Lu Mingfei starts from Douluo

A tall, slender young woman with long, dark red, wavy hair that reached her waist stood with her hands on her hips, blocking your way.

If this were an older visual novel game, two options would appear here.

"May I ask, heroine, are you after your money or your virtue?"

However, the reality is that this female knight-errant was neither after money nor sex, but rather was planning to get something for free.

The unspoken rules of the competition were all agreed upon: you'll only have a chance to face him if you make it to the finals. Now you're blocking his way, trying to freeload off his time and effort without any explanation. What a pipe dream!

Do you know how much his appearance fee was in the last match? It was around 100,000 gold soul coins.

"Student from Blazing Academy, private fights between participating members are not allowed during the competition," Lu Mingfei said in a businesslike tone. "You don't want me to report you to the competition organizing committee and cause Blazing Academy to be disqualified because of you, do you?"

"???Um?"

Huo Wu's delicate face suddenly stiffened. She had considered many possibilities of being rejected. Lu Mingfei might be arrogant and disdainful of others, or he might pretend to be indifferent and ignore her. But she never expected that he would reject her for such a reason.

Please, we're all江湖儿女 (people of the martial arts world), and the legendary number one genius on the mainland is constantly complaining. Is that really necessary?

However, Lu Mingfei had no time to pay attention to her inner grumbling and walked directly past her towards the exit of the Great Soul Arena.

Agreeing to such a thing will bring absolutely no benefit; on the contrary, it may cause a lot of trouble.

Does he look like the kind of person who would be blinded by beauty and lose his mind?

Instead of putting on this show, you might as well find a food stall to fill your stomach.

Those guys from Yufeng were too stingy this morning; they only gave him a few steamed buns, which wasn't even enough to fill his teeth.

However, Lu Mingfei quickly realized that this was not Little Chili at all, but Tiger Girl.

"Is it appropriate for you to threaten me with something like this?" "Are you even a man?" "Why can Feng Xiaotian do it, but I can't?"...

The shrill chirping of cicadas echoed incessantly in Lu Mingfei's ears, sending chills down his spine. While the competition did prohibit contestants from taking actions against each other in private, harassment was a difficult issue to define.

Especially if a fair-skinned, beautiful, long-legged girl harasses a guy, people will think he's showing off and deserves a beating.

However, what this "tiger girl" said was indeed somewhat misleading and contained inappropriate language.

Lu Mingfei felt that the way the passersby were looking at him was becoming more and more like some kind of pervert. If this continued, he was afraid he would be treated like a rat that everyone wanted to kill.

Huo Wu, however, remained completely oblivious, her bright eyes still fixed on Lu Mingfei.

Entering the finals through the qualifiers is indeed a fair way to face Lu Mingfei, but there are 33 teams in the finals. What if they lose before they meet Lu Mingfei? Wouldn't that be a waste of time?

More importantly, he had been sitting in the competition area and had witnessed Lu Mingfei cheering for Tianshui Academy. If Lu Mingfei could favor Feng Xiaotian from Shenfeng Academy, he could also cheer for Shui Bing'er from Tianshui Academy today.

As a result, Lu Mingfei left before they even started their studies at Blazing Academy. What's going on?

"You're not planning to follow me like this forever, are you? You still have a match later." Lu Mingfei stopped at a tea stall in a corner by the roadside. Rather than letting her follow him and ruin his reputation, it was better to find a quiet place to make things clear. Although with his speed, even if Huo Wu had ten legs, she couldn't catch up with him, why should he run? Could it be that he was really afraid of a little girl?

Anyway, he has plenty of time. This girl from Blazing Fire Academy will have to go back to participate in the competition later, and she will naturally leave obediently and won't bother him again.

"It's just a fight, why are you being so wishy-washy?" Huo Wu pouted. Can't you just be straightforward? It's so boring. The number one genius on the mainland? You should be called the number one coward on the mainland.

She grew up surrounded by admirers, and had never been so humble towards a boy before.

Lu Mingfei didn't say anything, just kept drinking his tea. Even in the dean's office, he could be lost in thought and daydreaming as if no one else was around, let alone the provocation of a mere little girl.

It was the height of summer, and a swarm of cicadas were chirping incessantly in the trees next to the tea stall. The air was stifling, like a steamer basket used to cook a fat monk in Lion Camel Ridge.

Lu Mingfei, oblivious to everyone else, poured some ice into his teapot and gazed at the clear blue sky beyond the treetops.

He always liked to daydream, especially during summer vacation, because he had no money to go online during the day and had nothing to do. If he didn't daydream, what else could he do but do his homework?

Back then, the occasional sound of a loudspeaker selling cream popsicles could be heard outside the window, the cicadas chirped incessantly in the trees, and the old man at the newsstand downstairs would play a Beijing-style folk song while dozing off.

Lu Mingfei's thoughts drifted away in the sounds that belonged only to summer, as if he were the only person left in the whole world.

Huo Wu was furious, but Lu Mingfei still had time to drink iced tea and didn't even glance at her.

She glanced at the sun gradually rising to the center of her head, then looked towards the direction of the Great Soul Arena not far away. Their academy's competition was in the third group today, and the second group should have already started. She really didn't have much time left.

But Lu Mingfei remained motionless, like a wooden statue.

"Drink, drink, drink! I'll let you drink!" Although Huo Wu really wanted to take action directly, Lu Mingfei's threat to withdraw from the competition was still fresh in her mind, so she didn't dare to do anything reckless, but smashing a cup was no problem.

However, she shivered when she first touched the teacup in Lu Mingfei's hand.

It wasn't because of the mere ice cubes, but because she suddenly met a pair of cold, crimson, golden eyes.

The instant their eyes met, a chilling current swept over her, as if freezing every inch of her blood into ice crystals in an instant.

Lu Mingfei's cold, golden gaze fell upon her, like a heavy, tangible blade, pinning her to the spot.

The martial spirit was immobilized, the soul power could not be circulated, and even breathing became difficult.

The lack of oxygen and the spontaneous surge of adrenaline in her body made her nerves tense. She wanted to shout, but her consciousness seemed to sink into an abyss of nothingness, receiving no response from her body.

Just as her consciousness began to fade, that golden gaze finally shifted away.

"Huff! Huff! Huff!..." She didn't have time to care about her disheveled state lying on the tea table. Her body was panting heavily, each breath like the last hope of a person on the verge of drowning.

"What on earth happened?" Huo Wu was still in shock. She was actually frightened like this by just one look from Lu Mingfei?