by Feng Yise
The first half of Long Tang's words sounded like complimenting, but the second half was simply looking down upon Su Yubai!
And the meaning of his words was actually acknowledging the truth that Ye Yuan was even more talented than him.
"Long Tang! Do you know the consequences of insulting the academy's elder?!" Su Yubai was enraged.
Long Tang's back faced Su Yubai. He did not plan on responding from the start. Towards Su Yubai's conduct, Long Tang also despised him greatly, which was why he said those words.
"Tsk tsk tsk. Elder Su is getting on in years. You're really quite forgetful. Senior Apprentice Brother Long cleared the Nine Heavens Road, so his status is already equivalent to the Tranquil Cloud Sect's core disciple. His status in the Tranquil Cloud Sect is already higher than yours. So what if he insults you a little?" Ye Yuan derided him.
"Good! Good! You all want to rebel right? Just wait! Don't think that you can be carefree after making it through the Nine Heavens Road by luck!" Su Yubai's flames of wrath could already burn the skies.
"Better save it, Elder Su. We're about to take part in the Endless Trials now. You'd better not delay everyone's time." Ye Yuan completely ignored Su Yubai's threat.
Zhang Songtao who was hosting the Endless Trials could no longer watch on. Speaking up, he said, "Alright, alright. Ye Yuan, Long Tang, don't mess around anymore. Although you two already have the status of the high sect's core disciple, you are still in the State of Qin's Dan Wu Academy, yes? I know that both parties have some grudges, so temporarily put aside this matter. The matter at hand is still to undergo the Endless Trials. Both parties, give me face and stop arguing."
Zhang Songtao's words were clearly partial towards Su Yubai. But Ye Yuan was indifferent.
Either way, Su Yubai's face was already swept clean by him. He did not suffer a loss.
Rather, it was Long Tang who seemed like he had not finished talking. He asked Ye Yuan, "Ye Yuan, although this request is rather abrupt, I still wish to be able to fight with you before heading for the Tranquil Cloud Sect! I wonder what's your opinion?"
Even though this was the first time Ye Yuan came into contact with Long Tang, he still had quite a good impression.
Long Tang was clearly someone who was forthright and determined. A pretty decent opponent!
Furthermore, Long Tang was rank one on the Martial Roll. Ye Yuan wanted to charge back to the Divine Realm, so Long Tang was in its true sense his first barrier!
He had to pass it!
This battle was perhaps destined a long time ago!
"Alright! Even if Senior Apprentice Brother Long doesn't come and find me, I would also go and look for you! This battle, I will definitely go!" Ye Yuan said heroically.
Chapter 123 - Utterly Shameless
"Team up with me, Senior Apprentice Sister Feng. My Seven Star Sword Art is already trained to the great success stage. I won't drag you down!"
"Why not we go together, Senior Apprentice Sister Feng? If we encounter high tier demonic beasts, I will sacrifice my life to let you escape!"
"Together, Senior Apprentice Sister Feng? All the treasures our team gets will belong to you. I only want the items the mission requires."
After the rather unpleasant assembly ended, the majority of the teams left the Dan Wu Academy.
Along the way, many powerful and outstanding young men gathered in front of Feng Zhirou, hoping to team up with her.
Feng Zhirou's charm was truly not fake. Just in this short while, there were already no less than ten male students who requested to team with her. And their strengths were all at the Second Level Spirit Condensation Realm and above.
One had to acknowledge that Feng Zhirou's cold and icy appearance could greatly stimulate men's d.e.s.i.r.e to conquer.
The colder she was to these male students, the more stimulated these males rushed up to her.
Even when Feng Zhirou rejected those male students, they still circled around not far from her.
Ye Yuan kept following neither too far away nor too near. But now, he joined in, asking with a smile, "Why not take me, Senior Apprentice Sister Feng? You see, my strength is meager. The two of us teaming up can fully display your unparalleled majesty!"
Everyone shot a scornful look at Ye Yuan.
Your strength is meager? Your combat prowess can already rank in the top 50 of the Martial Roll!
Can bullshit even reach such a level?
Furthermore, don't women all wish to be protected by men? Your kind of degrading request for protection will surely be despised by Senior Apprentice Sister Feng!
