Perverted Supernatural Academy

Chapter 6

Pei Linhai collapsed.

The gods of this world are so cruel! (Of course! Your god is me, a once-in-a-millennium pervert! Hahahaha!) Someone is secretly weeping...

But regardless, Lou Lifan had just saved him, so he felt he had to express his gratitude. Therefore, he glanced at Lou Lifan with a very reluctant look and whispered, "Thank you... for earlier..."

It would have been better if he hadn't said anything, because it seemed to have only made Lou Lifan angrier. Veins popped out on his usually expressionless face: "I...I'm asking you...why did you jump down just now?"

Lou Lifan looked bewildered: "Huh...? Didn't you tell me to jump?"

"I told you to watch your back!!! Who told you to jump off the building?! I was counting on you to pull me up!!!"

Despite the great distance, Pei Linhai's poor ears were still ringing from the vibrations.

"But...but there's clearly only a railing behind me..."

"Are ghost-sucking people stupid?! Couldn't they just jump from the upper floors onto your back?! How could you be so stupid?!"

"..."

After establishing a protective barrier for the exorcists, the last fragment of space collapsed, and Lou Lifan fell out. He found that his space was still pitch black, but unlike the previous gloomy darkness, it felt indelible, as if the darkness was impossible to wash off once it touched his hands. Only a faint light shone in the distance, its source unclear. He tried to walk towards it, but as soon as he took a step, he felt something sticky and soft beneath his feet…

He looked down and was horrified to find that he was standing on a huge mountain of "ghost corpses"!

Theoretically, demons cannot die because they are merely spiritual waves, the kind of things that can materialize. Therefore, whether separated or aggregated, they can possess separate or unified thoughts. So, the so-called "demon corpse" does not refer to the corpse of a demon—although that could be interpreted literally—but rather the corpse of a "shikigami." As mentioned earlier, those who willingly become shikigami are like Mikabinka and those fat cats, but if the demon itself is unwilling, then what is created is merely a tool for killing. This kind of "tool" is generally called a "shikigami." Although they are also a type of shikigami, they do not have the same high abilities and vitality as shikigami. Once they are broken, they can only be thrown away. This "broken" shikigami is a "demon corpse." Everyone knows that throwing demon corpses into the Demon Gate is the best fate for them, because there, they can find peace and guidance from spirits. However, most people do not like to approach the Demon Gate, and besides, those who use shikigami are generally not good people, so of course they would not be so kind as to help throw demon corpses into the Demon Gate, but rather discard them casually.

Who on earth is so insane as to collect this stuff?! And so much of it?!

Standing among the ghost corpses was too disgusting. Lou Lifan couldn't stand the sensation, so he quickly summoned the seal and used the "reject all intrusion" rule that the seal always followed, no matter where it was. He jumped onto it and fled without looking back to a place where he could barely see any light.

The light pointed to the entrance of the "teaching building." He rushed out and found himself on the dark first floor. Looking up, he saw Pei Linhai about to kiss the ghost… He couldn't understand how that idiot could be so stupid! Couldn't he even tell the difference between a ghost and a normal person?! So easily tempted! But he still needed that fool to save him, so he called out to warn him, managing to save him for a moment…

While Pei Linhai's attention was entirely focused on the ghosts in front of and beside him, one of them quietly went upstairs and jumped down the stairs one floor above him, intending to knock him into the horde so they could have a feast. Unexpectedly, Lou Lifan's voice exploded out at that moment. Unfortunately for Pei Linhai, he misunderstood; otherwise, not only would the ghosts have missed him, but they would have already reached the top!

Upon seeing that even that idiot had jumped down, Lou Lifan, in a moment of desperation, used his most stamina-consuming spiritual energy to fly in the opposite direction, hoping to slow him down. However, to his surprise, although the guy "fell" down, there was no impact whatsoever, which allowed him to easily catch him. He then summoned the protective barrier that dispelled the ghost, using it as a foothold.

At this point, his spiritual power had already been greatly depleted due to the spiritual energy flight and the barrier. Besides, although stepping directly into that kind of "water" was disgusting, it wasn't entirely unacceptable. However, he had a kind of germaphobia that others couldn't understand, so even if he used his last bit of strength, he absolutely had to stand on the barrier and refused to come down.

"Then...how do we get up there...?"

"How should I know!" Lou Lifan roared angrily. "If I hadn't caught you when you fell, you idiot, you could probably have jumped up to the lowest step on the stairs by now!"

If you hadn't misjudged... Lou Lifan gritted his teeth, wishing he could tear that guy to pieces.

Pei Linhai knew that all the blame lay with him, and could only bow his head in repentance: "But... things have already come to this..."

Yes, yes, it's already like this, even if you eat me now, it won't make a difference! So let's think of a way to escape first!

Lou Lifan glared at him and yelled, "Which school did you graduate from? Why do you have to ask me everything? Can't you use your brain?"

Pei Linhai smiled wryly: "I... I attended ordinary schools until university. Then, one day near graduation, I discovered I had this ability, so I transferred to a not-so-famous paranormal school. A few years later, during a school-wide survey, they discovered my extraordinary abilities and recommended me to come here... You could say I basically had no experience..."

