Genius Doctor: Black Belly Miss

Chapter 1541 - 1560

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Chapter 1541:- Waning Moon Chambers (1)

Lin Hao Yu held it in within, not daring to say anything else, but disapproval was written all over his face.

"You can be stupid on your own, but do not drag me down with you." Gu Xin Yan said in a highly displeased tone as she turned to leave, but her heart was thinking in another way. Jun Wu's chilly demeanor had indeed made her feel somewhat uncomfortable but though Jun Wu treated her like that, he was the same with everyone else. In fact, the only person throughout the entire Cloudy Brook Academy who was able to exchange a few words with Jun Wu was only her alone and that had made her feel slightly better about it.

And now that Jun Wu was going to the Waning Moon Chambers, it had made Gu Xin Yan see a glimmer of hope.

What the Waning Moon Chambers was like, she did not know. But if Jun Wu was to suffer any injustice at the Waning Moon Chambers, she would be able to make use of that opportunity to comfort him a little.

That was what Gu Xin Yan was thinking in her mind as she left.

Immediately after Jun Wu Xie received the news from Jun Wu Xie, she just took a little time to make a few preparations before she set forth towards the Waning Moon Chambers.

The Waning Moon Chambers was at the east wing of the Cloudy Moon Academy. That area was not a place for the academy's disciples to practice their cultivation but was not far from the library and treasure vault. When Jun Wu Xie walked out from the area where the lofts were located, she passed quite a number of youths gathered together in groups along the way. Their faces were filled with excited smiles, seemingly looking like they were just returning from their cultivation and were highly delighted, feeling endlessly excited with the future they saw here in this new academy.

The youths were chatting away merrily and the moment they saw Jun Wu Xie, they suddenly became more restrained, their eyes unconsciously floating over to look at the figure of Jun Wu Xie.

Among this batch of disciples, Jun Wu Xie was not considered to possess the strongest spirit powers, nor was she thought to own a powerful Ring Spirit, but she had still become the one that attracted the most attention. While everyone had all grouped up together in twos and threes, she was always alone. And that lone single figure had only made those youths who were jealous and envious of her to become more bothered by her.

The youths watched Jun Wu Xie walking past before their eyes, their faces contorted in expressions of disapproval.

"I had been thinking how much longer was she going to remain hiding in her room or what she not intending to come out of there anymore." A disciple said with his face showing a smile but there was no mirth.

"How pitiful. I had heard that all the rest of the people from the Innate Gift faculty had all gone to report much earlier but no one seems to be care a whim about him, and he had been left to shrivel and wither inside her room without anyone bothering about him."

"Tsk, he's really that pitiful? Isn't it said that she received invitations from all Twelve Palaces? I think that's all he is. Here in the Cloudy Brook Academy, nobody even asks about him at all and he thought he's really all that. What a joke."

The youths grumbled a little more before they went back to discussing what they had been talking about before.

Jun Wu Xie had already developed an ability to block out such sounds and she did not even pay the slightest attention to what they were all yapping about.

After walking for awhile, Jun Wu Xie finally found the Waning Moon Chambers. Standing before the doors, she saw the three characters that read "Waning Moon Chambers" hanging up upon the loft building and she paused a moment before she walked up to the door, her hand raised and prepared to knock.

She had just come to stand outside the doors when she detected the highly intoxicating fragrance of wine and that fragrance seemed to be coming out from behind the door.

Disciples were prohibited from drinking within the Cloudy Brook Academy and even teachers could not drink as they wished. It was high noon and right in the middle of the day, at such a time, why would the fragrance of wine even be present?

Jun Wu Xie was still a little puzzled in her heart but she did not tarry for too long before she went ahead to knock on the tightly shut door.

It was completely silent behind the door and not the slightest sound could be heard. Jun Wu Xie waited for a while but the door did not open and she knocked again.

The crisp and clear sound of the knocking upon the door rang out within the silence, sounding highly jarring among that largely empty area in the Cloudy Brook Academy.

There was still no sound coming from inside the Waning Moon Chambers. There wasn't the slightest trace of impatience on Jun Wu Xie's face and she paused only for a moment before she continued to knock, rhythmically, neither too hurried nor slacking as she knocked.

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Chapter 1542:- Waning Moon Chambers (2)

After waiting for about half an hour's time and Jun Wu Xie was just about to knock upon the door again, she finally heard some movement from inside and Jun Wu Xie put her hand down to wait.

'Creak.'

The tightly locked door was then opened slowly as a strong wave of the wine's fragrance rushed straight out from inside.

"Burp!" inside the room, sat a lightly clad and highly gorgeous woman who was leaning upon the door, her ravishing face tinged with a pink flush, her half narrowed beautiful eyes staring at Jun Wu Xie standing in front of the door.

That woman looked like she was about twenty eight or twenty nine years old, possessing not the kind of innocent beauty of a young girl but more like the seductive allure of a mature woman, but without making people feel she was unrefined in any way. Her pair of long endless legs were covered by a skirt and the hand that was resting against the door held an elaborately decorated wine jar.

"Kid, have you got the wrong place?" The gorgeous beauty asked Jun Wu Xie with her brows creased up together, the thick scent of wine assaulting Jun Wu Xie from the front when the woman opened her mouth to speak.

When Jun Wu Xie breathed in the wine soaked fumes, she almost felt like she was becoming drunk.

"Teacher Tian Ze told me to come." Jun Wu Xie said, trying her best to disregard the thick fragrance of wine.

"Har? Tian Ze?" The woman's face became highly puzzled as she gazed at Jun Wu Xie from head to toe. "What did he ask you to come here for?"

"Cultivation." Jun Wu Xie replied.

"....." The woman's eyes widened slightly and then looked at Jun Wu Xie from top to bottom again. "He asked you to come here to cultivate? Are you sure you heard him right?"

Jun Wu Xie nodded her head.

The woman looked highly impatient as she swung the wine jar in her hand and grumbled in irritation: "Has Tian Ze brain been squashed by the door? He actually wants me to guide a disciple..... Is he a moron? Damn it..... This woman here doesn't feel like babysitting a snot nosed kid at all."

The woman continued to grumble looking highly irritated, completely not caring that her words which were filled with such utter disdain was falling right into Jun Wu Xie's ears.

Jun Wu Xie continued to remain standing there quietly, compared to the woman's bewilderment, Jun Wu Xie's surprise was not that slight either.

[This person was going to be her teacher from now onwards?]

Looking at the state the woman was in, Jun Wu Xie was feeling like she had met the female version of Drunk Lotus.

The woman struggled for a while before she finally said highly vexed: "Alright kid, come on in." The woman then opened up her stride and walked right inside.

Jun Wu Xie followed her inside. The entire room was filled with the dense and thick fragrance of wine and upon a shelf that lined one wall on the first level, it was filled with all kinds of wine jars and urns, rows upon rows of them, and there was a highly astounding number of them.

The woman did not bother with Jun Wu Xie and just walked on her own towards a soft plush lounge to lie herself down. She propped her head up with one arm and one of her long legs was then carelessly placed to step upon the lounge. With that action highly laid back action, her skirt then slid upwards to highly expose that long fair leg of hers. She did not seem to notice it at all as she lifted up the wine jar and took several large gulps down her throat. She downed that one jar in one breath and she then tossed the empty wine jar at Jun Wu Xie's feet.

""Fill it up." The woman said lazily.

Jun Wu Xie stared at the highly drunk woman and then stared at the wine jar before she bent her back to pick it up without a word. The woman lifted a finger to point at the jars of wine upon the shelf and Jun Wu Xie went walking over there. She poured more wine into the jar and then handed it over to the woman.

Jun Wu Xie then retreated to the side self consciously and the woman did not bother with her as she continued to drink.

The two people in the room then fell silent under that strange and bewildering situation.

Till she finished that next jar of wine, the woman then continued to send Jun Wu Xie to fetch her more. After having made the trip three or five times, the woman finally paused and with the wine jar dangling from her hand, the half narrowed eyes turned to look at Jun Wu Xie who had carried out the thankless tasks given to her without a word of complaint and still maintained a unwavering demeanor.

"Kid, what's your name?" The woman asked.

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Chapter 1543:- Waning Moon Chambers (3)

"Kid, what's your name?" The woman asked.

"Jun Wu." Jun Wu Xie said.

"Jun Wu....." The woman rubbed at her chin and sat up upon the lounge to take another long pull of the wine. "You were just admitted into here this year?" The woman asked with her face tinged with tipsiness.

"Yes."

"Which category?"

"Innate Gift category."

The woman's mouth curled up and her gaze turned to the side. "Mother's eggs, why would they dump a little runt from the Innate Gift to me for? They must have water in their brains. This woman here isn't even from one of those unique races.

Jun Wu Xie was calm as she listened to the woman "grumbles" that were not spoken softly at all.

"Which race are you from? Bone Shifters? Witch Doctor? Or the Wind Riders?" The woman's face was one of impatience, with the words "This woman doesn't want to take you under my wing at all, would you now get the hell out of here?" almost written clearly on her forehead.

Jun Wu Xie acted like she did not even notice that woman's impatience and just went on to reply: "Spirit Mastery race."

"Har?" The woman was taken aback, the hand holding the wine jar swinging a bit. "Spirit Mastery race? Never heard of it." And she took another gulp of wine.

"Kid, you'd better not deceive me."

"It's the Spirit Mastery race." Jun Wu Xie said calmly. The Cloudy Brook Academy was the third academy she had attended but as a teacher like this woman here, it was Jun Wu Xie's first time seeing someone like that. The teacher that went off script the most whom Jun Wu Xie had seen would be her Master Yan Bu Gui, wine never leaving his mouth as well. But compared to this woman, Yan Bu Gui highly paled in significance.