Speaking of which, this was already not the first time Ye Yuan hid behind a woman's back. The previous time Su Yubai ambushed, didn't Ye Yuan also hide behind Teacher Feng?
Could Ye Yuan be a typical case of bullying the weak but fearing the strong?
How could Senior Apprentice Sister Feng possibly like such a man?
Moreover, who in the academy currently was unaware that Ye Yuan already picked up Teacher Feng now? Now, he even came to tease Feng Zhirou. Could it be that he wanted to simultaneously collect aunt and niece?
Did he not want to retain his face?
Even if Senior Apprentice Sister could not find any man, it was also impossible to share a husband with her own aunt, right?
Right at this moment, Feng Zhirou suddenly stopped and turned around to stare icily at Ye Yuan.
A bone-chilling intent spread out.
Just when everyone thought that Feng Zhirou was about to explode, she spat out four words coldly, "Make way in front!"
Everybody fell to the ground.
Just what in the world happened? This world is too insane!
Senior Apprentice Sister Feng actually agreed!
Could it be that Senior Apprentice Sister Feng was a thorough cold elder sister who enjoyed this sort of play?
If they knew earlier, they would also have pretended to have a pitiful appearance to satisfy Senior Apprentice Sister Feng's protective d.e.s.i.r.es!
"Haha! Heard that? Senior Apprentice Sister Feng has already agreed to pair up with me. Everyone, stop circling around her already! You all are also aware that once Senior Apprentice Sister Feng flares up, ordinary people can't take it. Better not find trouble for yourselves. If you are hurt because of this, don't blame me for not warning you all!" Ye Yuan told everyone with a smile.
Finishing, Ye Yuan really led the way to open up the path.
There were naturally some who still refused to give up. In the end, after Feng Zhirou drew her sword and nearly sliced off an ear, did everyone leave unwillingly.
At this moment, Ye Yuan and Feng Zhirou already arrived at the borders of the Endless Forest.
The Endless Forest was filled with dangers. Hence, when students underwent the Endless Trials, they frequently entered in threes or in pairs.
The duration of the Endless Trials was half a month. The mission for Heaven rank students was to submit ten Tier 2 demonic beast's inner cores and ten stalks of Tier 2 medicinal herbs.
This mission did not seem hard to complete. They just had to kill ten Tier 2 demonic beasts, harvest ten stalks of medicinal herbs, and that was it. But in fact, it was not so simple.
The strength of the demonic beasts tended to be immensely powerful, often a level greater than the strength of martial artists of the same level. Furthermore, many demonic beasts lived in groups. Once they get caught, it was virtually impossible to survive.
Also, some medicinal herbs often had its accompanying beast to guard it. One could suffer the attack of a demonic beast at any time while harvesting herbs.
Hence, forming teams to complete the mission was obviously the best option.
"Senior Apprentice Sister, aren't you tired at all of showing that icy face all day?" Seeing nobody around, Ye Yuan turned towards Feng Zhirou.
"None of your business! I want to!" Feng Zhirou snapped.
Although she still maintained that frosty look, no matter how he looked at it, it see
med like throwing a tantrum. It was entirely different from that kind of distancing people a thousand miles away sort of iciness just now.
Ye Yuan sighed and said, "You got to marry eventually, gorgeous. How are you going to find your Mr. Right like this?"
Feng Zhirou said, "All of you stinky men, every one of you just thinks about dirty stuff. None of you are good. Why do I have to show a good attitude to you all?"
"You're overturning an entire ship of people with one blow! Let's not talk about whether men are good or not first. This Dao of Men and Woman is a natural Great Dao. A gentleman pursues a fair maiden. There's nothing inappropriate about this, right?"
"I also didn't say that I can't find a Dao companion, what are you anxious about? Don't tell me that you are so anxious because you fell for this young lady like those stinky men?"
Feng Zhirou's words unconsciously detached Ye Yuan away from the rest. Most likely, even she did not realize it herself.
Ye Yuan chortled and said, "Senior Apprentice Sister might be beautiful, but I'd better keep a respectful distance away from that personality of drawing your sword at the slightest provocation! I don't wish to find a Dao companion who might just stab me one day. That would be such an unjust death!"
