The leader of the group, a middle-aged-looking man approached first, and the three behind him followed, it looked like a bunch of ruffians, unfit to be mbers of the Heavenly Academy, they ca at us, with lust towards Liang Yu and complete disregard towards .
The middle-aged man nodded his head and one of the three followers tried to put his hand on .
If I allowed that, I would be in trouble. Because the mont he'll touch my robes, he'll be imdiately poisoned and I don't want to be revealed on the first day.
I quickly intercepted his hand, and with as little as a flick, broke his wrist.
"AHHHHH!"
The man groaned in pain as he looked at his broken hand in a daze and at , unbelieving how this could happen.
The rest of the group beca wearier.
"You, a newcor dare make trouble in the Heavenly Academy! You sure want to standoff, don't you," the middle-aged man spoke, without a hint of worry or care.
"Now, you know what happens to those who cause trouble in the Heavenly Academy?" the old man spoke with a wide grin.
I actually, do, and an elder imdiately appeared.
An old man, wearing blue robes ca fast, "What's going on in here?" spoke the elder.
"Elder Pong, these newcors are causing problems, look at what they did to my junior disciple! They broke his wrist when he wanted to greet them," the man said, with a lot of spite in his words.
"Is that so," the elder said as he turned towards , "Why have you hard a mber of the heavenly academy? You, right now, are still not a mber, do you wish to have the whole academy against you? A punishnt is needed, indeed," the elder said.
"So, you're not going to ask why I broke his wrist and will proceed directly with punishnt, what a good Heavenly Academy," I retorted.
"There is no need, you're nothing but a newcor!" the old man said and sent a palm strike to my abdon.
The fuck is this asshole trying to do, destroy my cultivation?!
I took a step back using Old Man Gin's movent technique, and the elder imdiately stopped his attack the mont he saw move away.
He frowned at first and said, "Drop this matter," to the middle-aged assailant.
"But, Elder Pong! He wronged us!" he said.
"I said, drop this matter, you can't afford to provoke that man," the elder said and turned then left the area. Before he sent a divine sense, "Don't cause too much trouble, the na of Elder Gin can't carry much weight beyond the Starting Grounds."
The group finding their backer useless could only glare at us and decided to leave.
But, I promised myself this, I'll never bother or co to harm soone who didn't provoke needlessly, however, once provoked, or caused to co to malice, I'll make sure to avenge myself, and in the most ruthless of ways.
"Liang Yu, let's find you a housing area," I said and then headed to the nearest house next to us.
I gave the door a few knocks and imdiately received an answer, "Newcors should head to the deacon for a place to stay, head out to the main building up north. You'll find the deacons there. They'll give you your housing and caves. These houses you're standing next to are off-limit to newcors."
The voice was feminine, and I didn't know who it belonged to, but it gave us enough information to work. So, we left for the main building.
Since the first incident, nothing else ca to happen, we've been able to move smoothly and head to the main building, where we were also limited in accessing most of its facilities.
Our normal robes exposed us as newcors, and we couldn't get anyone to help us even to find the deacons.
Thankfully, Liang Yu took charge and went up to a few cultivators who seed too busy with their own manuscripts, and scrolls to even give a glance, the mont they saw her coming their way, they perked up like peacocks.
She smiled and told them a few words, and it was all it took for them to point her directly where she needed to head off.
The mont she turned my way and asked to follow after her, I felt stares colder than ice pointing my way.
Seriously? Are we in a teenager movie or sothing?
I shook my head and moved after Liang Yu.
After a few twists and turns inside the main building, we arrived at a large desk that was manned by a young girl in yellow robes.
"What do you need?" she asked rather coldly.
"The deacons, we need housing," Liang Yu said, the girl didn't give her another look and began searching through so docunts. Fully ignoring her.
"Your turn," Liang Yu said through transmission.
"Huh? What do you an?"
"She is a woman, and you're very handso, put one and one together, you'll get your way," she said.
"I don't think the world works like that," I said.
"You're underestimating yourself a lot," she said smiling at .
"Right, here goes nothing," I replied then headed to the desk.
"Hello," I said.
The girl at the desk didn't even look up at .
"What…" she replied coldly.
"Could you please, give directions on how to get proper housing? I'll appreciate your help," I said.
"And who might you be for to care about your apprecia-" the girl finally looked at and coughed, "I'm sorry, what was your question again? The deacon? Housing right, give one mont," she said smiling like a young bashful girl.
She stood up and headed to a room that wasn't too far.