A school-wide census... that was probably the time he broke all the aura measuring devices... A typical aura measuring device now costs around twenty million US dollars, I wonder how much that unfortunate school principal must be crying...

Maybe that's why they recommended him to this perverted academy? Possibly! That way, they'll avoid a huge problem and make him suffer for a few years as revenge… (Could that principal have been Byte's student before?)

Lou Lifan didn't expect this guy to be of any help, so he ignored him and sat down to ponder.

Completely forgotten and left aside, Pei Linhai stood in the sticky liquid, tilting his head back, eagerly waiting for Lou Lifan to suddenly jump up and shout "I know!" like Ikkyu! But there aren't many Ikkyu in the world, and besides, Ikkyu doesn't care about such things at all... So ten minutes passed, twenty minutes passed, an hour passed... Pei Linhai was still standing in the sticky liquid, anxiously waiting for Lou Lifan's good news.

Although somewhat reluctant, Pei Linhai had to admit that Lou Lifan, dressed in women's clothing, was actually very beautiful... even though he felt that he was so beautiful that it terrified him...

He was so focused on looking at Lou Lifan that he didn't notice the liquid beneath his feet beginning to change...

At first, there were only small ripples, which could not be noticed unless you looked closely. Later, it gradually turned into something like water boiling. Small bubbles kept rolling and bursting on the surface of the water. The small bubbles gradually became large bubbles, making a gurgling sound. The dark water also became more viscous and disgusting. Only then did Pei Linhai belatedly realize that something was wrong.

"Li...Li Fan! This water...!!"

Lou Lifan jumped up, staring intently at the pool of bubbling black water that was practically steaming, his face growing increasingly grim.

He suddenly reached out his hand to Pei Linhai: "Quick! Come up here! Someone's causing trouble in the ghost corpses!!"

"ah?"

"Idiot! I told you to come up here, so come up here!"

The ball of light descended slightly, and Lou Lifan's outstretched hand barely reached Pei Linhai's wrist, pulling upwards with force. But it was too late; the anomaly in the water had become unpredictable, and the disgusting viscosity clung tightly to Pei Linhai's feet, as if hundreds of hands were gripping him, rendering him immobile.

Lou Lifan had almost exhausted all his strength, but still couldn't pull Pei Linhai up. In his anger and frustration, he roared like never before, "You idiot! Can't you use your own strength?! Can't you use spiritual energy to fly?!"

"I...I haven't learned it..."

Lou Lifan almost swore.

The viscous sewage beneath Pei Linhai's feet churned and rolled, no longer boiling, but surging into large waves. Huge ripples of water swept over his lower body, and he gradually sank downwards.

"Li Fan! Let go! You'll fall too!"

"I don't want to!" Lou Lifan's body had already begun to slide down the sphere, but he still firmly grabbed Pei Linhai's wrist and refused to let go.

“Li Fan…” Pei Linhai was so moved that he cried tears of joy. With a friend like this, what more could he ask for…

"If I let you fall like this right in front of me, where will I save face in the future!"

Pei Lin Hai Dao~

The ripples beneath him gradually subsided, and Pei Linhai was overjoyed, thinking the catastrophe was about to pass. However, he was wrong.

It's true that the water ripples on his side have become smaller, but that's because all the sewage ripples on this floor are converging towards the center, washing together wave after wave, gradually forming a strange bulge.

That...could it be...?

“Shikigami Demon King…” Pei Linhai and Lou Lifan couldn’t help but utter the name of that “thing” at the same time.

After killing a large number of shikigami, the corpses are gathered together, and the "ghostly aura," "fierce aura," "killing aura," and "turbid aura" that the corpses possess are even more profound than those of the demon gate. After a long period of "fermentation," and after a considerable amount of prayers from shamans and witches, and with a suitable catalyst, they can be condensed into a shikigami demon king.

The Shikigami Demon King possesses its own consciousness, is not bound by "laws," and does not form alliances with anyone. It is the king of Shikigami, and all Shikigami around it will only obey its commands, making it a major headache for mages and Shikigami masters. Its aura is too turbid and too profound; ordinary spiritualists will experience paralysis of their senses when they enter its range, much like being near the gates of hell, unable to sense anything at all. Therefore, Lou Lifan and Pei Linhai, in this turbid water, did not notice any impure "things," forgetting that this was precisely the most abnormal situation.

"Hurry up and get up! ...Whoa!" Seeing Pei Linhai start to stare blankly, Lou Lifan was furious. He tried desperately to pull him up, but unexpectedly slipped and fell off the light sphere. Pei Linhai hurriedly reached out to catch him, preventing him from falling into the sewage.

The water had already reached Pei Linhai's waist, and he had to lift Lou Lifan up a little higher to keep him from getting wet.

"Are you alright?" He meant well, wanting to ask Lou Lifan if he was hurt anywhere.

But Lou Lifan interpreted his words as—I saved you too, so we're even, right?

