"Outsider..."

  Li Luo's throat rolled, and he swallowed a mouthful of saliva, staring at Jiang Qing'e with a shocked gaze. This answer was clearly something he had never anticipated before.

  From that "royal battlefield" constantly forcing the human tribe to send out strong kings and nobles to fight, Li Luo was able to know how terrifying those aliens were. However, although he had a deep-seated fear of the aliens, he always had an illusion that seemed to be far away from him...

  He had always thought that in order to come into contact with a different kind of person, one would have to approach the level of a feudal lord first, right?

  But now Jiang Qing'e was telling him that in the dark caves beneath the Holy Mystic Star Academy, there were actually alien creatures!

  It turns out that he and the alien are actually so close?

  "This world isn't just limited to the battlefields of kings and nobles having anomalies, they are constantly entering our world through some spatial fissures. Daxia is relatively fortunate, as these spatial fissures connected to the dark world are not many, so ordinary people in Daxia will be quite unfamiliar with this."

  "But it is said that in some other regions, extremely unfortunate spatial fissures exist, leading to frequent appearances of alien creatures, and even the formation of terrifying "alien disasters", many once prosperous powers and nations have been reduced to nothingness, causing countless deaths and injuries."

  Jiang Qing'e's voice was calm as she said, "And beneath the Holy Mystic Star Academy, there exists a spatial node connected to the Dark World. This node is known as the Dark Cavern."

  "In fact, the Holy Mystic Star Academy was established here, and it also has the meaning of suppressing this spatial node. The principal of our Holy Mystic Star Academy often resides in the dark depths, sealing off the spatial node to prevent its spread, while also fighting against some powerful alien species to prevent them from coming into our world from the dark depths."

  Li Luo suddenly realized that he had never seen the mysterious principal of Shengxuan Star Academy, and now he understood why. The principal shouldered such a heavy responsibility.

  However, the Dean can only suppress the spatial node and cannot destroy it with his own strength. Moreover, the power of the dark world is constantly leaking out along the spatial node, causing huge pollution, giving birth to alien species. If these pollutants and alien species are not cleared in time, when they become stronger, they will surge out of the dark cave, causing greater destruction and devastation.

  "For these pollutions, the Dean was also at a loss, after all, those powerful existences among the aliens would also drag him down and make it impossible for him to take action."

  "So, the Holy Mystical Academy will open the Dark Cavern every now and then, and initiate a 'Purification Task'... At this time, even many instructors in the academy will enter the depths of the Dark Cavern to deal with those pollutants and powerful alien creatures."

  "But this is still not enough... because the pollution in the dark cave is getting worse, and sometimes some places on the periphery will also give birth to alien species. These alien species are more numerous, but their strength is much weaker. The Academy has assigned the purification task of this part to the students of the Three-Star Institute and the Four-Star Institute, which can be considered a kind of tempering."

  "This task will have a very considerable academic score, of course..."

  Jiang Qing'e's voice paused for a moment, then said: "It's even more dangerous. In each purification task, there will be students who die, and even the annihilation of small teams is not uncommon."

  Li Luo's expression became increasingly solemn, until this moment, he finally felt that in the Shengxuan Xing Academy, originally not only those seemingly leisurely cultivations, under that warm academy, there were also hidden dangers and killing intent lurking everywhere.

  But Li Luo also understood that eliminating the heterodox was everyone's responsibility, otherwise, if those heterodox were allowed to emerge from their dark lairs, this prosperous Great Xia would probably be destroyed as well, and no one could escape unscathed.

  "At first, the task of 'purification' in the dark cave was usually assigned to four-star students, but later on, three-star students also started participating. In recent years, even some top-notch teams from two-star students have begun to join."

  "What does this mean?" Jiang Qing'e asked Li Luo.

  The night wind blew, causing Li Luo to shiver and his complexion turned somewhat unsightly: "Explain, the pollution in the dark cave is gradually worsening, so the Academy has no choice but to send more people?"

