After Cultivating With the Enemy
Chapter 4
Ji Zhaoyuncang backed away in panic.
The ground of the trail is covered with bluestone, and it is slippery because it is constantly moistened by moisture.When he backed away, he happened to step on a bluestone moistened with water vapor, and slipped backwards with a puff.
Ji Chaoyun fell dizzy, and when he raised his head again, his bare feet stepped on the bluestone ground in front of him.
The opponent's ankles are white and slender, and upwards are a pair of slender and powerful calves, hidden behind a round robe that is visible.
Feng Qi's robe was loosely gathered, and the ends of his hair were still dripping.The water drop ran across the delicately shaped collarbone and sank into the neckline, leaving a winding water mark.
This is really a picture with too strong impact. It took a long time for Ji Chaoyun to find his breath, his eyes moved up slowly, and he met the opponent's teasing gaze: "Enough?"
"I am not—" Ji Chaoyun stood up in a hurry, his cheeks slightly hot, "Sorry, I didn't know you were inside."
Feng Qi looked at him up and down, there was not much anger in his expression after being pryed on. On the contrary, he even seemed a little happy: "Why are you here?"
"I……"
"Night is approaching, sneak into other people's homes, peep into other people's baths..." Feng Qi smiled deeper in his eyes, and took a half step forward. "I heard that your dragon clan was very active in that matter...I saw it today. ."
"you--"
Ji Chaoyun blocked his heart with a sigh of relief, closed his eyes, and tried to calm his tone: "I went to Qianshan to report, and they assigned my residence here... It was the Tongxing Jade Plate that brought me here."
Feng Qi raised his eyebrows before he noticed Ji Chaoyun's jade card hanging around his waist.
He walked in front of Ji Chaoyun, who instinctively backed up, pushing his back against the green bamboo beside the road.
"Don't move." Feng Qi pressed his shoulders, leaned down slightly, and picked up the pass token with his wet hand.
Ji Chaoyun was trapped between square inches by him, and the warm damp rushing from him, mixed with the unique fragrance of bamboo leaves, almost made people breathless.
Feng Qi didn't realize it, he lowered his head, his fingertips flashed a faint light and sank into the token.
As I get closer, I can see that this face does not differ from the memory.The shadow cast when the eyelashes are drooping, the arc of the tail of the eye when you speak, and even the subtle contour features on the face are too similar. Even the most subtle illusion art can't do this.
Are there really two people so similar in this world?
Ji Chaoyun suddenly felt that it was difficult to breathe, and the already suppressed emotion came back, and even his fingertips trembled slightly.He leaned back physically, forcing himself not to look at this face.
He got too close, as close as... a long-lost hug.
After the three games, Ji Chaoyun's physical exhaustion was already at the limit. At this moment, the emotional turmoil caused the immortal energy to leak, and the faint light under his eyes could no longer be suppressed, and the pair of beautiful vertical pupils like glass gradually faded.
"Sure enough, a spell leading to Wenqufeng was cast, but you..." Feng Qi said, raising his head, and his voice came to a halt.
Ji Chaoyun trembled silently, his eyes were red, and a pair of silver dragon horns appeared on his forehead, and under the setting sun, he could even see a shallow layer of slender and soft fluff.
"..." Feng Qi cursed something secretly, and his throat suddenly became dry.
He went out a few days ago, and only returned to the academy today. Then he heard that there was a little beauty in the Changqingyuan who took away half of the academy.A startled glance from the Baiyu stage showed that this person was outstanding in appearance and neat, but he did live up to the rumors.
It's a pity it's a dragon.
Feng Qi has never known any dragon clan, but the two clan of dragon and phoenix have always been at odds, and he has no good feelings for dragons, but now...
He quickly glanced at the dragon's horn that was still trembling in front of the opponent's forehead.
...The dragon horn looked so soft, I don't know how it feels to touch it?
Feng Qi was impatient for a while, he straightened up, licked his lips unconsciously, and his voice was slightly low and hoarse: "Then what, I will look at the spell on your token, and it didn't do you anything..."
Ji Chaoyun arched his back slightly, his back was tight, and he hardly dared to look up at the person in front of him.
