“You can bring them back.” Long Qi said curtly.
“Thank you.” Nangong Xu was feeling very much ashamed and he hastily retrieved the disciples before he apologised to Rong Heng and Long Qi profusely, reassuring them that he would handle the matter with utmost severity before leaving hastily.
After waiting till Nangong Xu and the rest had left, Fan Jin finally sighed in relief. He was still feeling a little awkward but he put up a brave front and said: “Nangong Xu has always been straightforward and candid. He will definitely report the whole matter to my father and the incident will be handled appropriately.”
Fan Jin was feeling most unfortunate at that moment. Why did such stupid disciples choose to enroll into the Zephyr Academy? They only dragged the Zephyr Academy’s name down.
Long Qi did not speak anymore about the matter but turned to look at Jun Wu Xie.
“Does Young Miss have any other instructions for your subordinate?”
Jun Wu Xie nodded slightly and said: “After some time, bring some men to come to the Zephyr Academy.”
“Yes!” Long Qi hesitated a moment before he said: “Has out Young Miss considered changing into another academy? The Zephyr Academy might not be the best choice.”
Fan Jin who was standing just beside them seriously thought about burying his head into the ground at that moment.
“No need.” Jun Wu Xie replied simply. The real reason she went to the Zephyr Academy was not to pursue knowledge anyway.
The matter had come to a rest for the time being. The injuries sustained by the Rui Lin Army soldiers were not mortal and with a little more treatment, they would be able to move freely. They have acquired the Aqua Spirit Grass they came for and as the herbs have not been processed and treated, they would not keep for extended periods. Long Qi and his group could not afford to remain in the Battle Spirits Forest much longer and they embarked on their return hastily.
After reluctantly bidding Jun Wu Xie farewell, Long Qi led the group back to the Qi Kingdom. When he left, he promised to come see Jun Wu Xie again when the men from the Rui Lin Army come pay their visit to the Zephyr Academy.
After watching Long Qi and his group as they disappeared in the distance, Jun Wu Xie finally turned her gaze back after a long while. Seeing Long Qi had reminded her of her uncle Jun Qing, making her feel as if she was still living in the Lin Palace, like she had never left.
“What do we do now? Continue?” Qiao Chu asked, his hands clasped behind his head.
“Yes.” Jun Wu Xie forced herself to regain her composure. She still had a long road ahead of her, the path towards strength and power, the path that would ultimately lead her home.
And Jun Wu Xie and her team embarked on their next leg of their hunt on the Spirit Beast.
With these characters present, the Spirit Beasts in the Battle Spirits Forest were in for quite a bashing.
With the Spirit Hunt nearing its close, they did not have much time left as they continued to hunt for Spirit Beasts they could take down.
It was dusk when the youths returned from their bountiful hunt and sat down in a circle beside the Spirit Moon Lake.
Jun Wu Xie bit at the dried meat slowly and watched the sunset, and no one knew what she was thinking.
Suddenly, she felt a gaze on her. She turned her head to look into the direction she had felt the gaze and caught a fleeting glance of a tiny figure flash past, in between the trees not too far away from them.
That fleeting shadow had been too fast and with the low light of dusk, she had not been able to see it clearly.
“What is it?” Qiao Chu stretch out his head to ask.
Jun Wu Xie narrowed her eyes, but she did not sense any danger. “Something’s close by.”
That shadowy figure had been tiny, and did not seems to be human.
“A Spirit Beast? The Spirit Moon Lake is where the Spirit Beasts around here come to drink. With us sitting here at its edge, many Spirit Beasts might just be sharpening their fangs.” Qiao Chu said with a big evil laugh.
“You should sleep by the lake tonight. When we wake up tomorrow, Brother Hua can come pick up your bones to make a tool out of them. Your bones are tough, the tool might just be of some use.” Fei Yan said, smiling wickedly at Qiao Chu.
Qiao Chu pouted and shifted his buttocks to come closer to Hua Yao.
“My tiny bones are not fully grown yet, when I reach beyond a hundred, I’ll willingly present my bones to Brother Hua.”
