“Yes.”
“Haha, there’s no need to be nervous. I am always very easygoing and it was Uncle Gu who asked me to come find you. His description of you was spot on! Look for the smallest sized kid and it would be you.” Fan Jin had a jovial disposition and his words were always accompanied with a bit of laughter in them.
Jun Wu Xie’s steps suddenly faltered and she looked at Fan Jin’s back thoughtfully.
“What is it?” Fan Jin turned around and looked at Jun Wu Xie who had suddenly stopped.
“Nothing.” Jun Wu Xie replied, and she lowered her head to push the thoughts out of her head.
The fact that Gu Li Sheng had arranged for someone to come get her meant that he had predicted that his words spoken before everyone on the day of her enrollment would bring her quite a bit of trouble. Having made such arrangements meant that Gu Li Sheng was still keen on accepting her into the Spirit Healer Faculty, which suited her intentions fine.
The Zephyr Academy’s main division consisted of only three faculties. The Spirit Healer, the weapon ring spirit and the beast ring spirit faculties. On the surface, Jun Wu Xie’s ring spirit was a beast ring spirit, but her real ring spirit was the Snow Lotus. Even if she were to join the other faculties, it would be of no help to her anyway.
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Chapter 393: “A Disagreeable Roommate (1)”
The Zephyr Academy allocates two people to a room in the dormitories. After Fan Jin brought Jun Wu Xie to claimed her uniforms, he proceeded to lead her to her room.
Within the room, a pale complexioned youth sat, his face gloomy, and his head lowered over a book by the window. When he heard steps approaching, he raised his head and cast his cheerless gaze over, a gaze that made one feel very uncomfortable. He looked at Jun Wu Xie and he frowned deeply, and when his eyes saw Fan Jin behind Jun Wu Xie, the sweeping glance stopped a moment and his eyes flashed very briefly. He averted his eyes away soon after and went back to his book without a word.
“You will live here from now onwards. I am on the seventh floor, last room on the extreme right. If there is anything you need from me, you can find me there.” Fan Jin said with a smile and gave Jun Wu Xie a reassuring pat on the shoulder.
Jun Wu Xie nodded and Fan Jin left after bidding goodbye.
Jun Wu Xie surveyed the fittings in the room and did not feel like saying anything.
The dormitories were separated for male and female disciples and female disciples in the Zephyr Academy numbered less than one to ten males.
Jun Wu Xie’s bed was on the right side and was directly across the gloomy youth’s. She was not interested in other people and proceeded to tidy up her own things.
Besides the clothes, Fan Jin had prepared some daily necessities as well in a through package.
From the time that Jun Wu Xie had entered the room till she had tidied up all her things, her roommate had not spoken a single word. The room was deadly silent broken only by the occasional flipping pages of a book.
After a while, a youth bearing a jade emblem on his chest came in and when he saw Jun Wu Xie in the room, he was startled a moment before he walked towards the gloomy youth’s side.
“Yin Yan, this kid is your new roommate?” The youth who had just come in asked of Yin Yan, whose head was still lowered over his book.
Yin Yan raised his head and nodded slightly, his expression showing a tinge of impatience.
“You’re in for quite a bit of hassle. All new rookies are always such a handful when they are just admitted in here. I don’t know what the Headmaster is thinking. He should just dump these rookies in the branch division to polish them up a little first. I don’t know what they are here for at all.” The youth spoke mockingly, seemingly directing his words right at Jun Wu Xie.
Yin Yan replied without hesitation: “If they are so much trouble, they should learn their place.” Those words seemed to be more for Jun Wu Xie’s ears than the other youth.
“Right, I heard that Senior Fan actually brought a rookie here today. What could Fan Jin be thinking! ? We are about to embark on the Spirit Hunt soon, why would he suddenly decide to drag himself down with those useless baggage?”
Yin Yan’s eyes had suddenly turned malicious. His gaze fell on the Jun Wu Xie, who was quietly sitting on her bed. Jun Wu Xie had summoned the little black cat and she was leaning against the bedpost with the black cat resting on her lap, portraying a picture of serenity.
