Chapter 1541: "Waning Moon Chambers (1)"
Lin Hao Yu held it in within, not daring to say anything else, but disapproval was written all over his face.
"You can be stupid on your own, but do not drag me down with you." Gu Xin Yan said in a highly displeased tone as she turned to leave, but her heart was thinking in another way. Jun Wu's chilly demeanor had indeed made her feel somewhat uncomfortable but though Jun Wu treated her like that, he was the same with everyone else. In fact, the only person throughout the entire Cloudy Brook Academy who was able to exchange a few words with Jun Wu was only her alone and that had made her feel slightly better about it.
And now that Jun Wu was going to the Waning Moon Chambers, it had made Gu Xin Yan see a glimmer of hope.
What the Waning Moon Chambers was like, she did not know. But if Jun Wu was to suffer any injustice at the Waning Moon Chambers, she would be able to make use of that opportunity to comfort him a little.
That was what Gu Xin Yan was thinking in her mind as she left.
Immediately after Jun Wu Xie received the news from Jun Wu Xie, she just took a little time to make a few preparations before she set forth towards the Waning Moon Chambers.
The Waning Moon Chambers was at the east wing of the Cloudy Moon Academy. That area was not a place for the academy's disciples to practice their cultivation but was not far from the library and treasure vault. When Jun Wu Xie walked out from the area where the lofts were located, she passed quite a number of youths gathered together in groups along the way. Their faces were filled with excited smiles, seemingly looking like they were just returning from their cultivation and were highly delighted, feeling endlessly excited with the future they saw here in this new academy.
The youths were chatting away merrily and the moment they saw Jun Wu Xie, they suddenly became more restrained, their eyes unconsciously floating over to look at the figure of Jun Wu Xie.
Among this batch of disciples, Jun Wu Xie was not considered to possess the strongest spirit powers, nor was she thought to own a powerful Ring Spirit, but she had still become the one that attracted the most attention. While everyone had all grouped up together in twos and threes, she was always alone. And that lone single figure had only made those youths who were jealous and envious of her to become more bothered by her.
The youths watched Jun Wu Xie walking past before their eyes, their faces contorted in expressions of disapproval.
"I had been thinking how much longer was she going to remain hiding in her room or what she not intending to come out of there anymore." A disciple said with his face showing a smile but there was no mirth.
"How pitiful. I had heard that all the rest of the people from the Innate Gift faculty had all gone to report much earlier but no one seems to be care a whim about him, and he had been left to shrivel and wither inside her room without anyone bothering about him."
"Tsk, he's really that pitiful? Isn't it said that she received invitations from all Twelve Palaces? I think that's all he is. Here in the Cloudy Brook Academy, nobody even asks about him at all and he thought he's really all that. What a joke."
The youths grumbled a little more before they went back to discussing what they had been talking about before.
Jun Wu Xie had already developed an ability to block out such sounds and she did not even pay the slightest attention to what they were all yapping about.
After walking for awhile, Jun Wu Xie finally found the Waning Moon Chambers. Standing before the doors, she saw the three characters that read "Waning Moon Chambers" hanging up upon the loft building and she paused a moment before she walked up to the door, her hand raised and prepared to knock.
She had just come to stand outside the doors when she detected the highly intoxicating fragrance of wine and that fragrance seemed to be coming out from behind the door.
Disciples were prohibited from drinking within the Cloudy Brook Academy and even teachers could not drink as they wished. It was high noon and right in the middle of the day, at such a time, why would the fragrance of wine even be present?
Jun Wu Xie was still a little puzzled in her heart but she did not tarry for too long before she went ahead to knock on the tightly shut door.
It was completely silent behind the door and not the slightest sound could be heard. Jun Wu Xie waited for a while but the door did not open and she knocked again.
The crisp and clear sound of the knocking upon the door rang out within the silence, sounding highly jarring among that largely empty area in the Cloudy Brook Academy.
There was still no sound coming from inside the Waning Moon Chambers. There wasn't the slightest trace of impatience on Jun Wu Xie's face and she paused only for a moment before she continued to knock, rhythmically, neither too hurried nor slacking as she knocked.
Chapter 1542: "Waning Moon Chambers (2)"
After waiting for about half an hour's time and Jun Wu Xie was just about to knock upon the door again, she finally heard some movement from inside and Jun Wu Xie put her hand down to wait.
'Creak.'
The tightly locked door was then opened slowly as a strong wave of the wine's fragrance rushed straight out from inside.
"Burp!" inside the room, sat a lightly clad and highly gorgeous woman who was leaning upon the door, her ravishing face tinged with a pink flush, her half narrowed beautiful eyes staring at Jun Wu Xie standing in front of the door.
That woman looked like she was about twenty eight or twenty nine years old, possessing not the kind of innocent beauty of a young girl but more like the seductive allure of a mature woman, but without making people feel she was unrefined in any way. Her pair of long endless legs were covered by a skirt and the hand that was resting against the door held an elaborately decorated wine jar.
