Genius Doctor: Black Belly Miss

Chapter 381 - 400

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Chapter 381:- The Elder Appears (2)

Who would dare to impersonate as an Elder of the Qing Yun Clan? No one in their right mind would dare to do it.

Moreover, that person possessed the symbolic badge of the Qing Yun Clan, leading the people witnessing the commotion to believe them.

With the disappearance of the Qing Yun Clan, the meaning behind those three words attracted attention of an unprecedented level.

The man in white looked at the pleading youth before him and said: "The Qing Yun Clan is no more and I am no longer an Elder of the Qing Yun Clan. It must be fate that we met here today. I have a few more of that elixir you want but I do not have much left. If you really want it so badly, I can part with one more for the same price that you paid previously."

The pleading youth was ecstatic and could not stop bowing in gratitude. He reached into his sleeves and pulled out three bank notes showing an amount of one hundred thousand taels each and handed it over to "Mu Chen".

The other youths who were watching them intently all widened their eyes. Three hundred thousand taels for one elixir!?

What kind of a price was that!?

Besides the elixirs of the Qing Yun Clan, who else was able to command such prices!?

Anyone looking to enroll into the exorbitant Zephyr Academy were from families of prodigious wealth and hundreds of thousands of taels were well within their means. They were now presented before their eyes, a chance meeting with an Elder of the disappeared Qing Yun Clan, and he had just agreed to sell an elixir from the Qing Yun Clan to that youth!

Mayhem ensued!

Groups of youths swarmed out from the queue and rushed towards the tree.

"Mu Chen" was just concluding his deal with the youth when he saw a large group of sweat drenched youths rushing towards him and before he knew it, they all knelt down at his feet.

"Elder Mu! May we ask what elixir did you just sell to that youth?" A cautious youth before "Mu Chen" asked in audacity without even stating his intentions but asking about the use and effects of the elixir impudently.

Three hundred thousand taels was not a small sum and not many elixirs across these vast lands was worth that heavenly price tag!

If they splashed such a huge sum of money but got themselves an elixir they had no use for, they would undoubtedly be shown up as fools.

"Mu Chen" stared at the crowd of youths who had suddenly surrounded him and his handsome face registered a moment of surprise but was quickly suppressed and he calmed down before saying in a soft voice: "It was just an elixir that widens your veins and arteries that speeds up the development of spiritual power in training and nothing else."

"Mu Chen's " tone was nonchalant, but when those words registered in the minds of the youths, their hearts started beating faster!

Widening of the veins and arteries!?

That effect was just incredibly fascinating!!

That would mean that the progress in their future training would be faster than their peers! For elixirs such as this, its effects were better when they consume it at a young age to strengthen their foundation. The youths were all below sixteen years of age and it was the perfect time for them to consume it!

Moreover, before this, they had not known that an elixir with such effects existed!

So, who else would have the ability to produce an elixir with such heaven defying effects besides the Qing Yun Clan!?

But the Qing Yun Clan had ceased to exist and only the Heavens knew when they would meet anyone from the Qing Yun Clan again. It might turn out to be the only chance in their lifetime to buy that phenomenal elixir!

"Elder Mu!" Please grace me with one of the elixir! I'll pay! Any amount you want!" A quick thinking youth pleaded immediately, waving a handful of bank notes in his hand!

The state of their veins and arteries would affect the future development of their spiritual powers in training, who could refuse such a heavensent opportunity?

"Elder Mu! Sell one to me too!"

"Me! Me! Elder Mu! I want one too! At whatever price!"

After the first outburst from one youth, a second youth quickly followed, and a third.....

The crowd around "Mu Chen" was still growing and the first youth who had already made a purchase was pushed out by the crowd.

The youths were all on their knees as they surged around "Mu Chen", as wads and wads of bank notes were waved in the air, begging for just one elixir!

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Chapter 382:- The Elder Appears (3)

The youth who was pushed out behind the crowd stared at the endless wads of bank notes waving in the air and discreetly threw a thumbs up at his three other companions standing behind the tree.

The explosive shouts of demand continued for awhile more and the commotion drew more eyes to look in the direction of the tree. In moments, the neat queue before the academy broke as many more youths rushed to come under the tree.

"Mu Chen" suddenly stated that the demand was too overwhelming and he had only four more elixirs with him.

Upon hearing that, the crowd erupted in chaos!

It would be reasonable that elixirs with such astounding effects would be rare and its quantity extremely limited. But since they had chanced upon such an opportunity so hard to come by, they were not prepared to lose it!

While the price was previously set at three hundred thousand taels previously, the overwhelming demand pushed the price up and it rocketed to five hundred thousand taels easily for each elixir sold.

After the four elixirs were sold out, the rest of the disappointed youths refused to give up and continued to pester for other elixirs to be sold to them as pity for not being able to get one of those four elixirs.

That's right, they asked to be pitied.....

Hundreds of thousand taels splashed out and they feel "Mu Chen" sold them the elixirs out of pity.

Those elixirs would change their life completely and with their families' prodigious wealth behind them, the money spent would barely be a drop in the sea.

However, Elder "Mu Chen" said that he was cleared out of elixirs and a wail of despair subsequently swept through the youths before they dispersed in dejection.....

As "Mu Chen" left, many pairs of eyes were staring at his back in regret.

All but four pairs. Four youths were laughing hilariously behind the tree.

"Little Xie! That was just too wicked! With each elixir, you swindled them of five hundred thousand taels! We got ourselves two million taels with just those four elixirs! The returns were just astronomical!" Qiao Chu looked at those youths staring forlornly at "Mu Chen's" back as he departed and he laughed even harder then. Qiao Chu wondered if those youths ever find out that the "Mu Chen" they saw was actually Hua Yao in disguise, what kind of thoughts would go through their minds.....

Hua Yao's ability to freely control his bones coupled with Jun Xie's talent at changing a person's outlook enabled them to imitate anyone they met completely and they had absolutely no problem copying the looks of Mu Chen whom they had close contact with in the Qing Yun Clan!

"I spotted the kid who mocked us before and he managed to win one of the elixirs from us. Hahaha..... If he only knew that he spent five hundred thousand taels to purchase an ordinary elixir, I wonder if he would vomit out blood then!" Qiao Chu felt better the more he thought about it. Jun Xie's underhanded scheme was really too much! If anyone else had claimed to possess such Heaven defying elixirs, no one would have believed a word of it. But they had brought out Mu Chen of the Qing Yun Clan, who specialised in veins and arteries, to make that claim, which lent undeniable credence to their words.

No matter how rotten the Qing Yun Clan was in reality, in the eyes of the people throughout the lands, they were the epitome of Medicine!

Jun Wu Xie stared at the guffawing Qiao Chu and said in a chill voice: "Those were not ordinary elixirs."

"WHAT?" Qiao Chu was stupefied.

Fei Yan who heard Jun Wu Xie looked at her in shock while she asked: "Little Xie, you mean those elixirs would really change the state of their veins and arteries!?"

Jun Wu Xie nodded.

Qiao Chu and the others suddenly became speechless.

All these youths in Lower Realm claimed they had not heard of it, even the four of them who were from the Middle Realm did not know that elixirs that could change the state of veins and arteries even existed!

"You..... you mean it's real!?" Qiao Chu still had not recovered from the shock. He had thought that the elixirs they sold were ordinary elixirs and never in his wildest dreams would he expect them to possess the effects they had claimed!

Jun Wu Xie nodded again.

"HOW CAN THIS BE!!!?" Qiao Chu shouted in disbelief. His shout shocked Hua Yao who was just returning to the group after shedding his disguise.

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Chapter 383:- The Elder Appears (4)

"What's going on here?" Hua Yao asked as he looked at Qiao Chu's shocked face and then at Fei Yan's and Rong Ruo's perplexed expressions.

Qiao Chu was incapable of speech and could only raise a heavily shaking finger to point at Jun Wu Xie.

Rong Ruo cleared her throat before she could speak and said: "Little Xie said..... Those elixirs we sold were real."

Even the usually calm Hua Yao paled at the news.

"Jun Xie, you cultivated those pills?" It was Hua Yao's turn to stare in incredulity at Jun Xie as he asked again, still unable to believe his ears. When Jun Xie had suggested that he impersonated Mu Chen and use the famed name of the Qing Yun Clan to peddle those elixirs, he had thought the very same way as his companions that Jun Xie had intended to hoodwink the disgustingly rich brats here with mere common elixirs and he would never have expected that.....

That little kid had given him the real deal..... Those elixirs' effects were as they claimed!

Jun Wu Xie nodded slightly and her eyes were expressionless. She did not understand why a few elixirs would elicit such dramatic reactions from her companions.

Even Hua Yao who was already mentally prepared found himself unable to respond to Jun Xie's honest reply that had thrown a bolt at him.

The four pairs of eyes that stared at Jun Wu Xie were incredulous. Was this kid really from the Lower Realm? They were the ones from the Middle Realm..... How was their Little Xie pulling out all these elixirs that they had never even knew existed?

Jun Wu Xie looked at her four companions staring at her as if she were some hideous monster. She was silent a moment before she reached into her cosmos bag and pulled out a white porcelain bottle.

"You want it?"

