Le Fangling walked towards the entrance that was made up of bamboo straw and stood below the entrance. The vines that grew there had coiled themselves around the tall bamboo supports and the flowers blooming there added to the beauty of gate.

"This is the outer court? It's.." Le Fang ling asked in disbelief.

"Yes, it's the outer court for outer court disciples such as you." An Cheng nodded her head and added to her confirmation.

"This place is simply too good. Why do people talk as if outer court disciples are mistreated?" Le Fangling lightly shrugged her shoulder and heaved a long sigh.

"I did say that people like to make their own assumptions." An Cheng gave her a pat on the back and pushed her inside.

"Go on now." She crossed her arms in front of her chest and smiled after handing her the number of her living quarter.

"You are not going to come in with me?"

An Cheng let out a jolly laughter when she saw the anxious expression on her face.

"You are the one who is supposed to live here, not me." She tilted her head a little to her side and looked at Le Fangling.

"Or are you implying you want to invite me to your quarter and.."

"No, I have no such intentions." Le Fangling stopped her from continuing because she knew if she continued further she might think things she was not supposed to.

"Fine fine, you take your time and freshen up and make a few friends while you are at it." She added when she saw a few female students walking out of their quarters.

"But don't be late for your assessment test in an hour." She gave a friendly reminder and turned around to go back to her quarter to get ready as well. It was a big day for whole of the Cherry Blossom Sect after all.

"Thank you." Le Fangling silently muttered looking at An Cheng's back. She looked at the parchment she was holding and took a deep breathe to calm down her nerves.

The main reason as to why she was so nervous was, she had never been the type to be a social butterfly, so she did not know how to present herself.

She did not want to smear dirt on her name that was already hated for some reason.

"We will see what happens." She took a deep breath and started to walk.

As soon as she entered, various glances flew at her from all directions. She passed by three girls who were chatting and laughing at the same time.historical

"Hello." She greeted them with a slight bow and smiled at the three girls.

At first all three of them were dumbfounded when someone approached them. Especially, the girl who was between the two plain looking girls was taken aback when someone came to talk to them.

She was none other than Fu Yaoyao, the eldest daughter of the lord of the northern province. She was one of the top listed beauty and genius among all new batch of freshman all over the four provinces.

Along with her talent, her vanity also grew to the point she was like a peacock showing off it's feather.

"She is beautiful.." One of her follower girl whispered to her friend but Fu Yaoyao heard her loud and clear.

"You two shut up." She gnashed her teeth and threw a sharp look to them making both of them shut their mouth instantly.

"You are just a mere girl, don't talk to us." She gave a hateful sneer towards Le Fangling partly because she was a moody girl and also she could see that a normal girl possessed such beautiful features.

"...."

'Nani the heck?' Le Fangling was speechless at the treatment she got when all she wanted was to make some good relation with people.

"Let's go." Fu Yaoyao gave a sharp turn and started walking towards her own quarter with the two girls meekly following behind her.

"Wow, they are so edgy. These people..." Le Fangling shrugged her shoulder and looked at them in disdain.

<You can just ignore them and do your own work. Don't worry much about what others say.> A voice rang inside her head.

"Y..You are finally speaking?" Le Fangling stopped in her steps and exclaimed, clasping her hands to her mouth. She was flabbergasted when she finally heard the voice she had been missing.

This was the complication that she had. After she had opened her eyes, she could no longer feel the presence of Nagina in either of the forms.

"Where were you all this time?" she could not help but let out a depressed sigh with a mix of relief.

<I can't just show up like a snake out of nowhere.> Nagina had gotten back to being the voice in her head.

"You can't change back?"

<Wait, not the right place to talk at the moment.>

Le Fangling looked around and saw that there were spectators and nodded her head. There were many quarters and all of them looked identical to each other.

"Right, let's go to my quarter first." Le Fangling nodded her head.

"Hey, help me get to my quarter.' She was about to ask other people there but getting shunned by the people like that made her rethink her decisions.

<Alright!>

<Ding!!>

A map appeared on the screen and pointed exactly to the house near a small water fall. For better or for worse, this quarter was kind of isolated from the other living quarters.

Many things had changed, however, the map skill of system had not changed even one bit.

'I can teach her slowly.' She sighed and picked up her pace.

Without even caring about what they were thinking about whatever she was doing, le Fangling walked to the designated place, opened the door of the house and slammed it tight after walking in.

"That is the new girl? Never seen her around!"

"Is she the one who got in trouble with Zhang Wei yesterday?"

"So she is the Le family girl from the so called le Family that I have heard so much about, woahh.." A girl who was carrying a pot of water exclaimed her surprise.

"It's like meeting a real life celebrity."

"But she does have a beautiful face.." Another girl exclaimed, her face green with envy.

Among all of those girls that were present in the courtyard, one of them was Qiqi who had encountered Le Fangling last night. She looked at Le Fangling cautiously and followed her until she was out of her sight.

"Hey, hey.." Her friend elbowed her until she came out of her thoughts and looked at the person that was shaking her.

"What? Is anything wrong?" Qiqi asked a little absent minded.

"Are you sick? Why are you sweating like this?" She touched her forehead and gave a yell of surprise.

"You are even burning. Did you really get sick?" There was concern in her voice but Qiqi did not care about anything else.

"It's nothing. I am fine." She wiped her sweat with her hand and walked away from there. Even while walking she was staggering a little bit.

"What got in to her?" her friend was thoughtful when she suddenly recalled seeing Qiqi and Pei Fan meeting together late in night.

A wide smile appeared in her face and she let out a tiny gasp followed by a snicker.

"I think they went overboard with their cultivation." She giggled and also went after Qiqi to tease..ahemm..help her.

But the others continued with their mundane work of gossiping.

The whole courtyard suddenly erupted in to whispers at first and then to a heated discussion all revolving around Le Fangling.

Meanwhile, the person in the question let out a long sigh of relief and immediately sat down on the floor.

"I can never get used to people watching me like that." She looked at her palm that was wet with sweat.

<You will have to get used to all of this eventually.> The voice rang inside her head.

"I hope." She let out an unsure laughter.

"No, I mean I will try my best." Le Fangling nodded her head when she sensed a chill on her spine.

<Mucho appreciated~~> Nagina gave a light giggle.

"Right, there is assessment test in an hour." Le Fangling stood up and took off her outer robe. She carefully slid out of the white inner gown.

"Can I get a mirror or something?" Le Fangling looked around and saw a mirror on the wall of the room.

"There it is!" She walked towards the mirror and looked at her reflection.

Standing in front of the mirror she looked at her body but this time she was not checking out herself. She would have loved to but she had other priorities at the moment.

"So, is this why she wants me to visit tonight?" Le Fangling looked at the strange formation in black and ash color around her navel.