Yin Yan stood up suddenly and walked over to Jun Wu Xie.
His shadow fell over the bed and Jun Wu Xie looked up slowly, her cold eyes staring into a pair of malicious and gloomy eyes.
“The Zephyr Academy does not allow for any arbitrary summoning of ring spirits within its compound. Are you blind? Didn’t you see it in the academy’s rules?” Yin Yan voice sounded so malicious that it raised goosebumps on the other youth.
Jun Wu Xie’s eyes did not show any expression and she only stared at her aggressive new roommate without saying a word.
The youth who had entered later was surprised at Yin Yan enmity in his tone, which was glaringly obvious by now.
Although all the seniors did not like new rookies, but he felt that Yin Yan’s tone in his words had sounded a tad bit too provocative.
Jun Wu Xie said in a chillingly clear voice: “Below three feet.”
After saying that, she lowered her head and did not bother to cast another single glance at Yin Yan.
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Chapter 394: “A Disagreeable Roommate (2)”
Yin Yan frowned immediately at that moment. There was a rule in the Zephyr Academy that disciples were not allowed to summon their ring spirits as they liked but there was an exception to that rule. The rule only applied to ring spirits above three feet and did not include any below.
Jun Wu Xie had just been admitted that very day and she had just flipped through the rule book a few times. Yin Yan had seized the opportunity to deliberately make things difficult for her assuming that Jun Wu Xie was not aware of the rules, but he had not expected that Jun Wu Xie not only knew about it, but had even used the only exception to that rule to shut him up, and on top of that, Jun Wu Xie’s attitude had been unbelievably arrogant!
Jun Wu Xie had indeed just flipped through the rule book just a couple of times, but what Yin Yan did not know was that Jun Wu Xie’s brain was blessed with a photographic memory and she had actually gone through the whole rule book three times since she entered the room. Every single rule for the disciples were now memorized word for word by now.
Yin Yan’s first move against Jun Wu Xie based on the assumption that she was unfamiliar with the rules had backfired onto him.
“You dared to answer back?” Yin Yan’s eyes had grown even more malicious. Any new freshman that had just been admitted into the Zephyr Academy were all known to be jittery and nervous before the seniors, although Yin Yan had tried to dig up an excuse and tried to teach Jun Wu Xie a lesson, the freshmen were expected to bow down to their seniority and swallow it up in humility, irregardless whether there was a valid reason or not!
Meeting such an audacious freshman was a first for Yin Yan.
“You’re too noisy.” Jun Wu Xie said as she shot Yin Yan a glare.
Yin Yan’s face paled further in fury.
The youth at the side saw that Yin Yan was about to lose his control and he rushed up immediately to tug at Yin Yan’s arm to say: “Senior Ning asked to see you, do not waste your time with this rookie here.”
Upon hearing the words “Senior Ning”, the gloominess on Yin Yan’s face faded. He cast a final vicious stare at Jun Wu Xie and turned to leave with the youth.
Silence fell once again within the room.
The black cat rubbed itself against Jun Wu Xie’s hand and said: [That numbskull seems to harbour quite a bit of hatred for you. Did you offend someone again while I was in a coma?]
In regards to its Mistress’ temperament, the little black cat knew only too well. She was never one to meddle in other pe
ople’s business and disliked stirring up trouble. But her cold and fiercely independent personality nevertheless had always attracted the displeasure of others like a magnet.
Just like the situation moments ago. Yin Yan’s attitude towards Jun Wu Xie might not have been too amicable, but for a freshman to be capable of slapping a senior with the words “You’re too noisy” right before another senior, there was no one else but its own Mistress.
Tact had never been a trait that could be found on Jun Wu Xie and the little black cat did not hold any hope that its Mistress would gain any of it in this life.
“Never met him.” Jun Wu Xie replied simply.
The little black cat sighed heavily. Its Mistress had never been someone people warmed up to at first sight. This was just their first meeting and the other party already harboured such intense enmity towards her.
