Battle Through the Heavens: Beauties Abound Starting with Yunlan and Her Disciples

130: Section 130The absurdity of this rumor was almost on par with the legend that ”Jia Nan Academy was built on a mass grave of an ancient battlefield”—however, considering that Jia Nan Academy was built upon the chaotic Black-Corner Region and had killed many people to establish its authority, perhaps the latter rumor actually held some credibility.

”No matter what the rumors say, the true face of this mysterious person is about to be completely revealed!” A youth clenched his fist, his face flushed with excitement.

”He must be a peerless handsome guy! Think about it, aren’t The Three Xiao Sisters all one-in-a-million beauties? To be loved by all of them at once...”

”...his looks definitely can’t be bad! I bet he’s a distinguished guest from the Central Plains; his aura must be extremely noble!”

”I don’t think he’s from the Central Plains. The version I heard is that he’s also from our Northwest Continent, just from a Hidden Sect we’ve never heard of!”

On the Fighting Qi Continent, whether so-called poor students or top students, they don’t need to spend too much time on books. Cultivation is the number one priority above all else. All knowledge, whether Alchemistry, Artifact Crafting, or Formations, exists to support cultivation.

Therefore, they have plenty of time for cultivation and... gossip. Various rumors floated around.

For a time, various rumors quickly spread to every corner of the Outer Academy, and finally, they reached the ears of a grim-faced youth in white. ”He... is finally here.”

Bai Shan sat on a stone bench in the training area, subconsciously stroking his chest. That hideous scar still throbbed with a faint pain on rainy days, even after all this time.

”Those two bitches.”

He still clearly remembered the feeling of those two cold blades piercing his heart, the fear of his life force rapidly draining away, and the cold, disdainful expressions on those two Young ladies’ faces. If it weren’t for the high medical skills and dedication of the Jia Nan Academy’s healers, he would have died then.

”Xun’er, Xiao Mei, Xiao...”

He, Bai Shan, was once the most dazzling presence among the academy’s new generation. But because of that reckless pursuit, he lost all face, his reputation plummeted, and he became the laughingstock of the entire Outer Academy. He couldn’t swallow this resentment!

”Damn it!” Bai Shan punched the stone table, and the hard stone table was instantly covered with spiderweb-like cracks. He stood up angrily, his eyes burning with flames of jealousy and malice.

He had to take revenge. Revenge through force wouldn’t work; he couldn’t beat them.

But in the academy, there was another way of revenge besides force.

266 Instructor Ruo Lin’s Private Lesson

On the other side, in the academy’s archives, Hu Jia knitted her beautiful brows. This was the first time she had seen information about Yun Xiancheng other than his name. For some reason, a trace of inexplicable irritation rose in her heart.

She carefully archived the files of Yun Xiancheng and the others, then looked up and muttered in a voice only she could hear: ”Yun Xiancheng... Young Sect Leader of Cloud Mist Sect... An immortal descended to earth? Who made that up for him?...”

”Those three girls from the Xiao Family have been like they’ve lost their souls these past few days, nowhere to be seen all day. One doesn’t even need to think to know they must be accompanying their precious Husband.”

This caused Hu Jia, who was used to being lively, to feel somewhat empty and bored these past few days. ”Really, a typical case of getting a man and forgetting your friends!”

So, with nothing better to do, she used her connection as the Vice Dean’s granddaughter to conveniently collect all the public information about Yun Xiancheng.

She looked at the brief and sparse descriptions of his deeds on the file, but her mind involuntarily sketched a vague figure—it should be a youth in white, with an elegant temperament, detached from the mortal world, like a Banished Immortal.

”Hmm... if it’s someone like that, he would barely be worthy of Xun’er and the others...” The young lady propped up her chin, thinking to herself.

”But, would an immortal really take so many wives at once? It feels so strange! Is this really a Banished Immortal?” The young lady’s mind was filled with all sorts of strange questions.

She suddenly chuckled and shook her head. ”Forget it, why think so much.”

”Anyway, he’ll be my classmate soon. When that time comes, won’t there be plenty of opportunities to get to know him comprehensively, deeply, and properly?”

At the thought of this, Hu Jia’s mood inexplicably improved.

The Young ladies and young men in the academy were either excited, jealous, or curious because of various hearsay.

But for Yun Xiancheng, who was at the center of the rumors, these were just passing clouds, unrelated to him, and he didn’t care at all.