All at the same time, four pairs of eyes sparkled brightly!

They had just seen a similar bottle earlier, it looked just like the bottle Jun Xie had handed to Hua Yao to peddle.

As to what was inside, they all only knew too well by now.

"It..... It's really for us?" Qiao Chu asked swallowing noisily and he could not take his eyes off the white porcelain bottle in Jun Xie's hand.

Jun Wu Xie pushed the bottle that contained the Heaven defying elixirs into Qiao Chu's hand without a word.

To her, it was just some excess elixirs left over from the batches she had cultivated for the Rui Lin Army, and did not matter much.

At that time, Jun Wu Xie had singlehandedly cultivated one hundred thousand elixirs just like those for the Rui Lin Army!

Jun Wu Xie herself was surprised that her elixirs would sell so well. She had never had to worry about money and she did not even consider how much her elixirs were worth. The figure she gave Hua Yao earlier was based entirely on the amount they needed. She had absolutely no idea if they were worth that much or not.

But the chaos that ensued had proven it.....

Worth every cent!

Jun Wu Xie might have unilaterally decided to steal Mu Chen identity, but she had no intention of sullying the man's name as he made his way towards the Qi Kingdom's Imperial City.

When the thought of the Qi Kingdom came to mind, Jun Wu Xie's head lowered. She had gotten Ye Sha to send news to Jun Wu Yao, and to have Jun Wu Yao inform the Jun Family's father and son that she had embarked on a journey of training with her Master, and there was no need to worry about her.

But Jun Wu Xie's spontaneous little "fund raiser" though unintentional, brought about quite a bit of headache for Mu Chen.

As till far into the future, news of Mu Chen's ability to cultivate those Heaven defying elixirs spread throughout the Lower Realm and when these elixir hungry people heard that Mu Chen was in the Qi Kingdom's Lin Palace, they all swarmed to him, scaring Mu Chen into hiding in the Lin Palace and not daring to take a single step outside.

That is the future, and would not be discussed now.

Now, they had the money. The five of them did not have to worry about the fees any longer. Jun Wu Xie generously gave five hundred thousand taels to each of them and dispersed the group, to join the queue.

After the "Mu Chen" commotion died down, the queue before the Zephyr Academy regained its order.

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Chapter 384:- The Elder Appears (5)

Alas.....

After queueing for one whole day, the five of them did not even manage to touch the Zephyr Academy's gates. In the midst of the sea of people, Jun Wu Xie decided to leave and stood on one side. The Zephyr Academy's enrollment would cease when night fell and resume the next morning. She watched as the sun made its way down towards the horizon and decided that they did not stand a chance today.

Just as the sun was about to set, a group of people dressed in white clothes trimmed in blue came out through the gates of the Zephyr Academy. The man leading them looked to be in his early thirties, his face upright with a pair of eyes brimming with energy. The others behind him were all youths between eighteen and nineteen years of age and they all wore on their chests a jade emblem carved into the shape of a star.

When the group stepped out through the gates of the Zephyr Academy, all the youths who had been in the queue for one whole day suddenly became excited.

"Where is the Qing Yun Clan's Elder Mu?" The leader of the group asked of the guards standing at the gates.

One of the guards whispered a few words and the man's eyes frowned, his face a look of disappointment. With a heavy sigh, he brought the group back inside the academy.

Fei Yan watched on hidden behind the other youths and with his pretty looks which did not determine his sex, he went one round within the crowd and came back to assemble with Jun Wu Xie and the others after that.

"Looks like Little Xie's bait not only won us money, it had also baited a big fish." Fei Yan said with a smile as he leaned against a tree branch.

"What did you find out?" Qiao Chu asked excitedly.

Fei Yan did not play coy and shared all that she gathered: "That man who just came out is one of the teachers from the weapons spirits branch. The Headmaster of the Zephyr Academy has one son who suffered from a weak constitution and has been sickly from a young age. He has been kept alive with the help of countless medication taken daily and the Headmaster's various rare and treasured herbs and elixirs. As the young master's body is weak and he is unable to undertake long journeys, the Headmaster had kept him at home to strengthen him up. The son had finally recovered enough to make a trip to the Qing Yun Clan for Qing Yue to treat him when unexpectedly, the Qing Yun Clan disbanded! That man earlier must have gotten wind of Mu Chen's appearance and rushed out to take a look, but a pity....."

Fei Yan's smile was wide as he related the information to the others. Wherever there are crowds, he could always get the information he needed.

"Hey, do you think if the Headmaster of the Zephyr Academy finds out that the very same culprits responsible for the annihilation of the Qing Yun Clan are currently applying to enter his academy, would he send all his men to come kill us off?" Qiao Chu added fuel to the fire with a laugh.

The Qing Yun Clan was not as benevolent as they seemed, to get Qin Yue to help, one would need to pay a heavy price.

"Definitely! But Little Ruo and me would be fine though. As for you....." Fei Yan said with a wicked laugh.

But on the other hand, the Headmaster's son must suffer from bad luck. Having lived for so many years, he was unable to recover enough. And his body only chose to become well enough for travel just after Jun Wu Xie annihilated them.

It was such a shame.

"I heard that the Headmaster had resorted to inviting prodigious doctors to come to the Zephyr Academy to treat his son and no one knows whether that had yielded and improvements." Fei Yan said, rubbing his chin thoughtfully as his eyes turned.

Right after Fei Yan said that, the eyes of the other three fell at the same time onto the tiny figure of Jun Xie.

Prodigious doctor?

Wasn't this small framed petite figure beside them the most prodigious doctor with hidden talents!?

After seeing Jun Xie treat Qiao Chu and Hua Yao and they had almost knelt and completely prostrated themselves before his skills in Medicine.

Jun Xie looked up to face the stares thrown at him and simply turned to walk towards the inn they had arranged accommodations at earlier.

"It's late."

He didn't seem to be interested at all!

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Chapter 385:- Enrollment (1)

Back at the inn, Fei Yan handed a clear and sparkling crystal to Jun Wu Xie.

"The Zephyr Academy enrollment calls for a check on your ring spirit. You don't need to summon it but just to put your hand on this and it will make a copy of your ring spirit and ascertain its grade. It would be better if you used the little black cat in place of the lotus." Fei Yan had found out everything there was to know for the enrollment in half a day's time and there was nothing to be worried about for the others but only that Jun Xie's ring spirit must not be exposed.

"Qiao Chu told me that the little black cat is also your ring spirit. You should give it a try." Jun Xie's little black cat's origins had been a mystery and Fei Yan together with the others had not asked too much about it.

Jun Wu Xie nodded and after Fei Yan left, she put her hand on the crystal. A very faint image of a lotus soon appeared in the crystal, so faint it was almost unnoticeable.

Jun Wu Xie narrowed her eyes and opened up her cosmos bag to take out a huge sealed sphere. The bottom half of the sphere was filled with water from the Heaven's Spring and the Snow Lotus sat upon the water's surface within the sphere.

When she left the Phoenix Academy, Jun Wu Xie had brought the Snow Lotus with her as she had the Heaven's Flask with her and she did not need to worry that she would run out of the water from the Heaven's Spring.

It was because the Snow Lotus was not within Jun Wu Xie's body that the crystal had formed such a fuzzy image, but the shape of a lotus flower could still be seen faintly.

Jun Wu Xie had experienced first hand what disaster the knowledge of the existence of a plant ring spirit within her could bring. The human skin maps showing the location of the Dark Emperor's tomb originated from seven of the Twelve Palaces. Now that it was known that a portion of the map existed within the Zephyr Academy, she was certain that they had received the map from the Twelve Palaces. Jun Wu Xie's eyes flared with a cold chill. The Zephyr Academy must have some secret link with one of the Twelve Palaces.

Fei Yan had understood the dangers involved and had brought the crystal earlier to Jun Wu Xie for her to prepare for it.

Using the little black cat in replacement for her real ring spirit. Jun Wu Xie had never attempted that before and she could only feel her way around on her own. She concentrated her spiritual power onto her hand. When Jun Wu Xie placed her hand on the crystal once again, the faint image of the lotus disappeared and in its place, a translucent image of a little cat showed up within.

It had taken her only moments, but the concentration and effort needed made her short of breath after.

The little black cat was still in a coma and its soul was close to complete exhaustion. Jun Wu Xie had not dared to move it much and could only employ the link her soul had with the little black cat as a cover up. Her own soul was not in any better shape and with that short period of utilisation of her soul's powers had completely drenched her back.

She wore a fake replica of a ring on her finger and Jun Wu Xie laid back on the chair to catch her breath.

Early the next morning, Jun Wu Xie and her companions proceeded to go to the Zephyr Academy. Due to the expected large number of people there for the enrollment, the five companions decided to split up.

As it was still early when they reached, there were not many people at the gates. The five companions were able to find themselves separate stations to carry out the checks in a short period of time. Jun Wu Xie went to the station at the extreme end and the man behind the station looked at Jun Wu Xie head to toe before he impatiently stretched out his hand to dangle a crystal before Jun Wu Xie's eyes.

Jun Wu Xie pressed her hand upon the crystal without a word and pushed her soul power into it. Immediately, a translucent image of a cat appeared within the crystal and the man cast a nonchalant glance at it and said: "Beast spirit..... Wait!"