"Huh? Spirit Mastery race? Alright. Then why don't you tell me what kind of unique characteristics does the Spirit Mastery race possess? If you can't tell me, this woman is gonna throw you out." The woman murmured, spewing out a mouthful of fumes from the wine.

Jun Wu Xie glanced at her and did not say much but just pulled out her Cosmos Sack, thinking to retrieve something from it.

In the Lower Realm, there was no such thing as a Cosmos Sack. Here in the Middle Realm, though the Cosmos Sack was rare, but it was not that rare that it would be surprising to see one, hence, Jun Wu Xie had not thought much about bringing it out.

But at the moment that Jun Wu Xie brought the Cosmos Sack out, the woman whose face had been filled with impatience suddenly froze for a moment as she stared at the Cosmos Sack with its crabapple flower embroidery in Jun Wu Xie's hand and the drunkenness within the woman's eyes immediately disappeared without a trace.

Suddenly, a flash of silver light streaked past before Jun Wu Xie, and the Cosmos Sack she held in her hand disappeared in an instant. By the time Jun Wu Xie lifted her head, the Cosmos Sack was already in the woman's hand.

When did she take it?

Jun Wu Xie was surprised. Recalling that quick flash of silver light earlier, her heart jumped slightly.

Ye Sha had once told her. Above the Purple Spirit, there was the Silver Spirit but Jun Wu Xie had never seen it before. She had always suspected that the Spirit Jade Palace Lord was a Silver Spirit but she had never seen him use his powers. When Jun Wu Xie had just met this drunken woman, she had not been able to determine her spirit powers which just proved that the woman possessed powers higher than hers. But Jun Wu Xie had never thought that this woman would be on the same level as the Lords of the Twelve Palaces, a Silver Spirit!

Jun Wu Xie was filled with astonishment but the woman did not care about how Jun Wu Xie was feeling, only staring at the Cosmos Sack in her hand with her head lowered, her eyes filled with utter shock.

"Kid! Where did you get this Cosmos Sack from! ?" The woman suddenly lifted up her head, the glaze of drunkenness dissipated completely from her beautiful pair of eyes, suddenly replaced by a sharp penetrating gaze, her tone becoming stern.

Jun Wu Xie arched up an eyebrow. That Cosmos Sack had been given to her by Yan Bu Gui. Judging from the reaction of the woman, it was obvious that she recognizes the Cosmos Sack!

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Chapter 1544:- A Teacher Who Loves Wine Like Life (1)

The reason why Yan Bu Gui had left the Middle Realm, was something he had never mentioned before. When Jun Wu Xie had treated Yan Bu Gui, she had discovered that his body had been afflicted with quite a number of internal injuries and it would require quite a bit of time to nurse him back to health. Before she left, she had gotten Mu Chen to look after Yan Bu Gui's condition.

In fact, Yan Bu Gui had not taught Jun Wu Xie all that much but Jun Wu Xie had acknowledged him to be her Master in her heart, and that would not change.

The injuries Yan Bu Gui had suffered had made Jun Wu Xie realize that he must have had faced some difficulties that was beyond his control that made him leave the Middle Realm. Hence, Jun Wu Xie would not mention anything that had to do with Yan Bu Gui to any outsiders.

This woman recognized the Cosmos Sack and she might just know Yan Bu Gui as well.

"I bought that at an auction." Jun Wu Xie replied.

"You bought it at an auction?" The woman's face was filled with shock and disbelief as she flipped the Cosmos Sack this way and that several times, the corners of her mouth then curling up into a cold sneer. "Bought it at an auction... Good! Good! That's just great! Ha ha ha ha!"

She then tossed the Cosmos Sack back to Jun Wu Xie, her mouth still twisted up in a sneer.

"You have truly let me down!"

Jun Wu Xie held the Cosmos Sack in her hands, the woman's words surprising her in her heart. But before she could ascertain this woman's relationship to Yan Bu Gui, she could not reveal a single word about him. That was just being responsible towards Yan Bu Gui's safety.

"Can I continue now?" Jun Wu Xie asked the woman, with a feigned calm.

The woman gulped down another mouthful of wine and then said in a cold voice: "Carry on!"

Jun Wu Xie pulled out a flask of water from the Cosmos Sack and after wetting the paintbrush, she squatted down on the ground to scribble a set of Spirit Reinforcement runes before she summoned the little black cat.

The woman leaned herself back against the lounge, looking highly indifferent and not really noticing what Jun Wu Xie was doing, her mind seemingly somewhere else.

But just as the woman's mind was drifting away, a scorching flame burst up before her eye, the bright glow immediately dragging the woman's attention back!

She saw a little black cat treading upon those raging flames in walk, the balls of fire wrapped around its limbs, but not singeing its fur in the slightest.

The woman whose mind had not really been paying attention suddenly stared with her eyes wide, to look at the amazing sight that had manifested before her eyes.

After a while, the flames around the little black cat's paws dissipated away and it then leapt lightly onto Jun Wu Xie shoulder, to sit down firmly as it swished its tail.

"This is the power of the Spirit Mastery race?" The woman asked, looking in surprise at Jun Wu Xie, the languid sleepiness disappearing completely without a trace as her gaze fixed upon the figure of Jun Wu Xie.

"Yes." Jun Wu Xie nodded.

"Tell me in detail about the abilities of the Spirit Mastery race." The woman said, her face becoming serious.

Jun Wu Xie took the words she told Su Jing Yan back on that day and repeated them to the woman without missing a single word. The woman listened intently and when Jun Wu Xie was finished, the surprise in her eyes still had not faded away.

"Under these Heavens, the Spirit Mastery race really exists....." The woman said as she lowered her head thoughtfully, rubbing at her chin. That pair of beautiful eyes then swung over to Jun Wu Xie once more, tinged with a gently probing flavour.

"I can roughly understand why that moron Tian Ze would send you here."

The woman stood up and came over to Jun Wu Xie. The woman was very tall and standing before Jun Wu Xie, she stood more than half a head taller. With her hand holding the wine jar placed at her hip, she bent her back slightly to bring her eyes level with Jun Wu Xie, the other hand suddenly placed on top of Jun Wu Xie's head.

"Little one, remember this. This woman is called Su Ya, and from today onwards, I am your teacher."

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Chapter 1545:- A Teacher Who Loves Wine Like Life (2)

Su Ya became Jun Wu Xie's teacher. The kind of influence that Jun Wu Xie had on Su Ya was a little hard to put into words but her powers of a Silver Spirit was not something regular people could compare to.

At that moment, Jun Wu Xie believed that the Cloudy Brook Academy was definitely not just an ordinary academy. Su Ya had obviously never guided a disciple before. For someone who held power equivalent to the level of a Palace Lord, a Silver Spirit no less, but had been thrown aside to be left in a place no different from a wine cellar, it could be seen from this how big a heart the Headmaster of the Cloudy Brook Academy must possess.

Jun Wu Xie had thought that after Su Ya accepted her as a disciple, she would surely teach her something. But..... she was wrong.....

After Su Ya said those words, she went right back to her comfy soft lounge and sat herself down, propping a leg up that stepped upon the soft lounge chair to take another two large gulps of wine.

"Now, I am your teacher."

Jun Wu Xie nodded.

"Then, for the first thing that you have to do." The woman said as she looked at Jun Wu Xie, where she then lifted a hand to point at the flight of stairs on the side. "Clean up the second level."

"....." Jun Wu Xie then started to feel that she might have thought too much into it!

Su Ya when compared to a regular teacher..... was completely different.

"Don't just stand there, do you need this woman to send you up there with a kick? Dawdling around like a little sissy..... If it's not done properly, you can jolly well go back to where you came from." Su Ya said with cold derision.

Jun Wu Xie sighed slightly and then silently walked up to the second floor.

No matter how far off the script Su Ya was being, since the Cloudy Brook Academy allocated her here, she would still complete the tasks a disciple was supposed to do, taking as a kind of training before she dealt with the Twelve Palaces.

Jun Wu Xie walked up onto the second level of the loft and she instantly froze at the door.

Everywhere the eye saw, the second level of the loft was complete mess of chaos. Wine jars and urns were piled up messily all over the place, and indistinguishable and unidentifiable substances filled up every corner. Jun Wu Xie even found a section of a chicken bone that had been half chewed upon.....

"....."

Jun Wu Xie who was a little bit of a clean freak was suddenly stunned by the extent of the trash.

In the entire Waning Moon Chambers, there was only Su Ya alone. It could easily be guessed who was the one responsible for creating that mess.

[What kind of a teacher has she gotten herself?]

Jun Wu Xie was speechless as she asked the Heavens.

The pitiful broom was half buried under a pile of unidentifiable substances and Jun Wu Xie stared for quite a long time before she finally drew in a deep breath and pulled out a pair of gloves from her Cosmos Sack, resigned to her fate. After she dug the broom out, she then embarked on her bitter battle with trash.

Su Ya lay upon the soft lounge on the first floor and listened to sound of footsteps coming down from the second level. Her gorgeous face curled up with a smile of unclear intentions and she then began drinking highly leisurely once again.

Jun Wu Xie filled up gunny sack after gunny sack with the trash that had been lying there for an unknown length of time. She then carried them down the steps from the second level and brought them outside the Waning Moon Chambers, one trip after another, tirelessly and silent. Needless to even mention a single word of praise from Su Ya, by the time Jun Wu Xie had slogged through several more trips outside and was on her next trip down, she saw that Su Ya had already fallen asleep upon the comfy lounge while hugging a wine jar tightly. It was made worse by the fact that while she slept, she had an entire fair skinned leg completely exposed, while her comfortable lounge chair directly faced the wide open doors of the Waning Moon Chambers!

Several youths who were coincidentally walking past the Waning Moon Chambers stumbled onto that great view and they immediately stopped in their tracks to stand outside the doors to drool heavily as they stared.