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Chapter 511: “The Relentless Little Tail in the Shadows (2)”
Hua Yao shot Qiao Chu a depreciating look that would translate to “Are you an idiot?”.
Fei Yan literally rolled his eyes at Qiao Chu shamelessness and continued to tease, “By that time, who would want your old brittle bones? They would have become useless.”
“Brother Hua will love to have it! Right? Brother Hua?” Qiao Chu asked, fawning coyly at Hua Yao with a pitiful puppy eyed look on his face.
Hua Yao refused to even look at him.
Rong Ruo watched them banter with a light laugh and reached out her hand to offer some rations to Fan Jin who had been silent all this while. Fan Jin gave Rong Ruo a bitter smile and nodded in appreciation, secretly envious of the close ties that Qiao Chu enjoyed with his comrades. He knew he treaded a different path from these guys especially after all the recent incidents that had rocked the Zephyr Academy, and Fan Jin only felt deeply ashamed and a sense of guilt towards Jun Wu Xie.
Jun Wu Xie was still dogged by a strange feeling that something was not right. The feeling that she was being watched had appeared once again but she had not seen any fleeting shadows this time.
And that same situation surfaced once again the next day. Jun Wu Xie and the team had just hunted down a high grade Spirit Beast when that feeling struck her once more.
This time, she did not try to search for it, but to secretly summon Ye Sha.
However, when Ye Sha came back to them, Jun Wu Xie was greatly shocked.
She only saw a rotund wooly little sheep gripped in Ye Sha’s hand. Its rounded spherical shaped body looked very much like a wooly snowball. Two tiny horns curled on the top of the little sheep’s head, and it’s round eyes were brimming over with tears as it looked straight at Jun Wu Xie.
“This is….. a Spirit Beast?” Qiao Chu was staring in wide eyed wonder. He looked at the tiny Spirit Beast who was not much bigger than the little black cat and thought what a wonderful world he was living in.
Qiao Chu stretched out his finger to poke at the tiny sheep’s little body and the little fella trembled a little.
“Meh~”
Jun Wu Xie’s eyes flashed, but she made no action.
“This Spirit Beast has been tailing our Young Miss.” Ye Sha stated.
“Huh? That’s strange. It’s such a tiny Spirit Beast, it must belong to the lower grades. First grade? Why was it following Little Xie for?” The soft fluffy feel made Qiao Chu enjoy himself tremendously and he ravaged the tiny sheep’s soft wool, rubbing it vigorously.
Gripped in Ye Sha’s hand, the tiny sheep’s four little hooves kicked and struggled endlessly but it was unable to escape from Qiao Chu’s violation, and could only bleat helplessly going “Meh~ Meh~~”.
“HAHAHA!” Qiao Chu was getting carried away, and was beginning to get a glimpse into the reason why Jun Wu Xie loved Rolly so much.
‘THUD!’
One of the tiny sheep’s front hoof suddenly hit Qiao Chu right on the bridge of his nose. The little but hard hoof had left a red glowing imprint right on the bridge of Qiao Chu’s nose.
Qiao Chu was suddenly still.
“Young Miss, how do you want me to deal with this?” Ye Sha asked.
“Give me.” Jun Wu Xie stretched out her hand. The little black cat on her shoulder silently swept its tail over its eyes.
When the tiny sheep was in Jun Wu Xie’s arms, it turned itself over completely, and they saw that even its underbelly was covered in soft fluff
y white wool and it really closely resembled a white spherical ball.
“Meh~”
Jun Wu Xie’s eyes narrowed, as she looked at the tiny wool ball in her arms, and drew in a slight breath.
She hugged it tight!
Rubbed its fluffy wool!
“Meh! Meh!”
“…..” Qiao Chu had the others fell speechless, and laughter soon erupted among the teammates. Seeing the tiny sheep cuddled, stroked and rubbed all over by Jun Wu Xie made them all roar out in laughter.
Outraging a Spirit Beast’s modesty, only Jun Wu Xie would be capable of such a thing.
