Three days later, after Moore told Lin Xiao everything he needed to tell him, he couldn't wait to pack up and leave. Before he left, he told Lin Xiao that he was going to Totem City in the east of Ossa Empire. The organization already had a senior who had obtained a high position in Totem Tower, so he could directly enter Totem Tower's academy to study. However, the prerequisite was that he had to pay the tuition fees.
After all, he only obtained a high position, and was not the owner of Totem Tower, so he still had to pay the tuition fees.
In fact, this was already not bad, having a chance was better than anything else.
Moore told him that in these three years, it was best to use the resources here to earn tuition fees, so that he wouldn't have to go around collecting tuition fees.
Once Moore left, the organization's large assets in the small city would all be under Lin Xiao's control for these three years. To normal people, it was like a pie falling from the sky, but to Descended Ones like them, it was meaningless.
Sitting on the rocking chair in the empty hall, Lin Xiao pondered what to do next.
Or rather, when to earn tuition fees.
The tuition fee wasn't about earning money. Studying in the Totem Tower didn't require gold or silver coins, but resources unique to the Transcendental World. For example, the Beast Essence extracted from the flesh and blood of the Beast was also known as the Beast Crystal. This was because the refined Beast Essence was a red crystal that contained the purest blood of the Beast. It was the currency of the Transcendental World, and also the food of totem users.
The beast essence extracted from different beasts had no difference in quality, only the size of the beast's body and blood, and the purity of the crystals. The higher the purity, the less impurities, and naturally the more expensive it would be.
To obtain a high quality essence, one had to be stronger than the beasts … mutated beasts.
Well, at least that was what they called it.
Lin Xiao did not know how to extract beast essence, but he had the Rubik's Cube to directly purify it, and the purity was extremely high.
After thinking for a long time, he decided to go to the wasteland to hunt beasts.
First, he went to a mercenary group that was working with the organization, and hired an elite team of ten at a discounted price.
It was worth mentioning that Lin Xiao had already parted ways with the original mercenary group.
The team brought their own rations and weapons, and he only needed to prepare the logistics, which did not cost much.
Soon, a small team left the small town and entered the wasteland to begin their hunting career.
Half a year later, a safe spot appeared next to a small lake in the depths of the Wilderness. It was guarded by people all year round. The five-meter-tall stone wall was enough to defend against any kind of attack. Soon, the news spread out. Many adventurers and caravans decided to stay here to replenish their supplies.
With the convenience of this supply point, Lin Xiao bought a large number of Direbeast corpses from the adventurers at a price lower than the market price, refining them all into Direbeast Essence.
Then, using this base as a fulcrum, Lin Xiao, who had swallowed a large amount of super pure vicious beast essence and reached the seventh level of his [Kokyu-ho] technique, defeated all the nearby non-human tribes with brute force and opened up a trade route that connected the north and south of the wasteland. This attracted a large number of caravans to pass through the trade route, earning him a steady stream of money and resources.
After using the energy of fortune to strengthen his breathing technique to the seventh level, Lin Xiao possessed the strength of a peak mortal. Together with more than two hundred mercenaries, he was almost invincible in the wasteland.
In the following year, he led his subordinates to continuously stabilize the trade route and recruit more subordinates to expand the base. With the base as the center, he established a small trading town.
Two years later, Lin Xiao, who had earned a lot, finally broke through the seventh level of his [Kokyu-ho] technique and successfully awakened his aptitude.
The awakening of aptitude was extremely difficult. Even though his body's aptitude was pretty good after reincarnating and he had an almost unlimited supply of Direbeast Essence, it still took him such a long time. But when he awakened it, there was nothing unusual. It was just a breakthrough, and then there was nothing special.
In truth, if he hadn't used a special tool to test his awakened aptitude, most people wouldn't have known about it.
Even if he had awakened his aptitude, his [Kokyu-ho] technique had reached its limit. It would be a waste to stay here any longer. It was time to head to the Totem Tower.
As for the things here, he would hand them all over to the next person. Although he hadn't seen any newcomers for two years, and he would probably stay for another one to three years before leaving, the value of the trade route he had opened up was too high. When he said he wanted to leave, several active descenders in the vicinity were willing to take over.
These descenders didn't have high aptitudes, and their cultivation speed was very slow. They were in need of a large amount of resources, so they hit it off with him. He was relieved to hand over the business to them.
On a certain night, Lin Xiao left the small town alone on a horse and headed to Totem City.
Totem City was located on the eastern coast of the Ossa Empire, on the coast of the Scarlet Tide Sea. It was about two to three thousand kilometers away.
Most of the areas he had left from the wasteland were human territories. Along the way, he continuously experienced the local customs and customs of this world.
Unfortunately, it was only a mortal country, and there were many things he couldn't see.
Three months later, Lin Xiao crossed nearly three thousand kilometers and arrived at Totem City near the Totem Tower. He once again found the symbol of an organization and found the descender organization in Totem City.