Jun Wu Xie's face was cold as stone as she looked at the highly ravenous and thirsty wolves outside the door. She put down the gunny sacks she held in her hands for a while and pulled out a outer robe from within her Cosmos Sack, to cover it over Su Ya's long leg before those youths staring outside, shielding that colourful sight of spring from prying eyes..

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Chapter 1546:- A Teacher Who Loves Wine Like Life (3)

To clean up the Waning Moon Chambers had taken Jun Wu Xie three entire days and in that period, the sight of her dragging out bags of trash big and small was spotted by quite a number of disciples and many voice raised with endless comments quickly spread among the freshmen disciples.

Jun Wu Xie had from the Battle of Deities till now gone through many twists and turns, rising and falling. The rarity of the Spirit Mastery race had caused her to become a target all the Twelve Palaces fought for and because of that, it had drawn much jealousy from quite a number of youths. But no one had expected that her final choice would finally end up being the Spirit Jade Palace that had fallen into decline.

And after being admitted into the Cloudy Brook Academy, the other disciples had all begun their cultivation training and Jun Wu Xie was seen only dumping rubbish which led the youths who had once envied Jun Wu Xie to secretly laugh and jeer.

"Similarly as mortals but we lead different lives. I had thought what kind of great abilities that kid has but that is all he has amounted to. How could the Spirit Jade Palace even compare to the Twelve Palaces? The people at the Cloudy Brook Academy aren't idiots and who would seriously teach someone from the Spirit Jade Palace?" A group of youths gathered together to chit chat after their cultivation training ended.

"I think it's great, throwing out rubbish and such should be really suitable for him! Haha."

The group of youths then laughed together.

Jun Wu Xie came out from the Waning Moon Chambers and was on her way back to the dorm when she came across that gossipy group of youths. She continued to walk pass calmly but those youths were clearly not about to spare her just like that.

"Hey Jun Wu! My room has not been cleared for several days! Why don't you clean it up for me as well?"

"Ya ya ya! Mine too! Don't worry, I'll pay you for it and not let you do it for nothing."

"I say Jun Wu, why don't you take charge of the rooms of your brothers here and we will guide you with a thing or two outside of our cultivation training time. How good a deal is that? Don't end up when we have all graduated and gone back and you'll still have to carry out all these menial tasks in the Cloudy Brook Academy."

The insulting and sarcastic words were chasing down Jun Wu Xie to nip mercilessly at her like a bunch of rabid dogs. Jun Wu Xie's face was cold as she walked past the youths, not bothering with them at all.

And those youths being greeted by Jun Wu Xie's silence grown bolder and more audacious, from the initial hushed whispers to the blatant insults hurled right before her.

Gu Xin Yan stood in their shadows, seeing Jun Wu Xie pass under the laughing and jeering and her beautiful and enchanting face was tinged with a smile.

Lin Hao Yu followed behind Gu Xin Yan closely, his gaze similarly looking at the departing back of Jun Wu Xie and his heart filled up with glee.

Gu Xin Yan usually treated Jun Wu quite well. The favoured treatment had caused Lin Hao Yu to become insanely jealous and seeing Jun Wu fallen into such a wretched state now, the fact that exhilaration would fill his heart was a matter that did not need to be said. Moreover, with Gu Xin Yan just quietly watching from the side and not showing any signs of stepping forth to help had made Lin Hao Yu very happy.

In the end, Jun Wu had only enjoyed a fleeting moment of glory just based on the rarity of his Spirit Mastery race.

In the Cloudy Brook Academy, the advantage of being from the various unique races had ceased to exist the moment he chose the Spirit Jade Palace. They had begun their real cultivation training and Jun Wu had instead been tasked with menial work by the Cloudy Brook Academy. The disparity in treatment between them had been greatly pulled further apart.

"How pitiful, looks like the Cloudy Brook Academy do not value the Spirit Mastery race all that much. Jun Wu is now not given proper guidance nor is he able to practice cultivation but had instead become a janitor in the Cloudy Brook Academy. I think he will not have a chance of leaving this place till the end of his life." Lin Hao Yu's tone was highly sympathetic but the expression on his face was anything but kind, filled instead with ridicule.

Gu Xin Yan glanced at Lin Hao Yu. Jun Wu's current situation was truly in a bad state, it could even be said to be downright appalling.

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Chapter 1547:- The Plot Begins (1)

All of this, was something that even Gu Xin Yan had not thought of.

Reasonably, it was not important which palace Jun Wu chose as the Cloudy Brook Academy would not change how it treated any disciple because of that. Moreover, Jun Wu's Spirit Mastery race to the entire Middle Realm, was an astounding discovery.

The history of the Cloudy Brook Academy was deep and highly illustrious and they did not look like they were such a shallow academy that would treat their disciples differently based on their identity.

But despite that, Jun Wu still had not gone into any kind of cultivation and even Gu Xin Yan herself had witnessed Jun Wu being made to throw out rubbish at the Waning Moon Chambers.

Towards that, Gu Xin Yan had even gone to ask the seniors a little bit more about that.

The Waning Moon Chambers when described in plain words, was the Cloudy Brook Academy's wine cellar and there was usually only one person overlooking that place without any disciples ever carrying out any cultivation training over there. The Waning Moon Chambers was an oddity that stood out against the nearby highly normal library and treasure vault buildings.

To have a newly admitted disciple arranged into the a wine cellar and always made to just pack and clean up, no matter how one looked at it, it made people feel that something was off. Even if Gu Xin Yan tried her hardest to decipher a deeper meaning behind it, she had not been able to come to any reasonable conclusion, making her feel as if Jun Wu had been abandoned by the Cloudy Brook Academy.

Gu Xin Yan had suddenly become confused, unable to understand why the Cloudy Brook Academy would do that to Jun Wu.

"We'll just observe it for another period of time." Gu Xin Yan said cautiously. She had noticed that though the rumours and unfounded gossip had been many, Jun Wu had not shown any reaction to all of them. This was still not the right time for her to make her move as she needed to wait till Jun Wu had fallen into a quandary before she offers him a helping hand, which would then amplify the kindness she was going to show to Jun Wu.

Seeing that Gu Xin Yan still had not abandoned her intention of winning over Jun Wu, Lin Hao Yu secretly curled up his lips in contempt. He was silent for a moment before a idea suddenly popped into his head.

"Xin Yan, are you thinking to wait till that kid Jun Wu has suffered injustice before you reach out to help him?"

"When else?" Gu Xin Yan said. Having interacted with Jun Wu for a period of time, Jun Wu had always made her feel they were distant. Regardless how hard she tried, they had always remained in a state where they were still close to being strangers. That situation had frustrated Gu Xin Yan and she had been trying to break that stalemate but had not yet succeeded.

"Should I help you?" Lin Hao Yu said with a smile.

Gu Xin Yan lifted an eyebrow. "Do not do anything rash. If Jun Wu discovers it and thinks that our Blood Fiend Palace hold enmity against her, she would definitely not want to become friendly with us."

Lin Hao Yu continued to smile as he replied: "There's no need to be so nervous. I wouldn't really be that dumb. Sometimes, to push someone to the edge with no other way out, one doesn't even need to dirty his own hands. All it needs is just a little push and a prod and others will naturally do it for us."

Gu Xin Yan looked at the confident smile upon Lin Hao Yu's face and she hesitated a moment before she said: "I understand what you are telling me but everyone from all the palaces have already received instructions before they came in here that no one is to provoke Jun Wu. What kind of a ploy could you possibly dream up?"

Lin Hao Yu answered: "Instructions were given. But you have seen it for yourself. People who are displeased with Jun Wu with the Cloudy Brook Academy are many and they are all young and hot blooded youths. There's bound to be a few who would act without thinking it through their minds."

Gu Xin Yan was still a little disagreeable to it but Lin Hao Yu's words had tugged at her heart. Now that the cultivation training for the various faculties had already started, she did not have that much time to carry out her own plans. Afterall, coming into the Cloudy Brook Academy, besides developing talents for the Blood Fiend Palace, she still wanted to raise her own powers as well.

"Do not let Jun Wu find out." Gu Xin Yan finally relented.

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Chapter 1548:- The Plot Begins (2)

Having got Gu Xin Yan's approval, Lin Hao Yu laughed secretly to himself in his heart. He agreed with docility to everything that was said but upon turning his back, he immediately went ahead to carry out the task.

And at that time, Jun Wu Xie did not know that Lin Hao Yu had already set his eye on her. She continued to provide menial labour, tormented under Su Ya's hands.

After the second level was cleaned up, Su Ya led Jun Wu Xie to the basement of the Waning Moon Chambers. The place was filled with fragrant wine that had just fermented not too long ago. The entire basement was closed up tight and Jun Wu Xie had just gone inside when she nearly became drunk from breathing all the thick fumes of wine in there.

But Su Ya did not bother with that and just dumped her in there to watch over the place.

Jun Wu Xie was made to remain down there for the entire day and when she came back from the Waning Moon Chambers everyday, her whole body was covered with that thick smell of wine. Even from far away, the other youths were already able to smell the fragrance of wine on Jun Wu Xie.

Although still young, but to these youths who were trapped within the Cloudy Brook Academy and given nothing but highly simple meals and plain old tea, wine and gourmet food were things far beyond their reach. They had already been feeling depressed with the fare they were given in there and they had to "smell" Jun Wu Xie coming back everyday reeking of a walking vat of wine. That caused the youths who already disliked Jun Wu Xie to secretly harbour greater hatred against the kid.

[Based on what do they have to be put under such rigorous training by the teachers to the point that they were all almost half dead and had to eat food that was so bland they all tasted like they had been cooked with nothing but water but Jun Wu was instead allowed such a leisurely life to enjoy gourmet food with wine?]

At that moment, they all seemed to have conveniently forgotten that they had just been laughing at Jun Wu Xie for having to live so lowly, having been abandoned by the Cloudy Brook Academy and in just a blink, they had grown so highly jealous of Jun Wu Xie's good fortune.