"How do you say the two sentences are still in their original form? So unintimidated." Feng Qi's hand was still on Ji Chaoyun's shoulder, and his fingertips poked his cheek at random. Unexpectedly, the hand feels extremely soft.
Ji Chaoyun stiffened, tilted his head to hide.
Feng Qi smiled: "Afraid of me?"
"No." Ji Chaoyun lowered his head and quickly rubbed his eyes, and whispered, "Hug, sorry..."
The pair of dragon horns swayed as he talked, and their little claws hooked people's hearts.
Feng Qi's throat rolled silently, and suddenly turned his head and walked out: "Your token is indeed a spell leading to Wenqufeng. I believe you are not lying. But your residence is not with me."
Ji Chaoyun didn't want to be alone with him now, and quickly followed up: "I should have found the wrong way, I will go now."
"No, you can't go wrong." Feng Qi lay down on the bamboo couch and said leisurely, "You didn't notice when you came just now. Is the whole Wenqu Peak only my residence?"
"...In other words, I am the only person on the entire Wenqu Peak."
Ji Chaoyun realized something and looked up at him.
Feng Qi lifted the jug to pour himself a glass, raised his head and drank it all, then suppressed the unexplained restlessness in his heart.
He rubbed the mouth of the cup and explained: "His Royal Highness is happy and doesn't want to be disturbed, so every time people assigned to Wenqufeng will be driven away by me. In the long run, they will not dare to let people call Wenqufeng again."
Ji Chaoyun: "..."
It was the first time I saw someone speak so arrogantly about bullying.
However, this did explain why the two disciples sent him here.
He closed his eyes and replied: "I understand. You don't need to rush, I will go by myself."
Ji Chaoyun quickly stepped onto the stone bridge.
"Wait." Feng Qi suddenly called to him, "His Royal Highness hasn't finished speaking yet, are you dragons so rude?"
"..." Ji Chaoyun held back his anger, "what else do you want to say?"
Feng Qi asked: "Where are you going?"
Ji Chaoyun was silent, turned around and wanted to leave, but listened to Feng Qi again: "The disciple courtyard has been assigned, you can only go to find Yaoguang Xianjun to re-register. Shaoguang is busy, so you bother him with such small things. He will not say that it will take another month. The premise is that there is really free time for you in the Qifeng disciple yard."
"...Don't even think about finding someone else to take in. One pass token is for each person. Even if someone else gives you the pass, you can't go to other disciples' courtyard.
Feng Qiyao looked at the slender back on the stone bridge, with a smug smile on his lips: "It will be curfew soon. If you leave Wenqu Peak, you will violate the curfew. Little Demon Dragon, you don't want to enter the first day of school. Is it a ban?"
Ji Chaoyun turned around and asked him: "...what do you want?"
"It's what you want." Feng Qi fixed his eyes on the pair of dragon horns for a moment, smiled slightly, and said jokingly, "Why don't you come and beg me to make me happy, maybe I will promise you to live. Come down."
——"Be obedient to me and apologize, and then be my entourage for the next school year. Maybe this young master is in a good mood, so I will show mercy to let you go to school."
It's really all the way.
The two looked at each other quietly across the lotus pond, Ji Chaoyun's expression was cold, and the originally ups and downs of the mood quickly calmed down.
He showed that his original shape was not so easy to recover, and his eyes were extremely light, making him colder than before, and even looked a little arrogant.
It really wasn't him.
He laughed at himself, thinking that too much time has passed, so long that he would be so absurd that he would treat anyone as that person.
Even if he has the same face, it is still a world of difference.
Thinking about this, Ji Chaoyun only felt relaxed.He looked at the person leaning on the bamboo couch from a distance, and suddenly smiled slightly.
Feng Qi was startled.
He has seen this person's neat posture in the arena, and he has also seen this person's aggrieved appearance when he is scared out of his original form. No matter which kind, his face is always tight, with a kind of almost rigid coldness.
But he smiled that way, the demeanor hidden under the skin of that wooden beauty can no longer be suppressed.The brilliance flowing in the glazed eyes made people feel stunned.
"you……"
Feng Qi's throat was dry, but without waiting for him to say anything, Ji Chaoyun said softly: "I don't need to stay. I will take a nap under Wenqu Peak tonight. I will leave tomorrow morning. Thank you for your kindness."
