west, and that's where the Realm of Sky powerhouse came from …" Feng Hong reported.
Jaeger listened for a while before sending Feng Hong away.
He realized that he had been wrong; he had seen the ambition in Liu Tiange's eyes when he had bombed the city. Before the students had arrived, Liu Tiange hadn't understood the heavens, and his ambition had been limited to this land. But now that the students had appeared more frequently and he had understood the heavens, would he still be limited to Earth?
Lu Yin was certain that Liu Tiange wasn't someone who would easily submit to others. Wucheng had been marked blue, and there was a ninety percent chance that it was the same as Nanjing. Liu Tiange had suppressed the students and understood everything about the heavens, so he definitely didn't have much desire for China or Earth. His ambition had shifted to the heavens, but Jaeger had still wanted to use the camp to attack Wucheng.
Not only would it take a long time for the camp to pass through Anhui to reach Hubei's Martial City, they would also have to sacrifice a lot. Moreover, everything would have changed by then. The arrival of the second batch of trial-takers would bring about a huge change in the situation. Everything would no longer proceed in the direction he had imagined. Liu Tiange might not even be able to withstand the attack of the second batch of trial-takers.
Lu Yin exhaled and looked towards the west. He had decided to put aside his hatred for Liu Tiange for now and focus on the corpse. He had to complete his mission. A mission for a student could also be a mission for an Earthling. Once he completed his mission, it would be possible for him to enter Astral-10 with the help of his previous plans.
Half an hour later, Jeraldine dragged Jaeger and the other two out. The two students had been tied up again, but Jaeger was in a worse state. His organs had been damaged and he couldn't even move.
Lu Yin unceremoniously took Jaeger's cosmic ring and used his bloodline password to unseal it before pouring out everything.
Jaeger was just a student, so he didn't have much good stuff. He only had a few gale crystals, some unknown medicines, and a few dozen star crystals. Lu Yin put everything away, "Let's go back to Nanjing."
Jeraldine nodded and obediently left with Lu Yin.
Most of the students who had arrived around Nanjing were from the First Military Academy and Azure Mountain Combat Academy. They had either died or been captured, and there was even one who had been captured by Lu Yin. Until the second batch of trialtakers appeared, Nanjing should be fine.
The only person he was worried about was the silver-haired man. This was the first time he'd felt such a chilling sense of danger, and he was also the first person to completely block the Cosmic Palm. He was far stronger than Jaeger and Terence.
Lu Yin had tried to ask Jeraldine if she knew the man, but she had been confused.
Back in Nanjing, Lu Yin formally told Zhou Shan that he wanted to go to the capital.