In the beginning, that jealousy had merely been passed around through words from their mouths but with Jun Wu Xie's silence and isolation, the youths began to become more bold with their actions.

One day, when Jun Wu Xie had just returned to the dormitory and was going back to her room to rest, right before her door, was a huge pile of rubbish that blocked her door fully. The rubbish that was already starting to smell rather ripe had completely blocked her way inside where even the keyhole had been stuffed up with some unknown substance.

Jun Wu Xie stood in front of her door and looked at the mess before her door, her face not showing the slightest reaction.

Several youths came out from the adjacent rooms and saw Jun Wu Xie standing before the door without any expression on her face, all of them grinning in utmost glee.

"Sigh, our little janitor is really loving his job so much that he has even brought his work back to the dorm?"

"Since he likes to pick up trash so much, he might as well not return to his room and just sleep upon the trash which will save him a lot of trouble. Anyway, the trash really suits him very well doesn't it?"

"Eww, the stench is really hard to bear. It really stinks."

The several youths all stared at Jun Wu with wicked gazes. The more perplexed and frustrated Jun Wu became, the better their hearts would then feel.

"Some people like to surround themselves with rubbish, but all the rest of us here do not. That's fine, just let that someone sleep here with the pile of rubbish and we can all go ahead and rest in our clean rooms."

After saying that the youths all turned and left, the wide grins on their faces completely undisguised.

Jun Wu Xie stared coldly at the backs of those youths and a chill flashed in her eyes.

Just around the corner, Lin Hao Yu had his arms folded across his chest, as he stared at Jun Wu's icy cold expression and the ends of his mouth then curled up in a sneer. When he saw those youths walking towards him, he immediately retracted the smile on his face and walked out from behind that corner, his demeanor stoic. The tone of his voice was sounding highly righteous as he said: "The few of you had better know where to draw the line! Bullying also has its limits! Jun Wu is such a young kid so how can all of you bully him like this! ?"

"Lin Hao Yu, what has these things got to do with you? Jun Wu is not even from the Blood Fiend Palace so why are you getting so uptight about!?" One of the youths retorted, sounding highly displeased.

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Chapter 1549:- The Plot Begins (3)

"Does it even matter whether he is from our Blood Fiend Palace? I just can't stand seeing all of you bullying someone like this! Did Jun Wu offend any of you? You are all just jealous that Jun Wu got invited by all Twelve Palaces! Who do all of you think you are? You're all just fortunate enough to have been picked by one of the palaces and had gone running to latch on to their thighs like the dogs you all are and you all have become so self absorbed in glee? Who among you have received invitations from all Twelve Palaces? Did you even have another choice? If you can't match up to others, then all of you should not come here to bully someone in this manner. Is that what all of you are capable of?" Lin Hao Yu berated those youths in a righteous tone, his voice loud and clear, drawing out everyone else within the other rooms on that level. Several of the more curious ones stuck their heads out behind their doors and continued to watch the show.

The faces of those youths turned a pale green from anger after hearing Lin Hao Yu's words. Although what Lin Hao Yu said was highly unpleasant to the ears, it hit what they were feeling in their hearts accurately. The reason they had been so nasty to Jun Wu was indeed partly because they were jealous of the kid.

But though the words rang true, it did little to stop the hatred they felt towards Jun Wu, but merely caused the humiliation that they felt from being discovered to turn into rage!

"Lin Hao Yu! You had better clean out that mouth of yours! Who would be jealous of a piece of trash like that! ? So what if he had been invited by all Twelve Palaces! ? Didn't he end up in that damned Spirit Jade Palace? To end up becoming a useless trashy janitor in the Cloudy Brook Academy. The Cloudy Brook Academy doesn't even give a damn about him so why in the hell are you jumping out to play the hero! ?" The youths were so angry their faces were now flushed red, arguing back without backing down in the slightest.

"How do you know that the Cloudy Brook Academy doesn't care about him? It could be that the academy has some special arrangements made for Jun Wu and you really think that the few of you here are even fit to know about the decisions made by the academy? You're comparing yourselves to Jun Wu? With just that puny bit of power that you hold, it's not even good enough to be shown to anyone here! Jun Wu is the Middle Realm's one and only person from the Spirit Mastery race and who are all of you to even compare yourselves to him! ?" Lin Hao Yu sneered with his venomous tongue.

The two parties stood right in the middle of the hallway as they argued, with Lin Hao Yu defending Jun Wu with every word he said, but those words were all highly prickly to the ears and even those youths who were not involved in the incident began to develop traces of displeasure against Jun Wu after hearing Lin Hao Yu's overbearing and arrogant words.

Needless to even mention those who had already disliked Jun Wu from before.

"What are you saying? Being from the Spirit Mastery race makes you exceptional? Belonging to a rare race makes you high and mighty? He chose the trashy Spirit Jade Palace himself and now that we're inside the Cloudy Brook Academy he is latching on to the Blood Fiend Palace's golden thigh! Ptui!"

At that moment, the debate about Jun Wu reached a point where it had become worse than it had ever been before.

Lin Hao Yu's argument had not only not helped change anything for Jun Wu Xie, he had instead put her into a more dangerous predicament.

By the time the arguments ended and Lin Hao Yu and those youths had dispersed, those youths who had been watching the show from the side all subconsciously turned their heads to look at in the direction Jun Wu Xie was at.

Under the noisy squabbling, Jun Wu Xie was instead acting like a person who was uninvolved in their arguing as she just quietly cleaned up the filthy mess outside her door, completely unconcerned with anything else.

But those gazes thrown upon the figure of Jun Wu had at that point grown to become more unfriendly. All those vicious gazes couldn't be anymore clear.

Jun Wu Xie did not bother herself with all those eyes staring at her but merely walked inside silently after she opened the door, blocking out all the admonishments and curses from people out there.

Meanwhile after turning the corner, the face of Lin Hao Yu who had pretended to stomp off in rage suddenly revealed a highly venomous smile.

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Chapter 1550:- The Plot Begins (4)

Young youths were most easily incited into partaking into a mob. They were exuberant and hot blooded, while their ability at differentiating between truth and fiction were usually easily swayed by outside opinions. After that argument between Lin Hao Yu and those youths, Jun Wu Xie's reputation among the freshmen in the Cloudy Brook Academy had become extremely vile.

Everyone secretly despised Jun Wu for thinking so highly of himself, thinking that having received invitations from all Twelve Palaces was something all that great. After having chosen the Spirit Jade Palace, he had still shamelessly clung on to the Blood Fiend Palace's big thigh and he had ended up being disregarded by the academy to become a piece of trash that had been sent to the wine cellar to carry out odd jobs.

Under all those curses, only the youths from the Blood Fiend Palace were arguing in Jun Wu's defence. When everyone else was berating and cursing Jun Wu, the youths of the Blood Fiend Palace would all stand together and take Jun Wu's side to argue vehemently with the others.

But what they were doing had not only not reduced the amount curses Jun Wu suffered, it had instead turned into situation where things were seemingly becoming more intense.

After Gu Xin Yan came to know about the situation, her face showed a wide smile.

What Lin Hao Yu had done this time had made her highly satisfied. It had not only made all the youths from the other palaces stand on a completely opposite side from Jun Wu, it had made the Blood Fiend Palace become the little kid's only ally. This feigned good intentions that actually set Jun Wu up had yielded results beyond what she had expected.

Which led Gu Xin Yan's attitude towards Lin Hao Yu to improve.

Hearing all the abuse being hurled, Qiao Chu and the other companions could do nothing but watch on with their chilly gazes. The Heavens knew just how many times they had almost been unable to hold themselves back and had wanted to jump out to beat all those moronic blabbermouths into a bloody pulp.

[Jun Wu Xie was trash?]

[Their Little Xie was a fourth stage Purple Spirit! Who possesses two plant Ring Spirits and a little black cat spirit who could transform itself!]

[If she was considered trash, all these people would be dregs that were worse than trash!]

However, in order to topple the Twelve Palaces, they could only choose to maintain their silence, grumbling soundlessly in their hearts, to remember every single debt being run up. Till the day that their tasks were finished, they would make these dumb shrimps have a good taste of the vile fruits from the seeds they have planted this day!

[The Twelve Palaces are that great?]

If all these idiots only knew that the Jun Wu Xie they held in such strong contempt had appeared here seeking to obliterate the saintly palaces in their hearts, it was wondered what they would then think.

Towards all the admonishments, Jun Wu Xie herself acted like nothing at happened at all. She merely reported to the Waning Moon Chambers at a fixed time everyday and continued with her bitter experience under Su Ya's hands.

One day, Jun Wu Xie had just gone into the basement when Tian Ze came to the Waning Moon Chambers. Su Ya was lying upon her soft lounge drinking her wine and when she saw Tian Ze come in, she was too lazy to even lift up her eyes, not bothering with him in the least.

"Senior....." Tian Ze said with an accompanying bitter smile, looking straight the Su Ya who was completely ignoring him.

"Don't address this woman here as your Senior. I do not have such a dumb junior!" Su Ya said as she glanced at Tian Ze, her eyes contemptuous.

If anyone was to see that scene there at that moment, their jaws would have immediately dropped onto the floor.

Tian Ze held a very high position within the Cloudy Brook Academy and regular teachers in the academy had to somewhat defer to his position of authourity when they met him. All the disciples were also highly reverent and respectful towards him and who would have thought that Tian Ze who held such a high position in the Cloudy Brook Academy when faced with Su Ya who guarded the wine cellar before him, would instantly turn into a such a deferential lackey. He did not even dare to pull a long face and would only be too glad to smile in here!

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Chapter 1551:- Little Fella's Not Bad (1)

"Senior..... Your choice of words....." Tian Ze had already become used to Su Ya's contemptuous attitude towards him and he scratched at his head as he said a little awkwardly: "I truly do not possess the kind of gift that Senior possesses and I have been stupid from young or how would you be my Senior while I remain your junior."