After a simple registration and confirmation of his identity, he obtained a more detailed information on how to enter the Totem Tower Academy.
"As long as one's aptitude is qualified, they can enter?"
He seriously looked at it and found that it was indeed so.
However, there was a hint at the back —
Indeed, as long as one's aptitude was qualified, one could enter the school. Moreover, it didn't matter if one's aptitude was good or bad. The Totem Tower Academy treated everyone equally. However, the most important thing was that you had to have enough tuition fees and pass the monthly test one year later.
According to the rules, new students were exempted from the test for the first year. After a year, there would be a monthly test. If one failed the monthly test twice in a row or three times in a year, they would be forcefully expelled.
Apart from that, there was also an exorbitant tuition fee. Every semester, they would need a thousand units of vicious beast crystals with a purity of 95% and above. If the purity was high enough, the quantity would be reduced.
This unit was commonly used in the Transcendent World. A standard unit was equivalent to about five ounces.
A three-meter long leopard would not even be able to refine one ounce of vicious beast crystals. A standard unit of vicious beast crystals was equivalent to five to seven leopards' vicious beast essences.
Obtaining vicious beast crystals wasn't difficult, but refining them was a technical job. Others weren't like Lin Xiao who could directly refine them with the Rubik's Cube and obtain 100% purity.
In fact, Lin Xiao only ate 100% purity for himself. The rest were carefully divided into several types of purity and stored in the Rubik's Cube. He didn't dare to directly use the super high purity ones as tuition fees.
At this time, Lin Xiao had already stored more than two thousand units of vicious beast blood essence of various purity. It was enough to pay the tuition fee and still have more than half left.
However, school had not started yet. Lin Xiao temporarily stayed at the gathering point of the Descender Organization in the Totem City. As one of the few places in the continent where one could learn the extraordinary power of totems, about a third of the awakened ones in the continent gathered here. He casually asked and found that there were already more than a hundred Descenders here. Most of them had already entered the academy. Like him, there were more than ten who had just arrived this year and were waiting for school to start.
It was worth mentioning that although most of them had already entered the academy, there were less than twenty Descenders who were still in the Totem Tower Academy. The rest were all eliminated in the monthly test one year later.
However, although they were eliminated, they had already learned extraordinary techniques. Now, they were basically scattered totem user apprentices. They were working together to earn resources and rely on themselves.
From this, it could be seen that the difficulty of the monthly test was unusually high. Although the Descenders had different aptitudes, their knowledge, experience and understanding of power were not low. To be honest, even with such a high elimination rate, Lin Xiao was still a little nervous.
While waiting for school to start, he began to cram in information about this.
There were many seniors who had been eliminated at the gathering point. He spent some vicious beast crystals to buy information and experience from them, so that he could avoid taking the wrong path.
After listening to the seniors' explanations, Lin Xiao finally understood why they were eliminated and why the elimination rate was so high.
Their one-fifth survival rate was not bad. The survival rate of the aboriginals was only about one percent. Only one or two out of a hundred could persist.
The key was that there were too many things to learn in order to become a totem user apprentice. Aptitude was only the most basic requirement. After entering the academy, one would learn a bunch of necessary knowledge. This required a strong memory and learning ability. There were a lot of people who were eliminated because they could not keep up with the progress in this aspect.
In the words of some seniors, the difficulty of becoming a totem user was no easier than becoming an arcanist in the Toril Multiverse.
In other words, if you had the ability to become an official totem user, then you had the ability to become a true arcanist.
This description might be a little exaggerated. Lin Xiao did not think that the difficulty of becoming a totem user was comparable to that of an arcanist. However, it was definitely not low. At least, after so many years of descending, there were not many who could successfully stand firm in this world.
A month later, the new batch of students began. Lin Xiao and the other eleven Descenders paid the exorbitant tuition fee to officially enter the Totem Tower. They officially began to come into contact with the extraordinary powers of this world.
After the entrance ceremony, Lin Xiao was assigned to Class Seven. He and the other forty-nine students began to come into contact with the profession of totem user.
At this stage, there were still quite a lot of people who signed up. However, no one knew how many would be left in the end.
Sitting in the exotic classroom, Lin Xiao listened to the whispers of his companions. He looked expressionlessly at the thick stack of textbooks in front of him. From top to bottom, it was written:
Basic Knowledge of Totem Runes.
Basic Meditation.
Basic Biology.
Illustrated Handbook of Ferocious Beasts.
Basic Alchemy.
Basic Geological Identification.
Knowledge of Energy Particles.
Damage of Energy Radiation to the Body.
Basic Botany.
Basic Biological Structure.
.....
There were a total of twenty books. Each book was a few hundred pages long. Some were even divided into three volumes. They were all compulsory courses. They were also the test points for the monthly exam a year later.
To study so much in a year, it definitely required an extremely high IQ and learning ability to understand. Lin Xiao felt a headache when he looked at it. He was not a top student.
Under normal circumstances, it was really difficult to learn all this in a year. Therefore, the smart Descenders found a way to do it.
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