"Xiaolong!" What was out of his expectations was Li Lu's familiar call the moment he stepped into the classroom.
Huang Xiaolong looked towards the direction of the sound and saw Li Lu waving enthusiastically at him, smiling and exposing two lovely dimples; Huang Xiaolong smiled with a trace of helplessness inside – he's in the same class as Li Lu?
What Huang Xiaolong didn't know was that every batch of new students was placed together in the same class because there was only one class for every year.
And Huang Xiaolong's appearance attracted the new students' attention.
"He's that 'awesome' waste!"
"On registration day, his guards beat up Academy teachers, not only nothing happen to him even all his fees were exempted, too awesome!"
"Awesome? No matter how 'awesome', he's still a waste relying on his family. If not for the recommendation letter, is he qualified to enter Cosmic Star Academy? In my opinion, at the most, his martial spirit is just a grade six!"
Most of the new students saw what happened between Huang Xiaolong and Xiong Meiqi on registration day, and the scuffle with Zhong Yuan and the rest.
Huang Xiaolong's brows slowly creased as the gossip entered his ears.
"Xiaolong, sit beside me!" Li Lu ignored the discussions around her, went up and pulled Huang Xiaolong's hand to a seat next to hers; Huang Xiaolong shook his head and smiled; however, it's not nice to refuse Li Lu's kind intention in public.
Huang Xiaolong just sat down, and a young blonde boy, about ten years old, in a pale gold robe came in; this blonde boy was born with delicate features, albeit a little arrogant.
"Jiang Teng!"
"He is Jiang Teng? From what I've heard, on registration day, his martial spirits was determined to be Bright Holy Tiger, a grade eleven superb martial spirits!"
"Since our Cosmic Star Academy's establishment, there has never been a superb talent martial spirit. When this matter reached the Principal and Vice Principal, both of them already said they wanted to take him as their disciple!"
"Both the Principal and the Vice Principal?! This has never happened in Cosmic Star Academy before!"
In the midst of the students' discussion, the blond boy walked to an empty seat in the middle of the class and sat down.
Huang Xiaolong who was on the second row watched the blond boy; this boy's martial spirits was out of his expectation-- grade eleven martial spirit, Sacred Bright Tiger!
As if he felt Huang Xiaolong's gaze, the blond boy Jiang Teng turned his head, and their eyes collided. And when their eyes met, in the blond boy's eyes, loathing flashed across them: the same emotion that was in Xiong Meiqi's eyes when she looked at him on registration day when he gave her his recommendation letter.
Then he turned his head back in contempt.
Huang Xiaolong noted the other side's dislike and contempt, while his heart sneered; whatever good impression he had of the other side instantly dropped to the lowest point.
While the students were discussing in whispers, suddenly, a cold female teacher entered the classroom and it was Xiong Meiqi!
Seeing Xiong Meiqi, Huang Xiaolong was a little startled: don't tell me this female bear is the class teacher?!
Xiong Meiqi entered the room and went up to the platform: "I am your Class Teacher, Xiong Meiqi!" confirming Huang Xiaolong's guess.
After Xiong Meiqi finished saying that, her eyes were like daggers as she glared at Huang Xiaolong for a split second.
Huang Xiaolong was calm and indifferent, directly ignoring Xiong Meiqi.
Seeing his reaction, Xiong Meiqi laughed coldly and went on to inform the class some of Cosmic Star Academy's rules and the course content that they will be learning in the coming days and some methods to advance in class.
There was only three class years in Cosmic Star Academy: Sixth Order and below in the First Year; a breakthrough from the peak late-Sixth Order to the Seventh Order gives one eligibility for taking the Second Year class's examination. Those who pass can advance one year-- as for the Third Year, students were required to be a Ninth Order.
Anyone who reached twenty-two years old but failed to enter the Second Year class will be expelled from Cosmic Star Academy.
Xiong Meiqi said, "To breakthrough to Seventh Order before twenty-two is hard for some of you, but it is not so for those with grade nine and above martial spirits. After our Cosmic Star Academy's nurturing; as long you are willing to work hard, in general, most of you can breakthrough Seventh Order before reaching twenty-two years old. As for waste that came in using a recommendation letter, no matter how much the Academy nurtures and guides them, a waste is fated to remain a waste."
As if intentionally or maybe not, Xiong Meiqi furtively glanced at Huang Xiaolong.
Huang Xiaolong frowned.
"Wastes with recommendation letters at most possess a grade seven, or six martial spirits, maybe even grade five; even if they cultivate till forty years old, sixty years old, they still have no chance of breaking through to the Seventh Order. Thus, they have only one ending - expulsion from the Academy!" Xiong Meiqi continued, and as if 'hate' wasn't enough, her eyes stared at Huang Xiaolong with an icy coldness as she spoke.
All the new students in the classroom looked at Huang Xiaolong, making him the center of attention.
