The Purple Jade City

After receiving that good fortune, Xueming woke up with a renewed body The strange stone that had got stuck in the left eye fell off, and the sight that the eye had lost was brought back that he could see things clearly again. Moreover, Xueming felt that his fleshly body was even stronger than before.

Yet, it seemed that Xueming still had another good fate. On the side of the headless corpse, there were dozens of objects lying sporadically. Although most of them were clothes and the things that Xueming deemed useless, there were still many interesting items such as a dimensional bag which he had never used before Even though it was not very large, it would make the journey much more convenient. There were also three medicine bottles, one of which contained pills for healing the injury, which he remembered that this kind of medicine was considered priceless, even among the Yong family. The other two bottles were pills that helped speed up Qi cultivation, one of which he had seen his uncle used. They were Cold Jade Pills which were used by the cultivator with the first level of natural Qi. If he were to use some of them right now, it would be too much of a waste, even though there were ten. Thus, Xueming chose to stuff the bottle into the dimensional bag. As for the other bottle, Xueming didn't know what kind of medicine inside it was, and it had only one pill. But the point was that this pill had a more intense, spicy fragrance than the Cold Jade Pills. Xueming, therefore, expected that this pill was definitely a precious medicine.

After distinguishing the useful items from the useless, Xueming did not forget to walk to ransack the money bag next to the corpse. Then, he asked the dead for forgiveness and searched for the head that was dropped inside the cave to put it with the body of the anonymous cultivator and then bury them.

When he finished everything, Xueming set out to head west for the Purple Jade City.

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During the three days that Xueming walked through the Beast Forest, he did not forget to practice the Yong clan’s Qi cultivation technique that he had learned. Although the Yong cultivation technique was not very good, it was the only technique that Xueming knew, giving him no other choice. Despite the poor technique, with Xueming's special body since the miraculous resurgence, his Qi level progressed rapidly. In just three days after he was able to break into the second level of the basic Qi, Xueming's muscles grew stronger to almost the same state as three years ago before losing his left eye. However, if he continued using the Yong clan’s Qi cultivation technique, he could absorb Qi into his muscles much faster than before but might face the same problem of being stuck at the edge of the breakthrough stage from the second level of the basic Qi to the third level due to the fact that the Yong clan’s technique was too inefficient. Otherwise, in the past, there would have been people in the Yong family who could break through to the fifth level of the basic Qi.

Although right now Xueming’s Qi level was stuck at the second level of the basic Qi, that was the basic requirement for joining the Azure Dragon Academy’s entrance exam. Therefore, Xueming did not have much trouble with the Yong clan’s cultivation technique. If he could enter the Azure Dragon Academy, he would have the opportunity to learn more advanced Qi cultivation techniques, not to mention the various martial art skills that this great academy had for their own disciples exclusively. Plus, with Xueming’s body suitable for training, if he got to learn all these things, it would be like a winged tiger, and the Yong family must regret expelling him out of the clan.

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Finally, a gigantic wall appeared in front of Xueming. The administrative territory of the Purple Jade City was ten times larger than that of the Golden Bird City. In the next two months, the most famous academy of the Purple Jade City—the Azure Dragon Academy—would open an annual entrance exam to recruit new disciples. Therefore, a swirl of people from the various surrounding cities came to the Purple Jade City. Most of the talented youngsters aged 15-17 who showed up expected to pass the exam and become a disciple of the Azure Dragon Academy. Surely, their main purpose was to build the reputation of the family and to gain their power and strength from their training at this Academy.

Since childhood, Xueming had never left the Golden Bird City before. Stepping into a big city for the first time, he was thrilled by a wide variety of people all dressed up in luxurious robes, as well as many quaint shops. Despite his desire for more sightseeing, finding accommodation is an urgent matter. Thus, Xueming decided not to visit the shops but to enter an inn to rent a room. But it seemed that lately, people had already fought their way to get decent rooms. Plus, the rent was so high, as this time of the year was the entrance exam period of the Azure Dragon Academy. Xueming tried to search for accommodation for a long time but could not find any vacant room.

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"Yong Kang, do you think that kid has a familiar face?" Said Yong Qi, Yong Kang's cousin. The two of them had come to Purple Jade City three months ago to prepare for the exam as well.

"Which one?" The older Yong Kang followed Yong Qi's finger with his eyes until seeing Xueming walking into an inn. "That's ... the trashy Xueming. If I got the news right, after he got kicked out of our family, his mother was seriously ill and died a few weeks ago. "

Yong Qi nodded. "Then why did he come to the Purple Jade City?"

Yong Kang revealed an evil expression. " I don't know why he’s here, but I’ve always despised this scum. Well, you follow him and find out what that bastard is doing here. I’ll bring this news to Brother Yong Sue. I believe his comrades from the Li clan will definitely want to hear about this.” After the talk was finished, the two laughed together with the delight of the impending downfall of Xueming.

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Xueming walked around for accommodation until it was dark that he finally found a vacant room. Although it was a dilapidated old room and far from the prosperous district of the city, Xueming was very satisfied with it. He did not care much about the old condition since his former dwelling outside the Yong clan was even worse than this. Plus, the rent was not high.

After getting a room, Xueming asked people around about the Azure Dragon Academy’s entrance exam and discovered that it would be open for registration from tomorrow onwards, for ten days in total. To avoid any unexpected incident, Xueming decided to apply on the first day. Therefore, after dinner, he did not go out sightseeing at night as intended; instead, he chose to quietly practice cultivating his Qi in his room.