With his hands behind his back, Li Feng crossed several kilometers in a single step and landed steadily on the platform, as graceful as the wind, like an immortal descending to the mortal world. His speed was so fast that even a few prodigies with superior-grade heaven Martial Veins could barely see him, drawing gasps of astonishment from the students and instructors.
“So fast! Young Master Li is truly extraordinary, just like the legends say!”
“Rumor has it that his cultivation has reached the 9th stage Martial King Realm. Even among the instructors, few can compare to him. It’s hard to believe he’s only an eighteen-year-old freshman at Jishang Academy!”
“Didn’t you hear? Even Instructor Su calls him ‘junior brother.’ He has likely already become a disciple of Elder Zhang. If nothing unexpected happens, he’ll be the next Elder of Jishang Academy!”
“…”
The students and instructors were full of admiration, and many female students’ eyes lit up, wishing they could get close to Li Feng and win his favor. Such a promising prodigy could even capture the heart of a princess!
Liu Ruyan watched Li Feng, who was now chatting and laughing with Su Zijin and admired by the freshmen, and a deep sense of bitterness welled up inside her. Her pride and confidence were crushed to dust. Li Feng now shone like the midday sun, while she was as insignificant as dust, utterly incomparable.
So even as students of Jishang Academy, their status and treatment were worlds apart!
“Miss, I just saw you walking with Young Master Li earlier. What’s your relationship with him?” a young girl in pink asked Liu Ruyan with a gentle smile.
“I… I was just coincidentally walking the same path with him,” Liu Ruyan replied instinctively. She had always denied her relationship with Li Feng when going out. Even if they traveled together, she made him keep his distance to avoid embarrassment.
The young girl’s smile faded immediately. She turned away coldly and muttered under her breath, “I thought she was some relative of Young Master Li. Turns out she’s just a stranger. No wonder her cultivation is only at the 4th stage Martial Master Realm. Clearly not from a prestigious family. I wasted my breath asking her.”
Hearing this, Liu Ruyan’s face flushed red, and she felt deeply humiliated. It turned out that at Jishang Academy, family background and status were so important. Even as Luoxing City’s number one prodigy, she was looked down upon here, regarded as insignificant.
In her shame and anger, Liu Ruyan couldn’t help but blurt out, “Actually, I am Li Feng’s fiancée!”
Liu Ruyan understood well that she was inferior to others now, and the identity she once despised—being Li Feng’s fiancée—had become her only thing worth boasting about. The shame was unbearable, and even her thick skin couldn’t stop her ears from turning red.
However, after the surrounding students heard her words, they all widened their eyes, their once dismissive gazes turning into warmth and flattery. Find the original chapter at g.com.
“So she’s Young Master Li’s fiancée! What a lucky woman. With Young Master Li’s protection, she can do whatever she wants in Jishang Academy.”
“Tch, she looks plain, not good-looking at all, and her talent is ordinary. She’s completely unworthy of Young Master Li!”
“If she really is Young Master Li’s fiancée, she would be qualified to be friends with me. In the future, if Young Master Li becomes the Elder, even our Jiang family would have to rely on him.”
“…”
Many female students looked at Liu Ruyan with envy and jealousy. This long-lost feeling of being valued made Liu Ruyan quite pleased. She unconsciously lifted her chin, as if she had returned to being the proud number one prodigy of Luoxing City.
But soon, someone poured cold water on her.
“Don’t listen to her nonsense. According to the information from Luoxing City, Young Master Li’s fiancée is a prodigy with a superior-grade heaven Martial Vein at the Martial King Realm and has already gone to the Celestial Jade Sect for cultivation. How could she be this useless woman who isn’t even at the Martial Lord Realm?”
A noble-looking girl spoke coldly, staring at Liu Ruyan with disdain. She was Princess Luo Qingxian, the seventeenth princess of the Great Qing Empire, the youngest and most beloved daughter of the Emperor.
Ever since learning about Li Feng, Luo Qingxian admired him greatly and had secretly investigated everything about him. Apart from the whereabouts of Li Feng’s parents, who disappeared during the beast tide, she knew everything about him.
