Genius Doctor: Black Belly Miss

Chapter 441 - 460

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Chapter 441:- A Delicious Killer (3)

That afternoon, Fan Zhuo had another relapse. The ferocity of the relapse was so intense that Ah Jing fell to the ground in shock. Just as Ah Jing was about to run out in search of a physician to save Fan Zhuo, he suddenly recovered miraculously. He comforted Ah Jing a little and the matter ended there.

The next day, after the person delivered the daily food ingredients to the kitchen, Jun Wu Xie asked Fan Jin to retrieve a few samples from among the delivery. She checked them thoroughly but did not find anything suspicious.

"The culprit is being very careful. The food that we eat everyday has not been drugged." Jun Wu Xie looked at the radish in her hand and tossed it to Fan Jin.

Fan Jin caught it and turned it over and over, inspecting the radish closely before he took a big bite out of it, crunching it in his mouth.

"It seems that the culprit wants Little Zhuo to suffer from a relapse only occasionally, and let the continuous and prolonged turmoil take its toll and eat at Little Zhuo's lifeforce till it depletes completely on its own. It's all part of his vicious plan." Fan Jin narrowed his eyes as he stared at the radish, picturing it as the culprit, and took a enormous bite out of it.

"We can only wait for the culprit to strike again." Fan Zhuo sighed, resigned.

As the three of them chatted, shouts were heard from outside in the little bamboo grove.

"Jun Xie! You despicable cad! After committing such shameless atrocities, you decided to hide here! ? Just get out of the Zephyr Academy now!"

"Jun Xie! Not even Fan Jin and Fan Zhuo can shield you. Do not think for moment that everything will just blow over! All your unscrupulous and shameless deeds have been made known and everyone in the academy knows of it!"

The incessant shouts and curses caused the faces of both the Fan brothers to darken immediately.

The three people in the room walked out.

As they came out into the little yard within the bamboo grove, they saw several Zephyr Academy disciples still shouting, standing in the yard.

Fan Zhuo stared in anger at the young intruders within his yard.

The bamboo grove was a space specially segregated by Fan Qi for Fan Zhuo's recuperation and the place was off limits to everyone. Even the teachers were not allowed access and needless to say, the place was strictly prohibited from any of the academy's disciples. Strangely, these disciples had suddenly appeared and started shouting and cursing at Jun Xie right here within the bamboo grove!

The main doors into the yard were standing wide open and it seemed these disciples had found their way in uninhibited.

"Ah Jing!" Fan Jin assessed the situation and knew how this had come about.

If someone had not opened the door from the inside, these troublemakers would not have been able to come in here!

Ah Jing came running out from the kitchen and his clean face was tinged with panic.

"Why are all these people in here! ? Have you forgotten the Headmaster's strict orders! ?" Fan Jin stared at Ah Jing in fury. Ah Jing had not been too difficult recently. Besides the fact that his face was perpetually unhappy, he had not done anything else against Fan Zhuo's wishes. But today's incident was just too much!

Ah Jing's expression was one of shock as his eyes looked at the disciples within the yard and looked at the wide open doors, before he said: "Elder Young Master, you have misunderstood. I was just sweeping the pebbled path outside when I suddenly remembered that I had left something over the fire in the kitchen. I hurried back into the kitchen and forgot to shut the doors. I do not know how these people got in here."

After saying that, Ah Jing walked towards those disciples and chased them out. Those disciples were still shouting their curses as they were being ushered out, pointedly shouting out the various vicious deeds of Jun Xie.

Jun Wu Xie watched without expression at the farce before her, and she did not miss the guilt in Ah Jing's eyes when he was explaining himself to Fan Jin.

It seemed that this person really hated her.

"Jun Xie, if you really think you are innocent, then you wouldn't be hiding yourself here like this! Be a man and get out of here!" As they were being pushed out, those disciples still did not give up and continued to shout.

Fan Jin's face turned incredibly dark at that moment.

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Chapter 442:- It's Time (1)

It was thought the staying within the bamboo grove would give them the peace that was desired. They had never thought the the other disciples would be so bold to breach the boundaries to disrupt the tranquility.

Fan Zhuo stared with disapproval at Ah Jing, knowing very well what he had done.

"Ah Jing, if anything like this happens one more time, you can go back to the academy." Fan Zhuo said with a sigh. Ah Jing had been around so long that Ah Jing had been thought to have as good as grown up together with him. Ah Jing had put Fan Zhuo's interest before his own from young and though he was fiercely loyal, he had not been entirely bright. The fact was that Jun Xie had treated Fan Zhuo for quite a while and his condition had shown considerable visible progress. But even that had still not deterred Ah Jing from believing in the rumours in the academy, and Fan Zhuo had no choice but to issue an ultimatum.

Ah Jing stood blankly in the yard as he saw the cold stare that Fan Zhuo was giving him. Ah Jing felt as if he had been struck by lightning and he clenched his fists tightly, before he turned his stare towards Jun Xie.

Jun Wu Xie glanced at Ah Jing and pulled off a leaf from the bamboo and put it before her eyes before she turned to walk away without a word.

The Fan brothers followed Jun Xie into the hut and Fan Zhuo observed Jun Xie carefully. However, he did not notice anything different from usual and there was no anger.

"Little Xie, what did your action mean earlier?" Fan Zhuo noticed Jun Xie's earlier action when he had put a leaf before his eyes and that had made Fan Zhuo curious.

** "Can't see the forest for the trees." Jun Wu Xie poured herself some tea and sat down to sip at it slowly.

The Fan brothers exchanged a glance and they understood immediately.

Jun Xie must have known of Ah Jing's enmity towards him right from the beginning and in today's incident, Jun Xie must have thought exactly as they had. Jun Xie had not said a word but had only thrown a hint as a reply to Ah Jing's actions today.

"Cough, you shouldn't take today's incident to heart. I assure you that things like this will never happen again." Fan Jin cleared his throat self consciously as he said those words. If it had been anyone else, he would have given that person a thrashing. But Ah Jing had been unwavering in his loyalty to Fan Zhuo for many years and his fists were a little hesitant to land heavily upon Ah Jing.

Jun Wu Xie gave Fan Jin a glance but remained silent.

Guarantee that such things would never happen again?

Jun Wu Xie's mouth curled up at the corners, but there was absolutely no warmth in that.

As expected, two days later, the same farce played out once again within the bamboo grove. It was another group of disciples this time but the script had been almost the same.

Ah Jing did not even bother to appear this time and allowed the shouting and admonishments to continue unhindered.

Fan Jin was not around this time around and only Fan Zhuo and Jun Wu Xie were there. Faced with those shouting disciples, Fan Zhuo was just about to go out and drive them away when Jun Wu Xie stopped him.

"Leave them be." Jun Wu Xie was perfectly calm within the room.

"You're not angry?" Fan Zhuo stared at Jun Xie's expressionless face and he totally admired Jun Xie for his impossible composure.

"I'm listening." Jun Wu Xie replied.

"Listening to what?"

"To hear what the one behind all this is up to." Jun Wu Xie was looking at the tea within her cup and her eyes were fixated on a pale green tea leaf floating in the middle upon the tea's surface. Jun Wu Xie pushed her little finger onto the floating tea leaf lightly and the tea's surface broke as it rippled towards the sides of the cup.

Fan Zhuo did not answer, not understanding what Jun Xie had meant.

"The day of the Spirit Hunt is coming up fast." Jun Wu Xie looked up, as she looked out the window, staring at the lush green grove of bamboos.

"That's right." Fan Zhuo could not fathom what Jun Xie was thinking.

"It's time." Jun Wu Xie turned her gaze back into the room. Things have come to a point. She had completed redesigning the Spirit Healing technique. And the time is ripe.

"Little Xie?" Fan Zhuo's eyes had remained on Jun Xie all this while. He suddenly felt a change come over Jun Xie and he seemed to be different from his usual self. That impenetrable calm had gradually faded from his eyes and was replaced by a terrifying chill.

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Chapter 443:- It's Time (2)

Jun Wu Xie stood up and proceeded to step out of the room. Fan Zhuo hurried to get up and followed after Jun Xie.

In the yard, the disciples who were shouting endlessly were further encouraged when they saw Jun Xie come out, and their curses and taunts grew in intensity.

"Go back to your doghouses and let the pack know that I will turn up on the day of the Spirit Hunt. Since you dogs want me to go so badly, I shall grant your wishes. Just don't regret it later." Jun Wu Xie said as she gave the disciples a chilling gaze. The frosty voice penetrated like a cold blade, piercing through the ruckus the disciples were making.

The disciples were shocked and suddenly terrified by Jun Wu Xie's words and they were just about to step up to rebut when they were met with the frosty eyes of Jun Wu Xie's. They saw the frigid chill in those eyes and the razor sharp gaze. The chill penetrated their hearts and the disciples all cringed involuntarily, feeling all their courage seep into the ground. One of them barely managed a soft almost inaudible mumble in his attempt to say something and they all ran away with their tails between their legs.

After those troublemakers had left, Fan Zhuo asked immediately: "Little Xie, you are intending to go for the Spirit Hunt? What did your words earlier mean?"

The Spirit Hunt, was a grand event the Zephyr Academy organized every half yearly. On the day of the Spirit Hunt, all of the Zephyr Academy's disciples would assemble and be sent to the Battle Spirits Forest to hunt the Spirit Beasts. Hunting Spirit Beasts will gain you spirit stones and train the disciples in their actual combat experience. But the Battle Spirits Forest extended across vast expanses and even when the thousands of disciples entered the forest all at once, they would be just like a grain of sand in the sea. All kinds of Spirit Beasts, from low to high grades, reside within the forest and if one was not careful, and they angered a ferocious Spirit Beast, they could easily become food for the Spirit Beast. In all the previous Spirit Hunt meets, there were always disciples who lost their lives to the Battle Spirits Forest.

