Early the next morning, Lou Mu Yan and the others left the cave dwelling and hurried towards the periphery of the Glacial Mountain Range.
Along the way, they saw a vast expanse of white surrounding them. The entire forest was dressed in white, and so quiet that there werent even any sounds of birds.
After half a day, the snowflakes gradually fell from the sky and when it touched ones body or face, it was so cold that it made one shudder. It even hurt.
Everyone, use an Elental Energy shield. Lan Si stopped in his steps and a light green circle of light encased his entire body. The falling snowflakes slipped from the circle of light and could no longer get close.
When other people saw this, they quickly mobilised the Elental Energy within them, then five or six different coloured Elental Energy light circles lit up, forming a scenic view within the vast snowy land.
What Lou Mu Yan mobilised was the fire attribute Elental Energy light circle. She could comprehend all the elents of this land, but the one she was most adept in and had the deepest comprehension of was the Fire Elental Energy.
Flakes of snow drifted down petal by petal, and before it could near her, the shield of light would lt it into droplets of water that fell to the ground. This scene also fell into the eyes of many attentive people.
There were three instructors from the Imperial Family that lead the team with Lan Si, with the main lead being a person nad Yun Ji. He scrutinised the mountain not far away, This snow really ca at the wrong ti. Lets go to that mountain and find a place to rest first.
Lan Si and the rest nodded in agreent. Snowflakes such as these that were corrosive shouldnt be allowed to make contact with the skin for long periods of ti, otherwise one would be inflicted with the Cold Poison. If one wanted to resist, one needed to use their Elental Energy light circle shield to protect their body.
But in such a dangerous place, continuously using their Elental Energy not only ant that it would be quickly exhausted, but if one encountered a Demonic Beast attack, they would all be in danger.
The snow fell heavier and heavier, and the energy used to maintain the Elental Energy light circle that everyone used to resist the corrosion was constantly being strengthened. Gradually, everyones strength could barely match their desire to protect themselves. Luckily after two hours, they finally found a big cave on a hillside.
Lan Si and Yun Ji went in first to investigate, and after they ca out, they called everyone in.
This cave is very deep. We went in for a long ti, but we still havent reached the end. Well rest here for now and wait for the heavy snow to recede then continue on our way. All of you, quickly replenish your Elental Energy. Lan Sis eyes were deep, without his usual clear, gentle smile, and a rare look of gravity surfaced on his face.
Yes! After walking with the Elental Energy shield for so long, whether it was the students physical strength or Elental Energy, they were all depleted by a lot. Everyone sat down and began to absorb the Spiritual Force of Heaven and earth to replenish themselves.
Lan Si and the six other instructors decided to designate two of them to guard against ergencies at the front and the back and recovered their Elental Energy in rotation.
After sitting down, Lou Mu Yan raised her head and looked deeply at the cave that she could see no end to, and an ominous feeling rose in her heart without warning.
She didnt sit cross-legged like the rest to enter a state and absorb Spiritual Force to replenish her Elental Energy, but instead directly took out the candy from Lan Si and threw them into her mouth in one breath. Then she telepathically told Lou Mu Bai to also eat the candy first to replenish his Elental Energy.
When the sweet scent of the candy spread, the others noticed the actions of the brother and sister. Even Lan Si couldnt help but twitch the corner of his lipsdid this brother and sister pair seriously take what he gave them as candy!
The Empire Academy students all knew what the candy was, and they looked at them with eyes that expressed my flesh hurt1, what prodigals!
Forget about Lou Mu Yan the prodigal girl acting crazy, why was Lou Mu Bai also following in the nonsense? These things should naturally be used during a critical ti. It was just a waste to eat it now.
Of course, in a while, they wouldnt think this way, and they would all regret how they didnt imitate the brother and sister pair.
The mbers of the Imperial Family also noticed the actions of the brother and sister pair. Although they didnt understand, but they didnt think about it so as not to be distracted, and soon entered the cultivation recovery mode.
After Lou Mu Yan finished eating the candy, the Elental Energy in her body was quickly replenished. There wasnt any need to recover using ditation, so she stood up and walked to the edge of the cave, grabbed a handful of dirt, and slled it.
This behaviour made Lan Si very curious. While he ditated, he split his attention and looked at Lou Mu Yan, asking: Lou Mu Yan, whatre you slling? You cant eat this kind of dirt.