The man seemed to have noticed something and the lazy look on his face disappeared. He stared questioningly at the translucent image in the crystal and when he turned his eyes to look at Jun Wu Xie, his eyes seemed to be searching for something on her.

"Infuse your spiritual power into this crystal." The man took out another crystal and put it before Jun Wu Xie once more.

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Chapter 386:- Enrollment (2)

Jun Wu Xie closed her eyes and pushed her spiritual power into the crystal.

A blindingly bright orange glow exploded at that moment and the light attracted the attention of all the youths who had come for the enrollment before the academy's gates!

Qiao Chu and the others who were making their way over to come find Jun Xie after they had completed their enrollment were shocked when they saw the explosion of orange light!

That bright light had drawn everyone's attention and all their eyes were staring at Jun Xie in surprise.

Orange!?

The spirit stone was glowing orange!?

That would mean that small kid's spiritual powers had reached the the orange level?

Among everyone there, they could find no one of a smaller size. His looks showed that he was still at a very tender age and he was so tiny and skinny. It was obvious he was one of the youngest there and if not for the fact that ring spirits awaken only at the age of fourteen, with the way he looked, everyone would think he was still maybe twelve or thirteen!

But the fact that the youngest looking one among them had achieved the orange level slapped them across their faces!

A murmur of voices guessing his actual age broke out among the crowd.

Fei Yan who had been walking in that direction slapped his hand on his forehead when he saw the orange light.

"It's over! This time, it's all over!"

The Zephyr Academy's enrollment usually only called for a check on the ring spirits, and it was only when the applicant himself declared that he had achieved a breakthrough that the academy would conduct another test. As people who were able to achieve a breakthrough in their spiritual power at ages between fourteen to sixteen were extremely rare, no one hid that fact if they had achieved such a feat.

Qiao Chu and the others had decided to start their search from the branch division as they were confident that they were able to advance into the main division easily with their abilities when they chose, they had therefore kept silent on their spiritual powers.

But they had not expected for Jun Xie to meet with this unexpected turn of events.

Why had the Zephyr Academy suddenly asked to test the level of Jun Xie's spiritual power?

A fourteen year old achieving the orange level in his spiritual power. Needless to say, he would be admitted into the main division without question!

However, the other four had completed their enrollments and they had already received their emblems for the branch division, it was already too late for them to change!

In the end, the man who had conducted the tests for Jun Xie gave him a thoughtful glance and finally turned to whisper to his fellow staff of the academy before that staff ran off quickly.

After awhile, an attractive looking man dressed in a light blue brocaded robe walked slowly to the main gates. He followed the direction that the orange light was coming from and walked towards Jun Wu Xie.

Jun Wu Xie was nevertheless composed while her eyes were cold and clear.

The blue robed man raised an eyebrow when he saw Jun Wu Xie and he reached out his hand to hold Jun Wu Xie's wrist just above the hand that held the spirit stone.

Qiao Chu and the others readied themselves as they watched hidden among the many other youths.

Jun Wu Xie narrowed her eyes but did not react any further.

The man only held on to Jun Wu Xie's wrist and did not do anything else. After a moment, he smiled and said: "A orange spirit at fourteen, a rather amazing seedling I must say."

At that man's words, the crowd erupted into an uproar!

Achieving the orange level at sixteen years old was already uncommon but would not be that shocking, but achieving orange at fourteen.....

It was just absolutely insane!

At fourteen years, what were most people doing?

With their ring spirits just awoken, they would just be learning how to train and develop their powers and trying to understand the capabilities of their ring spirits, taking no less than half a year to do that. And after they were ready to embark on the actual training, they would require a long period of time to adapt and adjust before they take the first step into their brand new journey to power.

For a fourteen year old to achieve the orange level was monstrous.....

And they had never encountered anything like this before!

Who would have thought that such an unimpressive looking brat would achieve such Heaven forbidding speed in the development of his spiritual powers!?

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Chapter 387:- Enrollment (3)

Even with everyone's eyes staring at her, Jun Wu Xie still did not react in the slightest. She could feel that the man dressed in blue robes before her was not weak, and based on how the others from the Zephyr Academy were deferring to him, it was not difficult to ascertain that the position the man held was rather high.

"With such gift, you'll be directly admitted into the main division." The blue robed man said candidly with a laugh and put Jun Wu Xie straight into the main division.

His words drove many of the youths present green with envy.

Every year, an extremely small number of applicants gained direct entry into the main division. The other youths might have been envious, but they knew they had not achieved an orange level in their spiritual power. The blue robed man had not given the boy any preferential treatment. For a fourteen year old to have broken through to the orange level and be admitted directly into the main division was only to be expected.

Among the youths before the academy, not all of them were just plain envious. Qiao Chu and his other companions almost vomited out blood when the blue robed man directly admitted Jun Wu Xie into the main division. Now, what was to happen to them who had already been admitted into the branch division!?

Their tests had ended and they couldn't go back and tell the academy that they wanted their tests to be done one more time.....

The blue robed man thought that the little kid before him would be ecstatic to hear his words but was instead surprised that the cold and chill expression did not change a single bit, and that made him look at Jun Wu Xie differently.

A person's gift might be hard to come by, but if their personality were overly arrogant or confident, it would impede their progress in their development in training. He had seen quite a few highly gifted youths to shine with brilliance at the onset, but faced countless obstacles in their training as they progressed. In the beginning, the development and progress in training towards their spiritual power was easiest to attain and that gift would easily breeze them through the earlier breakthroughs. But as they progressed to the later levels, the demand on one's natural temperament becomes higher as the training process becomes dry and dull and took long periods of time. If they could not last the tedium and succumbed to the temptations of flowery and carnal world, no matter how high their gift was, they would not be able to progress further.

In the end, they would turn out to be someone whom people whispered behind their back, as one who was highly gifted at a young age, but had squandered it all to amount to nothing.

"Little one, what's your name?" The blue robed man asked with a smile.

"Jun Xie." Jun Wu Xie replied simply.

The blue robed man laughed.

At the moment that the man's laughter sounded, Jun Wu Xie felt a sudden warmth flow from the hand clasped over her wrist into her incessantly and she froze.

"Relax, you do not have to worry. With such outstanding gift, if your ring spirit were to be damaged, it would be such a waste." The man's soft whisper that was tinged with laughter sounded in her ear.

Jun Wu Xie raised her head, and her cold eyes reflected the man's attractive contenance.

The flow of warmth was almost unnoticeable as the energy fused into her soul, spreading towards the part that belonged to the little black cat's soul.

Jun Wu Xie's eyes flashed briefly in amazement. She could clearly feel that the black cat's exhausted soul was recovering very gradually under the flow of warmth, and gaining a little more life bit by bit!

A Spirit Healer!

Jun Wu Xie's mind suddenly flashed with those three words.

The little black cat might be a little different from other ring spirits, but they were basically the same in spirit form. If a Spirit Healer can heal ring spirits, that must also mean they can heal the little black cat's soul!

At that time, the Snow Lotus was not within Jun Wu Xie's body and the only other spirit within her body was only the little black cat!

The energy from the warmth was slowly and unendingly lending nourishment to the little black cat's soul!

Was this the power of a Spirit Healer? Jun Wu Xie's eyes were showing a rare expression of amazement and it was no wonder the Spirit Healers of the Zephyr Academy enjoyed greater prominence than any other faculties. If with a Spirit Healer in their midst, people when in battle, need no longer be so restrained as when their ring spirits were injured, they could be healed and prolong the time they can contribute in battle!

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Chapter 388:- Enrollment (4)

After some time, the man dressed in blue released Jun Wu Xie's hand, and his attractive face was rather pale, with a thin sheen of sweat covering his brows.

The people from the Zephyr Academy around the man saw that the man dressed in blue was showing signs of exhaustion and stepped up to hold him.

The man dressed in blue waved them off gently and insisted for them to step back.

The healing of the little kid's ring spirit took up far more of his energy than he had expected and he had not needed to deplete such a severe amount of his energies for a long time. It had felt like he had not just treated an injured ring spirit but more like he had almost resurrected a ring spirit from the brink of death.

The man laughed bitterly inwardly, on the one rare occasion he had decided to show a bit of benevolence, he had to meet with such a trying incident. He could have pulled back halfway when he had first felt uncomfortable, but he did not know why, when he looked onto the face of the little kid before him, and that boy's eyes had showed that tiny flash of amazement, he could not make himself hold back but had soldiered on with the healing.

To the point that he was now finally drained and feeling rather exhausted.

"I'm tired, all of you can just carry on." The man dressed in blue rejected the offers of help and just looked at Jun Wu Xie once more before he turned and left.

Jun Wu Xie could feel that gradually strengthening spirit within her body. She looked up in gratitude, stared at the retreating back of the man dressed in blue and said: "Thank you."

The man dressed in blue stopped in his tracks and turned around. He looked at Jun Wu Xie's expressionless face and replied with a smile: "There's no need. You are now a disciple of the Zephyr Academy and as a Master here, I should naturally help a little with the recruitment. You are Jun Xie right? If you are interested, after you are admitted, come to the Spirit Healers faculty to look for me. My name is Gu Li Sheng."