Besides the disciples in the main division of the Zephyr Academy, even the branch division disciples were included in the Spirit Hunt. And the highest losses in the previous meets, had always come from the branch division.

On the day of the Spirit Hunt, those seniors who were mentoring the new disciples, were required to lead their wards throughout the whole event and this was one of the main reason why so many seniors dreaded to mentor the freshmen.

The Battle Spirits Forest was filled with danger and one could not be sure if they would get through it safely themselves and being dragged down by a weak and inexperienced freshman wasn't an entirely attractive proposition.

Jun Xie might have attained an orange spirit, but his ring spirit was.....

Fan Zhuo could not help himself but turned his gaze solemnly onto the little black cat on Jun Xie's shoulders.

Little black was really cute, but when it came to battle.....

"I've stayed here rather long, it is time I go back to the academy." Jun Wu Xie said with her eyes narrowed. So many people "yearned" for her to return, and she thought she should grant them their wish.

Fan Zhuo's face was one of panic and he hurriedly said: "Little Xie, you do not have to care about what all the others say. My brother and I know for sure you are not the kind of person they say you are. You do not have to change a single thing about yourself and you can just stay here as long as you want. Having you here has been really nice and you saved my life, making you my saviour. I know all this is the doing of Ah Jing and I will make him go back to the academy tomorrow. You..... don't go." Fan Zhuo's tone was almost pleading and his pale face was looking more tired than usual due to the anxiety.

However, Jun Wu Xie shook her head.

"My return, is not due to anyone's influence, and just my decision alone."

Ah Jing was at best only a pawn. Jun Wu Xie could not be bothered to retaliate against a mindless idiot. She had heard every word those disciples who had come to the bamboo grove shouting and cursing in the past two days. Every of those curses and scoldings had all been taunting her to get out of the bamboo grove.

And if she were to return to the academy at this time, she would have to partake in the Spirit Hunt.

Was that not what those people were after?

But.....

With her return, those people had better not regret it. Even if they do.....

It's too late!

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Chapter 444:- It's Time (3)

Jun Xie was determined to partake in the Spirit Hunt and Fan Zhuo was unable to convince him otherwise even when he dragged Fan Jin together with him to persuade Jun Xie.

Fortunately, Fan Jin will be with Jun Xie during the Spirit Hunt and Fan Zhuo had complete confidence in his brother's skills and that set his mind at ease a little.

Ah Jing was driven out from the bamboo grove that very night by Fan Zhuo. Ah Jing sobbed and wailed noisily and incessantly, which made Fan Jin so frustrated that he knocked Ah Jing out with a single strike and threw him into the Headmaster's study, dumping the problem into Fan Qi's lap.

The day of the Spirit Hunt was closing in fast and the hunt would go on for seven days. Jun Wu Xie prepared all the things that Fan Zhuo would need for his recuperation and during the time she would be away, she would leave the little black cat behind in the bamboo grove.

When the Fan brothers heard that, they immediately refused.

From what they could see, Little Black was Jun Xie's Ring Spirit and although the little cat might be of a low grade, it would nevertheless still be a form of protection for the small sized Jun Xie.

Jun Wu Xie had intended to leave the little black cat behind to identify the culprit behind Fan Zhuo's drugging. However, with herself away from the bamboo grove, Fan Zhuo would not be able put on a convincing act of a relapse anyway, Jun Wu Xie finally gave up on the idea.

A few days before the day of the Spirit Hunt, Jun Wu Xie shut herself in completely. The Snow Lotus' recovery was coming along rather nicely, and she needed the last few days to intensify the Snow Lotus' healing before it could revert back to his former glory.

The improved Spirit Healing technique nourished the Snow Lotus' spirit a little by little gradually till it finally regained its exquisite and elegant form.

"What is the actual purpose of taking part in the Spirit Hunt?" The little black cat was lying on the table, brushing at the Snow Lotus' petals with its slowing swishing tail.

It did not believe for a moment that its mistress would succumb to the taunts of a few brats in the academy.

Jun Wu Xie's palm was covered over the top of the Snow Lotus and slivers of her spirit power were coming out from her palm and enveloping the pristine white lotus flower in its entirety.

"I've been mired in the orange level for a long time." Jun Wu Xie said softly.

The little black cat's eyes lit up.

"Haha! You've already selected your unlucky target?"

In order for Jun Wu Xie to achieve a breakthrough, she needed to devour the ring spirit of others. She had been stuck in the orange level for some time now but she had not found any suitable ring spirits. When Jun Wu Xie spoke those words, the little black cat understood immediately what its mistress was driving at.

"No." Jun Wu Xie replied.

The little black cat blinked in thought. Based on what it knew of its mistress, it guessed: "You are just waiting to see who would come up to you on their own, and ask to be devoured?"

Jun Wu Xie nodded slightly. "Someone wants me to take part in the Spirit Hunt, and that would naturally mean they have made plans for me there. No matter who it is, I should be grateful to them."

She would be grateful to anyone who would deliver a ring spirit for her to achieve the breakthrough, and was extending her thanks in advance.

"Moreover, Hua Yao and the others will be taking part as well and it's high time we meet up with them." In the Cloudy Peaks the last time, the Two Headed Bone Snake and the Yin Yang Bear had sustained severe injuries and since Jun Wu Xie had learnt the Spirit Healing Technique, she had naturally thought of them.

"Would the little blooming idiot be fully recovered in the next few days?" The little black cat asked, staring the newly revived Snow Lotus.

"Yes." Jun Wu Xie lowered her eyes, as they suddenly steeled in determination.

The time passed day by day and the day of the Spirit Hunt for the Zephyr Academy finally arrived once again.

Early that morning, everyone within the Zephyr Academy readied themselves for the trip as they made their way towards the Battle Spirits Forest, to undergo the trial that was conducted two times a year.

Over in the forest, some of them might start to become aware of the initial approach towards a breakthrough, while some others might suddenly lose their lives forever to the unknown Spirit Beasts that roam the forests.

Hundreds of horse carriages rumbled in an orderly convoy, rolling out through the gates of the Zephyr Academy.

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Chapter 445:- Spirit Hunt (1)

Ning Xin was in the same carriage as Yin Yan. The carriage wheels rolled on and Ning Xin stared at the scenery speeding past outside the window as she said: "Are you certain that Jun Xie is here?"

Yin Yan replied: "I'm sure. I had people watch Fan Jin closely. Although Jun Xie arrived a little later, he got on the last carriage with Fan Jin."

"Oh?" Ning Xin turned, her beautiful features tinged with intrigue. "He really turned up. Seems like you did very well, having successfully incited him to come."

Yin Yan smiled but did not reply, his heart raging in anger.

He did not forget the words those disciples had brought back and related to him from Jun Xie that day!

Jun Xie had called him a dog!

The fists hidden within his sleeves were tightly clenched and Yin Yan's eyes flashed viciously.

[He'll allow Jun Xie to be smug a few more days, and when they are in the Battle Spirits Forest, Jun Xie will find out that he will never walk out of that forest alive!]

"Although Jun Xie will be a hindrance, but Fan Jin's skills are still not to be slighted. We should get some people to test them out a little." Ning Xin warned. After a short pause, she continued: "That trash Li Zi Mu is here as well. He was rather proud of himself previously, let them take the first shot at them. He might be a piece of trash, but his ring spirit isn't too shabby. A grade five ring spirit..... Sigh, it's such a waste on useless trash like him."

"Right! I will speak to him about it. Senior Ning had not seen him for quite a while now and the kid is feeling rather anxious." Yin Yan gloated secretly but hid it well as he said those words. He had not seen eye to eye with that idiotic piece of trash all this time and after having stayed in the Spirit Healer faculty for such so long, he was still unable to even grasp the basic fundamentals of Spirit Healing. He was just absolutely useless.

Useless trash like this had long been abandoned by Ning Xin.

Ning Xin laughed coldly and said: "Useless and dumb as he is, and he wants me to see him?"

"Do not forget, along the way in our journey towards the Battle Spirits Forest, ask them not to forget to take care of Jun Xie. It will be even better if they could force Fan Jin to step forward to defend him and have Fan Jin's reputation fall even further." Ning Xin ordered maliciously.

"Yes, Senior Ning!"

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The Zephyr Academy's convoy had travelled throughout the day and finally stopped as dusk approached. They had come halfway on their journey to the Battle Spirits Forest and it was expected that they would need another day at least before they would reach their destination.

All the disciples came out of their carriages. Having been jolted around within the carriages for the whole day, all of them were feeling sore and were aching all over.

The bonfire had been lit and the tired disciples sat around it, holding a hot meal in their hands and sipped at hot drinks, in small groups of three and five.

After the last horse carriage pulled to a stop, two figures stepped out of the carriage and the other disciples nearby looked up at them, and all the gazes were trained onto the smaller figure between them.

"Ptui! How can such a person still ashamedly remain in the Zephyr Academy? I had not seen him for a long time and thought that he had left for good!" One of the disciples cursed in a loud whisper.

"What is he doing here? Doesn't he know the Spirit Hunt is filled with dangers?"

"Danger? You should be telling that to others! Not that guy, didn't you see who was with him? That was Fan Jin! Ranked fourth in the last Spirit Battle Tournament! Leading that useless little guy around within the Battle Spirits Forest for a few days would be child's play to him. Moreover, when you kill the Spirit Beasts, they drop spirit stones. With Fan Jin leading the charge at the front, that little one will just need to stay back and pick those stones up without moving a finger, why would he not come?"

