Rising Tension, Part I

Wu Jian spent most of his time at the academy cultivating. He and Hou Jingshu were provided Meridian Opening Pills and Middle-Grade Chi Gathering Pills by Zhou Lihua, who had come personally to deliver the pills to them. Thanks to her pills, Wu Jian had been able to break through to the Eighth Subrealm of the Asura Realm. Hou Jingshu was pushing into the Ninth Subrealm.

They were both making steady progress.

When he wasn’t cultivating, Wu Jian was sparring with Hou Jingshu. Their spars had become quite famous throughout the academy. All the Core Disciples would gather to watch whenever they trained together. Wu Jian had heard many of them gossiping about how insane they were for sparring the way they did, which was sometimes intense enough to look like they were attempting to kill each other.

They just didn’t understand.