Feng Zhirou gnashed her teeth and said, "You're so vapid. Do you have to keep harping on that one thing forever?"
Just like Feng Ruoqing, Feng Zhirou had always been rather confident in her own charm. But in front of Ye Yuan, she had never found that sort of superiority.
Not only did Ye Yuan not humor her and indulge her like the other students, but he also avoided her like the plague.
Feng Zhirou had never experienced this sort of frustration before.
Moreover, she could sense that Ye Yuan's words just now was not deliberately weighed out. But rather, he really did not want to have any association with herself.
In reality, Ye Yuan had never schemed after anything of hers. In fact, he helped her and her aunt a lot.
Feng Zhirou was prideful and haughty. All she thought about was pursuing the extremities of the Martial Dao. If she could no longer advance in this lifetime, it would be even worse than killing her.
Not only did Ye Yuan notice the problem with her body, he even gave her a cultivation law. This cultivation law named Water Defying Incantation was simply custom-made for her.
Feng Zhirou advanced at a tremendous pace when training this cultivation law.
Without any accidents, she only required three months to catch up to her former cultivation law's progress.
Although Feng Zhirou never expressed anything towards this, she was actually still very grateful to Ye Yuan in her heart.
Ye Yuan involuntarily laughed when he saw her look. "Haha. Fine, fine. Actually, it's not that I'm anxious about your affairs, but it's Teacher Feng who is more concerned."
Feng Zhirou asked doubtfully, "My aunt? What's the matter?"
Ye Yuan repeated what Feng Ruoqing said in the morning and said smilingly, "Your aunt is also really strange. She's clearly still a young lass, yet she's worried about your matters."
Hearing this incident, Feng Zhirou surprisingly did not express any opinion. Instead, she pulled a long face and said, "Quickly go. Continue to open up the path!"
Ye Yuan laughed and said, "Open what path? We can just openly walk in."
As he was talking, Ye Yuan fished out two medicinal pills and handed Feng Zhirou one.
Chapter 124 - Breath Concealing Pill
Feng Zhirou looked at the medicinal pill in Ye Yuan's hands. A stinky odor wafted over. She could not resist pinching her nose and pushing away Ye Yuan's hand, asking with a frown, "What medicinal pill is this? So smelly!"
"Tier 2 Breath Concealing Pill! Tier 3 demonic beasts and below will be incapable of detecting our aura. This will save us a lot of trouble," Ye Yuan explained.
Feng Zhirou shook her head repeatedly and said, "I don't want to, stinks to death! Eat it yourself if you want to!"
Ye Yuan smiled and did not insist on it. He swallowed one and kept the other one away.
Right now, the two had already entered the boundaries of the Endless Forest and did not stop for long. They headed straight into the deeper areas.
"Hey, what place are we going to?" Feng Zhirou asked from behind.
"Going to the Crimson Summit Ridge first," Ye Yuan answered without even turning back.
"Crimson Summit Ridge?! Are you mad? That's the habitat of the Long-arm Stone Ape. There's at least tens of thousands of Long-arm Stone Apes. There might even be a Tier 3 Ape King. Are you going to seek death?" Feng Zhirou exclaimed in shock.
Long-arm Stone Ape was a Tier 2 demonic beast. Once surrounded by a group of Long-arm Stone Apes, it would virtually be a certain death scenario.
"Go if you want to. I also didn't make you come along! Earlier, it was just to help you out of your situation. Do you really think I'm counting on you to protect me?" Ye Yuan did not spare any face for Feng Zhirou.
Feng Zhirou flew into a rage when she heard this. "Ye Yuan! Who do you think you are? Just your puny bit of strength isn't even fit to carry shoes for this young lady. Isn't it just a one-way route to hell if you go to the Crimson Summit Ridge?"
"Gorgeous, don't flatter yourself. I don't want to carry shoes for you. Also, just because you're strong, it doesn't mean that you'll definitely be fine. My strength is not as great as yours, but I also won't do something just to die in vain. Understood?"
"You! I'm not going anymore! I want to see just how you're going to come out from the Crimson Summit Ridge!" Feng Zhirou stomped her feet angrily and then stopped.