"What does Senior Fan see in that puny kid anyway, the kid is obviously so shameless but Senior Fan is still so protective of him."

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Chapter 446:- Spirit Hunt (2)

"Who knows?" The youths were seen to be saying it in contempt, but deep in their hearts, many of them were actually envious and jealous of Jun Xie, to have the highly admired Fan Jin hovering around him so protectively.

When they got off the carriage, all the stares from the other disciples were directed at them from many different directions, and not a single one among them was friendly. Jun Wu Xie was unperturbed and followed Fan Jin to sit down beside a fire.

Several disciples were seated by the fire and when they saw Jun Xie, they pursed up their mouths, their faces showing obvious disdain.

Fan Jin suppressed the anger rising up within his chest, or he would have given those disciples a good thrashing.

"It's been a long day, eat something." Fan Jin handed a packet of dried preserved meat to Jun Wu Xie and Jun Wu Xie bit at it silently as endless mutterings and insults reached her ears. "Meow~"

[These people are really being obnoxious!"]

Jun Wu Xie did not say a word but continued to finish up the food and had a short drink before standing up and returning to the carriage to rest.

When they saw that Jun Wu Xie had left, those jealous and angry voices grew louder.

Fan Jin's face was turning dangerously dark. The vicious curses and malicious insinuations were even too much for him to hear as a bystander and he did not know how Jun Xie could be so unaffected. Fan Jin did not want to stay around longer than needed and ate quickly before he returned to the carriage as well.

He had wanted to comfort Jun Xie a little but he came back to find Jun Xie fast asleep leaning against the carriage wall. Fan Jin sighed softly and took out his coat to cover Jun Xie's tiny frame. Fan Jin sat directly across Jun Xie and held his head in his hand as he looked at the tiny figure sleeping before him.

To be frank, Jun Xie's features were not thought to be outstanding, but without knowing why, Fan Jin was beginning to find that face more and more attractive. That high nose, those red lips, and the long curly lashes on those closed eyes.

As he stared longer at that face, Fan Jin found that the air in the carriage was getting hot and stifling. He gulped down some water and got out of the carriage, to let the chill night air cool down his heated body.

The little black cat was lying beside Jun Wu Xie and it opened its eyes a slit to peek at the flustered Fan Jin who had just hurried out of the carriage.

If that insanely overpowered demon were to know that someone here had developed some other intentions towards its mistress, wouldn't he make mincemeat out of Fan Jin?

After resting for a night, the Zephyr Academy's convoy continued on their journey. After two whole days of seemingly endless trundling and rattling, they finally arrived at the edge of the Battle Spirits Forest at midnight on the second day.

The vast expanses of the Battle Spirits Forest stretched endlessly, farther than the eye could see, and the forest bordered several different countries. The lure of the Spirit Beasts here attracted the eye of many and many people from different powers came here to hunt them, to gain more spirit stones.

High quality spirit stones were able to increase the powers of ring spirits and were in high demand. While ordinary Spirit Beasts only yielded tiny grains of spirit stones when they are killed and were too tiny to be set onto their rings linked to their ring spirits, people seeked to hunt the higher grade Spirit Beasts to gain spirit stones that they could set in their rings.

Although it was midnight, the outskirts of the Battle Spirits Forest were lit almost bright as day.

Big and small tents were erected all around the outskirts of the forest and many groups of hunters from many different powers were readying themselves for the hunt early the next morning within the Battle Spirits Forest.

When the Zephyr Academy's convoy arrived at the edges of the Battle Spirits Forest, they inadvertently attracted the attention of the groups of hunters. The silvery white banners flying over the carriages were known to every single one of those hunters. The Zephyr Academy, one of the top three academies, well known to be a place that produced elite fighters and they had what everyone paid the most attention to, the Zephyr Academy's one and only Spirit Healer faculty!

All the different factions among the hunters were also eyeing for a chance to win over the hearts of any disciple from the Spirit Healer faculty!

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Chapter 447:- Spirit Hunt (3)

It was late into the night, and the Zephyr Academy disciples were all exhausted. All of them remained within their carriages and nibbled some food before sleep claimed their tired bodies.

Dawn broke the next morning and as the sun peeked over the horizon, the well rested disciples jumped out of their carriages. The seniors were feeling wary as they stared towards the place that had haunted their dreams on many nights and were looking slightly worried. The new disciples were their direct opposites as many were feeling excited and were exuberant with anticipation. Though some of them were quietly worried, they were nevertheless rather relieved that they would be accompanied by their mentors.

The teachers leading the expedition then gathered the new disciples and explained their mission here at the Battle Spirits Forest.

The whole Spirit Hunt would run for a period of seven days and the Zephyr Academy disciples were to only move about within a marked out area in the South Eastern corner of the Battle Spirits Forest where they would be provided with a detailed map. They did not expect the disciples to meet up with any major problems and the Spirit Beasts did not belong to the higher grades in the allocated area of movement and it would be relatively safe for them.

The teachers did not forget to remind the new disciples in a grave tone, to not stray into unmarked territories as they might run into many high grade Spirit Beasts in those areas. The terrain might be treacherous and if they were not careful, they might easily lose their way within the forest filled with endless dangers.

All the disciples would be given two signal flares and if they were to come across any danger, were injured or ill, they could choose to release the signals and the teachers just outside the forest would evacuate the affected disciple as soon as possible. But, if you pull out of the Spirit Hunt early, the score you would be given for your assessment for the Spirit Hunt would be extremely low.

The signal flares would be distributed to all the disciples, but food and water were prepared by the disciples themselves.

They did not restrict how much you brought and as long as you could carry the load, no one would stop you.

For the Spirit Hunt, the disciples of the Zephyr Academy were allowed to form their own groups to support each other.

And in that aspect, the disciples from the Spirit Healing faculty were the most popular choices.

Although the Spirit Healer faculty disciples were usually less proficient in battle than the other two battle focused faculties, but disciples of the other two faculties were eager to jump on this rare chance to get into the good books of a potential future Spirit Healer, and many would plead and beg for them to join their groups.

Hence, well before the day of the Spirit Hunt, all the disciples of the Spirit Healer faculty had already been taken, without a single one spared.

The strong combined with the strong and it was a common sight during the Spirit Hunt.

And among them, the strongest team was the team that comprised of the previous Spirit Tournament's second ranked Lu Wei Xie and third ranked Ning Xin, which also included Yin Yan of the Spirit Healer faculty and many other elites of the Zephyr Academy. The team totaled more than twenty people and they were perceived to be the most impressive line up the Zephyr Academy could put forth.

As a result, all the teams would welcome almost any disciples who had not managed to find themselves a team to join.

Afterall, to survive seven days within this dense forest would not be an easy task and even if they were not strong or powerful additions, a bigger number of allies would make the task ahead easier to manage.

However.....

There were two people who did not manage to find a team to join up with.

People like.....

The last Spirit Tournament's fourth ranked Fan Jin, and Jun Xie.....

With Fan Jin's skills, many of the others would have fought tooth and nail to have him join them, but Fan Jin was tagged on with his ward, the most hated Jun Xie, which made all the other teams give up on any intentions to recruit the elite Fan Jin.

Jun Xie's name had dropped to the pits within the Zephyr Academy and even Fan Jin's popularity had not been enough to convince the other teams to want them. In the end, when all the disciples of the Zephyr Academy were split into their teams in tens or more, only Fan Jin and Jun Xie were left standing alone all by themselves.

"Cough, it does not matter if there is nobody else. Little Xie, believe in my strength. I will definitely protect you well." Fan Jin said trying to sound comforting as he stared at the excitement all around them, while the withering quiet where they stood struck a stark contrast and he hastened to encourage Jun Xie bravely.

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Chapter 448:- Is That The Weakest or Strongest Team (1)

Jun Wu Xie looked at Fan Jin who was bravely trying to put up a smile when she suddenly turned, and walked purposefully away.

Fan Jin was not about to allow Jun Xie to roam around on his own under all those malicious stares and ran to catch up with him.

Ning Xin and Yin Yan observed Fan Jin and Jun Xie while they hid within the crowd and when they saw that the two of them were ostracised and left out, they then smiled in glee.

"Where are they going?" Ning Xin saw Jun Xie suddenly turn away and walk towards a big group of disciples.

"Those are just trash from the branch division." Yin Yan said with contempt.

Just like the disciples of the main division, the disciples from the branch division were to take part in the Spirit Hunt as well. But the atmosphere in the branch division was the exact opposite, gloomy and dismal. Their ring spirits and spiritual powers could not be compared in any way to those disciples from the main division and having been forced to undergo the ordeal of surviving seven days within the perilous Battle Spirits Forest frightened them to no end.

The group of disciples from the branch division were still immersed in their own thoughts of inescapable doom when they suddenly saw two figures from the main division approaching them and they all stared in wide eyed disbelief.

Disciples from the main division had always treated those from the branch division with contempt and had always avoided them like the plague, and refused to even look at them at all.

And right before their eyes now, two disciples from the main division were walking straight towards the place the branch division's disciples were gathered and all their eyes were fixed on those two figures.

As they stared at the nearing Fan Jin and and Jun Xie, the disciples could not fathom what those two disciples from the main division would want from them.

"Meow~" The little black cat sat upon Jun Wu Xie's shoulders, its fluffy tail coiled behind her neck. It pointed out the direction to Jun Wu Xie and she immediately set off towards it.