Then, Xiong Meiqi's voice tone suddenly changed, her cold expression replaced with an amiable smile, saying, "I would like to introduce everyone to our Academy's most talented genius in more than one hundred years, Student Jiang Teng!" Xiong Meiqi pointed at the blond boy Jiang Teng when she finished the introduction. "Student Jiang Teng possess a grade eleven martial spirits, Bright Holy Tiger; he's our Academy's first student who has a superb talent martial spirit since its establishment."
At this time, Jiang Teng stood up from his chair and nodded to the surrounding classmates, his head held a little too high.
Xiong Meiqi led the class in a thunderous applause.
Feeling the envious and admiring gazes on his body, Jiang Teng's demeanor became even more haughty, but when he caught a glimpse of Huang Xiaolong's indifference as he sat there, clearly having no intention to join in the applause, Jiang Teng's smile reduced slightly. The dislike in his eyes increased even more.
At this point, Xiong Meiqi abruptly spoke, "Let me tell everyone a fantastic piece of news: our Student Jiang Teng just reached ten years old, but he's already a Fourth Order warrior! A peak early-Fourth Order!"
"Ten years old already is a peak early-Fourth Order!"
"This is too scary!"
Shocked was evident in every new students' expression and envy and admiration almost shot through the roof as they looked at Jiang Teng.
"Jiang Teng, Principal and Vice Principal said you had learned battle skills?" Xiong Meiqi smilingly asked Jiang Teng.
"It's true Teacher!" Jiang Teng answered with a laugh.
"Can you demonstrate and let everyone see?" Xiong Meiqi requested.
"Okay," Jiang Teng nodded and walked out proudly to an empty spot in the classroom. He stood still, suddenly a bright light burst out revealing a huge tiger behind him; this huge tiger's entire shone brightly, breathing out radiant flames. It let out a deafening roar, exuding a superb talent martial spirit's oppression.
Then, Jiang Teng leaped up and bellowed: "Tiger Flame Palm!" one after another tiger paw was stamped in midair.
While watching, the new students applauded and cheered nonstop.
However, Huang Xiaolong shook his head. This Tiger Flame Palm should be a high grade Mysterious rank battle skill and it isn't bad, but in Jiang Teng's movements, it was full of weakness.
Listening to the applause and cheers, Jiang Teng worked harder and at the end of it, he complacently looked down at his classmates, shouting, "Bright Holy Tiger appear, invincible throughout the world!"
Invincible throughout?
When Huang Xiaolong heard Jiang Teng's shout, he failed to hold in his laughter and a 'puff' rang out. Huang Xiaolong's laughter came so abruptly that the whole class was shocked silent. Everyone's attention zoomed to Huang Xiaolong.
Xiong Meiqi lost her smile and stared icily at Huang Xiaolong, screaming, "Huang Xiaolong, stand up!"
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Note:
Some might be confused why both disciples and students were used for Cosmic Star Academy: it is how the author wrote it-- xuesheng (student) and disciple (dizi).
Huang Xiaolong's brows were knitted together. Nonetheless, he still stood up.
Li Lu beside him was full of worry.
"What were you laughing at?" Xiong Meiqi snapped in anger.
A faint smile curved up at the corner of Huang Xiaolong's lips, "I laughed because it was such a crappy battle skill yet everyone was cheering so much."
"What?!" anger rose to Xiong Meiqi's face, "You, a waste with a recommendation letter, isn't qualified to judge others' battle skill."
Huang Xiaolong sneered and retorted, "I have no qualification to judge? Then what right do you have to say I'm a waste, you female bear."
Female bear?
Everyone's face had an excited expression of anticipation seeing that Huang Xiaolong dared to call Xiong Meiqi a female bear in front of so many people.
"You!" Xiong Meiqi almost flared up with anger pointed at Huang Xiaolong, her voluptuous bosom was heaving up and down, "Fine, fine, you won't admit that you're a waste. Three days later, there is an assessment test for new students, if you can enter top ten then I will admit that you're not a useless waste!"
Top ten in the assessment test, this condition was a bit too much.
Despite that, Huang Xiaolong just laughed, "Do I need your acknowledgment whether I am useless or not? Okay, if I enter one of the top ten spots in the assessment test, I want you to growl three times like a bear, kneeling down in the Academy's square!"
Growled three times like a bear!
A sharp, dangerous glint burst deep within Xiong Meiqi's eyes, as if she wanted to swallow Huang Xiaolong alive; gritting her teeth, "What if you fail to enter one of the top ten places?"
"If I fail, I will voluntarily withdraw from school and also will kneel down in the Academy's square and bark like a dog three times!" Huang Xiaolong's cold voice sounded.
Xiong Meiqi gloomy face changed indecisively.
"How about it, don't you dare to?" Huang Xiaolong smirked.
"Okay!" Xiong Meiqi bit her lips and agreed, a ruthless light flashed across her eyes and disappeared quickly. She simply refused to believe a waste relying on a family's background could enter into one of the top ten in the assessment!
Seeing that Xiong Meiqi agreed through gritted teeth, he sneered inside and walked in the direction of the classroom door.
"Stand still, where are you going?" Xiong Meiqi yelled.