"Kid, have you got the wrong place?" The gorgeous beauty asked Jun Wu Xie with her brows creased up together, the thick scent of wine assaulting Jun Wu Xie from the front when the woman opened her mouth to speak.
When Jun Wu Xie breathed in the wine soaked fumes, she almost felt like she was becoming drunk.
"Teacher Tian Ze told me to come." Jun Wu Xie said, trying her best to disregard the thick fragrance of wine.
"Har? Tian Ze?" The woman's face became highly puzzled as she gazed at Jun Wu Xie from head to toe. "What did he ask you to come here for?"
"Cultivation." Jun Wu Xie replied.
"....." The woman's eyes widened slightly and then looked at Jun Wu Xie from top to bottom again. "He asked you to come here to cultivate? Are you sure you heard him right?"
Jun Wu Xie nodded her head.
The woman looked highly impatient as she swung the wine jar in her hand and grumbled in irritation: "Has Tian Ze brain been squashed by the door? He actually wants me to guide a disciple..... Is he a moron? Damn it..... This woman here doesn't feel like babysitting a snot nosed kid at all."
The woman continued to grumble looking highly irritated, completely not caring that her words which were filled with such utter disdain was falling right into Jun Wu Xie's ears.
Jun Wu Xie continued to remain standing there quietly, compared to the woman's bewilderment, Jun Wu Xie's surprise was not that slight either.
[This person was going to be her teacher from now onwards?]
Looking at the state the woman was in, Jun Wu Xie was feeling like she had met the female version of Drunk Lotus.
The woman struggled for a while before she finally said highly vexed: "Alright kid, come on in." The woman then opened up her stride and walked right inside.
Jun Wu Xie followed her inside. The entire room was filled with the dense and thick fragrance of wine and upon a shelf that lined one wall on the first level, it was filled with all kinds of wine jars and urns, rows upon rows of them, and there was a highly astounding number of them.
The woman did not bother with Jun Wu Xie and just walked on her own towards a soft plush lounge to lie herself down. She propped her head up with one arm and one of her long legs was then carelessly placed to step upon the lounge. With that action highly laid back action, her skirt then slid upwards to highly expose that long fair leg of hers. She did not seem to notice it at all as she lifted up the wine jar and took several large gulps down her throat. She downed that one jar in one breath and she then tossed the empty wine jar at Jun Wu Xie's feet.
""Fill it up." The woman said lazily.
Jun Wu Xie stared at the highly drunk woman and then stared at the wine jar before she bent her back to pick it up without a word. The woman lifted a finger to point at the jars of wine upon the shelf and Jun Wu Xie went walking over there. She poured more wine into the jar and then handed it over to the woman.
Jun Wu Xie then retreated to the side self consciously and the woman did not bother with her as she continued to drink.
The two people in the room then fell silent under that strange and bewildering situation.
Till she finished that next jar of wine, the woman then continued to send Jun Wu Xie to fetch her more. After having made the trip three or five times, the woman finally paused and with the wine jar dangling from her hand, the half narrowed eyes turned to look at Jun Wu Xie who had carried out the thankless tasks given to her without a word of complaint and still maintained a unwavering demeanor.
"Kid, what's your name?" The woman asked.
Chapter 1543: "Waning Moon Chambers (3)"
"Kid, what's your name?" The woman asked.
"Jun Wu." Jun Wu Xie said.
"Jun Wu....." The woman rubbed at her chin and sat up upon the lounge to take another long pull of the wine. "You were just admitted into here this year?" The woman asked with her face tinged with tipsiness.
"Yes."
"Which category?"
"Innate Gift category."
The woman's mouth curled up and her gaze turned to the side. "Mother's eggs, why would they dump a little runt from the Innate Gift to me for? They must have water in their brains. This woman here isn't even from one of those unique races.
Jun Wu Xie was calm as she listened to the woman "grumbles" that were not spoken softly at all.
"Which race are you from? Bone Shifters? Witch Doctor? Or the Wind Riders?" The woman's face was one of impatience, with the words "This woman doesn't want to take you under my wing at all, would you now get the hell out of here?" almost written clearly on her forehead.
Jun Wu Xie acted like she did not even notice that woman's impatience and just went on to reply: "Spirit Mastery race."
"Har?" The woman was taken aback, the hand holding the wine jar swinging a bit. "Spirit Mastery race? Never heard of it." And she took another gulp of wine.
"Kid, you'd better not deceive me."
"It's the Spirit Mastery race." Jun Wu Xie said calmly. The Cloudy Brook Academy was the third academy she had attended but as a teacher like this woman here, it was Jun Wu Xie's first time seeing someone like that. The teacher that went off script the most whom Jun Wu Xie had seen would be her Master Yan Bu Gui, wine never leaving his mouth as well. But compared to this woman, Yan Bu Gui highly paled in significance.