Ye Yuan still did not turn his head back. He kept moving forward with gusto without the slightest intention of stopping.
Feng Zhirou and Ye Yuan had mingled for some time already. They more or less understood a little of the other party's temper and personality.
Regardless whether it was the great life and death battle with Lin Tiancheng or challenging the Nine Heavens Road later on, Ye Yuan never did anything he was not confident in.
And even though this Ye Yuan's strength was not great, his various means were inexhaustible. She had never seen him suffer a loss.
Not that she had never seen Ye Yuan be at a disadvantage before. The only time she saw it seemed to be from her hands. That one sword nearly cost him his life.
Seeing Ye Yuan's figure about to disappear from her line of sight, Feng Zhirou gritted her teeth, stomped her feet, and displayed her movement technique to catch up.
"This fellow completely doesn't know to give in to girls a little. Such a blockhead! Maddening this princess to death!" Feng Zhirou said huffily.
Ye Yuan's pace was not quick. In a blink of an eye, Feng Zhirou caught up.
Without waiting for Ye Yuan to speak, Feng Zhirou said irately, "Don't think too much into it, Ye Yuan! I just don't want to be scolded by Aunty when I get back, that's why I'm continuing to protect you! If you die in the Endless Forest, she will definitely not spare me when I return."
Ye Yuan's back faced Feng Zhirou as he simply smiled and kept mum.
If he could, Ye Yuan naturally did not wish to go to Crimson Summit Ridge either. But one of the core ingredients of the Essence Yang Pill, Crimson Soul Grass, just happened to be growing in the habitat of the Long-arm Stone Apes. He had no choice but to go!
The Long-arm Stone Ape was a demonic social beast. Furthermore, their strength was very great! Even Crystal Formation Realm martial artists did not dare to freely intrude. No wonder Feng Zhirou's reaction was so big.
. . . . . .
After four hours, inside a dense forest, a faint blue pretty figure suddenly swung a sword and killed a demonic beast opposite her.
The pretty figure landed on the ground panting daintily and her fragrant sweat dripping.
This was already the third Tier 2 demonic beast that Feng Zhirou killed!
Apart from these Tier 2 beasts, she even killed no less than ten Tier 1 demonic beasts.
Aft
er killing so demonic beasts, Feng Zhirou's essence energy consumption was naturally enormous.
While at the side, Ye Yuan remained composed as he looked at Feng Zhirou who was dripping fragrant sweat without the slightest intention to come over and help.
"Do you still have humanity, Ye Yuan? I came to help you, but you've been standing idly by all this while!" Feng Zhirou currently wished that she could split Ye Yuan with one sword.
As for Feng Zhirou's sword, Ye Yuan was not too concerned.
Although he was not Feng Zhirou's match at the moment, it was no longer possible for Feng Zhirou to try and kill him with a sword like last time.
"My great missus, it's you who are noble and refused to eat the Breath Concealing Pill. Now, you are blaming me for attracting demonic beasts? I have a lot of places I want to go, how would I have the energy to keep wasting time along the way like this? Let's not talk about whether you will encounter powerful demonic beasts if you slaughter your way over or not, just the exhaustion will wear you out dead tired." Ye Yuan said grumpily.
The Endless Forest was infinitely vast. The distance to the Crimson Summit Ridge from the borders was a thousand miles. To human martial artists, it was already a very deep place.
Even though Ye Yuan had a map of the outer regions of the Endless Forest and could do a detour to avoid some danger zones, it would take too much time.
He could afford to dawdle, but Lu-er could not!
So he could only walk in a straight line!
Consuming the Breath Concealing Pill could minimize trouble to the limits. Yet Feng Zhirou refused to eat it.
Ye Yuan also knew Feng Zhirou's temper. Advising her was useless. Only by letting her suffer some hardship would she change her mind.
Indeed, now that Ye Yuan said that, Feng Zhirou suddenly had a revelation.
No wonder along the way, demonic beasts did not attack Ye Yuan and just pounced towards her vigorously as if they did not see Ye Yuan. So this was actually the reason!
Feng Zhirou knew Ye Yuan's alchemy standards, so she naturally would not doubt his medicinal pills.
It was just whenever she thought of that unbearable stench, Feng Zhirou would just shrink back.