The Legend of the Demon Hunter

After returning to the dormitory, everything in the room was the same as before.

Xiao Zhu lay quietly on the bed, thinking of Xia Shi.

They had only met once in the past two years, at the freshman graduation ceremony. At that time, he learned that Xia Shi's "earth soul constitution" had been cured. The person who provided her with treatment was Teacher Chen Xuelan, who had done the blood test for them when they entered school. Although she looked plain and approachable, she was actually a soul hunter.

She set up an exquisite small sealing formation in Xia Shi's body to seal Xia Shi's earth soul, so that Xia Shi could temporarily recover like a normal person. Although this method only treated the symptoms and not the root cause, it at least allowed Xia Shi to practice like a normal demon hunter.

The next morning.

Xiao Zhu walked out of the dormitory. He noticed that many students gathered at the training ground. He thought that this should be the location of the Illusion Trial preliminaries, so he walked straight over.

"Student Xiao." Suddenly a girl's voice called Xiao Zhu. Xiao Zhu followed the direction of the voice and found that it was Duan Qiqi, the shy girl who sat at the same table with him during his first class after entering the college.

Xiao Zhu and Duan Qiqi attended many classes together. Since Xiao Zhu was the only classmate she knew, she sat at the same table with Xiao Zhu many times. However, because she was too introverted, the two of them chatted very few times, so they did not establish a close friendship and remained at the stage of acquaintance.

Xiao Zhu was very surprised to hear Duan Qiqi calling his name. Duan Qiqi came over and asked, "Are you here to participate in the preliminaries as well?"

"Yes, what about you?" Xiao Zhu said.

"I lost the election." Duan Qiqi said with a depressed look. It seemed that it was precisely because of the bad mood caused by losing the election that Duan Qiqi started to talk more.

"Although the academy has increased the number of places for the illusion trial from ten in previous years to twenty. But I still failed to make it into the top twenty. I am really useless." Duan Qiqi said with a gloomy expression and lowered her head.

"Top 20?" Xiao Zhu was even more confused.

"Yes, the current 20th place can last for 61 rounds, while I can only last for 57 rounds..."

Duan Qiqi sighed softly, and then seemed to have lost the desire to talk. After saying goodbye, she turned and walked towards the girls' dormitory.

Xiao Zhu, who was confused by Duan Qiqi, walked into the crowd. The first thing he saw was the puppet monkey from the entrance examination. He instantly understood what Duan Qiqi said.

The preliminary round of this illusion trial was actually another battle with the puppet ape.

The ability of this puppet monkey to continuously strengthen itself really left a deep impression on Xiao Zhu. But after all, the present is different from the past. Xiao Zhu is already a mid-level demon hunter, and he has the spiritual power of water, fire and earth. His strength is incomparable to before. Now he really wants to test the limit of the self-strengthening of this puppet monkey.

At this time, another young student walked down from the stage. He persisted for sixty-three rounds and once again broke the record of the top twenty.

Xiao Zhu walked up to the three teachers on one side of the trial platform and said, "Teacher, I want to sign up for the trial."

"Name, bloodline attributes, number of bloodline awakenings." One of the teachers asked mechanically.

"Xiao Zhu, spiritual bloodline, bloodline awakened twice." Xiao Zhu reported his situation.

The teacher looked at him for a moment longer, as if a little surprised by his psychic bloodline, but then returned to his lazy attitude and said, "Go wait aside. You will be asked to take the test on stage later. As you can see, you will have to persist for more than sixty-three rounds to have a chance of passing."

Xiao Zhu thanked him politely, and then stood aside and watched quietly. The puppet monkey's attack patterns and other people's responses were also very valuable experiences for him.

Xiao Zhu observed for about an hour, during which more than a dozen students came on stage to take the preliminary test, but only one of them lasted more than sixty-three rounds. This student with both civil and engineering attributes actually persisted for seventy rounds until the puppet ape strengthened him for the seventh time. This strength won applause from the audience, and he successfully entered the top ten of the preliminaries.

At this moment, there was a sudden noise from the audience, and the crowd automatically parted to make a path, and three students slowly walked in. Xiao Zhu looked along the crowd, and saw two figures, one black and one white, walking in front, one man and one woman. The man was dressed in white, with a handsome appearance, holding a jade green flute, and it was the son of the Letian family, Letianyin, whom Xiao Zhu had met when he entered school.

Xiao Zhu had never seen the woman in black before. She was tall and beautiful, but her face was as cold as frost, giving people a feeling that she kept people at a distance.

Behind the two of them, there was a woman in a sky blue dress. She was shorter than the woman in black, but her appearance was just as good. However, her eyes were wandering around, as if she was looking for something.

As soon as these three people appeared, they immediately became the focus of the whole audience.

The moment Xiao Zhu saw the woman in the blue dress, he couldn't take his eyes away. He pushed through the crowd and quickly walked over there. The woman also noticed the tall Xiao Zhu. A smile as bright as a crabapple blossomed on her face. She quickly passed the two people in front of her, ran in front of Xiao Zhu, and did something that even Xiao Zhu couldn't expect - she stood on tiptoe and hugged Xiao Zhu's neck, leaning on his shoulders, completely ignoring the gazes of the crowd, and said with a tearful smile: "Brother..."

Xiao Zhu smelled the faint girlish fragrance on Xia Shi. He gently put his arms around Xia Shi's back, feeling her soft body in his arms. It was as if time had stopped at this moment. The surroundings were no longer the noisy training ground, but an empty space. The two of them became the center of the world, with the stars revolving around them.

An unknown amount of time had passed when Xiao Zhu felt a cold gaze. He saw Le Tianyin's livid face. Jealousy and resentment turned into liquid-like thick liquid. He did not hide his emotions at all. He snorted coldly and walked past Xiao Zhu and Xia Shi.

The woman in black just glanced at Xiao Zhu and Xia Shi in surprise, then walked towards the training platform with an indifferent expression.

"Shi'er, are you okay?" Xiao Zhu asked softly.

Xia Shi separated from Xiao Zhu's arms, but her jade hand was still holding Xiao Zhu's hand, and said, "Brother, I'm fine. I have completed the second blood awakening. Although the earth soul seal showed signs of loosening during the awakening process, fortunately it was repaired in time by the teacher." Her face was filled with pride, as if showing her achievements in front of her beloved was a very joyful thing.

"Yeah!" Xiao Zhu grinned.

Speechless for a moment, he carefully looked at Xia Shi's beautiful face. Because the earth spirit was sealed, she was no longer sickly and delicate as before, and her fair skin had a little more rosy color, which undoubtedly made her look more beautiful. Moreover, after two years of baptism, she was a little taller, and her figure gradually matured.

"Shi'er, do you also want to participate in the illusion trial?" Xiao Zhu asked.

Xia Shi shook her head. "I won't participate because my bloodline attributes have almost no offensive ability, so the teacher won't allow me to participate. But Sister Ning and Brother Le will both participate. Originally, the teacher didn't let me go out this time. I had to beg the teacher to agree, mainly to see you."

This sentence made Xiao Zhu feel warm, and he expressed his true feelings: "Shi'er, you are so nice!"

"Brother, if it weren't for you, I would have lost my life in the Ant Cave and in Fuguang Town. Besides, if you hadn't helped and protected me along the way, I wouldn't have come to this Nuowan College. What Shi'er has done for you is far less than what you have given." Xia Shi said seriously.

At this moment, a rough voice came from the stage: "The next trialist is Le Tianyin."