"Huh? Spirit Mastery race? Alright. Then why don't you tell me what kind of unique characteristics does the Spirit Mastery race possess? If you can't tell me, this woman is gonna throw you out." The woman murmured, spewing out a mouthful of fumes from the wine.
Jun Wu Xie glanced at her and did not say much but just pulled out her Cosmos Sack, thinking to retrieve something from it.
In the Lower Realm, there was no such thing as a Cosmos Sack. Here in the Middle Realm, though the Cosmos Sack was rare, but it was not that rare that it would be surprising to see one, hence, Jun Wu Xie had not thought much about bringing it out.
But at the moment that Jun Wu Xie brought the Cosmos Sack out, the woman whose face had been filled with impatience suddenly froze for a moment as she stared at the Cosmos Sack with its crabapple flower embroidery in Jun Wu Xie's hand and the drunkenness within the woman's eyes immediately disappeared without a trace.
Suddenly, a flash of silver light streaked past before Jun Wu Xie, and the Cosmos Sack she held in her hand disappeared in an instant. By the time Jun Wu Xie lifted her head, the Cosmos Sack was already in the woman's hand.
When did she take it?
Jun Wu Xie was surprised. Recalling that quick flash of silver light earlier, her heart jumped slightly.
Ye Sha had once told her. Above the Purple Spirit, there was the Silver Spirit but Jun Wu Xie had never seen it before. She had always suspected that the Spirit Jade Palace Lord was a Silver Spirit but she had never seen him use his powers. When Jun Wu Xie had just met this drunken woman, she had not been able to determine her spirit powers which just proved that the woman possessed powers higher than hers. But Jun Wu Xie had never thought that this woman would be on the same level as the Lords of the Twelve Palaces, a Silver Spirit!
Jun Wu Xie was filled with astonishment but the woman did not care about how Jun Wu Xie was feeling, only staring at the Cosmos Sack in her hand with her head lowered, her eyes filled with utter shock.
"Kid! Where did you get this Cosmos Sack from! ?" The woman suddenly lifted up her head, the glaze of drunkenness dissipated completely from her beautiful pair of eyes, suddenly replaced by a sharp penetrating gaze, her tone becoming stern.
Jun Wu Xie arched up an eyebrow. That Cosmos Sack had been given to her by Yan Bu Gui. Judging from the reaction of the woman, it was obvious that she recognizes the Cosmos Sack!
Chapter 1544: "A Teacher Who Loves Wine Like Life (1)"
The reason why Yan Bu Gui had left the Middle Realm, was something he had never mentioned before. When Jun Wu Xie had treated Yan Bu Gui, she had discovered that his body had been afflicted with quite a number of internal injuries and it would require quite a bit of time to nurse him back to health. Before she left, she had gotten Mu Chen to look after Yan Bu Gui's condition.
In fact, Yan Bu Gui had not taught Jun Wu Xie all that much but Jun Wu Xie had acknowledged him to be her Master in her heart, and that would not change.
The injuries Yan Bu Gui had suffered had made Jun Wu Xie realize that he must have had faced some difficulties that was beyond his control that made him leave the Middle Realm. Hence, Jun Wu Xie would not mention anything that had to do with Yan Bu Gui to any outsiders.
This woman recognized the Cosmos Sack and she might just know Yan Bu Gui as well.
"I bought that at an auction." Jun Wu Xie replied.
"You bought it at an auction?" The woman's face was filled with shock and disbelief as she flipped the Cosmos Sack this way and that several times, the corners of her mouth then curling up into a cold sneer. "Bought it at an auction... Good! Good! That's just great! Ha ha ha ha!"
She then tossed the Cosmos Sack back to Jun Wu Xie, her mouth still twisted up in a sneer.
"You have truly let me down!"
Jun Wu Xie held the Cosmos Sack in her hands, the woman's words surprising her in her heart. But before she could ascertain this woman's relationship to Yan Bu Gui, she could not reveal a single word about him. That was just being responsible towards Yan Bu Gui's safety.
"Can I continue now?" Jun Wu Xie asked the woman, with a feigned calm.
The woman gulped down another mouthful of wine and then said in a cold voice: "Carry on!"
Jun Wu Xie pulled out a flask of water from the Cosmos Sack and after wetting the paintbrush, she squatted down on the ground to scribble a set of Spirit Reinforcement runes before she summoned the little black cat.
The woman leaned herself back against the lounge, looking highly indifferent and not really noticing what Jun Wu Xie was doing, her mind seemingly somewhere else.
But just as the woman's mind was drifting away, a scorching flame burst up before her eye, the bright glow immediately dragging the woman's attention back!
She saw a little black cat treading upon those raging flames in walk, the balls of fire wrapped around its limbs, but not singeing its fur in the slightest.
The woman whose mind had not really been paying attention suddenly stared with her eyes wide, to look at the amazing sight that had manifested before her eyes.
After a while, the flames around the little black cat's paws dissipated away and it then leapt lightly onto Jun Wu Xie shoulder, to sit down firmly as it swished its tail.
