Chapter 6. Good Friend
Chapter 6. Good Friend
The Empire’s Weiyang Academy.
This is a military academy dedicated to cultivating Spirit Master talents for the empire, divided into four grade levels.
Xia Feng is a student in the second semester of the first year.
In this world, one can only begin Spirit Pressure cultivation and become a Spirit Master at the age of eighteen.
Therefore, after graduating high school, students with a certain talent for spiritual cultivation will apply to the Empire’s Weiyang Academy. After several rounds of selection, they can enter the academy. The pass rate after selection is less than one in ten thousand, which is extremely rigorous.
“Feng, over here!”
As soon as Xia Feng entered the tiered classroom, he saw a short girl with fluffy, slightly curly mushroom-shaped hair, wearing dark blue overalls, waving excitedly at him.
She wore thick black-rimmed glasses, but they couldn’t hide the dark circles under her eyes.
“Mushroom, it’s rare to see you at a public lecture.” Xia Feng was a little surprised.
“Heh~” The mushroom-headed girl lifted her delicate and cute little face and sneered, “If I hadn’t heard that a very beautiful senior would be here for this class, do you think I would have bothered to come?”
“You really haven’t changed.”
Xia Feng glanced at the girl, his gaze contemptuous, “Didn’t you say before that you were Senior Lin’s simp? It hasn’t been long, and you already have a new target?”
The mushroom-headed girl crossed her arms, tilted her head, and looked down at Xia Feng, “Hmph, hmph, you wouldn’t understand. What I’m doing is a ‘cast a wide net’ strategy!”
As she spoke, the corner of her mouth turned, and her eyes under the lenses gleamed, “After all, in this three-dimensional world full of lies, you can only find true love if you simp enough!”
Xia Feng was accustomed to Mushroom’s perversions.
This girl’s real name is Mo Gugugu, nicknamed Mushroom, and she is his good close friend. No, his good buddy, it’s about the same.
As for why he became brothers with a lesbian, it all goes back to that dark and windy night, a cliché “hero saves the beauty”—
Well, to put it simply, when he was walking at night, he encountered a runaway female criminal who was like an aunt. Seeing that he was so attractive, she wanted to use her First-stage Spirit Master’s powerful strength to greet him. Mo Gugugu happened to pass by, so she turned around and… called the police! Then she shouted, “Let go of that boy!”
From this, we can see—
Boys really need to protect themselves in another world. These natives are truly too terrifying!
“By the way, didn’t you say you were busy with something these past few days? Why do you have time to come to class today?” Mushroom raised her sleepy little face and asked doubtfully.
Xia Feng smiled without answering. He was naturally here to find Mu Qingtong.
Mu Qingtong was somewhat famous in the second year, and it wasn’t difficult to find her class schedule. One of her classes was this public lecture on swordsmanship.
The Empire’s Weiyang Academy implemented a self-directed attendance system. Except for the first semester of the first year, which had three compulsory courses, from the second semester onwards, students were no longer mandated to attend specific courses.
Students could attend any class they wished, as the teaching resources were all in place, and the exorbitant tuition fees had been collected. Whether students studied or not was their own business.
The academy would not interfere further, except for illegal activities.
Because of this, girls like Mushroom, who loved playing games and were addicted to anime, hadn’t attended many classes since the start of the second semester.
However, Mushroom was an isolated case in the academy. After all, the tuition fee of over 300,000 a year made students eager to fill every hour of their day with classes and study hard! Not studying would be a disrespect to their money!
“She’s here, she’s here!” Mushroom excitedly tugged at Xia Feng’s sleeve.
Xia Feng looked up in confusion.
The woman, dressed in an elegant, dark long dress and wearing sexy stiletto heels, stepped across the threshold.
“Senior Mu.”
“Hello, Senior.”
The passing female students greeted her as they saw her approach.
Mu Qingtong smiled gently, gave a soft hum and a nod of acknowledgment, then walked straight to the seating area for the second-year students. However, just as she was about to sit down, she seemed to sense something and looked up, her gaze quickly locking onto the first-year seating area in the very back.
“Mmm~ She’s looking at me! Mu Shen is looking at me!!” Mushroom tugged at Xia Feng’s sleeve, shaking him excitedly.
“…”
Xia Feng’s eye twitched slightly. He pushed away her closely approaching face and smiled and nodded at the black-dressed woman in the distance.
Mu Qingtong’s beautiful eyes curved slightly, and she nodded back before gracefully taking her seat. The surrounding girls simultaneously swarmed around her, chattering beside her.
“She’s your new target?” Xia Feng asked, tilting his head.
Mushroom calmed her excitement, her little face filled with seriousness, “Precisely!”
“Then you’ve really picked a good one,” Xia Feng found it somewhat amusing and said in a low voice, “Let me tell you a secret, she actually already has a fiancé~”
“Ah?! How is that possible…” Mushroom’s eyes widened, “Who?”
