The Attack of the Wastrel

“Aren’t I fighting you directly now?” Only an idiot would choose to fight head on with someone whose abilities were clearly a level higher.

“Despicable! All you are doing is dodging my attacks, how is that direct?”

Gu Lingzhi frowned as she replied, “Then how is fighting someone weaker than you any better?”

Fan Xiang choked on her words, unable to refute Gu Lingzhi. She directed her anger onto the whip in her hands as she quickened her attacks.

“The next hit will be directly on that pretty face of yours!” With that one hit, Fan Xiang regained her confidence.

Gu Lingzhi pursed her lips without replying. She admitted that she was careless in her previous move. After all, Fan Xiang was still someone that managed to enrol into the Royal School by her own abilities. If Gu Lingzhi wanted to defeat her without revealing her true cultivation level, the only way was to slowly drain her spiritual energy.

However, the overbearing ways of Fan Xiang irritated her, resulting in her not wanting to use such a cheap trick to win. Narrowing her eyes, as Gu Lingzhi moved stealthily aside to avoid the whip she simultaneously activated the spiritual energy within her. When Fan Xiang once again attacked with her whip, the Fenglin Sword in Gu Lingzhi’s hands suddenly came alive with flames and shot towards Fan Xiang.

“You are able to direct your spiritual energy out of your body, you’re already a Level FourMartial Student?” Fan Xiang dodged Gu Lingzhi’s attack sloppily as she looked at her in disbelief.

It has only been two months since Gu Lingzhi awoken her Spiritual Roots and she has already managed to become a Level Four Martial Student? She thought back on the amount of time she took to become a Level Four Martial Student as well. Didn’t she take two or three years?

How can the difference between two people who were both talented be so big?

“So what if you’re already a Level Four Martial Student? I will still crush you!” With a roar, Fan Xiang directed an unrestricted amount of spiritual energy into her whip as if she had gone insane. The whole whip lit up in a blaze.

Whoosh! Holding her ignited Fenglin sword, she had no choice but to block Fan Xiang’s whip directly. Her face turned ashen as she struggled but managed to hold her ground.

Fan Xiang’s expression however, changed as she could not believe that Gu Lingzhi had really blocked her blow directly.

“Let us find out who’s the one that’s truly weak.”

Immediately as she said this, Gu Lingzhi counter-attacked with numerous quick strikes. Fan Xiang was forced to change from attacking to defending herself. As Gu Lingzhi’s strikes quickened and became more intricate, it became more difficult for Fan Xiang to dodge her blows. Slowly, the battle changed from Fan Xiang having the advantage to a standstill. Thereafter, the standstill eventually developed to Fan Xiang being disadvantaged.

Eventually, with a turn of her body, Gu Lingzhi managed to plant her sword at Fan Xiang’s neck.

“I am stronger than you,” Gu Lingzhi mimicked Fan Xiang.

Fan Xiang’s face turned white as indignance could be seen from her eyes, “If I had technique like yours, I wouldn’t have lost!”

Gu Lingzhi shook her head, “That is where you are wrong. Even if you possessed the same technique as me, you’d still lose.”

Fan Xiang was too narrow-minded. She bore a grudge just because she lost once. Today, she had even wanted to rely on the difference between their cultivation levels to bully Gu Lingzhi. With such a temperament, it would be hard to amount to anything, even with superior techniques.

“Ridiculous! We are both talented, if you can do it, why can’t I?”

Seeing the indignance in Fan Xiang’s eyes, Gu Lingzhi withdrew her Fenglin Sword from her neck. She turned to leave but not before whispering softly, “It is not disgraceful to be weaker, what is disgraceful is trying to gain satisfaction by fighting someone weaker than you. If you really want to prove yourself, you should challenge people who are stronger than you. Only when you defeat them can you improve.”

Gu Lingzhi left as she said this.

At a distance, two males watched this whole scene hiding behind some undergrowth.

One of them was the young male that prevented Qin Xinran from hurting others in the cafeteria a few days back. The long elegant almond-shaped eyes of his filled with excitement.

“Who is she?”

His good friend Lu Feng, who was the personal bodyguard of Demigod General Yan Feitian of the Xia Kingdom replied in a low voice, “She is Lady Gu Lingzhi from the Gu Clan that the Third Prince personally invited to the Royal School a while back. She possesses three Spiritual Roots of water, fire and wood attributes. Not only is she very talented in Alchemy, her Martial Skills are also highly impressive. She was the one who had engaged in a whole cycle of battles in the Royal School a few days back.”

“So it’s her…” Hearing Lu Feng’s words, Yan Liang muttered to himself. He then turned and started heading towards the school.

“It’s getting dark, let’s head back.”

Seeing the darkening sky, Lu Feng looked back at Fan Xiang who was staring blankly into the distance. He did not understand why Yan Liang had asked that.

It was rare that he saw his good friend express any interest in a woman but he never thought that all he would do was ask three words. Did he explain it too clearly?

Shaking his head, Lu Feng decided that in the future when Yan Liang asked anything related to women, he would say lesser so as to stir up Yan Liang’s interest.

In a blink of an eye, another month had passed.

The final examinations slowly drew near.

“Kill as many identically ranked beasts in a single day. In order to pass, a minimum of six heads is needed for two points, seven heads will give four points, eight heads will get six points, nine heads will get eight points and ten heads will receive the full marks of ten points.” When Gu Lingzhi heard the examination topic for her Martial Skills class, she felt her vision go black.

The results of the final examination was added according to the number of subjects taken. In other words, Gu Lingzhi had to kill at least eighteen beasts in order to pass.

Luckily, the examination format for her Alchemy class was simpler. All she needed was to create at least three successful Spiritual Pills out of ten that was of her Alchemy grade.

“Don’t worry, with the Third Prince as your backing, even if you are not able to pass, the school will not expel you,” Ye Fei patted Gu Lingzhi’s arm comfortingly.

Tianfeng Jin hesitated before attempting to say something consoling, “Even if the Third Prince does not help you, the points you got from accepting challenges will help you stay in school.”

That was certainly fortunate!

Gu Lingzhi wiped her face as she hung the Recording Crystal around the neck, distributed by the school to every student.