Di Fuyi was not surprised, "If she could not shine with her abilities then she would not be a heavenly gifted disciple."
Mu Feng sighed, "Then, the treatment Miss Gu get will be opposite from Yun Qingluo’s…"
Di Fuyi kept silent for a moment, "How did Gu Xijiu respond?"
"She didn't have any response. This lady is good at keeping herself calm. Gu Canmo probably wanted to enrage her or make her quit herself by embarrassing her, but she didn't have any special reaction at all. She was so calm that her face did not turn red nor did her heart beat faster. She replied Gu Canmo with just a sentence that almost infuriated him!"
"What was it?" Di Fuyi was interested.
"She said that she is sent by The Lord. You didn't see Gu Canmo’s face; he was seriously infuriated…"
Di Fuyi could not help but laugh. Little Xijiu got better at enraging others indeed.
"Lord, I’m afraid that Gu Canmo would angrily plot against Miss Gu. As what Gu Canmo said, an observer is required to participate in cruel training which could be dangerous and life-threatening. And he is not going to take any responsibility if she dies…"
"She won't die… Gu Canmo would regret if he let that happen…" Di Fuyi smirked.
"Lord, what did you say?" Mu Feng did not hear clearly.
"I said you can come back!"
Mu Feng, "…"
...
At a stony hill.
The weeds were of knee-height and the stones with irregular in shape and size. There were pieces of wood scattered around the desolate place.
"Miss Gu, from now onwards this place is where you rest." The boy leading the way said to Gu Xijiu.
Gu Xijiu frowned while looking at the nearby buildings and looked back at where they were, "Are you sure you’re right? How can this place accommodate anyone?"
"Our President Gu said that we have limited rooms at Tianju Hall and they are prepared for official students only. Therefore, observers must build their own houses. Miss Gu, be satisfied with what you have as our president at least gave you a piece of land. You should know that our Tianju Hall’s land is very precious so we could not afford to waste any." Another boy said.
The young faces of the two boys could not hide their disdain, and they walked away as soon as they finished talking.
From afar, she could still hear their conversation.
"How can an unofficial student want to live in a beautiful room? Does she think that it’s the Feixing Kingdom here?"
"That’s right; I hate unofficial students…"
The two kids gradually went further and then quickly disappeared.
The mussel was so furious that it almost could not suppress its anger, "Master, shall I let them enter my Mirage Illusion? I want to consume them all for being snobs!"
"Choo-woo, Choo-woo!" Lu Wu also jumped out with its eyes so round like it was furious.
Gu Xijiu held on the mussel's shell, "Don't, everyone other than the boy attendants here has a minimum spiritual power of level seven. Are you sure that you can make them fall into your Mirage Illusion?"
"How would I know without trying?" The mussel was not convinced.
"Forget about it. Just make sure that they don’t survive from your Mirage Illusion and stew you." Gu Xijiu stopped it from continuing.
"Master, I think you are inspiring others by despising yourself…" The mussel complained.
Gu Xijiu pursed her lips, "Mussel, do you know that we can only kill a snake by striking its jugular? We shouldn't be foolish. I’ll make sure that they regret treating me badly!"
The mussel was looking at her with its shell opened. While looking at her determined and stubborn face, it suddenly felt relieved.
Its master was a tough person and had never disappointed anyone yet!
"Master… I just don’t want to see you being bullied. They are obviously snobs who despise you…"
Gu Xijiu said indifferently, "Mussel, if you want people to respect you, you have to prove it with your own strength."
The world is ruthless, and only the fittest survive. Therefore, if you want to survive in this world, you would have to be strong! When you are truly strong, people will respect you and dare not look down on you. She wanted to be at the top of this world one day where everyone would admire her, and nobody would be able to control and instruct her.
She abruptly clapped her hands, "Alright, stop talking nonsense, let’s start working!"
When she was an assassin, she had been trained to survive in the wild. Therefore, it was easy for her to build a simple house.
Unfortunately, Di Fuyi had confiscated the tent she made. Otherwise, she could set it up here directly.
The mussel looked at the stones scattering around, "Master, how can we do it?"
With a palm strike, Gu Xijiu sliced a stone, and with her palm slanting like slicing through tofu. She was turning the irregular stones into regular sizes.
The mussel understood what to do and it was good at handling stones!
It exerted its spiritual power and immediately jumped a few times on the ground to separate the huge rocks from the small ones. Then, the mussel erected one of its shell and chiseled swiftly through these rocks.
As the stone chippings filled the air, brick-like stones appeared.
Gu Xijiu's eyes were brightened when she saw the angular stones. She did not expect that the mussel had such skills too. Its shell was much better than a diamond saw!
As the mussel was handling the rocks, Gu Xijiu decided to work on stacking the rocks together. They coordinated smoothly with each other.
Lu Wu was rather unhappy that she was not able to help.
As they kept working, the place where they were became very dusty, and Lu Wu's beautiful purple fur had almost turned yellow. The dust made it sneeze too.
When Gu Xijiu took a slight glance at it, its eyes immediately turned watery. It was staring at her while its nine tails were grasping on her wrist.
Gu Xijiu patted its head, "Be good and play by yourself first. I’ll bathe you after I finish building the house later."
Lu Wu obeyed and went aside.
When one is busy, the time passes by very quickly. Without knowing, a day had gone.
The sun went down, and the moon rose up.
The framework of Gu Xijiu’s stone house had finally formed. Even the scattered pieces of wood were used to support the house with the thickest ones being the supporting beam.
The weeds were harvested and tied to be put on the house beam as the thatched roof.
While Gu Xijiu was busy working, some students of the Tianju Hall who passed through were looking at her work. Some ignored it while others criticized from afar but none of them wanted to help.
Gu Xijiu also heard some of the gossips they said.
It seemed that her identity as an unofficial student had spread throughout the community.
Those gossips were something as below:
"So, she’s the unofficial student? She doesn't look special after all. Why would The Lord accept her as his disciple?"