After speaking with the headmaster, Elder Bai came back and gave Qianli the approbation to seek outside a small house to live in for the first year.
Since Qianli didn't know what to do with her free time, she went back to the central hall and converted some of her gold to spiritual stones, since she needed them to buy a house and some clothes inside the city.
Then after that, she bid farewell to the Elder and her two comrades, and she headed to the city to began searching for a house.
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At the headmaster's office....
Two people were currently chatting, one of them was a 50 year's old, the other was Tang Shu.
" T-The G-Grand Elder is coming down?! Why?? "
" I don't really know headmaster, my master told me to give you this "
Tang Shu responded
The 50 years old man was the headmaster of the Academy. He was the late headmaster's disciple, so he took this post ten years ago under his recommendation.
He once met the Grand Elder while following his master 20 years ago, at that time there was someone strong in the sect who practiced some black evil arts. Since no one was a match against him, the Grand Elder descended from his secluded training, chased after him and killed him. But the nightmare did not end....
He destroyed his body and burned down the building where he was living, then suppressed all records of this event inside the academy.
Apart from that, the Grand Elder's name was a notorious name itself. Even he the headmaster must show the proper manner in front of this character unless it was someone like the ancestor, or the patriarch himself. No one can order him around; not even the four Supreme Elders! No one knows how long he lived, but there are records of his presence before the sect was degraded to become an Academy!
This incident, 20 years ago, was the reason why the new headmaster was afraid. The current Academy was stable, was there someone again who touched the taboo?
He took the parchment from Tang Shu and began reading it while his hands were trembling.
After a while his breathing became stable and he sighed.
" Ah... It's for this.... "
Apparently, he was only going to come down to recruit new disciples.
Long ago when his late master was still alive, he gave the Grand Elder a position inside the Academy: Management Elder responsible of the Discipline Department, he only responded to the headmaster and no one was above him.
That was to give an explanation to people who this grand character was and to avoid suspicion if they saw him doing something scary like that incident 20 years ago.
The Grand Elder was the head of the law Enforcing when the academy was considered a sect, now he is the management elder of the discipline hall.
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" Well at least, as long as there is no black art practitioner, we are sa... "
While he was watching the outside of his window, he noticed dark clouds forming above the city of Orlen.
" D-Don't T-Tell Me... I-it's T-THE H-Heavenly tribulation!!! "
A golden thunder coming from dark clouds above the sky, the location was somewhere inside the city!
The heavenly tribulation is a series of thunder coming down from heaven to punish cultivators who practiced black evil arts and broke through a realm, the more the soul is corrupted by the black arts, the more thunder descended from the sky, and each one more powerful than the last one.
The headmaster fainted
Tang Shu caught the old man falling and murmured to himself
" It seems Master will be descending sooner ... "
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At the peak of the mountain
The Elder who was sitting down cultivating opened his eyes and stood up.
He watched how the golden thunder came down from the black clouds above the city. He narrowed his eyes.
Is it a normal thunder or ... Heavenly tribulation... the probability is low it must have been a coincidence unless the black art practitioner is still weak and just have triggered one thunder... I have to make sure!
He then shouted
" Liu Fei! "
A young man descended
" Yes, Master! "
" Take this bead that I refined from the dream world portal, go to the old building and destroy the remnant soul of that traitor. I'm going down right now to the city! "
The young man Liu Fei frowned when he caught the black bead, then he bowed and disappeared.
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Qianli bought a house at the border of the city, she set up formations outsides. Then entered and started cultivating.
" I didn't inspect my body yet, from what senior brother Pang Yu said, I should be half step before the spiritual realm..."
She sat down and began to circulate her Qi inside her body. The Qi began to accelerate...
" 5th rank... 6th rank... 7th rank... "
The Qi's acceleration inside her meridians didn't stop. A black aura surged from her body without her knowing.
" 8th rank ... 9th rank! "
The Qi then suddenly decelerated until it stopped moving.
" It seems that I'm really near the spiritual realm.... "
She opened her eyes, then saw that her room where she was sitting began to corrode.
" Huh? "
Suddenly, a thundering noise came from the roof.
Boom!
" Heaven's tribulation?! "
Since she never practiced black arts from before and it was a taboo inside the Heaven's, she didn't really know what happened, but she could guess that it was not a normal thunder under this timing.
Fortunately, the formation barrier she learned and set up earlier was strong enough to repel a peak spiritual realm cultivator, much less the Thunder who's strength was barely of the first rank, and so it didn't destroy the house.
" Dark miasma! " Qianli cried out
She noticed that the dark aura that was corroding the inside of the house was coming from her, so she closed her eyes and tried to control it.
After a minute, she managed to take back the dark aura. Her strength also broke through the spiritual realm first level!
Just as she was about to open her eyes, a book surged out from her memories.
" Heaven's attribute: Darkness "
The book opened, the words coming from the first page entered her mind.
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At the outside of the house, people didn't care about the thunder descending from the sky, at most it gave them a fright.
A part from the grand elder, the headmaster, Tang Shu, no one was able to discern what did the Thunder earlier mean.
However...
" Mommy! Where did this thunder come from?! "
" It was a clear sky not long ago, will it rain? "
" Damn I nearly got smitten by it, on which house did it land? "
The passersby near Qianli's house were scared when the thunder came down, they were curious where it landed, none of the house seemed touched, and they didn't bother staying there to find out.
Only one of them clearly saw where it landed
The poor man rubbed both his eyes
" I'm sure it landed on top of that house! Why isn't it destroyed???! "
The poor man could only frown
" Was it my imagination? Fu*k yesterday the demoness nearly destroyed my store again, and now the heavens are smiting right in front of me? What the fu*k did I do to deserve this ... "
The poor man was the waiter working inside Old Bu's store, It was the late evening so the restaurant closed and sorted out the trash and then went home when he witnessed the thunder coming down in front of the house where he was living.
" Father, Mother... I shouldn't have left our home... " He cried out from the inside of his heart.