"Seriously?"
"Told you not to cut your hair, see, looks are very helpful," Liang Yu replied grinning.
"Huh… interesting," I said calmly.
The girl ca back fast a pace and approached us, "Here you go," she said and handed one housing docunt.
"Say… what's your na?" she asked.
"It's Shen Bao, why do you ask?"
"Just formalities, you know for signing the docunt and stuff," she said.
She was pretty awkward.
I realized there was only one docunt for housing it seems that she didn't want to help Liang Yu.
But I didn't really care, "I'll give you this one like the old man said, I can't use the caves,"
"You haven't introduced yourself," I said.
"Ah yes I'm Hwa Chu," she said.
"Good na, so tell Hwa Chu, how can I head to the Advent Tower?" I asked.
"The Advent Tower? You'll need to get permission from one of the elders, but I can get you one, is it for visit? Or training?" she asked.
"Training," I said.
"Oh, is that so, it's a bit difficult, shouldn't you focus on studies first, like most cultivators, I can give you a good study curriculum, you'll be having the sa classes as ," she said.
Clearly, she wants to approach for more of my ti, it's a bother.
"I'm a person of adventurous spirit, I would like to see the Tower First and know my limit before working on what I'm lacking," I said.
"Oh, such powerful words, and who is that?" she said finally admitting that there was an elephant in the room.
I looked back at Liang Yu who seed to be grinning.
Damn.
"My companion," I said, and I made sure to keep my eyes on Liang Yu to see her expression once I spoke the words, they didn't change.
"A companion…I thought she was more like your girlfriend," Hwa said.
"No, I'm single, anyway, enough with that, can you please help with the Advent Tower," I said.
"Oh yes, of course," she said, and then headed back to the sa room again.
"Take this, I'll get you housed up first, and once that's done I'll head to the advent tower," I said.
"Well of course, I an, I'm just your companion why should you care if I was properly housed or if I don't get assaulted, ah, such a young maiden, left alone in a den of wolves, my master would weep for ten days at my dead ravaged body, ah, the despair!" Liang Yu spoke exaggerating the situation.
She's pissed… god damn it.
As I tried to calm her down, Hwa arrived back with another docunt, a map, and two white robes.
"These are for you two, wear these since you're officially people of the Heavenly Academy, usually these robes will only be presented on the day of the admission of the rest of the newcors, but I pulled so strings for Junior, Brother Shen Bao, as for you," she said to Liang Yu, "I couldn't find another housing area, so you'll need to figure out a way to stay inside one of the caves. It's also forbidden to share cultivation caves, so don't think of bothering Brother Shen Bao."
She was clearly discriminating against Liang Yu.
"And this is the permission needed to enter the Advent Tower, you'll still need to pay a small sum of Spirit Stones," she said "I can't wave that off sadly," she said.
"No need to," I said. "But since my companion is going to be left outside, I can't stand it, here," I said as I handed the housing docunt to Liang Yu.
"Wait, that, you can't do that?!" she said.
"Is there a rule saying that I can't?" I asked.
"But, where will you be staying, we don't have any other housing until the day of entry, she said.
Now, I needed to defuse the situation, because this was clearly slapping her in the face after giving the cave she gave away.
"Are you worried about ?" I said smiling at her and approaching rather too close to her.
"A-a bit," she said.
"No need to, your Junior brother is very capable, I'll be at the Advent Tower anyway, I'll need to train so it would be a waste to leave that house uninhabited, it would be best I gave it to my companion here, don't you think," I said.
The closeness caused her a bit of 'enjoyable' discomfort, so she said, "You're right, yes, it would be a waste, but…if you want I can…" she said and then sent the rest through divine sense.
"You can crash over my place, I have a very large cultivation cave," she said.
"As much as I would like that," I said, clearly lying, "It would be against the rules, I wouldn't want to cause such a beautiful, kind, and smart girl like you trouble, it would pain dearly," I said.
"Thank you," I said this ti loudly, and the two of us walked away.
"What a player," she said.
"Learned from the best," I said.
"Hey, don't say that, it makes look sleazy," Liang Yu replied.
I couldn't help but grin.
"Thank you," I said to Liang Yu.
"What for?" she said.
"You showed that I had a weapon, a tool that I never used before, so a thanks are due," I said.
"Well, you better repay it with more than words," she said and hurried ahead of .
I couldn't help but grin as the two of us walked away from the main building of the Starting Area. Next stop, the Advent Tower, let's see how that's going to go.
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