"This is the power of the Spirit Mastery race?" The woman asked, looking in surprise at Jun Wu Xie, the languid sleepiness disappearing completely without a trace as her gaze fixed upon the figure of Jun Wu Xie.
"Yes." Jun Wu Xie nodded.
"Tell me in detail about the abilities of the Spirit Mastery race." The woman said, her face becoming serious.
Jun Wu Xie took the words she told Su Jing Yan back on that day and repeated them to the woman without missing a single word. The woman listened intently and when Jun Wu Xie was finished, the surprise in her eyes still had not faded away.
"Under these Heavens, the Spirit Mastery race really exists....." The woman said as she lowered her head thoughtfully, rubbing at her chin. That pair of beautiful eyes then swung over to Jun Wu Xie once more, tinged with a gently probing flavour.
"I can roughly understand why that moron Tian Ze would send you here."
The woman stood up and came over to Jun Wu Xie. The woman was very tall and standing before Jun Wu Xie, she stood more than half a head taller. With her hand holding the wine jar placed at her hip, she bent her back slightly to bring her eyes level with Jun Wu Xie, the other hand suddenly placed on top of Jun Wu Xie's head.
"Little one, remember this. This woman is called Su Ya, and from today onwards, I am your teacher."
Chapter 1545: "A Teacher Who Loves Wine Like Life (2)"
Su Ya became Jun Wu Xie's teacher. The kind of influence that Jun Wu Xie had on Su Ya was a little hard to put into words but her powers of a Silver Spirit was not something regular people could compare to.
At that moment, Jun Wu Xie believed that the Cloudy Brook Academy was definitely not just an ordinary academy. Su Ya had obviously never guided a disciple before. For someone who held power equivalent to the level of a Palace Lord, a Silver Spirit no less, but had been thrown aside to be left in a place no different from a wine cellar, it could be seen from this how big a heart the Headmaster of the Cloudy Brook Academy must possess.
Jun Wu Xie had thought that after Su Ya accepted her as a disciple, she would surely teach her something. But..... she was wrong.....
After Su Ya said those words, she went right back to her comfy soft lounge and sat herself down, propping a leg up that stepped upon the soft lounge chair to take another two large gulps of wine.
"Now, I am your teacher."
Jun Wu Xie nodded.
"Then, for the first thing that you have to do." The woman said as she looked at Jun Wu Xie, where she then lifted a hand to point at the flight of stairs on the side. "Clean up the second level."
"....." Jun Wu Xie then started to feel that she might have thought too much into it!
Su Ya when compared to a regular teacher..... was completely different.
"Don't just stand there, do you need this woman to send you up there with a kick? Dawdling around like a little sissy..... If it's not done properly, you can jolly well go back to where you came from." Su Ya said with cold derision.
Jun Wu Xie sighed slightly and then silently walked up to the second floor.
No matter how far off the script Su Ya was being, since the Cloudy Brook Academy allocated her here, she would still complete the tasks a disciple was supposed to do, taking as a kind of training before she dealt with the Twelve Palaces.
Jun Wu Xie walked up onto the second level of the loft and she instantly froze at the door.
Everywhere the eye saw, the second level of the loft was complete mess of chaos. Wine jars and urns were piled up messily all over the place, and indistinguishable and unidentifiable substances filled up every corner. Jun Wu Xie even found a section of a chicken bone that had been half chewed upon.....
"....."
Jun Wu Xie who was a little bit of a clean freak was suddenly stunned by the extent of the trash.
In the entire Waning Moon Chambers, there was only Su Ya alone. It could easily be guessed who was the one responsible for creating that mess.
[What kind of a teacher has she gotten herself?]
Jun Wu Xie was speechless as she asked the Heavens.
The pitiful broom was half buried under a pile of unidentifiable substances and Jun Wu Xie stared for quite a long time before she finally drew in a deep breath and pulled out a pair of gloves from her Cosmos Sack, resigned to her fate. After she dug the broom out, she then embarked on her bitter battle with trash.
Su Ya lay upon the soft lounge on the first floor and listened to sound of footsteps coming down from the second level. Her gorgeous face curled up with a smile of unclear intentions and she then began drinking highly leisurely once again.
Jun Wu Xie filled up gunny sack after gunny sack with the trash that had been lying there for an unknown length of time. She then carried them down the steps from the second level and brought them outside the Waning Moon Chambers, one trip after another, tirelessly and silent. Needless to even mention a single word of praise from Su Ya, by the time Jun Wu Xie had slogged through several more trips outside and was on her next trip down, she saw that Su Ya had already fallen asleep upon the comfy lounge while hugging a wine jar tightly. It was made worse by the fact that while she slept, she had an entire fair skinned leg completely exposed, while her comfortable lounge chair directly faced the wide open doors of the Waning Moon Chambers!
Several youths who were coincidentally walking past the Waning Moon Chambers stumbled onto that great view and they immediately stopped in their tracks to stand outside the doors to drool heavily as they stared.
