Chapter 11 Kyushu Academy
Phoenix felt that her previous understanding of Ye Kemeng's background might have been somewhat flawed.
As the Empress, the ruler of Heaven and the head of all immortals, her bond with the kitten is probably more than just a simple 'distant relative'.
But if we think about it from a more intimate perspective...
Suddenly, a powerful and intimidating pressure burst forth, interrupting Phoenix's thoughts and attacking him directly!
The pressure from a high-level expert is so great that even the elders outside would likely be unable to withstand it, let alone a pigeon.
Ye Kemeng is equally perceptive of danger.
Even though the pressure wasn't directed at her, her body had already leaned back, and she stretched out her hands, tucking the gray phoenix into her arms. She rolled away to avoid the attack.
The series of movements were fluid and graceful.
Ye Kemeng, carrying the phoenix, knelt on one knee, slightly raising her head. As far as she could see, an invisible wave of energy rippled out from where she had just stood.
The wind blew the stray hairs around Ye Kemeng's cheek.
"Dean, have you changed your mind?" Although it was a question, Ye Kemeng's tone was calm.
If she couldn't stay here, she would take Phoenix home, even if the journey was arduous, because the little cat had plenty of adventurous spirit.
Deep within the main hall, Li Hengzhi, with his full head of silver hair and handsome face, seemed to sense her thoughts. He frowned but did not answer.
The silver pheasant clan possesses two innate skills: prophecy and spatial manipulation.
As the most powerful prophet under the former empress, Li Hengzhi possesses keen intuition and can sense when someone is spying on or sees through him.
At first, he didn't pay any attention to the pigeon on Ye Kemeng's shoulder.
But just now, he suddenly had a feeling that his identity had been seen through, and the source of this feeling was this inconspicuous gray pigeon.
However, Ye Kemeng was very protective of the pigeon. With a flick of his sleeve, Li Hengzhi switched spaces. Ye Kemeng only felt a strong wind rushing towards her. Before she could react, she appeared outside the palace, her vision filled with all sorts of robes.
Ye Kemeng clearly felt that the air became silent the moment she appeared.
Immediately following were various inquiries: "You...you fought with the dean?"
"You're incredibly audacious!"
"Since you've come to the academy to become an apprentice, the dean is your master..."
"I won't become an apprentice." Ye Kemeng hadn't recovered from the battle yet, and even with the goose beside her, her body remained tense.
She stepped back, clutching the gray phoenix, her eyes wary. "I want to go home."
The headmaster had clearly stated that she didn't need to become his disciple or learn any skills; she was only allowed to call herself a disciple within the academy because she had passed through the barrier. She even thought he was a decent person, but she never expected him to attack so suddenly!
"He attacked me suddenly, he ambushed me!" Ye Kemeng accused 666 in her mind. The bandit who attacked her was also attacking her!
【…Don’t mention the lyrics, it’ll break the immersion.】666 (facepalm)
Ye Kemeng's words were so outrageous that the Grand Elder's stern square face twitched.
He twitched his long beard, about to reprimand someone, when the veins in his palm glowed slightly—a signal that the sect leader was sending him a message.
The elder examined it carefully for a moment, a deep disbelief flashing in his eyes, but it quickly disappeared.
When he looked up again, his voice was still reproachful: "The Dean instructed that, considering you are just an ordinary person and it was not easy for you to come to the Nine Provinces Academy, this matter will be let go. Also, since you are just an ordinary person, and the inner disciples of the Earth Hall and the Emperor Hall are all of excellent cultivation, you will live in the Star Pavilion on the back mountain."
Seeing that Ye Kemeng was almost back down the steps with that inconspicuous, dusty pigeon in her arms, the Grand Elder had to speed up his speech: "Apart from that, as long as you abide by the academy's rules, then what I promised you will stand."
Ye Kemeng suddenly stopped.
It wasn't because of that sentence, but because... when the phoenix opened one of its wings, she felt the phoenix's soft and smooth feathers!
Ye Kemeng used all her reason to control herself from rubbing against him.
Sunlight streamed down, illuminating the kitten's clear eyes, which reflected the upturned eaves of the main hall and a hanging octagonal bell.
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A moment later, Ye Kemeng received a copy of "The Rules for Disciples of Kyushu Academy" that was thicker than her hand, a sheepskin scroll depicting the terrain of the back mountain, and an ordinary purse containing two mid-grade spirit stones.
Those two mid-grade spirit stones were the monthly allowance for inner disciples. From then on, as long as she was in the academy, she could collect them every month from the Qingfeng Hall below the Dean's Hall.
The phoenix landed on Ye Kemeng's shoulder, and apart from subtly stopping her when she insisted on leaving, it made no other move. It was as quiet as a true bird for meditation practice.
If Ye Kemeng hadn't made a move, or hadn't reacted quickly enough, under Li Hengzhi's pressure, he would either have had his disguise crushed and reverted to his phoenix form, or he would have had to use the power of the cloud seedlings to resist the pressure.
Either way, his identity will be exposed.
Exposing one's identity and current powerlessness to a deity who has disappeared from the immortal realm for hundreds of thousands of years and whose allegiance is unknown is self-evidently dangerous.
However, the main reason he decided to stay, besides the fact that Li Hengzhi would definitely not let the kitten leave, was that he also wanted to see what the Empress's intentions were in placing Li Hengzhi here as a pawn.
Ye Kemeng sat cross-legged on the ground next to Qingfeng Hall, holding a map in her hands and examining it carefully, while the rules for disciples were casually tossed aside beside her.
Disciples passed by her in twos and threes, one after another, discussing the 'divine guidance' in their conversations.
