"Zong Mei! She's the genius disciple of the 'Southern Zong, Northern Wu' clan. I didn't expect her to have become a high-level cultivator already, just one step away from becoming a Cultivator."

  "It's not easy to become a monk, without five or eight years of hard training, it's difficult to become a monk."

  The students were whispering among themselves.

  Tang Xiao's gaze swept towards Zhang Chen, nodding in satisfaction: "Zhang Chen is indeed worthy of being the proud grandson of Old Man Zhang, advancing from a primary cultivator to an intermediate cultivator without disgracing Old Man Zhang."

  When Dean Tang mentioned Zhang Laozu, Zhang Chen's face turned dark. He was most afraid of Zhang Laozu, who had never spared him from beating since he was young, no, that's not right, it was guidance, and he didn't dare show disrespect to the old man.

  "Huh!" Dean Tang's gaze swept over Su Dao Xing, slightly surprised. "Su Dao Xing, you've actually advanced to become a Cultivator! You're much stronger than Ren Tian Hang, becoming a Cultivator so quickly. Keep up the good work and strive to become an Intermediate Cultivator as soon as possible. Your Body Refining Technique has already transformed your body into a Golden Body, not bad. When I have time, I'll take you alone to a great place in the Abyssal Realm."

  Just thinking about the experience of going in and out with Director Tang in the monster army, Su Daoming only felt a chill in his spine, it's better to do fewer things that court death in the future.

  When Tang Dean wanted to open a small stove for him, Su Dao Xing could only bow his head and say, "Thank you, Dean, for your kindness."

  The Dean's gaze finally settled on Lu Haiying, his voice cold: "Lu Haiying, if it weren't for the sake of the Land Army God, I wouldn't have brought you to the Abyssal Realm. Take a look, aside from Ren Tianxing, who isn't stronger than you? You must work hard to cultivate and not always drag everyone's legs."

  "Yes! Dean!" Lu Haiqing responded. He used to be the number one person on the Holy Name List, a proud student, when did he become a drag on others?

  Ren Tianxing's face sank, and he muttered: "I'm much stronger than Lu Haicheng, right?"

  "Depart!" Dean Tang took out the transmission array flag.

  The students swiftly moved behind Tang Xiao's back.

  Tang Xiao waved the transmission flag and sent everyone to the depths of the Abyssal Realm.

  Su Dao woke up and opened his eyes, suspecting that he had been transported to a place outside the Abyss. In front of him were birds chirping and flowers fragrant, resembling a medicinal garden.

  Not bad!

  This is a medicinal garden deep in the Abyssal Realm. These herbs were planted by the teachers of the Holy Institute, not by the original humans of the Abyssal Realm.

  Seeing several cultivators eager to pick herbs, Tang Xiao said seriously: "Don't pick them yet, observe the herbs first and see if there are any guardian beasts attached to each plant."

  "Guard the Medicine Beast!" The students were shocked in their hearts.

  Legend has it that some of the precious medicinal herbs in the Abyss are guarded by a single Guardian Beast. Once the herbs mature, the Guardian Beast will consume them.

  The monks took a closer look and found that on top of a withered yellow herb, there was a withered branch-like arachnid beast.

  "Withered Spider Beast, resembling a withered branch, its abdomen contains deadly poison, skilled at spitting spider silk to injure enemies." A cultivator said.

  The students' hearts skipped a beat, if they had rashly gone to pick herbs just now, they would probably have been injured by the Dryad Beast.

  "My withered wood skill is the nemesis of the Withered Spider Beast, let this herb be given to my junior brother for picking." Lu Haiqing took a step forward, taking the initiative.

  "Good!"

  Lu Haiqing said so, and the students did not argue with him.

  "Sudao Xing, Rentian Xing, you two use the Four Pupils, and with your Dao eyes take a look at what kind of Guardian Beast is attached to the medicinal herbs, so that the other students can be prepared." Dean Tang instructed Sudao Xing and Rentian Xing.

  "Good!"

