Dean Fu initially insisted that Su Lan had no choice but to accept it.
Finally, Su Lan collected these resources and handed them over to Ding Yumin.
Although Ding Yumin, with the power of the disaster, could directly access the forbidden spells without any hindrance through her mental abilities.
But Ding Yumin's other elements are still ordinary, and it's unknown whether she can advance to the forbidden spell category.
These resources are reserved for Ding Yumin to use in critical moments.
In fact, Dean Fu left Ding Yumin with a batch of resources, enough for Ding Yumin to advance to the Super Rank without any obstacles.
But when they saw that the gift was given to Ding Yumin, Dean Fu and Dean Xiao said no more.
They will remember Su Lan's favor.
If Su Lan ever needs their help again, they will not hesitate to lend a hand.
Because Dean Xiao had other matters to discuss with Su Lan, Ding Yumin and Dean Fu left first.
However, the way Ding Yumin looked at Su Lan before leaving was a little strange.
Whether it was Su Lan's imagination or not, he felt that Ding Yumin's eyes held a look he had never seen before—
Aggressiveness.
"Cough cough!"
Dean Xiao, seeing Su Lan lost in thought, had no choice but to bring her back to her senses.
"Dean Xiao, is there anything else?"
Coming to her senses, Su Lan took a sip of water to hide her emotions and looked at the old man in front of her with curiosity.
Dean Xiao didn't waste any words and directly stated the purpose of this trip.
"Actually, the reason I asked you to lead the team to the Imperial University as a teacher to participate in the exchange competition is not just for the reasons I mentioned before."
"Those are all secondary; the most important thing is that someone wants to see you."
Dean Xiao paused at this point.
"Su Lan, tell me the truth, what's your status on [Alien Planet]?"
Su Lan was not surprised when Dean Xiao inquired about her relationship with the alien.
Rather, it's more accurate to say that Dean Xiao took so long to ask about his relationship with the "alien," and he even praised the other party for his composure.
Over the past year, Su Lan has never hidden the fact that he is the only male member of the [Alien] Hunting Grounds.
He didn't even hide the fact that he often chatted and laughed with all the high-ranking members of the [Alien] Hunter's Office.
Therefore, Su Lan's existence has attracted great attention from many large families and powerful forces.
As for why getting along well with the high-ranking officials of the "alien planet" would attract the attention of major families and powerful forces.
That's naturally because the current [Alien] Hunters are famous among many powerful forces and families in the Great Xia.
This is all thanks to a small-scale auction held two months ago by the [Alien] Hunter Alliance on behalf of the Hunters' Guild.
The auction didn't have many items: only one Grand Monarch-level Essence, four Orthodox Monarch-level Essences, and thirty Advanced Commander-level Essences.
And a large amount of magical materials from the corpses of sirens.
That small auction drove all the high-level and even super-level summoning mages crazy.
It's worth noting that the number of broken items dropped by killing demons on a regular basis is already quite small.
The essence of a spirit is extremely rare.
Even if there are spirit essences for sale, they are mostly servant-level or warrior-level.
Commanders are extremely rare.
Often, there's a price but no market for it.
The essence plays a significant role.
You can use spirit essence to raise the maximum level of a spell, from level 3 to level 4.
As the magic level increases, the amount of essence required also increases, and the level of essence required also increases.
Generally speaking, it's okay to improve your magic level at the beginner and intermediate levels, but it's not worth it for higher levels.
Overall, the price-performance ratio is very low.
In addition, spirit essence can also be used to forge magical artifacts and soul artifacts.
For example, Commander-level and Monarch-level essences can be used to forge Galaxy Magic Weapons and Star Sea Magic Weapons.
You can also craft Soul Seed or Domain Equipment.
However, for summoning mages, the effects of Commander-level and Monarch-level spirits go far beyond this.
In particular, if you want to form a contract with a monarch-level summoned beast and gain its loyalty, a monarch-level essence is an excellent gift.
Most monarch-level summoned beasts can become powerful combat forces for summoners by consuming essences of the same level to form a soul contract.
Besides consuming essence to contract summoned beasts, summoning mages who have already contracted summoned beasts, or family summoned beasts they want to cultivate, also want to advance to higher levels and higher bloodlines.
They all require the consumption of essence as materials for advancement.
Even the original level of the demon essence is almost equivalent to the future level of the summoned beast that is promoted by relying on the essence.
Therefore, summoning mages naturally flocked to these spirits.
Having an advanced-stage commander essence is equivalent to being able to upgrade a contracted beast to an advanced-stage commander.
How powerful is an advanced-stage commander-level contracted beast?
An advanced-stage commander-level contracted beast can contend with five or six fully-trained high-level level three mages.
It can even rival ordinary mages of the first and second tiers above the super tier.
Moreover, the physical constitution of contracted beasts far surpasses that of high-level and super-level mages, giving them a greater innate advantage.
Who wouldn't be tempted by this?
All summoning mages have long suffered from the lack of high-level spirit essences on the market.
Sovereign-level spirits haven't appeared at auctions for who knows how many years.
Commander-level essences are all gone in an instant.
Monarch-level essences, like celestial veins in the Star Sea, are rarely found on the market.
This time, five monarch-level spirits appeared at once.
One of them is a Grand Monarch-level spirit, while the rest are Orthodox Commander-level spirits.
The rest are all high-quality advanced-stage commander-level essences.
Such a high-quality auction attracted even the chief court mage of the Forbidden City's Magic Association, Pang Lai, who traveled from the capital to Shanghai.
Pang Lai is the only person in the Great Xia Dynasty who is at the forefront of the summoning system, and also the only semi-forbidden summoning mage in the Great Xia Dynasty.
Currently, he ranks third in the world in terms of summoning skills.
He was also the first mage in the original novel, Da Xia, to step into the forbidden spells of the summoning system.
Pang Lai's goal, of course, is the Great Monarch-level essence.
He was even very interested in the other four orthodox monarch-level spirit essences.
After all, monarch-level essences are extremely rare.
First of all, monarch-level demons are difficult to kill, and there aren't many of them. Even if you kill ten, you might not get a single fragment of their soul.
Not to mention the essence.
The auction was elevated to a higher level because of Pomlay's arrival.
Of course, an auction that can release the essence of a Grand Monarch is bound to be of a high level.
Several semi-forbidden spellcasters appeared, as well as quite a few super-level fully-trained spellcasters, while ordinary super-level spellcasters were relegated to sitting in the back row.
High-ranking mages can only sit on the side.
Ordinary people, apart from family members, do not have admission tickets for intermediate and beginner level mages.
That auction made the mages present realize once again how resource-intensive summoning mages are.
Ultimately, the Grand Monarch-level essence was obtained by Pang Lai.
The remaining four monarch-level essences were won by two semi-forbidden spellcasters and two fully-cultivated super-level mages.
As for the thirty essences, they were all distributed among the super-level mages.
The high-level mage couldn't quote a price at all.
It was through this auction that the Alien Hunters came into the view of all the major families and powers.
The fact that they can produce both a Grand Monarch-level essence and a True Commander-level essence indicates that the [Alien] Hunters possess the power to hunt down Grand Monarch-level demons multiple times.
Because these are all spirits, they estimate that the [Alien] Hunters have hunted no fewer than 10 Great Monarch Sirens and no fewer than 40 Orthodox Monarch-level Sirens.
This data, just by being analyzed, sends chills down your spine.