“Me.” Xia Feng smiled.
“…Heh~”
Mushroom rolled her eyes and waved her hand, “Got it, go play.”
Her face was filled with disdain, “If you’re her fiancé, then I’m her unborn daughter!”
Xia Feng smiled and remained silent, simply reaching out and rubbing her little head, his gaze as gentle as a loving father.
“You—” Mushroom, who was only about 1.5 meters tall, was immediately angered and slapped away his large hand, “Get lost, get lost!”
Xia Feng withdrew his hand and looked at the World-Ending Witch, who was surrounded by everyone in the distance, and asked with some confusion, “She seems very popular?”
“That’s Mu Shen, of course she’s popular.”
Mushroom snorted and explained, “At last year’s New Year’s Eve party, Mu Qingtong’s piano piece was absolutely divine. You probably hadn’t enrolled yet then, so it’s normal that you don’t know.”
!
Speaking of this, she couldn’t help but sigh, “It’s just a pity that Mu Shen, whose Spirit Master talent is mediocre, still enrolled in this damn Spirit Master academy. If she had gone into entertainment, she would have been unstoppable!”
Her Spirit Master talent is mediocre?
If this scheming woman’s talent were mediocre, then everyone present would be trash that should be thrown into the garbage bin.
Xia Feng muttered to himself, about to ask further, when suddenly there was a faint commotion and discussion at the entrance.
“Why is she here?”
“Who?”
“One of the Black Moon Holy See’s preparatory Saintesses, Cha Nai Xue. It is said that she is only twenty-one years old now, but she has already broken through to the Second-stage Spirit Master!”
“That strong?” a boy exclaimed, “Then she can compare to those geniuses in the fourth year.”
“But why would someone from the Black Moon Holy See come to our academy…”
“Quiet!”
Suddenly, Professor Freya on the podium lightly tapped the Spirit Bell. The deafening ringing wave swept out, and the entire hall fell silent.
“It’s time, everyone return to your seats.”
Although Professor Freya was beautiful, her stern and indifferent demeanor made the students tremble in fear.
After everyone was seated, she didn’t waste any more words, flipped open her book, and directly began her lecture.
“The surface of everyone’s soul has countless Spirit Particles attached. By decomposing and reconstructing these Spirit Particles, Spirit Robes and Spirit Pressure can be formed.”
“In the last lecture, we discussed the relationship and definition of Spirit Robes and Spirit Pressure.
Spirit Pressure refers to the process of a living being entering the stage of an Apprentice Spirit Master, where ‘disordered Spirit Particle structures’ are rearranged to form an ordered ‘double helix Spirit Particle structure’—this process causes evolution in the essence of the soul, forming an oppressive aura that presses down on lower life forms, hence it is called Spirit Pressure.
And then, when this ‘double helix Spirit Particle structure’ is further decomposed and reconstructed into other ‘special Spirit Particle structures,’ various strange special abilities will appear. In ancient times, when the world was not yet unified, this was called martial arts techniques, Spirit Energy templates, incantation models, magic circuits…
But in modern times, because its release process manifests as a layer of airflow covering the surface of the human body, it is uniformly called Spirit Energy Outer Robe, or Spirit Robe for short.”
“Therefore, the ‘double helix Spirit Particle structure’ corresponding to Spirit Pressure, although it does not possess special abilities, is also a type of Spirit Robe, and more importantly, it is the foundation for forming Spirit Robes.”
While Professor Freya was lecturing on the podium, Cha Nai Xue sat in the invited listening seat at the front row, lost in thought.
After a while, the nun beside her leaned closer and handed her a mobile phone, “Your Highness, please take a look at this.”
“What is it?” Cha Nai Xue came back to her senses and took the phone.
[Six-Tails Sect – Qi Xiao: Telling you some bad news, your childhood sweetheart is actually a First-stage Spirit Master. This bastard has been playing us all!]
The message was filled with anger and malice. The moment Cha Nai Xue saw it, she was obviously startled, her delicate eyebrows slowly furrowed, “He’s a First-stage Spirit Master? How is that possible?”
She was absolutely certain that her childhood sweetheart was useless when it came to cultivation. Of course, calling him useless was a bit much, but in this Empire’s Weiyang Academy where geniuses were everywhere, his cultivation talent was indeed not outstanding.
It was even more impossible for him to have reached the level of a First-stage Spirit Master at only eighteen years old.
According to her probability calculations, Xia Feng could only reach First-stage Spirit Master at the earliest in his third year’s second semester or his fourth year, but at this stage, it was completely wishful thinking.
[Six-Tails Sect – Qi Xiao: I know you won’t believe it. Coincidentally, I found out that kid is also attending Freya’s class. Heh~ I guess he still has designs on you. You can test him yourself to see his depth.]
The message notification popped up with a ding. Cha Nai Xue’s delicate eyebrows raised, and she subconsciously looked back, just in time to see that familiar figure.
