Chapter 107 – Polaris Academy (1/2)

Chapter 107 – Polaris Academy

‘Three years… I wonder how much Cao Ning has grown. I heard he got into Senior One.’ Ye Wei walked out of the dining hall and slowly walked to the classrooms after he finished his meal.

Ye Wei smiled as he thought about Cao Ning’s clumsiness and silly, modest face. Ning was his only close friend at South Star Academy, the only person who he cared about. ‘He should be reasonably strong now.’ When he was training with Master YI he sent pills, herbs, and other cultivation supplies to Cao Ning.

On his way to the classrooms, Ye Wei bumped into a few worried-looking students who were dashing towards the school gate. He felt slightly puzzled, as he worriedly frowned thinking that something bad might had happened.

‘They would have sounded the bell if it was an emergency; I will look into it once I find Ning…’ Although curious, Ye Wei did not put too much mind to it and kept making his way to the Senior One classroom.

Upon arriving at the classroom, Ye Wei walked into no less than ten Senior One students exiting.

“These Polaris Academy students crossed the line!”

“Let’s go! Brother Cao would have started a fight with them by now! We better hurry, there are many of them!”

“Let’s go!” All of them looked angry and concerned. It seems Cao Ning had become something of a leader for the boys, and he was now in trouble.

“Wait!” Ye Wei was going to keep a low profile, but hearing Cao Ning’s name mentioned, he stopped the group before they left. “What happened? Where is Cao Ning?”

“Who are you?” They didn’t stop for Ye Wei as none of these students knew him but they could tell from his concerned tone that he knew the boss of Senior One. They stopped because they heard their leader’s name.

“I am Cao Ning’s close friend. Where is he now? Is he okay?” Ye Wei asked.

“Brother Cao’s close friend?” They looked suspiciously at Ye Wei, and couldn’t sense the slightest Qi disturbance from him thus deduced that he was Cao Ning’s commoner friend from before entering South Star.

“Polaris Academy students are here. One of them bumped into a South Star student, and they started a fight because of it. Brother Cao is already there helping out, do you want to tag along?” One of the Senior One students explained.

“Polaris Academy? The school in Polaris City?” Ye Wei raised his eyebrows and went with the group hastily.

On the way to the school gate, Ye Wei threw a few questions at the students and got a brief idea of what was going down.

The cultivation tournament of the outer districts was starting in half a month. This was an event held by the Zhou dynasty, and it is a time when cultivators from the thirty-six cities in the outer districts gathered and represented their schools in the arena. After which a new school ranking was published according to the tournament’s result. The Zhou dynasty’s Green Army would send talent scouts to recruit young blood.

All the participating schools took the tournament very seriously, and the representatives of Polaris Academy decided to head to the venue early so they could settle down and recover from the long travel before competing. As they were on their way to Ning City for the event, their supervising tutors arranged a meeting with the South Star tutors and the visiting students for some reason felt like starting a fight.

Polaris Academy students were picking a fight with South Star students on their campus? There was no way South Star Academy’s students would just take a beating without saying anything. Hearing the news, top students from different classes rushed to the school gate where the fight was taking place.

Cao Ning, the head student of Senior One, was walking passed after he finished lunch and stumbled upon them. He was not sure if he could deal with Polaris Academy’s elites on his own, so he told his friends to get help.

“This is not just a random street fight…” Ye Wei frowned and mumbled to himself; he could see more and more people rushing towards the gate. ‘People don’t gather up like this for a small scale harmless standoff.’

It wasn’t before long when they arrived at the school gate, and it was crowded with a couple hundred students.

The crowd arranged itself in a circle in the middle of which was an open space and inside stood seven youngsters in black robes.

“Is South Star Academy this weak nowadays? I can’t even find a worthy opponent it seems. I think you people should not even think about participating in the tournament! You will just embarrass yourselves!” All seven of the black-robed youngsters stood with a frivolous posture and wore mocking smiles on their faces as they looked out over the crowd.

Twenty South Star Academy students laid before them, all of them injured. One of them was Ye Wei’s closest friend, Cao Ning.

Ye Wei stood outside of the gathered crowd. He could not see the casualties from where he stood, but he could hear their hysterical laugh clearly. He frowned and narrowed his eyes trying to get a glimpse of the action from between the crowd. Although he had been training with Master Yi this whole time, in the end, he was a South Star student. He was not happy to hear what the black-robed cultivators had to say about his school.

All of a sudden Ye Wei’s eyes widened when he saw a tanned young man with a sturdy build. Ye Wei could recognize this person’s honest face anywhere.