With Instructor Ruo Lin’s help, the enrollment archives were quickly handled. Then, surrounded by a group of charming Young ladies, he followed Instructor Ruo Lin and walked slowly toward the teaching area where Class Two was located.

In his stereotypical impression, the word ”classroom” should correspond to a low, crowded room of only a few dozen square meters, with dozens of sets of old tables and chairs.

He once had twelve years of life trapped in such a cramped space, living a day-after-day, dull and tedious life of studying. ”Alright, children, we’ve arrived.”

Instructor Ruo Lin’s gentle voice pulled him back from his memories. She led everyone across layer after layer of wide white jade steps to a...

...huge platform with a very high elevation and an open view.

The area of this platform was so vast it could almost match the entire campus of a university from his past life.

Different functional areas were divided on the platform. Near the steps was a semi-circular building similar to an ancient Roman open-air theater, with tiers of stone seats surrounding a central podium; that should be where general education classes were usually held.

Besides that, further away were several huge Training Grounds paved with cyan steel stone, with traces of sword and saber slashes still remaining on them.

Yun Xiancheng even saw that the edge of this huge platform was directly connected to a vast forest. Faint roars of Magic Beasts came from the forest...

...presumably, some one-star to two-star Magic Beasts were kept there specifically for students to gain practical combat experience.

Yun Xiancheng was also somewhat amazed looking at such a unique and grand design. He couldn’t help but compare it with the memories of his past life, and he smiled inwardly. ”After all, I was too stuck in my ways. Although Jia Nan Academy is called an academy, it is ultimately an academy in a fantasy world, naturally...”

”...completely different from the concrete jungle of that world in my memory.”

However, the platform was empty at the moment, with no people in sight.

Ruo Lin seemed to see Yun Xiancheng’s question. She turned her head and explained patiently: ”Our Outer Academy’s courses are basically over by the last two years. For the remaining time, students mainly focus on free activities. They can choose to go to the Cultivation Tower for secluded cultivation, or go to the Trial Forest to hunt Magic Beasts, or take on academy missions to earn credits.”

She paused, her gaze sweeping over Yun Xiancheng and the Young ladies behind him, and said with a sense of responsibility as a teacher...

”However, your situation is quite special, especially you, Xiancheng, who missed more than two years of classes. Therefore, I need to prepare some private lessons and tutoring for you to make up for the basic theoretical knowledge you missed. Do you... have any objections?”

Yun Xiancheng bowed slightly and cupped his hands: ”The teacher has gone to great trouble; naturally, I have no objections. I also want to thank the teacher for her meticulous guidance.”

The Young ladies behind him also nodded one after another, indicating they had no objections. Are you kidding? To have an opportunity to be alone with their Husband, they were more than happy...

...how could they have any objections?

Among them, of course, were the three official students of the Xiao Family: Xun’er, Xiao Yu, and Xiao Mei.

Ruo Lin’s gaze fell on the three of them, and she asked with a bit of a headache: ”Xun’er, Yu’er, Mei’er, the three of you... logically, you’ve finished all the basic courses and don’t need to participate in this makeup class.”

Before she could finish, Xiao Xun’er took a step forward, grabbed Yun Xiancheng’s arm, looked up with her small face, and said in a serious yet slightly playful tone:

”Teacher, what do you mean by this? Are you trying to use the excuse of makeup classes to break up us lovebirds?” Ruo Lin looked at her righteous appearance and felt a sense of powerlessness in her heart.

Break up lovebirds? I’d like to! If you were just ordinary students in puppy love, I’d guarantee I’d discipline you until you were obedient and focused on your studies. But the problem is... you are real, legitimate Husband and wife who have already entered the bridal chamber! How can I manage this? I can’t manage it at all!

Although she was complaining wildly in her heart, Ruo Lin still maintained that gentle and appropriate smile of a teacher on her face: ”How could I? Since you want to stay and accompany your Husband, of course, I won’t object. However, in the academy, you still need to be mindful of propriety.”

”Understood, teacher!”

Xun’er immediately nodded sweetly. After getting permission, as if declaring her sovereignty, she hugged Yun Xiancheng’s left hand even more tightly, for fear of being snatched away by the other sisters watching from the side.

Unfortunately, she was still a step too late. The Young ladies had already tacitly surrounded Yun Xiancheng in the center. Xiao Yi Xian, Yun Yan, Xiao Yu, Xiao Mei...

...one by one, they all pressed close to him. At this moment, Xun’er actually became a latecomer.

