Badass Celestial Emperor Returns!

(13) Jiang Mei Hua

The blue flame devoured all materials Zi Yingjun threw in it. He is sitting crossed-legged in front of the Tempering Flame while throwing all the herbs. If alchemists were to see it, they will think he is seeking death. Throwing herbs nonchalantly in order to refine a pill is not that easy. One can die if the pill they are refining failed. Fortunately, Zi Yingjun has enough experience in alchemy.

If he were to enter an alchemist school, he would be referred to as a senior. In alchemy, there are four positions one has to go through. Starting as a white robed alchemist, blue robed alchemist, purple robed alchemist and gold robed alchemist. If it were Zi Yingjun, he should be a purple robed alchemist. Talented people at the age of seven hundred would be already a gold robed alchemist which Zi Yingjun is unable to grasp yet.

Like before, he is just a normal cultivator. The so called second-rate talent is just an empty title, so are first-rate talents. They can only be used for the four mortal stages in cultivation. Once they stepped in the four immortal realms, it will be their accumulation, understanding and strength that'll matter. Those who has high accumulation in different paths such as alchemy or rune formation, adding the fact of great foresight about this world and strength, their road to the immortal realms will go smoothly.

A bright flash happened. Good thing he chose to refine the pill in the hunting ground. It only caused few disturbances and Zi Yingjun has to move in another place. He grabbed the dozen pills then went back to his dorm. Zi Yingjun stared to the transparent pill in his hand. It has been so many years since the final time he used it.

"Cultivation Base Deceiving Pill, if Im correct, a single pill can last for two months. This will be enough." he placed the colorless pearl in his mouth before biting it between his teeth. The bitter taste exploded but he was still as calm as the tranquil night. Zi Yingjun have decided to hide his real cultivation until the Winter Exam.

For the whole week, his daily routine would sleep during class, chat with Zi Yan Yue during lunch, hunt beasts during the night and every Friday, fight against his opponents. 

His cultivation rose until the third rank for the third week in the academy and showing his cultivation base is at the second rank. Still, he has no plan to return to his uncle's side. It was the final day of the month, Zi Yingjun have beaten up his opponent. The four young men he defeated for the month are Zi Liu Liu, Zi Bei Lan, Zi Lao Qing and Zi An Jie.

As Zi Yingjun stepped off the stage, Zi Yan Yue came to congratulate him again. He only gave a nod and smiled. Zi Yingjun decided to rest when a boy was pushed just behind him. The poor boy fell behind Zi Yingjun while looking at the perpetrator. Suddenly, his face that was full of anger turned shocked. Zi Yingjun also looked up on the person who pushed that young man. His curious gaze met a pair of familiar peach colored eyes.

"Zi Yingjun!" the girl with peach blossom irises exclaimed. She daringly pointed to him as if she discovered something important. Zi Yan Yue cant help but lightly frown, who is that girl? She looks to be fourteen yet her beauty is already stunning. Zi Yan Yue lost when compared to the young girl.

"You know me?" Zi Yingjun blinked. He tried to recall who the young girl is and fortunately, he haven't forgotten about her yet. She is his future wife, the only woman he married in his whole life. Sadly, it was because of her spoiled attitude and doubt about Zi Yingjun, the two had a lot of misunderstanding. It eventually led to them having a mutual divorce and she remarried while Zi Yingjun remained alone until Zi Clan and Jiang Clan perished.

"Of course! Your uncle gave my father your portrait so I know you. Huh?" the young girl glanced at Zi Yan Yue who is standing beside Zi Yingjun. "She is?"

"My cousin, Zi Yan Yue." after saying that, Zi Yingjun glanced towards Zi Yan Yue who is asking for his explanation. He ignored the curious look everyone are sending him as he went past the crowd to reach his dorm. Hunting for the whole night, Zi Yingjun needs to rest so he didn't even give the young girl any face.

"Zi Yingjun, you shameless man! Dare to leave me behind like that!" the young girl chased after him but he remained silent until he reached his dorm. Unable to take her talkative self and nags, Zi Yingjun turned at her and held the door.

"Jiang Mei Hua, why are you still here?" he asked. Though he has to go with the flow and marry her again, Zi Yingjun is no longer that gentle and ignorant fool. In his previous life, he married Jiang Mei Hua and they got along at first without any attachments but what made him unable to like her is that she is always suspicious he is having an affair with other women. Furthermore, she is extremely spoiled that if he is unable to comply to her wishes, she will blame him that it led to having big fights.

The previous naive Zi Yingjun is always lenient on Jiang Mei Hua. She is just hard to please and always drank vinegar when his past maid Mei Lien seduced him. Jiang Mei Hua who had known it, humiliated Zi Yingjun and Zi Clan was not spared. Because of that, when they had a mutual divorce, Zi Yingjun suffered in Zi Clan and left the place until he heard the news Zi and Jiang Clan were eradicated by Ye Royal Family.

Now that Jiang Mei Hua is going to marry the demonic Zi Yingjun, he will not do as she pleased. Instead, he will treat this engagement and their marriage as nothing and he will focus in cultivating then leaving this place. In short, he will abandon Jiang Mei Hua.