Chapter 14 - Meeting Shen Molian

Following the directions in the jade tile, Lin Haoxue found the freshmen dormitory. There were two multi-story buildings, one for girls and one for boys. Lin Haoxue headed to the girls' dormitory on the right.

It was a ma.s.sive building with many rooms. Each room was able to house four people, and it was obvious that there were a lot of new students this year as she had checked more than a few rooms yet they were all full.

After a while, she finally found an empty room and walked in without thinking about anything else.

However, all the students from the other rooms had weird expressions while they watched Lin Haoxue walking into the room. They all looked at her with faces full of sympathy.

"She really has guts! She dared to go into that room?"

"What guts are you talking about? She looks new so she probably doesn't know anything."

"Aye, I'm curious, how will that devil deal with her?"

"Whatever, we'd better not talk about it. Let's just take care of ourselves," a girl in a red skirt said. While she was talking, her complexion changed as if she was reminded of something horrifying.

Lin Haoxue entered the room and put up all the things she had brought with her. After settling in, she took a good look around the room. From the looks of it, there was another person living in this room since there was some stuff on the bed across from hers.

This area for freshmen was the worst place in the entire academy since there wasn't a Spirit Gathering Incantation array to a.s.sist one while cultivating. When students cultivated here, the density of the profound power was far less than in other areas.

However, this was still part of the academy, so even if there were no Spirit Gathering Incantation arrays, the density of profound power here was higher than outside by at least double.

She didn't start to cultivate immediately but thought about what lay ahead on her road of cultivation.

In three years, she had to beat He Lingyuan who was at the Profound Spirit realm.

Time was very tight for her since she had to break through the Profound Pract.i.tioner realm in a month and become a genuine Profound Master. Only if she did this would she get enough cultivation resources for her needs.

Only when one had cultivation resources could they rapidly increase their cultivation speed and strength. Now Lin Haoxue finally understood the phenomenon that stronger cultivators only got stronger while it was vastly more difficult for weaker cultivators to increase their strength. There was either a positive feedback loop or a vicious cycle when cultivating. Once in a while, there would be someone who could break this cycle - it was usually either a genius or an idiot.

Now, she realized that having such profound veins wasn't always the best thing. The reason being that every time she increased her realm, it would take her eight times more effort to reach the next one. Was this good luck or just a disaster? Thinking about this, Lin Haoxue could only smile wryly.

Whatever, let's cultivate first. Now her top priority was to break through to the Profound Master realm. Lin Haoxue immediately got rid of her useless thoughts and started cultivating.

When she cultivated this time, she found out that except for her light elemental ring, all the other Qi rings in her dantian had a very stable foundation as they were looking very distinct, almost solid. This was a sign that she was close to breaking through to another level. So she stopped thinking about other things and started absorbing the elemental profound power in the air around her.

All of the elemental profound power in the air was quite dense, and Lin Haoxue surprisingly found out that she could absorb different elemental profound powers at the same time.

This meant that she didn't need extra time to upgrade her elemental realms separately. It turned out that cultivating could be so easy!

She was happy in her mind, but it was probably for the best that n.o.body knew what she was thinking. If this was heard by those who had double or more elemental profound veins, they would probably spit out blood from depression. Who dared to say cultivating was easy!

When she discovered this new method of cultivating, she felt that it was half the work for twice the results. Therefore, she was happy and relaxed so she kept on cultivating until her profound power congealed into a more solid substance. In one stroke, she broke past her current Middle-stage Profound Pract.i.tioner realm level.

However, when she finished cultivating, she opened her eyes only to be taken over by shock.

There was a person standing in front of her.

It wasn't that the person in front of her looked terrible, on the contrary, she was a beauty with a stunning body and delicate facial features. Furthermore, her black skirt and clothing made her look even more outstanding.

It was just that the expression on her face was too serious. A baleful look could be seen from the beautiful girl's eyes. Lin Haoxue couldn't understand what kind of things she must have experienced to give her such aura.

"Are you sure you want to live in the same place as me?" This was the first sentence that the girl in black said after Lin Haoxue stopped cultivating.

"What's the problem?" Lin Haoxue found her baffling.

"You want to be my roommate? It depends on whether or not you're qualified." After saying this, the girl summoned her black profound power with carried with it a baleful aura as it shot towards Lin Haoxue. This profound power was shocking since it seemed to be able to stifle any ordinary cultivator. One could tell that the girl didn't intend to go easy on Lin Haoxue.

"What is wrong with you?!" Seeing that girl was being so harsh to her, Lin Haoxue turned furious. Therefore, she raised her fist and punched out. A glaring bright light lit up the entire room as she immediately used her strongest light elemental profound power to fight back.

The two energies fiercely collided with each other but didn't destroy anything around them. Seconds later, the two energies faded away at the same time, and unexpectedly, the two girls were evenly matched.

With that simple strike, both of them had seen the other's fear and surprise from their expression. Their talent was heaven-defying compared to students their same age and because they had perfectly matched each other, this gave them a feeling of mutual admiration.

"It seems you're qualified to live here after all," the girl in the black skirt looked at Lin Haoxue and spoke simply. Then she went to her bed and crossed her legs, seemingly about to cultivate.

Glancing at this girl, Lin Haoxue realized she didn't want to argue with her so she stood up and headed towards the door. She had cultivated for two whole days so she needed some food to replenish her energy.

"Oh wait, my name is Shen Molian. What's yours?" Just when Lin Haoxue got to the door, the girl in the black clothes opened her eyes and spoke.

"Lin Haoxue."

"Good. Recently I obtained a nice mission. I can't do it on my own so let's form a team and complete it together," Shen Molian stated.

"Why me?"

"Because you're the only one qualified to form a team with me. The others' strength and potential are just too garbage."

"And why do you think I'll accept it?"

"Because there's been a trace of a Yin Yang Double Gateway," Shen Molian looked indifferently at Lin Haoxue. "So I don't think you'll turn me down."

"Yin Yang Double Gateway? For real?"

A Yin Yang Double Gateway was an amazing treasure of the heavens and earth. In the entire continent, it was one of the top three treasures. A Yin Yang Double Gateway could increase a Profound Pract.i.tioner's rate of cultivation by a wide margin and its enhancement was permanent.

"The source of the information is reliable."

"If the source is really reliable, I'll do it." Lin Haoxue left the room after speaking.

Looking at her back, Shen Molian's expression was gloomy, "It's very difficult to find someone who has such strength and potential. I hope that your personality will satisfy me; hopefully, you are someone worth making friends with."

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*陰陽雙闕 - Yin Yang Double Gateway, we will use this term for now, not entirely sure about the translation of this term. Might change it if we find something better.