Chapter 47: Incurring Public Wrath

After Wu Luochen left, many people came forward to congratulate Ye Yuan.

Through this assessment, Ye Yuan's reputation as a genius had been established, and his status in the academy was bound to rise.

It was necessary to curry favor with the current and future martial arts ranking experts while the opportunity lasted.

With Qi Transformation Fourth Layer, he could kill five Qi Transformation Eighth Layer cultivators. Once Ye Yuan broke through to Qi Transformation Seventh Layer, how terrifying would his strength become?

Perhaps at Qi Transformation Seventh Layer, Ye Yuan might even have the strength to challenge the Earth Grade advancement!

However, most of those who came to greet Ye Yuan were Heaven Grade students; the Earth Grade students were already destined to have no interaction with a genius like Ye Yuan.

One does not strike a smiling face. Ye Yuan dealt with the overtures of these Heaven Grade students one by one.

Among these people were not a few martial arts ranking experts, and having a nodding acquaintance with them certainly did no harm.

Watching Ye Yuan thrive in every situation, Lin Tiancheng felt as uncomfortable as if he had swallowed a fly.

Ridiculous—he had earlier called Ye Yuan trash. But after the assessment, the situation had reversed dramatically. Ye Yuan had become the darling of the Heaven Grade students and a genius in the eyes of all students.

As for him, Lin Tiancheng, he remained a mediocre person struggling to advance to Heaven Grade.

Compared to Ye Yuan's assessment results, he was the utter trash.

Passing the Earth Grade assessment at Qi Transformation Fourth Layer—if Ye Yuan couldn't enter Heaven Grade in the future, it would be a laughingstock!

With that thought, Lin Tiancheng sighed and disappeared into the crowd.

"Senior Brother Lin, what's wrong? You seem distracted?" As Lin Tiancheng walked, a crisp and pleasant voice suddenly came from behind.

Turning around, he saw Wan Yuan and Liu Ruoshui, who had long since withdrawn from the crowd...

...

"Look, isn't that Teacher Feng Ruoqing? What is she doing here?" Someone in the crowd suddenly shouted.

"It really is Teacher Feng! She's coming this way. Could she be looking for me? Ouch, why did you hit me?" One person was daydreaming when he was struck on the back of the head and pulled aside.

"Idiot, how could Teacher Feng be looking for you? A good dog doesn't block the way. Get out of the way quickly."

"...Why couldn't she be looking for me? Maybe she knows I'm her loyal fan and was moved to come find me?"

"..."

Everyone looked at him as if he were an idiot and automatically parted a path for Feng Ruoqing to pass.

Feng Ruoqing walked through the crowd without even glancing at that fool.

"Damn it, Lü'er, let's get out of here!" Ye Yuan grabbed Lü'er and ran.

Ye Yuan had just been socializing when he noticed Feng Ruoqing and immediately tried to flee in panic.

"Ye Yuan, if you dare run again, you won't pass a single one of my courses!" Feng Ruoqing shouted loudly when she saw Ye Yuan about to flee.

Such a threat meant nothing to Ye Yuan; he kept running.

"Stop him!" Feng Ruoqing urged.

The watching students were collectively petrified...

What was happening?

The fairy-like Teacher Feng now seemed like a jilted woman?

And Ye Yuan looked just like a faithless husband caught red-handed by his wife.

Clearly, Feng Ruoqing had come specifically for Ye Yuan, and Ye Yuan seemed terrified of seeing her.

Everyone couldn't help but speculate about what had happened between them.

Even the usually composed Hu Yan Yong now had a glint of curiosity in his eyes, obviously wanting to know what had happened like all the other students.

Earlier, when Ye Yuan passed the assessment, many looked at him with admiration or envy.

But now, everyone unanimously glared at Ye Yuan with murderous eyes.

It seemed that if they found out Ye Yuan had defiled the dream lover of all men in the Danwu Academy, these students would surely tear him to pieces.

The most painful thing in the world is to see one's goddess defiled by another man, even if that man was the academy's newly rising genius!

Ye Yuan had incurred public wrath!

He wanted to run, but a crowd blocked him tightly.

The area had been somewhat sparse before, but now everyone had gathered together, leaving Ye Yuan no chance to escape.

In that moment, Feng Ruoqing had already reached Ye Yuan.

"Run, why don't you run?" Feng Ruoqing looked at Ye Yuan angrily.

"It's not that I won't run, but I can't! Teacher Feng, your pulling power is too strong!" Ye Yuan said with a bitter smile.

"Why are you avoiding me?" Feng Ruoqing felt a slight smugness inside but still put on a stern face and scolded.

"Me? How could I? Teacher Feng, you wrong me!" Ye Yuan blinked, looking innocent.

"You say you're not? Then why were you running just now?"

"I suddenly remembered I had something to do and was about to leave. Coincidence! Absolutely a coincidence!"

"Don't play tricks with me! Come with me now!"

"Teacher Feng, I really have something important to do!"

"No matter how important, it won't do! If you don't come, I'll have to use force!"

"No, no, I'll go with you, alright?"

"That's more like it!"

Under everyone's stunned gaze, Feng Ruoqing escorted Ye Yuan away...

In fact, over the past few days, Feng Ruoqing had come looking for Ye Yuan several times, but each time he was sleeping.

With Lü'er blocking the way outside, Feng Ruoqing couldn't force her way in.

Ye Yuan hadn't attended a single pharmacology class these days, so Feng Ruoqing couldn't find him.

As for Ye Yuan, why would he be interested in being an assistant?

The things Feng Ruoqing played with were, in his eyes, not much different from children playing with mud. Asking him to be an assistant—wasn't that a waste of time?

What Ye Yuan urgently needed now was to improve his strength. How could he have time to be an assistant to a little girl?

With Feng Ruoqing's level of alchemy, she wasn't even qualified to be Ye Yuan's assistant, yet she wanted him to be hers—wasn't that a joke?

That day, he only wanted to get rid of Feng Ruoqing as quickly as possible. He never expected that showing a little skill would land him in this trouble.

So when he heard from Lü'er that Feng Ruoqing was looking for him, he decided to play hide-and-seek with her.

Who would have thought that after only a few days of hiding, Feng Ruoqing would catch him red-handed.

As luck would have it, Feng Ruoqing didn't know Ye Yuan was taking the assessment here, but as she passed by, she heard students gathering toward the Illusory Spirit Tower.

Curious about what was happening at the Illusory Spirit Tower, she stopped a student to ask.

To her surprise, the news was about Ye Yuan, and it shocked her enough.

She knew that Ye Yuan had just broken through to Qi Transformation Third Layer not long ago, and in just a few days, he had broken through to Qi Transformation Fourth Layer.

Breaking through to Qi Transformation Fourth Layer was one thing, but Ye Yuan had also passed three levels in a row and become an Earth Grade student—this impact was too great for her.

She hadn't expected Ye Yuan to be so accomplished in martial arts as well.

Last time in pharmacology class, Ye Yuan had left a deep impression on Feng Ruoqing.

A Yellow Grade student who wasn't even an alchemy apprentice actually knew so much about a second-grade superior pill formula and even knew obscure refining methods like the Yin-Yang Separation Technique. That was why she had thought of having him as an assistant.

Who would have thought that this guy Ye Yuan would actually avoid her!

Feng Ruoqing, who had never known what rejection was, became even more stubborn and was determined to catch Ye Yuan and make him her assistant!