The little black cat was still lamenting on its Mistress’ provocative personality when on the other side of the door, the youth who had just come out of the room with Yin Yan could not stop himself but ask.
“What is wrong with you? Squabbling with a rookie like that. If you really find him obnoxious, just get someone to deal with him discreetly! You don’t have to degrade yourself like that.” The youth said easily. In the Zephyr Academy, teaching the freshmen a lesson had always been the norm.
Yin Yan frowned and said: “He was brought in by Fan Jin.”
The youth was shocked a moment as he suddenly understood the reason for Yin Yan’s actions.
“Even so, you can do it yourself then. He is just a rookie afterall, even with Fan Jin’s protection, it would be easy for you if you want to give that kid a hard time. You are afterall a disciple of the Spirit Healer faculty and even if anything were to go wrong, no one would dare do anything to you.”
Yin Yan’s brow finally smoothed out after hearing the youth’s words and his mouth twisted into a malicious smile as he said: “Even without Fan Jin, the way that kid spoke to me earlier would not allow me to let her off easy anyway.”
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Chapter 395: “A Disagreeable Roommate (3)”
The youth nodded readily but he felt a sudden chill in his heart. Yin Yan looked to be refined and gentle from the outside, but the vicious streak hidden beneath that exterior always sent goosebumps into him.
“What does Senior Ning want from me?” Yin Yan cast the matter with Jun Xie aside for the moment to ask of the youth.
The youth could only shake his head to reply: “Senior Ning didn’t say, but had only asked me to bring you to her.”
Yin Yan did not probe any further on it.
Moments later, the two of them came to the beast faculty’s library and on the second level of the library, a young girl dressed in the Zephyr Academy’s uniform was sitting by the window. Light rays shone in through the window and fell onto the girl, shrouding the girl in a mesmerising light.
The girl’s eyes were lowered, absorbed into the book she held in her hand.
Yin Yan stared at the figure engrossed in her book and cleared his throat lightly before saying: “Senior Ning.”
The young girl looked up from her book and her beautiful features overwhelmed Yin Yan imposingly. Her gaze from above suffocated him and he found it difficult to breathe.
Under the girl’s gaze, Yin Yan could not help but to lower his head.
The girl then shot a glance at the youth beside Yin Yan and the youth hastily left consciously.
The girl then proceeded to ask in a slow tone: “The new freshman under Fan Jin, is staying with you?”
Yin Yan replied: “Yes, I had only just found out just as well.”
The girl continued: “You’ve seen the freshman?”
“Yes.”
“How was it?”
“Very young, looks to fourteen or fifteen years old, and a small skinny frame. Looks unremarkable.” Yin Yan related honestly. If not for the fact that the freshman was brought in by Fan Jin into the room, he wouldn’t have even paid the new disciple any notice.
The girl shot Yin Yan a sideways glance: “If he’s unremarkable, how would Fan Jin bother to choose to mentor him?”
Although the Zephyr Academy had the tradition of having seniors mentor the new freshmen, the tradition however came with a few exceptions. The selection of the mentors had always been done by chance and nobody knew who would be selected.
But within those chances, stood two exceptions.
First, the disciples of the Spirit Healer faculty were exempted. The were already very few disciples in the Spirit Healer faculty and no one knew what criteria the Master Gu Li Sheng set for his selection of his disciples. Every year, only two or three disciples were accepted into the Spirit Healer faculty, and being accepted did not mean that one would always remain in the faculty. If Gu Li Sheng were to find the disciple unsuited to study to become a Spirit Healer in the course of their training, he would not hesitate to kick the disciple out of the Spirit Healer faculty. Past history had shown, that the two to three disciples recruited every year would always end up with only one single disciple remaining with the Spirit Healers.
As of now, the number of disciples in the Spirit Healer faculty only numbered around eight or nine of them in total.