Jun Wu Xie's face was cold as stone as she looked at the highly ravenous and thirsty wolves outside the door. She put down the gunny sacks she held in her hands for a while and pulled out a outer robe from within her Cosmos Sack, to cover it over Su Ya's long leg before those youths staring outside, shielding that colourful sight of spring from prying eyes.
Chapter 1546: "A Teacher Who Loves Wine Like Life (3)"
To clean up the Waning Moon Chambers had taken Jun Wu Xie three entire days and in that period, the sight of her dragging out bags of trash big and small was spotted by quite a number of disciples and many voice raised with endless comments quickly spread among the freshmen disciples.
Jun Wu Xie had from the Battle of Deities till now gone through many twists and turns, rising and falling. The rarity of the Spirit Mastery race had caused her to become a target all the Twelve Palaces fought for and because of that, it had drawn much jealousy from quite a number of youths. But no one had expected that her final choice would finally end up being the Spirit Jade Palace that had fallen into decline.
And after being admitted into the Cloudy Brook Academy, the other disciples had all begun their cultivation training and Jun Wu Xie was seen only dumping rubbish which led the youths who had once envied Jun Wu Xie to secretly laugh and jeer.
"Similarly as mortals but we lead different lives. I had thought what kind of great abilities that kid has but that is all he has amounted to. How could the Spirit Jade Palace even compare to the Twelve Palaces? The people at the Cloudy Brook Academy aren't idiots and who would seriously teach someone from the Spirit Jade Palace?" A group of youths gathered together to chit chat after their cultivation training ended.
"I think it's great, throwing out rubbish and such should be really suitable for him! Haha."
The group of youths then laughed together.
Jun Wu Xie came out from the Waning Moon Chambers and was on her way back to the dorm when she came across that gossipy group of youths. She continued to walk pass calmly but those youths were clearly not about to spare her just like that.
"Hey Jun Wu! My room has not been cleared for several days! Why don't you clean it up for me as well?"
"Ya ya ya! Mine too! Don't worry, I'll pay you for it and not let you do it for nothing."
"I say Jun Wu, why don't you take charge of the rooms of your brothers here and we will guide you with a thing or two outside of our cultivation training time. How good a deal is that? Don't end up when we have all graduated and gone back and you'll still have to carry out all these menial tasks in the Cloudy Brook Academy."
The insulting and sarcastic words were chasing down Jun Wu Xie to nip mercilessly at her like a bunch of rabid dogs. Jun Wu Xie's face was cold as she walked past the youths, not bothering with them at all.
And those youths being greeted by Jun Wu Xie's silence grown bolder and more audacious, from the initial hushed whispers to the blatant insults hurled right before her.
Gu Xin Yan stood in their shadows, seeing Jun Wu Xie pass under the laughing and jeering and her beautiful and enchanting face was tinged with a smile.
Lin Hao Yu followed behind Gu Xin Yan closely, his gaze similarly looking at the departing back of Jun Wu Xie and his heart filled up with glee.
Gu Xin Yan usually treated Jun Wu quite well. The favoured treatment had caused Lin Hao Yu to become insanely jealous and seeing Jun Wu fallen into such a wretched state now, the fact that exhilaration would fill his heart was a matter that did not need to be said. Moreover, with Gu Xin Yan just quietly watching from the side and not showing any signs of stepping forth to help had made Lin Hao Yu very happy.
In the end, Jun Wu had only enjoyed a fleeting moment of glory just based on the rarity of his Spirit Mastery race.
In the Cloudy Brook Academy, the advantage of being from the various unique races had ceased to exist the moment he chose the Spirit Jade Palace. They had begun their real cultivation training and Jun Wu had instead been tasked with menial work by the Cloudy Brook Academy. The disparity in treatment between them had been greatly pulled further apart.
"How pitiful, looks like the Cloudy Brook Academy do not value the Spirit Mastery race all that much. Jun Wu is now not given proper guidance nor is he able to practice cultivation but had instead become a janitor in the Cloudy Brook Academy. I think he will not have a chance of leaving this place till the end of his life." Lin Hao Yu's tone was highly sympathetic but the expression on his face was anything but kind, filled instead with ridicule.
Gu Xin Yan glanced at Lin Hao Yu. Jun Wu's current situation was truly in a bad state, it could even be said to be downright appalling.
Chapter 1547: "The Plot Begins (1)"
All of this, was something that even Gu Xin Yan had not thought of.
Reasonably, it was not important which palace Jun Wu chose as the Cloudy Brook Academy would not change how it treated any disciple because of that. Moreover, Jun Wu's Spirit Mastery race to the entire Middle Realm, was an astounding discovery.
The history of the Cloudy Brook Academy was deep and highly illustrious and they did not look like they were such a shallow academy that would treat their disciples differently based on their identity.
But despite that, Jun Wu still had not gone into any kind of cultivation and even Gu Xin Yan herself had witnessed Jun Wu being made to throw out rubbish at the Waning Moon Chambers.