After that, Gu Li Sheng turned and walked away without stopping, feeling a tad bit unsteady.

Gu Li Sheng? Spirit Healers Faculty? Jun Wu Xie was still considering Gu Li Sheng's parting words when the crowd before the Zephyr Academy's gate suddenly broke into an uproar!

If all the youths at the gates of the Zephyr Academy were just envious of Jun Wu Xie previously, the youths after hearing Gu Li Sheng's words had suddenly turned their envy into unbridled jealous rage!

Gu Li Sheng! That was the founder of the Spirit Healers faculty himself!

It was said that any Spirit Healers throughout the lands now had all studied under Gu Li Sheng's discipleship!

Before Gu Li Sheng, Spirit Healers had not existed before!

It was only because of Gu Li Sheng that the Zephyr Academy had the unique and highly exclusive Spirit Healer faculty!

What did that little brat Jun Xie do to be graced with such an encounter!? Just a fourteen year old orange leveled spirit did not deserve the highly revered and esteemed Gu Li Sheng come just to see him! And Gu Li Sheng had not done just that, he had actually personally invited that brat of a Jun Xie to join his Spirit Healer faculty! !

Upon hearing that, all the other youths were indignant! They all stared at Jun Xie, wishing they could swallow him whole then.

Every single one of them had fervently wished that they could be shoved into the Spirit Healer faculty and that brat had so effortlessly been accepted into it just like that!

The brat had even captured the attention of Gu Li Sheng and that made Jun Xie already shine in brilliance before he had even stepped into the Zephyr Academy!

The furious and indignant youths had now diverted their stares filled with envy and jealousy at the two men who had brought Gu Li Sheng here. They were all enrolling into the Zephyr Academy as disciples, why would they go invite Gu Li Sheng just to come see a mere applicant just like them ! ?

The two innocent men had to suffer under the indignant and angry stares when all they did was to invite a Teacher to come take a look when they found that Jun Xie was highly gifted, but had possessed a badly weakened ring spirit. Who knew that the Teacher they found would turn out to be Gu Li Sheng and he had chosen to appear before everyone here? No one would have expected that Gu Li Sheng would find the little kid soothing to his eye and directly accepted him immediately too.....

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Chapter 389:- Enrollment (5)

Gaining admittance into the Spirit Healer faculty was totally unexpected for Jun Wu Xie herself, not to mention for all the people before the academy's gates.

Her objective for this trip was to locate the second piece of the human skin map with Qiao Chu and the others. She had not thought..... that she would be unknowingly noticed by the founder of the Spirit Healers and invited to accept his tutelage.

Under everyone's envious and jealous eyes, Jun Wu Xie left, her face a sea of calm and went to join Qiao Chu and the others under a huge tree as previously arranged.

But.....

The four pairs of eyes that met her were rather surprised.

"Little Xie..... Did you know that Gu Li Sheng before this?" Qiao Chu asked Jun Wu Xie immediately when she came over, unable to suppress his curiosity even for a moment.

Jun Wu Xie replied unhesitatingly: "Never met him."

"You've never met him?" Qiao Chu's eyes widened in surprise.

"What did he do to you earlier?" Rong Ruo surveyed Jun Xie head to toe and after seeing that Jun Xie looked fine, she was finally relieved.

"Healed my spirit." Jun Wu Xie said simply.

Shock showed on all four faces.

Rong Ruo asked again: "How was it?"

Jun Wu Xie did not reply but raised her hands. They saw a ball of black mist form on those hands and gradually a graceful little black cat appeared within her arms.

"Meow?"

[Did I sleep long?]

The little black cat snuggled into Jun Wu Xie's arms and closed its eyes to a slit in comfort, its long tail dangled over Jun Wu Xie's arm, swishing lazily through the air.

Jun Wu Xie lowered her head, her eyes looking at the little black cat within her arms, and the cold feeling of loss that had steeped within her for so long finally started to fade gradually.

Qiao Chu and the others had all seen the black cat before, but besides Qiao Chu and Hua Yao, Fei Yan and Rong Ruo had only seen the black cat unconscious. This was the first time they had seen the little black cat awake!

When the little black cat was brought back to the Phoenix Academy, even Yan Bu Gui had declared that the little black cat had been injured more seriously than Jun Xie and would most probably not awaken. But the little black cat was now obviously snuggled deep into Jun Xie's arms happily content, and that greatly surprised all of them!

"The world really is a vast place, people that can heal ring spirits really exist?" Hua Yao wondered, more to himself than to the others, with his eyes narrowed in thought. It wasn't just in the Lower Realm, but even in the whole of the Middle Realm, nobody had ever heard of it.

When they had first heard about the Spirit Healers, they had been rather skeptical. But the little black cat's recovery stood as a strong prime example before their very eyes and that was an undeniable fact.

"Now, the four of us have been allocated into the branch division, so Little Xie, you do not need to do anything in the main division but to just wait for us to get promoted there. Erm..... didn't that Gu Li Sheng invite you to join his Spirit Healer faculty? If you can learn the technique and become a Spirit Healer, that would just be fantastic." Fei Yan said with a laugh.

Jun Wu Xie nodded, within that period, she could learn to understand more on the methods employed for the training of her spiritual power as she had so far only relied on her innate capabilities when using her spiritual power.

The branch division conducted an appraisal every quarter and for those who displayed exemplary increase in their spiritual power within that period stood a chance to be promoted into the main division. Hua Yao and the others would have to wait at least three months after their discipleship start for them to join Jun Xie in the main division.

And that was agreed upon by the five companions under the huge tree.

For all successful applicants into the Zephyr Academy, they were to report to the Zephyr Academy on the fourth day after the start of the academy's enrollment.

Jun Wu Xie returned to the inn and put the little black cat on the table before she opened her cosmos bag to retrieve the sphere that contained the Snow Lotus.

[This little imp's injuries..... seems no less grave than what I sustained.] The little black cat sat upon the table and said with its eyes narrowed as it stared unblinkingly at the Snow Lotus. The last memory it had was the dire battle in the Cloudy Peaks, and that battle would forever remain a scar etched into its mind.

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Chapter 390:- Enrollment (6)

"I will heal him up." Jun Wu Xie said determinedly. When they were still at the Phoenix Academy, she might not have been able to find a way and could only depend on the water from the Heaven's Spring. But she had now personally witnessed Gu Li Sheng's technique as a Spirit Healer and she had resolved to learn it.

The little black cat just rubbed itself against Jun Wu Xie's hand.

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The three days for enrollment into the Zephyr Academy finally ended and a larger part of the youths were allocated into the branch division, while only tens of them made it into the main division.

Jun Wu Xie entered the doors to the main division with the other tens of disciples but all the way from the moment that they had all stepped in, she was ostracised and pushed out and was always at the back of the group.

The incident when Jun Wu Xie had received Gu Li Sheng's preferential treatment had spread among the youths. All those who had been directly accepted into the main division were highly gifted and they had inevitably viewed themselves to be more privileged than others. When they had come to the Zephyr Academy, they had set their sights on gaining entry into none other than the Spirit Healer faculty but they had found that an inconspicuous brat had snatched that spot from them instead, and were feeling a tad bit bitter about it.

The youth leading the new disciples into the Zephyr Academy looked to be about eighteen or nineteen years old and he wore a jade badge carved into the shape of three stars. The youth had not spoken a single word and though one of the new disciples stepped up to him to make some small talk, the older youth had only given the young youth a cold wordless stare.

The Zephyr Academy lived up to its name as one of the top three academies throughout the lands. Every inch of the architecture within the grounds were lavishly luxurious and did not feel the least bit gaudy but classy and majestic. As they walked through the halls, the eyes of the new disciples were wide open, captured by the grandeur as they turned their heads all around, amazed by the endless spectacles of splendour.

They were finally brought to a big hall when the youth leading them stopped in his steps and turned to look at the new disciples. He proceeded to say without any expression: "Newly admitted disciples will be mentored by our senior disciples."

Right after the older youth finished his sentence, tens of good looking and pretty youths stepped out from behind the hall. Their ages were between eighteen to nineteen years and the jade badges they wore on their chests were carved into three stars as well.

It had been the age old tradition in the Zephyr Academy that the newly admitted disciples would be mentored by their seniors to familiarise themselves in the beginning. It was a matter of course that the privilege was only extended to disciples who had passed the tests during the enrollment and were directly accepted into the main division. For those allocated into the branch division, they were left to fend for themselves.

Understanding that they would be largely dependant on their seniors in the days to come, the younger youths all raised their heads and looked longingly at the group of senior disciples before them.

"These are the new disciples for this year? I don't see anything special about them." One of the senior disciples said with a yawn, seemingly not entirely enthusiastic about mentoring the newly admitted juniors.

Being a mentor to new disciples sounded grand, but in reality, it was a task shunned by all the seniors.

For the young youths who had just come to the Zephyr Academy, they were completely clueless and oblivious to any of the rules there. The seniors were obligated to not only explain those rules one by one, they were also required to take time out from their training to guide their allocated juniors. Such an uncalled for task was boring and a waste of time to them, and moreover, once they took up the task, they were stuck with them for at least two years before they could rid themselves of the baggage.

