Chapter 1 An Envoy from the Depths

Lan Qi's footsteps were like the drifting breeze, his figure blurred in the dim light of the corridor, as if he were an envoy from the dark end of the cloister.

Unlike most demon students, Lan Qi's demonic features were all white, making him appear elegant and harmless, like a medical or support-type demon.

However, in the eyes of Batcher, the fortunate demon student caught by Lan Qi and Huberian, this pure white radiance in hell was nothing but endless bizarreness and dissonance.

Because Batcher, as a victim, knew very well what crazy and evil things this white demon had done in the examination hall earlier!

"Why are you running?"

Lan Qi stood beside the demon student Batcher, his friendly voice like a gentle breeze brushing across the lake, yet carrying a sense of seriousness that could not be shaken.

*You have the nerve to ask me?*

The instant Batcher heard Lan Qi's question, sparks of anger flashed uncontrollably in his eyes, his teeth making a subtle grinding sound from clenching too tightly!

If it weren't for this bastard, he could have spent two hours in a peaceful exam and earned at least one credit coin!

But now, he needed to be on this perilous corridor, facing the threat of death at any moment.

But the anger that was about to surge in Batcher's heart was instantly extinguished by fear and the desire to survive.

To survive, he, at the second level, couldn't afford to provoke these two in front of him, no matter how much pride he had.

This clarity and desire to survive were precisely why he had been able to live until now, and even escape from under the noses of the two demon examiners.

"If you don't have credit coins, you'll be immediately obliterated if the head teacher finds you in the corridor during class!"

Batcher didn't have time to explain too much, he just looked around the corridor in a panic, and said to Lan Qi, as if begging him to let him go quickly so he could find a classroom.

Lan Qi looked at Batcher's panicked appearance. Although he didn't fully understand the answer, he roughly understood why other demon students would rather run into a classroom with a life-threatening danger than linger in the corridor.

"Want this?"

Lan Qi took out a few coins made of what looked like black gold from his pocket, waved them in front of Batcher, and asked.

The coins in his hand were about half an inch in diameter, well-made and heavy, with a weighty feel.

The deep black could reflect a kind of crimson light in the dim light of the corridor, like magma in hell, and the demon academy emblem in the center of the coin was surrounded by a circle of tight runes, written in demonic magic script, making it impossible to counterfeit.

Lan Qi estimated that this should be the credit coin Batcher was talking about, but it was not appropriate to directly ask him "Is this it?", so he changed the question.

"?!"

Batcher looked at Lan Qi in disbelief, wondering why Lan Qi had so many credit coins!

But in the end, he nodded vigorously.

Lan Qi understood Batcher's reaction.

These coins were exactly what they had casually looted from the bodies of the demon students when they left the demon examination hall earlier, most of which were the result of the stealth assassin Huberian turning into a thief and efficiently looting.

"Explain to me all the school information you know, and I'll give you a credit coin. How about that deal?"

Lan Qi first threw a credit coin to Huberian to ensure her safety, and then raised another one, looked at Batcher through the light it refracted, and asked.

"Of, of course!"

Batcher nodded quickly, accepting the deal.

Demon deals are generally quite reliable, and this guy named Batcher also has a bit of aristocratic air about him, probably a noble son from some family in the demon world in this era. For demons, transactions are important for maintaining family reputation.

"Start talking, but to save time, start with the important rules first, and skip what I tell you to skip."

Lan Qi tossed the credit coin he promised to Batcher with his thumb, and said.

In order not to let Batcher realize that he knew nothing about the rules of this school, Lan Qi chose to let Batcher explain it on his own initiative.

"Okay."

Batcher stared at the credit coin, worried that the head teacher would come at any time, and quickly opened his mouth,

"Successfully passing the classroom courses can earn credit coins. Surviving in this school at other times requires consuming a lot of credit coins."

"Classrooms have various teaching methods and exam-like modes. They are all places where you need to gamble your life to learn. And functional areas, such as libraries, restaurants, and infirmaries, are generally not dangerous but require spending credit coins."

"There are only 12 hours of school operation time every night, with 5 two-hour classes and 4 thirty-minute breaks. Only during those thirty-minute breaks will the classroom corridors connect with the functional area corridors. Every morning at 6 o'clock, you need to pay at least 5 credit coins to the school and get 5 graduation credits. Accumulating 4800 graduation credits will allow you to successfully graduate from this Purgatory Corridor Academy and obtain a demon world diploma..."

Lan Qi nodded frequently as he listened to Batcher's words.

He now roughly understood the basic operating rules of this school.

Although this Purgatory Corridor Academy looks like it's all indoors, it is actually connected by countless intricate corridors, and it changes at fixed times, making it difficult for even the old students to quickly find the place they want to go.

And the doorplates of the classrooms where credit coins can be obtained have different numbers of imprinted patterns, indicating the current difficulty of the classroom. The lowest is 1, and the highest is 3. The difficulty is also at least the number of credit coins that can be obtained after passing.

For example, the previous demon examination hall had a difficulty of 1, so passing it would guarantee 1 credit coin. If the results were excellent, there might be other additional rewards.

"For example, although the demon examination hall has a passing score of 50, if someone can get an unbelievable high score of 90, there will be other rewards."

Batcher continued without stopping.

As for the extremely exaggerated 100 points, Batcher couldn't even imagine what hidden rewards that situation would trigger, after all, no student had ever done it.

Like Lan Qi, who directly demolished the examination hall, even if he passed, he would not be able to get credit coins from the demon teacher normally.

But Batcher thought about it carefully, and he instantly understood where Lan Qi's stolen money came from!

This newborn act of exploding classmates for their coins is much, much, much faster at making money than honestly taking exams!

"What do you think of the difficulty 2 and difficulty 3 classrooms?"

Lan Qi took the initiative to interrupt Batcher's words for the first time, and asked.

He calculated in his mind that if he chose a difficulty 1 classroom for all five classes, without considering additional rewards, he would only be able to obtain 5 credit coins at most.

After paying the 5 coins that must be paid every day, he would have to start working hard to complete five classes from scratch the next day.

Batcher was obviously this kind of wage slave-like student with almost no surplus.

Only those demon students who are skilled and bold enough to choose difficulty 2 classrooms can stably obtain more than 5 credit coins a day, have a surplus, and do not necessarily have to complete all five classes. They can even go to the functional area for consumption.