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Seeing the flame in his hand change into various shapes under his own control, the temperature of the flame also started to decrease slowly under his control, and then suddenly became higher, feeling the change of the Soul Fire, a faint smile slowly surfaced on Han Xiao's lips, satisfactorily withdrawing the Soul Fire. Han Xiao felt dizzy for a moment, his head sank down onto the table, and his fighting eyelids slowly closed, his overflowing sleepiness drowning Han Xiao, as he closed his eyes and entered into a dreamland.

"Dong, dong, dong." In his dreams, Han Xiao dreamt that he was ringing a large bell, and the ear-piercing sound of the bell caused his heart to become restless.

"Dong, dong, dong." The knocking did not stop, it was as if someone had made up their mind to wake Han Xiao up.

Fretfully waving his hand, he accidentally knocked his head on the table, feeling the pain in his head. Han Xiao struggled to wake up, looked around in confusion, he got up and was just about to return to his bed to continue sleeping, when another knocking sound came from the door, dispelling all of Han Xiao's sleepiness.

"This early in the morning." Han Xiao walked to the door with a lost expression and opened it. He saw Zhao Xiang and Little Lei Zi standing at the door. The refreshing spring breeze blew away the last of Han Xiao's sleepiness.

"Little Lei Zi, Zhao Xiang, why are you two so early without class today?" Han Xiao asked curiously.

"Han Xiao, it's already noon, and you still said it was so early." Zhao Xiang said helplessly. If it wasn't for the fact that he didn't see Han Xiao at lunch time, he really wouldn't have expected Han Xiao to still be asleep until noon.

Stepping out of the door, he saw the sun hanging high up in the sky, and then he saw the gazes of the two people. Han Xiao's face darkened, he threw up his hands and said: "I didn't think it would be so late, Little Lei Zi."

"Miss Gu is still not back yet." Seemingly having guessed what Han Xiao wanted to ask, Little Lei Zi was the first to answer.

Hearing Little Lei Zi's answer, Han Xiao's expression darkened. It had already been half a month since Gu Xuan'er had left, and the past two days had not felt anything, but on the third day, Gu Xuan'er had not returned. Han Xiao began to realize that something was amiss, but if he thought about it, there was still a month before the two month deadline, so he should have been waiting for nothing.

"Never mind. Zhao Xiang, why are you looking for me?" Han Xiao asked.

"Yeah, we don't have any classes these days. Do you want to take a mission?" Zhao Xiang rubbed the back of his head in embarrassment.

"Accept the mission?" Han Xiao stared blankly for a moment, but when he saw Zhao Xiang's tattered clothes, he suddenly understood why Zhao Xiang wanted to accept a mission.

"Are you out of money?" Han Xiao asked.

"It's not completely gone. It's just that I've spent a lot of medicinal pills and time to go to the library. So …" Zhao Xiang said with an embarrassed expression.

"One hundred Arcanum Coins per month is indeed not enough. Forget it, since I have nothing to do in the past few days, I'll go with you to the Mission Pavilion to take a look." Han Xiao thought for a while and said.

Seeing that Han Xiao had agreed to Zhao Xiang's request, his face was filled with joy as he said, "Han Xiao, thank you."

"Thank me for what? Who asked us to be friends?" Han Xiao stretched out his hand and patted Zhao Xiang's shoulder. After saying that, he smiled lightly and followed Zhao Xiang towards the Mission Pavilion.

The size of the Mission Pavilion was similar to that of the Colosseum, and there were over a hundred missions on the wall. The higher the level of the missions, the more arcane money and pills one could earn, and because the cost of being able to obtain an Arcana coin was too high, the monthly supplies were simply not enough to make up for the expenses. Thus, most of the elite disciples liked to take advantage of the time and go to the Mission Pavilion to take missions and earn some Arcana money.

The moment he walked into the Mission Pavilion, he saw the wall filled with missions. In front of the wall, there were a few students with cultivation levels, one of them had a mission card in his hand, but his eyes were still glued to the wall. Obviously, he didn't plan on accepting any missions.