Su Ya snorted derisively still not satisfied.

Seeing that Su Ya's attitude had improved a little, Tian Ze immediately slid over closer to bring a jar of fine wine he had prepared earlier right before Su Ya.

"This is fine wine that I just brought up the mountain and I'll couldn't even bear to take a single sip. I know that Senior loves wine so I brought it over here for you."

Su Ya cast a quick glance at the wine jar and she then reached a hand out to take it.

"You're at least aware of that much. Speak up! Why have you come to this woman's Waning Moon Chambers for? Hurry up and go if there's nothing. When this woman sees that country bumpkin face of yours, the anger rises inside! Look at you! A big man like you acting like a sissy all the time being so shy and affected, aren't you even embarrassed?"

Tian Ze was crying in his heart. He was usually rather manly and in the Cloudy Brook Academy, he was always a man of his word, someone who was impartial and stalwart. But when in front of Su Ya, his mannerisms grew short by a notch unconsciously.

"I have something! The Lord told me to come."

Su Ya then said: "Why are you calling him the Lord? Don't you know how to address him as Master?"

Tian Ze really felt so much like crying. Having a highly eccentric Master was already hard enough for him and in the end, he also had a Senior that was just so brutal and vicious towards him. A normal man like him had really suffered much abuse in his discipleship under this Master.

"Hadn't Master forbidden me to address him like that within the academy?" Tian Ze answered mournfully.

"Two idiots." Su Ya said in a derisive tone.

Tian Ze disregarded Su Ya's disdain reflexively and began to talk about more serious matters.

"Our elderly Master made me come here to ask and see how the little fella that had been sent here to Senior is doing?"

Upon hearing those words, Su Ya stopped drinking and then sat up upon her soft lounge.

"I had told myself that the one who dumped that little brat here must have been that old fella! Is it that he cannot stand seeing this woman here laze around at all? I had already hidden myself all the way here in the Waning Moon Chambers and he still comes to dump people onto me!"

Tian Ze said highly mournfully: "You can't possibly blame me for that, it was Master's idea and I am just being the messenger. Moreover..... That kid Jun Wu isn't too bad as well, though he's a little wooden and inarticulate but a rather guileless boy. The special characteristics of the Spirit Mastery race that he's from was something other people are unable to guide and instruct him in and the person most familiar with power of the soul and spirit bodies her is only Senior, you as you....." Tian Ze had not even been able to finish his words when Su Ya's icy glare immediately turned upon him and the words he had not said could only be swallowed back down into his stomach helplessly.

Su Ya then turned her eyes back.

Tian Ze then asked very cautiously: "Is Senior dissatisfied with Jun Wu?"

Su Ya immediately snorted. "If it wasn't because the kid was obedient, this woman me would have thrown him right out of here! It wouldn't matter who was the one who sent him here."

When Tian Ze heard that, that means the show would go on!

Although Su Ya expressed high impatience with her words, however, Tian Ze knew that meant that Su Ya had just agreed to teach Jun Wu already. It must be known that Su Ya had not taken in any disciples for many years already and initially she had not even wanted to remain within the Cloudy Brook Academy. If not for their Master's irreversible order that kept here stuck in here, she might very well have disappeared without leaving a trace behind.

Su Ya held extremely high powers and she had her own unique methods in instructing her disciples. Regular disciples were completely beneath her notice and even in the past, the number of people she had been willing to take in had been few. If she was willing to let Jun Wu remain here, that meant that she had already set her sights on Jun Wu and was willing to guide and instruct the kid. That had made Tian Ze finally be able to heave a big sigh of relief.

It could be said that throughout the entire Cloudy Brook Academy, the only person that was more powerful than Su Ya was the Master of the two of them. To be able to make Su Ya accept a disciple was something really rare indeed.

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Chapter 1552:- Little Fella's Not Bad (2)

"Yes yes yes. That little fella Jun Wu isn't bad at all." Tian Ze agreed hurriedly.

When Su Ya mentioned Jun Wu, her tone had sounded a little better. In the beginning, she had not intended to teach the kid anything as she had already lost all inclination towards teaching. Hence, she had deliberately made things difficult for the little fella and had made the kid do quite a number of things he was not supposed to do.

If it had been any other youth, that youth would have lost patience due to arrogance and quit the scene to walk away from it but no matter how unreasonable Su Ya's demands had been, Jun Wu had silently carried out her orders to the letter which went beyond Su Ya's expectations.

This little youth, did not speak much and did not try to butter her up with pretentious flattery, a little idiot that only knew to bury his head down in work.

Su Ya had watched Jun Wu allow himself to be used and abused everyday and her heart that had been sealed in ice for such a long time then slowly started to melt.

"You go back and tell Master that this woman here will take in the little kid. One year later, this woman here will return a peerless prodigy to him! If the little fella does not surpass all the disciples that the entire bunch of blockheads he has as teachers so much that they are left in the dust, this woman will then no longer be called Su Ya!" Su Ya proclaimed confidently, her words bold.

Tian Ze nodded his head vehemently, his heart happy for Jun Wu.

Su Ya's words were highly arrogant but as Su Ya's junior fellow disciple, Tian Ze knew that within the entire Cloudy Brook Academy, only Su Ya alone would be able to bring those insane words to realization.

In one year's time, to let Jun Wu become a prodigy that would completely crush all other disciples in the Cloudy Brook Academy. That was Su Ya's promise!

Su Ya did not lightly commit herself to anything. But as long as she promised it, there was nothing she had failed to achieve before.

"Alright, you get scram now. This woman is feeling the anger start to rise by seeing that soft and weakly face of yours. Scram! If there's nothing, do not come here to take up this woman's space here!" After Su Ya gave Tian Ze his heart calming "medicine", she immediately issued her eviction orders.

Tian Ze did not dare tarry another second longer and scrambled his way out of the place, even closing the door behind him carefully as he left.

Su Ya sat upon the lounge chair and looked at the tightly shut door as she gave out a light sigh. She lowered her head to stare at her own hands. Her face that was tinged with a trace of tipsiness suddenly showed an expression that was not like the usual forlorn look her face usually displayed.

"Damn it, I feel like I have been scammed once again."

In the end, she was still going to do what she had not been willing to do before.

She only hoped that this time, everything would be different.

Down in the basement, Jun Wu Xie was wiping the wine vats. Initially, she had not been used to the strong scent of wine in the wine cellar. The first few days she had smelt too much of the stench, she had felt her head grow rather woozy. But after some time, she had grown used to it and when she breathed in the fragrance of the wine now, she could actually feel her veins and arteries becoming clear and comfortable.

As a genius doctor, Jun Wu Xie was highly sensitive to every change that came over her own body.

She had remained in the wine cellar in the basement for half a month but her veins and arteries had expanded by quite a bit. It was be known that her veins and arteries had already been nurtured by the medicines she had concocted herself which made her much more resilient than an average person. But on top of that resilience, it had increased other aspects which caused Jun Wu Xie to be rather surprised.

Suddenly, the wine cellar's door opened and Su Ya walked down a few steps before she forced himself to look at Jun Wu wiping the large wine vats, a smile coming into her eyes. That smile disappeared very quickly and her face immediately resumed her look of nonchalance.

"Jun Wu." Su Ya opened her mouth to say.

Jun Wu Xie stood up to look towards Su Ya, her eyes questioning.

"Come up." Upon saying that, Su Ya immediately turned to walk out of the wine cellar and Jun Wu Xie followed behind him.

Closing the wine cellar's door, Jun Wu Xie stood right before Su Ya, not knowing how the Queen who loved wine more than her life was going to do to torment her further today.

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Chapter 1553:- Little Fella's Not Bad (3)

Closing the wine cellar's door, Jun Wu Xie stood right before Su Ya, not knowing how the Queen who loved wine more than her life was going to do to torment her further today.

Su Ya looked at Jun Wu Xie, her gaze slowly measuring up the little youth completely from head to toe. After a momentary silence, she finally opened her mouth to say.

"Kneel."

Jun Wu Xie was taken aback.

Su Ya lifted up her eyebrow in an arch. "Acknowledging a Master needs one to undergo the rites by kneeling. Do you even need this woman to teach you that?"

[Rites to acknowledge a Master?]

Jun Wu Xie naturally knew that after going through the rites, Su Ya would then become her Master and not just as a Teacher. That difference in the form of address alone made a world of difference in what their meanings entailed.

[Does that mean that Su Ya was willing to accept her as a disciple under Su Ya's own name?]

"What, you're unwilling to?" Not seeing Jun Wu Xie showing any reaction after some time passed, Su Ya said rather impatiently.

Jun Wu Xie immediately fell to her knees before Su Ya. If it had been someone else, they might have harboured hatred against Su Ya for deliberately making things difficult from them the past few weeks. But Jun Wu Xie had been sharp enough to detect the changes that had come over her meridians which had started to ever since she was made to spend her time in the wine cellar. No matter what kind of motives Su Ya held, Su Ya had truly helped her.

"My Master above me, please accept a bow from your disciple." Jun Wu Xie said formally to perform the rite of acknowledging her Master. Towards people who treated her sincerely with their hearts, Jun Wu Xie never stinged on her respect towards them.

"Recognising me as your Master will require you to serve me tea as a form of acknowledgement but this woman here does not appreciate the taste of that. Just give me that jar of wine on the floor over there." Su Ya said.

Jun Wu Xie stretched her hand out and pulled it over to her, before handing it over to Su Ya.

That was the wine that Tian Ze had sent over and Su Ya had not even had the time to open its seal.

Su Ya accepted the jar and hugging the jar, she took a long good pull of that fragrant wine and wiped the back of her hand across her lips, her face breaking into a wide smile.

"Great!"