Over on that side, four youths were gathered and seated under a tree, chatting among themselves.

Suddenly a tiny figure appeared before them and the four who were chatting excitedly looked up. When they saw the figure's face, the four youths suddenly went quiet, their faces filled with surprise.

"Little Xie?" Qiao Chu, who was biting one end of a blade of grass suddenly jumped up from the ground when he saw Jun Xie. He pounced unhesitatingly towards Jun Xie and was all ready to envelope him in a big bear hug.

However, Qiao Chu was suddenly stopped while he was still in mid air.

Fan Jin's face was in a deep frown, his hand extended stopping the jovial and good looking youth who had wanted to jump onto Jun Xie.

"Who are you? And what were you going to do to Jun Xie?"

"I should be the one asking just who are you?" Qiao Chu was frowning at the sudden appearance of Fan Jin. He had not seen Little Xie for so long and who was this twit to come between them?

"My name is Fan Jin, a disciple from the main division." Fan Jin said with his brows furrowed.

Qiao Chu furrowed his brow as well and spat out the blade of grass from his mouth to said nonchalantly: "Qiao Chu."

Sparks flew between the two candid and unpretentious youths as their eyes met and a fight seems seemed imminent.

Fei Yan stood up right at that moment and walked over to stand beside Jun Xie, and said with a laugh: "You still remembered to come look for us. We thought you had forgotten all about us!"

Fan Jin had intended to first establish the identities of these people before he would let them interact with Jun Xie as Jun Xie had just too many enemies at that moment. But when he saw the sweetly smiling "girl", Fei Yan greet Jun Xie so easily, he could not make himself raise his hand again to stop her.

A man must always.....

Treat ladies with gentleness and respect.

"You know each other?" Fan Jin heard Fei Yan's words and asked Jun Xie.

"We came together to enroll into the Zephyr academy." Rong Ruo stood up as well and said smiling.

Fan Jin turned to look at Jun Xie. And after he saw Jun Xie nod slightly to him, Fan Jin finally believed the other youths and lowered his defenses against them.

"Apologies if I've offended you." After ascertaining that the other party were friendly to Jun Xie, Fan Jin's face broke out into a jovial and amicable smile.

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Chapter 449:- Is That The Weakest or Strongest Team (2)

Jun Wu Xie very briefly introduced Fan Jin and Qiao Chu was all smiles very soon.

"Haha, many thanks to you! With you looking out for our Little Xie, we are greatly relieved."

"No, I didn't do much."

After a round of courteous banter, Jun Wu Xie shot them a curious gaze and said: "Come with me into the Forest."

"Sure! We were just about to go look for you anyway." Qiao Chu said with a laugh.

They agreed to enter the Battle Spirits Forest together as a team in moments and the disciples from the branch division looked on as the Qiao Chu and his gang leave the tree together with Jun Xie and Fan Jin to walk towards the place where the disciples of the main division gathered, their eyes aglow, green with envy.

When the other disciples of the main division saw Fan Jin with disciples from the branch division in his team to make up some numbers, they all started laughing loudly.

"Fan Jin has fallen so low that he has to resort to scouring through the trash! What does he think those useless characters can contribute to in the Battle Spirits Forest?" Yin Yan looked at Fan Jin from afar and said with a cold laugh.

Ning Xin turned to look a brief moment and turned back immediately, hiding the glee that rose within her eyes.

"Leave him to his own struggles, the final result will still be the same anyway."

Yin Yan smiled and his glad was gladdened by Fan Jin's depravity.

Having the main division's disciples gather disciples from the branch division to join their team was unheard of and everyone from the main division were looking at Jun Xie's tiny team as the biggest joke, and many of them soon dubbed them "the weakest" of them all.

Qiao Chu rubbed his nose heavily as the loud whispers all around assaulted his ears. He might not been deemed to be a sensitive guy, but he could definitely sense the daggers behind all those eyes directed at their group.

"Are disciples from the branch division so badly despised?" Qiao Chu asked.

"It's nothing to do with all of you." Jun Wu Xie said without emotion.

Qiao Chu was about to say more when he saw Hua Yao shot him a glance, asking him to shut up.

The main reason behind all those loud whispers from the other disciples of the main division were largely understood by all the others and only Qiao Chu was left still thinking that those whispers were because they despised those who were from the branch division. If anyone would just listen carefully, they would know that all those whispers were targeted at Jun Xie.

"I'll say, Jun Xie. How long has it been since you were admitted into the main division and you have managed to make an enemy out of everyone?" Fei Yan who was always highly capable in gathering information had gone around within the crowd and had gathered sufficient intelligence to know exactly what the situation was then.

From what she had heard, in the eyes of all the other disciples, Jun Xie was a despicable and utterly incorrigible brat!

Jun Wu Xie was totally expressionless, but Fan Jin was the one looking slightly embarrassed instead.

"They had said that you do not show yourself much in the academy, so why is it that you would take part in the Spirit Hunt?" Fei Yan asked, out of pure curiosity, as she cared not in the least all the nasty things she had heard about Jun Xie.

Jun Wu Xie replied curtly: "To kill people."

"....."

"....."

"....."

"....."

"....."

Beside Jun Wu Xie, all the other five people around her stared wide eyed at the tiny figure, unable to find words to respond to Jun Xie's emotionless and curt response.

Qiao Chu wiped the sweat that had suddenly appeared upon his forehead and said: "Little Xie..... That reason is a little..... too brutal..... Don't you think?"

Kill people.....

My dear Jun Xie, can't you be just a little more tactful?

"You..... you must be joking right? Fan Jin was really shocked to his boots by Jun Xie's chilling words. The cold and expressionless little kid had just come on his first expedition organised by the academy and his only intention was so..... inconceivably brutal. He could not make himself believe that Jun Xie was really here to kill someone.

Jun Wu Xie observed the suddenly paled Fan Jin and hesitated a moment before muttering a non committal: "Mmm."

Fan Jin then heaved a big sigh of relief.

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Chapter 450:- Is That The Weakest or Strongest Team (3)

Chapter 450: "Is That The Weakest or Strongest Team (3)"

Fan Jin was greatly relieved but Qiao Chu and gang did not believe it for a moment.

Jun Xie had learnt to kid?

That was what's more unbelievable instead!

That kid fully meant every word of that came out of the mouth and when he said he came here to kill, he meant he came here to kill and nothing else!

Qiao Chu and Hua Yao were had witnessed Jun Xie in action before and they were certain, without the slightest doubt, that Jun Xie had meant every single word he said.

She took part in the Spirit Hunt and came here today..... to kill people.

But Hua Yao and Qiao Chu kept their thoughts on Jun Xie's revelation to themselves so as not to further startle Fan Jin, and just exchanged a knowing glance between themselves.

Hua Yao shot Rong Ruo a meaningful glance and Rong Ruo quickly caught on. She walked to come before Fan Jin and said: "Big brother Fan, we still have some things we left behind in the branch division encampment. Can I trouble you to accompany me to go retrieve them? When I see the eyes of the disciples from the main division....." Rong Ruo's handsome face was suddenly tinged with worry, as she swept her gaze around at the obviously unfriendly eyes staring at the group.

Fan Jin immediately slapped his own chest confidently and led Rong Ruo back towards the branch division's encampment to retrieve their belongings.

The moment after Fan Jin stepped away, Qiao Chu jumped immediately to stand before Jun Xie to ask: "Little Xie, who do you want to kill?"

Qiao Chu's eyes were bright, lit up with excitement. After the massive massacre of the Qing Yun Clan with Jun Xie the last time, Qiao Chu fell in love with that thrill and excitement that came with being with Jun Xie.

With Fan Jin around earlier, they could not be candid with Jun Xie, as Fan Jin obviously saw Jun Xie as a timid and harmless little bunny. But little did he know that the little bunny in his eyes was one that swallowed people whole without even spitting out the bones. Countless people had fallen prey to that inconspicuous tiny face, and found themselves dead and their bodies already cold before they realised what had happened.

"Don't know." Jun Xie replied.

"Huh?" Don't know..... What did that mean?

Jun Wu Xie raised her hand and toyed with her little finger. "Whoever that comes, will be whoever that dies."

It was not convenient for her to make her move within the academy, but after they entered the Battle Spirits Forest was a different ballpark altogether. She need not consider those misgivings as she had in the academy anymore and the murder in her eyes flashed chillingly. She had said, whoever it was that tried so hard to incite her to come, had better not regret it later.

She had not put in much thought to try to guess who was the one behind all that goading and incitement, she only knew one thing, and that was it did not matter who it was, what mattered was whoever dared to go against her, must be ready to face her merciless wrath!

Qiao Chu's and Hua Yao's faces were all smiles when they saw the same devilish face they had seen the day the whole Qing Yun Clan had been obliterated, appear before them once again.

"Not a problem. Whoever dares comes seeking their death, will have their wish granted." Qiao Chu rubbed his hands in glee.

The intelligence that Fei Yan had gathered lit a fire in the chests of Jun Xie's companions as they listened. They knew Jun Xie, and with hisr ability, not many things under the skies could catch his fancy. Those brats were accusing Jun Xie of trying to steal a lousy spot in the Spirit Healer faculty through despicable means? That's got to be a joke!

But if so many people were seeking the deaths, they would never dream of denying them their well deserved "wishes".

Jun Xie was all set to kill, a few more would not make much of a difference.

Jun Wu Xie stared at Qiao Chu and the gang, and nodded slightly to them.