Han Xiao stood at the entrance and took a look at the mission wall. He discovered that most of the missions the new students were assigned were to go to the back mountains of the academy to gather spiritual herbs, while the new students were mostly to hunt spirit beasts 50 miles away from the academy, or to bring back Rank 1 and Rank 2 Demon Soul Crystals. Although the reward wasn't that great, it was still a relatively simple mission for the new students. The missions for the upper middle and higher ranked students would mostly take them far away from the Abyss Academy, and there would even be some who would go and destroy a small empire or sect. The rewards for such missions were very high, but the difficulty was also very high.

After staring for a long time, Han Xiao finally caught a Fifth Stage Blood Eagle Beast. Although it didn't look too hard, that Blood Eagle Body required that there be no wounds, and the Blood Eagle Body also required a mother. These two conditions undoubtedly increased the difficulty.

"Han Xiao, what have you taken a fancy to?" When Zhao Xiang saw the densely packed quests, he felt dazzled for a moment and could only ask Han Xiao.

"That one." Han Xiao pointed to the Blood Eagle Quest.

Following the direction of Han Xiao's hands, Zhao Xiang's expression immediately changed when he saw the mission. He lightly tugged on Lu Chen's shirt and whispered, "Han Xiao, that mission involves capturing a Rank 5 Blood Eagle. Let's look at something else."

"If we finish that mission, we will get 700 Ominous Onion Coins and 30 Awakening Pellets. Furthermore, the Eagle Beast Mountain is not far from us. At most, we can finish the mission in five days." Han Xiao said indifferently.

"But …" Before Zhao Xiang could finish his sentence, he saw Han Xiao fly over to take the Blood Eagle's mission plate. Although he was depressed, he could only watch as Han Xiao walked towards him.

"Junior, I already plan on accepting this Blood Eagle mission. I wonder if you can give me your mission plate?" A gentle voice sounded out. Han Xiao turned around and saw a man dressed in purple Shu Nan Jin Yi clothes, the man looked very handsome, with a smile on his face, he had the aura of a king, causing people to unconsciously want to submit to him.

I'm sorry, senior. We've already taken this mission." Han Xiao said indifferently, as he quietly released his middle stage Soul Formation aura.

After sensing the aura coming from Han Xiao, his face returned to normal. With a faint smile, he said, "Since it's your mission, I won't force it, but there are also many powerful spirit beasts in the Eagle Beast Mountain. Why don't we go together? As for the reward, I won't take any money, what say it?" asked Xi Yun.

Hearing Xi Yun's words, Han Xiao frowned and suddenly had no idea what Xi Yun's purpose for coming here, "Senior, could it be that there is something else that senior is interested in that Eagle Beast Mountain?" Han Xiao asked.

"It's just that I want to catch a small blood eagle to use as a pet." Xi Yun said with a smile.

"If that's the case, then I'll have to trouble senior to take care of us. Zhao Xiang and I will be packing up now. We'll gather at the entrance in an hour." After saying that, Han Xiao dragged Zhao Xiang and ran outside.

After Han Xiao and Zhao Xiang disappeared, a man dressed like a follower walked over to Xi Yun's side. The man whispered a few words into Xi Yun's ear, and Xi Yun's gentle eyes flashed a trace of sharpness.

On the way back, Han Xiao kept thinking about Xi Yun's attitude just now. He could tell from Xi Yun's aura that he was also from the royal family, and although Xi Yun hid himself well, his scheme did not escape Han Xiao's eyes.

"Zhao Xiang, when travelling with that person, you must be wary of him." Han Xiao turned around and said to Zhao Xiang.

"Why?" Zhao Xiang asked in doubt.

"It's because a person is too kind and benevolent, yet it seems abnormal. Moreover, he worked hard to help two unacquainted junior brothers just for a spirit pet. Do you think it's normal?" Han Xiao asked indifferently.

"Since you say so, I'll listen to you." Although Zhao Xiang still had some hesitation, he still nodded his head and said.