Unless the seniors were specifically picked, none of them were willing to accept such a thankless task.

It was due to these factors that made these seniors of the Zephyr Academy unable to make themselves show any goodwill towards the newly admitted disciples and instead look at them with disdain.

Nevertheless, the seniors did not have much of a choice in the matter and they quickly chose whoever looked the least displeasing from among the group of juniors.

Their criteria for their choices were simple. It was based on age. The older they were, the more independent their ward was expected to be, and the younger they were, the more trouble they would be sure to cause.

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Chapter 391:- Enrollment (7)

Very soon, the seniors had quickly almost finished choosing the juniors they were to mentor and in the end, the only one left was the youngest Jun Wu Xie.

One of the senior disciples had not been fast enough to snatch up any of the older new disciples and he was now looking at Jun Wu Xie's skinny little frame from head to toe in disdain, seemingly very unwilling to pick Jun Wu Xie.

"You're already fourteen?" The senior disciple moved to stand before Jun Wu Xie, his face exasperated.

Jun Wu Xie nodded slightly, oblivious to the senior's resentment.

"Which category is your ring spirit?" The senior then proceeded to ask.

"Beast category."

"Sheesh." He cursed softly and turned to the youth who had led the new disciples in and said: "My ring spirit belongs to the weapons category, so I cannot mentor this kid."

The youth who had led the new disciples frowned with displeasure. Usually, the new disciples were paired with a senior mentor who shared the same category for their ring spirits as the methods of training differed across different categories. Even if the seniors were to accept the ward, the mentor would not be able to provide any guidance in the training of their spiritual powers.

The other new disciples who had all been paired up smiled in glee at Jun Wu Xie's predicament of being left out in the cold.

Their feelings of envy and jealousy had quickly turned into mockery.

So what if the little kid had gained Gu Li Sheng's attention? He had ended scorned by all the seniors.

The youths started sniggering softly to themselves.

Faced with the mockery from the new disciples and scorn from the seniors, Jun Wu Xie was not affected in the least and she only watched all this with a cold stare, without a ripple showing in her eyes.

"Beast category? That happens to be the same category as mine." Suddenly a cheerful voice sounded within the huge hall and a tall, impressive and attractive youth stepped in with the morning light behind him. A smile like a clean spring breeze graced his face that made him instantly likable to people.

"Senior Fan! What are you doing here?" The senior disciple who was still trying to come up with a reason to reject Jun Wu Xie suddenly froze when he saw the tall figure enter.

Fan Jin laughed lightly and amicably patted the senior disciple's shoulder and said: "I heard that you were all here to welcome our new fellow disciples into the Zephyr Academy and I thought I had to come see them too."

Upon saying that, Fan Jin's gaze fell onto Jun Wu Xie, who was standing alone on one side. His eyes surveyed Jun Wu Xie up and down before everyone and he asked with bright smile: "Has any senior claimed you yet?"

Jun Wu Xie looked coldly at Fan Jin, but did not reply.

The little black cat within Jun Wu Xie was raging to jump out at him.....

[What do you mean by claim!?]

[My mistress isn't anyone's property!]

The last remaining senior coughed consciously and said: "Senior Fan, I would love to accept the kid, but..... our ring spirits are from different categories and even if I am to accept him, I would only hamper his progress in training." His prior arrogance and disdain had suddenly disappeared before Fan Jin and appeared to be very concerned for Jun Wu Xie's welfare.

Fan Jin laughed and waved his hand dismissively to say: "You don't have to worry about that. Since your ring spirits belongs to different categories, leave the kid in my care. It's been some time since I mentored a junior anyway."

Fan Jin spoke as he looked at Jun Wu Xie, with an amicable smile on his face throughout.

"What? Senior Fan..... You..... you are going to mentor him?" The senior asked with his eyes wide with shock, thinking he might have heard Fan Jin wrongly.

"Yes! I think I like the little kid and can mentor him." Fan Jin said with a laugh.

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Chapter 392:- Enrollment (8)

In an instant, the sound of deep breaths taken by everyone sounded in the hall. The faces of seniors all appeared shocked.

"It getting rather late, everyone should bring the our new fellow disciples around to familiarise themselves. As for this kid, I'll take him." Upon saying that, Fan Jin disregarded the other seniors' shocked expressions and tapped Jun Wu Xie lightly on the shoulder and signalled for him to follow as he turned to leave the hall.

Although Jun Wu Xie did not know who this "senior Fan" who had suddenly appeared out of the blue was, but when she compared him to the rest of the seniors on the halls, this guy was a much better choice.

Even after Fan Jin had led Jun Wu Xie far from the hall, the other seniors in the hall had still not recovered.

One of the new disciples bolstered his courage and asked the senior he had been paired with: "Senior, is there anything wrong with that senior Fan? Why are all your expressions so....."

The senior breathed out heavily and rubbed at his temple: "That was Fan Jin, the adopted son of the Headmaster's! And he came in fourth in the last Zephyr Academy's Spirit Battle Tournament! What did that kid do to get so lucky to have Fan Jin agree to be his mentor! ?"

Fan Jin's identity was unique. He not only had the halo of being the Headmaster's adopted son, he possessed a rather strong ring spirit as well. On top of that, his training of his spiritual power left many other disciples of the Zephyr Academy in the dust.

"What! ?" Getting such a reply shocked the new disciple into shouting out in outrage.

The senior gave his junior a stare filled with impatience and turned to walk off. His shocked junior had no other choice but to run to catch up in a hurry.

The other new juniors who heard the news stood as if struck by lightning, all their faces frozen, that senior's words repeating in their heads.

The Headmaster's adopted son..... Ranked fourth in the Spirit Battle Tournament.....

They had just been laughing at Jun Wu Xie as the hot potato that everyone avoided, but they were now completely stumped instead. No matter how oblivious they were about the inner workings of the Zephyr Academy, it was clear obvious what Fan Jin's two titles meant for his little ward.

From the way all the seniors had deferred to Fan Jin earlier, all the juniors knew that none of the seniors in the halls could even remotely compare to Fan Jin.

First it was Gu Li Sheng's preferential treatment, and next was getting claimed by Fan Jin.....

Jun Xie's good fortune made all the other juniors almost want to bang their heads against the wall in frustration, and hating the fact that none of that fortune had befallen on them!

.....

Jun Wu Xie followed behind Fan Jin to walk out of the hall quickly and continued on through the main thoroughfare through the Zephyr Academy. The pair walked with Fan Jin in front and Jun Wu Xie behind, attracting a lot of attention.

"Is your name Jun Xie?" Fan Jin asked of Jun Wu Xie walking behind him as they continued on their way.

"Yes."

"Haha, there's no need to be nervous. I am always very easygoing and it was Uncle Gu who asked me to come find you. His description of you was spot on! Look for the smallest sized kid and it would be you." Fan Jin had a jovial disposition and his words were always accompanied with a bit of laughter in them.

Jun Wu Xie's steps suddenly faltered and she looked at Fan Jin's back thoughtfully.

"What is it?" Fan Jin turned around and looked at Jun Wu Xie who had suddenly stopped.

"Nothing." Jun Wu Xie replied, and she lowered her head to push the thoughts out of her head.

The fact that Gu Li Sheng had arranged for someone to come get her meant that he had predicted that his words spoken before everyone on the day of her enrollment would bring her quite a bit of trouble. Having made such arrangements meant that Gu Li Sheng was still keen on accepting her into the Spirit Healer Faculty, which suited her intentions fine.

The Zephyr Academy's main division consisted of only three faculties. The Spirit Healer, the weapon ring spirit and the beast ring spirit faculties. On the surface, Jun Wu Xie's ring spirit was a beast ring spirit, but her real ring spirit was the Snow Lotus. Even if she were to join the other faculties, it would be of no help to her anyway.

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Chapter 393:- A Disagreeable Roommate (1)

The Zephyr Academy allocates two people to a room in the dormitories. After Fan Jin brought Jun Wu Xie to claimed her uniforms, he proceeded to lead her to her room.

Within the room, a pale complexioned youth sat, his face gloomy, and his head lowered over a book by the window. When he heard steps approaching, he raised his head and cast his cheerless gaze over, a gaze that made one feel very uncomfortable. He looked at Jun Wu Xie and he frowned deeply, and when his eyes saw Fan Jin behind Jun Wu Xie, the sweeping glance stopped a moment and his eyes flashed very briefly. He averted his eyes away soon after and went back to his book without a word.

"You will live here from now onwards. I am on the seventh floor, last room on the extreme right. If there is anything you need from me, you can find me there." Fan Jin said with a smile and gave Jun Wu Xie a reassuring pat on the shoulder.

Jun Wu Xie nodded and Fan Jin left after bidding goodbye.

Jun Wu Xie surveyed the fittings in the room and did not feel like saying anything.

The dormitories were separated for male and female disciples and female disciples in the Zephyr Academy numbered less than one to ten males.

Jun Wu Xie's bed was on the right side and was directly across the gloomy youth's. She was not interested in other people and proceeded to tidy up her own things.

Besides the clothes, Fan Jin had prepared some daily necessities as well in a through package.

From the time that Jun Wu Xie had entered the room till she had tidied up all her things, her roommate had not spoken a single word. The room was deadly silent broken only by the occasional flipping pages of a book.

