Chapter 8: The Gossip Spirit
The next morning, Yao Beibei was awakened by crisp bells that suddenly rang in the room, but found that her body was dark, slimy, and stinking again. She frowned because she did not know how there were so many dirty things on her body. Brother Duan helped her cleanse her body, and the climate here was great. It was not hot at all in summer, and she even needed a blanket at night! Even if she sweated in the heat, it wouldn’t make her so dirty!
She wondered what happened to her body for a while, and remembered that the bell was just a wake-up call for the new disciples who needed to go to the introductory training. Yao Beibei found a cleaning charm and patted it on her body and was refreshed. Hey, cleaning charms were really easy to use!
The first day of the training was history class. In order to survive in this world, Yao Beibei paid attention to history class for the first time in so many years. Instead, she listened with interest and felt that the white-bearded history teacher was very wise.
What Yao Beibei didn’t expect was that gossip spread everywhere. Even the cultivators was no exception! Yesterday she and Bai Ziming were accepted by Hua Qianqiu master, and it had spread throughout the Qingfeng Sect!
Because during the class, there were a bunch of girls in the classroom talking about her, saying that such an ugly girl, how could she become an apprentice of a Qingfeng Sect elder, the dog will have its dog, etc.
The bunch of girls surrounded a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl. The girl was as white as snow, with red lips and white teeth. Unlike the other girls whose hair were tied into a neat ponytail, her hair was done in a delicate bun with a jade hairpin. Five thumb-sized red beads were laid on it, shining brightly, covering her entire body like a burning flame. Although she was wearing a white uniform of the Qingfeng Sect, she looked extremely enchanting, gorgeous, and attractive. If she was a few more years older, she’d become a stunning beauty that could take over the country and the people.
The young girl was surrounded by five or six girls of the same age, like moon surrounded by stars. Her sleek eyebrows were raised, showing an arrogant attitude, and looked at Yao Beibei with animosity: “How did you qualify? I thought somebody was so worthy that she had the honor to study under the elder. Turns out she is such a useless piece of trash, such an ugly girl! I don’t know what you did. It must be really hard to imagine! ”
After the girl finished speaking, the entire classroom exploded, and all eyes fell on Yao Beibei, talking about her, and some boys were even exaggerating, saying that they would cover their eyes in class in the future, which made everybody laugh.
Yao Beibei knew that this girl should be coming from an aristocratic family, but she also knew that everyone who came to the Qingfeng School was equal regardless of their status in the world. If that girl wanted to bully with her identity, she was really mistaken. Yao Beibei was from another world!
Yao Beibei looked down at her book, and pretended to speak to herself: “The cultivation world is subtle. How can shallow people find it? How could ordinary people understand what the elder is thinking? Only those with dubious intentions will think that everyone in the world was the same! ”
“Presumptuous!” The young girl blurted, the blue tendons on her forehead suddenly burst out, and all the supporters around her were frightened. The lively classroom turned nstantly silent and turned her eyes to this girl.
An 18 or 19 year-old boy spoke slowly at this moment: “Princess Muxue, it is fate that we are gathered here. Just accept it!”
A snow-white jade hairpin held his black hair on the top of his head, and a white jade folding fan was in his hand. The boy seemed elegant and charming. He had a noble air around him, just like Yuan Muxue. It seems that in the world where he came from, he was also an aristocrat. When he talked, although he looked like he was smiling, his eyes were cold unlike the boys his age, and sent chills down everyone’s spines.
“Prince Longtian, it’s not your turn to talk! But if I remember correctly, it seems that the elders haven’t selected you. Maybe your Jinglong Kingdom was just so-so!” Yuan Muxue’s anger was redirected to this boy, as if she could shoot fire from her eyes.
Longtian’s face was also green and held the white jade fan tightly. His eyes were dark without any respect for the opposite sex. He wanted to swallow the Yuan Muxue in one bite.
Yao Beibei had it figured out. These two people, one was a princess and the other was a prince. They were from two fighting countries. They both wanted to learn from her master Hua Qianqiu. Unfortunately, he rejected them, so they treated her as a speck in the eye and wished to remove her.
Everyone could see that they were venomous snakes who could not be trusted. This was the first time that Yao Beibei thought highly of the unscrupulous master Hua Qianqiu! But knowing that Ziming was his real apprentice, they went for me, a nominal apprentice. Yes, they were picking on somebody less in size.
