Translated by Luxican

Edited by Leighann

Yun Sheng was new to the Martial Hall, but her experience at the Royal Magic Academy had made it even more clear to her: the shinier and brighter things were, the dirtier and nastier they were behind the scenes.

What Luo Qing told her involved a past incident between a female disciple from the outer court and Zhang Zipo from several years ago.

Lian Xiang and Luo Qing were good sisters. Lian Xiang's talent was a bit worse than Lou Qing's, but she had a beautiful appearance and was a rare beauty among the female disciples of the outer court. Between the female warriors whose muscles were not inferior to their male counterpart, she, like her name, was just like an unreachable lotus flower in clear water

After Lian Xiang entered the Martial Hall, although she was only eleven-years-old at that time, she gathered a lot of attention from the male disciples.

But Lian Xiang ignored these mad bees and butterflies. Her family was poor, and she hoped that with her entering the Wu Xuan Peerless Hall, she would be able to join the Great Zhou Empire army in the future and pave a way for her brothers and sisters at home.

Unexpectedly, after Zhang Zipo just entered the inner court, he took a fancy to Lian Xiang by chance.

Zhang Zipo had just broken through to Martial Master, because he was the only son of the Medicine Hall's Elder Zhang, and a great part of his cultivation was achieved thanks to Elder Zhang's pills.

For the disciples, the medicines of the Medicine Hall were very important. With the protection of Elder Zhang, Zhang Zipo developed into a domineering force in Wu Xuan Peerless Hall. Even when someone was bullied by him, Elder Zhang would jump in to calm the situation.

After meeting Lian Xiang, Zhang Zipo pestered her, not only did he put his hands on her in front of everyone, but he also forced her to be with him in the name of private instruction.

When Lian Xiang retaliated, he would make things difficult for her and increase her training tasks to a ridiculous degree.

Lian Xiang was overwhelmed by this pressure, when she finally couldn't bear it anymore, she reported the matter to the Martial Hall. Not long after the this, Lian Xiang suddenly disappeared during a training trip.

She disappeared for seven days. After seven days, when the anxious Luo Qing and the other female disciples in the outer court found her, her appearance was messy and she was beaten black and blue, she had even become insane.

No one knew what inhuman things Lian Xiang had suffered in the past seven days.

After Luo Qing brought her back to the Martial Hall, she ignored the advice of the other disciples and confronted Zhang Zipo. The matter even reached the vice-director's ears at one point, but in the end, Zhang Zipo gathered several witnesses to prove that he had not left the Martial Hall in the past seven days.

With that, the vice-director could only lay down the matter. Lian Xiang was sent back to her hometown by the Martial Hall.

Not long after Lian Xiang returned home, the news that she had committed suicide by throwing herself into a well reached the Martial Hall.

Since then, Luo Qing had been cultivating frantically, knowing that a woman's strength was no match to a man's, and she didn't have someone like Elder Zhang backing her with all kinds of medicines to strengthen her, her only chance was to rely on battle techniques.

She picked the most difficult battle technique to cultivate, ready to avenge her friend Lian Xiang.

"Now you should understand why I didn't leave the outer court," Luo Qing finished speaking, as if a boulder weighing down on her heart had vanished.

The scene of Lian Xiang being sent away had often woken her from her sleep, it had become Luo Qing's heart demon which she could not defeat.

So, she secretly vowed in heart, as long as she was in the Wu Xuan Peerless Hall, she would not allow another incident like that to happen, she could not sit around and watch the fall of another Lian Xiang.

"So, you hid your strength and stayed in the outer court. Are you aware about how stupid that was? You delayed your development and it is impossible to avoid Zhang Zipo's evil clutches. To eradicate the weed, you have to get rid of the roots. Without medicine Zhang Zipo is nothing, Elder Zhang is the real problem in this." After hearing about Lian Xiang, Yun Sheng hated Zhang Zipo even more.

When she first came to Wu Xuan Peerless Hall, she didn't intend to cause trouble, but who knew, trouble just piled up on her doorsteps by itself.

When Luo Qing arrived here so late at night and told her this much, her implication was obvious: she hoped that Yun Sheng could replace her and take care of those female disciples in the outer court after she transferred to the inner court.

In Luo Qing's opinion, Yun Sheng was the only person strong enough to take over.

With that, Yun Sheng reluctantly agreed. It seemed she wouldn't be able to get rid of the name of Eldest Sister.

"Don't worry, since I promised, I will do it. Tomorrow morning, tell every female disciple of the outer court to come to me," Yun Sheng suddenly got an idea.

The influence of the Zhang Family's father and son in the Martial Hall was not something that could be easily removed. But she had time, firstly, she needed to give Zhang Zipo a warning he won't forget so fast.

After Luo Qing left, Yun Sheng didn't continue cultivating, instead, she found the prescription that Doctor Fan had given her, took out some herbs and studied it overnight.

***

Around midnight, Ye Beiming and Cheng Bai stopped their battle technique game of chess.

Cheng Bai was very exhausted; this kind of battle technique chess was much more tiring than fighting. Ye Beiming was like a beast, his douqi was immeasurable, he never ran out, ah.

Cheng Bai secretly complained, if he had known that it would be like this, he would have just followed the vice-director and Bu Jiuxiao, rather than staying here with Ye Beiming and being abused by him.

In the past two years, Ye Beiming killed many Beast Blood Cloud beasts and accumulated a lot of merits. Even the Emperor of Great Zhou Empire, Ye Chengtian (changed from Zhou Di Ye), who had always treated him coldly, looked at him differently now, even bestowing him a mansion under the title of King of the North.

But Ye Beiming refused to move there and stayed in the Wu Xuan Peerless Hall. His specific intentions, Cheng Bai did not know, but he also didn't intend to think about it deeper.

As soon as the game of chess was over, someone told Ye Beiming and Cheng Bai about the spar that had taken place on the practice field earlier word for word.

But when Cheng Bai looked back, he did not find anyone.

When he was still a child and Cheng Bai went to the Cold Palace to play with Ye Beiming, he had already discovered that there seemed to be an invisible force protecting Ye Beiming in secret.

He and Jiuxiao had even speculated whether it was guards left by the late Empress Li.

The only thing they could remember about Empress Li was that she was the greatest contributor to the ascension of the current Emperor to the throne, she was a legendary woman who was said to have had a group of guards behind her comparable to the current Emperor's.

But Empress Li suddenly died, and Ye Beiming also suffered a lot. As for those guards of Empress Li, it seemed...

Cheng Bai no longer thought about it, no matter what would become of Beiming in the future, they were friends, this would never change.

"The female exchange student is the same one that beat you up this morning?" Ye Beiming fiddled with the chess board.

"That's her. It seems like the outer court will undergo a big change, that little girl is not to be messed with, the days of the Zhang Family's father and son will soon come to an end," Cheng Bai smiled, since he had experienced the excitement of hunting a Beast Blood Cloud, staying in the Wu Xuan Peerless Hall made him feel a bit stuffy.

"You are quite confident in that female magician," Ye Beiming had long been surprised by Cheng Bai's change of attitude.

"She's a very interesting girl. Every time she appears, she will surprise people. If you are interested, I can introduce you to her, she is also a little beauty," Cheng Bai wiggled his eyebrows.

But in Ye Beiming's mind, a vague figure floated and he coldly replied: "Not interested."

In this world, except for her, there was no longer any woman that could raise his interest.

T/N: If only you knew, Ye Beiming, if only you knew...

And Zhang Zipo is such scum, I'm already looking forward to his retribution

Thank you for reading!!