It was not known whether that exclamation of approval was for the wine that Tian Ze had brought or for the fact that she had just gotten herself a brand new little disciple.

"Jun Wu. Remember that from now onwards, you are a disciple of mine, of Su Ya's. As my disciple, there is no need for you to mire yourself in the secular views of the world and there's no need to restrict yourself to those highly tedious and overly elaborate norms. There is but only one thing you must remember clearly!"

Jun Wu Xie perked up her ears to listen intently.

"The disciple of Su Ya would never be someone others will be able to bully! When others take advantage of you once, you must repay it to them ten times are least! If you are unable to seek repayment from them, this woman here will make them do it! From now onwards, do not let this woman here see you being bullied and you are the one sitting there to cry your nose red. The only thing you can do in those instances is to beat them up till they cry out for their fathers and mothers. Do you hear me! ?" Su Ya said sternly as she stared at Jun Wu. Her disciple would never ever be bullied by others.

Those that Jun Wu were able to defeat, he would beat them up himself. Those that he was helpless against, this Master of his would come beat them up senseless!

Jun Wu Xie looked at Su Ya, a little stunned with shock. These words, they were the first time someone had said something like this to her.

She had acknowledged two Masters before in her life.

Yan Bu Gui had been extremely good to her. Though his abilities were limited, he had given her everything he could give up for her.

The founding Emperor of the Fire Country. When she had acknowledged him, the man had already fallen for many years but Jun Wu Xie had been indebted to him and she had acknowledged him as her Master in respect.

As for Su Ya, she's Jun Wu Xie's third Master, and the only one that told her, "My disciples cannot be bullied by others. Whoever bullies you and I'll help you claim it all back." as her Master.

Although Jun Wu Xie had a cold personality, she had still been shocked by Su Ya's words.

"Alright. Stand up. You will not regret having acknowledged me as your Master." Su Ya said with a smile.

Seeing that slightly flabbergasted expression on her little disciple's face, Su Ya actually found it rather interesting.

She could still remember when that person had recognized her as his Master, his highly mournful face had really caused her to.....

Su Ya shook her head and turned to Jun Wu Xie to say: "Now, follow me up to the Waning Moon Chambers' third floor. From today onwards, you will henceforth go there to learn about powers of the soul."

The Waning Moon Chamber's third level.

A place Jun Wu Xie had never gone to before.

The thing that Su Ya was going to teach her, was actually soul power!

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Chapter 1554:- Little Fella's Not Bad (4)

It was the first time Jun Wu Xie set foot upon the third floor and the state that the third floor was in went far beyond what Jun Wu Xie had expected to see. Within a large spacious room, only one huge water pool stood alone. In that pool, it was dancing with ripples as the thick scent of fragrant wine wafted into Jun Wu Xie's nose.

In that pool right before her eyes, was filled with fine wine!

"From now onwards, you must soak yourself within this wine pool for half a day's time everyday. No matter how unwell it makes you feel, you need to stay in there for half a day. For the other half, you can practice your ability up here on the third floor." Su Ya said as she looked at Jun Wu Xie. She then paused a moment as she gauged the tiny sized Jun Wu Xie before she said: "Of course, you can choose to soak in there wearing your clothes."

Jun Wu Xie turned her head to look at Su Ya. She did not really mind it all that much as they were both girls. She did not mind exposing anything before Su Ya but it was clear that Su Ya cared for this little "shy" disciple of hers.

After giving a few more instructions to Jun Wu Xie, Su Ya went downstairs, leaving Jun Wu Xie to manage her time on her own.

Jun Wu Xie removed her outer robe and wore only her under clothes as she stepped into the cool and refreshing wine. The wine in the pool had turned a little chilly suddenly immersing herself inside it sent a shiver running through Jun Wu Xie. The thick heavy fragrance of the wine pervaded the air around and Jun Wu Xie sat herself down inside the pool after her body had adjusted to the temperature of the wine.

The pool wasn't too deep, not even reaching a metre's height. When Jun Wu Xie sat down, the water's surface just reached her chin, reaching just about two fingers' width below her lips.

Based just by feel, the wine did not feel much different from water. Jun Wu Xie did not understand why Su Ya would say that this place might make anyone feel unwell.

Jun Wu Xie calmed her mind and just soaked herself within the pool.

Before Su Ya left, she had said that while Jun Wu Xie soaked herself, Jun Wu Xie was to constantly release her soul power outwards but the way Jun Wu Xie used soul power was actually power converted from her spirit power. As to what soul power really was, she did not know, hence, she could only attempt by pushing her spirit power outwards.

And while she was releasing her spirit power out, a rather amazing change came over her body.

As spirit power dispersed out from her body, the wine that completely surrounded Jun Wu Xie, that was stuck so closely against her skin felt like it was slowly seeping into her. That feeling of icy chill on her skin slowly spreading to every single nerve, immersing every one cell within her in wine. In just a little while, Jun Wu Xie had not released that much spirit power yet when her body suddenly showed signs of exhaustion and weakness like she would when her powers had been fully depleted.

He situation rather surprised Jun Wu Xie, her body feeling like something had drained her out completely but the spirit power was still strong within her meridians.

The slight chill turned into a bone biting cold. It was already blossoming with spring and flowers bloomed outside but Jun Wu Xie felt like she was caught within a raging blizzard, feeling so cold that the blood in her lips faded away in an instant.

But Jun Wu Xie did not move herself in the slightest and did not use her spirit power to block out that biting chill but merely silently endured it all.

Su Ya must have her own reasons for asking her to do this. Since this was cultivation, it would naturally not be all that comfortable. In order for her to gain more power and might, Jun Wu Xie did not mind enduring all of it.

Time passed by the seconds and then went into minutes. Jun Wu Xie quietened her heart and mind, concentrating her focus upon her spirit power, trying her hardest to disregard the discomfort her body was feeling.

When her heart was completely calmed, that biting chill then seemed to have become not that unbearable.

Her Purple Spirit power was being pushed out bit by bit, and that was just the beginning.

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Chapter 1555:- Play A Little With You (1)

Jun Wu Xie's life in the Cloudy Brook Academy was gradually being changed subtly and her task at the Waning Moon Chambers everyday was to cultivate. She was needed to clean up the place a little occasionally but most of the time, Su Ya wanted Jun Wu Xie to spend all her energy upon her cultivation.

Steeped under that air so densely filled with the scent of wine daily, Jun Wu Xie seemed to have gradually developed a stronger resistance against the fumes of the wine and no longer felt woozy that easily anymore.

But, soaking herself almost entirely in wine and it was for half a day at a time, even if Jun Wu Xie brought clean clothes to change everyday, the scent of wine that remained on her skin still could not be rid, to the extent that when she walked through the grounds of the Cloudy Brook Academy everyday, many of the youths could smell that strong scent of wine from her body for a long way off.

The words about Jun Wu Xie grew more more harsh, sweeping over the entire Cloudy Brook Academy like a powerful surging tide. Not only the freshmen who had just been admitted into the academy knew about it, even the seniors gradually came to catch wind of Jun Wu Xie's "glorious exploits". Throughout the whole Cloudy Brook Academy from the top to the bottom, everyone knew of that piece of useless trash that possessed merely average powers and had just depended on the traits of his unique race to gain entry into the Cloudy Brook Academy. He was also the first one, throughout the entire history of the Cloudy Brook Academy, to be disregarded by the academy, and left to live or perish on his own.

All those highly unkind discussions stomped Jun Wu Xie's reputation right into the mud, the words growing more and more excessive that made people subconsciously overlook the fact that Jun Wu Xie was the first person ever to have received the invitations of all Twelve Palaces as well.

The freshmen from the Blood Fiend Palace, would always go help Jun Wu Xie "fortify and strengthen" Jun Wu Xie's dismal reputation, regardless of who it was that spoke ill of Jun Wu Xie, they would always use the same line to rebut them, bringing up the fact that Jun Wu Xie was unique and one of a kind, which just caused the people from the other palaces to become more and more disgusted with Jun Wu Xie.

From initially just ignoring, to become genuinely hostile. Every single day when Jun Wu Xie returned, the front of her door was always filled with rubbish and even the face of the door had been deeply scratched with something sharp, with characters that read "rubbish", "trash", and other insulting and degrading words, the voice that taunted and ridiculed her never ceasing for a moment.

Towards all that, Jun Wu Xie had never shown any reaction at all.

Till one day, when a pile of food trash that had gone bad was thrown outside her door and the face was her door was smeared with absolute filth.

Jun Wu Xie's brows finally creased up and under the sniggles of a group of people, she opened her door and walked inside.

"Meow my whiskers off! Those people are really becoming too much!" Immediately upon entering the room, the little black cat could not hold itself back and it leapt out, pacing angrily upon the table as it flashed its sharp claws out.

Jun Wu Xie had not held it against those rascally kids because she had not seen the need to and she also did not have the leisure nor time to. These youths who had not even set foot within the Twelve Palaces were not even worth her making a single move against them.

But even a clay figurine retains some of the fire from the kiln.

Jun Wu Xie had been able to disregard the other things they had done, but when the highly nauseating stench continued to seep through the gaps in the door inside, that had made Jun Wu Xie became rather annoyed.

"I think Mistress really should show them a thing or two, this entire bunch of little bastards who do not know who they're dealing with!" The little black cat was so angry that it scratched at the table with its claws, which gave out a highly ear piercing noise. Throughout this period, if Jun Wu Xie had not held them back, just Ye Sha and Ye Gu had wanted to send this whole bunch of scoundrels right into hell so many times. But those wretched kids had not only not toned down, they had even carried things further.

They were just carrying bullying to an intolerable level.

Jun Wu Xie sat by the table, her brows creased together as she stared at the tightly shut door. Even if she could not see it, someone else must be up to mischief again outside that door.