When Fan Jin and Rong Ruo came back, Qiao Chu and the others had reverted back to their normal selves and after exchanging a few more words, the deafening sounds of drums sounded and the Zephyr Academy disciples readied themselves to enter the Battle Spirits Forest.

The teams gathered their members together as they listened to the war drums rumble, and the flags of the Zephyr Academy were raised, fluttering in the wind.

The disciples of the main division stood confidently, heads held high, chest puffed up, in high contrast to those disciples from the branch division, whose shoulders were all slumped in defeat, their almost crouching figures filled with dread.

As the last beat of the drums sounded, all the teams started their rush into the Battle Spirits Forest.

They held their torches high, the figures soon swallowed by the dark dense forest.

Many of them rushed in excited and exuberant, but who knew how many of them would end up buried within the deep dense forest this time round.

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Chapter 451:- Battle Spirits Forest (1)

It was now late into the night and the Battle Spirits Forest was pitch dark. Jun Wu Xie and her teammates held their torches up high as they traversed through the dense trees and vegetation, lighting up the way before them.

The roars of the Spirit Beasts rang out occasionally through the darkness. In the quiet night, the myriad sounds from the forest made the whole place seem much more terrifying.

The torch in Qiao Chu's hand was burning brightly. He swung the torch to shine onto the trees surrounding them many times and peered at the map held in his intently for a long while. He finally gave up.

"And they call this a map? Who can read it! ?" Qiao Chu shoved the map in his pocket in disgust and exclaimed loudly to his companions in exasperation.

Fan Jin had been to this forest a few times and when he heard Qiao Chu, he said with a laugh: "The map will only provide us with a general idea of the direction we are to take. Moreover, it is late in the night now and visibility is low. Even if we have a map, we will not be able to see our way clearly. Why don't we find a place to sleep first and wait for morning to come. We will still have ample time to hunt for prey after the sun rises."

Fan Jin was a little older than the others and he was the only one among them that had come to this forest before. Hence, the others naturally looked to him for suggestions on how they were to move within the dense forest.

"I think that will work." Qiao Chu nodded in agreement.

"The forest is more dangerous at night and there are some nocturnal spirit beasts that will come out to hunt for food. If we do not intend to become dinner for them, I suggest we rest up high among the trees." Fan Jin warned gravely.

The group nodded one after another and looked around for aged trees. Their branches were broader and their canopies denser, which made them more suitable places for the companions to rest.

Fan Jin took out a coil of rope from his hip and attached a hook to one end. He was just about to throw it up when he saw Qiao Chu and his gang going up into the treetops with a quick leap!

Their movements were light and graceful and with a single bound, they reached the lower branches and they quickly went up into the higher reaches with a few more quick leaps in succession going left and right effortlessly.

Fan Jin's eyes sparkled as his heart was overcome in awe.

He had initially thought that Jun Xie had gathered the group together just because they had previously traveled together to come to the Zephyr Academy, and even if they turn out to be weak and could not contribute much, he had prepared himself to at least keep the group safe while they were in the forest. But what he just saw told him that these youths were neither weak nor unskilled.

Under the darkness of the night, where visibility was extremely poor, his companions had still been able to locate the necessary footholds with such pinpoint accuracy to reach the upper reaches of the trees in lightning quick time, and these showed him how nimble and agile his companions really were.

Fan Jin knew for a fact that even in the main division of the Zephyr Academy, not many would be capable enough to match them in such a feat.

"Throw up the rope. We'll haul the two of you up." Qiao Chu was totally oblivious of the fact that their show of agility had already far surpassed any standards that disciples of the branch division were "supposed" to possess.

Fan Jin removed the hook from the end of the rope and threw the rope's end up to Qiao Chu. "Just pull Little Xie up, I'll climb up myself." Fan Jin handed the other end of the rope to Jun Xie and she looped it around her hips, allowing Qiao Chu to pull her up into the branches. Fan Jin imitated his companions and leapt up leaping through the branches to go up into the upper reaches of the trees.

As they laid down among the higher branches well concealed from sight, everyone quietened down. The moonlight shone through the thick canopies of leaves, and the tiny rays that fell through shone on the companions, looking as if the stars had descended upon their bodies.

"Sigh, I haven't slept like this for a long time. Feels rather nostalgic." Qiao Chu was reminded of something and he mumbled with a laugh. He turned his head to one side and saw Jun Xie was on the branch just next to his and he was puzzled by what he saw Jun Xie did next.

Jun Wu Xie was not resting but she took out a porcelain bottle from her sleeves. She poured some white powder into her hand and smeared it on the branch she was leaning against. After she was done, she threw the bottle to Qiao Chu and simply said: "Many bugs, apply it."

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Chapter 452:- Battle Spirits Forest (2)

Qiao Chu did as Jun Wu Xie told him and after applying it, the bottle was passed around and everyone followed suit.

Jun Wu Xie lay down on her branch after that and the little black cat lay just above her head, its furry tail hanging over the branch, swishing back and forth.

"Meow."

[This forest is rather similar to that place.]

Jun Wu Xie's eyes narrowed at the memory. She spent the initial ten over years in her past life in that demon's lair which had been situated in the middle of a dense forest just like this, in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by silence.

Refusing to think anymore of the past, Jun Wu Xie slowly closed her eyes.

When the sun first rays broke across the treetops, a scream tore through the air, causing the companions asleep among the higher reaches of the trees to startle awake.

The screaming was coming closer and the leaves on the trees were beginning to rustle.

"Spirit Beast?" Fei Yan sat up suddenly. A earsplitting beastly howl then reverberated in their ears.

Fan Jin was already sitting upright on his branch and his face was creased in a frown. "We are still at the fringes of the forest and there shouldn't be any Spirit Beasts belonging to the higher grade around here."

Just as Fan Jin finished his statement, several ragged figures burst through the vegetation. There were seventeen of them in total and they were dressed in uniforms of the Zephyr Academy. At that moment, they had lost all the semblance of magnificence they had portrayed initially from being an esteemed disciple of the revered Zephyr Academy. Their faces were now covered in dirt and their clothes were all tattered. Several of them had wounds on them and their blood had stained their clothes red. But they did not seem to notice their wounds as all of them ran for their lives.

The youths were already panting heavily from their mad dash and they all hid with their backs plastered against the trees, too tired to run another step further.

The next moment, a large pack of jackals appeared, following the scent of blood. A quick count showed that there were at least more than thirty of them in the pack!

Jackals were Spirit Beasts that belonged to the lowest first grade and they were smaller in size than wolves and did not possess strong attack power. Faced with a jackal, as long as one's ring spirit had awakened, they would be able to manage defeating them without too much difficulty. But jackals were gregarious Spirits Beasts and they always moved together in packs numbering at least three or four and the number can go up into the hundreds in large packs. Each pack was always led by a leader on their hunts for food.

One lone jackal could be easily defeated, but when the numbers in the pack increased, their attack power was multiplied in folds.

The smaller bodies of the jackals meant that they were more nimble of foot. They were innately crafty and they coordinated their attacks when they hunt.

The team that had run here had really been unlucky. They had groped their way blindly through the forest throughout the night and due to the poor visibility, they had lost their way and made a huge detour. They had carelessly stumbled across this pack of jackals when the youths were already exhausted from having trekked such a long distance through treacherous terrain and dense vegetation the whole night. When they found themselves suddenly under the attack of the jackals, many of them panic and ran for their lives. Fortunately for them, they had a few seniors in their group who had better presence of mind, and that had allowed them to run all the way out here.

But those seniors were mostly injured now and the jackals were relentless and still aggressively chasing down their prey.

"Damn it. To think that we would be pushed so hard by a pack of jackals." A senior whose arm had been bitten by jackal said, as blood flowed down from the four deep punctures which he had hastily tied up with cloth he had torn out from his clothes.

"I..... I can't run anymore." One of the youth said, gasping for air, and leaning heavily against a tree.

"Zi Mu! We cannot stop!" A senior who was injured shouted, gritting his teeth against the pain.

Li Zi Mu's mind was completely blank, and his legs were starting to cramp up from the mad dash where he had given everything he had in fear of his life, and his face was filled with utter despair.

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Chapter 453:- Battle Spirits Forest (3)

"I..... I really can't take another step." Li Zi Mu cried, his face mournful. He felt as if his legs were about to break off.

All the other youths were also depleted. The jackals had pursued them relentlessly half the night and they had bashed their way through the dense forest in the darkness, looking for a way out and avoiding the jackals flanking attacks. They were all at the ends of the rope both physically and mentally.

"Growl!" A jackal leapt at Li Zi Mu who was still panting heavily and the blood drained from Li Zi Mu's face and he fell back onto the ground in fright. His hand grabbed up the stone he had felt when he fell and threw it at the leaping jackal.

The jackal was extremely agile and avoided everything Li Zi Mu threw at him, its eyes fixated on the youth he was about to pounce on.

Li Zi Mu let out a shrill scream and was still grabbing whatever he could from the ground to throw when his hand closed over something rounded and cold to the touch, and by reflex he threw it out at the jackal as well!

The quick footed jackal dodged that as well and the unidentified white item thrown fell onto the ground and broke into pieces and a white cloud blew out and dispersed into the wind!

The highly aggressive jackal smelt the scent that had spread from the white cloud and suddenly gave out a sharp shrill whine. It stopped its advance and suddenly turned around to run away, its tail in between its legs. When the scent reached the other jackals, all of them suddenly turned tail and fled whining, quickly disappearing from sight.

One moment, the disciples found themselves about to be devoured by the jackals, and the next moment, they saw the jackals suddenly turn around and flee!

The unexpected turn of events had all the exhausted disciples stunned, and totally flabbergasted, including Li Zi Mu.

