Battle Through the Heavens: Beauties Abound Starting with Yunlan and Her Disciples

302: Section 302”Back then, I came prepared under the guidance of the senior sister who brought me here.” Han Yue’s voice was clear and cold, like melting snow atop a mountain peak, carrying a hint of detached clarity.

”Even so, I only barely held on for seventeen minutes.”

She walked up to Yun Xiancheng, her posture as upright as a cedar, her gaze candid.

At this moment, she had completely buried that subtle loss of composure. In her speech and manner, she had returned to being the leader of the ”Moon Spirit” on the Inner Academy strong ranking list, whom no one dared to easily provoke.

”Mhm, not bad.” Yun Xiancheng nodded slightly, his tone indifferent, as if this was already the highest praise. This simple evaluation, however, made Han Yue’s heart feel strange once again.

She belatedly realized a key detail she had overlooked—from beginning to end, this white-robed youth before her seemed completely unaffected by this overbearing heart flame.

He stood here as if standing in his own courtyard, his aura steady and his expression calm, forming a world of difference from the surrounding students who were either struggling to hold on or dripping with sweat.

She remembered the complex expression, both a headache and appreciative, that Grand Elder Su Qian had when mentioning this person.

At that time, she only thought another newcomer with decent talent had arrived. She never expected that upon meeting him today, she would truly understand what it meant to be ”extraordinary.”

”You... have already entered the Dou Wang realm?” In Han Yue’s voice, there was a bit of irrepressible curiosity and inquiry. This was no longer a question, but a marvel seeking confirmation.

As one of the top-ranked favored children of Jia Nan Academy, she had met a true genius.

”Mhm,” Yun Xiancheng admitted candidly, his gaze turning softly toward her with a hint of encouraging warmth. ”You are almost there too. A Six-star Dou Ling is not far from that threshold.

Keep it up.”

After a brief exchange of pleasantries, Han Yue’s gaze fell back onto the Young ladies who were still closing their eyes to resist the heart flame. Their cheeks were slightly flushed, and fine beads of fragrant sweat seeped from their foreheads; clearly, they were enduring great pain.

But even so, their figures remained as steady as rocks, and not a single person let out a groan of pain. This resilience far exceeded that of ordinary people. ”Their performance is much better than I imagined,” Han Yue praised sincerely,

”For freshmen encountering the heart flame for the first time, to have this kind of composure is truly rare. Perhaps... some of the more gifted ones among them can hold on for twenty minutes.”

This was already the highest evaluation she could give.

However, Yun Xiancheng only shook his head, the corners of his lips curving into a mysterious and incredibly confident arc.

”Five minutes.” He held up five long, fair fingers, his tone so certain it brooked no doubt. ”Within five minutes, someone will completely resolve this little trouble.”

”Five minutes?” In Han Yue’s cold eyes, a clear look of astonishment appeared for the first time.

She almost subconsciously wanted to speak up and question whether Yun Xiancheng was too confident in them, or... if he underestimated the terror of this Heavenly Flame Training Pagoda.

This heart flame was incredibly overbearing; how could it be described as a ”little trouble”?

But when she met Yun Xiancheng’s calm and deep eyes, all her doubts were like a bird whose throat had been squeezed, completely silenced.

It was an aura of convincing power born from absolute control, making her choose silence unconsciously. Han Yue spoke no more, simply standing quietly to the side, locking her gaze on the group of Young ladies.

Together with the surrounding seniors who were also drawn by these shocking words, they waited for time to pass. Time within the pagoda seemed to stretch at this moment.

In the scorching air, only faint, suppressed sounds of breathing remained, along with the whispers of the surrounding crowd filled with curiosity, doubt, and expectation. One minute, two minutes... five minutes passed in a flash.

Just as the sliver of doubt in Han Yue’s heart was about to resurface, a sudden change occurred! ”Whoosh!”

On the ground where Xiao Yan was sitting cross-legged, a circle of green flame lotus shadows suddenly bloomed!

