Chapter 28：Meeting Lan Qingcheng Again

"Ji Mo, just listen to us. It's the truth. Although your ability is better now, the Hunting Competition isn't to be messed around with. If you participate, you're going to slow everyone down and affect the entire team's strength. I advise you to go back to your tribe and be a young master." Dong Hao snickered.

Leng Jianyun did not turn his head as he was not willing to give Ji Mo another look, but he also chuckled.

Lu Susu and Huo Lin'er had not spoken the entire time. Both of them had different thoughts about what they heard.

Lu Susu glanced at Ji Mo once again but he continued to ignore her. Then, she said to Dong Hao and the others, "Alright, the few of you should put on a good show. You don't need to care about these insignificant people. With your qualities, you'll definitely make it into Tianshan Sword Sect as inner disciples. Just ignore the clowns."

"Haha, Senior Sister Lu is right." Nangong Ye, Dong Hao, and Xia Jiaojiao nodded with a chuckle and looked at Ji Mo disparagingly. 

"Let's go." Lu Susu waved her hand and looked at Huo Lin'er again before turning around to leave in style.

Leng Jianyun, Nangong Ye, Dong Hao, and Xia Jiaojiao followed behind and threw somber glances at Ji Mo with a sense of threat before they left. 

Once they were out of sight, Huo Lin'er snorted coldly and turned around to look at Ji Mo. Just a moment ago, she was slightly worried that he would not be able to contain his anger and fight with Dong Hao and the others. If Ji Mo attacked them in the presence of Lu Susu and Leng Jianyun, he would not benefit from it and might be humiliated instead.

However, Huo Lin'er saw that he looked calm and collected. To her surprise, his black pupils were as distant as the night sky. No one could tell when it started, but she felt that Ji Mo's insight and aura had changed, and she could hardly understand it.

"Little Ji Mo, sorry for putting you in that situation," Huo Lin'er apologized.

Ji Mo shook his head and did not seem to be bothered. "There's no need to be calculative with them. Furthermore, I wouldn't have acted here, would I?" Upon saying that, he smiled and turned around. There was a murderous gleam in his eyes with a dark glow as a special kind of aura from the Celestial Devil that was about to erupt.

Huo Lin'er clearly felt the murderous instinct in Ji Mo's eyes. Despite being a Qi Plundering Boundary master, she shuddered. She viewed him differently and even had a delusion that the person standing in front of her was neither a simple outer disciple nor a 16- to 17-year-old teenager but a murderous battle-hardened demon.

It was difficult to imagine that Ji Mo, who looked like a weakling, would have an aura like this.

'Was that a hallucination?' Huo Lin'er thought curiously. She looked at Ji Mo again, but she felt that he had returned to normal. 

"Oh yeah, they were talking about Nan Hao's closed-door cultivation to break through the Qi Plundering Boundary. Has he broken through the ninth-tier tempered body? I remember he was still at the eighth-tier tempered body boundary the last time we met," Ji Mo frowned and asked Huo Lin'er. 

She replied, "I only got this news a few days ago. Apparently, an elder from the Tianshan Sword Sect took a liking to him. This elder has committed to guide him and take him as his true disciple. He even sent some spiritual medicine to help Nan Hao break through the Qi Plundering Boundary. As long as Nan Hao successfully reaches the Qi Plundering Boundary, he won't need an evaluation to be inducted into the sect and will even become a true disciple."

Huo Lin'er's words made him knit his eyebrows harder. He knew the difference between the inner disciples and the true disciples. Inner disciples were only Tianshan Sword Sect ordinary disciples while true disciples held a higher position compared to inner disciples. The majority of these people were disciples of the sect's priests or elders, and their position was much higher than the inner disciples. They also enjoyed much better treatment than the latter.

To discover that Nan Hao could actually skip the inner disciple level and directly become a true disciple, that was not good news for Ji Mo.

Ji Mo licked his lips and sneered in his heart, 'Nan Hao's qualities are truly not simple. He's based in Tianyuan Academy but is able to get the attention of an elder from the Tianshan Sword Sect and got chosen to be a true disciple. No wonder Du Jia has so much confidence in him, but no one can tell who will be ahead in the future.'

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Huo Lin'er and Ji Mo parted ways once they reached the entrance of Tianyuan Academy. Huo Lin'er stepped on a sword-light and left, attracting admiration from the many outer disciples outside the entrance of the academy who longed that they would become a Qi Plundering Boundary master one day and maneuver the sword as she had.

"Heh." Ji Mo laughed and turned around to leave. As he turned, he caught a glimpse of an alluring figure walking towards him.

It was a girl who wore a long aqua blue dress. She was attractive with fair skin and an exquisite figure which drew some attention. She walked straight up to him with hatred in her eyes.

"Eh, this girl looks familiar." Ji Mo was slightly stunned. When he came about, she was already in front of him.

"Long time no see." Looking at Ji Mo, the girl smiled deceptively.

"You are…?" Ji Mo felt that she looked familiar, but could not recall where he had met her. 

"Have you forgotten about me so quickly?" The girl smiled sultrily, but her gorgeous eyes contained a cunning flash. She raised her hand and pointed at Ji Mo's chest. "Okay, I'll remind you. More than ten days ago at Boyue Town, you sold me something. Do you recall?"

"Err…" The cogs of Ji Mo's mind spun. A familiar picture filled his mind, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead. Finally, he remembered who the person standing in front of him was. She was the girl he had met in Boyue Town.

Lan Qingcheng!

When Ji Mo was selling XX, it seemed like he had some association with the girl, but he had quickly forgotten about her. After all, it was not a particularly important incident. If Lan Qingcheng was not this pretty, Ji Mo would not have any impression of her at all. 

"Err...Miss, what a coincidence!"Ji Mo tittered. He had a plan to escape but was curious as to why Lan Qingcheng would show up there. Was she also a Tianyuan Academy disciple? Why had he not seen her before?

Lan Qingcheng looked at Ji Mo from head to toe. Her eyes twinkled, and with a slight purse on her lips, she said, "This is really surprising. You're actually a Tianyuan Academy disciple. So am I. It's just that I don't usually show up at the academy because my family is also a cultivation tribe. That's why I usually stay at home to cultivate and seldom leave the house unless the academy has an important event."

Hearing that, Ji Mo nodded nonchalantly. He was not that surprised because there were thousands of outer disciples at Tianyuan Academy, so he could not have known everyone.