The Fragrance of Tea, and Huo Wu's Grievance

Early the next morning, dawn had only just begun to break. It was around six o'clock!

Feng Xiaotian had just gotten up and opened his door when he spotted Huo Wu waiting outside his room!

Huo Wu looked at Feng Xiaotian and took a few steps forward. "Where's the medicine?" she asked, her voice somewhat cold.

Feng Xiaotian was taken aback. He frowned slightly. "You're certainly early! But is that any way to ask for medicine?"

A slightly awkward look appeared on Huo Wu's face. Quite a few people around them were watching!

Huo Wu spoke again. "I'm here to get medicine for my mother! If you need anything, you can tell me!"

Her tone made it sound like a transaction with no feelings involved!

But even if it was a transaction, surely she couldn't act like that! The least she could do was put on a smile!

Feng Xiaotian smiled, however. "Well, there are quite a few things I need. I'm still short a few medicinal ingredients, so help me buy some in Blazing Fire City! Wait a moment. I'll go back inside and write you a list!"

With that, Feng Xiaotian went straight back into his room without looking back!

After closing the door, Feng Xiaotian smiled faintly. You proud little beauty, you think I can't handle you?

Clearly, Huo Ying had told her to ask about his needs and handle things for him!

He had to make good use of this!

Feng Xiaotian checked the system and casually wrote down a few medicinal ingredients!

Then he added some other inconsequential things!

But those things weren't easy to get!

About five minutes later, Feng Xiaotian came out and found that Huo Wu's expression wasn't very pleasant. But when she saw him, she managed to force a faint smile this time!

"What do you need?" Huo Wu asked.

Feng Xiaotian handed her the list!

"That's everything," he said at once. "I suggest you start by gathering some early-morning dew!"

"I got up a little late this morning. Dew gathered at this hour won't be quite as effective, but it'll still do. From now on, bring me a kilogram of dew every morning. Remember, it has to be dew from between four and five in the morning. That's when it's most effective!"

Huo Wu didn't think the other things on the list would be difficult to get!

But the dew! Getting it between four and five in the morning would be a bit troublesome!

And she needed a whole kilogram this time!

Huo Wu asked doubtfully, "Do you really need a kilogram? Can you use that much? Can you make that much medicine?"

Feng Xiaotian nodded solemnly. "Of course. Although it's a kilogram, I need to process the dew into its essence, and in the end there might not even be fifty grams! It's the key to treating your mother's fire poison! Hurry along. If you gather it now, it'll still be fifty percent effective. Wait another hour, and it won't be effective at all!"

Huo Wu thought for a moment. "All right, then. But you'd better not be lying to me, or else... I..."

An hour later, in Feng Xiaotian's room!

A pot of tea, a pot of water!

The fragrance of tea filled the air!

Feng Xiaotian picked up a cup of tea brewed with early-morning dew and slowly took a sip!

The taste was unlike anything he had ever experienced!

If Huo Wu had been there and seen him doing this, she might have immediately fought him to the death!

After all, that dew was the result of a full hour's work by her and her older brother, Huo Wushuang!

And Feng Xiaotian had wasted it just like that!

Feng Xiaotian didn't think it was a waste, though. To do the dew justice, he had spent ten thousand Wolf Warrior Coins in the system to exchange for a set of high-end tea utensils and some top-grade tea leaves from his previous life!

Although Feng Xiaotian had just eaten breakfast, that didn't stop him from having morning tea!

About the time it took an incense stick to burn passed. Huo Wu had been waiting outside for quite a while, and Feng Xiaotian also felt it was about time!

He exchanged for the medicine in the system, but its overall therapeutic effect was only fifty percent of yesterday's!

Feng Xiaotian stepped outside and handed Huo Wu a box!

"Here you go. This is today's medicine! But because you gathered the dew too late, it may only be half as effective as yesterday's!"

Huo Wu forcibly suppressed the anger in her heart and took it from Feng Xiaotian!

She had already made up her mind. At the exchange tournament, she would make Feng Xiaotian pay!

Although Feng Xiaotian had hidden his strength before, the teammates he led weren't very capable!

And the exchange tournament was a team competition. Huo Wu was confident she could defeat Godwind Academy!

Huo Wu took the medicine box, turned around, and left without a word!

There was still about an hour before the exchange tournament, so Feng Xiaotian returned to his room and continued enjoying his tea!

As for Huo Wu, she was hurrying back!

Huo Wu kept watch beside Huo Ying as she used the medicine!

After a while, Huo Ying spoke. "This medicine doesn't seem as effective as yesterday's!"

Hearing Huo Ying say that, Huo Wu felt that Feng Xiaotian didn't seem to have lied to her!

Huo Wu said, "Mother, there was a little mishap with today's medicine. Feng Xiaotian said it would only be half as effective as yesterday's, but it won't happen again!"

Huo Ying understood at once. "All right, as long as there won't be a problem in the future. Thank Xiaotian for me. But it isn't right for you to call him by his name like that. Xiaotian is five years older than you, so from now on, you should call him Brother Feng when you see him!"

Huo Wu suddenly had ten thousand grievances she wanted to voice, but for the sake of curing Huo Ying, she could only swallow them!

"Mother, I will!"

Huo Ying smiled. "Good. It's getting late, so hurry and prepare for today's exchange tournament, Wu'er!"

"All right!"

Huo Wu left the courtyard immediately after speaking, but before she left, she noticed what seemed to be traces of a fight on the other side of the courtyard!

Had Feng Xiaotian fought her mother when he came yesterday?

An hour later, the third day of the Five Elemental Academies Exchange Tournament began as scheduled!

That day, Huo Wu had her heart set on teaching Feng Xiaotian's Godwind Academy a lesson, only for Blazing Fire Academy to draw a bye!

There were two matches. In the first, Godwind Academy, led by Feng Xiaotian, easily defeated Elephant Armor Academy!

Defeating Elephant Armor was quite simple. Although Huyan Li took the field, he was still beaten without any chance to fight back against Feng Xiaotian! He was injured as well, and even with treatment, he might be affected for several days. He probably wouldn't be taking part in the remaining matches!

In the second match, neither Yu Tianxin nor Lei Dong of Thunder Academy took the field, allowing Skywater Academy, led by Shui Bing'er, to claim victory!

On the fourth day of the exchange tournament, Huo Wu delivered a pot of dew at five o'clock sharp, and Feng Xiaotian promptly gave her the medicine!

A cup of tea every morning left him refreshed in mind and body!

That day, Elephant Armor Academy drew a bye in the exchange tournament!

In the first match, Blazing Fire lost to Thunderclap, which had fielded its full team. Feng Xiaotian could tell, however, that Blazing Fire Academy didn't seem to be using its full strength!

In the second match, Feng Xiaotian finally faced the Tianshui Girl Group!

At first, Feng Xiaotian went along with the fight for a while, but afterward, he put in just a little effort and finished off all the Skywater Academy girls!

Another day passed, and at last it was the final day of the Five Elemental Academies Exchange Tournament!

Skywater Academy would face Elephant Armor Academy!

Blazing Fire Academy would face Godwind Academy!