"Zi Mu, what was that that you threw out earlier?" The senior who was Li Zi Mu's mentor asked in surprise.

"I..... " Li Zi Mu gaped like a goldfish and his eyes finally fell on the unidentified item he had last thrown out on the ground.

Broken white porcelain pieces lay scattered and a white powdery substance could be seen on the dirt.

Li Zi Mu gulped and looked at all the other disciples staring at him.

Actually, he had been the one who had first attracted the attention of the jackals. He had been lost and had stumbled blindly into their territory. He was the one that had brought them that disaster that had almost killed them all. Even the senior that was his mentor had gotten himself bitten by the jackal to save Li Zi Mu. When the jackals had attacked, all the youths had summoned their ring spirits and they had asked Li Zi Mu to summon his as well. But Li Zi Mu had been too terrified when he saw the large number in the pack and he froze completely, incapable of any action.

As they were running for their lives, Li Zi Mu had trailed the others and dragged down the whole team. If he hadn't been a disciple of the Spirit Healer faculty, the other disciples in the team would have long abandoned him.

Li Zi Mu knew at that moment that the whole team was dissatisfied with him, including his mentor, and he desperately needed to do something about it to improve his standing and image within the team. Afterall, they still had more than six days to go within the forest, which was filled with endless unknown dangers, and he needed the team's protection to get through it.

"That..... That was something my father gave me. It can drive Spirit Beasts away. I did not have the time to take it out earlier. I'm sorry I caused my seniors to get hurt." Li Zi Mu looked at the others guiltily and claimed the life saving treasure he had carelessly picked up to be his own without shame.

The other youths had been rather displeased with Li Zi Mu, and when they heard Li Zi Mu say he had been the one who had driven the jackals off, they decided not to pursue the matter further. They still harboured a little displeasure but the fact remained that Li Zi Mu was afterall a disciple of the Spirit Healer faculty and they gave in in the end.

They did not want to burn all bridges with potential Spirit Healer and the other disciples forced themselves to accept Li Zi Mu's apology.

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Chapter 454:- Consecutive Slaps - First Form (1)

Down below the trees, Li Zi Mu was trying desperately to gain back a little of his reputation. He was completely unaware that his every action was being closely scrutinised by the people high up among the higher reaches of the tall trees.

"Qiao Chu! The bottle that that kid threw out earlier, wasn't it the same bottle that Jun Xie handed to all of us last night?" Fei Yan's sharp eyes saw the broken porcelain pieces on the ground and turned his head to asked Qiao Chu.

Qiao Chu squinted his eyes and said: "After using it last night, I asked Jun Xie if he wanted it back and he told me no. I just slipped it into my clothes and I guessed it must have dropped out while I was sleeping."

"Oh..... I thought the disciples from the main division were always acting all high and mighty before us but it seems that it's not beneath them to be capable of stealing credit when it's not due to them. When did things that belonged to our Little Xie become his?" Fei Yan said with his eyes narrowed, feeling extremely disgruntled that Li Zi Mu had claimed Jun Xie's medicated powder as his own so shamelessly.

Jun Wu Xie was observing Li Zi Mu silently as he claimed all the credit from his fellow teammates.

"Little Xie, you know him?" Seeing the way Jun Xie was staring at Li Zi Mu, Fei Yan's keen eyes seemed to notice something.

Jun Wu Xie did not reply but it was Fan Jin who cleared his throat lightly instead to say: "That boy below us is Li Zi Mu, and he wasn't too friendly to Jun Xie in the academy."

Fan Jin was being very reserved with his choice of words, Li Zi Mu had merely been unfriendly to Jun Xie! ?

It could be said that the reason that Jun Xie had to suffer under all those curses and admonishments from the other disciples so badly in the academy, had all started when Li Zi Mu had cooked up such a story in the dining hall in the beginning.

If Li Zi Mu had just told the truth then, Jun Xie would not have had to be seen to be a despicable and scheming scoundrel.

"Oh?" Fei Yan's eyes narrowed dangerously.

Hua Yao had already stood up on his branch and he turned to look at Jun Xie to ask: "Him?"

Jun Wu Xie was silent a moment before the words came out of her mouth:

"We'll start with him."

Hua Yao and the others suddenly had a glint in their eyes and only Fan Jin was still rather lost, not understanding what Jun Xie intended to do. And before he could open his mouth to ask what was happening, Hua Yao and the others had already leapt off from the branches!

Li Zi Mu was busy trying to get his teammates to warm up to him. The ring spirits belonging to several of his seniors had also sustained injuries and they asked Li Zi Mu to heal them with his Spirit Healing technique.

However, Li Zi Mu repeatedly refused their requests, an expression of reluctance on his face.

"Li Zi Mu! What do you mean by this! ? Our ring spirits are hurt because we had to save you and now that we ask for a little healing for them, you are rejecting us so adamantly! What is the meaning of this! ?" A fiery youth within the team could not hold back his anger and shouted at Li Zi Mu.

Li Zi Mu turned pale and hid his head between his shoulders without saying a word.

He had been with the Spirit Healer faculty for some time and Gu Li Sheng had been extremely caring to him. That had made Li Zi Mu become very conceited initially. But his conceit had not lasted long as he soon found that no matter how hard he tried, he could never grasp the concept of Spirit Healing itself. Even after being in the Spirit Healer faculty for so long, not to mention healing a ring spirit, Li Zi Mu did not even know how to convert his spiritual power into spiritual energy. And due to the excessive attention Gu Li Sheng showered upon him, all the seniors in the Spirit Healer faculty detested him. Li Zi Mu was reduced to only being able to show off in front of the other disciples from the two other faculties who knew nothing of his incompetence.

And anyone who knew what was really happening under all that pretense, completely despised and ignored him.

And now, his teammates were asking him to heal their ring spirits with the Spirit Healing technique, how was he going to do it? If his teammates got to know how useless he really was, they would definitely give him the boot without a moment's hesitation!

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Chapter 455:- Consecutive Slaps - First Form (2)

Li Zi Mu still refused to answer his teammates when right at that moment, several figures fell from above, landing on the ground right before their eyes!

The sudden appearance of the those figures shocked the exhausted youths.

But when they managed to see them clearly in the next moment, their startled hearts calmed back to normal.

Those figures were dressed in uniforms that showed they belonged to the branch division of the Zephyr Academy and when all the others saw clearly that the figures were just the disciples from the inferior branch division, their faces creased into deep frowns immediately.

However, the two other figures that descended right after, greatly surprised the other youths

When Jun Wu Xie and Fan Jin landed on the ground, Li Zi Mu who had been sitting on the ground suddenly jumped up. He surveyed Jun Xie's clean and spotless clothes and when he saw Fan Jin standing protectively next to Jun Xie, an inexplicable surge of jealousy came upon him.

He felt that he was obviously the one that really deserved protection and why would the last Spirit Tournament's fourth ranked Fan Jin protect Jun Xie so much?

Before this, Li Zi Mu had not felt this way before. But he and his team were chased by a huge pack of jackals throughout the night and many of them were covered in wounds, and he had to still swallow his pride and resort to sucking up to his teammates after all this. And what about Jun Xie? He was still safe and sound under Fan Jin's protection without having suffered a single scratch, and his clothes had not even been creased!

If right from the beginning, Jun Xie had not been here, there wouldn't have been the farce about the stealing of the position at the Spirit Healing faculty and Fan Jin might just have taken him under his wing instead!

And if Fan Jin was his mentor, he would be safe from any dangers within the Battle Spirits Forest! When he saw Jun Xie and the several other disciples from the branch division with Fan Jin all looking well rested and still clean, he suddenly felt insanely jealous.

Those thoughts filled Li Zi Mu's mind completely and his eyes that were staring at Jun Xie suddenly became vicious.

"Senior Fan! This is my first time here at the Battle Spirits Forest and am extremely unfamiliar with the surroundings. Can I follow and walk with you from here on? I might not have strong spiritual powers but my ring spirit and Spirit Healing technique would be a great help to you. Would you allow me to tag along with you?" Li Zi Mu had decided he wanted to cling on to the highly skilled Fan Jin and he could not care any less that he was saying all this before his current teammates. He strongly believed that if he hung around Fan Jin long enough, Fan Jin would undoubtedly realise that a Spirit Healer faculty disciple like him was better than Jun Xie in every way!

After Li Zi Mu said that, Fan Jin did not react. However, the senior who mentored Li Zi Mu suddenly found his rage rise!

"Li Zi Mu! You are such a despicable and ungrateful brat!" He had almost been maimed trying to save Li Zi Mu but Li Zi Mu had cleanly forgotten what he had done for him the moment Fan Jin had appeared. He had never met anyone more self centered than Li Zi Mu!

Li Zi Mu gritted his teeth and did not even turn back to face his mentor but continued to look pleadingly at Fan Jin.

Fan Jin stared at Li Zi Mu with a deep frown on his face and his expression was one of utter disgust. The kind of people he had always hated to the core were ungrateful scoundrels just like this.

Fan Jin had acutely noticed after the attack from the pack of jackals, the whole team was looking to be in bad shape, all bruised and battered and their clothes all tattered and torn. But Li Zi Mu on the other hand, did not have a scratch on him compared to the bloody wounds seen on his teammates. It was fairly obvious that the team had been looking out for his safety and Li Zi Mu had so indifferently turned around and asked to switch teams..... How big of a jerk was he?!

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Chapter 456:- Consecutive Slaps - First Form (3)

Before Fan Jin could say a word, Jun Wu Xie suddenly said: "Bring him along."

