The students were itching with envy. A flying lion griffin? Far too cool, wasn’t it?
Guan Hu smiled. “Don’t be too jealous. The spiritual pet textbook is already in the final stages, and the academy has collected some spiritual pet eggs from various spiritual ruins.”
“In a while we’ll run a batch for preliminary experiments. Remember to save up contribution points so you can exchange for spiritual pet eggs!”
At these words the students instantly buzzed with excitement. They hadn’t expected it to happen so soon!
At that moment Jiang Nan was riding Little Dimple toward Kyoto…
While the students remaining at the academy began their devilish training week!
Morning, 10 o’clock!
In the physical training room a group of students sweated profusely, sparring against Xia Shan Hu. Shouts rang out ceaselessly.
“Boom!”
Guan Hu swung a massive hammer fist, sending Wang Dong spiralling thirty-odd metres through the air. He lay on the ground for ages, unable to rise.
Just as Wang Dong struggled to get up he glanced at the training room ceiling and froze.
“Eh? Am I remembering wrong? Qingliu, was the training room ceiling like this before?”
Xu Qingliu paused. “What else could a ceiling be? You must have been hit silly.”
She looked up. Her body stiffened.
The entire ceiling was nothing but exposed steel framing. “This… this isn’t right. Everyone, look at the ceiling!”
The battling crowd all tilted their heads back, faces blank.
“Good grief, where’s the ceiling gone? What’s going on? It wasn’t like this yesterday!”
“I get knocked out here every day. I know that ceiling best. How is the roof just gone?”
“Haha, if you hadn’t said anything I wouldn’t have looked up!”
“Brother Hu, is the training room getting renovated?”
Guan Hu looked up at the stripped-bare ceiling and went blank. His face drained of colour.
“Bloody hell! Where’s the ceiling?”
All six walls of the training room were made of binding-spirit iron panels, extremely precious. Overnight the ceiling had been pried away?
Who did it?
So many panels, terrifyingly heavy. Who could cart them all off in one night without leaving a trace?
It was downright ghostly!
Little did they know Jiang Nan had removed every panel in just an hour and a half…
Guan Hu panicked. He abandoned the lesson and charged straight to the dean’s office.
In the dean’s office warm sunlight spilled through the window. Xiao Chuihuo gazed out at the peaceful academy, a comforted smile tugging at his lips. With Jiang Nan gone his tranquil retirement had finally begun!
He lifted his thermos, sipped some golden Pu’er, savouring the bitterness spreading across his tongue.
Hm, comfortable! Refreshing!
“Bang!”
The office door burst open. Guan Hu rushed in, face frantic. “Bad news, Dean Xiao! The training room ceiling is gone!”
Xiao Chuihuo: Σ(⌯꒪з꒪) Pffwah, cough cough cough!
The golden Pu’er he had just sipped sprayed everywhere.
“What the bloody hell? What’s gone?”
Guan Hu urgent. “The ceiling! It’s just not there!”
Xiao Chuihuo’s eyes bulged. Who on earth had nothing better to do than steal a ceiling?
Ten minutes later!
Xiao Chuihuo sat in his wheelchair, eyes vacant, staring at the vanished ceiling.
Jiang Nan did it, didn’t he?
It had to be that rotten kid, right?
Blowing up things wasn’t enough. I said he’d lift the roof tiles and he actually bloody did it?
It was just a figure of speech. Did his execution have to be this extreme?
Now Xiao Chuihuo dared not even speak. He stared blankly at the ceiling for over ten minutes.
Guan Hu: “What do we do? Should we…”
Xiao Chuihuo raised a hand sharply. “Stop! It’s gone, it’s gone. It doesn’t affect training! Best not dig deeper. I’d like to live a few more years!”
“Can’t provoke him…”
Guan Hu: ???
The watching students were dumbfounded!
Another forum post exploded to the top!
Title: Academy’s Unbelievable Incident No. 6! The Vanished Ceiling!
The mysterious force shrouding the academy! Even Dean Xiao says it’s unprovokable!
Comments below!
“Hiss, the entire training room ceiling taken overnight? This is supernatural, right?”
“I was there! You didn’t see Dean Xiao’s look of despair. It made my heart race!”
“What mysterious force is it? Things had only just calmed down. How did this…”
“I don’t know about the rest! But the hellish wind from the ground was definitely South God. And the devil’s footsteps? South God is that devil!”