Towards that, Gu Xin Yan had even gone to ask the seniors a little bit more about that.
The Waning Moon Chambers when described in plain words, was the Cloudy Brook Academy's wine cellar and there was usually only one person overlooking that place without any disciples ever carrying out any cultivation training over there. The Waning Moon Chambers was an oddity that stood out against the nearby highly normal library and treasure vault buildings.
To have a newly admitted disciple arranged into the a wine cellar and always made to just pack and clean up, no matter how one looked at it, it made people feel that something was off. Even if Gu Xin Yan tried her hardest to decipher a deeper meaning behind it, she had not been able to come to any reasonable conclusion, making her feel as if Jun Wu had been abandoned by the Cloudy Brook Academy.
Gu Xin Yan had suddenly become confused, unable to understand why the Cloudy Brook Academy would do that to Jun Wu.
"We'll just observe it for another period of time." Gu Xin Yan said cautiously. She had noticed that though the rumours and unfounded gossip had been many, Jun Wu had not shown any reaction to all of them. This was still not the right time for her to make her move as she needed to wait till Jun Wu had fallen into a quandary before she offers him a helping hand, which would then amplify the kindness she was going to show to Jun Wu.
Seeing that Gu Xin Yan still had not abandoned her intention of winning over Jun Wu, Lin Hao Yu secretly curled up his lips in contempt. He was silent for a moment before a idea suddenly popped into his head.
"Xin Yan, are you thinking to wait till that kid Jun Wu has suffered injustice before you reach out to help him?"
"When else?" Gu Xin Yan said. Having interacted with Jun Wu for a period of time, Jun Wu had always made her feel they were distant. Regardless how hard she tried, they had always remained in a state where they were still close to being strangers. That situation had frustrated Gu Xin Yan and she had been trying to break that stalemate but had not yet succeeded.
"Should I help you?" Lin Hao Yu said with a smile.
Gu Xin Yan lifted an eyebrow. "Do not do anything rash. If Jun Wu discovers it and thinks that our Blood Fiend Palace hold enmity against her, she would definitely not want to become friendly with us."
Lin Hao Yu continued to smile as he replied: "There's no need to be so nervous. I wouldn't really be that dumb. Sometimes, to push someone to the edge with no other way out, one doesn't even need to dirty his own hands. All it needs is just a little push and a prod and others will naturally do it for us."
Gu Xin Yan looked at the confident smile upon Lin Hao Yu's face and she hesitated a moment before she said: "I understand what you are telling me but everyone from all the palaces have already received instructions before they came in here that no one is to provoke Jun Wu. What kind of a ploy could you possibly dream up?"
Lin Hao Yu answered: "Instructions were given. But you have seen it for yourself. People who are displeased with Jun Wu with the Cloudy Brook Academy are many and they are all young and hot blooded youths. There's bound to be a few who would act without thinking it through their minds."
Gu Xin Yan was still a little disagreeable to it but Lin Hao Yu's words had tugged at her heart. Now that the cultivation training for the various faculties had already started, she did not have that much time to carry out her own plans. Afterall, coming into the Cloudy Brook Academy, besides developing talents for the Blood Fiend Palace, she still wanted to raise her own powers as well.
"Do not let Jun Wu find out." Gu Xin Yan finally relented.
Chapter 1548: "The Plot Begins (2)"
Having got Gu Xin Yan's approval, Lin Hao Yu laughed secretly to himself in his heart. He agreed with docility to everything that was said but upon turning his back, he immediately went ahead to carry out the task.
And at that time, Jun Wu Xie did not know that Lin Hao Yu had already set his eye on her. She continued to provide menial labour, tormented under Su Ya's hands.
After the second level was cleaned up, Su Ya led Jun Wu Xie to the basement of the Waning Moon Chambers. The place was filled with fragrant wine that had just fermented not too long ago. The entire basement was closed up tight and Jun Wu Xie had just gone inside when she nearly became drunk from breathing all the thick fumes of wine in there.
But Su Ya did not bother with that and just dumped her in there to watch over the place.
Jun Wu Xie was made to remain down there for the entire day and when she came back from the Waning Moon Chambers everyday, her whole body was covered with that thick smell of wine. Even from far away, the other youths were already able to smell the fragrance of wine on Jun Wu Xie.
Although still young, but to these youths who were trapped within the Cloudy Brook Academy and given nothing but highly simple meals and plain old tea, wine and gourmet food were things far beyond their reach. They had already been feeling depressed with the fare they were given in there and they had to "smell" Jun Wu Xie coming back everyday reeking of a walking vat of wine. That caused the youths who already disliked Jun Wu Xie to secretly harbour greater hatred against the kid.
[Based on what do they have to be put under such rigorous training by the teachers to the point that they were all almost half dead and had to eat food that was so bland they all tasted like they had been cooked with nothing but water but Jun Wu was instead allowed such a leisurely life to enjoy gourmet food with wine?]