Jun Xie's sudden words stunned everyone into silence.

Fan Jin could not believe his ears. Did Jun Xie just said to bring Li Zi Mu along? The same scoundrel, Li Zi Mu, who had caused Jun Xie's days in the Zephyr Academy to become hell and Jun Xie was agreeing for him to join up with them ! ?

Li Zi Mu was just as shocked as he looked at Jun Xie. He had guessed that Fan Jin would accept him and Jun Xie would definitely object. Never would he have expected that Jun Xie would be the first one to agree!

Even the other youths in Li Zi Mu's team were flabbergasted as they stared at Jun Xie in incredulity.

They knew very well the "grudges" between Jun Xie and Li Zi Mu. Jun Xie had resorted to hiding himself within the bamboo grove and not come out for a long time and Li Zi Mu had not stopped trying to gain sympathy borrowing on the prior incident with Jun Xie. They knew those two people were bitter enemies.

And Jun Xie was asking Fan Jin to accept Li Zi Mu just like that?

The other youths were deeply puzzled and confused.

Jun Wu Xie shot Fan Jin a glance and the rejection that had been on the tip of his tongue was hastily swallowed. Fan Jin recomposed himself and said to Li Zi Mu instead: "You can come with me, but you better pull your socks up! Or I will throw you to feed the Spirit Beasts!" Fan Jin was most unwilling to take in that ungrateful jerk but he could not stand up to the cold glance that Jun Xie gave him, and he had finally succumbed.

Li Zi Mu smiled happily at that moment and thanked Fan Jin profusely, and he totally ignored Jun Xie who had been the first one to say he could stay.

Jun Wu Xie only lowered her eyes and did not say a word.

The other youths who had been "betrayed" by Li Zi Mu were going to leave in rage but Jun Wu Xie suddenly spoke and threw a few medicine bottles to them.

"Treat your wounds." Jun Wu Xie said without emotion.

The youths caught the bottles and looked at Jun Xie in confusion. They could not comprehend why Jun Xie would do that as they knew they had been party to cursing Jun Xie behind his back. And now that they were abandoned by one of their own, it was Jun Xie whom they had cursed at so vehemently that had extended his hand to help.....

"Li Zi Mu is not a simple guy, you..... watch your back." The senior who had mentored Li Zi Mu gripped the medicine in his hand and stared at Jun Xie a moment to offer his friendly warning before turning to leave with his remaining teammates.

And that short interaction with Jun Wu Xie had planted a subtle seed in the hearts of all those youths.

"The wise bends according to changing circumstances, Senior Fan. You are so highly skilled and I thought of learning from the birds, where they find a stronger branch to perch from." Li Zi Mu ignored the words of his former teammates completely and was only focused on sticking himself close to Fan Jin's side.

Fan Jin's expression got darker and darker and he still could not understand what Jun Xie really wanted to do.

"Sigh, what a dumb block." A voice filled with sarcasm sounded suddenly with a laugh.

Li Zi Mu turned his head to look.

Fei Yan was smiling as he looked at Li Zi Mu with pity.

Li Zi Mu frowned. A disciple from the branch division dared to act so arrogantly before him !?

"Qiao Chu, Brother Hua." After making sure that the other youths had completely left, Jun Wu Xie tilted her head and said to Hua Yao and Qiao Chu.

Hua Yao's mouth curled sinisterly at the corners and Qiao Chu bumped his fists together and replied together: "Understood!"

Fan Jin was still trying to decipher what Jun Xie's real intentions were when a pitiful scream sounded right beside him!

Li Zi Mu had been trying very hard to impress him and was standing by his side just a moment ago when in a blink, he saw that Hua Yao and Qiao Chu had both grabbed Li Zi Mu by a shoulder each and were holding him pressed down against the tree just behind him.

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Chapter 457:- Consecutive Slaps - First Form (4)

Li Zi Mu found himself suddenly grabbed by two others and slammed hard against a tree. He felt as if his spine had almost snapped from the impact upon the sharp jagged tree trunk and he suddenly felt nauseated.

"ARRGGHH! What are you doing?! Let me go! I'll have you know I'm a disciple of the Spirit Healer faculty! How dare you treat me with such disrespect !? When we get back to the academy, I'll teach you pieces of trash some manners !" Li Zi Mu's eyes were wide open. He stared in disbelief at the sudden attack from Hua Yao and Qiao Chu.

The sudden assault left Fan Jin shocked and he stood rooted to the ground. He turned reflexively to look at Jun Xie, his eyes filled with horror and unease.

"If you cannot bear to watch, you can go somewhere else first." Jun Wu Xie looked at Fan Jin a moment and she turned to walk towards Li Zi Mu.

Fan Jin felt his heart skipped a beat. Something in his heart was telling him that those words Jun Xie had said before entering the Battle Spirits Forest had not been a joke at all!

And he was about to go fulfil the prophecy of those very words!

"Little Xie!" Fan Jin subconsciously grabbed Jun Xie's arm, looking at him in terror.

However, when he saw Jun Xie's unnaturally chilly eyes looking back at him, he found his grip loosening involuntarily.

On the other side, Li Zi Mu was screaming incessantly and Fei Yan ambled over casually, raised his hand, and slapped Li Zi Mu across the face a few times.

"What are you screaming for? The result is still death, save your energy."

Li Zi Mu was dizzy from the slaps, and the handprints were red on his face. He trembled as he looked at Fei Yan to ask: "What..... what are you going to..... to do....."

Fei Yan shrugged and took a step back, to allow Jun Xie enough space to stand right before Li Zi Mu.

At the moment Li Zi Mu's eyes fell upon Jun Xie, both his legs crumbled. The pair of eyes staring at him sent chills up his spine with its undisguised murderous intent. Even a fool would be able to tell that Jun Xie had every intention to kill him.

"Jun..... Jun Xie..... wha..... What do you want....." Li Zi Mu was sweating profusely, he found it difficult to breathe under the gaze of those chillingly frosty eyes.

"I stole your spot right?" Jun Wu Xie asked, her eyebrow raised.

Li Zi Mu shook his head vigorously. "No..... no..... Master had explained it all to me..... I did not mean it and I was wrong..... It has nothing to do with you....."

"But that was not what you were telling everybody else." Jun Wu Xie said, her head tilted as if in query, as she stared at Li Zi Mu's face, completely drained of colour.

Li Zi Mu panicked. He had spread those malicious rumours to attract more attention to himself. But if he had known that he would end up in Jun Xie's hands like this, he would never have spoken a single word against him!

"I am sorry, I am really sorry..... I beg you to spare me, I promise that I will never spout such nonsense ever again! I will clear everything up when we get back. I had lied, and you are completely innocent! I guarantee it! I will tell them everything! I will apologise! I am sorry!" Li Zi Mu was pleading with tears and mucus running down his face. He prayed that Fan Jin would save him but Fan Jin just stood on one side, unmoving, his head lowered and silent, having no intention of interfering.

And these disciples from the branch division, were obviously on the same side as Jun Xie, or they wouldn't have grabbed him so suddenly, with just a single command from Jun Xie.

"I beg you, let me go....."

Jun Wu Xie looked on indifferently as Li Zi Mu pleaded and begged, and she could not find it within herself to give him any sympathy.

"If you let me go, I..... I will obey your every word henceforth. I am a disciple of the Spirit Healer faculty and I know Spirit Healing. I will serve under you ....." Li Zi Mu brought up the Spirit Healer faculty once again, in an attempt to save his own life.

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Chapter 458:- Consecutive Slaps - First Form (5)

"Master gives me a lot of attention. I..... I will plead with him to allow you to be admitted into the Spirit Healer faculty..how about you let me go now?" Li Zi Mu was trembling visibly from fright.

Jun Wu Xie's eyebrow arched.

"You will plead with him?"

Li Zi Mu thought that there was still room for negotiation when Jun Wu Xie said those words and he said hurriedly: "I'll plead with him! Master dotes on me the most! If I ask him, he is sure to agree!"

Jun Wu Xie paid Li Zi Mu no attention and turned to Qiao Chu. "Summon the Yin Yang Bear."

Qiao Chu was shocked. His Yin Yang Bear had not fully recovered from its injuries and was still very weak. He did not know what Jun Xie intended to do but he did as told and summoned the Yin Yang Bear.

When the furry Yin Yang Bear was summoned, it looked rather dispirited. Its enormous body leaned heavily onto the vegetation on its side, crushing several large bushes under its huge form.

"Grr....." It felt someone approach and the Yin Yang Bear raised its head wearily. When it saw and recognized that it was the little youth who loved to rub himself on its stomach, it then closed its eyes and went back to its slumber.

Jun Wu Xie raised her hand and a faint glow covered her palm. She put her hand gently over the Yin Yang Bear's head and the soft glow slowly spread itself over the Yin Yang Bear's entire body till it completely enveloped the huge form.

Qiao Chu looked at Jun Xie curiously as he did not know what was going on. But Li Zi Mu's eyes were bulging, his face in total disbelief as he stared at the scene before his eyes.

He could not count the number of times he had seen this before. Every time that Gu Li Sheng had instructed him on the Spirit Healing Technique, he would always demonstrate it on a ring spirit. And he could remember everything clearly after the countless times he had seen it. And the scene before his eyes was exactly the same!

"Spirit Healing technique..... Spirit Healing..... You know the Spirit Healing technique..... How..... how can this be....." Li ZI Mu's face turned completely white. He might not know how to execute the Spirit Healing technique, but he could at least recognise it.

Jun Xie was just a disciple who had been driven out of the Spirit Healer faculty on the first day! He had been in the faculty barely hours, how could he possibly have learnt the Spirit Healing technique!?