  Su Dao woke up with his eyes open, and Ren Tian Xing opened his eyes. In the morning, he swept his gaze over a cluster of medicinal herbs.

  "Alright! I'm indeed redundant, a hindrance. The Dean said that only because of the Military God's face did he let me follow to the Lower Realm, this is not false." Lu Haiying saw that both Su Dao Xing and Ren Tian Hang had their uses, while he himself was like a useless object, his heart wasn't feeling right.

  Su Dao Xing saw a single stalk of medicinal herb covered in frost, and upon closer inspection, he spotted an ice insect attached to the herb that was almost invisible to the naked eye.

  "That's a Cold Age Insect. Once it bites a cultivator, the cultivator will be unable to use their spiritual power for several days." a student said.

  Su Dao Xing looked at another herb in the morning, scanned it with his four pupils, and saw a branch about a foot long wrapped around the herb. He pointed out the difference between this branch and others.

  "That's also a kind of guardian beast, the long-horned worm. Its body is extremely sharp, and once it wraps itself around the neck of a cultivator, their neck will be severed." A female student looked at the long-horned worm with a tense expression.

  Su Dao Xing's four eyes scanned towards another herb, and at first glance, there were no medicinal beasts attached to it. Only after a closer look did he see yellow insects attached to the stem of the herb, motionless, as if they were part of the stem itself.

  "That's a yellow ladybug, if you get bitten by one, your body will swell up immediately, be extremely careful of this bug." An older student recognized the origin of those yellow bugs and explained it in detail.

  Boom!

  The students started grabbing the herbs, and they all rushed to grab those weaker and smaller herb-keeping beasts that were guarding the herbs.

  Su Dao Xing and Ren Tian Xing were still looking at the location of the guardian beast on the medicinal herbs, when they saw one by one senior students start to rob the medicinal herbs, dumbfounded.

  "What are you two still staring at?!" Lu Haiqing looked at Su Daoxing and Ren Tianhang with a foolish gaze, "Hurry up and seize the herbs! Kill those guarding beasts, and the herbs will be yours."

  Su Dao Xing picked off a handful of medicinal herbs that had been attached to the stem of a reed on which a Qilin beast was perched.

  A medicinal herb with a double-headed snake attached to one of its leaves was swept away by Ren Tianxing in the morning.

  Hehe!

  The Qilong beast shot out a row of Qilong thorns towards Su Dao Xing.

  Su Dao Xing's hands were filled with spiritual energy as he slapped at the incoming Qiu Long Beast.

  Pffft!

  Su Dao Xing slapped the twelve Dragon Stabbing Needles onto the ground, but two of them still shot into his chest.

  Dang Dang!

  Two dragon-tipped spears shot at Su Dao Xing's golden body, as if shooting at steel, making a "dang dang" sound, and were completely unable to pierce his golden skin.

  "Haha! Qī Lóng Cì can't pierce my Golden Body, then I'm not afraid of Qī Lóng Shòu!" Su Dào Xǐng unleashed the Earth-Shattering Technique, his hands breaking through Qī Lóng Shòu's layered defenses, grabbing its body and crushing it with a single grip.

  The moment before the collapse of the dragon beast's body, it opened its mouth and spewed out a soul-stabbing dragon soul with a wrapped soul force.

  Wow!

  The Dragon Soul Needle emitted a cold light and pierced directly into Su Dao Xing's brow, entering his Sea of Consciousness.

  His spiritual sea's soul power pool's soul power condensed into a layer of soul power barriers that strongly resisted the Dragon Soul Stab, and the terrifying soul power wrapped around the Dragon Soul Stab fell into the soul power pool.

  The Dragon Soul Needle fell into the Soul Power Pool, and its connection with the Dragon Beast was severed. Moreover, the Dragon Beast had already died, so the Dragon Soul Needle became an ownerless object, being nourished by the soul power in the pool.

  Su Dao Xing swept his gaze across the Soul Pool and didn't sense any dangerous aura from the Qi Ling's soul-stabbing needle, so he put his mind at ease and let the needle stay in the Soul Pool.

  (End of chapter)