After a while, a youth bearing a jade emblem on his chest came in and when he saw Jun Wu Xie in the room, he was startled a moment before he walked towards the gloomy youth's side.

"Yin Yan, this kid is your new roommate?" The youth who had just come in asked of Yin Yan, whose head was still lowered over his book.

Yin Yan raised his head and nodded slightly, his expression showing a tinge of impatience.

"You're in for quite a bit of hassle. All new rookies are always such a handful when they are just admitted in here. I don't know what the Headmaster is thinking. He should just dump these rookies in the branch division to polish them up a little first. I don't know what they are here for at all." The youth spoke mockingly, seemingly directing his words right at Jun Wu Xie.

Yin Yan replied without hesitation: "If they are so much trouble, they should learn their place." Those words seemed to be more for Jun Wu Xie's ears than the other youth.

"Right, I heard that Senior Fan actually brought a rookie here today. What could Fan Jin be thinking! ? We are about to embark on the Spirit Hunt soon, why would he suddenly decide to drag himself down with those useless baggage?"

Yin Yan's eyes had suddenly turned malicious. His gaze fell on the Jun Wu Xie, who was quietly sitting on her bed. Jun Wu Xie had summoned the little black cat and she was leaning against the bedpost with the black cat resting on her lap, portraying a picture of serenity.

Yin Yan stood up suddenly and walked over to Jun Wu Xie.

His shadow fell over the bed and Jun Wu Xie looked up slowly, her cold eyes staring into a pair of malicious and gloomy eyes.

"The Zephyr Academy does not allow for any arbitrary summoning of ring spirits within its compound. Are you blind? Didn't you see it in the academy's rules?" Yin Yan voice sounded so malicious that it raised goosebumps on the other youth.

Jun Wu Xie's eyes did not show any expression and she only stared at her aggressive new roommate without saying a word.

The youth who had entered later was surprised at Yin Yan enmity in his tone, which was glaringly obvious by now.

Although all the seniors did not like new rookies, but he felt that Yin Yan's tone in his words had sounded a tad bit too provocative.

Jun Wu Xie said in a chillingly clear voice: "Below three feet."

After saying that, she lowered her head and did not bother to cast another single glance at Yin Yan.

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Chapter 394:- A Disagreeable Roommate (2)

Yin Yan frowned immediately at that moment. There was a rule in the Zephyr Academy that disciples were not allowed to summon their ring spirits as they liked but there was an exception to that rule. The rule only applied to ring spirits above three feet and did not include any below.

Jun Wu Xie had just been admitted that very day and she had just flipped through the rule book a few times. Yin Yan had seized the opportunity to deliberately make things difficult for her assuming that Jun Wu Xie was not aware of the rules, but he had not expected that Jun Wu Xie not only knew about it, but had even used the only exception to that rule to shut him up, and on top of that, Jun Wu Xie's attitude had been unbelievably arrogant!

Jun Wu Xie had indeed just flipped through the rule book just a couple of times, but what Yin Yan did not know was that Jun Wu Xie's brain was blessed with a photographic memory and she had actually gone through the whole rule book three times since she entered the room. Every single rule for the disciples were now memorized word for word by now.

Yin Yan's first move against Jun Wu Xie based on the assumption that she was unfamiliar with the rules had backfired onto him.

"You dared to answer back?" Yin Yan's eyes had grown even more malicious. Any new freshman that had just been admitted into the Zephyr Academy were all known to be jittery and nervous before the seniors, although Yin Yan had tried to dig up an excuse and tried to teach Jun Wu Xie a lesson, the freshmen were expected to bow down to their seniority and swallow it up in humility, irregardless whether there was a valid reason or not!

Meeting such an audacious freshman was a first for Yin Yan.

"You're too noisy." Jun Wu Xie said as she shot Yin Yan a glare.

Yin Yan's face paled further in fury.

The youth at the side saw that Yin Yan was about to lose his control and he rushed up immediately to tug at Yin Yan's arm to say: "Senior Ning asked to see you, do not waste your time with this rookie here."

Upon hearing the words "Senior Ning", the gloominess on Yin Yan's face faded. He cast a final vicious stare at Jun Wu Xie and turned to leave with the youth.

Silence fell once again within the room.

The black cat rubbed itself against Jun Wu Xie's hand and said: [That numbskull seems to harbour quite a bit of hatred for you. Did you offend someone again while I was in a coma?]

In regards to its Mistress' temperament, the little black cat knew only too well. She was never one to meddle in other people's business and disliked stirring up trouble. But her cold and fiercely independent personality nevertheless had always attracted the displeasure of others like a magnet.

Just like the situation moments ago. Yin Yan's attitude towards Jun Wu Xie might not have been too amicable, but for a freshman to be capable of slapping a senior with the words "You're too noisy" right before another senior, there was no one else but its own Mistress.

Tact had never been a trait that could be found on Jun Wu Xie and the little black cat did not hold any hope that its Mistress would gain any of it in this life.

"Never met him." Jun Wu Xie replied simply.

The little black cat sighed heavily. Its Mistress had never been someone people warmed up to at first sight. This was just their first meeting and the other party already harboured such intense enmity towards her.

The little black cat was still lamenting on its Mistress' provocative personality when on the other side of the door, the youth who had just come out of the room with Yin Yan could not stop himself but ask.

"What is wrong with you? Squabbling with a rookie like that. If you really find him obnoxious, just get someone to deal with him discreetly! You don't have to degrade yourself like that." The youth said easily. In the Zephyr Academy, teaching the freshmen a lesson had always been the norm.

Yin Yan frowned and said: "He was brought in by Fan Jin."

The youth was shocked a moment as he suddenly understood the reason for Yin Yan's actions.

"Even so, you can do it yourself then. He is just a rookie afterall, even with Fan Jin's protection, it would be easy for you if you want to give that kid a hard time. You are afterall a disciple of the Spirit Healer faculty and even if anything were to go wrong, no one would dare do anything to you."

Yin Yan's brow finally smoothed out after hearing the youth's words and his mouth twisted into a malicious smile as he said: "Even without Fan Jin, the way that kid spoke to me earlier would not allow me to let her off easy anyway."

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Chapter 395:- A Disagreeable Roommate (3)

The youth nodded readily but he felt a sudden chill in his heart. Yin Yan looked to be refined and gentle from the outside, but the vicious streak hidden beneath that exterior always sent goosebumps into him.

"What does Senior Ning want from me?" Yin Yan cast the matter with Jun Xie aside for the moment to ask of the youth.

The youth could only shake his head to reply: "Senior Ning didn't say, but had only asked me to bring you to her."

Yin Yan did not probe any further on it.

Moments later, the two of them came to the beast faculty's library and on the second level of the library, a young girl dressed in the Zephyr Academy's uniform was sitting by the window. Light rays shone in through the window and fell onto the girl, shrouding the girl in a mesmerising light.

The girl's eyes were lowered, absorbed into the book she held in her hand.

Yin Yan stared at the figure engrossed in her book and cleared his throat lightly before saying: "Senior Ning."

The young girl looked up from her book and her beautiful features overwhelmed Yin Yan imposingly. Her gaze from above suffocated him and he found it difficult to breathe.

Under the girl's gaze, Yin Yan could not help but to lower his head.

The girl then shot a glance at the youth beside Yin Yan and the youth hastily left consciously.

The girl then proceeded to ask in a slow tone: "The new freshman under Fan Jin, is staying with you?"

Yin Yan replied: "Yes, I had only just found out just as well."

The girl continued: "You've seen the freshman?"

"Yes."

"How was it?"

"Very young, looks to fourteen or fifteen years old, and a small skinny frame. Looks unremarkable." Yin Yan related honestly. If not for the fact that the freshman was brought in by Fan Jin into the room, he wouldn't have even paid the new disciple any notice.

The girl shot Yin Yan a sideways glance: "If he's unremarkable, how would Fan Jin bother to choose to mentor him?"

Although the Zephyr Academy had the tradition of having seniors mentor the new freshmen, the tradition however came with a few exceptions. The selection of the mentors had always been done by chance and nobody knew who would be selected.

But within those chances, stood two exceptions.

First, the disciples of the Spirit Healer faculty were exempted. The were already very few disciples in the Spirit Healer faculty and no one knew what criteria the Master Gu Li Sheng set for his selection of his disciples. Every year, only two or three disciples were accepted into the Spirit Healer faculty, and being accepted did not mean that one would always remain in the faculty. If Gu Li Sheng were to find the disciple unsuited to study to become a Spirit Healer in the course of their training, he would not hesitate to kick the disciple out of the Spirit Healer faculty. Past history had shown, that the two to three disciples recruited every year would always end up with only one single disciple remaining with the Spirit Healers.

As of now, the number of disciples in the Spirit Healer faculty only numbered around eight or nine of them in total.

But it was exactly those eight or nine disciples who were most envied throughout the whole Zephyr Academy! It was said that those disciples did not have to shoulder any other tasks besides their training. The Zephyr Academy's only goal for them was to turn them into prominent Spirit Healers.

And besides the disciples of the Spirit Healer faculty, there was another group of people who were exempted from serving as mentors.