The thread debated furiously, everyone theorising what had whisked away the ceiling overnight.
At that moment aboard Little Dimple’s supersonic airliner mode, Zhong Yingxue scrolled through the forum post, brows lightly furrowed.
Training room ceiling vanished without trace?
She suddenly recalled the pile of metal panels Jiang Nan had hidden under her bed. Her pretty face darkened.
The mysterious force enveloping the academy was probably just Xiao Nan, wasn’t it?
Sneaking out in the dead of night to strip the entire training room ceiling?
Only Xiao Nan could pull off something like that!
She couldn’t help stealing a glance at Jiang Nan.
Right now Xia Yao rode on his neck, upper body stretched out of the cockpit, arms spread wide!
The oncoming wind blew her silver hair straight back, deforming her pretty face!
“Hey ya, haha! Absolutely thrilling. We’re really flying. Xiao Nan, how much longer to Kyoto?”
Jiang Nan pulled out his phone, checked navigation. “About half an hour?”
…
Meanwhile, on the lush green pitch of Kyoto Spiritual Martial University’s sports field!
One hundred students stood in neat rows, youthful and vibrant, both male and female!
Excitement and anticipation shone on every face!
The spectator stands were packed with Kyoto Spiritual University students!
They were currently holding an award ceremony!
On the stage stood a man in his fifties with a square jaw and black-framed glasses!
Even in middle age his hair remained thick and black. He was none other than the dean of Kyoto Spiritual University!
He began, “After initial selection, preliminaries, semifinals, and final spiritual ruin point selection, you one hundred students have been chosen from twelve spiritual martial universities across the province!”
“You may not be the strongest, but you are certainly the most outstanding!”
“You should feel honoured to have earned this training opportunity!”
“Because this time the instructors training you are the strongest batch of gold-rank spiritual warriors in the country! Their ultimate goal is to make you far more powerful!”
At these words the entire venue erupted. The hundred students below flushed with excitement, chattering eagerly!
“They’re from Pioneer Academy. The absolute top tier in the country. Can’t wait!”
“You don’t know how hard it is to get into Pioneer Academy. Even earning an interview through the league doesn’t guarantee entry!”
“Exactly. It’s full of beasts, monsters! Just wonder how many instructors are coming and what level they’re at.”
Yet a young man with bandaged hands and stud earrings, cropped hair, sneered coldly. “You lot had better not get your hopes too high!”
“You all know Pioneer Academy’s rules. They recruited a new batch last year, so this time’s instructors will be from the new students!”
“Their skill is miles below the veterans! They might even be worse than us!”
At this the students’ expectations plummeted to freezing point.
Wasn’t that exactly right?
Beside him stood a yellow-haired youth with his mouth hidden in a high-collar sweater, hands in pockets!
Even with half his face covered the visible portion outshone top celebrities!
Many girls gazed at him with hearts in their eyes!
“Tch. If my ability wasn’t so troublesome and got me banned, I’d be at Pioneer Academy right now! Why would I be here for some training?”
“Hope the instructors coming aren’t too rubbish.”
His peripheral glance drifted lightly toward Ye Xingxuan standing nearby!
Hearing the yellow-hair speak, many students shuddered, looking at him with dread!
Ye Xingxuan beside them wore a white down jacket, small hands tucked into sleeves!
Her clean ponytail swung neatly. Exquisite features looked painted, little nose red from cold. She stamped her feet, utterly like a penguin strolling in snow!
“These two must be surnamed Zhang, right? So arrogant?”
The freckled girl beside her hurriedly tugged Ye Xingxuan. “Sister Xingxuan! Shh, shh!”
“That cropped-hair one is Wang Zhan, nicknamed ctrl+c. His ability is the extremely rare copy!”
“As for that yellow-haired handsome guy, Xiang Zu! Super A-class, nicknamed Son of Death. Every opponent he faces ends up gravely injured, some even amputated!”
“Apparently the reason he didn’t pass Pioneer Academy selection last year was accidentally killing an opponent, so he got banned!”
“Loads of people are scared to fight him!”
Ye Xingxuan looked slightly stunned!
Xiang Zu’s lips curved upward. He glanced at Ye Xingxuan and raised a hand in greeting!
“Hello. Chance to get to know…”
Ye Xingxuan glanced at Xiang Zu, pulled her down jacket hood up, zipped it from chest to the very top!
Sealing her entire face away!
Xiang Zu: …
Is it really that bloody cold?
