In the past few years, Flood Dragon Academy and the Blood Wright Clan a demonic clan had been having more and more serious conflicts.
For the sake of control of many prosperous cities of all sizes, both sides had frequently battled and lost a lot of manpower.
Because the Blood Wright Clan trained and drilled cruel and demonic techniques to all it's disciples.
They turn into cruel killers from the start and as their methods help in fast cultivation resulting in having one year's cultivation done in one month with their Bloodsucking technique they can create many low-level cultivators like cannon fodder.
When they fought in close quarters they wouldn't be afraid of death. Even more so, when they saw blood, they would go even crazier.
Although the Flood dragon Academy techniques were superior, they were not as unrestrained. So when both sides fought, although the deaths were numerous on both sides the Flood dragon Academy usually had more.
After several confrontations, the Academy's superiors could no longer take this sitting down. They took a majority of the Inner Disciples and set out, for the next fight was over a piece of land they absolutely could not lose.
Besides, those disciples needed to see the cruelty of the martial world and temper themselves to develop real battle experience.
The result of this fight was that the Academy had finally come out on top. However, the inner disciples that were among dead or injured were not low, and many of these older disciples had become crippled. Saying this Ross sighed in admiration.
After realizing that this strategy was still ineffective, the Principal changed tactics. They first had the less experienced inner disciples do some less important tasks, and go out to gain some experience.
Only once they had some experience would they be allowed to participate in life and death battles with the demonic clan.
After switching tactics, casualties were vastly reduced. Two years after implementing this solution, they allowed the apprentices to "graduate" and earn promotions by participating in these deadly battles.
Just like this, all of the older disciples left, either to gain experience or to do battle against the demonic clan. The only ones left inside the sect would be the outer sect members, who have yet to finish their apprenticeship or were underage.
Hearing this, Knave realized how different his life would be if he ever became an inner sect disciple.
But he also came to the understanding why his Sister had suddenly had to go on a mission, and the mission which was supposed to take a month had turned into something that would take a whole year later.
It was very likely that she had gone to practice outside to gain more experience as Ross said. But later because of some matters she had to go fight the demonic clan disciples which might have led to this situation.
Even though he knew that the world of immortals would be filled with perilous situation, he didn't think that it would be so close at hand.
But this just proved that it was the right choice to make friends with Manuel and Ross. As his main focus was how to become stronger faster without exposing his peculiar situation.
He didn't have the time to go out and learn all this, but with them in the circle, he could get all this information without any problems.
He would be able to get all the outside information as well as the various ingredients he needed for his alchemy from them.
As for worry about how his sister was doing, he couldn't do that even if he wanted to. he knew that she was his biggest support in the academy but he was not even strong enough to protect himself much less her who was stronger than him.
So he had no business worrying about her, rather he would pay more attention to his cultivation and try to get stronger, sooner.