That flame was agile and full of vitality, as if it had its own will, completely dispersing and devouring the surrounding invisible, violent heart flame!

In the next moment, Xiao Yan’s tightly closed beautiful eyes suddenly snapped open!

She let out a long breath. Her whole being looked refreshed; far from showing any signs of exhaustion, she was full of energy, as if she had just finished a delicious feast.

Without even looking at the dumbfounded onlookers around her, she flickered and naturally and intimately hugged one of Yun Xiancheng’s arms. She tilted up her pretty face, which was full of pride and joy, and announced triumphantly:

”Haha, looks like I’m the first! Husband, aren’t I amazing!”

Following closely, almost the instant her voice fell, another figure also quietly woke up.

Deep within Xiao Xun’er’s eyes, a wisp of brilliant golden flame flashed past like a meteor. That aura was noble and majestic, yet it didn’t attract anyone’s attention.

She elegantly raised her eyes. Within her vision was the triumphant smiling face of Xiao Yan, who was already hanging onto Yun Xiancheng. Her hand holding the Circular Fan unconsciously tightened slightly, and her cherry lips pursed secretly as a slight, complex ripple rose in her heart.

My Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame is far higher in rank than her Green Lotus Core Flame, and yet... I actually woke up half a step later than her... Is this... the gap in talent?

Xun’er sighed softly in her heart, but said nothing more.

Within a short five minutes, two freshmen had actually one after another relied on their own strength to completely expel the heart flame that had entered their bodies for the first time! A massive uproar was triggered on the entire first floor of the Heavenly Flame Training Pagoda!

”Heavens! Am I seeing things?! The first time the heart flame entered their bodies, they weren’t forced out, but instead refined it themselves?!”

”This... how is this possible?! In the hundreds of years since Jia Nan Academy was founded, has there ever been such a precedent?!” ”They... just what kind of monsters are they!”

Those seniors who were previously mocking and gloating now all looked like ducks with their necks squeezed. Their faces felt hot, filled with disbelief and shame.

Some who were thin-skinned even quietly lowered their heads, wishing they could find a crack in the ground to crawl into, and slipped away dejectedly. Shock was also written all over Han Yue’s usually cold and pretty face.

One possessed a Heavenly Flame, which was already a stroke of immense luck, while for the other, she actually couldn’t see through her background at all!

The level of monstrous talent in this freshman team had far exceeded her imagination. Yun Xiancheng, however, was not surprised by this at all.

He reached out and dotedly, gently rubbed those two little heads that were equally proud and equally longing for his praise, as a sign of comfort and reward.

320 Better to Join Senior Sister Han Yue

Time continued to flow.

At about the tenth minute, another figure showed movement.

Nalan Yanran’s long eyelashes fluttered a few times, and she slowly opened her bright and moving beautiful eyes.

The first thing she saw were Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun’er, who were already clinging to Yun Xiancheng like conjoined twins on his left and right.

A small sense of disappointment instantly welled up in her heart. She pouted her lovely red lips in dissatisfaction, her tone carrying a bit of the sourness of acting spoiled: ”Yaner, you cheated! You had the help of a Heavenly Flame, so you were definitely much faster than me!”

Hearing this, Xiao Xun’er picked up the Circular Fan in her hand and elegantly covered the corner of her lips, letting out a crisp, light laugh:

”Yanran, those words are incorrect. Being able to successfully contain a Heavenly Flame and turn it to one’s own use is Yaner’s own ability.”

These words were spoken flawlessly, both getting Xiao Yan out of a tight spot and making Nalan Yanran feel even more discouraged. At the same time, she released a bit of the urgency in her own heart.

Because watching the time it took for Nalan Yanran to resolve the problem, Xiao Xun’er couldn’t help but feel a sliver of pressure in her heart. If she hadn’t had the help of a Heavenly Flame, she asked herself if she could have resolved the heart flame as quickly as Nalan Yanran. The Young Sect Leader of the Cloud Mist Sect from the Northwest Continent... the gap between her background and my Gu Clan is like a heavenly chasm.