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Chapter 1556:- Play A Little With You (2)

Jun Wu Xie sat by the table, her brows creased together as she stared at the tightly shut door. Even if she could not see it, someone else must be up to mischief again outside that door.

That the freshmen of the Cloudy Brook Academy would be unhappy with her, she could understand it fully as she had guessed at such a result from the beginning. Before all this happened, Jun Wu Xie had prepared herself to a certain extent. She had planned to reveal her inestimable value before the Elders of the Twelve Palaces, that would make her untouchable and to instead try all ways and means to win her over, which her plan had perfectly achieved initially.

In the beginning, those youths had indeed adhered to the instructions the various palaces had given them, none of them daring to find any trouble with Jun Wu Xie blatantly. As for the debates and conflicting words among them, Jun Wu Xie could not be bothered about it.

But things began to change when the Blood Fiend Palace's strange actions started.

If the situation had remained to be like it had from the beginning, no one would have dared to defy the instructions given to them by the palaces they belonged to and carried things too far with Jun Wu Xie. But the Blood Fiend Palace's constant "protection" of her had provoked and incited the emotions of the hot blooded youths to the extreme.

As youths who were more prone to hot bloodedness and exuberance than logic, being fanned up by people in such a manner, how could they be expected to still remember the instructions they had been given some time ago? The fact that they had not gotten into a fight with Jun Wu Xie directly was already considered to be the greatest extent of rationality they were capable of.

But even though that was the case, Jun Wu Xie's life had been greatly disrupted.

The reason for all of this, was something Jun Wu XIe already knew.

It was just a ploy by the Blood Fiend Palace, wishfully thinking that by isolating her from all the others and when she was being attacked on all sides by enemies, they could then show up as a saviour, to then gain her favour.

It must be said, that though the ploy was vicious, they had at least been seen to have used their brains a little.

But.....

Jun Wu Xie's eyes then narrowed up dangerously.

People who seeked to make use of her, must be fully prepared to be used back by her.

An icy chill flashed within Jun Wu Xie's eyes. She stood up suddenly and walked out of the door. All the youths who had been gathered along the corridor to watch the show did not show the slightest tinge of remorse when they saw Jun Wu Xie come out, sinister smiles still hanging from their faces.

Jun Wu Xie's face was cold as she walked to stand in front of Gu Xin Yan's door, and rapped loudly upon it before everyone there.

The instant Gu Xin Yan opened her door, she immediately saw Jun Wu with his delicate features standing before her door without any expression on his face. Having Jun Wu appear before her door made Gu Xin Yan showed a glint of surprise within her eyes.

It must be known that for the past few months, she had tried so hard to pull her relationship with Jun Wu closer and she had often gone up to the kid's door in visit. But she had not even been able to win even the slightest smile from Jun Wu, not to mention having him come to her door in reciprocation. Jun Wu had never once come to seek her on his own initiative.

But today, Jun Wu had actually come to knock upon her door on his own accord!

That was something that Gu Xin Yan had not expected at all.

"Jun Wu? Is there anything you need from me?" Although surprised by Jun Wu's actions, Gu Xin Yan was however still able to portray a highly bright smile upon her face.

Regardless of what Jun Wu had come to seek her for, at least Jun Wu had taken this one first step!

"Have you got time?" Jun Wu Xie asked calmly.

Gu Xin Yan immediately nodded.

"Take a walk with me." Jun Wu Xie said, extending an invitation to Gu Xin Yan.

Shock immediately showed on Gu Xin Yan's face. Jun Wu was inviting her to go for a walk? This..... really gave Gu Xin Yan quite a shock.

But before Gu Xin Yan was able to give any reaction, Jun Wu had already turned himself around and walked towards the outside.

Gu Xin Yan was not willing to even delay a moment and she quickly rushed to catch up.

All the youths standing along the corridor stared in shock as they watched Jun Wu and Gu Xin Yan walking one behind the other past them, and the youths' eyes filled up with incredulity.

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Chapter 1557:- Play A Little With You (3)

Gu Xin Yan's identity was known to most of the freshmen and even if they were not subservient to the Blood Fiend Palace, they would still not dare to offend Gu Xin Yan carelessly. Afterall, comparing a new recruit to the daughter of a Palace Lord, the disparity in status was one that could never be bridged. When the other youths saw Gu Xin Yan, though they were not as serville as the youths from the Blood Fiend Palace, they still at least greeted her with a smiling face. Added to that, Gu Xin Yan looked very beautiful and among all the girls who were new like them, Gu Xin Yan was among the prettiest of the lot.

Towards Gu Xin Yan, the freshmen youths only felt much envy and admiration.

Even when the people from the Blood Fiend Palace had defended Jun Wu Xie before, Gu Xin Yan had not come forth much, which just made everyone admire Gu Xin Yan even more as they thought that she did not like Jun Wu all that much like them, but now.....

[Jun Wu had barely spoken two sentences to Gu Xin Yan, a total of just nine words and Gu Xin Yan had immediately decided to follow that kid just like that? !]

[What kind of a situation was that! ?]

[That was the Young Miss of the Blood Fiend Palace you know! ?]

[Just two statement from Jun Wu and he has managed to bring her away?]

The entire bunch of youths nearly suffered internal injuries from holding themselves back from bursting out.

Jun Wu Xie walked out of the loft building very quickly, to walk towards a quiet and tranquil spot within the Cloudy Brook Academy. It was just about dusk and the glorious slanting rays of evening spilled across the ground, shrouding the majestic white loft building in an intoxicating warm shade, while several disciples who had just concluded their cultivation training were just returning.

When Jun Wu Xie's gaze spotted a certain tall figure among the youths, she gradually slowed down her speed as she continued to move forward.

Lin Hao Yu was just returning from training and he was with several other hot blooded youths. Similar to Gu Xin Yan, they were from the main branch of the Blood Fiend Palace. His Grandfather was an Elder in the Blood Fiend Palace and it could be said that he grew up together with Gu Xin Yan from a very young age. Gu Xin Yan's identity as the Young Miss of the Blood Fiend Palace had made other youths constantly eager to please her and Lin Hao Yu's identity had those youths willing to flatter him endlessly.

Lin Hao Yu was all smiles as he enjoyed the flattery the youths around him was heaping onto him but he suddenly saw Jun Wu appear and the smile on his face changed subtly.

He knew exactly what kind of situation Jun Wu was in during that period as all the "protection" of Jun Wu by the youths from the Blood Fiend Palace were all acting under his instructions. He fully understood what kind of results all that "protection" would ultimately bring to Jun Wu.

[Jun Wu's days in here must have been quite a torment!]

And what pleased Lin Hao Yu even more was that Jun Wu's personality was cold and distant, and the kid had not shown the slightest sign of caving in even after so long. That had just given Lin Hao Yu more reason to torment Jun Wu, without needing him to be worried about Gu Xin Yan blaming him for it.

Seeing the state Jun Wu was in, just led Lin Hao Yu to be absolutely filled with delight.

[So what if he's the only person from the Spirit Mastery race?]

[That kid's just a moron who does not possess enough brains. He had only needed to use his brain a little and that kid was about to be played to death by him!]

But as Lin Hao Yu smiled, soon, he discovered that he could no longer smile out anymore!

Because he soon saw Gu Xin Yan chasing with quick steps after Jun Wu. Jun Wu seemed like he was willing to wait for her as he stood in his spot for a brief moment, till Gu Xin Yan caught up to him, before he saw the two of them departing from his line of sight together as a pair.

Under the beautiful setting sun, the sight of the back view of that youth and the young girl walking shoulder to shoulder was suddenly like a hot branding iron, that burnt Lin Hao Yu's eyes.

[That was the scene that he was most unwilling to see!]

"Damn it." Lin Hao Yu cursed in a soft voice.

He did not understand what had actually happened. Why had Jun Wu who had not paid Gu Xin Yan any heed till yesterday suddenly came to be walking together with Gu Xin Yan today. He knew clearly that throughout the implementation of his plan, the relationship between Gu Xin Yan and Jun Wu Xie had not progressed in anyway.

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Chapter 1558:- Pay One Back in His Own Coin (1)

Gu Xin Yan followed Jun Wu Xie, strolling aimlessly within the Cloudy Brook Academy. The two walked for quite a while and Jun Wu Xie did not even open her mouth to speak at all, which made Gu Xin Yan a little jittery.

Truth to be told, with Jun Wu so suddenly inviting her out like this, it had been completely out of her expectations. She had seen the kind of circumstances Jun Wu had been in and she knew that Lin Hao Yu's plan had worked. But Jun Wu had not shown the slightest weakness in front of all that and even when he was made fun of by a bunch of youths everyday, Jun Wu acted like nothing had happened, treating everything indifferently.

The cold indifference of Jun Wu had greatly frustrated Gu Xin Yan. She had consented to Lin Hao Yu to go stir up all this with her silence on the matter but her aim at the end of it all was to win Jun Wu over to join the Blood Fiend Palace. But she had still not achieved the results she had thought.

Till today.....

Looking at Jun Wu's cold profile backlit by the setting sun, the expression on Gu Xin Yan's face was rather complicated as she strove to maintain the brilliant smile on her face.

In terms of looks, Jun Wu could only be considered to be delicately attractive. Without mentioning how numerous the men with handsome and striking looks there were in the Blood Fiend Palace, just merely in the Cloudy Brook Academy alone, there was already quite a number of handsome looking youths. But without knowing why, Gu Xin Yan actually felt that Jun Wu under that glorious setting sun seemed to look much better than she remembered him to be.

"Jun Wu, what did you want to talk to me about?" Dispersing the distracting thoughts far away, Gu Xin Yan finally could not hold it in any longer but to ask.

She was very curious why Jun Wu had come to find her today. [Was it because he could no longer endure the torment everyone was inflicting upon him and was about to ask her for help?]

Jun Wu Xie stopped in her tracks and turned her head slightly towards Gu Xin Yan.

