Chapter 9: The Big Event of the Academy

  At the entrance stood two cultivators, a man and a woman. Ning City was already at the third layer of Qi gathering, and at a glance, it could be seen that the male cultivator was at the fourth layer of Qi gathering, while the female cultivator was at the third layer. The male cultivator had a tall and sturdy build, with an ordinary appearance, but his slender eyes made his towering figure seem somewhat redundant.

  "Are you just a janitor here in the cultivation room?" The woman saw that Ning Cheng only had a Qi condensation at the first level, and her eyes flashed with disdain.

  Ning Cheng was originally going to leave anyway, and whatever Mu Lao Ai did was none of his business. But he didn't expect that as he was about to leave, the door was kicked open.

  "What makes you two think you can kick in my door?" Ning Cheng asked directly without answering the female cultivator's question.

  The man with narrow eyes saw Ning City dare to ask them back, immediately stepped forward: "How, I kicked your door, you don't even care, today I not only want to kick your door, but also hit your face, what can you do..."

  The man hadn't finished speaking before his palm was raised.

  "What a big show-off." A cold voice came over, and the slender-eyed man's hand stopped abruptly in mid-air.

  Ning Cheng originally thought that the male cultivator was about to make a move and had already prepared to strike, but he didn't expect someone to speak up voluntarily. At this time, he also saw the person who spoke, a woman who had just come out of the cultivation room. This woman not only spoke in an icy tone, but her face was also completely expressionless.

  If it were just a matter of looks, she was no different from Jian Suo. What shocked Ning City wasn't her appearance, but her cultivation - she had already reached the sixth layer of Qi gathering.

  "Village Master's sister." The slender-eyed male cultivator had already recognized the woman who spoke, and hastily cupped his fists in greeting. The female cultivator beside him, who was at the third layer of gathering her aura, also hurried forward to pay her respects.

  The woman, called Zhuang Shi Jie, let out a cold snort and turned to leave, but in the instant she turned around, she saw Ning Cheng. She immediately stopped her retreating footsteps and instead walked over, furrowing her brow as she said, "You're Ning Cheng? Ji Luo Fei's fiancé?"

  Ning Cheng calmly clenched his fist and said, "I am Ning Cheng. I have met Master Zhuang."

  Seeing that the Villa Master actually knew Ning Cheng, the male cultivator with narrow eyes quickly spoke again, "Villa Master, one of my Sound Hoop fell in the cultivation room. I left and didn't take long to come back and look for it, but couldn't find it. Among those who can enter the cultivation room on the seventh floor, apart from this miscellaneous worker..."

  The man with the narrow eyes was cut off before he could finish speaking, "Lu Pengyun, you know Ning Cheng's identity, right? The Stellar Academy is about to come to Cang Qin Secondary Academy to recruit ten disciples, and the selection is about to begin. Gu Yi Ming will definitely return. Gu Fei thought Ji Luo Fei was easy to bully, but didn't expect to be beaten by Ji Luo Fei instead. After Gu Yi Ming returns, Ji Luo Fei will definitely not be able to escape, so you all came here thinking of teaching Ning Cheng a lesson and then taking him away to humiliate Ji Luo Fei."

  Lu Pengyun's face turned pale, and he said bluntly, "Zhuang Shijie, you and Gu Shixiong are both people I respect. Gu Shixiong has already returned, and Gu Fei was severely injured by Ji Luofei. Gu Shixiong will definitely not let this matter go."

  "So you want me to mind my own business and let you take Ning City away?" Zhuang Shijie said calmly.

  The monk stopped talking after making a fist with his hand, apparently what Zhuang said was what they were thinking in their hearts.

  "Scram, don't let me see you again in the Da'an Forest and Mango Sea, or I'll kill you." The two sentences spoken by Eldest Martial Sister Zhuang were icy cold. The faces of the two cultivators changed upon hearing this. They seemed to have not expected that Eldest Martial Sister Zhuang wouldn't even give Gu YiMing any face.

  However, the two of them did not dare to continue talking nonsense, and quickly turned around and swiftly went downstairs.

  "You take care of yourself." Master Zhuang's sister saw that the two had left and then stared at Ning Cheng, expressionless, saying a sentence.

  Ning Cheng felt somewhat depressed in his heart, originally he had been rescued by two women in a row and it made him feel a bit awkward. Now whether it was Jian Su'e or this Zhuang Shijie, they were all self-sufficient.

  Seeing Zhuang Shijie turn to leave, Ning Cheng hurriedly called out and said, "Thank you, Zhuang Shijie, for lending a hand. I also want to ask, what's going on with Luo Fei and that Gu Fei?"

  Zhuang sister turned around and stared at Ning Cheng, saying irrelevantly, "You are not worthy of Ji Lu Fei."

  Having said that, he surprisingly ignored Ning City and turned away.

  Ning Cheng thought that Ji Luo Fei hadn't come to see him for over a dozen days, and his heart was somewhat worried. He sped up and chased after her for several steps before asking anxiously, "Zhuang Shijie, please tell me how Luo Fei was injured by Gu Fei. Ning Cheng is eternally grateful."

  Zhuang Shijie stopped and glanced at Ning City, then said, "Ji Luofei won a Qi Gathering Stone after ten consecutive battles in the Dou Pot Arena. Gu Fei saw that Ji Luofei was exhausted from the ten battles and had no friends to accompany her, so he challenged her to a bet of one Qi Gathering Stone. Ji Luofei was forced to fight another round under pressure from the Dou Pot Arena. As a result, she was severely injured by Gu Fei due to insufficient true energy. However, Gu Fei also underestimated Ji Luofei and ended up with even more severe injuries..."

  She paused for a moment, then looked at Ning City again. "If I'm not mistaken, Ji Luo Fei's Qi-gathering stone should have been used by you, so you can advance to the first level of Qi-gathering."

