Chapter Fifteen: The Beauty Enters the Bath

  Leaving the pharmacy, Li Xiao looked at the entire Imperial Academy with some surprise.

  The Guozijian complex is vast, with buildings and pavilions everywhere you look. Along the roadsides are all sorts of rare flowers in bloom, while not far away lies a crystal-clear pond where even red fish can be seen swimming.

  Compared with this, there are fewer students coming and going, which is a pity for such a beautiful scene.

  Li Xiao had been admiring the scenery all along the way, and he, who had always lived in the countryside, had never seen such a beautiful view. This change gave Li Xiao a dreamy feeling, until someone spoke up and startled him awake.

  "Huh? Isn't this one of Master Yue Changsheng's new disciples? I am Gu Hongyuan, please forgive me for not showing respect."

  Li Xiao was somewhat inexplicably puzzled and cupped his hands together.

  "Brother Gu is being polite, I'm Li Xiao. To be honest, on that day I was exhausted and didn't quite understand what happened afterwards. I was just about to ask Brother Gu for guidance."

  Gu Hongyuan's figure is straight and slender, not tall or large, but gives a sense of being sturdy.

  "So that's how it is, my junior brother is really lucky. Professor Yue Changsheng has a great reputation in our national academy, and at a young age, he is already one of the top among his peers, and so far, he hasn't accepted even one personal disciple. The other day, during the assessment in the front hall, he surprisingly announced on the spot that he would accept Li as his disciple, it's really making me, his senior brother, feel envious."

  Li Xiao's heart skipped a beat as he suddenly realized that the mentor who had helped him that day was none other than Yue Changsheng, and he couldn't help but feel a surge of gratitude towards this person who could be said to be his lifesaver.

  "I dare not, I dare not. Observing Master Gu's brother, he is no ordinary person, and must have had a famous teacher to instruct him."

  Gu Hongyu sighed and shook his head upon hearing this:

  "Never mind about that, since Li is a new student in the academy, why are you still here and not reporting to the rear courtyard residence?"

  Li Xiao was speechless, having just arrived and not knowing what kind of accommodation there was.

  "This, I just woke up from the medicine hall downstairs and don't know where to go, so I'd like to ask for your guidance, Master Gu."

  "It's for Brother Tang, please take a look, as long as you walk along this road, you can see the backyard, where there are students in charge of the backyard affairs, you can ask them in detail. Brother Shi is a new student in the college, and he can live in any empty room at will."

  Gu Hongyuan pointed out a path to Li Xiao, who thanked him and then no longer had the heart to appreciate the scenery, quickening his pace. After walking for about 15 minutes, sure enough, behind the corridor, there was a woman wearing the uniform of Guo Xueyuan Academy standing guard, who should be the student in charge of the backyard.

  Looking at the somewhat familiar National Academy uniform, Li Xiao only then noticed that he was also wearing a National Academy uniform. Affected by his past life, Li Xiao had never paid attention to what clothes he wore on his body until now.

  "No wonder Zhao Shuyuan and Gu Hongyuan said I was a new recruit. It turns out that's what it is. But with this uniform, finding accommodations should be much more convenient."

  Li Xiao walked up and saw that the woman in front of him was a bit distracted, wondering what she was thinking about.

  "Sister, I'm Li Xiao, a new student. Could you tell me where the dormitory for students is located?"

  The woman looked at Li Xiao with a dazed expression, then pointed in one direction and continued to be distracted.

  Li Xiao was speechless and thanked her before walking in the direction the woman had pointed.

  After a brief moment of stunned silence, the woman suddenly came back to her senses:

  "Oh no! Just now I was pointing in the direction of the female students' dormitory, this is going to be trouble!"

  The woman was like a dream come true, turned around and rushed towards the direction where Li Xiao had left.

  Li Xiao didn't know that the confused senior had gone in the wrong direction and instead thought she was right, striding towards the dormitory.

  Before long, a house made of green bamboo appeared before one's eyes. Although it was not as luxurious and beautiful as imagined, it had a kind of gentle and carefree flavor.

  I remembered what Gu Hongyuan said, as long as I find a room that no one lives in, it's fine.

  Li Xiao walked forward and knocked on the wooden door of a bamboo house.

  "Excuse me, is there an older fellow practitioner present?"

  There was no sound coming from inside the bamboo house, so Li Xiao pushed open the bamboo door and found that there was nobody inside.

  "How strange, could it be that this whole floor is empty?"

  Listening to the quiet surroundings, Li Xiao suddenly had this idea, turned his head and looked around, indeed it seemed as if there were no students present.

  Suddenly, Li Xiao looked into the distance. There was a quiet grove there, with several bamboo houses nestled among them. In his past life, Li Xiao had hoped to have such a dwelling in the beautiful mountains and forests. If he could live in one of them, it would be perfect.

  Quickly ran into the bamboo forest and took a deep breath.

  Li Xiao didn't forget, first he knocked on the bamboo door. After finding no one responded, Li Xiao confirmed what he had thought in his heart, indeed no one lived here yet.

  He glanced around and saw that the bamboo house closest to the bamboo forest was obviously in the best environment, so Li Xiao naturally set his sights on this one. He pushed open the door and entered, but there was no one inside.