Ruo Lin looked at the scene of blooming flowers and surging undercurrents before her, feeling a few black lines uncontrollably sliding down her forehead.

Just then, Yun Xiancheng, who was surrounded in the center, still had that calm and composed appearance. He just lightly coughed once, without any emotion.

The sound wasn’t loud, yet it seemed to carry some kind of strange magic.

The Young ladies who had been clinging to him like vines just a moment ago instantly let go like startled rabbits. They each took half a step back with adorable obedience, standing to the side with their hands folded, putting on the prim and proper air of Model students ready to listen.

Watching this almost magical transformation, the black lines on Instructor Ruo Lin’s forehead finally faded a bit. However, she couldn’t help but sigh inwardly; the three cold and aloof Xiao sisters from her memory were truly gone forever.

Oh well... perhaps a girl only reveals such an unknown, soft, and clingy side in front of the person they truly care about—the one who allows them to shed all their armor and defenses.

267 The Young ladies find class so boring

Instructor Ruo Lin had undoubtedly poured twelve-tenths of her heart and soul into this unique ”remedial class.” She wasn’t just going through the motions; she truly viewed it as an incredibly important task.

After providing a detailed introduction to the various facilities, regulations, and some unwritten anecdotes of the Class Two teaching platform, she took a deep breath. She then led the large group of beautiful women into the open-air classroom, which was shaped like an ancient Roman theater.

The sunlight was warm and gentle, and a breeze brushed across the platform, carrying the faint fragrance of grass and soil.

Tiers of stone seats surrounded the central podium, offering a wide view without any of the cramped feeling of a typical classroom.

Yun Xiancheng maintained a near-instinctive, heartfelt seriousness and respect for any scene related to ”teaching and imparting knowledge.” Without the slightest negligence, he chose a seat in the very center, closest to the podium.

He straightened his back and slightly lifted his peerlessly handsome face. His eyes, clear as stars, focused intently on Ruo Lin standing before him.

That focus and earnestness made him look like an ordinary student hungry for knowledge, rather than a Dou Master expert whose strength had long surpassed that of an instructor. When Ruo Lin met his clear eyes, the various chaotic thoughts originally occupying her mind—nervousness, apprehension, a bit of awkwardness, and the unease of facing a power-

-house—were instantly smoothed over by an invisible force, melting away without a trace like spring breeze turning into rain.

Looking at Yun Xiancheng’s face, which had lost all its youthfulness and become heart-stoppingly handsome, her thoughts involuntarily drifted back to three years ago—back to Wutan City, where her fate had changed, and to the day they first met.

Back then, she was just a most ordinary instructor in the Jia Nan Academy Outer Court, earning a meager salary, teaching a group of average-talented students, remaining obscure in the vast and strictly hierarchical academy with a bleak future.

Back then, his body hadn’t fully filled out, and his handsome face still held a hint of youthful innocence.

But that youth, whose brow naturally carried an air of elegance and nobility, had captured her entire attention with just one look.

She had never seen a youth with such an ethereal temperament, as if he didn’t belong to the mortal world but was a wisp of cloud from the horizon that had wandered into this noisy human realm. And that recruitment at the Xiao Family had indeed and thoroughly changed her fate.

Because of the enrollment and talent shown by The Three Xiao Sisters, her status at Jia Nan Academy rose significantly. She jumped from being an ignored ordinary instructor to an outstanding one ranked among the best in the entire Outer Court.

She gained better resources and more respect. The source of it all was inextricably linked to the young man before her and the Young ladies by his side.

”Teacher?” Yun Xiancheng’s voice was as warm as jade, waking her from her distant memories.

His clear gaze met her eyes with a touch of pure inquiry, as if asking: ”Can we begin?”

Being reminded by her own student not to daze off during class, two charming blushes instantly flew onto Ruo Lin’s cheeks, and even the tips of her ears felt hot.

She awkwardly looked away, covering her mouth with her small hand and coughing twice, trying to hide her loss of composure. ”Ahem. That... well, we’ll start the class now.”

She cleared her throat and tried to make her voice sound more authoritative. ”Today, we will discuss the first lesson for every freshman at Jia Nan Academy, and a foundation that all practitioners must understand—the origin of Fighting Qi and the Cultivation system.”

General knowledge courses like this were actually long familiar to Yun Xiancheng.

Back at the Cloud Mist Sect, his master and wife, Yun Yun, had already systematically taught him these basics of basics.

