Xu Shishi furrowed her willow-leaf brows, pouted her red lips in displeasure, and said resentfully.
"I have no idea where Xu Jie hid that treasure. His room is full of nothing but junk!"
"It's fine. Once we kill Xu Jie, we'll have plenty of time to search slowly. We'll dig that thing out eventually!"
Xu Ming's gaze held five parts disdain and several parts killing intent, wearing the look of someone with victory already in his grasp and everything under control.
It was as if killing Xu Jie was no more than crushing an ant beneath his fingers.
"Right!"
Xu Shishi suddenly rose to her feet, apparently recalling something, and asked with a frown.
"That Chu Mingyue is very protective of Xu Jie. I'm worried..."
"Chu Mingyue? Heh heh!"
Xu Ming gave a disdainful laugh and said blandly, "Those few from the Chu Family are indeed formidable, and the Chu Family is also a powerful clan in Central Prefecture. If it were her elder sisters, I might be somewhat wary. But as for Chu Mingyue, she isn't qualified to influence the school's decisions!
Not to mention, the treasure is something the Jiang Family members have set their sights on. Though both families are major clans of Central Prefecture, the Jiang Family is flourishing with many descendants, while the Chu Family has few members, all of them women. Before a true great clan, the Chu Family is nothing much!"
"That's good, that's good..."
Inside the dormitory.
Xu Jie sat in a chair with his eyes closed, feigning sleep. He did not have the habit of lying down to sleep. Usually, he sat on the floor or in a chair, so that if anything unexpected happened, he could spring up and strike at the first instant.
Suddenly, Xu Jie's eyes snapped open. He lunged into the dormitory bathroom, his entire body taut as he coldly swept his gaze over the empty washroom.
Could it be a ghost?
There was no way his senses had made a mistake!
Having roamed the edge of life and death for years, accustomed to licking blood from a blade's edge, his perception of danger had been carved into his blood like an instinct.
Just now, Xu Jie had most definitely sensed an extremely faint sound coming from the bathroom.
It was a sign of some living creature moving!
But when he entered the bathroom, he found nothing at all!
Xu Jie narrowed his eyes, a cold smile rising at the corners of his mouth. He strode straight to the toilet and smashed his fist down hard.
He shattered the entire toilet into fragments, then disregarded the filth and reached into the water pipe to feel around.
No matter what it was, even if it truly was a ghost, now that it had run into him today, it would not escape disaster!
The Baleful Intent Xu Jie carried naturally could frighten even a vicious ghost into having its soul scatter and spirit dissipate.
When ordinary people encountered something unclean, they might tremble in fear or become suspicious of every shadow.
But Xu Jie's way of thinking was different!
If it was a female ghost, even better. He would only thank nature for its gift!
Still nothing?
Pulling out his dripping wet arm, Xu Jie frowned deeply and scanned the bathroom once more, refusing to overlook a single corner.
In the end, he took a deep breath, did not even wash his hands, and slammed the door as he walked out.
Fine, keep hiding!
Whatever it was, as long as it remained in the dormitory, sooner or later he would drag it out and kill it!
Returning to his chair, Xu Jie subconsciously slipped his hand into his pocket to feel around. Then, expressionlessly, he pulled it back out and wiped it on his clothes.
Damn it!
The following morning, the rising sun had just emerged.
Xu Jie rose in the dormitory and headed for the door. As he passed the bathroom, he turned his head and glanced inside.
There had not been the slightest sound from the bathroom for the rest of the night, to the point that even Xu Jie had begun to wonder whether his senses had made a mistake.
Perhaps...
Only after Xu Jie left the dormitory did bubbles begin to gurgle up from the water pipe beneath the shattered toilet.
On campus.
At this moment, students from every grade, gathered in groups of three or five, carried breakfast as they hurried toward the training grounds.
They wanted to get there early and pick a good spot to watch the battle.
Rumor had it that quite a few senior students who were away had specifically hurried back.
Those people normally did not attend classes at school, so it was rare for them to gather today.
Xu Jie did not head to the training grounds immediately, nor did he go eat breakfast. As he passed the garden, he instead crouched in the grass, feeling around for something.
"Xu Jie! What are you doing?"
Hearing Chu Mingyue's cool yet magnetically charming voice from afar, Xu Jie's movements stiffened.
As if some button had been triggered, he sprang up like a coiled spring and ran in the opposite direction, his figure vanishing in an instant.
Chu Mingyue: "???"
Chu Mingyue froze where she stood, looking somewhat at a loss.
She seemed unable to understand why, after merely one night, Xu Jie—who had originally been as flippant as a hooligan—had suddenly lost interest in her again.
However...
The power of blood and qi Xu Jie had unleashed just now...
Chu Mingyue raised her brows, disbelief in her beautiful eyes as she thought her perception must have been wrong.
Two days ago, Xu Jie had only been at First-Rank Low-Stage. How could he have risen to the peak of First Rank in two days?
Wasn't that a joke?
And this brat... why had his personality become increasingly unruly and strange?
On the other side of the school.
With a plant root clenched between his teeth, Xu Jie walked toward the training grounds from another direction, his brows slightly furrowed. From time to time, he would turn around suspiciously and inspect his surroundings.
That was close!
For now, Xu Jie could not face Chu Mingyue.
The sincere kindness and subtle concern she showed made this desperado, who had never trusted anyone, feel exceedingly awkward and uneasy.
Couldn't there just be a simple relationship of drink and meat between a man and a woman?
Temporarily suppressing the irritation in his heart, Xu Jie roughly shoved aside two fourth-year students blocking his path and strode directly into the fighting arena within the training grounds.
"Are you fucking—ugh!"
That fourth-year student had been about to curse loudly, but after seeing Xu Jie's back clearly—
It was as though someone had seized his throat in one grip. His voice caught in his neck, and his eyes showed obvious relief at having escaped calamity.
The current Xu Jie had a ferocious reputation that spread far and wide. He was no longer the timid coward anyone could bully, but a powerful man as vicious as a wild beast.
It was still that same rest room.
Xu Jie entered as though he knew the way by heart, selected a handy alloy combat blade from the weapon rack, and let a savage smile curl across his lips.
Today was the day of his revenge!
Xu Jie could not wait any longer!
Although he had only arrived in the High Martial World two days ago, that was simply his nature.
Letting an enemy live one second longer made him feel miserable all over, as though ants were crawling across his body.
The school had punished him by making him fight ten ranking battles. How could that possibly be enough?
If possible, he even wanted to fight a hundred battles and slaughter everyone on the rankings until not a single one remained!
As for the consequences of killing so many people...
What a joke. Would Xu Jie ever consider consequences when doing something?
He would only think there were too few people on the rankings—not enough for him to kill!
Of course, at this moment, Xu Jie was not actually Xu Ming's match yet.
Xu Ming ranked ninth on the rankings. He was unquestionably a twelfth-layer Blood Moving Realm martial artist, and a genius-level martial artist who had moved his blood no fewer than three times.
As far as Xu Jie knew, every student in the top ten of the rankings had moved their blood at least three times.
The person ranked first had been confirmed to have moved their blood five times, perhaps even more!
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