Encounter (2)
"Ayue!" Xie Feng was extremely anxious when he saw that she was defenseless.
Li Zhaoyue ran to the boy and squatted down, carefully asking, "Are you okay? I have a lot of elixirs here, specially prepared by my master for me. They are very effective..."
"Ayue!" Xie Feng called her again angrily.
The boy who was crying out in pain just now suddenly burst into laughter.
"I'm fine, I was just teasing you." He spread his hands and looked at Li Zhaoyue innocently. "Anyone who is suspected would feel dissatisfied."
He smiled very beautifully. Li Zhaoyue was stunned for a moment, and then was pulled behind Xie Feng to protect him.
Xie Feng returned to his usual cold demeanor, staring straight at the young man with sharp eyes.
The boy was not afraid of his gaze at all. There was still a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, and he looked straight into his oppressive eyes.
There was an undercurrent between the two of them.
"Brother, don't be angry. I just happened to see him being chased by a spirit and saved him. I just wanted to help him up. Don't misunderstand me." Li Zhaoyue poked Xie Feng's hand and explained uneasily.
"He's still injured." Xie Feng looked at the boy's arm, which was indeed covered with bloodstains.
"Yes, that girl just wanted to help me." The young man stood up with one hand and said with a smile, "Is this how Yiziyuan treats ordinary people?"
His tone was very normal, like a child's curiosity about unknown things, but Xie Feng still frowned.
"It was my fault just now. If I offended you, I apologize." Xie Feng still had a faint expression, but his tone was much softer.
"Also, I see that you have extraordinary skills and your spiritual veins have been opened. In a month, Yi Zi Yuan will be recruiting disciples. You can come and see for yourself what Yi Zi Yuan is like."
Upon hearing this, the young man raised an eyebrow and tilted his head, saying, "It seems that this immortal is truly magnanimous and forgiving. He has put aside his suspicions about me and actively invited me to join the Yi Zi Yuan."
"You really are a role model of righteousness." He said this in a sarcastic tone, but Xie Feng just pursed his lips and did not refute.
He was indeed rude just now, so the boy's reaction now is normal.
As if standing was uncomfortable, the boy sat back down and rubbed his ankle uncomfortably.
Li Zhaoyue observed Xie Feng's expression, poked his head out from behind him, and threw a bottle to the boy.
This is for healing wounds. Li Zhaoyue mouthed to him.
Although Xie Feng didn't look directly at this side, he could also feel Li Zhaoyue's movements. He could only pretend not to know and shook his head helplessly.
After doing all this, Li Zhaoyue became obedient. Seeing that it was getting late, Xie Feng was about to take Li Zhaoyue back, but the young man suddenly stopped them.
"Anything else?" Xie Feng glanced at him coldly.
The boy sat on the road covered in mud and blood, with a lazy look and a straight back.
He raised his hand and gently pointed at Li Zhaoyue, his smile growing even brighter: "Miss, you haven't told me your name yet."
Xie Feng hated this kind of playful and smiling people the most and decided to leave immediately, but Li Zhaoyue stopped him and smiled at the young man: "My name is Li Zhaoyue, Zhao means shining, Yue means moon."
The boy's light brown pupils flickered slightly, like a meteor falling into the clouds.
"I remember that," he said.
*
The matter in Cangyun City was quickly resolved, and Li Zhaoyue and a group of senior brothers and sisters returned to Yiziyuan.
Yiziyuan is divided into six major colleges, each of which studies different magic spells.
The Martial Arts Academy specializes in physical training, specifically recruiting those without a natural talent for cultivating immortality but gifted with exceptional physical prowess. The Medical School cultivates alchemy and medicine practitioners. The Magic Court trains formation practitioners, sorcerers, talismans, and sword practitioners. And the Feng Shui Academy, where Li Zhaoyue resides, specializes in astrology, divination, precognition, and blessing... commonly known as the Vase Academy.
She has almost no talent in magic and swordsmanship, but she has some talent in compass positioning, but that's all she has.
Compass positioning is very complicated, and it needs to be combined with weather, stars, attributes, etc., and these things happen to require a lot of reading to be proficient, but what Li Zhaoyue hates most is reading.
The Feng Shui Institute arranged a lot of theoretical classes, and she also loved to sleep, so in the end, she didn't learn anything.
Yizi Academy organizes a small exam every week and a large exam every month. The weekly exams are usually fine, as the academy doesn't enforce them strictly, but this monthly exam...
The questions were difficult, and cheating was even harder. She hadn't seen anyone else's papers in yesterday's exam, so she scribbled a few words and handed them in. The result was obvious. The disciple who usually ranked last in the exam happened to be out on a mission, so she took the last place with honor.
After failing the exam and being scolded by her teacher, she went to the new student office to do odd jobs.
Yi Zi Yuan had been recruiting new disciples for the past three days, so she was in charge of registration and qualification testing. The job was simple: she just looked at the colors shown in the crystal ball and ranked the new disciples from blue, yellow, and red.
But she still couldn't change her habit of feeling sleepy when she saw a book. After only half an hour, she fell asleep leaning against the table.
Xu Xing walked to the gate of Yiziyuan and saw from a distance a person sleeping soundly on the table with the Admissions Office sign on it.
