Only after Bu Wuchen's figure had been gone for quite some time did the Pill Hall master come back to his senses.
His gray-white brows knitted. "Damn it, that little bastard was far too insolent!"
"He killed a genius from a collateral branch of my Lin Lineage and humiliated Elder Lü;"
"and just now, he even dared act so arrogantly before me?"
"Besides, my Lin Lineage's two unique manuals of cultivation methods and mystic techniques are still in your hands..."
"If you don't die, who should?!"
"If not for that little bitch Xia Nuoyi, the corpses of you and your two lackeys would probably have gone cold already!"
A cold glint shone through the old man's narrowed eyes. "Sooner or later, my Lin Lineage will reclaim those two cultivation methods and mystic techniques;"
"then we'll strip your tendons and flay your skin to vent this hatred!"
Bu Wuchen had never imagined that the academy Pill Hall's chief master was actually a senior figure of the Lin Lineage.
No wonder that old man had targeted him like that...
"Hmph, if this place won't have me, somewhere else will."
Bu Wuchen silently made up his mind. One day, Blood Dragon City Academy will bitterly regret letting its Pill Hall turn away a genius like me!
Previously, he had been fretting over his lack of pill recipes.
But just now, after making a choice according to the system's prompt, he had instantly mastered five pill recipes;
and his own pill master realm had soared as well, reaching the Mortal Realm Ninth Layer!
This undoubtedly gave Bu Wuchen much greater confidence!
His only regret was that his wish to use the academy Pill Hall's resources for practice had fallen through completely.
"The twenty-odd thousand gold coins I have would be enough if I only used them to buy pill-refining ingredients;"
"but they definitely won't buy a decent medicinal cauldron!"
A pill refiner without a medicinal cauldron was like an archer without a bow-nothing he said would matter.
"Hmm... is my grand plan to get rich going to die in the womb just like that?"
Thoroughly dejected, Bu Wuchen wandered around the academy.
Without noticing, he actually arrived at the junior class's classroom door.
"Since I'm here, I might as well go in and ask the instructor for a mystic power test, to prepare for advancing classes!"
At Blood Dragon City Academy, anyone who broke through to the Qi Observation Realm Fifth Layer before eighteen could advance to the senior class.
The cultivation resources senior-class students received were worlds apart from those of the junior class!
As the saying went, even a mosquito was meat, however small.
Bu Wuchen had no reason to give up benefits he was entitled to.
When he pushed open the door and entered, besides the enormous tiered lecture hall seating nearly a thousand junior-class students;
he also saw a young girl in green silk standing on the platform, beautiful enough to make fish sink and geese fall!
"Huh? Xia Nuoyi?"
Bu Wuchen called out her name instinctively. "Aren't you the vice dean?"
"Why did you come teach the junior class?"
Xia Nuoyi's pretty face darkened.
With a light tap of her delicate foot, she sprang in front of Bu Wuchen.
Her fair hand swept out-
"Whoosh!"
A stream of released Mystic Qi seized Bu Wuchen's collar and lifted him as effortlessly as though he weighed nothing.
His feet dangled several feet above the floor!
"Who gave you the nerve to address your grandaunt here by name?"
Speaking of which, the "demoness" Xia Nuoyi really was quite "demonic." She clearly looked like a youthful girl of fifteen or sixteen, yet insisted on calling herself his grandaunt...
"Uh, what's wrong with calling you by your name?"
Bu Wuchen's voice sounded a little off-key.
Presumably, having his collar seized made it difficult to breathe!
By rights, being suspended like this should have been quite painful.
Yet his expression just then showed no pain at all. Instead, he even seemed a little... pleased?
As it turned out, when that strand of mystic power caught Bu Wuchen by the collar and suspended him in midair;
the downward angle let him feast his eyes on the scenery inside Xia Nuoyi's neckline!
"Gulp, gulp, gulp..."
For a moment, the entire classroom rang with the sound of swallowing.
Clearly, they too had "put themselves in his shoes" and imagined Bu Wuchen's wonderful circumstances.
Every last one of them had eyes reddened with envy!
Suddenly, a thud rang out.
It was the sound of Bu Wuchen being thrown onto the floor.
He coughed hard twice and rubbed his neck, which had just been painfully constricted. "Aren't names meant for other people to call you by?"
"Oh, I get it!"
"You still prefer me calling you 'fairy big sister,' right?"
"Then OK, no problem."
Xia Nuoyi snorted coldly. "Hmph, no amount of slick talk can change the fact that you're late!"
"For your sake, I went to all this trouble and came especially to substitute for one junior-class lesson."
"Yet the lesson's almost over, and you've only just walked through the door?!"
Bu Wuchen grumbled inwardly. One moment you're calling yourself my 'grandaunt,' and the next you're 'this young lady.' Your train of thought really does jump around.
Outwardly, however, the youth spouted nonsense with a perfectly serious face. "You've got the nerve to say that? Yesterday, you called me away and grilled me so hard you left me psychologically scarred."
"Whenever I thought about what would happen if I didn't regain my cultivation realm from when I first enrolled within three days, I got nervous!"
"And once I got nervous, I cultivated for dear life without sleeping a wink all night. That's why I overslept..."
The green-robed girl's face, beautiful enough to topple cities and kingdoms, remained covered in frost. "Hmph, you think I'll believe that just because you say so?"
"If you're so capable, show me the results of your whole night's hard work!"
Bu Wuchen shrugged, then gave his body a slight shake-
"Hum!"
The intensity of the Qi sense of the Qi Observation Realm Seventh Layer instantly poured out in every direction!
"Ah!"
The junior-class students in the first few rows instantly went pale.
After all, even the strongest student in the junior class was only at the Brute Martial Realm Peak.
Suddenly facing the pressure of the Qi Observation Realm Seventh Layer, they could hardly avoid trembling hearts and panicked minds.
And this was without Bu Wuchen deliberately targeting any particular student;
if, like Lü Chunyang had treated him yesterday, he directed the full pressure of his realm at a single person present...
These Savage Martial Realm students would surely collapse limply on the spot!
"Q-Qi Observation Realm Seventh Layer?"
"Wasn't his cultivation still at the Savage Martial Realm Fourth Layer yesterday?"
The students began discussing it, their faces full of astonishment-
"Little Wang, you're really behind on the news."
"Yesterday evening, Bu Wuchen defeated and killed Senior Lin Zhuxian from the senior class on the martial arena!"
"What?! He's that badass?"
"So the cultivation he kept losing back then has nearly recovered to its original level?"
"Uh, I'm done for, I'm done for! I mocked him before!"
Xia Nuoyi, too, parted her lips in surprise.
She had originally wanted to praise him a little.
But when she saw the smug expression on Bu Wuchen's face, she could not help raising her brows. "Hmph, don't get pleased with yourself too soon."
"You're still two layers short of the peak from the Qi Observation Realm Seventh Layer!"
Bu Wuchen's heart jolted.
That was right. He no longer had any unique cultivation manuals, nor did he have a Soul-Devouring Token.
With only two days left, how could advancing two layers in succession without taking shortcuts be easy?
What if...