  The space inside the bamboo house is not small, Li Xiao looked around and it's at least 40 or 50 square meters. Moreover, all kinds of daily necessities are available in the house, and next to the bamboo house, there is a door, and a faint heat is emanating from it.

  "It should be the kitchen, there's still some fragrance."

  Li Xiaodong moved his nose slightly and pushed open this wooden door again, wanting to see what his new home was like.

  However, what entered his eyes was stunning. A beautiful figure, with a face as clear as autumn water and skin as white as jade, charming eyes with a hint of shyness, lips that seemed to smile, hands as soft as lotus roots, skin as smooth as congealed fat, neck as slender as a cicada's shell, teeth as white as ivory, hair like a dark cloud, eyebrows like distant mountains. Truly a peerless beauty.

  What left Li Xiao stunned was that this peerless beauty had nothing on her, with icy skin and jade bones, a delicate neck like a goose's, a slender waist that could be grasped in one hand, and two bright red dots on the twin peaks, which made Li Xiao somewhat dazed.

  Similarly, the woman did not expect that in the female student's residence, a man like Li Xiao would break in, and in an instant of loss of consciousness, the woman let out a furious scream, hurriedly covering up the exposed spring color on her body, her watery eyes filled with murderous intent!

  Li Xiao reacted and hastily retreated, never expecting that this room would be a bathroom, let alone stumbling upon the scene of a beautiful woman bathing.

  Anyway, Li Xiao was in the wrong after all, and he directly snatched the door and ran out, heading in the opposite direction without looking back.

  After a few moments of silence, a woman in a snow-white palace dress directly broke through the bamboo house and chased after him.

  A fierce glint flashed in her beautiful eyes as she scanned the surroundings, but failed to find Li Xiao's figure. Instead, she saw the female student in charge of the backyard.

  "It was actually Senior Sister Xue Ningzi, I don't know if you've seen a male student? I just spaced out and accidentally told him the wrong way, letting him head in this direction, I wonder if Senior Sister Ningzi has seen him?"

  The female student obviously saw that the woman named Xue Ningzi's face was not right and asked with a hint of curiosity.

  "So it was Dīng Yún's junior sister, what was that person's name just now?"

  Xue Ningzi hid her murderous intent and spoke in a light tone.

  "It seems to be called Li Xiao, no mistake, it should be this name, what does Shifu Jie ask for?"

  Ding Yun was somewhat curious, but Xue Ningzi's bright eyes were cold and piercing:

  "Li Xiao..."

  At this moment, Li Xiao cursed his bad luck, wondering how he had run into such a thing. After circling the entire backyard several times and just about to leave, he found dozens of students walking towards him, chatting in twos and threes along the way.

  Li Xiao walked up and approached the nearest few people.

  "These few seniors, under Li Xiao, are new students at the National Academy. I don't know where the academy's dormitories are, please point them out to me, seniors."

  Li Xiao recalled the disciple in charge of the backyard, who was lost in thought and pointed out that there must be something wrong, otherwise someone would have taken a bath, and it wouldn't have been so easy for him to see.

  The person closest to Li Xiao was a young man who looked like he was in his early twenties. He glanced up and down at Li Xiao, exchanged a look with the three people beside him, and burst out laughing:

  "Hey Li, no need to be polite, we're also new students who just enrolled. Since you don't know the way, why not come back with us?"

  A few young people were extremely pleased, and Li Xiao easily got along with them.

  It wasn't until then that Li Xiao realized he had just walked through the female students' dormitory, and because all the students had been summoned to go to the main hall to listen to the instructor's speech, Li Xiao didn't see a single person in the female students' dormitory.

  Of course, Li Xiao naturally wouldn't speak out about seeing a beauty bathing, it's better to keep this kind of secret in his heart.

  The young man who just spoke with Li Xiao Fang is called Ní Liáng. According to the other two, he is extremely money-minded, although he looks very dignified.

  Some robust men called Nanmen Ao, although they looked very friendly, but Li Xiao could feel the explosive force hidden in his body, which was far beyond himself.

  The last one was Chun Yu Xi, who looked like a bookworm, with elegant manners, obviously born into a wealthy family.

  Three men led Li Xiao to his residence, which was surrounded by mountains and rocks on all sides. Compared to the elegant bamboo forest of the women's residence, it was obviously much worse.

  Li sighed silently in her heart, in this world, it's unlikely that men and women will ever be truly equal.

  Three people chose a bamboo house for Li Xiao, adjacent to their own residence.

  A new day for Li Xiao was a new beginning. After several people returned to their rooms, Li Xiao lay on the bamboo bed, looking at the ceiling.

  I don't know how my father is doing now, and whether that Year Beast is also helping him.

  And what about his own enemy, Wang Qi? He didn't seem to be around today, probably living in a more distant location. The entire backyard was too big, with the male students' dormitories located on a slightly lower mountain range, densely packed, and it was unknown how many there were.

  According to Ni Liang, this is just a place where ordinary disciples live, there's nothing special about it. If those core disciples, even the top students who are considered to be the successors of the headmaster, they live in the spiritual mountain where the spiritual energy is abundant, and their cultivation speed is much faster than these ordinary disciples.

  Li Xiao's thoughts gradually drifted away as he thought about the changes in this world over the past year, which were truly enormous.

  Everything that happened was somewhat unexpected for him, but entering Guo Xueyuan Academy was just the first step for Li Xiao at this moment.