Gu Li Sheng had said it before. For disciples like them who at most had just been introduced to the Spirit Healing technique for a few years, would only be able to lend healing to ring spirits belonging to the third grade and below. If the ring spirit belonged to a grade higher than that, the spiritual power within their bodies would not be able to sustain the amount of consumption required to heal those ring spirits.

Li Zi Mu did not know exactly what grade the massive black and white bear before his eyes belonged to, but he had distinctly felt, at the moment the Yin Yang Bear had appeared, the ring spirit within his body whine and whimper in terror.

For the Yin Yang Bear to have made his fifth grade ring spirit cower in fright, the Yin Yang Bear must belong to a grade that was higher.

And Jun Xie was able to heal a ring spirit beyond the fifth grade so effortlessly here. That level of skill, was way beyond what useless trash like Li Zi Mu could ever dream of, and not even for the top disciple in the Spirit Healer faculty!

"Impossible..... It's impossible..... How could you know the Spirit Healing technique..... It is just not possible....." Li Zi Mu's already white face was turning green with shock. And an unshakable feeling of doom was creeping slowly into his heart.

If Jun Xie truly knew the Spirit Healing technique, the rumours he had spread about Jun Xie earlier would make him the biggest joke!

The Yin Yang Bear was gradually showing visible signs of recovery and was feeling stronger. It slowly began to sit up, straight and towering. Jun Wu Xie retracted her hand and turned to look at Li Zi Mu, whose face was completely drained of blood. She curled up the corners of her mouth and asked softly: "You think I need you?"

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Chapter 459:- Consecutive Slaps - First Form (6)

Li Zi Mu's teeth started chattering under Jun Wu Xie's frosty gaze.

'Jun Xie yearned to learn the Spirit Healing technique? He was such a joke!'

Li Zi Mu finally realised it now. The words he had said when he had pleaded to be spared. Those words sounded so funny now. With the skills Jun Xie had displayed with Spirit Healing here, it was not inferior to Gu Li Sheng's. And with Jun Xie possessing such skills, Jun Xie did not need him to plead with Gu Li Sheng at all.

All his strength left Li Zi Mu then. He hung limply, only held up by Hua Yao and Qiao Chu on two sides, and his eyes were filled with dejection.

He had given everything he had, in pursuit of what he wanted but it turned out Jun Xie had it in him all this time. He found himself a joke when the very person he had tried to destroy with whatever means possible, and it turned out Jun Xie was so many times stronger than he was. Why had he been so obsessed with being in the Spirit Healer faculty? He had gotten himself admitted, and so what? He was still a useless piece of trash that had absolutely no idea how to use the Spirit Healing technique!

All those flattering and fawning voices sounded in his head at that moment. Those very same voices that had made Li Zi Mu so pleased with himself in self conceit, now made him hang his head in shame.

The skill that Jun Xie had shown in his Spirit Healing had felt like a slap across his face, smashing Li Zi Mu's false pride to pieces.

He had not learnt anything, and it had been purely because that he was accepted into the Spirit Healer faculty that everyone else had put him high up on a pedestal. Even under Gu Li Sheng's meticulous teachings and instructions, he had still amounted to nothing.

While Jun Xie who had already possessed such extraordinary skill in Spirit Healing, was subjected to suffer under everyone's wrath just because of a misunderstanding during his enrollment into the academy.

Li Zi Mu had thought he was better than Jun Xie in every single way, but the exact opposite had instead been true. While he had been cluelessly absorbed in his own conceit, Jun Xie must have seen him as the biggest joke alive.

Jun Wu Xie walked slowly towards Li Zi Mu, and LI Zi Mu could not help but shiver like a leaf in the wind, while his face was drained of colour, and his eyes stared widened, unable to take his eyes off Jun Xie.

"Don't..... don't...... come here....." Li Zi Mu's voice trembled and he felt the terror overwhelm him completely. He suddenly turned his head and looked in Fan Jin's direction and shouted: "Senior Fan! Save me! Jun Xie wants to kill me! He is going to kill me! Arrrgghhh! I am a disciple of the Spirit Healer faculty! If I am to die, my Master was not let the matter rest easy!"

The murderous intent in Jun Wu Xie's eyes terrified him and Li Zi Mu only had Fan Jin to plead to.

Fan Jin's brow furrowed and he raised his head to look at Li Zi Mu.

"In actual fact, Gu Li Sheng had chosen Jun Xie right from the start. And due to some reasons, Jun Xie cannot be seen to be within the Spirit Healer faculty. You were just someone Gu Li Sheng randomly picked to be used as a cover for his initial words. If you had not spread such malicious rumours about Jun Xie, you would have been able to remain with the Spirit Healer faculty and none of this would have happened. You should not have intentionally caused such harm to others, just to justify your own vanity."

Fan Jin would have pitied Li Zi Mu, but when he thought of all that Li Zi Mu had done, he suddenly could not find it within himself to spare Li Zi Mu any sympathy.

Jun Xie might have a cold personality, but he had a mind of his own and was not easily swayed. He was fiercely independant, of both mind and body.

If the same thing had happened to other disciples, they most probably would have left the Zephyr Academy.

And by leaving the Zephyr Academy, they would have killed their own chance for success. When Li Zi Mu had so maliciously spread those rumours throughout the academy, had he ever thought he was going to ruin a person's future?

A rumour repeated often enough was seen as fact, and countless people have died under the toxicity of a mere rumour!

"Wh..... What....." Li Zi Mu was at a total loss for words. He would never have ever thought, that the truth of the matter would be anything like this!

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Chapter 460:- Consecutive Slaps - First Form (7)

"You finally understand, it was actually Jun Xie who gave you that rare chance, you did not have what they wanted at the Spirit Healer faculty." Fan Jin looked at Li Zi Mu, his face forlorn and depressed.

Li Zi Mu's mouth just gaped open, unable to say a word.

He was admitted into the Spirit Healer faculty because of Jun Xie, and he had still told such slanderous lies about him.....

"Just to let you know, the bottle that you threw at the jackals earlier, belonged to Little Xie as well." Qiao Chu said with a smile, unable to resist taking another jibe at the despondent figure before him.

Li Zi Mu cowered lower.

"Stepping upon others to elevate your own status, this scoundrel seems really good at it." Fei Yan said, giving a sideways glare at Li Zi Mu, who was so terrified that he was about to pee in his pants.

"I'm sorry..... I really am..... I realise my mistake..... I beg you..... Don't kill me..... I will do whatever you tell me....." His pride and ego had been stripped and trampled, Li Zi Mu only felt terror like never before, every single pore on him screamed in terror.

However.....

Jun Wu Xie was not about to accept his apology, she stared at Li Zi Mu, as she would a dead person.

"Summon your ring spirit." Jun Wu Xie said.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry....." Li Zi Mu was ranting subconsciously.

Fei Yan was highly irked by his ramblings and delivered a heavy punch onto his stomach!

"Oof!"

A mouthful of blood gushed out from Li Zi Mu's mouth immediately! The blood was mixed with some unidentifiable substance from within Li Zi Mu's body.

Qiao Chu gulped loudly. Fei Yan had possessed extraordinary strength from a very young age. That strike had only been hardly a third of Fei Yan's full strength and Li Zi Mu was already in such a bad shape.

"Stop, don't hit me..... I'll summon it, I'll summon it....." That one strike had made him sustained heavy injuries. Li Zi Mu was crying in pain as he summoned his ring spirit in the next moment.

Li Zi Mu might be as useless as trash, but his ring spirit was of a rather good grade.

A silvery white wolf ring spirit appeared before their eyes. At the same moment the Silver Wolf appeared, Li Zi Mu's eyes suddenly turned vicious. The Silver Wolf leapt quick as lightning at Jun Wu Xie, its huge jaws wide open, aimed straight at Jun Wu Xie's throat!

And with a sudden white flash, pure white light exploded from Jun Wu Xie's hand. The white flash of light leapt to meet the leaping silver wolf head on!

"Hooowl ! !" The Silver Wolf suddenly howled pitifully.

A slightly pink cheeked youth had appeared suddenly. He cut a dashingly handsome figure and his pure white robes billowed. He held a wine jar in one hand and the other was holding the silver wolf up in mid air, grabbing it by its neck. The pair of beautiful eyes were half closed in drunkenness and his face was one that showed utter contempt.

"Tsk, I was wondering..... Just a fifth grade silver wolf and you dare to even think of striking my Mistress!? You must really hate living, don't you ?" Drunk Lotus smirked and his half closed eyes flashed with chilling murder. He closed his grip on the Silver Wolf's neck and the Silver Wolf struggled violently in vain, and not a sound could even come out through its constricted throat.

The white robed youth who had suddenly appeared made Li Zi Mu's face pale with shock once again. He had placed his last bet on his silver wolf and he did not expect that with his fifth grade silver wolf coupled with the element of surprise would be so easily stopped by the youth, and with one hand yet!

His last hope completely dashed, Li Zi Mu stared at Drunk Lotus in despair, his eyes glazed.

"Give up?" Jun Wu Xie raised her head and stared at Li Zi Mu.

"I..... I..... I'm sorry..... I won't dare do it again....." His silver wolf was still gripped in Drunk Lotus' hand and Li Zi Mu could only see doom before him.

"Little Black." Jun Wu Xie called out coldly.

"Kill him."

Just as Jun Wu Xie finished her statement, the little black cat upon her shoulders jumped off and morphed into its massive black beast form, and leapt straight at the suddenly screaming Li Zi Mu!

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