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Chapter 203: Chapter 203: Bai Qiang’s Past Being Hunted
The moment Lu Sheng saw You Yi, her pupils contracted slightly, and her breathing halted for half a second.
Luckily, her reaction was extremely quick.
Or perhaps, from the moment her subconscious sensed danger, she had already masked her emotions.
Facing You Yi’s scrutinizing gaze, the girl’s face bore no superfluous expression, cool and composed.
One could only discern a slight impatience from being disturbed from sleep, but it was well-concealed out of respect.
"...Sorry, teacher, I’m a bit sleepy this morning."
Lu Sheng met the man’s gaze on the podium and replied, "As for the equestrian class, I haven’t had any prior experience."
"I see," the man’s expression remained unaltered, his face adorned with a soft smile, "It’s alright, I just wanted to get an idea of the situation."
"Don’t worry if you haven’t had any prior experience, I’ll provide private guidance for you during the class."
Hearing about the private guidance, the girl’s expression didn’t change as she simply said: "Then I’ll trouble the teacher for his effort."
The man adjusted his glasses, appearing very refined, his voice still gentle, "It’s no trouble, taking good care of each student is what a teacher should do."
This was a contest only the two of them knew about.
In this exchange, the man’s eyes peered through his glasses, intently trying to catch any unusual reaction on the girl’s face.
But obviously, Lu Sheng’s reaction left him disappointed.
Because the girl did not even fully lift her eyelids and spoke somewhat absentmindedly, as if she hadn’t fully woken up.
She seemed entirely like someone meeting a stranger for the first time.
If such a reaction wasn’t due to her excellent disguise, it was because the girl truly did not recognize him.
After You Yi finished introducing himself, Zhou Wu then said to the students in the classroom:
"Now that you’ve met Mr. You, you can go and collect the new equestrian gear, and get ready for the class later."
He then courteously turned to You Yi, "Mr. You, you can also go to the stable to wait, I’ve heard that two teaching assistants have already gone ahead."
"Alright, Mr. Zhou." You Yi nodded with a smile to Zhou Wu.
Before You Yi left the classroom, he pretentiously glanced unintentionally at Lu Sheng in the corner.
Although Lu Sheng did not look up, she could feel the man’s gaze piercing through others toward her.
The girl lowered her eyes, her eyelashes not trembling in the slightest. But the moment the man left the classroom, she took a deep breath.
Lu Sheng did not expect You Yi to seek her out.
It was probably two years ago, when she was still Bai Qiang, that the youngest descendant of the Demon Hunter clan discovered her existence.
At that time, due to her multiple identities — both public and undisclosed — she had amassed a considerable amount of admiration from humans, causing her Soul Power to be in a state of explosive growth.
The Demon Hunter clan possessed an ancestral device known as the Death Seeking Plate, capable of detecting the location of demons with High Soul Power.
Once a demon used Soul Power to do something, the stronger the Soul Power utilized, the more precise the location displayed on the Death Seeking Plate.
The first time You Yi definitively found her location was due to an accident.
At that time, she was living in the UK.
One evening, around eight o’clock, a fire broke out on the sixth floor of a department store, trapping hundreds of people within the flames.
When the fire on the sixth floor had ignited, she happened to be in a coffee shop on the first floor, reading by the window.
Upon hearing the fire alarm, the people inside the building panicked immensely, with police and security guards evacuating urgently, and everyone fled outside in disarray.
Only she, after learning of the situation from the police, went up the stairs to the barricaded emergency exit on the sixth floor and kicked the door open.
The moment the emergency exit at the staircase was opened, the sixth floor was engulfed in thick smoke, obscuring the figures of people almost completely.
The fire spread rapidly, and the panicked crowd huddled together, with only screams and coughs audible around them, the flames reflecting red in her pupils.
It was the first time she had used her Soul Power with such high intensity.
She isolated the smoke for those who were nearly choked to asphyxiation, controlled the spread of the fire, aided the firefighters in extinguishing the blaze, and cooled down and maintained the heart rate of those who were burnt and had fainted.
By the time the fire was completely out, she had almost exhausted all her strength, and had to lean against the wall to catch her breath and recover.
However, just as she wanted to leave the scene quietly and ahead of the others, she turned her head and saw You Yi staring at her not far away. 𝓃𝓸𝓋𝓹𝓾𝓫.𝒸ℴ𝓶
The man stepped towards her, his eyes cold and dark.
"...You are a Demon."
That was the first sentence You Yi said, in the tone of a declarative sentence.
"You created this fire disaster."
This was the second sentence You Yi said, still in a declarative tone.
The man had handsome features and a straight posture, like a messenger of justice.
His eyes held pity for the injured and hatred for Demons, and his voice stated the third sentence in a cold blooded manner.
"You really deserve to die."
None of the Demons You Yi had encountered and hunted before were kind.
In his belief, Demons are selfish and evil; they only commit evil deeds.
They kill humans and draw power from them to strengthen themselves. No Demon would willingly sacrifice themselves and expend exorbitant amounts of Soul Power to save humans.
Therefore, sensing that there was a Demon using extremely high-intensity Soul Power inside this building, and seeing such a large-scale fire disaster that almost resulted in a tragedy of several hundred people being burned alive or suffocating to death—
You Yi naturally assumed that she had deliberately caused the fire, aiming to kill so many people and grow stronger herself.
Once embedded into a Demon’s body, the Soul-devouring nails made by Demon Hunter clans could instantly shatter the Demon’s soul, never to be reborn.
That night, having already expended all her energy in saving people, she nearly died under You Yi’s Soul-devouring nail.
It took her a lot of effort to escape.
However, this was just the beginning of You Yi’s relentless pursuit.
You Yi already knew she possessed strong Soul Power.
According to the principles of Demon Hunter clans, the stronger the Demon is, the more relentless the effort must be to exterminate it.
Since a Demon with strong Soul Power could easily cause disaster for hundreds or thousands of people, You Yi never thought of letting her go.
He had seen her face, thus he tracked her whereabouts and had several encounters with her, each time she managed to escape.
But You Yi’s relentless pursuit had caused her great trouble.
She no longer wanted to entangle with him.
More than a year ago, she retreated to a secluded mountain, and a few months ago, she left Bai Qiang’s body. After a long search in the mortal world, she finally reincarnated in Lu Sheng’s body and started a new life.
Everything was calm, she had love, friendships, and familial affection from her brothers that she had never had before, making her feel happy and cherished.
Yet at this critical juncture, You Yi actually found the school, and it was clear that he was coming for her.
Lu Sheng didn’t know how she had exposed her tracks, but one thing was certain—
You Yi wasn’t sure she was Bai Qiang.
