Mu Jinyu was momentarily speechless upon hearing Ji Xiaoyun's words.

Fighting with nearby neighbors?

The intermediate students living in the nearby area are ranked between fifty and a hundred.

Chu Huannian was already starting to challenge these people?

Her improvement was really too fast!

"Da, da, da..."

As they were talking, a light and steady sound of footsteps came from behind them.

Without turning his head, Mu Jinyu released his Divine Sense.

He immediately knew it was Chu Huannian who had arrived.

Chu Huannian's face was slightly pale, and a faint smell of blood emanated from her entire body.

"Are you injured?"

Mu Jinyu looked back at the returning Chu Huannian, frowning in surprise.

Upon seeing Mu Jinyu's return, a trace of surprise flashed in Chu Huannian's eyes. She then slightly flared her nostrils, also smelling the faint scent of blood on her body, and shook her head, "No, I'm not injured. It's someone else's blood."

"Hmm, although you do have the strength of an intermediate student now, don't be too aggressive; otherwise, tutors and the Institute Head might take a disliking to you and deliberately make things difficult during your promotion tasks."

Mu Jinyu reminded her.

Just because a student shows outstanding performance doesn't mean that tutors and the Institute Head will necessarily like them or be eager to take them under their wing.

After all, everyone's Foreign Race Bloodline varies, and some tutors may like a student's character but can't accept them as a disciple due to their bloodline.

It's just like the Demon Academy's Institute Head Zhao Donglai; would he treat Chu Huannian differently because of her excellent performance and wish to recruit her into the Demon Academy?

Even if he could overlook past grievances, Chu Huannian wouldn't go there anyway.

Besides, Chu Huannian carries the Bloodline of the Fighting Spirit Tribe, which doesn't belong to the Devil Clan's lineage.

Going to the Demon Academy would be meaningless.

She wouldn't learn anything useful.

She should go to the War Academy!

"Yes, I understand."

Chu Huannian nodded.

But from her indifferent expression, Mu Jinyu realized she hadn't taken his advice to heart.

Or rather, she wasn't afraid of being targeted.

Though she deeply resented her own Fighting Spirit Tribe Bloodline, this Bloodline Power would unconsciously influence her personality, making her more inclined to tackle challenging tasks.

"Hmm."

Mu Jinyu also nodded lightly and said no more.

After a brief chat, Chu Huannian wanted to return to her room to silently digest the experience from her battle.

Mu Jinyu also bid them farewell, preparing to go out to take on tasks, earn some academic credits, and repay his debts.

Along with looking for opportunities to be helped by others to enter an advanced gravity training room to cultivate well and elevate his cultivation level by a layer.

"Okay, Brother Jinyu, be careful and stay safe."

Hearing that Mu Jinyu was leaving again, Ji Xiaoyun, although reluctant, still obediently said goodbye to him.

Mu Jinyu reached out to ruffle Ji Xiaoyun's hair and, after acknowledging her, stepped out of the courtyard.

"That woman is too brutal!"

"Yeah, she might be becoming an intermediate student and could directly rank in the top fifty!"

"Sigh, Wu Linhai is really pitiful, having his limbs broken without any reason."

"It's not entirely without reason. Although he always had a nasty mouth and just happened to provoke that woman, otherwise he wouldn't have suffered this undeserved disaster."

"..."

As Mu Jinyu walked out of Courtyard No.96, he heard a buzz of discussions from the roadside nearby.

But as soon as he came out and cast his gaze upon them, whoosh, the whole group fled out of sight.

It felt like a hasty retreat...

"Hmm?!"

"Why did they run away like that?"

Watching their disappearing backs, Mu Jinyu muttered silently, feeling speechless and somewhat depressed.

Soon, he figured it out.

It was likely that Chu Huannian had recently admonished the neighbor Wu Linhai severely, scaring them senseless.

And then he emerged from Courtyard No.96 in intermediate student attire; naturally, they feared he might also challenge them like Chu Huannian, sparring with them, so they fled without hesitation upon seeing his emergence.

"It seems Sister Huanian has made quite a name for herself around here."

Mu Jinyu muttered softly, stroking his chin.

He shook his head slightly, dismissing further thoughts, and turned to head away.

A moment later.

Mu Jinyu arrived at the entrance to the task hall.

This was the place to accept tasks and earn academic credits.

The various tasks issued inside were either from Dongyue Mansion or academy students needing certain Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures or something else, offering their academic credits as rewards for these tasks.

The minimum starts at ten points.

For beginner students to accept.

Previously, Mu Jinyu, lacking credits to go to the beginner gravity training room, accepted several simple tasks here to earn over thirty academic credits.

But now, knowing how to complete tasks and still in severe need of credits, he no longer intended to accept small, quick tasks for credit.

He preferred to spend a few extra days instead to earn a few hundred credits directly.

Mu Jinyu stepped into the task hall.

His eyes swept across the interior.

The hall was huge, about fifty acres in size, with many students accepting tasks inside—around a hundred and fifty or so.

On the wall at the center of the hall hung a large piece of white jade, roughly three meters long and five meters wide, shimmering with light and displaying tasks waiting to be accepted.

There were relatively simple tasks, like going to a certain place to find medicinal herbs with no danger, with ten academic credits as the reward.

Other tasks required rare ores or wood, offering between fifty and several hundred credits as a reward.

However, most people couldn't accept such tasks.

After all, ten credits could nearly buy a Low Grade Divine Weapon.

The forging materials offered for fifty to several hundred credits, as could be imagined, would be high in rank and exceptionally precious.

Not something the average beginner student could handle.

Even most intermediate students couldn't accept them.

Mu Jinyu swept his gaze over and gave up on these tasks.

After all, he didn't possess these materials; if he did, he wouldn't mind exchanging them for credits directly, saving himself some trouble.

But without those materials in hand, specifically gathering them would take considerable time with not insignificant danger, making it not worthwhile.

Passing by each task, Mu Jinyu searched.

Looking for tasks that would save time and offer substantial credits.

As for the risk, unless it was beyond what someone even in the early stage of the Life-and-Death Realm could handle, he wouldn't be very concerned.

After all, his current combat power wasn't afraid even of the early Life-and-Death Realm.

Finally, Mu Jinyu found a suitable task.

This seemed to be a task initiated by a fellow student.

They offered three hundred academic credits as a reward.

Seeking a fellow student at the late stage of the Void Breaking Realm, with battle power capable of contending with a strong Life-and-Death Realm early stage master for at least five minutes.

The time frame was about three to five days.

The task required the acceptor to accompany the task giver to Muyun Province to help them contend for the Family Head position.