Inside the academy.

Mo Bei had a smirk on his face when he heard this. He had already expected this situation and had planned his response.

The other young teens surrounding him were shocked and angry.

"What, I didn't hear wrongly, did I?"

"Fang Yuan, your head must have overheated and gone confused. You would actually stand at the gates of the academy and blackmail us?!"

"Have you gone mad? Who gave you the guts to put your ideas on us?"

"Scram, you're just a petty C grade, how dare you block my way. If you don't scram, I will send you flying with my…Urghh!"

Fang Yuan suddenly hit the left side of his neck. That guy directly fainted.

'He's more terrifying and ruthless in person' Mo Bei had this thought seeing Fang Yuan's act.

Before the other students could react, Fang Yuan started attacking. His punches were powerful and his moves were nimble. Many students failed to even react before fainting.

Almost all the students had either fainted or were lying on the ground in pain. Only Mo Bei and Fang Yuan were standing maintaining distance from each other.

"Your fighting skills are really impressive, Fang Yuan" Mo Bei commented.

Fang Yuan just coldly stared at him, preparing to make a move.

"This Fang Yuan, h-he wants to extort our primeval stones! Mo Bei, take revenge for us", one of the students shouted out. Mo Bei ignored him.

"Wow, still full of energy huh." Fang Yuan's expression was flat as he kicked fiercely at the abdomen of the boy who just yelled.The youngster immediately cried out in pain, his body curling up like a shrimp, not daring to speak again.

"Alright, all of you be good and hand out a piece of primeval stone. Then I'll let you go, or else, these people on the ground here will be your fate." Fang Yuan made a big step forward, his tone callous.

"Okay" Mo Bei called out and threw a primeval stone before Fang Yuan could reach him. Fang Yuan did not expect such a response and stumbled a bit before stopping and catching the primeval stone. He was expecting a fight since no Gu master would willingly give up resources.

Fang Yuan narrowed his eyes to a slit as he was sizing up Mo Bei for a second. After that, he said "You can go"

Mo Bei heaved a sigh of relief in his mind when he heard this. He was not sure whether Fang Yuan would become more greedy by easygoing attitude and take away all his primeval stone. 'But it seems he is still wary of Gu Yue Mo Chen, who is an elder and hence did not exhort me further.'

Also, it wasn't impossible for Mo Bei to defeat Fang Yuan. He had been increasing his strength using White Boar Gu for last 23 days. He had become so powerful that he could even shift the boulder to some extent. Defeating Fang Yuan would not be very difficult with such a body. However Mo Bei didn't want to expose his trump cards yet. Thinking so Mo Bei left the academy.

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Meanwhile Fang Yuan was thinking about the recent encounter. 'This guy.. Normally one would think that he's afraid of me but he was too calm. It was totally unlike how I remember him to be as rash and arrogant.'

With his 500 years of experience, Fang Yuan was easily able to detect a problem.

'He had the confidence of beating me. He probably has a trump card he wants to hide from me. There are 2 possible reasons: one, he wants to save that trump card for Fang Zheng as Fang Zheng is a A grade talent, two, he is truly wary of me. If it's the first possibility, then I don't have to worry. However, if it's the second possibility... '

A feirce look flashed through Fang Yuan's eyes.

'Then Mo Bei must be eliminated'