After Jun Wu Xie was satiated, she squatted down and put the tiny sheep on the ground. The tiny sheep was still dizzy from Jun Wu Xie’s ravaging and was slightly swaying as it stood. It shook its head vigorously to clear the dizziness. After it cleared its mind, it tried to turn its head to look behind itself but found its view obstructed by its own fluffed up and abundant wool on its body and could not see anything else. It finally decided that it had no other choice and it started to raise its four little hooves up one at a time and turned itself slowly around before it raised its head to look at Jun Wu Xie.
“Meh~”
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Chapter 512: “The Relentless Little Tail in the Shadows (3)”
Jun Wu Xie’s eyebrow raised slightly. The tiny sheep suddenly lowered its head and opened its tiny mouth and started to chew on the green grass around Jun Wu Xie’s feet, seemingly savouring it exceptionally.
“This Spirit Beast isn’t afraid of humans? Is it because its grading is beyond low?” Qiao Chu said laughing with tears in his eyes. This was the first time he had seen such a bumbling and foolish Spirit Beast. When other low grade Spirit Beasts sensed that humans were nearby, they would have ran and disappeared immediately without leaving a trace. But as for this little fella here, even after being repeatedly violated by them, it was still not afraid and still hanging around them.
And it was even feeding itself happily in enjoyment!
Wasn’t it afraid that they might kill it?
“Judging based on its size, it looks to be still an infant born not too long ago and still not too conscious of its surroundings, totally oblivious to danger.” Rong Ruo said, finding the tiny sheep rather lovable.
“Have you ever seen a sheep that was just born possessing such a thick layer of wool?” Qiao Chu challenged with an eyebrow raised, and Rong Ruo could not answer.
The tiny sheep seemed not to have heard Qiao Chu and just continued to chomp, chomp, chomp….. Not even raising its tiny head once.
Jun Wu Xie shifted her feet a little to the side to allow the tiny sheep a little more room to carrying on with its feeding, but she had not expected to see after she had barely shifted two steps that the tiny sheep followed right behind her, its little hooves tapping on the ground.
Jun Wu Xie stopped her gait and the tiny sheep halted as well, and lowered its head and continued to chomp on the grass.
“….. Does that mean the little fella likes Little Xie? I know birds go through a nestling stage, but sheep….. do that too?” Qiao Chu asked, scratching at his head.
“No, they don’t.” Hua Yao affirmed confidently.
Light was starting to fade gradually and the temperature around the Spirit Moon Lake was dropping. Jun Wu Xie and her team had had a long day and they needed to rest. They repeated the same old trick and scrambled up high into the trees!
The tiny sheep that had been feeding on the grass around Jun Wu Xie’s feet saw that Jun Wu Xie was suddenly moving and it gave up on its feeding and trotted after her.
Alas…..
The tiny sheep looked up into the trees that looked sky high from its perspective and stared after Jun Wu Xie as she shot herself up quickly into the canopies, as despair filled the tiny sheep’s teary eyes.
“Meh~ Meh~”
“Wanna bring it up?” Qiao Chu looked down now almost negligible white speck at the bottom of the tall tree, thinking that tiny sheep was really persistent.
“No need.” Jun Wu Xie said coldly. As she pulled her clothes tightly around her to lie down, she let a porcelain bottle that contained the medicine that could keep Spirit Beasts away slip from her hand to fall down beside the tree. The tiny sheep was startled and it hopped aside in surprise. When it did not see any other reaction, it bravely walked over and lowered its tiny head to sniff warily at it before nudging the bottle a few times with its nose.
“You are afraid that it would be eaten up by other Spirit Beasts?” Qiao Chu had spotted Jun Wu Xie’s actions and he asked with a wide smile on his face.
She had asked him to not bother with the little fella, but she had softheartedly dropped that bottle herself. But there was one thing…..
Qiao Chu deeply suspected that, with that dumb little sheep’s low intellect, would it know that that bottle would be its life saviour when things got nasty?
“Sleep.” Jun Wu Xie turned her body and closed her eyes to rest. Qiao Chu and the others kept their thoughts to themselves and went to sleep, with mirth on their faces.
At the bottom of the tree, the persistent tiny sheep was still bleating softly. After some time, night fell and darkness enveloped them. The tiny sheep at the bottom of the tree seemed to have grown tired and its bleating stopped. It trotted around on its little hooves and leaned up against the roots of the tree to rest. After it laid itself down, it did not forget to take a bite of the green grass on the ground. Only this time, it did not swallow and its tiny face creased up in disgust, and it hurriedly spat out all the grass it had just put into its mouth.
