He decided to reassign her to the Liuyun class to learn together with the weaker students and hoped that she would be stimulated and determined to improve herself.
The students in the Liuyun class also desperately needed motivation. Perhaps, Lan Waihu had become infamous for being a loser. Hence, everyone tried to avoid her when there were team contests within the classes.
Therefore, whenever there was a contest, Lan Waihu could not join any team and she could only watch the match from outside the gate while others formed units to kill the monster at the mountain behind the school.
Sometimes, she was courageous enough to follow a group. But in the end, her teammates would ignore her, or they would run faster than a rabbit and leave her behind. This situation lasted for half a year until the arrival of Gu Xijiu.
After Gu Xijiu joined the Liuyun class, everyone was curious about her but also took precaution against her. After all the incidents that happened before, no one dared to look down on her, but they did not want to be close to her either. They admired her for her high medication skill, but they were afraid of her tricks.
Although these people were the elite, they were all youngsters aged between 14 to 15. They did not like tricky people. Moreover, Gu Xijiu's spiritual power was only at level five. It was the lowest in the Liuyun class.
No one knew how good she was in martial arts. Therefore, when there was a need to form a team, no one wanted to be on the same side with her. Qian Lingyu was the only one who was willing to team up with Gu Xijiu.
It required at least three people to form a team. Therefore, Gu Xijiu asked Lan Waihu to join them. It was a quirky combination. Qian Lingyu used to rank last in the class, but everyone knew that he had now recovered. What he lacked was the ability to master all his spiritual power together with his martial arts. He did not learn too many skills yet so no one knew how good his performance would be when fighting against him.
As for Gu Xijiu, her spiritual power was low but she was a master in using drugs and was very experienced in fighting. However, the teachers had been clearly stated that she could not use any drugs and could not use her teleportation power. She could only use the skills that were taught by the instructors.
In other words, Gu Xijiu's strengths could not be utilized during the fight. As for Lan Waihu, what she always did was to splash water on the fire with her negativity. Therefore, Gu Xijiu and her team were defeated during their first fight.
Gu Xijiu had a principle - if she wanted to do something, she would do it the best she could. After her first failure, she learned from the bitter experience and started to plan and strategize. She also trained her two teammates.
In fact, this type of fighting was very similar to the modern-day computer game battles. Some people were suitable for close combat. Some were good at attacking from afar, and some would need to be the commander.
The most important thing for the team was to complement the strengths and weaknesses of each other. Gu Xijiu was a master strategist in her previous life. She was expert in commanding and even when there were one-on-one fights, very few people could defeat her.
She was also the leader of a clan. In the game, her group was one of the most powerful clans. There were a lot of talents in the clan but everyone followed her instruction because all the battles instructed by her would eventually end in victory. She had never lost in any team battles before.
After she came to Tianju Hall and experienced her first defeat, she started to summarize the strengths and weaknesses of her teammates.
Qian Lingyu was much better as he was an expert in fighting. There were a lot of times he could acquire new skills very quickly with just a few guidelines. Lan Waihu was the only issue as this little girl was an idiot when it came to fights.
Gu Xijiu used five days of her leisure time to train Lan Waihu. She asked Lan Waihu to show her all the techniques she knew. Gu Xijiu found that the skills used by this little girl were quite powerful but the only issue was that she did not know how to coordinate the skills with each other.
Gu Xijiu focused on teaching her how to combine her skills and use them in unity. During their training, this little girl often got confused and used the wrong power at the wrong time. Qian Lingyu as her sparring partner always suffered from unplanned attacks.
One day, when Qian Lingyu was splashed with water for the 30th time, he finally got angry and ran away from practice! He vented his frustration at Lan Waihu and disappeared after.
Lan Waihu was noticeably very upset. She looked at Gu Xijiu, "Xijiu… Am I… Am I stupid? Will you give up on me?"
Gu Xijiu rubbed her eyebrows as she looked at the teary eyes of Lan Waihu. She shook her head, "You must continue to practice. As long as you still want to improve, I will not give up on you." She had never given up on any of her teammates. This time should be no different.
Lan Waihu stopped sobbing and was relieved by her words. She then continued her practice. Gu Xijiu sat at the side watching her. Her thoughts were running a marathon, but finally, she thought that if this little girl did not know how to coordinate with other people, should they change their strategy to coordinate with her?
This was a great idea, but just when she was about to get down to planning, someone coughed behind her. She turned and saw Yan Chen standing there watching Lan Waihu practicing in the field. He looked tensed.
Over the past few days, Gu Xijiu had been very unhappy with this guy because he always gave her an unpleasant look. It was as though she was a wolf who was trying to eat Lan Waihu. It made her feel very uncomfortable.
When Gu Xijiu was unhappy, she often made the source of her unhappiness uneasy too. So sometimes, Gu Xijiu would purposely bring trouble to Yan Chen.
For example, when she met him while he was hunting in the mountain, she used her Wind Breaker skill to scare away the beasts so that Yan Chen had to wait for several hours to find one.
Sometimes, she would even ask Lu Wu to follow Yan Chen secretly. Although Lu Wu was still a baby beast, it was a level eight majestic being. Wherever it went, all other beats would have run away to avoid it. Therefore, whenever Lu Wu followed Yan Chen, he could not even catch a rabbit and basically returned with nothing.
In Tianju Hall, most of the food source came from the hunting efforts of the students. Hence, all the students in the Ziyun class and the Liuyun class would hunt for food, and it would be one of the performance indicators each month.
Yan Chen had always been the top student in this task. He always over-fulfilled the requirement and had been a role model for everyone to follow. However, after he was secretly disrupted by Gu Xijiu, his results had deteriorated, and sometimes he could not even pass the basic requirement.
There were a few occasions where the chefs in the kitchen tried to ask if he had any health issues. Even the teachers also started to get concerned about his condition.
Yan Chen had a very high self-esteem, so he did not want to tell people about the difficulty he faced from the disturbances of Gu Xijiu. Since he could not hunt effectively, he decided to change task and collect herbs instead.
However, Lu Wu was like an adhesive plaster. No matter what he found, before he could pluck the herbs, Lu Wu would appear and step on the herb until it was destroyed and then ran away again. It could run very fast.
There were a few times when Yan Chen tried to chase after it but failed. He realized that he could not outrun the majestic being that had four legs. He could only watch its nine wagging tails disappear from his sight.
He always felt that the shaking tails had some pattern. There was once he looked carefully and found that one of the tails was bent into an S-shape and another two tails formed B-shapes.