When system cheat becomes rampant!

An Xiyu snapped back to reality, glanced at Xiang Beifei, then without a word, leaped up and landed next to Professor Guo, speaking out, "Professor, I thought you were resting today."

"I just happened to be free, and since Xiang Beifei is here for the first time, I thought I'd come have a look and see what I could help with. Little did I expect, haha!"

Professor Guo exclaimed with a sigh.

He had wanted to see if there were any shortcomings when Xiang Beifei was killing the beasts, so he could give some casual advice, but to his surprise, Xiang Beifei did it so perfectly, where would he need his advice?

When Xiang Beifei was undergoing the entrance assessment, Professor Guo wasn't at the school, and only that short video was available for reference, but it was just that short video after all.

Although, in the eyes of a professor like him, that video was sufficient to explain a lot, he still didn't know if Xiang Beifei was just as capable against other desolate beasts.

Today, he finally witnessed Xiang Beifei's talent with his own eyes, how could he not be delighted?

To be clear, among previous students, even those rated SR and SSR did not necessarily know how to kill desolate beasts by targeting their weak points at the time of their admission, but Xiang Beifei knew!

Not only did he know, but he could easily do so with a targeted strike!

Professor Guo was more than willing to train a student like Xiang Beifei to become an expert at killing desolate beasts. With such a student, why worry about the threat of desolate beasts?

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Xiang Beifei turned his head to look at Xiaohei. Every time he killed a desolate beast, Xiaohei would excitedly dash over to extract the beast's inner core, collecting over a hundred desolate beast inner cores all at once!

After Xiaohei had taken away all the desolate beast inner cores, Xiang Beifei then followed suit and leaped up.

"Your talent is too high, I underestimated you!"

Professor Guo looked at Xiang Beifei with eyes full of wonder, and then his eyes revealed a tinge of regret, "If only I had met you before Luo."

With such talent, becoming a Guardian would surely ensure peace and safety for a region!

An Xiyu regained control of the stone platform, leading everyone back to the top of the city gate tower.

Xiang Beifei inquired, "Professor, after killing the desolate beasts, do we need to hand over both the beasts and the inner cores?"

"You just need to submit a quarter of the Beast Pills for each realm, that's good enough. Desolate beast inner cores are also very pure spiritual power, integrating them into the city walls can help maintain the defensive power. But since Guardians also need to cultivate, you should keep a tally of the desolate beasts you kill. A quarter of the inner cores go to the city wall, and the remaining three quarters belong to the killer," Professor Guo said with a smile.

Being a Guardian is a tough duty; aside from a few with a strong sense of responsibility, most Awakeners prefer not to come here, so the inner cores obtained from killing desolate beasts naturally have to be left to the Guardians as an incentive.

Guardians face relatively low danger when killing desolate beasts since everyone acts together, coordinating with each other, and relying on the protection of the city walls, which gives them a natural advantage. If they are outmatched, they can simply retreat to the city wall. As long as there isn't a large-scale beast tide, casualties are rare.

Therefore, it's convenient for Guardians to obtain Beast Pills; at least it's much easier than for the pioneers. They just wait for the desolate beasts to come to them.

If a cultivator in need of Beast Pills chooses to be a Guardian, it's a good choice; they can quickly and safely obtain Beast Pills. Only needing to contribute a quarter for the city wall's defenses, many Guardians find this arrangement acceptable.

Of course, the desolate beasts that appear near the city wall are mostly not very strong, usually at the Qi-Controlling stage. Whereas pioneers need to venture into the outer desolate lands and may encounter Meridian Opening stage desolate beasts, obtaining even more precious Beast Pills.

So, Guardians and pioneers each have their advantages and disadvantages: high risk, high rewards, low risk, low rewards. It comes down to individual needs for Beast Pills. Beast Pills are precious, forming one of the sources of energy that sustain human society, and the more powerful the Beast Pill, the higher the price.

After a while, Professor Guo added, "Just take them all! There are special considerations here for Liangzhou University students. You're not yet Guardians, just students still in training and in great need of Beast Pills, so taking them all is no issue. The school will cover the portion that should be handed in for you. However, once you reach the Meridian Opening stage, you will have to submit a quarter as per regulation."

Most students interning here are at the Qi-Controlling stage, and each student can hardly kill a few desolate beasts. After a class, killing four or five would be pretty good. Not everyone is like Xiang Beifei, who kills desolate beasts without blinking an eye.

Ordinary students already kill so few, so if they had to submit a quarter, it would be a bit harsh.

