Chapter 16 - Lin Haoxue"s Pride

The moment they were about to enter the dormitory, Lin Haoxue suddenly stopped because a familiar face appeared before her, and at this moment, she felt her body instinctively shutter with humiliation and anger.

"Lin Haoxue, is that really you?" Before her eyes was a slightly fat youngster who had a flushed complexion as he stared at Lin Haoxue before a bellow of rage escaped his throat, "Unexpectedly, you"re not dead yet?"

"Wu Cuo?" Lin Haoxue"s expression was exceptionally tranquil as she slowly spoke his name. In just a split second, she had an inner struggle, as her predecessor"s instincts raged in her mind wanting vengeance, but she was very prideful. Her pride wouldn"t allow her to be bothered by such a lowly person. She had experienced much in this short span of time and she realized that if she were bound by such a person, then she was destined to not amount to much.

"You know him?" Shen Molian looked at Lin Haoxue trying to search within her eyes for an answer.

"He"s just a reckless flea nothing more than an insane dog. In the future, I"m not likely to remember his name," Lin Haoxue regained her vision as she insipidly spoke, "Let"s go."

"What did you just say? You! You"re just trash! You still dare to curse me like this? Aren"t you just being arrogant because you gave your body to the Second Master of the He family? What do you have to be proud of," Seeing Lin Haoxue not paying any attention to him, Wu Cuo flew into rage from humiliation. Now he was unable to reach the eye of someone he had looked down upon and loathed?

"What"d you say? She"s trash?" Suddenly before his eyes, darkness appeared. Wu Cuo only felt himself grow rigid as someone gazed upon him with a severe expression.

"You, you"re Shen Molian?" When he clearly saw the person before his eyes, Wu Cuo seemed as if he had seen a ghost. His complexion changed, and he dared not say those words again.

"Although Shen Molian had been at the academy a mere three months, her icy personality was famous and her true strength was greater than just her cultivation would suggest. Throughout the whole academy, apart from the top-ranked students, no one dared to provoke her, let alone Wu Cuo who was merely a first-year student.

"I"ll deal with this." Lin Haoxue walked forward a step to stop Shen Molian.

"He"s insulting you, which is also an insult to me!" Shen Molian obviously wasn"t pleased.

"I heard," Lin Haoxue"s voice was faint. Her small, pretty face had yet to change expressions. "Exactly because he was insulting me, I have to deal with it myself."

"You... Okay, I"m too meddlesome." Shen Molian heard what she said and retreated a step before explaining, "I"m simply p.i.s.sed because he dares to insult my teammate."

"I know, thank you," Lin Haoxue sent a grateful glance towards Shen Molian, approving of her actions in her heart. Although Shen Molian might seem cold, Lin Haoxue knew that she really did treat her as a friend.

"Humph!" Looking at Wu Cuo, Lin Haoxue"s expression suddenly turned cold and she snorted coldly. Her body"s imposing aura suddenly started climbing step by step,At this moment, Wu Cuo drew back a few steps in panic, staring at Lin Haoxue with fear. Who was this person? Was this still that same piece of trash? Feeling this shocking aura, how could she possibly be easy to deal with?

Not only that, Wu Cuo clearly sensed that there was pressure pushing down on his dantian. Within his dantian, it was slowly being drained of all his acc.u.mulated profound power, and not only was his profound power being drained, but even his elemental profound veins were starting to gradually become darker, nearly collapsing. Being so powerless made him feel utter despair, but finally, after a moment, this pressure subsided.

Looking at Wu Cuo who was dripping with sweat since long ago, Lin Haoxue crouched by his side and sized up the other person with dismay. "I know what you think. The Wu family has quite a lot of people in the academy, but I"ll tell you, you guys from the Wu family here at the Profound Academy, if we don"t count Wu Shiyue, then none of you have the qualifications to provoke me."

"Wu Shiyue?" Suddenly a person to the side cried out in surprise. The area between the boys and girls" freshmen dormitory had already been filled with people since Wu Cuo had called her out. They were all here to enjoy a good show. Everyone knew that the Wu family was extremely domineering, but the reason they could be so domineering was exactly because of the one just mentioned, Wu Shiyue.

"You... You said Young Master Shiyue?" Wu Cuo asked while trembling with fear.

"Yes, him!"

Wu Shiyue was one of the top five Profound Ancestor realm cultivators in the academy. His strength was quite formidable, and he was also quite protective of his family. Therefore, this led to the Wu family running rampant within the academy.

Now, Lin Haoxue had unexpectedly said such a thing! That in her eyes, apart from Wu Shiyue, none of the Wu family members could enter her eye.

No one could say anything else but that she really was quite domineering and also quite reckless. No one was really sure where the confidence in herself came from, and it was so extraordinary that it led people to believe her.

"Let"s go," Lin Haoxue said no more nor paid any attention to the people gathered around inquisitively looking at her with surprise. She just got up and went into the dormitory together with Shen Molian.