At that moment, they all seemed to have conveniently forgotten that they had just been laughing at Jun Wu Xie for having to live so lowly, having been abandoned by the Cloudy Brook Academy and in just a blink, they had grown so highly jealous of Jun Wu Xie's good fortune.
In the beginning, that jealousy had merely been passed around through words from their mouths but with Jun Wu Xie's silence and isolation, the youths began to become more bold with their actions.
One day, when Jun Wu Xie had just returned to the dormitory and was going back to her room to rest, right before her door, was a huge pile of rubbish that blocked her door fully. The rubbish that was already starting to smell rather ripe had completely blocked her way inside where even the keyhole had been stuffed up with some unknown substance.
Jun Wu Xie stood in front of her door and looked at the mess before her door, her face not showing the slightest reaction.
Several youths came out from the adjacent rooms and saw Jun Wu Xie standing before the door without any expression on her face, all of them grinning in utmost glee.
"Sigh, our little janitor is really loving his job so much that he has even brought his work back to the dorm?"
"Since he likes to pick up trash so much, he might as well not return to his room and just sleep upon the trash which will save him a lot of trouble. Anyway, the trash really suits him very well doesn't it?"
"Eww, the stench is really hard to bear. It really stinks."
The several youths all stared at Jun Wu with wicked gazes. The more perplexed and frustrated Jun Wu became, the better their hearts would then feel.
"Some people like to surround themselves with rubbish, but all the rest of us here do not. That's fine, just let that someone sleep here with the pile of rubbish and we can all go ahead and rest in our clean rooms."
After saying that the youths all turned and left, the wide grins on their faces completely undisguised.
Jun Wu Xie stared coldly at the backs of those youths and a chill flashed in her eyes.
Just around the corner, Lin Hao Yu had his arms folded across his chest, as he stared at Jun Wu's icy cold expression and the ends of his mouth then curled up in a sneer. When he saw those youths walking towards him, he immediately retracted the smile on his face and walked out from behind that corner, his demeanor stoic. The tone of his voice was sounding highly righteous as he said: "The few of you had better know where to draw the line! Bullying also has its limits! Jun Wu is such a young kid so how can all of you bully him like this! ?"
"Lin Hao Yu, what has these things got to do with you? Jun Wu is not even from the Blood Fiend Palace so why are you getting so uptight about! ?" One of the youths retorted, sounding highly displeased.
Chapter 1549: "The Plot Begins (3)"
"Does it even matter whether he is from our Blood Fiend Palace? I just can't stand seeing all of you bullying someone like this! Did Jun Wu offend any of you? You are all just jealous that Jun Wu got invited by all Twelve Palaces! Who do all of you think you are? You're all just fortunate enough to have been picked by one of the palaces and had gone running to latch on to their thighs like the dogs you all are and you all have become so self absorbed in glee? Who among you have received invitations from all Twelve Palaces? Did you even have another choice? If you can't match up to others, then all of you should not come here to bully someone in this manner. Is that what all of you are capable of?" Lin Hao Yu berated those youths in a righteous tone, his voice loud and clear, drawing out everyone else within the other rooms on that level. Several of the more curious ones stuck their heads out behind their doors and continued to watch the show.
The faces of those youths turned a pale green from anger after hearing Lin Hao Yu's words. Although what Lin Hao Yu said was highly unpleasant to the ears, it hit what they were feeling in their hearts accurately. The reason they had been so nasty to Jun Wu was indeed partly because they were jealous of the kid.
But though the words rang true, it did little to stop the hatred they felt towards Jun Wu, but merely caused the humiliation that they felt from being discovered to turn into rage!
"Lin Hao Yu! You had better clean out that mouth of yours! Who would be jealous of a piece of trash like that! ? So what if he had been invited by all Twelve Palaces! ? Didn't he end up in that damned Spirit Jade Palace? To end up becoming a useless trashy janitor in the Cloudy Brook Academy. The Cloudy Brook Academy doesn't even give a damn about him so why in the hell are you jumping out to play the hero! ?" The youths were so angry their faces were now flushed red, arguing back without backing down in the slightest.
"How do you know that the Cloudy Brook Academy doesn't care about him? It could be that the academy has some special arrangements made for Jun Wu and you really think that the few of you here are even fit to know about the decisions made by the academy? You're comparing yourselves to Jun Wu? With just that puny bit of power that you hold, it's not even good enough to be shown to anyone here! Jun Wu is the Middle Realm's one and only person from the Spirit Mastery race and who are all of you to even compare yourselves to him! ?" Lin Hao Yu sneered with his venomous tongue.
The two parties stood right in the middle of the hallway as they argued, with Lin Hao Yu defending Jun Wu with every word he said, but those words were all highly prickly to the ears and even those youths who were not involved in the incident began to develop traces of displeasure against Jun Wu after hearing Lin Hao Yu's overbearing and arrogant words.
Needless to even mention those who had already disliked Jun Wu from before.
