The Fairy's Grudge

Many disciples in Shengjing were unsettled due to the brutal and horrific murders of fellow disciples.

Especially since the Affairs Management Courtyard had yet to find any leads, various monstrous rumors began to spread.

For Ji You, the most important thing right now was to improve his cultivation.

The world was already showing signs of unrest, and the attacks might just be the beginning.

Currently, only strength was the best means of self-preservation.

Besides, that guy Kuang Cheng was becoming more and more reckless.

It was now deep winter. Everything was withering, and scattered snowflakes occasionally drifted down from the sky.

Ji You arrived at the Dao Comprehension Ground and found that some students were still unaffected by the unrest and had been diligently cultivating for days.

For example, Du Zhu, who was in the Nirvana Realm, Yue Ze and Zeng Pan'er, who were in the Middle Stage of Condensing Illumination, were all people who had been friendly with Chu He.

To them, the Celestial Academy was, after all, the Great Xia Sacred Sect. Even if some scoundrels caused trouble, they would inevitably be suppressed and turned to ashes.

It wasn't until Ji You arrived that these students who were comprehending the Dao finally showed some reaction.

"He's really unharmed..."

"Someone said he saved seven people with three swords alone, and two of them were senior brothers from the Inner Court. Is it true?"

"It should be true, because someone saw those two Inner Court senior brothers bowing to him in thanks."

News of the battle on the front street of the West City had already leaked through unofficial channels and was relatively complete. Everyone knew about it.

It was said that the Sword Testing Forest was now bustling with activity. There were now more students practicing the Martial Dao than there were bamboo trees in the forest.

Some of the two-and-a-half-year trainees' dormitories were close to the Sword Testing Forest. It was said that every evening at dusk, one could hear instructors cursing Ji You on the mountain.

At this moment, Fang Ruoyao was also at the Dao Comprehension Ground.

She was still in the early stage of Spirit Awakening, and her connection with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was not smooth.

Therefore, she worked harder than ordinary people and finally grasped a slight understanding.

Yet, it was precisely this hard work that made her realize more clearly that the gap between people could not be bridged simply by trying their best.

Looking at Ji You sitting on the ground and tidying his robes, she couldn't help but feel a sense of trance.

She shared a dormitory with Lou Siyi and Sun Zhiqiao and had heard the most detailed version of the story. She had even dreamed several times of the swordsman in white changing swords with both hands and saving the two Inner Court senior brothers with his sword.

This morning, she had accidentally overheard Lou Siyi secretly instructing a maid to go into the city to find a sword, intending to gift it to Ji You.

For some reason, she felt an overwhelming sense of loss.

In fact, many people in the academy had already spread rumors that her status as his fiancée was fake, because they had never spoken to each other.

"Ji You, can you walk with me before the hour of Hai (9-11 PM)?"

Fang Ruoyao gathered her courage and called out to him.

But just then, heavenly light descended. Tigers roared and dragons cried above the clouds, and then the heavenly light entered his spiritual aperture, clearly indicating that he had entered the Heavenly Tome.

Seeing this, Fang Ruoyao lowered her eyelids, while everyone in the Dao Comprehension Ground looked on with complex expressions.

To have the Heavenly Tome respond upon entering the Dao Comprehension Ground was too ostentatious. It made people jealous every time they saw it.

At this moment, Ji You's spiritual sense soared into the sky, following the vast starlight that filled the sky and gradually entering the void.

But before he could even steady himself, a snow-white jade foot came flying towards him, kicking him out with a "slap."

Vaguely, Ji You couldn't see anything clearly. He only saw the woman in the red dress looking at him coldly from the side, her face as frosty as ice, seemingly very angry.

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"You're rewarding me right off the bat? What's going on?"

Ji You was forcibly pulled out of his meditative state, looking confused.

Then he entered again, and the delicate jade foot still met him, refusing to let him enter the Void Mountain.

With his spiritual sense returned, Ji You sat on the Dao Comprehension Ground and counted the days with his fingers, thinking that it wasn't that time of the month!

Why was she so angry and not letting him back into the room?

The surrounding students stared blankly at the heavenly light that flickered in the sky, their faces expressionless.

It wasn't until the third time that Ji You entered the void again that he finally didn't encounter the jade foot and successfully entered.

As the Void Mountain and the chaotic Heavenly Dao became clearer before his eyes, he saw that the Fairy in the red dress had returned to her black stone, but her expression was still cold and unapproachable.

What was most striking was the deep purple, almost black aura that enveloped her, like flames, flickering around her.

"You... what is that on you?"

"The Fairy's resentment."

The woman gritted her teeth, her voice chilling to the bone.

She thought that even though they hadn't spoken much, they always came to cultivate in the afternoon, so it was like an agreement.

But who knew that he had disappeared for several days without a word last time, and now this!

At first, she didn't pay it any mind, thinking that she had lived on the mountain alone for more than ten years since she was a child. What difference could cultivating alone make?

But then she discovered a pale purple gas gathering around her.

At first, she thought she had gone mad, but later she understood that she had entered Mount Xuwu with her spiritual sense, and certain emotions that could affect her state of mind would appear around her spiritual sense in the form of this gas.

On the first day, the color was only faint, but on the second day, it began to deepen, eventually heading towards black.

And at this moment, she seemed to understand what those fluttering yellow things all over the sky were when that person was looking at her feet.

Just then, Ji You noticed that the gas around the other person suddenly turned into an extremely sorrowful gray.

He watched for a long time, and vaguely seemed to sense her grievance: "On the night of the Winter Solstice, I was having dinner with my fellow disciples. On the way back, we were attacked by ruffians. I consumed too much spiritual sense during the fight and slept for two days."

"Were you injured?"

"No, I wasn't injured."

Ji You thought for a moment and said, "The courtyard has been investigating this matter for the past few days, and I just finished being questioned."

"You're a disciple of the Celestial Academy," the woman suddenly said, pointing at him.

She was indeed quite intelligent, knowing that among the Seven Great Immortal Sects, only the Celestial Academy referred to itself as a courtyard.

Ji You curved his lips upwards, looking at the proud Fairy before him: "Then what is the Fairy's name?"

The Fairy looked at him for a long time: "Yan Shuyi."

"Then I'm starting my cultivation. No more kicking me. Even though the foot path is also a path..."

"Then what's your name?"

"Ji... Bochang, meaning to gather the strengths of many."

Yan Shuyi raised her head, looking at the yellow smoke billowing from above his head, and narrowed her eyes slightly.

Ji You knew this was the pre-kick expression, so he held his breath: "Yan Shuyi, you just said you wouldn't kick me!"

"Pervert!"

"Holy crap!"

Even after being kicked out of the "chat group" by her snow-white jade foot, Ji You was still puzzled.

She shouldn't have known the meaning of that word, until he noticed the abundant yellow smoke above his head