  Jiang Qing'e nodded and said, "Although I don't know what the situation is like in that dark cave either, but in recent years, the Dean has appeared less and less often, which means that even this King-level expert doesn't have the energy to spare."

  "That means that this year, even we, the one-star Academy students, might have to start entering the Dark Caves for 'purification'?" Li Luo asked solemnly.

  "It's not ruled out, but it should only be limited to some Purple Bright teams, and the way of participation will also change. However, you'll know later that your Purple Bright teams have purification task indicators. Other teams have reasons to shirk, but you don't. When the Academy's mandatory mission is released, you must go and do it, otherwise, you will be directly expelled from the Academy." Jiang Qing'e nodded.

  Li Luo was stunned, but he didn't feel surprised. The Zihui team had received the best mentorship and better cultivation resources than other teams, so they should naturally take on more responsibility. Otherwise, would the Sacred Star Academy be a charity? Unconditionally providing resources to cultivate you?

  "It seems that from some perspectives, entering Shengxuan Xing Academy is not necessarily a good thing after all." Li Luo sighed.

  The existence of the dark cave, I'm afraid only some major powers in Dashu know about it. This information has not been made public, and if you don't enter the Shengxuan Xing Academy, perhaps most people will spend the rest of their lives in peace. Sometimes, ignorance is bliss.

  Entering Shengxuan Xuefu, he indeed obtained better cultivation conditions, but the existence of the dark cave made this cultivation somewhat stressful.

  "Some things can't be avoided no matter how hard you try." Jiang Qing'e said casually.

  Li Luo nodded, he didn't have any idea of avoiding it, on the contrary, after learning about the so-called dark cave from Jiang Qing'e's mouth, his inner heart was ignited with some passion and inexplicable longing.

  He wanted to see just how terrifying this monster that had dragged his parents into the battlefield of kings would be.

  "Participate in a purification task, and as long as you return successfully, each member of the team can get tens of thousands of points. Of course, if you perform exceptionally well, you will also be rewarded accordingly." Jiang Qing'e said.

  "A single task with tens of thousands of points..." Li Luo licked his lips, this reward was indeed generous, after all in that ranked match, he had worked so hard to get first place, and in the end only got around five thousand or so.

  "If the Academy plans to let the One-Star Institutes' Purple Radiance teams participate in the purification tasks this time, I think they will still adopt a top-down approach."

  "What is meant by 'leading with the strong and bringing up the weak' is that a small team from a high-starred institute leads a small team from a low-starred institute to carry out purification tasks, so as to avoid your teams, which lack experience, suffering unnecessary casualties."

  Jiang Qing'e hesitated for a moment, then said: "If it's going to be this way, I suggest that for this purification mission, your 'Justice Squad' follows our 'Black Swan Squad'."

  Li Luo's spirit was suddenly lifted, who didn't know that in the Three Star Institute, Jiang Qing'e's team was second to none. If he could follow them to do purification tasks, the danger coefficient would necessarily decrease a lot. And Jiang Qing'e did this, obviously opening a back door for him.

  Another delightful scene of hugging thighs.

  "Will it cause you any trouble?" Li Luo asked cautiously, though he couldn't help but ask.

  Jiang Qing'e paused for a moment, then smiled and shook her head, her black hair fluttering in the night wind: "Don't worry, your Justice League is after all the first place winner of this One-Star Institute's ranking battle."

  Li Luo finally let out a sigh of relief.

  Jiang Qing'e withdrew her gaze, but she had never said that this high-to-low approach also included the small teams of Er Xing Yuan, and generally speaking, their San Xing Yuan elite were still better than those of Er Xing Yuan. After all, even if Li Luo's Yi Xing Yuan team was strong, they still had some gap compared to Er Xing Yuan.

  But in order to help Li Luo make up for the points, these options are also helpless.

  Moreover, her two teammates also need to be persuaded, but having been together for so long, they should know her personality. If they disagree, then there's nothing that can be done.

  They fought until they agreed.

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