Early the next morning, Yun Fei massaged her slightly sore limbs and climbed out of bed.
She couldn’t remember exactly when she had returned.
All she knew was that with her inferior strength, she hadn’t been able to escape Mu Lingxi’s clutches. Those punches had been heavy—definitely not just because of those four words.
There was clearly some personal grudge involved, along with some rather “justifiable” reasons.
“Those people who died were clearly your own! I was kindly worrying about their wrongful deaths, yet you acted so heartless. Do you think I couldn’t tell? You were using their deaths to threaten me, knowing I couldn’t ignore such things, just to get leverage over me! Having a master like you… I truly feel bad for them!”
The pain of those punches striking flesh still replayed in Yun Fei’s mind from time to time.
Recalling Mu Lingxi’s words while she was being pummeled, Yun Fei remained silent for a moment before shaking her head with a bitter smile.
“This Saintess’s charisma is truly startling. For a moment, even I felt sentimental over their deaths… I’m not the type to care for the world and save all living beings like she is.”
Yun Fei had truly experienced this point.
Spending too much time with the Saintess meant being tainted by her temperament, which was certainly not a good thing!
But the Academy’s rules were what they were.
Since they were living under the same roof, contact was unavoidable.
“I’ll just have to rely on my iron willpower!”
“Ouch! Ow, ow, ow!”
She seemed to have moved too suddenly, pulling on some of the red and swollen areas—especially her chest.
Yun Fei couldn’t understand why Mu Lingxi had specifically targeted that area.
If she hadn’t been agile enough to dodge some of the blows, her chest probably would have been flattened by now.
Fortunately, Mu Lingxi hadn’t intended to hit her face.
Because of this, she looked no different on the surface.
Yun Fei held the Magic Mirror in her hand, using it to carefully observe any marks on her face.
“Mu Lingxi is quite sensible; she finally understands the principle of not hitting the face.”
“Oh ho ho~ Young Lord, in my opinion, it’s not that she understood any principle. Look closer at your exquisite face—it’s absolutely a masterpiece of the human world! How could she bear to strike it?”
“…”
“Shut up, Magic Mirror! This isn’t your place to talk!”
This Magic Mirror was asking for it.
It knew she still had feelings for her male self, yet it continued to bounce around in front of her, belittling her male form as worthless.
Was her male face not handsome?
Did it deserve to be punched?
Yun Fei placed a temporary Silence Spell on the Magic Mirror, making it unable to produce another sound.
After stretching her limbs and seeing there were no more issues, she opened the door and stepped out of the room.
Speaking of the door, the Academy had moved quite fast.
In the time it took for her to get beaten half to death outside last night, the door had already been installed, and the roof of the Alchemy Room had been replaced.
It was another beautiful day.
Upon stepping out, Yun Fei saw Mu Lingxi still practicing her swordplay under the locust tree.
However, upon seeing that lethal strike and determined gaze, Yun Fei’s body involuntarily trembled.
Yun Fei was startled.
She hadn’t felt anything yet, but her body had reacted first?
Had she been beaten so badly that her body was developing muscle memory?
Scary! Truly terrifying!
Yun Fei still chose not to look at Mu Lingxi, turning instead toward the courtyard gate.
She had been here for a day and hadn’t explored yet.
The Academy was so large; shouldn’t she take the chance to wander around before her studies weighed her down?
With an expectant heart, Yun Fei opened the gate, only to be struck in the head by a hand about to knock.
“Ouch! Who is it?”
It didn’t actually hurt, but it didn’t stop her from being startled.
“Eh? Ah, I’m sorry! Junior, I’m so sorry! I didn’t expect you to open the door right when I was about to knock!”
And she wasn’t very tall either—the woman knocking didn’t say the last part out loud, showing she was quite polite.
“Forget it, this… I am a magnanimous person and won’t pursue it… By the way, who are you?”
Yun Fei looked up at the exceptionally tall woman in front of her, feeling a bit annoyed in her heart.
If only transforming didn’t affect her height.
That way, just standing next to Mu Lingxi would be incredibly oppressive.
That would be a real thrill!
Unfortunately, it was just a fantasy.
Currently, she and Mu Lingxi were both around the standard height for girls at 1.65 meters, giving her almost no advantage in that department.
“I’m the Senior sister here to deliver the Freshman Box. Something happened at the Processing Department this year, so the boxes were delayed for a bit. Here, this is yours, and the other one is for Mu Lingxi.”
This Senior sister handed over two boxes, shoving them into Yun Fei’s arms before hurriedly running off to the next house.
“Freshman Box? What’s that?”
Yun Fei curiously weighed the boxes in her hands; they weren’t very heavy.
“What is this?”
At some point, Mu Lingxi had stopped her sword practice and was walking toward Yun Fei.
“Here! For you. They said it’s a Freshman Box. I don’t know what they stuffed inside, but it’s so light. How stingy…”
Yun Fei couldn’t help but smack her lips and mutter as she handed Mu Lingxi her designated box.
Mu Lingxi took the box, looking at Yun Fei’s series of smooth movements with a look of surprise.