And that was those ranked within the top ten in the Spirit Battle Tournament!

The Zephyr Academy sets up a Spirit Battle Tournament at the end of every year. The various ring spirits were not categorised and all the disciples were gathered together to battle and the most outstanding top ten ranks would be selected from it.

Those ten disciples would be rewarded by allocating to them the best resources the Zephyr Academy had to give. Irregardless whether it was towards training or in other areas, they would enjoy better treatment than all the other disciples. The annual Spirit Battle Tournament at the end of the year was always the period the disciples of the Zephyr Academy competed the most fiercely with each other.

Fan Jin was ranked fourth in the last Spirit Battle Tournament last year and he had not needed to provide mentorship to any freshmen this year due to being exempted from taking up the laborious task that wasted time and effort.

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Chapter 396:- A Disagreeable Roommate (4)

Yin Yan nodded in understanding. Senior Ning's words made him look at the entire situation from another perspective.

"But, I have seen the kid's ring spirit as well, and it's just a ordinary little black cat..... It didn't seem to be extraordinary in any way."

"Just an ordinary little black cat?" Senior Ning's attractive face took on one of cold mockery. Her eyes looked at Yin Yan tinged with regret. "Do you think if the kid did not possess any capabilities and possessed only a little black cat, he would be directly admitted into the Zephyr Academy's main division? Little Yan, you are still too young."

Senior Ning's words splashed like cold water on him, waking the ignorant Yin Yan up rudely.

He had only looked at Jun Wu Xie's age and the unremarkable little black cat. But he had naively forgotten about the fact that Jun Wu Xie had been one of the few applicants that had successfully gained direct entry into the Zephyr Academy's main division.

Yin Yan himself was an applicant who had been admitted directly into the main division and he naturally knew how difficult it was to achieve that feat.

Having been reminded, his contempt for Jun Wu Xie seemed to have tapered a little.

"Senior Ning is right as usual, your junior here has learnt something." Yin Yan humbly acceded.

Senior Ning laughed, the sound a light tinkle, and without any other acknowledgement, she lowered her eyes back onto the book in her hand. However, without looking up, she continued to say: "The fact that Fan Jin had gone on his own accord to take in the new disciple as his ward must have made you feel rather bitter, didn't it? He had totally disregarded your existence before and now he is showing so much concern for a newly admitted disciple. It pains me to see the great disparity of his actions in the way he treats the two of you.

Senior Ning's words cut like a knife on Yin Yan's heart as the humiliating scene surfaced once again in his mind, and he was reminded once again by the pictures of his unforgettable disgrace. In the next moment, Yin Yan's face had darkened terribly and his hands clenched into fists. His arms were held tight against his body and veins protruded on them, the only signs revealing his mightily suppressed rage.

Senior Ning's face flashed with an almost unnoticeable smile but it very quickly faded away.

"But that is already a thing of the past, and I think Fan Jin must have deeply regretted it. You are no longer that ignorant freshman anymore and have made it into the Spirit Healer faculty. Compared to many of the other disciples, you would tower of them with your achievements. There is no need to wallow in self pity anymore." Senior Ning gently placated Yin Yan, after having incited his rage and hatred under the mask of sympathy.

Yin Yan was oblivious to the fact that his emotions were being manipulated by a mere few words uttered by a young lady, all well within her control.

"Yes! I thank Senior Ning for your concern! I will never forget the humiliation I suffered that day. I am what I am today due to Senior Ning's benevolence." Yin Yan said with a cold laugh, his eyes narrowed at the memory.

[That's right, he Yin Yan was already a member of the Spirit Healer Faculty and had earned the endless envy of countless other disciples. He was no longer trash that others despised!]

[Fan Jin, I will make you see, that the disciple you yourself have chosen, be reduced to become trash, before me, Yin Yan!]

Yin Yan's eyes grew more and more malicious and Senior Ning noted that change, and her chilling smile grew wider.

"I was willing to give you that chance, not out of pity, but because of the belief I have in your potential, and it was worth it for me to pave the way for you. You must not squander the efforts I have put in." Senior Ning's voice was touching was it carried a tone that allowed no breach to its meaning.

"Rest assured Senior Ning, your wish is my wish. I will not disappoint you." Yin Yan replied with a malicious smile.

Senior Ning beamed and raised her head at him: "Then, first go find out everything you can about the new disciple under Fan Jin's wing."

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Chapter 397:- Envy, Jealousy and Hate (1)

"Yes." Yin Yan nodded.

Senior Ning was finally satisfied and waved dismissively at Yin Yan. He dared not protest in the slightest and obediently left the library of the Beast Spirit faculty.

Back in the dormitory, Jun Wu Xie was completely unaware of the series of trouble coming her way, brought about by the well intentioned arrangements Gu Li Sheng had specially made for Jun Wu Xie.

Seeing that Yin Yan was not back yet, Jun Wu Xie changed into the Zephyr Academy's uniform. It was be said though, the Zephyr Academy with their exorbitant fees, had taken care of every single details very carefully. Even the uniforms of the disciples used the finest fabrics, but it was the least they could do afterall.

On the first day the new disciples were admitted, they would only be transferred to their respective faculties the next day. And on that first night, all of them were to go attend a lecture about the Zephyr Academy.

Before dinner, tens of the new disciples gathered in small groups of three to five and made their way towards the lecture. All of them were changed into their new Zephyr Academy uniforms, the young youths were all in smiles and in a jovial mood.

Jun Wu Xie walked into the room alone. Within the large room, all the other disciples were seated and Jun Wu Xie's arrival attracted quite a bit of debate among the youths.

Every single disciple who was admitted in the same batch into the Zephyr Academy together with Jun Wu Xie, held great enmity against the unbelievably lucky youth. They all knew that the Spirit Healer faculty only accepted three disciples yearly and Jun Xie had taken up one spot before they were even officially admitted. That had only meant that the competition for those highly vaunted places would be greatly intensified.

"I really don't see what's so special about that kid. Besides his spiritual power, he is inferior in every other aspect compared to us. Why should he get all the luck?" A new disciple complained as he cast a glance at the lone figure of Jun Xie in the corner, grumbling to his companions .

Jun Wu Xie was the youngest among all of them there and the next youngest among this new cohort who had been directly admitted into the main division was already fifteen and a half. Their spiritual powers were all still stuck in the red level, and the reason they had gained direct entry was due to the fact that they possessed rather powerful ring spirits.

It was a fact that in the beginning, the effect their spiritual powers had mattered little and people relied on the might of their ring spirits. The power strong ring spirits exhibited in the earlier stages was more obvious when compared to weaker ring spirits of similar level and the speck of spiritual power of the ring spirit holders at that stage was not important.

Until they reached the green level, would spiritual power gradually demonstrate greater effects. For people below the green level, they would still be helpless if they meet a powerful ring spirit as an opponent.

Like if a person was at the red level in his spiritual power and he possessed a grade three ring spirit, he would be able to completely overpower an orange leveled opponent.

Hence, even when Jun Wu Xie's achievement of an orange level at fourteen had made many jaws drop, to these youths who were able to gain direct entry into the main division, they instead held powerful ring spirits. The weakest one among them was a grade three ring spirit and they did not need to fear someone just because he achieved the orange level.

"His luck will not stay with him forever. You think you would definitely become a Spirit Healer once you are admitted to the Spirit Healer faculty? For all the disciples accepted into the Spirit Healer faculty every year, only one person would remain in there. Looking at him, I do not think that he will last long in the Spirit Healer faculty." The group of youths laughed and chuckled as they stared at the tiny figure, still silent in the corner.

With jealousy eating at their hearts, it made them yearn for Jun Xie to quickly fall from grace.

It was known, that once kicked out from the Spirit Healer faculty, they would not be allowed to stay on in the Zephyr Academy and was expelled completely.

Unfriendly stares came from all directions but Jun Wu Xie sat in the corner of the room completely unaffected. She just sat there quietly and gently stroked the little black cat in her arms.

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Chapter 398:- Envy, Jealousy and Hate (2)

The noise quickly died down. Dressed in the Zephyr Academy's uniform for teachers, a man walked onto the front of the stage. With a stern face, he began to explain to the new disciples about the three main faculties.

The disciples were simply picked and segregated into the various faculties based on their ring spirit's type, with the exception of the Spirit Healer faculty. The criteria was a little different. When the man mentioned the words "Spirit Healer faculty", all the ears in the crowd pricked up.

Before the new disciples had come here, they had heard a lot from their seniors. The selection of disciples to enter the Spirit Healer faculty was always conducted after the meet on the first night of their admittance into the academy, and Gu Li Sheng would pick the disciples personally.

That was the main reason the exuberant youths were willing to sit patiently throughout the long lecture on the attributes of Beast and Weapon Spirit which the directly admitted disciples had known very well about!

They were waiting the whole night for this! Just for this moment!

Gu Li Sheng!

The founder of the Spirit Healer faculty, and the founder of Spirit Healing. The man at the top of the golden pyramid, who looked like he was only in his twenties.

No one would ever have imagined, the one and only Spirit Healer, would be a young man looking just like being in his twenties, and founded Spirit Healing.

But, no one would actually naively believe that Gu Li Sheng was in his twenties.

