Chapter 34: Ostracized
Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
"Heh heh, our team is really too lucky! We have the top genius Senior Qingxue as well as Senior Wanyue. We're definitely winning the team competition for sure."
Before the competition even began, the team that Yun Qingyan was in was already laughing away gleefully.
"Don't speak too soon. Isn't that person still around?" Someone made a face in Yun Qingyan's direction.
After what happened earlier, they didn't dare to explicitly call Yun Qingyan a useless bum.
The person who first spoke up immediately felt as disgusted as if she had swallowed a fly.
She quietly grumbled, "Why did she come for the hunting competition as well? She's totally going to drag us down."
There was always that top genius that everyone wanted on their team. Naturally, there was also a top good-for-nothing that nobody wanted on their team.
Very clearly, Yun Qingyan was the latter.
She didn't have any Elemental Power, which in itself was already a burden that a team couldn't get rid of.
However, they never considered that the academy would have assigned Baili Qingxue to their class precisely because they had the top good-for-nothing, Yun Qingyan, in their class.
After all, this man seemed to have gotten a cheat in life. He was so young but his cultivation level was higher than most teachers.
If not for Yun Qingyan's presence, the other teams would probably have started protesting about how unfair the allocation was.
"Enough of all this, I'm sure all of you can't wait to go. Let me officially announce – the Qingxuan Academy Magical Beast Hunting Competition starts NOW!" The longwinded Elder Yue raised his arms as he stood on the high stage and shouted.
A strong gust of wind suddenly started billowing and there was a bright flash of sparkling Elemental Power. Exquisite turquoise bangles started to float towards its pre-assigned owners with the help of Elemental Power.
Yun Qingyan held her hand out and the turquoise bangle that was floating in front of her immediately clasped itself around her wrist.
A series of information flowed out from the turquoise bangle and into her consciousness.
Yun Qingyan
Cultivation level: None
Total points: 0
Ranking: 0
At the same time, countless roars and howls came from the sky. The sounds seemed aggressive and rumbled with great authority.
A large shadow covered the sky like gray clouds and blocked the sunlight.
The students weren't afraid at all when they saw this, instead, they became rather excited.
"Griffins! These are Ninth Stage Magical Beast Griffins! Wow! They're so cool!"
The Magical Beasts of the Tianyuan Continent were split into different levels: Magical Beast, Spirit Beast, Sacred Beast, and Godly Beast. Each level was split into a total of nine stages.
A Ninth Stage Magical Beast was a creature that was closest to a Spirit Beast. A Spirit Beast was equivalent to an Earth Elementalist. Magical Beasts had strong bodies, so most of these beasts were stronger than a human at the same level. A Ninth Stage Magical Beast was pretty much as strong as a First Stage Earth Elementalist.
It was difficult to tame a Magical Beast, and most people required the help of a beast tamer. Owning such a large group of Griffins showed that Qingxuan Academy had quite an extraordinary amount of resources.
However, these Griffins were only allowed to come out when the academy was having a major activity, hence, this group of Griffins were going to take them to the Forest of No Return.
"Everyone will get one, two persons to one Griffin, get on and head to the Forest of No Return!" shouted the teacher in charge of maintaining order.
The students were already rubbing their hands together and they excitedly got into pairs to wait for their Griffin to land.
But Yun Qingyan's team became awkward now…
"I don't want to pair up with Yun Qingyan…"
"Neither do I…"
As they murmured among themselves, everyone took a step back unconsciously, creating a space around Yun Qingyan, as if she was some jinx.
"Let's just leave Yun Qingyan to stay here by herself. If she goes, she'll just be dragging us down anyway…" someone suggested in a soft voice.
Baili Qingxue coldly glanced at the person who said that and the person immediately shrank back and didn't dare to talk anymore.
Baili Qingxue's handsome brows were slightly furrowed. Even though he had an aloof personality, he was a responsible person and he would never do something like leave Yun Qingyan here all by herself.
Qingxuan Academy only had so many Griffins and they couldn't afford to let Yun Qingyan ride one by herself. Besides, even if they could, there was no way her useless constitution would be able to control a Griffin all by herself.
Just as Baili Qingxue was frowning and deep in thought, a shrill cry broke his train of thought.
"Yun Qingyan, what are you doing?!"
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