Being exposed, Liu Ruyan panicked, her eyes darting around, not daring to meet the surrounding gazes. She had once wished people wouldn’t associate her with Li Feng, but now she yearned for that identity she could no longer claim.
“No wonder! I knew she wasn’t worthy of Young Master Li. Just a toad lusting after a swan.”
“A clown trying to attract attention. Young Master Li is a mighty dragon, and she’s just a mud loach. How could she covet the identity of his fiancée?”
“Exactly! In Jishang Academy, the only girl worthy of Young Master Li is Princess Luo Qingxian. What qualifications and talent does she have to touch a peerless prodigy like Young Master Li?”
Listening to the mockery around her, Liu Ruyan was filled with endless regret, wishing she could find a hole to crawl into. She hated herself for being so shortsighted and vain back then, breaking off the engagement with Li Feng, giving such an outstanding husband to her sister, and even publicly humiliating him, causing him to be utterly disappointed in her. Now they were strangers. If not, who would dare speak to her like this now?
Unfortunately, it was too late. Liu Ruyan could only lower her head and silently endure the humiliation. She didn’t even dare mention that she was once Li Feng’s fiancée and had broken off the engagement herself. If she did, she would become the biggest laughingstock in Jishang Academy, and everyone would look down on her even more.
Meanwhile, at the front of the square, a few students with superior-grade heaven Martial Veins were observing Li Feng.
“So he’s Li Feng? He doesn’t look that special. He’s only five or six stages ahead of me. I’ll catch up to him sooner or later!” Chen Chuan thought Li Feng was at the Martial King Realm and smiled confidently, believing he still had a chance to catch up. As a scion of a prestigious family with a superior-grade heaven Martial Vein, he had his own pride and didn’t believe Li Feng was as formidable as the rumors said. He thought a superior-grade heaven Martial Vein was already the pinnacle of talent—how could there be someone even more monstrous?
Moreover, Chen Chuan’s grandfather had been a student of Zhang Shouzheng. Although his grandfather hadn’t mastered the Heaven and Man Record, he had some insights into it and had passed them down to Chen Chuan. Chen Chuan believed that at the entrance ceremony, he would gain more favor from the Heaven and Man Record than Li Feng, making a name for himself among the new generation!
“My father told me to befriend Li Feng. If I can marry him as a concubine, I could bring my mother back to the Lu family. Does he really have such potential that even Martial Emperor families want to curry favor with him?” Lu Yao’s beautiful eyes rested on Li Feng’s handsome face, deep in thought.
Han Li, however, remained expressionless, his calm demeanor unfazed by Li Feng’s arrival. His mind was as deep as an adult’s, not like an eighteen-year-old youth.
“Please welcome the Heaven and Man Record! It is the treasured legacy of our Jishang Academy. Those who can comprehend it have a chance to break through to the Martial Venerable Realm and immediately become the Elder’s personal disciple. Even if they can’t comprehend it, gaining its favor will greatly enhance their cultivation, surpassing their peers!”
“The first place in comprehending the Heaven and Man Record at this entrance ceremony will become the chief senior brother of Jishang Academy. Regardless of talent, they can enter Class A and be personally taught by the Vice Elder!”
After chatting with Li Feng, Su Zijin announced loudly. Together with the other instructors, they invited the Heaven and Man Record out of Kuzhou Pavilion.
The spiritual-grade cultivation method, Heaven and Man Record, emitted a hundred-meter purple light, floating like a giant monument above the square, causing the surrounding spiritual energy to become ten times denser.
After the Heaven and Man Record appeared, Instructor Su smiled at Li Feng and said, “Junior Brother Li has the highest talent among the freshmen this year. You may be the first to comprehend the Heaven and Man Record.”
“Thank you, Senior Brother…” Li Feng was just about to bow and express his gratitude when a dissatisfied voice suddenly rang out from below.
“Why should he be the first to comprehend it? Cultivation techniques depend on comprehension, not Martial Vein talent. We’re not necessarily inferior to him!”