30. The Fengtian Academy

"Oh!" Xiao Hei suddenly understood and then he nodded, "I'll do it right away!"

"OK!" Ye Lan nodded in agreement.

She did have something else to do today. She had to investigate the Fengtian Academy.

Ye Lan was dressed as usual. The celestial silk dress Libao gave her was really a rare treasure. The pure-white on her was indeed the finest and purest color in the world. When Ye Lan reached Stage Eight, she could change the color of the celestial silk dress t as she wished. Ye Lan was pleased with the outcome, yet she was still fond of pure-white. In her previous life, she was so pretty and coquettish who liked vivid red, who looked gorgeous and seductive, like a glamorous snake winding between blood and snow. She was a stunning beauty!

Yet in her present life, she preferred white, pure-white. The kind of color showed pureness at the first sight, meanwhile, boundless charm emerged from it bit by bit. Compared with red, it was less ostentatious. The pureness of white was the one induced the most reveries.

Ye Lan got off her horse and wandered into the street. She was dressed casually with her hair tied into a ponytail and pure-white hair ribbons floating right above her waist. She looked debonair, yet a bit more assertive than women and a little milder than men. It could be said that she was neither too manly nor too girly. Her outfit and temperament showed off herself to perfection.

The sunlight was not so dazzling now, instead, it sprinkled on the street. Ye Lan came out early and she was just in time for the morning market. More and more civilians appeared on the street which was lined with stores built with red bricks and white tiles, and the road was paved with bluestones.

"Baby Lan!" Libao successfully adapted himself to the environment in the Space. When he recovered his strength, he started to make troubles. He became undisciplined and called out to Ye Lan. Ye Lan frowned, "Even Xiao Hei called me master, but who are you? You shouldn’t have called me Lanbao. I don’t like that name."

"Humph! Xiao Hei? He is nothing but a human. How could he be compared with me, a legendary magic beast? Besides, you call me Libao! I'll call you Lanbao (TN: ‘Lanbao’ means ‘Baby Lan’ in Chinese)! So what?" Libao was in the Space, in a fit of anger and cocky, "Lanbao, Lanbao, Lanbao, Lanbao, Lanbao…"

"Fine! Fine!" Ye Lan was irritated by his continuous calling and cut Libao off hastily. "Suit yourself! OK? Call me whatever you like!"

"Heh-heh! Ha-ha!" Libao had his way and rolled about in the Space happily, which was quite childish. It made Ye Lan joyful and teased Libao, “Are you in the mood of coming out? It is sunny and pleasant today."

"Sure. I've heard from the old man that you are going to the Fengtian Academy. I've never been there before and now I can follow you there and have a look." Libao turned over and sat properly on the ground, saying earnestly.

"Sure? Then come out. Eh, but you have to change into a human."

Libao was stunned, "OK."

Ye Lan turned around. A cloud of dim mist rose from around her body and when it cleared, a brittle-looking man who was a head taller than Ye Lan and with rosy lips, white teeth and chubby face showed up. He was dressed in a black gown and holding a folding fan. Libao came out with a shining appearance.

Ye Lan frowned. This was not the appearance she expected.

"Hey. Hey. It's not what I expect. Didn't you change into a kid last time? You still have to be a kid this time."

"No. Now there are too many people in the street and I may probably be abducted as I look so cute if I were a kid. What if I am abducted and forced to be a catamite? You are so careless that you cannot always watch me. If I'm lost, you will suffer a great loss."

"Well..." Ye Lan highly doubted his words, "You're lost? If you are lost, then it will be you who suffer." Ye Lan could easily picture that a seven or eight-year-old kid dominated the brothel.

"Now you are walking beside me, aren't you afraid that some women may have a crush on you and capture you right on the street?" Ye Lan joked.

"No." Though Libao changed into the build of an adult, yet he still acted like a child. With this, he jumped right onto Ye Lan's back. Ye Lan carried him on her back, " Come down."

"I won’t. With you accompanying me, what should I be afraid of? Most of the women who wanted to capture me will shrink back when seeing your gorgeous beauty and the rest will be beaten off by you, because you’re such a crooked spiritual cultivator. If there are still some remnants, I'll kill her myself. And if there are still some that I can't beat...." Libao frowned and came close to Ye Lan's ear after thinking hard for a moment on Ye Lan's shoulder, "I'll just accept you for now. You are such a rare woman."

"Get lost." With a raise of eyebrows, Ye Lan turned around and wanted to get rid of Libao. However, Libao held her so tightly that she failed several times. And Libao seemed to be enjoying himself doing it and he held Ye Lan even more tightly in his arms, "No. I won't go down."

"You've recovered?" Ye Lan sighed and changed the topic.

