"Seeing you shake your head continuously, it seems you are also one of Jayden's victims." Lina spoke again with a hint of sympathy as she observed Aron in that state.
Aron could only sigh and recounted what had happened earlier to Lina, hoping that she would be willing to help him.
After some time explaining, Lina, who understood his condition, shook her head and said, "For now, it is very unlikely for you to earn points quickly. Especially since you are only at the final stage of skin purification. You should study first at the academy to deepen your knowledge and strengthen your cultivation."
Once again, Aron could only let out a long sigh and compromise, "Alright, it seems I need to get accustomed to it first."
"That's the best choice, and you should go to the academy library to broaden your knowledge," Lina suggested again.
Aron remembered her advice and walked to where the academy library was located. Although Aron was in a hurry, everything couldn't be done recklessly. With minimal knowledge and limited strength, he realized that he needed to deepen his understanding first.
After all, his goal of joining Cloud Academy, which he had dreamed of since childhood, had been achieved. So there was no need to rush; after all, the Evergreen Pill was still there, and he had four months left. He could use these days or weeks to get accustomed.
Fortunately, he still had some money left, and there were many places that provided food, so he was not worried about going back.
Thus, Aron could make the most of his time to absorb all the information he could gather at the academy, even sleeping in the library for several days.
On the fifth day, Aron returned to the Merid Hall and immediately approached Lina with the decision he had made.
"How about it, have you decided on the mission you want?" Lina asked with a friendly smile on her face.
Aron nodded and replied, "I will take the guarding mission."
"The guarding mission?" Lina felt strange and did not understand, immediately asking, "Isn't the guarding mission for a week only worth a maximum of 500 points? With your goal, isn't that too inadequate?"
Aron smiled and explained, "Although the border guarding task seems futile, I can still hunt some low-level monsters there to increase my points."
"So you want to guard and at the same time hunt demon pills to exchange for mission points? I understand." Lina finally understood and asked, "Where will you take the task? Do you already know the border guarding points?"
"I already know and have chosen," Aron replied while showing a task in the guarding mission.
"Guarding the Eternal Flame outside the border?" Lina felt strange again at Aron's decision; she couldn't help but ask, "Do you know that even though the mission points there are 600 points, a hundred points more than other border guarding missions, why has no one taken this mission so far?"
"Isn't it because that place is dangerous, where two legendary Birds previously fought and burned everything in flames?" Aron answered with knowledge he knew better than anyone.
"Since you know, why do you still choose such a place? Aren't you afraid that another legendary monster might appear someday?"
"It's fine. I've made my decision and have my own plan." Aron had thought it through and already had a plan in mind.
"Alright."
Lina could only nod and said nothing more; after all, they were not close friends, so she had no obligation to stop him.
Although she felt a bit sorry that this seemingly good young man had to go to such a dangerous place, she could do nothing more since Aron had made his decision.
After noting the mission he would undertake, Aron immediately went to the place where everything began in the ebb and flow of his life.
Of course, since Aron was very poor now, he did not have any suitable weapons on him, or one could say he was not carrying anything at all.
He also did not inform Uncle Kong or anyone else about what he was doing, because Aron actually already had a well-thought-out plan there.
That place was a death zone at the beginning, a place where even ghosts could not survive, but Aron felt he had no difficulty being there.
It was not without reason that Aron went there, but because he had previously found many demon monsters turned to ashes, leaving many demon pills scattered on the ground. Previously, because Aron was in a state of confusion and fear, he did not have the chance to collect them.
Now, with better mental preparation and with the blood purification power he could control at will, he had the confidence to see and understand what kind of anomalies had occurred before.
As for the Eternal Flame that had never extinguished until now, Aron could only take a deep breath when he reached that place and, with full confidence, jumped right into it.
As he expected, although all the clothes on his body were almost completely burned off, his body was indeed resistant to this fire. Besides the burning heat, he felt no abnormalities in his body at all.
After entering the eternal wall of fire again, suddenly a strange feeling disturbed his heart. He was not sure what it was, but he felt that from a distance, something was calling him to come, and that place was where he experienced what life and death were.
"Is there something that should belong to me still left there?" Aron seemed hesitant, but he decided to check it out.
However, after running for a while toward that place, he saw something he never expected to appear at this moment.
"Is there someone?"
About five people, led by a young man in his early twenties, appeared within Aron's line of sight. The five men on the other side also saw Aron's arrival, and surprise was evident on their faces.
"How did you get in here?" Aron and the leader of the group asked each other simultaneously.
Aron and the other party fell silent and did not speak for a moment, before the other party began to speak, "It seems you have something in your body that allows you to enter here without injury."
Aron frowned, not answering and instead asking, "Did you use a specific weapon to get in here?"
"If not, do you think I would jump and break through the Eternal Flame to enter?"
"So, there are such things," Aron muttered to himself and then nodded. "Alright, if there's nothing else, I will go in another direction."
"Am I just going to let you leave like that?" These cold words made Aron stop in his tracks.
He looked at the young man around twenty years old in light blue clothing, who appeared handsome, strong, and imposing, seemingly the leader, with doubt.
"Friend, what do you mean by not letting me go?"
"Are you stupid?" The other party's name was Wu Jian, a student of the same academy as Aron, but now his face looked arrogant and proud.
"Leave the magical weapon you used to get in here, then you can go."
"What magical weapon? I don't even know what the magical weapon you mean is." Besides feeling confused and strange, Aron was a bit uncertain about the other party's intentions.
"Don't try to fool this young master," Wu Jian looked a bit angry and pressed Aron, "Do you think I'm a fool who knows nothing about the world? Do you think you, a skin purification martial artist, can enter here while other martial artists of the purification stage would be instantly burned to ashes? Do you think you didn't use any weapon to get in here?"
This time Aron finally understood and looked at Wu Jian with a hint of coldness, "Are you trying to rob me?"
"If so, then what?"