Therefore, whenever students come here to learn about killing desolate beasts, Professor Guo would let them take all the Beast Pills, hoping that his students might improve their own strength with these Beast Pills.

But Professor Guo is actually a very strict person, being a Guardian, rules are rules! So, he keeps track of how many Beast Pills the students take and then personally goes to the outer desolate lands to kill the same number of desolate beasts, replenishing what the students should have contributed.

This act is presented as the school contributing, but in reality, he does it himself. In his mind, as long as his students can improve themselves and contribute to Jiuzhou's defense in the future, then his efforts are worthwhile.

Most people don't know this.

Except for An Xiyu.

That's also why An Xiyu has always respected Professor Guo.

Xiang Beifei tallied the number of Beast Pills, "In that case, we killed a total of one hundred thirteen just now, with sixty-seven at the early stage of Qi-Controlling, thirty-two at the middle stage, and fourteen at the late stage... Where do you usually hand over the Beast Pills?"

"They are placed on top of the city wall. There is a Formation in the wall that automatically absorbs them, and transforms them into protective power," Professor Guo said.

Xiang Beifei put all the Beast Pills on top of the city wall in one fell swoop.

Seeing that Xiang Beifei had placed them all, Professor Guo hurried to stop him, "No need, no need, just take them with you, you're still a student, you don't need to hand them over, you probably really need these Beast Pills."

"This wall needs them more than I do."

Xiang Beifei found no use for these inner cores; if he really needed them, he could make a trip to the wilds beyond the realm and kill some more desolate beasts with ease. Desolate beasts bred rapidly, and were essentially inexhaustible, there were as many Qi-Controlling Beast Pills as one could want.

After all, the wall on the frontier was protecting the safety of Jiuzhou. He might not become a Guardian in the future, but if he could contribute any bit of guarding strength, he would do so.

The wall emitted a beam of light, devouring all the Beast Pills that Xiang Beifei had placed on it, turning them into streams of light that disappeared into the crevices of the wall.

Professor Guo's eyes brightened, excitedly watching Xiang Beifei.

That one sentence from Xiang Beifei made his heart surge!

"Good! Good! Good! I indeed wasn't wrong about you!"

He patted Xiang Beifei on the shoulder.

Just by that one sentence, he knew he had done the right thing in teaching Xiang Beifei the defense skills!

A hundred or so Qi-Controlling Beast Pills was a minor issue, but the enlightenment of a martial artist was significant.

This was a child with a sense of responsibility, the hope of Jiuzhou!

In his eyes, the defense of Jiuzhou was everyone's responsibility!

If everyone had the enlightenment of this child, what would Jiuzhou have to fear from the invasion of desolate beasts?

Professor Guo found that the more he looked at Xiang Beifei, the more pleasing he was. He liked the boy immensely, polite, talented, and with a sense of responsibility towards guarding Jiuzhou. He wished he could teach everything he knew to such a child and raise him to be a mainstay of Jiuzhou's future.

Professor Guo was exceedingly delighted, and yet regretful at the same time, feeling that it was Luo who benefited from the bargain. How come his luck was so good to snag such a student?

An Xiyu was also somewhat surprised as she glanced at Xiang Beifei.

"These Beast Pills could be sold for money; are you sure you don't want to take any?" An Xiyu asked.

"Do you and Professor Guo take them?" Xiang Beifei replied with his own question.

An Xiyu fell silent for a moment and shook her head slightly, "We don't take them."

Both she and Professor Guo, after killing desolate beasts here, would also not keep any Beast Pills, instead integrating them all into the city wall to strengthen its defenses.

They did not become Guardians for the sake of Beast Pills; they saw it as their lifelong responsibility, simply desiring to protect this wall well, safeguarding the peace within the wall.

Therefore, An Xiyu and Professor Guo were able to refrain from taking any bit of it.

Let alone the Qi-Controlling stage, even if they killed Meridian Opening stage desolate beasts, An Xiyu and Professor Guo would still merge the Beast Pills into the city wall.

In her eyes, the wall needed those Beast Pills more than she did.

"If you two don't take them, then why should I?" Xiang Beifei asked in confusion.

An Xiyu was taken aback.

"You are a student," she said.

"Does being a student mean I shouldn't take on the responsibility of a Guardian?" Xiang Beifei asked. "They are not killing desolate beasts on their own either, but under the professor's guidance, are they not?"

"But for them, killing desolate beasts is too..."

"I am not them," Xiang Beifei said calmly.