“Meh…..”
[Not nice, not nice at all.]
The mournful tiny sheep grumbled in its mind, as it closed its eyes, falling asleep while feeling aggrieved, a crystalline tear lightly sparkled hanging from the corner of its eye.
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Chapter 513: “The Relentless Little Tail in the Shadows (4)”
It was early the next day when Jun Wu Xie and her teammates awoke. The tiny sheep was still sleeping and Jun Wu Xie gestured for all of them to remain silent. Qiao Chu and all the rest of the gang slipped soundlessly down the tree and ran away without a whisper.
It wasn’t until the tiny sheep awoke and raised its little head to peer into the treetops, that all the wool on its wooly body suddenly almost jumped out of its body in fright!
“MEH! ! !”
[Where did they go!?]
“Bwah ha ha ha!!!!! You’re really killing me! If you don’t want that little fella following us, just throw him somewhere further away! But you made us all sneak off silently! Ha ha ha! I can’t….. My stomach hurts….. Brother Hua….. save me…..” Qiao Chu had been laughing hysterically throughout the journey. Even the high grade Spirit Beasts were not a match for this group but they had been forced to escape sneakily from a persistent tiny sheep. It’s was absolutely hilarious.
“Moron! Scram!” Fei Yan kicked away Qiao Chu who was about to taint Hua Yao with his “dirty paws”, his face creased up in disgust.
“But I am rather curious though, Little Xie, why are you not willing to keep that little fella? It is rather cute, isn’t it?” Rong Ruo was rather puzzled by Jun Wu Xie’s reaction. She could see how much Jun Wu Xie loved furry little animals, and logically, wouldn’t Jun Wu Xie be happy to have the moronic little sheep follow her?
“Will die.” Jun Wu Xie said, frowning slightly.
Rong Ruo was taken aback, but knew what she meant.
Although the lifespans of Spirit Beasts were longer than ordinary livestock, but still shorter when with compared to a human’s lifespan. A Spirit Beast that belonged to such a low grade might just live a little more than a decade and Jun Wu Xie did not want to keep it as she was afraid the little beast would die on her one day and she did not want to deal with the heartbreak that would be sure to come.
If it stayed by her for a long period, feelings were bound to develop, and it was the same even for the usually cold Jun Wu
Xie.
Hence, no matter how much she loved it, she would not allow herself to grow attached to the little fella with its short lifespan. She hated to see anything that she truly loved die before her eyes.
She might always seem cold and distant, but once she developed an attachment, it was difficult for her to cut ties.
Although she absolutely adored those cute and furry animals, but she allowed herself to only interact with them occasionally, and would never grow too close to any particular one.
The little black cat was an exception, due to the fact that as long as she lived, it would be able to accompany her till the end.
Rolly was another exception as it was a powerful ring spirit and it would not die under normal circumstances.
When they would not be parted by life and death, she would not have any misgivings about it.
“Cough….. Rolly will live a longer life than me! Do you want me to summon Rolly to cuddle?” Qiao Chu asked, suddenly coming beside Jun Wu Xie. He had always felt, despite Jun Wu Xie’s cold and icy personality, the words she says sometimes made one’s heart cringe in bitter sympathy..
It might be her extraordinary intelligence that made her much too aware of the potential heartbreaks, that caused her to restraint herself so pitifully.
At such a young age, but bogged down with so much misgivings causing her to restraint herself from the things she loved, wouldn’t that be very tiring?
Jun Wu Xie shook her head and when she looked up and saw Qiao Chu and the others looking at her with a “You’re so pitiful, so heart wrenching” expression on their faces, she was rather surprised.
‘Had she just said anything wrong?’
‘Why are all their expressions so weird?’
“Meow.” The little black cat swished its tail as it rested on Jun Wu Xie’s shoulder.
[Do not use your own logic to assess the average person. Your words will always make them think that you are just a pitiful person with a tragic past, and you are just silently repressing your real self.]
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