"What are you saying? Being from the Spirit Mastery race makes you exceptional? Belonging to a rare race makes you high and mighty? He chose the trashy Spirit Jade Palace himself and now that we're inside the Cloudy Brook Academy he is latching on to the Blood Fiend Palace's golden thigh! Ptui!"
At that moment, the debate about Jun Wu reached a point where it had become worse than it had ever been before.
Lin Hao Yu's argument had not only not helped change anything for Jun Wu Xie, he had instead put her into a more dangerous predicament.
By the time the arguments ended and Lin Hao Yu and those youths had dispersed, those youths who had been watching the show from the side all subconsciously turned their heads to look at in the direction Jun Wu Xie was at.
Under the noisy squabbling, Jun Wu Xie was instead acting like a person who was uninvolved in their arguing as she just quietly cleaned up the filthy mess outside her door, completely unconcerned with anything else.
But those gazes thrown upon the figure of Jun Wu had at that point grown to become more unfriendly. All those vicious gazes couldn't be anymore clear.
Jun Wu Xie did not bother herself with all those eyes staring at her but merely walked inside silently after she opened the door, blocking out all the admonishments and curses from people out there.
Meanwhile after turning the corner, the face of Lin Hao Yu who had pretended to stomp off in rage suddenly revealed a highly venomous smile.
Chapter 1550: "The Plot Begins (4)"
Young youths were most easily incited into partaking into a mob. They were exuberant and hot blooded, while their ability at differentiating between truth and fiction were usually easily swayed by outside opinions. After that argument between Lin Hao Yu and those youths, Jun Wu Xie's reputation among the freshmen in the Cloudy Brook Academy had become extremely vile.
Everyone secretly despised Jun Wu for thinking so highly of himself, thinking that having received invitations from all Twelve Palaces was something all that great. After having chosen the Spirit Jade Palace, he had still shamelessly clung on to the Blood Fiend Palace's big thigh and he had ended up being disregarded by the academy to become a piece of trash that had been sent to the wine cellar to carry out odd jobs.
Under all those curses, only the youths from the Blood Fiend Palace were arguing in Jun Wu's defence. When everyone else was berating and cursing Jun Wu, the youths of the Blood Fiend Palace would all stand together and take Jun Wu's side to argue vehemently with the others.
But what they were doing had not only not reduced the amount curses Jun Wu suffered, it had instead turned into situation where things were seemingly becoming more intense.
After Gu Xin Yan came to know about the situation, her face showed a wide smile.
What Lin Hao Yu had done this time had made her highly satisfied. It had not only made all the youths from the other palaces stand on a completely opposite side from Jun Wu, it had made the Blood Fiend Palace become the little kid's only ally. This feigned good intentions that actually set Jun Wu up had yielded results beyond what she had expected.
Which led Gu Xin Yan's attitude towards Lin Hao Yu to improve.
Hearing all the abuse being hurled, Qiao Chu and the other companions could do nothing but watch on with their chilly gazes. The Heavens knew just how many times they had almost been unable to hold themselves back and had wanted to jump out to beat all those moronic blabbermouths into a bloody pulp.
[Jun Wu Xie was trash?]
[Their Little Xie was a fourth stage Purple Spirit! Who possesses two plant Ring Spirits and a little black cat spirit who could transform itself!]
[If she was considered trash, all these people would be dregs that were worse than trash!]
However, in order to topple the Twelve Palaces, they could only choose to maintain their silence, grumbling soundlessly in their hearts, to remember every single debt being run up. Till the day that their tasks were finished, they would make these dumb shrimps have a good taste of the vile fruits from the seeds they have planted this day!
[The Twelve Palaces are that great?]
If all these idiots only knew that the Jun Wu Xie they held in such strong contempt had appeared here seeking to obliterate the saintly palaces in their hearts, it was wondered what they would then think.
Towards all the admonishments, Jun Wu Xie herself acted like nothing at happened at all. She merely reported to the Waning Moon Chambers at a fixed time everyday and continued with her bitter experience under Su Ya's hands.
One day, Jun Wu Xie had just gone into the basement when Tian Ze came to the Waning Moon Chambers. Su Ya was lying upon her soft lounge drinking her wine and when she saw Tian Ze come in, she was too lazy to even lift up her eyes, not bothering with him in the least.
"Senior....." Tian Ze said with an accompanying bitter smile, looking straight the Su Ya who was completely ignoring him.
"Don't address this woman here as your Senior. I do not have such a dumb junior!" Su Ya said as she glanced at Tian Ze, her eyes contemptuous.
If anyone was to see that scene there at that moment, their jaws would have immediately dropped onto the floor.
Tian Ze held a very high position within the Cloudy Brook Academy and regular teachers in the academy had to somewhat defer to his position of authourity when they met him. All the disciples were also highly reverent and respectful towards him and who would have thought that Tian Ze who held such a high position in the Cloudy Brook Academy when faced with Su Ya who guarded the wine cellar before him, would instantly turn into a such a deferential lackey. He did not even dare to pull a long face and would only be too glad to smile in here!