"You are in the Ring Spirit faculty?" Jun Wu Xie asked.

Gu Xin Yan was rather taken aback, not understanding why Jun Wu would suddenly mention that. She stood speechless for a while before she nodded her head.

"Yes."

Although Gu Xin Yan has rather strong spirit power, she had gone to take part in the Ring Spirit competition during the Battle of Deities Grand Meet . Her Ring Spirit was a weapon type and it was a rare variant kind that could transform itself. It was a long whip but it could also transform itself into dual swords in the course of battle, a highly rare kind.

Variant weapon Ring Spirits were very rarely seen in the Middle Realm and even if Gu Xin Yan was not the Young Miss of the Blood Fiend Palace, with just her Ring Spirit, she would still be highly valued. That was also a source of where Gu Xin Yan's self confidence was from.

But.....

[Why was Jun Wu asking her about that?]

[This was turning out rather differently from what she had thought.]

"Can you show it to me?" Jun Wu Xie went on to ask.

Gu Xin Yan's eyes were filled with bewilderment, unable to comprehend why Jun Wu was suddenly showing such interest in her ring spirit. But as she still hoped to be able to rope Jun Wu into the Blood Fiend Palace, a minor matter like showing her ring spirit was something she would naturally not reject.

Gu Xin Yan summoned out her Ring Spirit very quickly like she wanted to show Jun Wu Xie her Ring Spirit's might. In an instant, a silver long whip appeared in Gu Xin Yan's hand. The shape of the whip was rather unique, not like the rounded shape of other whips. The length of the whip was like a blade's edge, its form flat, its two edges at the sides almost as thin and fine as a cicada's wings, no different from a real blade.

Instead of saying that was a whip, Jun Wu Xie felt that it was more like a flexible sword that was incredibly long.

"Move it and see." Jun Wu Xie said.

It was the first time Gu Xin Yan was seeing someone making a request of her so naturally but she did not feel any loathing towards it. The resplendent silver whip threw out a series of chilling silver glittery light in her hand, the flexibility of the long whip much much better than a flexible sword.

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Chapter 1559:- Pay One Back in His Own Coin (2)

Gu Xin Yan looked at Jun Wu Xie as she put her hand down.

"And then?" She really couldn't understand what Jun Wu wanted.

Jun Wu Xie then asked: "Can I touch?"

"....." [It's not enough seeing it and you still want to touch? Although Gu Xin Yan was grumbling to herself in her heart, she still nodded her head, but she also reminded Jun Wu: "The whip's edges are very sharp. Don't hurt yourself."

It wasn't that Gu Xin Yan despised Jun Wu Xie, but because weapon Ring Spirits were sharper and their edges more honed than regular weapons. Describing her Ring Spirit as one that cut through steel like mud would not be an exaggeration at all.

With Gu Xin Yan's permission, Jun Wu Xie then touched the razor sharp and highly flexible whip. It was cold to the touch and was a strange pulsing power could be felt emanating from it.

That feeling was something that Jun Wu Xie had not experienced before and though she had known several people who possessed weapon Ring Spirits before with Mo Qian Yuan being one of them. She had touched his Ring Spirit before but it had just felt cold and was not all that much different from regular weapons.

But now, she could detect a weak trace of power on the weapon ring spirit.

[What is this?]

Jun Wu Xie did not know.

Under Gu Xin Yan's gaze, Jun Wu Xie pulled out a flask of water and a paintbrush before she raised up her head to look at Gu Xin Yan.

"The Spirit Mastery race possesses the Spirit Reinforcement ability but I do not know many people who possess weapon Ring Spirits and I have never tried to see if Spirit Reinforcement works on a weapon Ring Spirit. Are you willing to let me give it a try?" Jun Wu Xie asked in a highly calm and composed voice.

But after hearing that, Gu Xin Yan was not able to continue to remain calm any longer.

She had heard about Jun Wu's Spirit Reinforcement but Jun Wu had only used Spirit Reinforcement in the Innate Gift competition. Unless someone was present at that place, or any other person would not have had a chance to witness it. Gu Xin Yan had been at the Ring Spirit competition venue at that time and only participants competing at that venue were allowed to enter the respective premises. Hence, Gu Xin Yan had never seen what Spirit Reinforcement was really like.

Towards Spirit Reinforcement, Gu Xin Yan had heard a lot about it and only knew that it was an amazing phenomenon, which had piqued her interest quite a bit.

She had never once thought that Jun Wu Xie would actually have an intention to use Spirit Reinforcement on her Ring Spirit.

She stood there stunned for a moment before Gu Xin Yan nodded in agreement.

"Sure you can!"

For a person from a unique race that was willing to show his ability before another person, it was something very hard to come by. Jun Wu's words had not only presented Gu Xin Yan with an opportunity to witness Spirit Reinforcement but had also made Gu Xin Yan feel that the change that had come over Jun Wu Xie might be a sign that Jun Wu was relenting towards her?

In the Cloudy Brook Academy, Jun Wu had never chatted with anyone else and had never interacted with another disciple among them all. Today, Jun Wu had not only invited her to stroll around the Academy's grounds but had even offered to show Spirit Reinforcement right before her eyes.

How could such a big change not make Gu Xin Yan excited?

Looks like Lin Hao Yu's plan had succeeded and Jun Wu was no longer as resolute as he was before.

Her heart secretly filled with glee, Gu Xin Yan did not reveal the slightest sign of it on her face, looking just as sincerely amicable as before.

Having gotten Gu Xin Yan's acknowledgement, Jun Wu Xie did not waste any more time and she immediately crafted a set of Spirit Reinforcement runes upon Gu Xin Yan's weapon Ring Spirit.

In the instant Jun Wu Xie finished her last brush stroke, a streak of flames suddenly spread over the entire length of the whip, it's scarlet blazing fire enveloping the entire silver long whip to give out a wave of scorching heat!

The moment she saw the flames, Gu Xin Yan's heart jumped, highly startled and she nearly dropped the whip she held in her hand. But when the flames reached the end of the whip at the handle and came into contact with her hand, Gu Xin Yan did not feel the slightest bit of pain from being burnt.

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Chapter 1560:- Pay One Back in His Own Coin (3)

No pain, and no scorching burn.

Gu Xin Yan stared at the flames that blazed so close to her, almost unable to believe everything that she was seeing.

She could distinctly feel the high heat from the flames but it was not burning her in anyway.

[This was just too amazing!]

[This is Spirit Reinforcement?]

Still slightly traumatised by shock, Gu Xin Yan's arm trembled and she gripped at the long whip with both her hands. The long whip then flashed with light for any instant to transform itself into a pair of dual swords!

The scorching flames shrouded over both blades and Gu Xin Yan was unable to restrain herself from twirling her dual swords in a dance as the raging flames drew fiery arcs in the air, trailing behind the slashing blades.

Moments later, the flames faded off and the twin swords in her hands reverted back to the way they looked before.

It was just a short period of transformation but it had left an indelible mark upon Gu Xin Yan's heart. She stared at the dual swords in her hands for a rather long time, feeling somewhat speechless, not knowing what to say.

She finally understood why the Elder had instructed her to try everything she could to win Jun Wu over to the Blood Fiend Palace just before she was admitted into the Cloudy Brook Academy.

The capability of Spirit Reinforcement, had completely overturned all that she had thought she knew.

Even though the effects had lasted only for a short period, but who could ascertain that its effects could not be prolonged? If various attributes like this could be imbued onto Ring Spirits, that was as good as raising their battle might by several times!

Powerful transformations such as this would be impossible even for the most talented Ring Forgers!

"This is the Spirit Mastery race's Spirit Reinforcement?" Gu Xin Yan raised up her head, the sparkle of excitement showing in her eyes not feigned. She was really surprised by the effects of Spirit Reinforcement.

Jun Wu Xie nodded. Compared to Gu Xin Yan's excited self, Jun Wu Xie's reaction was a whole lot calmer. She seemed to be deep in thought about something as she looked at the twin swords in Gu Xin Yan's hands as she said: "Looks like Spirit Reinforcement can be used upon weapon Ring Spirits as well. But I do not know whether every kind of Spirit Reinforcement will work just as well....."

"You can take your time to try!" Gu Xin Yan said suddenly, her voice tinged with a trace of eagerness.

The effects of Spirit Reinforcement had startled her which just made her even more determined to pull Jun Wu into the Blood Fiend Palace. If she were to succeed in winning Jun Wu over to join the Blood Fiend Palace, then when the Blood Fiend Palace and the Flame Demon Palace competed for the first spot among the Twelve Palaces, it would definitely become a great boost to them!

Gu Xin Yan was filled with anticipation towards Spirit Reinforcement and she was only too glad to help Jun Wu with his doubts. That would not only allow her to understand Spirit Reinforcement better, it would create an opportunity to increase the amount of time spent between her and Jun Wu, making it easier for her to pull the relationship between her and Jun Wu closer.

The best of both worlds, why not?

"Wouldn't that be troublesome?" Jun Wu Xie did not reject immediately but just looked at Gu Xin Yan a little apprehensively.

Gu Xin Yan immediately shook her head. "No trouble at all! We are friends, are we not?" Gu Xin Yan smiled brilliantly. She was feeling very glad that the choice she made in the beginning had been right. If she had not worked to initiate contact with Jun Wu right from the beginning, Jun Wu would not have thought of seeking her help to test out Spirit Reinforcement. And if Lin Hao Yu had not isolated Jun Wu, she would not have had this opportunity!

This was the first time that Gu Xin Yan felt that Lin Hao Yu's mind was rather bright.

Seeing Gu Xin Yan being so passionate about it, Jun Wu Xie then agreed to it, looking rather apprehensive.

While Gu Xin Yan was thinking that she had finally found a crack in the ice and her face was filled with smiles, she failed to notice that in Jun Wu Xie's eyes, a cold icy glint flashed.

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