Chapter 138: Chapter 137: A pair of Observing eyes..
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"Mother, what are you doing here?" Duan Li asked as soon as they met again on the back gate of the academy.
"What am I doing here? You haven't gone back home last week, so I was worried and decided to come and visit you.." Meng Yue said as she pouted her mouth.
"Eh? I was told that the freshmen are not allowed to come back home yet two weeks after enrolling.. I thought mother knew about this.." Duan Li explained feeling a little bit guilty.
Hearing this, Meng Yue thought for a while and then shook her head.
"Hmm.. I didn't know that there are such rules now.. well after all, I haven't been back here since for at least, a decade already.." she said and reminisced the good old times as she turned her head around to look at the academy.
There were now a lot of new buildings being constructed in the academy and it looked far more grander than it was before.
For example, previously, the sports ground was used to drill new students and they would have to live inside shared camps until they could reach the Middle stage of the Qi Condensation realm. It was hell, but effective in boosting the new fresh blood.
What surprises her the most was that, ontop of the academy now being surrounded by tall walls of about 10 meters in height, there were even numerous formidable runic formations reinforcing it!
Even she herself would not be able to force her way in so easily.
And back then, the walls were not that high and they were only guarded by several Nascent Soul realm experts..
It appears that I've been out of the loop for far too long..
Meng Yue sighed and then turned to look at her son once more but this time, with a serious look.
Realizing that something was amiss, Duan Li swallowed a mouthful of saliva in preparation of what was to come.
Gulp!
"You.. just what were you thinking of heading out there fighting against all those monsters just now? Did you think yourself as someone immortal and became conceited just because you've become a little bit stronger?"
When Meng Yue said these sentences, her voice was not loud, but it was her low and deep pitch that was giving off an extremely dangerous vibe to it.
She was serious!
It was at this moment that Duan Li knew his mother was angry, and not just a small bit, but extremely angry!
"I.. I was just.." he tried to answer but his mind couldn't find the right words to express his thoughts.
If he were to answer that he was out there just to test on how strong he had become now, his mother would definitely hand him over an a*s-whopping of the century..
"What? Tell me about it." Meng Yue asked once more, as her face turned increasingly dark.
Realizing that there was no way out for him and giving out excuses would just add more fuel to the fire, Duan Li sighed.
"I'm sorry mother for being reckless.. next time, I won't try to do things like that anymore.." he said slowly while looking straight to the ground, not daring to look at her face one bit.
While his mother might be shorter than him, at this moment, it was as though his mother was a giant and towering existence that he could not hope to scale over.
"Good. That is what I wanted to hear! Regardless of what reasons you chose to do what you did, you are still far too weak to head out of the Empire on your own!" Meng Yue nodded as she finally said her piece.
"I've seen what you can do from the jade beacon, and while your current battle prowess is indeed impressive, against a Nascent Soul realm expert or monsters, you will die before you even knew it!" she added with a strict tone.
Outside of the Empire territory were the lawless zone and Duan Li could only be considered to be lucky for not encountering any other stronger monster like the 3 Star Alpha.
Acknowledging his mistake, Duan Li replied, "I understand mother.. I'm sorry.."
In fact, he understood the point that his mother has made just now.
He could remember the vivid memories and feelings of being a Nascent Soul realm expert before. Undoubtedly, it was by no means comparable to the prowess of someone in an Immortal Ascension realm cultivation state, but to make a simple analogy, If an Immortal Ascension realm cultivator was a tall mountain, a Nascent Soul realm cultivator was a hill, and those below it were nothing more than an ant mound!
It was just like the old saying that, all those below the Nascent Soul realm were ants!
"Good, make sure to not do it again. At least not until you are a full-fledged Nascent Soul realm expert anyway. By that time, you can just practically do anything you want and usually, no one could really do anything about it when you are disgustingly strong." Meng Yue said, carrying a hint of pride within that sentence of her's.
Indeed, in front of true powers, everything else will have to make way for it!
"Oh but make sure to not go too overboard. There are some really old hermits hidden around the Empire. They are far more profound in their means when compared to a normal Nascent Soul realm expert!" she added.
Back then in one occasion, she had thrown a huge ruckus before to the extent that one of the 'Old Masters' of the Empire were forced to resurface back to the world to deal with her.
It was quite a troublesome experience but fortunately, she managed to escape in the end.
Hearing this, Duan Li had a dazed look to him.
Mother, I am not going to cause problem for the Empire!
I am not some problematic child!
"Right, where are you staying? I reckoned that the Principal should give you at least a proper lodging for the sake of my name." she asked casually while puffing out her chest proudly.
Hearing this, Duan Li was shocked.
Eh?
Mother is planning to stay overnight?
Was that even allowed by the academy at all?
"I bought myself a residence court to the East of here.." Duan Li replied as he sighed.
Even if he tried to persuade his mother to leave, not only would the latter not listen, he would also feel quite guilty from that as well.
"Huh? Since when did you get enough money to buy a residence court? Those were usually priced in the ranges of a few High Quality spirit stones.." she said in bewilderment.
Don't tell me that in this short while that he was here, my son has already been engaging himself in illegal and illicit dealings?!
"Yeah.. I found a treasury inside the Eternal Maze under the academy before and got myself some good fortunes.." Duan Li answered.
Pap!
Duan Li's mother face-palmed her own face in frustrations.
The Eternal Maze?
You mean that place where not even the strongest Nascent Soul realm expert in their time back then has ever made it out alive?
I'm quite intrigued to hear this part of the story on how you were still in one piece.
Maybe there are changes to the Eternal Maze too?
But regardless, I need to have another good 'talking' session with the Principal later on..
"What's wrong mother?" Duan Li asked, not knowing what his mother was currently thinking.
"It's nothing. Point me the way to your residence court then! Your mother is tired here after such a long journey from the village." she replied.
Duan Li nodded as they both then bolted off into the distance.
...
BAM! BAM!
ROAAARR!!
Currently, in the middle region of the Blastwinter desert, a tragic wail from a single monster echoed through the cold night.
"Are you done yet? We've been at it for a good 5 rounds now, finish it quickly." said the Vice-Principal as he maintained a barrier made up of his Spiritual Qi that was encompasing him and the Principal inside, along with the Alpha.
Right now, the 3 Star Alpha was bruised all around its body, its face deformed and one of its arm and leg got torn off by the duo from venting away their frustrations.
"Hmph! You deserve this for causing us to nearly lost our lives! Blame it on yourself for getting conceited and showing yourselves to the boy back then!" the Principal harrumphed.
Pshhh!!
With a single, swift wave of his hand in a chopping motion, the head of the Alpha was decapitated in an instant as it flew off from its body.
"It's done, let us leave now. I garner that this second disturbance has caught the attention of the surrounding people." he said as he swept up his robes.
"Indeed." the Vice-Principal replied.
With a flick of his finger, the Spiritual Qi barrier erupted like thin needles flying outwards. They pierced through the bodies and skulls of the surrounding monster that was attacking it before and turned them into a beehives.
BOOMM!!
The duo then bolted off to the sky to return back to the Empire as they had finished the objective that they came here for.
However, unbeknownst to them, a pair of eyes was observing them from the distance, its figure was as invisible as the surrounding air and was the reason why the Vice-Principal and the Principal did not notice him back then.
"I see.. so that boy back then was from the Jiu Empire as well.. superb potential.. perfect for a harvest.."
This person was wearing a dark black robe with the symbol of a new moon at its back.
The Dark Sect!
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