Chapter 16

At a position close to the top of the Phase Power Tree, thick branches intertwined to form a wooden platform. At this moment, some eyes on the platform were looking down from a height, gazing at Li Luo’s position.

"This Li Luo has been missing for a week, and he finally came to the academy."

Tifa Qing crossed her arms, her well-fitted school uniform tightly wrapped around her well-developed figure. Coupled with her slightly coquettish and charming face and her snow-white, tender skin, she attracted the attention of many nearby young men.

She stared at Li Luo’s figure, lightly pursing her lips, and said, "Is he afraid of being troubled by Bei Kun? So he’s using this method to avoid it?"

"What a pity for such a handsome appearance." A group of girls around her also sighed and commented.

"Hehe, little girl, I remember when Li Luo was still in the First Academy, you were his little fan." A companion teased.

The girl who was teased immediately blushed and stomped her foot in retaliation, "You’re all the same!"

The girls giggled, their eyes showing a hint of regret. When Li Luo first arrived at the First Academy, he was an unparalleled figure, not only handsome but also showing exceptional talent. Most importantly, at that time, the Luo Lan Manor was at its peak, with two marquises in the manor, making it extremely prominent.

With such good looks, talent, and a strong background, which girl wouldn’t like such a young man?

However, as time passed, the halo around Li Luo began to fade. First, his parents went missing, directly causing the Luo Lan Manor to lose both status and strength. Then, Li Luo was revealed to have a natural void phase, which plunged him into a low point.

Thus, the once famous figure of the First Academy was "exiled" to the Second Academy.

At this point, admiring him was clearly no longer appropriate.

Tifa Qing, hearing the chatter of the girls around her, shook her head with a hint of annoyance, "A bunch of shallow flower chasers."

...

Li Luo had just sat down on a silver leaf when he heard some commotion around him. He raised his gaze and saw Bei Kun, surrounded by a group of cronies, jump down from the leaf above.

Bei Kun was tall and muscular, with a pale complexion, but the sinister look in his eyes made him appear somewhat gloomy.

"Li Luo, I thought you weren’t coming to the academy anymore." Bei Kun stared at Li Luo, smiling insincerely.

Li Luo glanced at him, too lazy to respond.

This attitude of Li Luo immediately made Bei Kun furious. When the Luo Lan Manor was powerful, he had tried to please Li Luo in every way, but Li Luo had always been indifferent. At that time, he didn’t dare to say anything, but now, is Li Luo still the same as before?

"Li Luo, you made me wait for you in the Qingfeng Tower for a whole day. How do you plan to settle this?" Bei Kun gritted his teeth.

Li Luo replied irritably, "Can you stop attributing your stupidity to me?"

"What kind of IQ do you have to think I would invite you to the Qingfeng Tower?"

Bei Kun’s eyes turned dark, "Li Luo, if you apologize to me now, I won’t pursue this matter. Otherwise..."

Li Luo laughed, "Otherwise, you’ll wait in the Qingfeng Tower for another day?"

Some snickers came from the surrounding area. Bei Kun was a bully in the Nanfeng Academy, often bullying others, but it was clear that Li Luo wasn’t intimidated by his threats.

Bei Kun glared at Li Luo, then said, "So stubborn, do you dare to come down and play with me?"

Li Luo shook his head, "Not interested."

Bei Kun was indeed too low-level. Li Luo didn’t want to deal with him before, and now he was even less interested. If he had to play along just because the other wanted to, wouldn’t that make him just as low-level?

Bei Kun sneered, said nothing more, and then waved his hand. Immediately, his cronies started shouting, "Are all the Second Academy students cowards?"

More insulting words kept coming out.

The nearby Second Academy students immediately showed anger, but they were intimidated by Bei Kun’s reputation and dared not speak up.

"Li Luo, why involve the entire Second Academy because of your problem?" Bei Kun said with ill intent.

Bei Kun had some cunning, deliberately trying to incite the Second Academy students. Since they couldn’t do anything to him, they would naturally vent their anger at Li Luo, forcing him to step forward.

"Shut up."

However, a loud voice soon rang out. Zhao Kuo stepped forward, glaring at Bei Kun, "If you want to fight, I’ll come with you."

"It’s you again."

Bei Kun frowned, "It seems I didn’t hurt you enough last time."

Just as Zhao Kuo was about to speak, he saw Li Luo wave him off. The latter said somewhat helplessly, "Why bother with these scumbags?"

Then he turned his gaze to Bei Kun’s cronies and sighed, "Help me remember these people. I’ll have someone teach them how to get along with their classmates."

Although the Luo Lan Manor had its problems now, it was still one of the five major manors of the Daxia Kingdom. The strength left in the old residence wasn’t weak, and at least some Phase Masters were available.

The surrounding students were stunned by this, and Bei Kun’s cronies were also dumbfounded.

Brother, do you have to go this far? This is just kids playing in the academy, and you’re going to get people to beat us up at home?

That’s not logical.

They looked at each other, then took a few steps back, and their loud mouths stopped, because they knew Li Luo had the ability to do it.

Although he was a void phase, he was still the young master of the Luo Lan Manor, and sending some Phase Masters to beat them up was quite easy.

Bei Kun was also stunned, then cursed, "Li Luo, aren’t you ashamed to use such tactics?"

Li Luo frowned, "If you’re not convinced, ask your Bei family’s experts to come and beat me."

Bei Kun opened his mouth but found he couldn’t respond. Although the Luo Lan Manor was in trouble, a dead camel is still bigger than a horse. Before it truly collapsed, the Bei family only dared to secretly bite a few times. As for him bringing the Bei family’s experts, not only was it uncertain whether he could do it, but even if he could, would they dare to really do anything to Li Luo? The consequences would be too severe for him to bear.

Thus, he was momentarily at a loss, a bit disoriented.

...

At the very top of the Phase Power Tree, there was a tree house. At this moment, several figures in front of the tree house were also watching the argument among the students below.

"Hehe, this little guy from the Luo Lan Manor is quite interesting," said an old man with a black and white coat and gray hair.

The old man was the dean of the Nanfeng Academy, named Wei Sha, who was also well-known in the Tianshu Prefecture.

"The disputes among students, yet he has to rely on family strength to resolve them. This isn’t interesting at all. How could the two geniuses of the Luo Lan Manor have such a despicable son?" a voice said from the side.

It was a slender man who gave off a refined and gentle impression, but his brows revealed a hint of arrogance.

This man was Lin Feng, the current mentor of the First Academy of the Nanfeng Academy.

It was he who had strongly advocated for Li Luo to be expelled from the First Academy and demoted to the Second Academy.

"Dean Lin, you’re being too harsh. Bei Kun clearly knew Li Luo was a void phase and still went to provoke him. Isn’t that even worse?" Xu Shanyue immediately rebutted.

Lin Feng said indifferently, "Disputes among students are beneficial for their mutual competition and improvement."

However, he clearly didn’t want to argue with Xu Shanyue on this topic and turned his gaze to the old man beside him, "Dean, what do you think of the proposal I mentioned earlier?"

Dean Wei blinked, "Which proposal?"

Lin Feng, seeing this, felt a bit helpless and said, "The academy’s major exam is approaching, and our First Academy’s golden leaves are not enough. I want the dean to allocate five more golden leaves to our First Academy."

"I disagree!"

The one who spoke was Xu Shanyue, who glared at Lin Feng. Currently, apart from the First Academy, only the Second Academy had ten golden leaves left on the Phase Power Tree. If Lin Feng wanted to allocate five more, where else could they come from? From the Second Academy, of course!

This guy is really pushing it.