High-level martial arts: Starting with a heart of steel, stats crush everything.

Chen Mo touched the teapot fragments on his head and paused for a moment, then saw Xue Le with a dark face in front of him.

"Oh, Dean, you're on duty today? Well then, I won't bother you any longer..."

Just as Chen Mo was about to slip away, Xue Le grabbed his shoulder.

"Why did you come out by yourself? I remember you were on patrol with Zhu Long and Dai Emei."

"It's been almost two days, your task should have been finished by now, right?"

Xue Le smiled, but the smile looked dangerous no matter how you looked at it.

"Oh, I also picked up some medicinal herbs to exchange for credits, otherwise I'd almost run out of credits."

Chen Mo patted the burlap sack on his back and opened the sack for Xue Le to see.

"..."

Looking at the sack full of various medicinal herbs and feeling the immense energy emanating from them, Xue Le fell silent for a moment.

"You...went to Black Cloud City to extort money?"

"No, this is a medicinal herb farm that Senior Brother Zhu Long took me to. I still have a lot of herbs left to dig up."

Chen Mo sighed with some regret. It was all Zhu Long and Dai Emei's fault for being so useless; otherwise, he could have cleared out that medicinal herb farm.

"Dean Xue."

As soon as Chen Mo finished speaking, Zhu Long and Dai Emei emerged from the abyss rift.

Both of them were bruised and battered, and Dai Emei was covered in dust from head to toe.

"You two..." Xue Le realized what they had been up to after seeing Chen Mo's large sack.

"Do you even know that Chen Mo is only a level five martial artist?!"

"Are you taking him to rob the city lord's herbal medicine farm? Do you think he's lived too long?"

"What, are you going to break the record for the fastest sudden death since he was admitted to the hospital?"

"?" Chen Mo was stunned. He... robbed a medicinal herb farm under the command of the Black Cloud City Lord?

Cold sweat broke out instantly; he was really lucky not to have died in the deep abyss.

"We were wrong, Dean Xue." Zhu Long and Dai Emei admitted their mistake very quickly, as if they were already used to such reprimands.

"How about this, half of this harvest will go to Junior Brother Chen Mo, and Xiao Dai and I will each take a quarter."

Zhu Long thought about it and realized that this was the best compensation plan he could come up with.

"No, no, no, let's each take one-third..." Chen Mo was about to say something when Zhu Long stopped him.

"This time we took you on an adventure, and without you, we wouldn't have gained so much."

"It's only right that you take half, not to mention we almost caused you to be killed by an eleventh-level Abyss Warrior."

"Pfft!" Xue Le spat out a mouthful of tea, his anger, which had just been extinguished, reignited.

"Level 11 Abyss Warriors, do you really want Chen Mo dead?!"

"Alright, alright, I don't want to talk to you anymore. Go to the redemption counter and exchange your credits."

Xue Le waved his hand, knowing he couldn't persuade these kids; they would continue to exploit the land sooner or later.

"Thank you, Dean Xue!"

Dai Emei flashed a sweet smile and dragged Chen Mo and Zhu Long away from the entrance.

"Sigh, we need to get the Grandmaster Academy in the spotlight soon; these kids are just wasting their time and causing trouble all day..."

......

At the exchange counter, Chen Mo placed the large sack of medicinal herbs directly on the table.

The solid wood table even bounced slightly from the weight of the large burlap sack.

"Let's calculate the credits. I'll take half, and the rest will be split equally between Senior Brother Zhu Long and Senior Sister Dai."

Chen Mo opened the large sack, revealing the still relatively fresh medicinal herbs inside.

"Wow, that's impressive!"

The senior student in charge of the exchange counter was a student from the School of Pharmacy. His eyes lit up the moment he saw the medicinal herbs.

"Wait a minute, let me calculate how many credits these medicinal herbs are worth..."

"A high-grade medicinal herb is worth 300 credits, but it's somewhat damaged, so even if you get 270 credits, a low-grade medicinal herb..."

The senior student from the Pharmacy Department worked quickly and efficiently, calculating the value of Chen Mo's gains this time.

"Hmm... a total of three thousand seven hundred and twenty points...?"

The pharmacy student paused for a moment, then picked up a calculator and recalculated.

"Damn, you guys got so many credits on this one trip?"

"That's right, don't you even know who we are?" Dai Emei proudly puffed out her pimples. This time, she and Zhu Long had teamed up to trick a level twelve Abyss Warrior.

Although I almost got myself killed.

"Awesome." The senior student from the Pharmacy Academy gave a thumbs-up with some admiration, then turned around and put away the large sack of medicinal herbs.

"The credits have been transferred to your accounts under your ID cards and you can use them anytime."

"Also, be very careful next time you get your hands on so many good medicinal herbs."

"Harvesting methods affect the value of medicinal herbs; proper harvesting techniques can increase their value..."

Chen Mo and the other two were unwilling to listen to his long-winded explanation.

They don't need any special techniques; they just need to scrape the ground clean.

As long as you scrape enough ground, those extra credits for technique are completely irrelevant.

"I'm relaxed now. I need to focus on breaking through to level nine. I'll go on missions with you guys after I reach level ten."

Dai Emei stretched and left happily with her ID card.

"Get some rest, but don't neglect muscle training. I'll be waiting for you in the strength training room at the Power Institute."

Zhu Long patted Chen Mo on the shoulder. With so many credits, he could buy a lot of pills to replenish his qi and blood to maintain his health.

Chen Mo nodded; he had earned a total of 1,860 credits this time.

With the remaining thousand-plus credits, Chen Mo wouldn't have to worry about running out of credits for the next week.

He should focus his energy on tempering his spine; he'll be aiming for something big after reaching level six.

Chen Mo felt uneasy all over until the task of using that storage space was completed.

If there were storage space available today, he wouldn't have to carry around that huge sack, and the risk factor would be greatly reduced.