180: Let’s go to the black land!
Unlike the excited students in the plaza, Song Ming himself didn't show much excitement; after all, the championship of the competition was already his for the taking.
What truly interested him was the large number of credits he gained from this trip.
Inside the War Space, including Deng Jie and his group, Song Ming eliminated a total of forty-one older students.
The credits he earned were naturally quite astonishing.
Even though some older students had already spent a good amount of credits before participating in the competition, they were still older students of the Academy.
Even the least amount wouldn't be less than a thousand credits.
As for the others, there was even less need to mention them.
Song Ming harvested credits until his hands were sore.
After these few hours, he had gained nearly two hundred and fifty thousand credits!
Adding the eighteen thousand credits already in his account, he now possessed over two hundred and sixty-eight thousand credits.
With so many credits, even if those older students saved for ten years without eating or drinking, they still wouldn't be able to accumulate 260,000.
But Song Ming achieved it in just a few hours.
However, he wasn't overly proud.
Even though he had many credits now, his Rank hadn't increased yet.
Having too many credits was useless if he couldn't buy what he wanted.
So, Song Ming looked up at the space above.
God Yi might be there.
After all, he had said that after the opening ceremony, he would take him to the Black Land.
Once there, he would be able to solo dungeons and monsters without restraint, thus rapidly increasing his Rank.
The minimum threshold to enter Supergod Academy was Rank 150.
For him now, it might not take too much time.
As for going to the front-line battlefield, that was even less of an issue.
Then, as Song Ming was about to withdraw his gaze, the space beside him rippled.
Two figures emerged from it.
Seeing this, he politely said, “God Yi, Grandmaster Xu!”
The arrivals were Xu Tongjun and Dongfang Yi.
Dongfang Yi chuckled and patted Song Ming's shoulder, praising, “Kid, you did very well. When you return from the Black Land, I'll give you a surprise!”
Song Ming nodded, but he didn't ask what the surprise was.
He would know when he returned from the Black Land anyway.
It wouldn't take too long.
Xu Tongjun also kept sizing up Song Ming, as if he was seeing him for the first time.
“God Yi, when are we leaving?” Song Ming then asked somewhat eagerly.
He was always very proactive about leveling up.
He absolutely didn't want to waste too much time on other matters.
Dongfang Yi said, “No rush, you haven't received your reward yet!”
With that, he led Song Ming onto the viewing platform.
Director Wang immediately bowed respectfully, “God Yi!”
“Hmm, first give this kid his fifty thousand credits. We have other important matters to attend to later, so we won't be participating in the rest of the events!”
Dongfang Yi said indifferently.
Aside from Song Ming, he always maintained a cold expression towards everyone else.
However, Director Wang dared not show the slightest complaint.
He immediately retrieved Song Ming's identity card and added the fifty thousand credits, which had been prepared in advance, to his account.
At this point, the credit points in Song Ming's account Broke Through three hundred thousand!
Dongfang Yi then nodded, smiled at Song Ming, “After the competition are the students' dinner and entertainment activities. Do you want to relax a bit?”
“I can wait a bit!”
Upon hearing this, Director Wang was instantly startled.
God Yi always acted decisively.
This was the first time he had sought the opinion of a junior.
It was truly a rare occurrence in a hundred years.
Upon hearing this, Song Ming shook his head without hesitation, “Let's go now. Staying here to eat and drink is a real waste of time!”
A glint flashed in Dongfang Yi's eyes, and he laughed heartily, “Good, then I'll take you to the Black Land right now!”
As soon as his voice fell, his and Song Ming's figures instantly vanished from their original spot.
When they reappeared, they were already inside a spacious hall.
Song Ming looked around, a puzzled expression on his face.
Dongfang Yi noticed the confusion in his eyes and began to explain.
Because the Black Land they were going to was in the far west of the Great Xia Country.
It could be said to be the most remote area.
It was sparsely populated and very far from the capital city where Divine Xia Academy was located.
He couldn't reach such a distant place with his spatial escape technique alone.
To go to the Black Land, they could only use a large-scale teleportation Formation.
“This is a teleportation hall set up within the Academy, and its destinations are several Black Lands within the country.”
“Let's go!”
Dongfang Yi then tossed a five-colored crystal emitting spatial fluctuations to the administrator there.
Then he led Song Ming onto the leftmost teleportation Formation in the hall.
The Formation then lit up with a dazzling white light, enveloping them.
It took a full dozen seconds for the teleportation to stop.
Song Ming opened his eyes; the scenery here was no different from the previous hall.
If not for the cool, evil Qi still mixed in the air, he would have almost thought he was still at the Academy.
This Aura also felt very familiar to him.
The Aura emanating from the Contaminated Land was very similar to this place.
However, it was several times more concentrated here.
“We've arrived. This is Black City!” Dongfang Yi said.
The two then walked out of the hall.
They were in a small city.
Around them were rows of city walls, and above the city walls, every ten meters stood an object like a street lamp.
It emitted a soft white light, continuously purifying the surrounding gloomy Death Qi.
“This is Black City, a camp specially built by the Great Xia Country to guard the Black Land.”
“Those are demon-expelling lamps, specifically used to dispel and purify the abyss Aura around Black City,” Dongfang Yi explained.
Song Ming nodded.
On the city walls, in addition to the demon-expelling lamps, there were also powerful Professionals guarding them.
The country attached such high importance to it.
This was enough to show the terror of the Black Land.
They continued to walk forward until they reached the center of the camp.
There stood a huge pointed stone monument about a hundred meters high.
At the top of the monument was an enormous crystal ball.
Merit Monument!
Song Ming narrowed his eyes.
Below the stone monument was a magnificent, elongated palace.
A long queue had formed at the entrance.
Dongfang Yi ignored it and went straight in through a side door.
Song Ming followed closely behind.
Upon seeing the staff member, Dongfang Yi unceremoniously knocked on the table, “Quickly process a demon hunting token for this kid!”
“Who is it? Don't you know I'm busy!”
The staff member was initially very impatient, but when he saw who the visitor was, he immediately shivered in fright and quickly stood up, saying, “Greetings, God Yi.”
Dongfang Yi gave a faint hum.
The staff member naturally dared not neglect him and respectfully said to Song Ming, “Hello, please show your identification information!”
Song Ming tossed over his identity card from the Academy.
As long as he was within the Great Xia Country, his Academy identity card was his strongest proof.
The staff member then performed some operations and handed a demon hunting token emitting a dark light along with the identity card to Song Ming.
And explained, “This is a Black Iron demon hunting token. It is now bound to your identification information!”