Yet her talent is actually so startling, even... catching up to or even surpassing me... No, not just her.

Xiao Xun’er’s gaze slowly moved toward Xiao Yu and Xiao Mei, who were still closing their eyes and persevering. Her understanding of these two sisters from the Xiao Family was deeper than anyone else’s.

She had personally witnessed how their talent had transformed from a level that was as ordinary as could be to the current heaven-defying existence in such a short amount of time.

Without needing to think much, this was definitely Yun Xiancheng’s doing.

A bolder thought, one closer to the truth, flashed through Xiao Xun’er’s mind like a bolt of lightning.

Could it be... that the transformation of talent is related to the deep union with her husband? Every young lady present was a wife to Yun Xiancheng in every sense of the word.

Although she was also Yun Xiancheng’s wife, she had entered the family but had not yet fully ’entered’ the union.

This speculation made her heart sink suddenly. A sense of indescribable sorrow and powerlessness welled up.

I... I carry the Divine Grade Bloodline. Before reaching the rank of Dou Sheng, I absolutely cannot... I absolutely cannot. At the thought of herself kneeling on the bed holding Yun Xiancheng’s hand not long ago, she felt extremely sad. Another five minutes passed, and at around the fifteen-minute mark, Xiao Yu and Xiao Mei also woke up one after another.

Although their performance was a notch below the others before them, looking at the entire history of the Inner Academy, being able to autonomously clear the heart flame was already an unprecedented and amazing achievement worthy of being recorded in the history books.

Finally, it was Hu Jia.

Although Hu Jia had also improved her talent through deep interactions with Yun Xiancheng, she could not utilize her talent well as she had only just obtained such a miraculous change.

Consequently, she suffered through it just like an ordinary student.

Yun Xiancheng stood by her side, worried that something might go wrong.

The surrounding students had become numb, to the point that Hu Jia enduring the heart flame for twenty minutes—and likely for half an hour, which would have caused a massive uproar in the past—was now viewed as ordinary.

After a long while, at the twenty-fifth minute, Hu Jia finally opened her eyes, somewhat out of breath.

She saw Yun Xiancheng’s eyes, and the tense string in her heart snapped; she leaned directly against his body, rubbing against him.

Seeing that the Young ladies had all safely passed the trial, Yun Xiancheng also gained a more intuitive understanding of their respective talent potentials. He understood in his heart that even after he had bestowed them with talent and fortune, subtle gaps still existed between them.

Though the gap between them and anyone else was as vast as a natural chasm.

He suppressed these thoughts, turned around, and looked again at the silver-haired Beauty who had stood quietly aside from beginning to end, witnessing it all.

Yun Xiancheng smiled and reached out a hand to her. ”Senior, my name is Yun Xiancheng.”

His voice was gentle and magnetic, carrying a sincerity that made it impossible to refuse.

Han Yue looked at the slender and perfect palm extended before her and hesitated for a moment.

Her innate coldness and pride made her unaccustomed to physical contact with anyone. But in the end, as if possessed, she still reached out her own hand and gently grasped it.

The moment their palms touched, a warmth was transmitted from his hand, as if it could melt the ice that had accumulated in her heart for years. ”Hello, Junior Cheng. My name is Han Yue.”

She responded softly, her voice still cold, but unconsciously carrying a hint of softness that she hadn’t even noticed herself. Han Yue!

This name was like a clap of thunder, exploding in Nalan Yanran’s mind! Her ’sister radar’ instantly activated at full power!

It really is her! Husband... The Han Yue and Han Xue that Husband mentioned back at the future wedding banquet actually exist! Moreover, we actually ran into them. Husband’s wife-finding radar is very strong!

Nalan Yanran’s thoughts began to spin rapidly, out of control.

Her bright eyes began to unashamedly size up this new ’sister’ before her from head to toe.

Hmm... This person is indeed extremely beautiful with a cold temperament; she is a good match for Husband and won’t lose us any face. And this head of silver-white hair...

