Chapter 22

On the main avenue of Nuoding City, a small group made up of four 10-year-old children and an adult woman.

The four children are Feng Lie, Gu Yuena, Wang Qiu'er, and Xiao Wu. The four are wearing the blue Nuoding Academy uniform.

The adult woman accompanying them is Bi Ji.

Just as Feng Lie and the girls are students at Nuoding Spiritual Masters Primary Academy, Bi Ji works as a nurse at Nuoding Academy.

Bi Ji is dressed like a schoolteacher, with her long green hair reaching down to her thighs with two buns on the sides of her head with white wing accessories, she is also wearing glasses. Bi Ji really looks like a teacher.

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Nuoding Academy has a strict rule that even if the house is close to the Academy students must still live in the Academy's dormitories on a unified basis.

But this rule does not apply in Feng Lie and others. After all, in the face of a generous bribe... I mean, in the face of a generous donation of 50 gold coins every month, the director of Nuoding Academy was kind enough to make an exception for Feng Lie's group.

(Author's note: in this fanfic the value of money is like this. 100 copper coins is equivalent to 1 silver coin, 100 silver coins is equivalent to 1 gold coin.)

Four years ago Feng Lie's group bought a house in Nuoding City not far from Nuoding Academy so they could live more freely without their secrets being exposed.

Zi Ji is secretly following them. As a spirit beast of a level equivalent to a Titled Douluo she can be imperceptible to most people. The only people who could sense Zi Ji's presence would be just two types. Titled Rank 94 or 95 Douluos specializing in detection, or Titled Rank 97 or higher Douluos with martial spirits who are not specialized in detection.

They would only be able to discover her presence, they would not be able to discover her true identity as a spirit beast.

Both Bi Ji and Zi Ji have already reached the stage of maturity, and therefore no Titled Douluo will be able to find out about their identities as spirit beasts. As for Wang Qiu'er and Xiao Wu, they received a necklace containing one of Gu Yuena's scales, thanks to this necklace their spiritual beast aura is completely hidden to the point that no Titled Douluo is able to notice.

After a few minutes of walking, Feng Lie's group arrived at the gates of Nuoding Academy. The doorman opened the gate and greeted them respectfully.

As the group entered the Academy area the other students and teachers greeted them. The emotions that students and teachers have towards the group are...

Teachers have a lot of respect and gratitude, especially to Feng Lie and Bi Ji. The teachers are aware of Feng Lie's bribes to the Academy's director, the Academy's director is not a petty person, besides putting a small part of the gold coins in his own pocket, he is also investing heavily to improve the conditions of the Academy. Nuoding and this is also improving the quality of life in the dormitory and meals for the teachers, and because of that the teachers are very grateful to Feng Lie.

As for Bi Ji, she naturally attracted the attention of the other teachers not only with her beauty but also with her kind and gentle personality. As she works as a nurse and also works as a healing type Spiritual Master she has also gained a good reputation. Some teachers came forward to Bi Ji but she kindly refused them.

As for the Nuoding Academy students...

"Kyaa, Feng Lie is so cute..." random girl A.

"True, he's as handsome as ever. Should I confess to him today?" random girl b.

"Don't do this. You'll just be heartbroken." the random girl A spoke.

"But we won't know until we try, maybe I can..." random girl B spoke but was interrupted.

"Have you forgotten that many of the girls from Nuoding City confessed to Feng Lie and that they were all rejected? I'm warning you not to delude yourself and be heartbroken." the random girl A spoke.

"Even so, I'm still going to confess. Maybe it's different with me." random girl B spoke stubbornly.

Random girl A placed her palm on her forehead and let out a sigh already anticipating the outcome.

That was the girls' side. Now for the boys' side.

"Damn I'm so jealous. Because it's Feng Lie and not me..." the random boy A spoke showing envy and jealousy.

"Maybe because he has looks, talent, money and personality? Anyway even if we had the same opportunities as him it would still be impossible for us to achieve the same feats as him." random boy B spoke trying to calm his friend down.

"Still... If I really only had 10% of what he has, then I..." random boy A spoke but was interrupted.

"Listen, if you're thinking of going to those girls, then you'd better give it up. I'm saying this for your own good, don't forget that with the exception of the cheerful and enthusiastic Xiao Wu, there are still the other two girls... Wang Qiu'er and Gu Yuena, those two are really brutal." random boy B spoke. There was a little fear when he mentioned the last two girls.

Random boy A was silent.

Over those four years Feng Lie and the others have been the center of attention in the hearts of the boys and girls who study at Nuoding Academy.

