Chapter 21

"You and Xiao Ning'er seem close these days." Du Ze said as they sat in their seat and waited for Shen Xiu to enter the class.

"Hmm?"

"Don't think I didn't noticed the glances she kept sending in your directions. She is not exactly subtle" Du Ze said before sighing "Look. I know it's not place to question you, what with you being my benefactor and all. But I think it is my duty to once again inform you that this playing with the Fiancee of the Young Master of the Sacred Family is dangerous."

He glanced at Du Ze and nodded "I'm aware of the dangers such a thing will bring. But Shen Fei doesn't really have any informants in this class. And She Yue is too busy trying to gain Ye Ziyun's attention that I doubt he notices anything else. And we're careful whenever we meet outside the school." He said "Still, you're right. I'll tell Ning'er to be more discreet from now on."

Du Ze sighed, probably wondering if staying away from him would have been the wiser thing to do as cuckolding the heir of Sacred Family was literally akin to courting death.

"How's your training going on?" he asked, mostly to change the topic but also a bit curious about how Du Ze was improving.

Du Ze smiled at his words. "It's going very well. With the rate at which I'm improving, I'll definitely be able to reach the 1st star Bronze Rank and join the genius class within two months. In fact, if my cultivation remained consistent then I might even reach 3rd Star Bronze Rank in my cultivation."

He nodded "Good. Once you reach the Silver Rank I'll give you a good enough demon spirit to integrate with."

Du Ze gave him a grateful nod and was about so say something when the door opened and Shen Xiu walked in.

She had a smiled on her face and walked while swaying her hips, as if trying to impress someone.

He frowned, wondering why she would act like this. Usually she had a proud, cold and indifferent expression on her face. He wonder what changed.

Once everyone sat down, she started speaking "Today we'll talk about inscriptions. No matter whether it's a Practitioner or Demon Spiritualist, Inscriptions are very important! Inscriptions are divided into two types, Device Inscription and Battle Inscription."

"Device Inscription is embedded into Armor. For soldiers, it'll greatly enhance the armor, increasing the soldier's prowess. Especially for the Demon Spiritualists, using high level inscriptions embedded armor and weaponry will enable them to exhibit powers beyond their limitations." She said "As for battle inscription, it is printed on scrolls to be used. Utilizing spirit soul power to activate, is able to generate explosive soul prowess."

As the woman continued to talk, he had a Deja vu moment and realized that this was the day when Nie Li brought out Sacred Family's dirty laundry out in the open and exposed them for the frauds they were by showing everyone that they had stolen their Inscriptions rather than make their own.

He discreetly tried to look behind at the back of the class but he couldn't see anything aside from a blank wall.

Then he Roleplayed as Nie Li and suddenly, he could feel three powerful experts whose soul force was so vast that he couldn't even fathom their power.

The one sitting on the far left was most powerful out of the three and as he sensed their powers, he felt as if he was an ant in front of a giant mountain.

It was the first time he had sensed a Black Gold Demon Spiritualist and he was frankly a bit overwhelmed. After all, a Bronze Rank only has a soul force in the hundreds while a Black Gold Rank has soul force in the hundreds of thousands. It was understandable why he felt like a twig in front f the world tree as he wasn't even a Bronze Rank right now.

His concentration was broken when Shen Xiu called his name.

"Itachi. Since you have the time to be distracted in my class, why don't you answer a few questions?" Shen Xiu asked sweetly.

He gave a short nod and she took this as an invitation to ask a few questions regarding the topic she was teaching.

Unfortunately for him, he had already assigned half of his clones to studying day in and day out and with the help of Lily and one of Shen Xiu's one clones as teachers, he had already finished the first course for the whole year in the school.

He answered all of her questions perfectly without a problem, only causing her more irritation.

Still, she couldn't lose her cool in front of the experts and in the end, she simply told him to pay attention and went back to teaching.

He let out a sigh and hoped that he had not pissed her off.

But even if she did got pissed off at him, he could always mind control her so that she won't pay any more attention to him.

Once he was out of her cross hair, his attention went back to the three experts sitting at the end of the class.

He was still a bit shaken by the fact the he wasn't even able to sense their presence until he started roleplaying as Nie Li to do so.

Such a thing had shaken his confidence a little. The Higher level Demon Spiritualists were so good at hiding themselves that they could be sitting right beside him and he still won't be able to sense them.

He remembered when he snuck inside Shen Xiu's office to mind control her and wondered what would have happened if the Sacred Family had sent a Black Gold expert to guard her.

They would have undoubtedly captured him and tortured him for information until he croaked or killed his body.

With the power of Facsimile, he won't die as long as a single one of his clone stayed alive but being caught would put him in the Sacred Family's radar and make them more cautious. And while he could always shapeshift into another student, he didn't want to live the rest of this life as someone else.

He realized that going forward, he would have to be more careful and use Nie Li's skills and intuition frequently to check for experts in hiding. Or he needed to learn how to sense the soul force of other people on his own.

The rest of the class went by without any problem as unlike Nie Li, he wasn't arrogant and foolish enough to court death when the Black Gold Demon Spiritualists and even Gold rank Demon Spiritualists could kill him with a slap.

Once Shen Xiu left the class, the other three powerful presences sitting at the back of the class vanished as well as if it was never there in the first place.