A week passed by just like that.
There weren't many customers that came to Lin Fan's store, but there were still people that came to train their pets. However, he was never able to get any regulars that came to train their pet more than once.
Well, actually there was one regular that came every day.
Jun Xie was his first customer and also his first and only regular customer.
Every morning, Jun Xie would be there to pay for another day's training for his Arctic Lynx.
Lin Fan's store didn't allow payment for multiple training sessions at the same time, so Jun Xie had to come to the store to pay each morning.
The first morning he was still looking fine, but with each day that passed, Jun Xie's appearance became worse and worse.
There were only a few scratches on the second day, but then on the third day, his arm was completely wrapped up in bandages. On the fourth day, he came with a cast and a crutch. On the fifth day, he came in a wheelchair. On the sixth day, he was completely wrapped up in bandages like a mummy and had to be pushed in by someone…
Lin Fan couldn't help worrying about him with each passing day, but he could also tell from Jun Xie's aura that he was slowly getting stronger.
He was getting injured with each passing day, but that was all because he was undergoing some kind of intense training.
Since this was his choice, there wasn't anything that Lin Fan could say about it.
Especially since Yang Xi Ruo came with him each time. Whenever she came, she would always glare at him as if she had some grudge with him, so Lin Fan always kept his mouth shut.
He wasn't sure what kind of relationship the two of them had, but it was best for him not to get involved in it.
Finally, on the seventh day, Jun Xie came completely healed.
This change was so sudden that even Lin Fan doubted whether it was the real Jun Xie, but the door told him that it was indeed the real Jun Xie. While he might be wrong with his spiritual senses, the door that the store provided would never be wrong.
However, he also couldn't help being impressed by the aura that came from Jun Xie.
In just a week, Jun Xie had somehow gone from the Low Fragmented Soul Realm to the Low Embryo Soul Realm.
This kind of improvement would usually come at the detriment of the person's health or future cultivation potential, but Lin Fan could tell from the door that there wasn't anything wrong with Jun Xie's body. His sharp nose also caught the medicinal scent that was coming from him and with his understanding of alchemy, he was able to easily figure out which pills Jun Xie had taken.
He looked at Yang Xi Ruo who had been standing behind Jun Xie the entire time and he couldn't help revealing an impressed look.
As expected of a duke's daughter, she was even able to do something like this.
But the one doubt on his mind was still why she would do something like this for someone like Jun Xie. Even if he had seen something different from her expression, it shouldn't have been strong enough for her to do all of this…
After receiving his pet, Jun Xie headed off to school with Yang Xi Ruo since today was the day of the bet.
He had suffered a long week of training just for this moment. As he looked back on it now, he couldn't stop the tears from welling in his eyes from all the pain that he suffered.
But it would all be worth it when he won this bet.
After all, he didn't know what would happen to him if he were to lose this bet…
Yang Xi Ruo's reputation was at stake in this bet and she had put in so much effort in training him. If he were to lose to Ouyang Xun's subordinate, it wouldn't be impossible to say that he might disappear…
But what he didn't know was that Yang Xi Ruo didn't have any intentions of doing that.
Yang Xi Ruo actually had a very special taste…
She liked weak men, the more useless the better.
She had always been surrounded by capable people since she was young and she was already bored with them. She loved a man who was completely useless, but her status didn't allow her to be with a man like that.
As the duke's daughter, she had to think about her family, so she couldn't let her desires run wild. But now that there was a man that would allow her desires to run wild also having enough potential to be trained, she wouldn't let him go.
She had already had her eyes on Jun Xie before because he was her perfect definition of a useless man.
Now she had caught him, she wouldn't let him go.
This contest really didn't matter for her because whether he won or lost, he would feel grateful to her for her help and that was the greatest gain for her.
Jun Xie wasn't feeling as confident because on every exam that he had taken before, he had always been last place.
While he had become stronger, there was still the mental block of being last place all those times in place. Not to mention that Ouyang Xun would also be sending a subordinate to participate in this exam.
There was no doubt that he would also make the exam harder for Jun Xie to help him win the bet.
With all these factors against him, it was normal for Jun Xie to be worried.
Once they arrived, they found that there was already a large crowd gathered. Both Ouyang Xun and Yang Xi Ruo were famous among the academy, so it was natural that a bet between them would also attract a lot of attention.
It was just too bad that the teacher had already been bought out by Ouyang Xun.
The exam consisted of two parts, a theoretical and a practical portion. The theoretical portion was just a simple test which Jun Xie easily aced.
During the week of training, his breaks had been to study the books for the test.
He had been forced to memorize everything in the books and if he didn't, he would be punished during the training. The punishment was much worse than just forcing himself to memorize all the material, so he forced himself to memorize everything.
The teacher had even messed him up by giving him a version that was much harder than everyone else's, but he still easily aced it.
As for the practical portion, it was a simple demonstration of one's combat abilities.
Using the special dummies that the academy prepared, they would have their attack and defense skills tested.
Before Jun Xie got onto the stage, the teacher had made some special tweaks to the dummy.
The dummies that were used for this exam were used for both first years and second years. They had a special setting on them that would determine how much strength they would use depending on what year the examinee was in.
The teacher set it to a second year's exam for Jun Xie.
That meant that the level the dummy would be at was the Embryo Soul Realm.
For most first years who were in the Fragmented Soul Realm, this would be an impossible test, but…For Jun Xie and the Arctic Fox that had undergone intense training, that wasn't the case.
Jun Xie and the Arctic Fox came right up to the stage and faced the dummy.
Normally they would face this dummy in one of the practice rooms with everyone else, but since there was the bet, even the academy gave his exam special privilege. It was now being held in an arena that was filled with people who had come to see how he would do.
After everything was set up, the dummy was the one that attacked first.
The teacher had also set it on aggressive mode since he had wanted to overwhelm Jun Xie who had a lack of experience with fighting with aggressive attacks. If Jun Xie were to panic, it would make it easier for the dummy to defeat him.
But to everyone's surprise…
The dummy ran right at Jun Xie without any regards for defending, gathering up life energy as it prepared to attack him. However, before it could even reach Jun Xie, there was a layer of ice that suddenly appeared around the dummy.
This layer of ice was very thick, but it was also very clear, so the dummy inside of the ice could be seen completely.
It was just frozen there, unable to move a single inch.
Eventually, the light in its eyes to show that it was powered dimmed until it completely disappeared.
With such a clear result, it was impossible for the teacher to say anything even if he had taken Ouyang Xun's money. With this kind of result, he had no choice but to declare Jun Xie the winner and let the panel of teachers decide his grade.
At the end of the exam, the top results were announced and without any suspense, Jun Xie took the top place in the exam.
After all, even the teachers had been shocked by what he had done.
While others might not have seen it, the teachers with their higher level of cultivation were able to see everything that the Arctic Lynx had done. It had frozen the dummy with just a single flick of its claw.
This was not something that a normal student could do!
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