After speaking, Ji Chaoyun stopped looking at him, turned and walked quickly out of the courtyard.
As night fell quickly, Ji Chaoyun leaned against the tree trunk, his face almost transparent in the moonlight.
"I have entered Hongmeng College, and I also met someone... who looks like you." He whispered softly, rubbing his fingers on his purse lightly, "It's strange, how could I treat others as you? I know Knowing that it can't be you, no one can be you..."
He raised his head and stared at the endless night sky, with stars in the sky: "After I see you, I will apologize to you again. You can do whatever you want."
"……good night."
In the morning of the next day, freshmen who have just enrolled are required to test their roots in the Main Peak Mission Hall to classify their disciples.As the hour was approaching, everyone passed through the teleportation array one after another and came to the open space outside the mission hall.
Ji Chaoyun was reading the book outside the mission hall in the morning.
They just enrolled in school yesterday and have not had time to distribute the disciples' clothes.Ji Chaoyun was still wearing that silver-white coarse cloth robe, gathered in the morning mist with fear of the cold, showing only the slender fingers holding the scroll, like the new buds of willow leaves.
"Chaoyun!" Ye Chenxing walked towards him quickly, "How were you last night? Where did the two bastards divide you?"
Ji Chaoyun collected the book and shook his head: "It doesn't matter if you mention it, I'm going to find Shaoguang Xianjun today."
"Alright, I'll accompany you." Ye Chenxing followed a young man behind him. He pushed the young man and said, "What are you hiding? Don't you always want to see Chaoyun?"
"Who is this……"
The young man with handsome features, with some bookish air, looked very nervous, his face flushed red: "I, my name is Beiran, you may not remember me, you saved and saved me from the suspension bridge before, thanks to you and me. ..."
"It turned out to be you." Ji Chaoyun thought for a moment, remembering that this was the young boy he had rescued on the suspension bridge the day before the assessment.
Bei Ran shivered and said, "Big Brother Ji, I really... admire and..."
"Okay, shut up, I'll make you nervous." Ye Chenxing patted him on the back of his head, making Beiran staggered, "This kid is in a disciple's yard with me, and he entangled me all night. I have to make a recommendation, but now it is such a virtue again, which is ashamed."
Beiran made a big red face and touched his nose embarrassedly.
Ji Chaoyun: "It's okay, you will all be classmates in the future, just like cross-related photos."
"Have you heard, you will be covered by your brother Ji from now on."
Ji Chaoyun looked at him helplessly: "Ye Chenxing..."
Ye Chenxing had something to say: "Chaoyun, you don't know how popular you are among the freshmen. You played so beautifully in those three games yesterday."
"Speaking of this..." Beiran raised his hand and looked at Ji Chaoyun's eyes sparkling. "The Po Kong Knife cannot be used in the ring, and Jiang Cheng is said to have neglected to practice swords since he was a child. Brother Ji must have considered these things. Will you choose to test your body?"
Ji Chaoyun said "Uh" without comment.
When the people around heard them talking, they gathered towards him unconsciously.Following his gaze, Ji Chaoyun was a little embarrassed, and whispered the truth: "I didn't think about it too much, but I've fought Jiang Cheng before and found that his posture... is relatively ordinary."
"If the top ten masters of Hongmeng Academy are like this, then he should be the same."
Ye Chenxing: "..."
Beiran: "..."
Everyone: "..."
In the dead silence, Ye Chenxing's eyes swept around heavily: "I heard that Jiang Cheng was crazy for most of the day after losing the ring yesterday. Don't tell this to others, he knows he will die of anger."
The hour has come, and the door of the mission hall is finally slowly opened.A young man in an ink-colored brocade and holding a bamboo slip walked out of it, with two deacon disciples by his side.
This is Yaoguang Xianjun who is in charge of enrollment matters.
"Don't make any noise." Yaoguang Xianjun cleared his throat, the volume was not loud, but it passed into everyone's ears without reservation, "line up and come in with me."
Everyone walked into the mission hall.
The mission hall has the same architectural style as the white walls and blue tiles of the main peak. Everyone walked in from the veranda on one side, through the courtyard, and arrived at the main hall.The main hall door opened wide to both sides, and a stone sundial was erected in front of the hall.