Coupled with the fact that during his first few days of enrollment, he had used his extraordinary divine sense and memory to browse through almost all relevant ancient texts in the Outer Academy’s Library Pavilion, his current knowledge far exceeded the total curriculum of an ordinary Jia Nan Academy student for over a year.

Yet he still maintained a solemn expression and an upright posture, listening seriously to Ruo Lin’s voice, which was as gentle as a mountain spring, without showing the slightest impatience or disdain.

However, while he could remain calm, the Young ladies behind him could not. ”Haaa...”

A small, cute yawn sounded. Little Lioness Yun Yan, being the transformation of an Amethyst Winged Lion, had worked hard to learn some human script under Yun Xiancheng’s supervision, but she was essentially a magical beast who preferred using muscles over her brain.

Once involved in this kind of complex combination of script and theory that required brainwork, her eyelids began to fight uncontrollably.

Before long, her fuzzy little head started nodding like a chicken pecking rice. Eventually, she simply leaned over and rested her head on Yun Xiancheng’s lap, letting out even and adorable breaths.

”Ugh... history... so boring.” Xiao Yi Xian propped up her snow-white chin with one hand while lazily twirling a jade-green pen with the other. Her attention wasn’t on Ruo Lin on the podium at all; such pure theoretical knowledge was entirely unnecessary for her to learn.

Whether as a Poison Master or as a special existence possessing the Calamity Poison Body, power and practice were all she pursued. The rules and regulations in books were as bland as chewing wax to her.

”This course is way too boring. I’d rather go back and study some newly discovered poisonous grass,” she thought listlessly, her gaze unconsciously drifting to Yun Xiancheng’s profile.

Looking at his perfect, chiseled jawline and his long eyelashes trembling slightly as he listened intently, the young lady’s heart skipped a beat for no reason, and a faint, gentle smile unconsciously curved her lips.

”Though, watching my Husband quietly like this isn’t too boring. I can never get enough of how he looks when he’s serious...” Unlike them, Xiao Yan didn’t daze off or lose focus much. She hadn’t had much contact with this kind of systematic theoretical education.

Now, under Ruo Lin’s simple and clear explanation, she was actually listening with great interest, even taking out a pen and paper to seriously record some points she considered important.

”So the division of Fighting Qi levels has such origins... Hmm, I need to note this down.” She muttered softly while listening, looking every bit like a Model student.

As for Nalan Yanran, the former Young Sect Master of Yunlan Sect, she sat upright like a proud white swan trying to maintain a dignified posture. Because her seat was right next to Yun Xiancheng and very close to Instructor Ruo Lin on the podium, those bright eyes would sweep over from time to time.

This made the proud young lady feel too embarrassed to openly slack off, so she had to force herself to stay alert and try to look like she was listening seriously. ”The Fighting Qi Continent, since ancient times... Natural energy was abundant...” Ruo Lin’s voice, soft and pleasant, echoed in the empty open-air classroom.

Nalan Yanran tried her best to listen, but the content of these basic general knowledge classes was extremely boring to her, who had once received systematic sect education.

Her eyelids grew heavier, and her consciousness began to blur. Before long, the proud young lady’s head could no longer hold itself up; it tilted slightly and naturally leaned onto Yun Xiancheng’s broad and solid shoulder.

”Hmm?” Ruo Lin saw this scene halfway through her lecture, and her voice couldn’t help but pause.

Nalan Yanran also immediately noticed the instructor’s gaze. She jolted awake, sat up straight instantly, and then pretended to nonchalantly tidy her hair, staring back at Ruo Lin on the podium.

Her gaze seemed to say: ”I wasn’t sleeping! I was just contemplating the profound questions you were explaining, Instructor!”

Ruo Lin took a deep breath and decided to temporarily put the performance of this ”problem student,” Nalan Yanran, out of her mind.

Her gaze returned to Yun Xiancheng. Seeing him still looking so serious and focused, she suddenly felt much more comfortable.

”Now this is what a good student should look like! Look at Xiancheng, then look at yourselves! Every single one of you!” An appreciative smile unconsciously touched the corners of Ruo Lin’s eyes.

She simply stopped trying to control the other girls’ little actions. Her mind relaxed, and she focused all her thoughts and attention entirely on Yun Xiancheng alone.

This remedial class quietly turned into a one-on-one private lecture belonging only to the two of them.

268 Don’t disturb me teaching Chenger