Lou Mu Yan rolled her eyes at Lan Si. With which eye did he see her wanting to eat this dirt. But since they were all locusts connected by one thread2, she still reminded them as if intentionally, yet also unintentionally: Teacher, you didnt notice any peculiar sll in this cave?
Peculiar sll? Lan Si was surprised, then sniffed around everywhere, and gradually also felt that sothing was wrong.
Lou Mu Yan, just whats the matter with you? Not only are you not having a good rest and instead wasted all the candy used to replenish Elental Energy that Teacher Lan gave, but you go and sniff so dirt as well? Wheres the peculiar sll in here? I think youre just bored and looking for trouble.
You dont need to rest, but dont affect other people recovering their Elental Energy. Hu Fei, who was also an instructor from the Empire Academy, looked at Lou Mu Yan unhappily. There was nothing but provocation in his words.
The mont his voice fell, a few students that were ditating and recovering opened their eyes and looked at Lou Mu Yan in disgust. They really questioned just how this trash was chosen to participate in the Trial.
They really wanted to throw her out, but considering Lou Mu Bais face, they were just barely able to resist cursing at her.
Am I affecting others? All I was doing was slling so dirt, what did it have to do with you? Instead, Instructor must be deliberately trying to affect the Imperial teams recovery by reprimanding so loudly.
Lou Mu Yan leaned against the wall of the cave, raised an eyebrow, and continued: After all, if we t danger, our students all have the candy that Teacher Lan distributed earlier to replenish our Elental Energy, while the mbers of the Imperial Family She only spoke half the sentence, but her aning was evident.
You can incite disharmony, this old mother3 of yours, can too. Lou Mu Yan sneered in her heart. She could now dare conclude that this man surnad Hu was just purely against her. The hostility was just too obvious.
You Hu Fei didnt expect Lou Mu Yan to counterattack him, and his face was black with anger. Then he finally raised his hand and pointed at Lou Mu Yan, saying: So this is your attitude towards a teacher?
Lou Mu Yan looked at his outstretched finger coldly. She hated others pointing at her the most. The corners of her lips rose into a careless and casual smile that carried with it a sense of ridicule: Is there any problem with my attitude towards a teacher? A teacher worthy of my respect, I naturally will respect. As for those like Teacher Hu who have bad intentions, forgive for I dont dare to flatter. Even if Im a student of the Empire Academy, I really cant stand it anymore. After all, right now we still have to participate in the first segnt of the examination with the mbers of the Imperial Family, no?
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Hu Fei really didnt expect Lou Mu Yan to argue so tediously and vexatiously. Seeing one of the instructors from the Imperial Family cast a suspicious and unhappy gaze on him, he almost collapsed from anger. To explain wasnt a good idea, yet not to explain was also not a good idea.
Enough! Is it ti for a quarrel right now? Yun Ji was the eldest and he imdiately scolded them upon seeing their quarrel intensify.
Then he looked at Hu Fei with a faint dislike in his eyes, Hu Fei, why are you, as an instructor, seizing onto a little girl and not letting go. She only slled the dirt, how could it affect the recovery of the others? In fact you being so loud just now was as if it were on purpose.
Yun Ji didnt like Hu Fei from their first encounter. This person harboured evil intentionsthat was his judgent of Hu Fei. As for his feelings towards Lou Mu Yan, he wasnt like the rest that looked at her with coloured eyes4. Not to ntion the order that the Imperial Teacher gave him before coming, so he naturally was partial to Lou Mu Yan.
Lou Mu Yan glanced at Yun Ji in surprise, a little curious as to why this person didnt bla her, but instead helped her.
Hu Fei was almost angered until his nose beca crooked5. Yun Ji actually humiliated him like this, taking advantage of his identity as one of the leaders of this team. He noted down this grudge.
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1in case people forgot, flesh hurt figuratively ans that them being so wasteful and luxurious hurts them as if they were cutting off a piece of their own at lol.
2figuratively ans theyre in this together. No idea how that originated.
3one of the many arrogant ways of referring to oneself typically used by females.
4like wearing coloured glasses. ans soone who is prejudiced, so in this case, he didnt look at her in a prejudiced way like the others.
5an exaggeration in Chinese. An exaggerated way to describe how ones facial features and expressions change when angry.
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