Staring blankly at the people who were departing right in front of him, Wu Cuo"s lingering fear didn"t disappear, and he could only secretly muttered in his heart, "I need to tell this to older brother Ling. He can ask Young Master Shiyue to personally appear. I want to see if she can still be so insolent then."

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"You"re quite arrogant," returning to the dormitory, Shen Molian looked at Lin Haoxue with an expression that revealed some appreciation, "and I have no choice but to say that to see you do such a thing makes me quite happy. If your target was merely this kind of person, then you would never be able to reach the apex, for a genuinely strong person vision is most important!"

"I know." When she first came to this world she hated feeling powerless. However, afterwards, she experienced many things such as the ice cave underneath Divine Dragon Stream, the He family"s provocation, the dream about that strange person, and afterwards, Mister Ai. These events had widened her perspective. She now understood that the reason she had been bullied and humiliated was because she was so weak. At that time she didn"t have the ability to change her situation. To change this, let alone her target being He Lingyun, the people of Wu Cuo"s level were already people she was unwilling to pay any mind to. However, if the Wu family once again had some issue with her, she wouldn"t continue tolerating them.

"But, why are you sighing with sorrow?" Lin Haoxue compared herself to the girl in front of her eyes. Shen Molian was only two years older than her, but she could feel that she had many secrets. Just what experiences did she have to become so cold and arrogant?

"There"s a lot of things in this world that you have to experience first to truly understand." Shen Molian looked outside the window, her face full of worry, "What"s more, those people I have to deal with are so distant that these pieces of trash can"t even begin to compare."

Lin Haoxue didn"t ask anymore. She could sense that Shen Molian"s history was unordinary. She knew that the bottom of her heart was warm and strong, although her surface was seemingly cold. At this moment, Lin Haoxue made the decision that when she had finished with her own matters, she would a.s.sist Shen Molian to the best of her ability no matter how powerful her opponent was.
In some way, the two of them were the same kind of person both were stubborn, proud, aloof, and pa.s.sionate. Although they came from different worlds, they had the same heart.

"So, how much do you know about spirit birds?" Lin Haoxue could no longer bear to see such a sad expression on Shen Molian"s face so she changed the subject. "According to the info from the magenta mission, we need to enter the Demon Beast Forest and obtain two wings from a spirit bird."

"According to what I learned, the spirit bird comes from the Netherworld and they simply don"t appear within the Demon Beast Forest," Shen Molian"s soul returned and she looked towards Lin Haoxue as she spoke.

"Is there a mistake with this mission?"

"No. It clearly says that inside the Demon Beast Forest there is a spirit bird, and not only a spirit bird, but it also seems to say that information has leaked out that there is also a sun bird there as well. Think about it, what does this mean?"

"That is true. The spirit bird and the sun bird come from the Netherworld and the Land of the Flaming Sun. They are complete opposites and almost never appear in the same region at the same time. Unless they are both looking for something that interests them."

"Right, in this world, what"s capable of affecting both the spirit and sun bird? They have completely different natures."

"It can only be the Yin Yang Double Gateway. So you actually think that within the Demon Beast Forest a Yin Yang Double Gateway will appear?"

"Yes."

"In other words, the difficulty of this mission will be a lot higher. So basically we will have to face two different kinds of spirit birds?"

"Right, these two kinds of birds are quite clever. People with the strength of the Profound Ancestor realm or stronger usually do their best to keep a distance from them, while those that are weaker usually end up as their food. This is the reason this mission hasn"t been taken until now. So now it"s our turn!"  

Makes sense that this dangerous mission hasn"t been taken yet. Our foes are after all spirit beasts, not demon beasts. Spirits beasts have spiritual wisdom which is much higher than that of demon beasts, Lin Haoxue said quite clear on the matter."Then, what do you think?"

"This mission will take us roughly half a year to finish. However, the spirit birds will appear in twenty days, and it will take ten days to travel from Taixing town to the Demon Beast Forest so we have roughly ten days to prepare," Shen Molian said, "so we"ll leave in ten days."

"I understand." Lin Haoxue answered, "I"ll go get ready."

After leaving the dormitory, Lin Haoxue devoted her whole mind to studying. Now as she was quite poor she had no other option but to borrow three hundred achievement points from Shen Molian. Fortunately, she was only looking into some information on demon beasts, so it didn"t require too many points. Two days later, Lin Haoxue relied on her exceptional willforce to memorize every bit of information about the demon and spirit beasts she had just obtained.

The following five days, Lin Haoxue bitterly cultivated with the a.s.sistance of the ring and increased her strength, and finally, she broke through into the Profound Master realm. Finally, she spent the last two days looking for a good weapon.

When everything was ready, she returned to the dormitory. Entering the room, she saw that Shen Molian had already finished her preparations, and Lin Haoxue noticed that she had unexpectedly also broken through into the Profound Master realm.
Seeing as they were both ready, the two people set out for the Demon Beast Forest.

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