"Yeah. Now I've recuperated. Speaking of which, I have to thank you for making so many spiritual pills, which reinforced me a lot. Now my spiritual power has become greater than before. Besides, I find that once you advance into a higher stage, my power will skyrocket with it. As a result, you have to speed up cultivating."

"Let me see." Ye Lan proposed. Libao was being cocky and fell right into the trap. He jumped down from Ye Lan's back and demonstrated. He buried his fan behind the back of his head and stood in front of the trunk like a playboy. He raised his hand and slapped at it. Then in a gust of wind, the green tree which could be surrounded by three men was cut down at the waist and fell down with a loud crash. Libao turned to look at Ye Lan proudly, preening.

Ye Lan had no choice but to smile at him. Then she raised her hand and gathered her spiritual power. After that, she lifted the dead tree, put it back onto the root and intensified her spiritual power to breed large quantities of green vines to strap the cut. When this was done, the tree came to life again and there were even more young leaves than before!

After these, Ye Lan raised her hand to pat Libao resignedly, "Let's go!"

"Eh! What a bore." Libao took his fan off from the back of his head smartly. With a crash, he unfolded it. No sooner had he flapped it than Ye Lan took it away from him by force. Libao threw a disdainful look at Ye Lan. Then after a movement of his fingers, another folding fan came out of his hand, "Hum!" He preened himself on his little achievement and threw a smile at Ye Lan. Then he stepped into the street smartly. Ye Lan followed him and patted on her forehead. What a delight she raised!

They were both of startling beauty. One was pure-white while the other was cyan and they both aroused passers-by's attention. Yet they were unaware of it and their charm attracted everyone passing by them. Because Ye Lan came out so early, the crowd was still thin when they strolled down to the Fengtian Academy. They stood in front of it, looking around.

Ye Lan took a look at Libao in puzzlement. Libao frowned and waved his fan. Then he shrugged to show that he had no idea about it.

He had always been in the Forest of Beasts, which was just like Ye Lan who was originally caught in the Ye Maison. Such a "loser" like her would never come into contact with the spiritual cultivator's Fengtian Academy. So even by racking her brain, she found no useful information about the Fengtian Academy.

"Isn't there a place for consulting?" Ye Lan went around it for a long time but found no useful information, which made her quite upset. She couldn't help muttering. At this time, there came a burst of sarcastic laughter. Ye Lan turned around and saw that there was a crowd of playboys who were almost at the same age as Ye Lan sneered at her.

"What brings the rube here? Such a top-level academy like the Fengtian Academy never needs to set up an inferior consultation bureau. You may ask around and know that even the beggars on the street know about it. But she knows nothing about it, who knows where she comes from."

"Yeah. Yeah. The Fengtian Academy enrolled students once every five years. Now there are still two years to go. She came here to sign up so blindly. Ha-ha. What a shame."

"The Fengtian Academy is the place even the spiritual cultivator wishes to enter. What an honor it is to enter it! Such a bumpkin actually thinking of entering the Fengtian Academy. She is really aiming at the moon!"

...

After hearing their sarcasm, Ye Lan got plenty of useful information. It turned out that she came early. Besides, if the students enrolled by the Fengtian Academy were all like these people who were fastidious but incompetent, despising the poor while favoring the rich and bulling the weak yet fearing the strong, then it would be described with one word — annoying!

With a sigh, Ye Lan turned around slowly, which made most of them stopped sneering. Such a stunning glancing back let some of the dandies stop smiling. "Hey, Lanbao!" Libao also went around the Fengtian Academy to find the consultation bureau. No sooner had he come back than he saw Ye Lan looking at the group of people in front of her with a poker-face. He stepped forward and patted on Ye Lan's shoulder in confusion. When Libao came close, some of the ladies also stopped smiling and pretended to be dignified and decent.

Libao had already seen the startling beauty, so he wouldn’t be even a bit interested in the vulgarians with ordinary make-ups. He couldn't help wearing a disdainful look and saying to himself, "Disgusting."

"Now that there are still two years to go, it's no use staying here. Let's hang out." Ye Lan suggested.

Yet Libao didn't want to leave. He was a legendary magic Beast. He had heard all the sneers from those people and he turned to look at Ye Lan, winking her, "Aren't you angry?"

"Angry?" Ye Lan threw Libao an astonished look. It was not that she didn't understand Libao's question, but that she felt surprised Libao began to care about her this much. She shook her head, saying, "Never argue with a fool."

"Oh!" Libao understood her words and nodded. She was really an eccentric cruel woman. He was so angry with those people, yet she took no notice of his anger. What a drag.

Libao threw them a scornful smile, turned around and left with Ye Lan. Ye Lan was really not in the mood of arguing with those losers. She still needed to see the opening of the brothel.