"Do I have to tell you where I go?" Huang Xiaolong paused when he heard that and stepped out of the classroom, but when he passed beside Jiang Teng, Huang Xiaolong muttered, "A self-righteous idiot!"
Jiang Teng's face stiffened, then turned red when he understood the meaning behind Huang Xiaolong's words. A waste that came in through recommendation actually scolded him, calling him an idiot publicly? A strong light flickered around his body, burning with rage as he looked at Huang Xiaolong's back.
Looking at the receding figure that ignored him, choking with anger that failed to vent.
Walking out from the classroom, Huang Xiaolong headed to the library. After all, it made no difference whether he sat in lectures or otherwise; in fact, it was better this way-- he could head to the library to find out the information that he wanted.
The library was far from Huang Xiaolong's classroom; entering the library, Huang Xiaolong took out his student plate for verification. After passing the check, he looked for the shelf containing books about martial spirits, randomly picking up a book titled 'Types of Martial Spirits' and started to read.
This book basically described the different types of martial spirits and some of their innate supernatural abilities.
Huang Xiaolong's memory had always been excellent, flipping past the pages speedily and moments later, he had finished reading and gained some understanding to this world's martial spirits.
After 'Types of Martial Spirits', Huang Xiaolong took a book called 'The Different Martial Spirits Grades' that evaluated the distinction between the grades of martial spirits and its progress.
"Ah, twin martial spirits!" when he reached the last page there were some notations about twin martial spirits that Huang Xiaolong read carefully.
"Twin martial spirits of the same kind can combine to become one or they could be separated as two individual entities!" This paragraph astonished Huang Xiaolong.
Twin martial spirits can become one?!
No wonder in the early days when his martial spirits had just awakened, it existed in a combined state! When he broke through to the Fourth Order, the twin dragon martial spirits separated into two independent entities.
Huang Xiaolong read the passage below and his eyes lit up; it actually described the method to combine and separate twin martial spirits of the same kind.
Moments later, Huang Xiaolong finished the book feeling elated, great! With this method, he could combine his martial spirits before releasing them in the future, so that no one can guess his secret.
He re-read the paragraph explaining the method, committing them into his brain and then moved towards the shelves placed with books ab about Beasts text.
Following the Beast language on the map he had gotten from the Silvermoon Forest, he checks them one by one. A while later, he deciphered the text written on the Beast Cultivator's treasure map.
"Demon Beast Holy Land, Thousand Tusker Mountain, Windless Tunnel!"
Huang Xiaolong frowned.
The location of the treasure was actually in the Beast race Holy Land?!
In this world, the Demon Beast race was bigger and more powerful than the normal Beastmen, and they abhorred humans; wanting to enter their Holy Land, this was too difficult! At least it was impossible for the current Huang Xiaolong.
After he had finished translating the words, it was already high noon. Huang Xiaolong left the library, and he exited the Academy instead of returning to the classroom. When he came out from the Academy, Fei Hou and the three guards immediately saw him and hurried up to him, "Young Master!"
Huang Xiaolong nodded, "Come on, let's go." he brought the four of them to Tianxuan Mansion.
On the way, Fei Hou couldn't resist, so he asked, "Young Master, the Academy hasn't ended, how come you're already out?"
The other four guards also looked at Huang Xiaolong with curiosity, having the same doubt in their hearts.
Huang Xiaolong explained, "From registration day, that female bear is my class teacher."
"What?! The female bear is Young Master's class teacher?!" Fei Hou was stupefied, then his voice turned sullen, asking, "Young Master, did she make things difficult for you today in the class?"
Huang Xiaolong chuckled, "Some ridicule is unavoidable." Then, Huang Xiaolong summarized what happened and his bet with Xiong Mei in the new students' assessment three days later.
When Fei Hou heard it couldn't resist laughing out loud-- he already could imagine three days later, Xiong Meiqi kneeling on the square and growling like a bear.
Soon, the six of them arrived in Tianxuan Mansion. Beastman Boli and the rest of the slaves saw Huang Xiaolong and Fei Hou so they quickly walked up to salute; telling them to stand up, Huang Xiaolong went to the main hall and asked Boli about Tianxuan Mansion's matters.
Beastman Boli answered them with respect.
In the last few days, the necessary furniture was arranged accordingly and the open yard was planted with flowers and plants; Beastman Boli even arranged for the old and moldy walls to be scrapped and painted with a new layer of paint.
Huang Xiaolong nodded, "You did well, you can leave."
Acknowledging respectfully, Beastman Boli turned and brought the servants with him out of the main hall.
After that, Huang Xiaolong left Tianxuan Mansion and returned to the Marshal Mansion. Then, he suddenly asked, "Fei Hou, do you want to breakthrough to the Xiantian realm?"
"Breakthrough to the Xiantian?" Fei Hou was stunned, stammering, "Sov- Sovereign, you have a way?"
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Note:
Demon Beast Cultivator is very very old, like Madam White Snake Chinese Opera or The Sorcerer and the White Snake
Beastmen -part human part animal creatures
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