But it was exactly those eight or nine disciples who were most envied throughout the whole Zephyr Academy! It was said that those disciples did not have to shoulder any other tasks besides their training. The Zephyr Academy’s only goal for them was to turn them into prominent Spirit Healers.
And besides the disciples of the Spirit Healer faculty, there was another group of people who were exempted from serving as mentors.
And that was those ranked within the top ten in the Spirit Battle Tournament!
The Zephyr Academy sets up a Spirit Battle Tournament at the end of every year. The various ring spirits were not categorised and all the disciples were gathered together to battle and the most outstanding top ten ranks would be selected from it.
Those ten disciples would be rewarded by allocating to them the best resources the Zephyr Academy had to give. Irregardless whether it was towards training or in other areas, they would enjoy better treatment than all the other disciples. The annual Spirit Battle Tournament at the end of the year was always the period the disciples of the Zephyr Academy competed the most fiercely with each other.
Fan Jin was ranked fourth in the last Spirit Battle Tournament last year and he had not needed to provide mentorship to any freshmen this year due to being exempted from taking up the laborious task that wasted time and effort.
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Chapter 396: “A Disagreeable Roommate (4)”
Yin Yan nodded in understanding. Senior Ning’s words made him look at the entire situation from another perspective.
“But, I have seen the kid’s ring spirit as well, and it’s just a ordinary little black cat….. It didn’t seem to be extraordinary in any way.”
“Just an ordinary little black cat?” Senior Ning’s attractive face took on one of cold mockery. Her eyes looked at Yin Yan tinged with regret. “Do you think if the kid did not possess any capabilities and possessed only a little black cat, he would be directly admitted into the Zephyr Academy’s main division? Little Yan, you are still too young.”
Senior Ning’s words splashed like cold water on him, waking the ignorant Yin Yan up rudely.
He had only looked at Jun Wu Xie’s age and the unremarkable little black cat. But he had naively forgotten about the fact that Jun Wu Xie had been one of the few applicants that had successfully gained direct entry into the Zephyr Academy’s main division.
Yin Yan himself was an applicant who had been admitted directly into the main division and he naturally knew how difficult it was to achieve that feat.
Having been reminded, his contempt for Jun Wu Xie seemed to have tapered a little.
“Senior Ning is right as usual, your junior here has learnt something.” Yin Yan humbly acceded.
Senior Ning laughed, the sound a
light tinkle, and without any other acknowledgement, she lowered her eyes back onto the book in her hand. However, without looking up, she continued to say: “The fact that Fan Jin had gone on his own accord to take in the new disciple as his ward must have made you feel rather bitter, didn’t it? He had totally disregarded your existence before and now he is showing so much concern for a newly admitted disciple. It pains me to see the great disparity of his actions in the way he treats the two of you.
Senior Ning’s words cut like a knife on Yin Yan’s heart as the humiliating scene surfaced once again in his mind, and he was reminded once again by the pictures of his unforgettable disgrace. In the next moment, Yin Yan’s face had darkened terribly and his hands clenched into fists. His arms were held tight against his body and veins protruded on them, the only signs revealing his mightily suppressed rage.
Senior Ning’s face flashed with an almost unnoticeable smile but it very quickly faded away.
“But that is already a thing of the past, and I think Fan Jin must have deeply regretted it. You are no longer that ignorant freshman anymore and have made it into the Spirit Healer faculty. Compared to many of the other disciples, you would tower of them with your achievements. There is no need to wallow in self pity anymore.” Senior Ning gently placated Yin Yan, after having incited his rage and hatred under the mask of sympathy.
Yin Yan was oblivious to the fact that his emotions were being manipulated by a mere few words uttered by a young lady, all well within her control.
“Yes! I thank Senior Ning for your concern! I will never forget the humiliation I suffered that day. I am what I am today due to Senior Ning’s benevolence.” Yin Yan said with a cold laugh, his eyes narrowed at the memory.
[That’s right, he Yin Yan was already a member of the Spirit Healer Faculty and had earned the endless envy of countless other disciples. He was no longer trash that others despised!]
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