Everyone was seated in the hall.
"That's the stone sundial for testing Linggen?" Beiran sat behind Ji Chaoyun, frowning, "No need to test, I must be the lowest level, what can I do in the future..."
Unlike the mortal world, Hongmeng Academy divides its disciples by school year, but only by their innate roots.The spiritual root test at the time of enrollment determines the ranks of the initial disciples, the four levels of heaven, earth, mysterious, and yellow, corresponding to the spiritual root of heaven, earth, high grade, and middle grade respectively.As for the lower-rank spiritual roots...So far there is no precedent for the successful ascent of lower-rank spiritual roots, so it is not in the scope of the academy's consideration.
Either the spirit demon transforms or the mortal ascends, most of them have a good idea of their spiritual root level, and the test is just a cutscene.
"I'm not much better." Ye Chenxing sat on his right hand side and muttered, "What else can I do, I have a weak spiritual root, and I will work hard the day after tomorrow. As long as I don't fall to the third level, I still have a chance."
Ji Chaoyun turned his head: "Waiting?"
He didn’t know much about the system of Hongmeng Academy. Ye Chenxing also knew that the young master didn’t hear things outside the window, so he explained: “Although the disciples of the academy practice together, the assessment rules are different. Tianzi level and Dizi level disciples One quiz in three years and one big quiz in twelve years. For the Xuanzi and Huangzi levels, there is one quiz every quarter and one big every year."
"The first five in the assessment will be Grade A, and the last five will be Grade C. If you get Grade A in three quizzes and one big exam, you can participate in the leapfrog assessment, and you will be promoted after passing the assessment."
Bei Ran asked, "If that happens all four times..."
Ye Chenxing cast a look of "what nonsense are you asking" at him, and said, "Four exams and the end of the crane again, what else can you do besides being dropped out of school?"
Bei Ran shrank her neck angrily.
Ji Chaoyun lowered his eyes, his expression unreal.
The Linggen test soon began, and the disciples whose names were pronounced by the Shaoguang Xianjun walked to the stone sundial one by one for the test.Heavenly spirit roots and earth spirit roots are extremely rare in the mortal world. Most of the Sanxian enrolled this time are high-grade or middle-grade spiritual roots, so they are divided into the mysterious and yellow characters.
Ye Chenxing and Bei Ran were both middle-rank spiritual roots, and they were also classified as yellow.
Soon it was Ji Chaoyun's turn.
"Big Brother Ji is so powerful, he must be a high-grade Linggen, right?"
"I don't think it's more than enough to defeat Song Zhifei and Jiang Cheng, and fight Feng Qi back and forth. This must be the root of the earth or the root of heaven?"
"Hope is the root of heaven."
"But in the academy for nearly a hundred years, it seems that only Fengqi has been born with one Heavenly Spiritual Root? This chance is too small..."
As if Ji Zhaoyun hadn't heard the comments from everyone, he walked up to Yaoguang Xianjun and bowed to him.
He missed the announcement of the admission result yesterday, so he did not meet with Yaoguang Xianjun.
However, listening to Ye Chenxing's words, it was the immortal king who was shaking light yesterday who explained in front of the freshmen that due to Ji Chaoyun's outstanding performance in the arena, the elders decided to make an exception to allow him to enter the school after consultation.
"You are Chaoyun." Shaoguang looked at everyone else with a listless and lazy appearance. Seeing Ji Chaoyun coming over, he was a little bit energetic.He narrowed his eyes slightly, and looked at him up and down for a moment. His smile was kind and loving, "Don't be nervous, just stretch your hand up."
"Yes." Ji Chaoyun did.
...Nothing happened.
The preaching hall was silent, and he murmured: "Is it broken? It was not okay just now... Don't worry, let's try again."
"Don't try again." Ji Chaoyun pointed to the scale on the stone sundial and reminded in a low voice, "The result has come out."
The upper stone dial is divided into five scales, namely heaven, earth, upper grade, middle grade, and lower grade.At this time, the scale on the stone sundial only moved forward a tiny bit, and it was even impossible to see it without looking carefully.
Shaoguang looked at Shi Sundial, and finally couldn't hold the smile on his face, gradually turning into consternation.