He slowly raised his hands—and without mercy, slapped Pei Linhai more than a dozen times with a series of crisp sounds.

"You... jinx!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" He gritted his teeth for a long time before finally managing to squeeze out these words.

Pei Linhai was unable to refute it.

The black water condensed faster, and a vaguely shaped skull-like ghost head was taking shape.

"What...what should we do? Li Fan..."

"How was I supposed to know! It's so annoying! I should have just run away!"

"..." You're really direct...

"There's no other way, let's run that way first!" He pointed towards the classroom on the first floor and said, "Although we don't know what we'll encounter... it's still better than waiting here for the shikigami demon king to eat us up!"

Being eaten is fine, but to die inside the stomach of such a disgusting thing is something even more unacceptable to Lou Lifan, who has a phobia of germs, than being killed.

After waiting for a while...

"Why aren't you running?!"

Pei Linhai said with a mournful face, "I... this black water is too viscous... I can't move..."

Lou Lifan's forehead bulged with veins again: "You're infuriating... Don't you even know the most basic thing about protecting yourself with spiritual energy?! You don't even know this?!!"

If he dares to say no, I'll kill him right now...

"I can..." That's more like it... "But... will this even work?"

Lou Lifan almost fainted.

"Hurry up and raise your spiritual energy barrier!! If you keep nagging, I'll really kill you with this one strike!"

Pei Linhai obediently closed his eyes, guided the spiritual energy in his body to his dantian, and then circulated it in his body according to the techniques he had learned in the past. Wherever it went, it was distributed to the surface of that part of his body. A wave of apple-green light spread out from the outside of his body. The layer of black water seemed to be pushed away by something, and it just kept circling around the light, but could not touch his body.

The skull's head was almost fully formed, and it suddenly rose more than ten meters high, letting out a mournful shriek.

"It's a rumbling sound! Run!"

Peilin ran at full speed, and the barrier orb followed them, spinning away towards their intended direction.

The spiritual energy shield around Pei Linhai crackled with electricity, and Lou Lifan suddenly felt as if he were bound by something, so tight that he couldn't breathe. However, he had used all his remaining strength to protect the barrier against the ghosts. If he used the spiritual energy barrier to resist now, the ghosts would lose their protection and explode into nothingness under the Ghost King's tremors.

"Pei...Lin...Hai..." It hurts so much... Maybe I should open the barrier to dispel the ghost...

But if that happens...

The fruit-green light emanating from Pei Linhai suddenly began to spread up and down from where they were in contact, quickly enveloping Lou Lifan entirely under the protection of his spiritual energy barrier. Like Pei Linhai, Lou Lifan also radiated that fruit-green light.

"Pei...?"

"I will protect you..." just like you risked your life to save me just now...

Before he could finish speaking, Lou Lifan slapped him a dozen more times.

When he was stuck to that "thing" earlier, Pei Linhai was completely unable to move. But now, with the protective shield, the viscous sewage seemed to exist without any resistance. He was practically running at full speed, completely unaware that he was still holding someone. The roar of the Ghost King created a relentless rumble behind him, as did the Ghost King itself. It dragged the viscous liquid along, chasing after them. Pei Linhai and Pei Linhai ran into the relatively narrow classroom corridor, but its pursuit showed no sign of stopping. The low, narrow buildings were completely useless against it—or rather, even the buildings seemed to be part of it. When it burst into the corridor, all that remained was a chilling—rectangular face, still relentlessly pursuing the two of them.

If the situation hadn't been so critical, Lou Lifan, who had been keeping a close eye on the situation behind him, would have loved to burst into laughter. After all, he had never seen a rectangular face like that of the Ghost King before...

The corridor soon came to an end, but the Ghost King's momentum showed no sign of slowing down. When Pei Linhai saw the towering black wall in front of him, he really wanted to cry out, "God, are you on holiday today?"

"It's over! What do we do now, Li Fan!?"

"How should I know!" This is no time for arguing... Lou Lifan certainly understood this, but what could he do now? He had almost exhausted his power, and even if he withdrew the protective barrier against the ghost, it wouldn't make much difference. Although Pei Linhai possessed abilities above Special A level, he basically didn't know how to use them...

Ah! I've got it!

"Run! When you get to the wall, put me down facing the Ghost King!"

"Do you intend to fight it one-on-one?!"

"Would I do something so stupid! Just listen to me!"

Pei Linhai ran to the wall as fast as he could, put Lou Lifan down, and turned to face the Ghost King.

Lou Lifan stood in front of Pei Linhai, quickly grabbed his arm, put it on his shoulder, and shouted, "Right hand open, left hand form a hand seal! Quickly!"

The so-called "palm" refers to four fingers held together, with only the thumb bent and pressed against the side of the palm; while the "knuckles" are similar to the palm, but the ring and little fingers are bent, with the first knuckle pressed against the second knuckle. These are both attack postures, but no one has ever used them simultaneously.

Pei Linhai did as he was told.

Lou Lifan placed his hands on the back of Pei Linhai's hands and chanted a spell in a low voice that Pei Linhai could not understand.