The Qingfeng Sect rules said that disciples must not fight without approval. Violators, regardless of their status, will be held responsible and the worst violators will be evicted. However, there were exceptions to everything, and these rules were always ignored by special people on some special occasions.
However, in the classroom before the eyes of everyone, neither Yuan Muxue nor Long Tian would make a scene. Although their faces were very angry at the moment, no one moved. Their four eyes met, and it felt like electricity were crackling and sparks were burning.
At this moment, the white beard who taught history, came into the class with a book. Yuan Yuanxue and Long Tian, who were upset, sat down indignantly, but looked at Yao Beibei coldly as they both sat down.
Yao Beibei’s heart was full of bitterness. It seems that she was ambushed by two snakes at the same time. Occasional quarrels aside, she didn’t have time to deal with them. She had to practice hard! The master was unwilling to accept them as apprentices, so it must be their own problems. Instead, they were blaming others while making a scene. Hopefully these baddies could get what they deserve!
The first day of history lesson was over. Yao Beibei finally learnt that this strange world was composed of four continents: Tianluo continent, Wuji continent, Jingyue continent, and Zhenwu continent.
Tianluo continent was a relatively barren place compared to the other four continents. Few foreign cultivators came here. The Qingfeng Sect was located in the northwest of Tianluo continent, and its land were even more barren. There were fewer and fewer foreign immigrants. Therefore, the Qingfeng School had always been peaceful and undisturbed.
In the northwest of the Tianluo continent, other than Qingfeng sect, there were four cultivation sects: the Shengxing Sect, the Xuanyun Sect, the Shuiyue Sect, and the Wuding sect. Among the five major sect, Shengxing Sect was the most powerful, Xuan Yun Sect was the second, and Qingfeng Sect and Shuiyue Sect were equal in strength. Wuding Sect was the weakest force.
However, each of the five major sect had its own secret weapon, with Nascent Soul cultivators defending them, so they have always been safe and sound. On the surface, everything was peaceful, only small fights would break out every now and then.
The Qingfeng Sect had been existing for more than 3,000 years, so it was still a cultivation sect with a long history.
The first day of the morning class taught her a lot, which should be good, but Yao Beibei was quite depressed because Bai Ziming didn’t wait for her at lunch! Although her dinner plate was placed in the drawer of the desk, she could not use the storage bag. She had to carry the dinner plate to the dining room, and her classmates followed her all the way to make fun of her!
By the end of the afternoon class, Yao Beibei wanted to ask Bai Ziming to have dinner together, but she couldn’t find him.
Yao Beibei gritted her teeth angrily, and stomped her way out of the classroom. Yesterday she was injured and he didn’t come rescue her. She was still angry, but now Bai Ziming actually ignored her. It was really abominable action and irritating!
“Sister Yao, I think you are so smart and work so hard, you could definitely pass the entrance exam after three months, right?” Yao Beibei outside the classroom, holding a dinner plate, cursing Bai Ziming in her heart. Someone slowly approached from behind her, and she shivered, it was that Long Tian!
“Brother Long, I am ungifted, so I just want to be able to make up for it with hard work. As for the entry test, I will try my best!” He seemed to approach her with good intentions, and Yao Beibei did not want to keep him far away.
“Oh, you work so hard! I think you will be within the fifty percent!” playing with his white jade fan, Long Tian smiled and it felt like the spring breeze.
“Fifty percent?” Yao Beibei raised her eyebrows, obviously not understanding what Long Tian meant.
“So you didn’t know. Since the founding of Qingfeng Sect, the pass rate of each new class was only 50%!” Long Tian blinked and laughed harmlessly.
Yao Beibei was dumbfounded. There was only one day of history class and she remembered everything. However, the subsequent trainings were all about learning spell. She couldn’t do it with just a good memory. Among the 23 people in the new class, Yao Beibei was the only one who was a true mortal. These people had been cultivating and reached the early stages of Jingmai realm and could cast a few spells to say the least. Much better than what she could do.
In the last 20 years, Yao Beibei had not studied martial arts in her life. She had no physical foundation for cultivation, and her spiritual base was still the worst five elemental type. It should take considerable effort to cultivate and catch up with others. If the pass rate of the entrance examination was really only 50%, how can she be counted in the qualified half?