In the eyes of the people across the vast lands, they only knew his identity as the founder of Spirit Healing, and the people knew he was in the Zephyr Academy.

But in regards to his origins, his background, his age and his prowess, they were all shrouded in mystery, and no one knew for sure.

Spirit Healers had never been heard of before Gu Li Sheng extended his assistance to heal his country's supreme leader's ring spirit. He became an overnight sensation after that and he soon became the name most highly sought after, and it in turn became his profession.

He started in the Zephyr Academy as a never heard of faculty, to become the place every single disciple of the Zephyr Academy yearned to be.

For those disciples studying Spirit Healing in the faculty, before the youths in there even became full fledged Spirit Healers, all of them would have received invitations from various powers within just the first one month they gained entry into the Spirit Healer faculty.

Gu Li Sheng was very lax with his disciples and besides teaching and guiding them in the art of Spirit Healing, he did not meddle much into their lives nor restrict them in any way. Hence, for the disciples admitted into the Spirit Healer faculty, irregardless whether they chose to serve under their own families' name, or to accept the olive branches offered by the various powers, their reputations and social standings had already grown wings before they even graduated!

It was very clear what having a Spirit Healer on their side would mean for any power, and if they succeeded in becoming a full fledged Spirit Healer, they would gain all they ever wanted and the future held endless possibilities.

All the youths below the stage waited in wide eyed anticipation, waiting for the moment that was finally about to come. Even though Jun Xie had already stolen one of the available spots, at least one or two more among them still stood a chance to be admitted into the Spirit Healer faculty. Whether any of them would eventually become a Spirit Healer would be up to their own capabilities!

The man at the front of the stage stoically completed the full itinerary in a monotonous voice before he suddenly looked up and scanned the crowd of youths, who were all staring back at him with fire in their eyes.

Every year, at this point of the meet, the man knew exactly what the youths were all thinking.

But.....

This time he was about to disappoint them.

The man stayed silent a moment before he suddenly sighed heavily before saying: "I know very well that all of you are waiting eagerly for the arrival of Teacher Gu. But I am sorry to say that he would not be coming today."

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Chapter 399:- Envy, Jealousy and Hate (3)

The man's words had just fallen into the ears of the crowd when a great roar erupted from the floor!

The youths had been greatly expectant and now, they stared at the man in utter disbelief, unable to stay seated on their seats.

Gu Li Sheng was not coming!?

Why was that!?

Had they changed the format and method in the selection of disciples to be admitted into the Spirit Healer faculty!? The youths were tumultuous as they looked on at the man, asking for further elaboration.

The man looked back at the crowd helplessly to say: "Master Gu has relayed his message that the Spirit Healer faculty's disciple for this year has already been selected."

Selected ! ?

The youths were all stunned.

When was the selection conducted?

Why were they not informed!?

The youths started discussing among themselves and many guessed that Gu Li Sheng had altered his method of selecting his disciples and had secretly observed all of their every single action upon their entry into the lecture room.

No one among them knew the exact criteria that Gu Li Sheng had set in his selection of his disciples and now that it was announced that the selection had been done, they could only guess that Gu Li Sheng had been within the room along and had been secretly observing all of them.

That conclusion made many of the youths extremely nervous as they recalled all of their actions throughout the lecture. They tried to think back on whether they had been paying close attention to the lecture or had acted distracted and unfocused. They were all worried that they might have left Gu Li Sheng a bad impression.

Seeing that the youths were all heavily confused, the man could not help but heaved another great sigh before he cleared his throat and said: "Master Gu has already informed the disciple he had chosen to be admitted into the Spirit Healer faculty and for all those who have not received word by now, it would mean that you have not been selected and need not continue to second guess it any further."

The youths stared blankly at the man before them and a revelation suddenly dawned upon them all.

The man had mentioned that "Master Gu has already informed the disciple". He had said "disciple", and not "disciples".....

"Sir, Master Gu..... accepted how many disciples this year?" A youth who had caught on a little faster than the others asked cautiously as a horrible reality surfaced within his head.

The man replied: "Just one." Cold water splashed onto all the youths within the room and their hearts dropped into their toes. The tiny glimmer of hope they all held flickered and was finally snuffed out!

One!?

The Spirit Healer Academy accepted only one disciple this year!?

How could that be?

All the youths were utterly devastated!

"Who? Who was this most fortunate person!?" This special favour shown on just one person among them drove the youths into a frenzy. They turned to look in all directions trying to locate that most fortunate person among them.

As they turned to peer all around, their gazes swept over a lone tiny figure seated in a corner all by himself. Suddenly, their hearts froze and they stood unmoving, rooted to the ground.

Who?

Who else!

Damn it! Before that brat had even been admitted into the Zephyr Academy, he had already been invited by Gu Li Sheng to go see him at the Spirit Healer faculty! Who else would be the one selected but that brat there!

The youths had only been envious and jealous of Jun Xie before this. But upon knowing that the puny kid had stolen the one and only spot into the Spirit Healer faculty, their rage rose and intensified, coalescing into thick rolling hatred!

All of them were capable enough to gain direct entry into the main division, and they were youths of outstanding talents, praised as geniuses from where they were from. But despite all their magnificence, they had all been deemed inferior to a tiny and puny pipsqueak, who possessed a cold and distant disposition, and lost that one lone opportunity to become a Spirit Healer to him! That was such an outrage!

Even though the other faculties held greater might and power, they were nevertheless indignant that despite the great number of them, they were pushed out by such a character! ! !

All the tens of youths stared with their eyes on fire, all directed at the tiny figure of Jun Xie in the corner, wishing with all their might that the brat would just burn up in flames!

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Chapter 400:- Envy, Jealousy and Hate (4)

Even the little black cat that was snoozing on Jun Wu Xie's lap could sense the thick hatred coming from all those hate filled stares. It opened its eyes and looked at its calm mistress.

Jun Wu Xie's face did not show any emotion and it was calm as if carved out of stone.

The little black cat covered its eyes with its paw. From another perspective, its mistress' reactions were almost the same as an autistic child.

Before the little black cat could finish lamenting on its mistress' oblivion to others, one of the youths had already stepped out and was walking towards Jun Wu Xie.

"The one that Master Gu chose, is it you!?" The youth still refused to give up and could not help himself but to ask.

Jun Wu Xie raised her head slowly and looked at the aggressive youth before her. She merely gave him one brief glance before she lowered her head once again to return to stroking the little black cat.

Finding himself ruthlessly ignored, a sudden fire burned within the youth. This kid is being unbelievably arrogant! Not a single word in reply but to just shoot him a contemptuous look! How could anyone take it lying down!?

If the little black cat had spoken then, it would have told the fuming youth this:

"Boy, you are getting it all wrong..... My mistress isn't being arrogant, she is just a little speech impaired!"

In both her previous and present lives, she had not existed or lived in any social environment. Even after joining the organization, she had operated alone. In regards to such a place like an academy that had large numbers of people living in the same place, this would be her first time being admitted into one.

When she had been in the Phoenix Academy, the whole East wing had only the few of them staying in it and it had not been too bad. But here in the Zephyr Academy, the place was filled to the brim with menacing eyes and hostility from people and Jun Wu Xie's self containing walls have naturally deployed in defense.

The effects of those walls had caused Jun Wu Xie to be labeled to be an haughty and conceited person, who held everyone in contempt!

Seeing that the youth was about to hit out at Jun Xie, the man warned for them to stop, preventing the tragedy that was about to occur. He told all the youths off sternly, preventing any altercation from erupting from the tense situation. As he scolded the youths, his eyes were invariably drawn to the inconspicuous figure seated in the corner.

That was the kid Gu Li Sheng had his eye on?

That personality was a little hard to take though.

Before the man had come to the lecture, he had met with Gu Li Sheng earlier and found out that the disciple that Gu Li Sheng had picked was among the group. He had come to the lecture with his curiosity aroused, but throughout the whole lecture, he had not noticed anything extraordinary about the boy, Jun Xie. The only thing that stood out was that personality of his. Since he had appeared till now, that kid had not even raised his head even once, and had only been toying with his ring spirit. He did not understand what was so outstanding about the kid.

The man had initially thought that since Gu Li Sheng had decided to only accept one lone disciple this year, the disciple must have been extremely outstanding. But now that he had seen the boy, that did not seem to be the case.

Although he had verbally stopped the other disciples from laying their hands on Jun Xie, he felt that he did not really appreciate Jun Xie's personality.

A kid that was so individualistic would not have an easy time in his days ahead in the Zephyr Academy.

Right before dinnertime, the man finally decided to release all the new disciples.

The youths had not dared to defy the man and had not made any moves against Jun Wu Xie in the room but had intended to find themselves a deserted corner somewhere and teach the arrogant brat a good lesson. However, when the youths came out through the door, they all froze.

With his bright smile flashing, Fan Jin was standing just in front of the door. His tall frame allowed him to scan his eyes through the group of youths and he soon spotted Jun Wu Xie at the end coming out alone. Under the surprised gazes of the other youths, Fan Jin strode up with big steps towards Jun Wu Xie.

What was going on.....

Senior Fan Jin actually came all the way out here just to pick that puny brat up ! ! ?

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