Only a few people mentioned that an inner disciple had entered the academy with a token.
Ye Kemeng ignored this and kept her eyes on the map, but she spoke to Phoenix: "I thought that person was really powerful before, and I subconsciously wanted to take you away, but actually, as kittens, we don't slink away with our tails between our legs when we are bullied. Instead, we wait for an opportunity to act until we bite off a mouthful of fur from him!"
Phoenix slowly typed a "?"
666 Pain Mask: [Little kitty, I think Phoenix wants to stay, maybe not for revenge.]
Who has a stronger sense of revenge than a kitten?
"Oh, your system doesn't understand," Ye Kemeng said dismissively.
666: [...]
She mentally scoffed at the idea, then took out a spirit stone and handed it to Phoenix, coaxing him, "Here, don't be so angry. I'll help you get revenge."
Because of the life-saving grace he had just received, Phoenix did not refuse her and condescended to place the spirit stone, which contained so many impurities that he had almost never seen before, on his back.
Ye Kemeng immediately beamed with joy.
666: 【！！！！】If I keep being nice to you, I'm not 666!
Feeling that she had already appeased Phoenix, Ye Kemeng followed the directions and headed towards the back mountain. As she continued to walk, the towering buildings and the sound of reading aloud were gradually left behind. Then, with the canopy of tall trees blocking the view, she could neither see nor hear anything.
At first, the journey went very smoothly, but later, as the trees multiplied, the path disappeared. Moreover, these trees were over ten feet tall, and all that could be seen were tree trunks, so the kitten's formidable sense of direction was no longer of much use.
She had to stop and look at the map every two steps.
Seeing her struggling to walk, 666 grumbled and muttered: "[I won't tell the little kitten that the name 'Hou Shan Xing Zhu' sounds nice, but it's actually been abandoned for many, many years. In all these years, not only has no one lived there, but it's unclear whether anyone even passes by. Although it's still inner sect territory, the spiritual energy is so weak it's worse than outer sect territory—it's practically a cold palace.]"
“That’s great,” Ye Kemeng suddenly felt more hopeful about the road ahead, “because no one will bother us.”
Seeing her walk even more energetically, 666 goal achieved, time to gracefully retire...?
etc!
What's that in the shadow of the tree trunk behind you?
Ye Kemeng turned her head and met the eyes of the snake that was slowly emerging from the shadows.
She recognized it; it was the same one she had photographed on the ground that morning!
Ye Kemeng bowed slightly and lowered her breath. Seeing her so cautious, the snake arrogantly flicked its tongue.
The next instant, a huge book thicker than a brick came crashing down on him!
After throwing the book, Ye Kemeng turned and ran. At that moment, she didn't have time to carefully check the map route. She just ran towards the destination based on her general impression.
If she were in the size of a kitten right now, she could definitely shake off that snake, no matter what.
After all, a cat's reaction speed is eight times that of a snake.
But now she was a human, with only two legs, and she couldn't even look back as she desperately fled.
Ye Kemeng really didn't want to be chased by snakes anymore.
From the height of the sun to the low waning of the crescent moon, Ye Kemeng ran for a while, and then the phoenix carried her by her clothes for a while. Finally, the two of them saw a glimpse of a house.
It seems there are no longer any serpents chasing us.
Ye Kemeng breathed a huge sigh of relief. "Hehe, we call it 'when husband and wife are of one mind, their strength can break even metal.'"
These are words from a storybook that 666 told her.
Phoenix: "..."
He calmly said, "Let's go check it out first, but be careful."
This place is more dangerous than he thought. He had no idea how that snake had appeared.
As they approached, the kitten closed its eyes and carefully sensed the surroundings, remaining calm.
However, given the appearance of the demonic serpent earlier, Phoenix was not entirely at ease here. He instructed Ye Kemeng to cut the two spirit stones in half and arrange them around the courtyard using the special array patterns he had described.
Ye Kemeng had been running around all day and was so tired that she could barely keep her eyelids open.
She flopped down on the ground with a thud, muttering, "There's no danger here. I want to sleep. I'll get to work tomorrow."
Phoenix: "..."
"Huff...huff..."
"?" Fall asleep in an instant?
Phoenix closed its eyes briefly, then opened them, stretched out its claws and took the spirit stones from Ye Kemeng's arms, placing them on the ground along with the ones on its own back, and then used the tip of its feathers to cut them into a pitiful fifty pieces.
The formation required forty-nine pieces, and he put the last piece back into Ye Kemeng's purse.
As a result, the already small spirit stones appeared even smaller and more fragmented.
But my family is poor, so there's nothing I can do.
The phoenix, carrying spirit stones, was about to set up an array when it turned back halfway there and picked up the sleeping kitten.
I still need to keep her under my watchful eye, otherwise, it would be a loss if she encountered any danger.
Because she had to carry people around and choose good positions to set up the formation, Phoenix was busy for most of the night.
Once all forty-nine small spirit stones were buried in their respective positions, the spiritual energy began to glow and resonate with each other. The hardworking phoenix finally felt at ease and brought the sleeping kitten into the house.
Once inside, all you see is a palm-sized layer of dust.
Phoenix swept up a pile of fallen leaves, threw Ye Kemeng on them, and then began cleaning the house. He felt that he had never done so much work in the first half of his life, and he was doing it in the form of a pigeon.
Fortunately, a faint spiritual current lit up the entire Starry Courtyard. Although it could not defend against external enemies, it could serve as a warning.
Ye Kemeng lay in the small courtyard enveloped in spiritual energy, the jade ring in her sleeve emitting a faint light due to the stimulation of the spiritual energy.
Ye Kemeng had a hazy dream.
A note from the author:
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good evening
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