“What are you doing? Why are you looking at me like that?”
Yun Fei instinctively protected her chest.
Last night’s pursuit had left her with unprecedented psychological trauma.
At the same time, the way Mu Lingxi was looking at her made her skin crawl, making her feel very uncomfortable.
“You… are you okay?”
Mu Lingxi looked Yun Fei up and down, the surprise in her eyes unconcealed.
“…Of course! This Young Lord has long since mastered the Invincible Vajra Body! My physique is very sturdy!”
Of course, that wasn’t the truth, as her screams while being beaten yesterday weren’t faked; it was just that her recovery speed was quite fast.
“That’s good… but speaking of which, Your Highness Yun Fei’s texture as a sandbag is quite good~”
Before leaving, Mu Lingxi didn’t forget to irritate Yun Fei.
A sandbag?
Hearing those words, a dull pain throbbed in Yun Fei’s chest.
Yun Fei clenched her fists, her face dark with frustration.
“One day, I will pay you back tenfold for everything you’ve done to me!”
Yun Fei cursed her internally and carried her box back into the house.
Next was the unboxing phase!
Though she didn’t expect the Academy to provide anything good…
She closed the door and locked it against Mu Lingxi; Yun Fei’s movements were seamless!
Placing the box on the table, she tore off the seal that had her name and avatar on a light-panel.
The box immediately deflated like it was losing air, revealing the contents inside.
“What? It’s just an Academy Uniform!”
Seeing the contents, Yun Fei’s burning excitement was instantly extinguished.
But then, she noticed something different.
“Eh? This clothing is actually a spiritual tool? Third-grade… that’s acceptable. Wait! This is… White Silk? Why is there White Silk here? Sister Bai clearly said she would only promote it in the Demon Realm for the time being… No, that was years ago.”
The “Sister Bai” Yun Fei spoke of was named Bai Yuetong.
She was a Primordial Powerhouse proficient in Space Magic and a very close friend of her Mother.
As for why Yun Fei also called her “Sister”…
Yun Fei just wanted to say it was an old lady pretending to be young, and she had been forced into it.
Through a stroke of luck, Bai Yuetong had discovered a coordinate point in the Mortal Realm.
That White Silk was something she had brought back from the Mortal Realm.
She even seemed to like the item very much, but Yun Fei didn’t understand it.
Weren’t they just long socks?
What was so special?
Although Yun Fei was curious, she ultimately didn’t care much.
Because Bai Yuetong said they were for girls to wear, she hadn’t paid much attention when she was a boy.
But according to the information she knew, this stuff was quite popular in the Demon Realm.
A large portion of men had even voiced similar sentiments.
Oh right! Recently, Bai Yuetong had brought back a different color from the Mortal Realm called Black Silk.
Overall, things from the Mortal Realm were very novel.
For the past few years, Sister Bai had been traveling back and forth between the Demon Realm and the Mortal Realm, bringing out many new things.
Yun Fei picked up the few pairs of White Silk pressed at the bottom of the box and sniffed them.
There was no strange smell, but rather an elegant, faint fragrance.
The texture was also very soft and comfortable to the touch.
Yun Fei rubbed them repeatedly in her hands, a spark of interest flickering in her eyes.
“Whoa! This White Silk is also a spiritual tool! This pattern… it’s the logo of Sister Bai’s Demon Capital Commerce Association! As expected… has it already expanded to the Profane Realm?”
After fiddling with them for who knows how long, Yun Fei put the White Silk down.
The rest wasn’t very surprising: a pure white one-piece long dress, a waistband with the Academy’s characteristic Twin Moon Pattern, and so on.
Fortunately, there were no short skirts or similar clothes.
She wouldn’t dare wear those; she felt inexplicably ashamed, and a long dress suited her better.
Besides that, there was a small rectangular box in the Freshman Box.
It had a slight energy fluctuation that caught Yun Fei’s attention.
“What kind of spiritual tool is this? I’ve never seen it?”
Yun Fei flipped it over to the back and found the logo of the Demon Capital Commerce Association there as well.
“Could it be another thing Sister Bai imitated from the Mortal Realm? Just what kind of weird and wonderful things does the Mortal Realm have?”
Not knowing its purpose for now, she knew that funneling Demonic Power into it wouldn’t be wrong.
To be precise, Demonic Power and Spiritual Power shared the same source and could be converted into each other.
Well… they could be converted through the rune on Yun Fei’s lower abdomen.
“Beep—Beep! This product is painstakingly crafted by the Demon Capital Commerce Association. The first-generation Yueyue Brand Smart Spirit Talisman is at your service! Currently, energy is insufficient. Please feed me a little bit of your Demonic Power or Spiritual Power so I can operate normally!”
“Smart Spirit Talisman? What on earth is that?”
Yun Fei was a bit dazed, but she followed the prompt and channeled a bit of pure Demonic Power into it without converting it to Spiritual Power.
Since it said it could take Demonic Power, why go through the trouble of converting?
Although the conversion could be done in an instant, she still found it bothersome.