I remember that sometimes when ’galloping on horseback’ intensely with Husband, Sister Xiao Yi Xian would also manifest a white-haired form due to the power fluctuations of the Calamity Poison Body...

...

This is great. A permanent white-hair has arrived. If Xiao Yi Xian finds out, she’ll probably overturn the entire vinegar jar! When that time comes, the backyard... no, the entire manor will probably have no peace!

At the thought of the potential jealousy and friction filled with the smell of gunpowder in the future, Nalan Yanran felt very amused. Her gaze toward Han Yue involuntarily carried a bit of schadenfreude.

That gaze was so complex and malicious that it made Han Yue feel uneasy all over, even making the hair on her back stand up. Just then, Yun Xiancheng’s gentle voice rang out again, helping her out of the predicament at just the right time.

”Senior,” Yun Xiancheng said to Han Yue with a smile, as if he hadn’t noticed the abnormality on Nalan Yanran’s side, ”as a newcomer who has just arrived, I still have many things I don’t quite understand about the rules of the Inner Academy, and I also have a request.”

His words successfully diverted Han Yue’s attention away from Nalan Yanran’s creepy gaze.

...

”It’s just that as new students entering the academy, being unfamiliar with the place, we always need to find a reliable force for protection. Our group is weak and few in number. I wonder... Senior, what do you think of us?”

These words were spoken very earnestly.

But hearing them, Han Yue didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. You call yourselves weak and few in number?

You are a Dou Wang. Although I don’t know why a Dou Wang would come to the academy, being a Dou Wang at such a young age... you’re simply a monster.

If even you are considered weak and few, then there is probably no force in this Inner Academy that would dare call itself powerful. However, this played right into her hands!

She had already intended to invite this group of exceptionally talented Young ladies to join the ’Moon Spirit’ she had founded.

The members of Moon Spirit were all virtuous women she had carefully selected, so they would get along well with them. As for Yun Xiancheng...

Although Moon Spirit had a rule of not accepting men, rules are dead while people are alive.

Though taking in Yun Xiancheng was somewhat dangerous.

Based on her understanding of the girls in her faction... although each of them claimed to be free of worldly desires, in the face of such peerless Beauty and extraordinary charm, she feared not a single one would be able to resist.

Even I almost lost my composure, let alone them... But she couldn’t miss out on him.

Han Yue took a deep breath, completely suppressing the chaotic thoughts in her mind.

She looked up and met Yun Xiancheng’s eyes, which held a faint smile. A soul-stirring smile, like melting snow in spring, blossomed on her cold and pretty face.

”Then you are naturally welcome.”

Han Yue was lonely. There was a thick barrier between her and the other students of Jia Nan Academy, regardless of gender. In the past, at least, this loneliness forced her to wrap herself in hard ice.

But now, she had encountered a warm, brilliant sun sufficient to illuminate her entire world. No matter how cold and lonely a snow lotus is, in the end, it still needs sunlight.

321 A Handsome Man Enters the Daughters’ Garden

In this Inner Academy of Jia Nan Academy, where strength is revered and factions are numerous,

”Moon Spirit,” this all-female faction personally created by Han Yue, was considered a rather unique existence.

It wasn’t as aggressive as the top-tier forces, yet it was by no means a soft persimmon to be bullied. It held a steady place in the complex landscape of powers.

However, the recruitment requirements were very high; one could only enter if they were virtuous, kind, and of good character.

The faction’s leader, Han Yue, had reached the level of a Six-star Dou Ling, and she had several female disciples of considerable strength under her command. This power was enough to place Moon Spirit among the top-tier forces of the Inner Academy.

Due to the unique social structure of the Inner Academy where the strong prey on the weak, a faction’s base often served as the members’ daily residence. Therefore, Moon Spirit’s location was a quiet and elegant place far from the hustle and bustle.

It was a typical Chinese classical courtyard with blue tiles, white walls, and upturned eaves. Unknown exotic flowers and herbs were planted around the courtyard, emitting bursts of refreshing and elegant fragrance.

An antique red sandalwood screen stood quietly within the entrance hall.