Feng Lie is only 10 years old but he already possesses extraordinary beauty and combined with his mature personality makes it difficult for girls not to fall in love with him.

Spiritual Masters have a very precocious mindset. It is unknown if this is caused because of the influence of martial spirits or because of the high death rate of this world.

As a Chinese cultivation world, the death rate of this world is quite high. Surprisingly, among all the reasons that could have increased the death rate, wars are the ones that bring fewer deaths.

In these last decades there have been no major wars on the Douluo continent. Of course, there are still small conflicts out there, but overall there hasn't been a large number of deaths from wars. And this is due to the good work of the Spirit Hall, in these last decades there were no wars because of the Spirit Hall's interventions to the two great empires.

Now, the reasons why this continent's death rate is so high is because of the low development of the continent's civilization. Basically the level of civilization of the Douluo continent is a bit tricky to determine, on the one hand the culture of the Douluo continent seems to be leaning towards the culture of ancient China on the other hand it also seems to be leaning towards the middle ages of Western Europe.

The main problems of the Douluo continent are boiled down to two. Lack of disease control and food shortages.

Among the spiritual masters are the spiritual masters of the healing system. Despite being able to heal wounds that occur in battle, they are not capable of treating serious illnesses.

If some pandemic like the Black Death that emerged in Europe during the Middle Ages appeared on the continent of Douluo, how would people survive?

The medical knowledge of mainland Douluo is very poor. Mainly for ordinary civilians living in villages and towns.

Food shortages are not such a serious issue yet. Although agricultural development is at the same level as the Middle Ages, it is still insufficient to fully supply the large human population of the Douluo continent. Fortunately, there are the spiritual masters of the food system. But unfortunately they are very few in number.

Spiritual masters are already very few in the population and spiritual masters of the food system are even more scarce. There is also the problem that most of the food system's spiritual masters have already joined a Sect, clan or noble family and because of that they will only feed people from their own territory or faction.

There is no charity in the world.

The only exception to this is the Spirit Hall. They send their food system spiritual masters to regions with food shortages to help civilians.

Also problems with spirit beasts leaving their habitats and going to human dwellings rarely happen and if it does the spirit hall troops that are guarding these forests will intercept the spirit beasts before it causes problems.

Now back to Feng Lie.

Feng Lie not only has good looks and talent, but he also has a mature and polite personality and temperament that others his age don't have.

Because of this, the girls at the Academy see Feng Lie as a very reliable person who gives them a sense of security, while the other boys were very immature and believed that with enough power they could conquer them.

Now as for Gu Yuena, Wang Qiu'er and Xiao Wu.

Xiao Wu is the most lively and cheerful in the group, she is the one who has the most contact with the Nuoding Academy students, she is even closer to the seventh dorm students.

Many boys from Nuoding City fell in love with her and confessed but were rejected. Although Xiao Wu is the most gentle compared to Gu Yuena and Wang Qiu'er, she can also be quite brutal when provoked.

For those who tried to force a relationship with her... They were given the eight steps of death.

About Wang Qiu'er... To outsiders she is usually a cold person and a bit arrogant, when the boys confessed to her, she rejected them as trash without caring about their feelings. There was a time when a Spiritual Grand Master tried to act against her and the result was that this Spiritual Grand Master had all the bones in his right arm broken with just one punch.

Could it be that because of this she is qualified to be Saitama-sensei's disciple?

Now, talking about Gu Yuena...

Gu Yuena is normally an introverted person who doesn't usually talk a lot, but she doesn't really mince words against people she doesn't like (which are basically all but a few spiritual masters).

No one dared to confess, mainly because she had an aura that said "anyone who gets close... Dies"

The only people who are known to be close to Gu Yuena are Wang Qiu'er, Xiao Wu, Bi Ji, and Feng Lie. (Zi Ji is always hiding nearby.)

Gu Yuena is extremely attached to Feng Lie, it is very rare to see Feng Lie and Gu Yuena apart.

After Feng Lie and the girls went through the Nuoding Academy gate they walked a bit across the grounds until they reached the door of the Academy's main building. When they got there they saw that there were two people there.

The first is a 10-year-old boy with short black hair and blue eyes. That boy is Tang San.

The other is an old man who appears to be in his 50s, his head is completely bald and he is also supporting himself with a cane in his right hand while his left hand is pressed to his back because he has back pain. This old man is Yu Xiaogang.

"Tsk, the day started so well and now we have to listen to the ravings of hypocritical trash." Gu Yuena spoke with disgust and annoyance at the sight of Yu Xiaogang.

Xiao Wu is Wang Qiu'er has the same expression as Gu Yuena. Bi Ji keeps a neutral expression but has the same thoughts.