  Ning Cheng did not refute this statement, Ji Luo Fei's Gathering Stone was indeed given to him, but he had not used it yet and kept it by his side. He advanced to the first layer of Gathering Qi, which had nothing to do with Ji Luo Fei's Gathering Stone.

  "Zhuang sister, you said that Gu Yi Ming is Gu Fei's older brother. After he comes back, will he look for Luo Fei to take revenge?" Ning Cheng asked again.

  Zhuang sister still did not directly answer Ning Cheng's words, and said to herself, "Ji Luo Fei defeated Gu Fei again, won another Gathering Stone, but did not kill Gu Fei. Because she was seriously injured and had no one to accompany her, a steward of the Dou Pot Arena forcibly asked Ji Luo Fei to leave one of the two Gathering Stones."

  "Why?" Ning Cheng's voice suddenly became much louder without him realizing it.

  Zhuang Shijie said in a soft voice, "Because Ji Luofei has already finished her ten matches, it's over. Gu Fei challenging her is an unexpected match, so the arena staff requires an additional stage fee."

  "The venue fee for a duel is just one Gathering Stone? And it's the Pot Arena that's forcing Lu Fei to add more?" Ning Cheng felt the flames of anger burning in his chest, this was simply outrageous. He could even imagine how helpless Ji Luofei must have been back then.

  "Zhuang's sister said in an even more calm tone, 'After Gu Yi Ming returns, he will definitely find an excuse to kill Ji Luo Fei. If you want to live, it would be better for you to leave here as soon as possible.'"

  After Zhuang Shijie finished speaking, she quickened her pace and swiftly disappeared at the staircase entrance.

  Ning Cheng calmed down the anger in his heart and did not leave from the side gate this time. He was about to leave Cang Qin Second Academy soon, so even if he offended someone, he wouldn't care.

  When Ning City followed Ji Luo Fei to the third floor of the cultivation tower for the first time, there were many people on the third floor. Today, when Ning City walked to the third floor again, he found that there were only a few people left. Moreover, these few people also hurried down the stairs.

  "You're not staying in the seventh floor to sweep and cultivate, what are you coming down here for?" Ning Cheng had just thought of going down from the third floor when Mu Lao's voice suddenly appeared beside his ear. Ning Cheng was startled, he had clearly seen that Mu Lao's stone house door was closed just a moment ago, how did it open in the blink of an eye?

  Ning Cheng immediately reacted and stood up straight, bowing his head to answer, "I want to go take a look at the excitement."

  He didn't know what had happened at all, but the people in the Cultivation Tower had all gone out. Now there were only those who went out and not those who came in. In Ning City's view, something must have happened.

  "You're quite bold." Mu Lao said coldly, and then didn't say anything else. Instead, he returned to his own stone chamber, and the door closed behind him.

  Ning Cheng was startled and broke out in a cold sweat, he didn't know what Mu Lao meant by saying that his courage wasn't small. Was it because he had abandoned his post or because he had taken the big stairs? Either way, Mu Lao only said one sentence and didn't scold him further, which made Ning Cheng feel both startled and a bit eerie at the same time.

  Fortunately, Ning City immediately thought that he would not continue to stay here, and his heart was somewhat settled. After he went out, he found Ji Luofei and then left here.

  After leaving the training tower, Ning City only then knew that there was really a lively scene to behold. Many students from Cang Qin Academy were rushing towards the same place, and Ning City grabbed hold of a male student who also had only one layer of gathered aura and asked, "Excuse me, where is everyone going?"

  The boy with a puzzled expression looked at Ning Cheng and asked, "Aren't you from Cang Qin Academy?"

  "Of course I am, it's just that I've just come out of seclusion, so I'm not very clear about it." Ning Cheng said with a straight face.

  A first-layer cultivator looked at Ning City with some disbelief, and another first-layer cultivator said that he had been in seclusion. He believed it, but still replied, "The Five-Star Academy of Huazhou has come to our academy to select ten disciples. Today is the start of the selection competition, how can it not be lively?"

  "Isn't the competition very fierce?" Ning Cheng knew about this matter, when he and Ji Luo Fei entered Cang Qin Secondary Academy, they had heard it broadcast on the radio, and not long ago, Zhuang Shixiong had also mentioned it.

  "Is it just intense? Our Qingqin Academy is overflowing with talented students, and there are countless geniuses. Huazhou's Xingxing Academy only selects ten, you say it's not intense? Let me mention a few names: Qiu Yingguang, Jian Sujie, Hou Chuan, Zhuang Tianya... just saying these names already exceeds ten." Another student who was also at the Gathering Qi level interrupted.

  Ning Cheng shook his head and sighed, "Alas, if the Meteor Five-Star Academy could recruit a few more students like ours, that would be great."

  The student who was previously held back by Ning Cheng looked at him with an incredulous expression and said, "Don't you know how these ten spots came about? In the past, even if students from our Qing Yun Second Academy wanted to go to Xing Hai Wu Xing Academy, they had to go on their own, and only one or two were selected. This time, Xing Hai Wu Xing Academy came to select us because our Pingzhou's number one expert, Lian Huo Yan senior, made great contributions in the San Zhou war, that's why we have this treatment."

  "That's right, even Huan Yun senior has reached the level of Tongtian, I heard he's already in the Xuan Dan realm. After making his contributions, the first thing he asked for was that the Meteor Five-Star Academy in Huazhou be able to recruit ten students from all two-star and above academies in Pingzhou. Otherwise, it's not very likely that our Cang Qin Academy would get ten spots, let alone have a teacher from the Meteor Five-Star Academy come personally to select people." The student who had reached the Gathering Qi level later on nodded in agreement after hearing this.

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