The girl was wearing a goose yellow gauze dress, her eyes were closed, and her expression was peaceful. The outer robe that symbolized her identity as a disciple of Yiziyuan was tucked under her arm and used as a pillow.
It was the girl who saved him that day.
Boom boom boom——
There was a crisp knocking sound on the table. Li Zhaoyue opened his eyes in a daze, and what he saw was a bright smiling face.
A little familiar.
She stared blankly at those light brown eyes, and suddenly her eyes lit up: "You are the one from that day!"
Xu Xing also smiled and said, "You still remember it."
"Yes, yes, you really came." When Li Zhaoyue saw someone he knew, his tiredness disappeared immediately. He stopped lying down and sat up straight. He picked up a pen and prepared to start recording relevant information.
"Before conducting the qualification test, I need to know your name." Li Zhaoyue opened the notebook, dipped it in ink, and said.
"My name is Xu Xing."
She wrote the word "Xu" smoothly, but got stuck on the word "Xing".
"Yes... which one is okay?" She looked up at him hesitantly.
Xu Xing was amused by her expression and held out his hand, saying, "I'll write it for you."
Li Zhaoyue handed him the brush and watched him write words on the white paper. The sharp tip of the brush matched her smooth strokes in an inexplicable way.
When Xu Xing was writing his own name, his eyes swept across several lines of information about other disciples, then he lowered his eyes, smiled and returned the pen to her.
Li Zhaoyue then conducted an aptitude test on him as per usual practice and wrote the two words "Zhong Shang" in the last blank space.
"Alright." She handed him a wooden sign with Xu Xing's name on it. "You've passed the test. Welcome to Yiziyuan."
Xu Xing took it, shook it casually, and asked doubtfully, "Is it so easy to join Yi Zi Yuan?"
As if he felt his words were somewhat ambiguous, he added: "I've heard among the people that it's difficult."
Li Zhaoyue had been asked this question many times and was used to it. He didn't feel unhappy at all. He propped up his head and said, "Master said that Yiziyuan has no barriers to entry. Anyone who wants to study here can enter, but..."
She paused, unable to continue, and just said that he would know later.
"Then should I call you senior sister?" Xu Xing asked again.
The tone of his last words always rises, like curled catkins in spring, soft, lazy and very harmless.
Li Zhaoyue shook his head. "Call me whatever you want. There aren't so many rules in Yiziyuan. But..."
Before he could finish his words, Xie Feng's voice floated out from behind the mountain gate: "Ayue, Master asked me to call you to Mingyue Palace."
Upon hearing this, Li Zhaoyue hurriedly threw down his pen and looked at Xu Xing apologetically: "I have something urgent to do and need to leave first. You can go into the mountain gate and take a look."
Xu Xing nodded indifferently, watching her hurriedly pack up her things, almost tripping over a chair and running out stumblingly.
"Ayue." He suddenly spoke.
Li Zhaoyue's back froze as he was about to leave, and then he turned around in surprise.
Xu Xing showed his small canine tooth on the right side and smiled harmlessly: "I heard others call you that too, is that not okay?"
Li Zhaoyue's mind was in a daze, and he didn't care what he shouted, so he left in a hurry.
*
It was already dusk when Li Zhaoyue came out of Mingyue Palace in a daze. Xie Feng was waiting at the palace door with a bag of things. Seeing her bitter and resentful expression, he coughed lightly.
"Senior Brother." Li Zhaoyue raised his eyes sullenly and called him weakly.
"I went down the mountain to complete a mission today, and happened to come across a stall selling osmanthus candy, so..." Xie Feng said as he handed the candy in his hand to her.
The light brown candy wrapper exuded a sweet fragrance. Li Zhaoyue knew that the candy contained her favorite osmanthus candy, but she had no interest in eating the candy at all. She looked at Xie Feng sadly and sighed.
"What's wrong? Did your master scold you again?" Xie Feng asked.
Li Zhaoyue's face was full of fatigue. He yawned, took the osmanthus candy from his hand, and whispered, "Brother, I'm a little sleepy. I want to go back and rest."
Xie Feng had other things to do, and seeing that she was not in good condition, he didn't say much to her and let her go.
Yiziyuan is divided into three floors. The outer floor is the residence of ordinary disciples and living and learning areas such as the school. The middle floor is the residence of the dean and the elders. The innermost floor is exclusive to Master Li Zhaoyue.
Li Zhaoyue lived with her master Zhu Ming in the innermost Qingfeng Courtyard.
Zhu Ming likes quietness, so Qingfengyuan is always silent, and the buildings are also very simple. Except for the main hall and the residence, the rest are empty, either planted with bamboo and flowers, or filled with books.
Her master was obsessed with studying magic all year round and didn't pay much attention to her. He only asked about her results during exams. When he found out that she ranked last, he scolded her.
The surroundings were quiet, without a trace of spiritual energy. Zhu Ming probably went out for something. Li Zhaoyue was the only one in the huge courtyard.
She was extremely tired and almost went straight to her bedroom and fell asleep as soon as she touched the bed.
But as she fell asleep, her consciousness became hazy. When she woke up, what she saw was no longer the familiar house, but a sea of flaming lava.
The sky and the earth are shattered, and the floating island is sinking. This is a real hell on earth.
Li Zhaoyue saw several blurry figures and subconsciously chased after them, lifting her skirt.
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