The Attack of the Wastrel

Gu Rong was aware of the consequences of not obtaining enough points and his unhappiness with Gu Lingzhi not going home for the New Year immediately dissipated.

“Your sister is right, the most important thing now is to improve her cultivation. Although the Third Prince can bring her into the Royal School, he cannot ensure that she won’t be expelled. It is expected of her to work harder.”

After what Gu Rong had said, Gu Linglong could not do anything but glare at Gu Lingzhi unhappily.

It was clear that she thought that the reason Gu Lingzhi said this was because she believed that her abilities were not good enough and would be kicked out by the school. Therefore, Gu Lingzhi wanted to return to the capital in order to continue training.

“Tsk, I’ll expose you eventually.”

Ignoring Gu Linglong’s provocative words, Gu Lingzhi simply walked past her and headed back to her room.

The next day, Gu Rong left Tai-an City along with Gu Linglong and the rest of the Gu Clan. As soon as the festival ended, Gu Lingzhi made preparations to return to the capital.

She was not completely lying to Gu Rong - she was indeed desperate to improve her abilities. Although her cultivation was improving quickly, she still lacked the foundation and needed to have more battle experience. One effective way to gain battle experience was then to accept Mercenary Missions.

Mercenary Missions were mission alliances offered to Martial Artists in the entire Tianyuan Continent by the Mercenary Guild. The Mercenary Missions were split into five levels according to difficulty. Martial Artists who wanted to take part in a Mercenary Mission simply had to register to join a small mercenary group at the Mercenary Guild.

“Mother, she actually dares to ignore me now. She even talks back to me and is a completely different person from before. All she did was gain the favour of the Third Prince. When I enroll in the Royal School, I will teach her a lesson!”

“Alright, my daughter, stop being angry,” Lin Yueer consoled adoringly, “She’s simply a child of a slut. Don’t worry, I will help you.”

After ensuring that Gu Linglong had returned to her quarters, the affectionate expression on her face immediately changed to a cruel smile and she looked into an empty corner, “Find someone to kill Gu Lingzhi, be careful to not leave any traces.”

With the quiver of a tree branch, Lin Yue-er could tell that her assassin had left.

She has been too merciful in the past. Gu Rong only needed one child.

She had been too soft-hearted, which created many problems now. Whoever was helping Gu Lingzhi secretly was starting to make her scared.

That person could cause Cui Lian go mad in their own house and pass on such a special technique to Gu Lingzhi.

Unlike Gu Rong, she did not believe Gu Lingzhi when she claimed that her special technique was taught to her by the Third Prince. The last person that the Third Prince brought to the Royal School did not get anything from him, why would she be any different?

To prevent Gu Lingzhi from getting even stronger under the assistance of this mysterious person, she decided to make the first move. She was going to get rid of Gu Lingzhi before she had the chance to grow. Once Gu Lingzhi was dead, Lin Yue-er would have nothing to fear.

This was the conclusion she came to after a few months of pondering.

Although she was unable to trace the actions of the person who was helping Gu Lingzhi, the fact that they had remained hidden for so many years and only appeared now meant that there had been something holding them back. From the looks of how they are helping Gu Lingzhi, it must mean that they planned to make use of Gu Lingzhi to achieve their goal. Hence, she shall make the first move!

With this, the heavy burden that was weighing down on her the past few months disappeared.

On the other hand, in order to train herself, Gu Lingzhi gave up on using a horse carriage and chose to buy a Storm Gale Beast to ride back to the capital instead.

On her journey, whenever she spotted demon beasts in an area that were comparably powerful to her, she would stop to hunt them down to train her prowess in Martial Skills. When night fell, she would then find a safe place to rest for the night.

“The fish in this river are quite big, I shall have some grilled fish for dinner today,” Gu Lingzhi talked to herself as she jumped into the river mischievously and started to grab at the slippery fish.

In a playful mood, Gu Lingzhi felt carefree and happy as she attempted to catch the fish swimming in front of her.

“Woah, that was quite a fast reaction!”

Seeing Gu Lingzhi narrowly escape his shot, a burly, fully-bearded chap teased.

It was only then that Gu Lingzhi realise that she was actually surrounded by a group of over ten burly guys. All of them inspected her with a lustful gaze.

“What do you want?” Once she detected that these bunch of people were Martial Students, Gu Lingzhi breathed a sigh of relief as she forced herself to be composed and calm.

From the way they dressed, she guessed that they were mountain bandits and were most likely seeking valuables. However, the guy that seemed to be the leader of the group had actually shot the arrow with the intention to kill. She had no choice but to be wary.

“Haha, did she just ask us what we wanted from her?” The leader laughed loudly as he turned to his subordinates. “The rest of you, tell her exactly what we want to do.”

“Of course we want to steal and kill! Burn her body to remove all traces!” A sinister male with triangular eyes said coldly as he looked at Gu Lingzhi with a depraved and evil look.

“Leader, don’t you think that it is such a waste to simply kill a beauty like this? How about...we enjoy for a bit before we kill her?”

“That’s right! It’s such a waste to simply kill her. After all, she is going to die, let everyone enjoy a little!”

The guy with triangular eyes said, receiving shouts and hoots of approval from his comrades. He looked at Gu Lingzhi with an expression as if he was already undressing her in his mind, causing her to feel nauseous.