Mysterious Stirrings in the Dormitory

Xu Shishi furrowed her brows, pouting her red lips in displeasure, and said hatefully.

"I wonder where Xu Jie hid that treasure. His room is full of junk!"

"It doesn't matter. After we kill Xu Jie, we'll have plenty of time to search slowly. We'll find that thing eventually!"

Xu Ming's eyes held a mixture of disdain and killing intent, exuding an air of confidence as if everything was under his control.

It was as if killing Xu Jie was as contemptible as crushing an ant.

"By the way!"

Xu Shishi suddenly stood up, as if she had thought of something, and asked with a frown.

"Chu Mingyue is very protective of Xu Jie. I'm worried..."

"Chu Mingyue? Heh heh!"

Xu Ming let out a disdainful laugh and said calmly, "Those people from the Chu Family are indeed formidable. The Chu Family is also a prominent family in the Central Prefecture. If it were her older sisters, I might be a little wary. As for Chu Mingyue, she's not qualified to influence the school's decisions! Not to mention, the treasure is something the Jiang Family has their eyes on. Although both families are major clans in the Central Prefecture, the Jiang Family is prosperous with many descendants, while the Chu Family has few people, and they are all women. Faced with a true major clan, the Chu Family is nothing!"

"That's good, that's good..."

In the dormitory.

Xu Jie sat on a chair, pretending to be asleep. He didn't have the habit of sleeping lying down; he usually sat on the ground or on a chair, so he could spring into action immediately if any unexpected situation arose.

Suddenly, Xu Jie's eyes snapped open. He lunged into the dormitory's bathroom, his body tense as he coldly scanned the empty restroom.

Could it be a ghost?

He couldn't have misperceived!

Having spent years on the edge of life and death, he was accustomed to the danger sense that came with living by the sword, ingrained in his very blood like an instinct.

Just now, Xu Jie had definitely sensed a faint, almost imperceptible sound in the bathroom.

It was the trace of biological activity!

But when he arrived at the bathroom, he found nothing!

Xu Jie narrowed his eyes, a cold smile appearing on his lips. He walked directly to the toilet bowl and smashed it down with a punch.

He pulverized the entire toilet bowl and, disregarding the filth, reached into the pipe to search.

No matter what it was, even if it truly was a ghost, it wouldn't escape him today!

The malevolent aura Xu Jie naturally possessed could scare even a fierce ghost into scattering its soul.

Normal people might feel timid or suspicious when encountering something unclean.

But Xu Jie's thought process was different!

If it were a female ghost, it would be even better; he would only thank nature for the gift!

Still nothing?

Xu Jie pulled out his wet arm, his brows tightly knit. He scanned the bathroom again, not missing a single corner.

Finally, he took a deep breath, didn't even wash his hands, and directly slammed the door shut as he left.

You managed to hide this time!

Whatever it was, as long as it was still in the dormitory, he would eventually find it and kill it!

Returning to his chair, Xu Jie instinctively reached into his pocket to feel around, then expressionlessly pulled out his hand and wiped it on his clothes.

Damn it!

The next morning, as the sun began to rise.

Xu Jie, still in the dormitory, got up and walked towards the door. As he passed the bathroom, he glanced at it.

Last night, there hadn't been another sound from the bathroom, making Xu Jie himself wonder if he had misperceived.

Perhaps...

After Xu Jie left the dormitory, bubbles began to gurgle from the water pipe beneath the shattered toilet bowl.

On campus.

At this time, groups of three or five students from various grades were heading towards the sports field with their breakfast.

They wanted to get there early to pick a good viewing spot.

According to rumors, many senior students who were usually off-campus had specifically returned.

Those individuals, who normally didn't attend classes on campus, were gathered today for a rare occasion.

Xu Jie didn't head to the sports field immediately, nor did he go for breakfast. Instead, as he passed by a garden, he squatted in the grass, searching for something.

"Xu Jie! What are you doing?"

Hearing Chu Mingyue's clear, yet magnetic voice from a distance, Xu Jie froze.

As if a switch had been flipped, he sprang up like a coiled spring and ran in the opposite direction, disappearing in an instant.

Chu Mingyue: "???"

Chu Mingyue froze on the spot, looking somewhat bewildered.

She couldn't understand why, after just one night, Xu Jie, who had been so flippant and roguish, was suddenly uninterested in her again.

However...

The surge of qi and blood power Xu Jie had unleashed earlier...

Chu Mingyue raised an eyebrow, her beautiful eyes filled with disbelief, as if she thought her perception was mistaken.

Two days ago, Xu Jie was only at First-Rank Low-Stage. How could he possibly have reached First-Rank Peak in just two days?

Was this a joke?

And this kid... why was his personality becoming more and more erratic and strange?

On the other side of the school.

Xu Jie, with a plant root dangling from his mouth, walked towards the training grounds from another direction with a slight frown, occasionally turning around suspiciously to observe his surroundings.

So close!

Xu Jie couldn't face Chu Mingyue at the moment.

The genuine goodwill and veiled concern she exuded made him, a desperado who never trusted anyone, feel extremely awkward and uneasy.

Couldn't relationships between men and women just be about simple carnal pleasures?

Temporarily suppressing the annoyance in his heart, Xu Jie forcefully shoved aside two Senior Year students who were blocking his path and walked directly into the arena within the training grounds.

"You son of a bitch, are you... huh!"

The Senior Year student, intending to curse him out, stopped short when he saw Xu Jie's retreating figure.

It was as if someone had grabbed his throat, his voice getting stuck in his neck, his eyes showing a clear look of having narrowly escaped death.

The current Xu Jie, with his fierce reputation, was no longer a timid coward anyone could bully. Instead, he was a strong individual as ferocious as a beast.

Back in the same lounge.

Xu Jie walked in with practiced ease, picked out a suitable alloy combat saber from the weapon rack, and a ferocious smile spread across his lips.

Today was the day of his revenge!

Xu Jie couldn't wait!

Although he had only been in the High Martial World for two days, this was just how his personality was.

The longer his enemies lived, the more uncomfortable he felt, as if ants were crawling all over him.

The school punishing him with ten ranking battles? That wasn't enough!

If possible, he even wanted to fight a hundred battles, to kill everyone on the ranking list!

As for the consequences of killing so many people...

Was he kidding? Did Xu Jie ever consider consequences when he acted?

He just felt there weren't enough people on the ranking list for him to kill!

Of course, at this moment, Xu Jie was not yet a match for Xu Ming.

Xu Ming ranked ninth on the ranking list, a solid Martial Artist at the twelfth layer of the Blood Moving Realm, and a genius Martial Artist who had moved blood more than three times.

As far as Xu Jie knew, every student in the top ten of the ranking list had moved blood no less than three times.

The person ranked first had definitively moved blood five times, and possibly even more!