"Xiang, are you fine?" I asked worried
Xiang looked around the now destroyed room, finally, she realized that she was nude only covered by a coat and blushed a lot "Bai, leave the room, now!" she shouted.
"Okay, okay. I will be outside, call me when you're ready" I said leaving the room.
After 5 minutes they call me inside.
Entering the room I could see that Chenxiang was dressed in her usual blue jacket and blue jeans which were used to hide her gender, however, because of her changes now it was impossible to resemble a boy, the peaks on her chest, her face. Even her now enchanting yellowish-brown eyes that shined with a characteristic glint.
Just as I entered Chenxiang jumped towards me, I caught her into a hug "Thanks, Bai!" she said crying, but this time it was undoubtedly tears of joy.
"Are you completely fine?" I asked concerned.
She nodded "Yep. I've never felt better" she grinned, from her back appeared a pair of wings, they seemed like an angel one, if not for giving a metallic sensation and their complete transparency, only seeing the contour, seemingly a kind of mirage.
Surrounding the wings, it could be seen three rings, yellow, purple and purple, the last one with a hint of black showing that it was very close to the 10.000 years old.
"I'm now rank 40! I finally broke through!" She said excitedly.
"Congratulations, Xiang!" I said. "Sorry for making you go through all that pain" I said a little remorseful.
"Bai, it was my decision. I accomplished my long dream, if I could repeat the decision I will accept it again" Chenxiang cheered me.
"So? What are the changes? It is easily seen that your spirit changed" I asked.
"It transformed. Now it is a Thousand Lights Needle-Tailed Flash. A kind of spirit mutation obtaining light attribute, even with this it keeps its main property which is the speed that it even increased" said Chenxiang smiling.
"What about the new spirit rings?" I asked her.
"They changed. They are now more focused on speed, however, my attack power also grew. The first one is Light Body that improves my speed 50% plus 1% for every rank that I have. The second is Flash and extremely quick dash, it so fast that it seems like teleportation, the problem is that I can't change direction. Lastly, my third skill is Light Strike, it converts my speed to power, so the faster I go the stronger will be the attack" Chenxiang excitedly explained.
"It seems that you are a true speed system at last. Even with a good attack power. Congratulations Xiang!" I congratulated her.
Then she made one round spinning over her "What do you think about me now, Bai?" said Chenxiang charmingly.
I blushed a little causing her to giggle "You're very pretty, a stunning beauty. I don't think that you could still maintain your facade as a boy" I said.
"It doesn't matter" she said playing with her hair. Then she touched her chest "This is the true me. I made a vow to appear as a boy until a could breakthrough, once I accomplish it I will start to live as the one that I truly am. I don't gonna hide again, I'm proud of being from my clan. So, for now, please, feel free to always call me Xiang" Chenxiang smiled.
Then Chenxiang jumped towards me, even so, I caught her in a hug both of us were thrown to the floor. "Thanks, Bai! You made my dream true! I don't know can I return this favor. Anytime that you need help don't doubt to tell me, I would help you with all my strength" She happily said with some tears of joy.
Just at that moment, Mayi entered the room. Seeing our easily misinterpreted position she froze. Then she started trembling, clenching her fist. She made a death glaze at Chenxiang and activated her spirit manifesting her armor.
"Calm down, Mai! She is..." I tried to explain too late, Mayi didn't wait to listen to me and charged toward Chenxiang at full power.
As her punch was approaching Chenxiang activated her spirit showing her beautiful wing, at the same time her purple ring started to shine and just about Mayi's hit was about to connect she disappeared leaving only light particles.
With our position of Chenxian over me, the punch losing its previous objective it went towards me. I cross my arm infusing all the defense intent that I could, prepared for the strike.
Mayi hit my arms with so much force that the floor couldn't keep it. The cracks expanded forming a hole in the floor. I and Mayi fell to the next floor where I could finally stop her attack.
"Bai, traitor!" said Mayi with teary eyes. Then she turned to the hole to the next floor "I will kill this bitch!".
Just before she was about to jump I caught her arm stopping her "Calm down! She is Chenxiang! She was only a little excited, it was a friendly hug" I tried to reassure Mayi that nothing happened.
"So, nothing happened? You still love me?" asked Mayi expectantly, I nodded a little scared causing her to smile "Sorry, Bai. But better not be intimate with any girl"
I stood up and both of us returned to the top floor with a light jump. Chenxiang was at a corner "Calm down, Mayi. I didn't do anything to Bai" said Chenxiang still a little scared.
"I know. Bai explained Sorry to don't recognize you, Chenxiang" said Mayi. She turned to me "So... What happened? You told to stay aside. I only came because I feel and instinct of you being attacked" she said doing from an instant a death glare to Chenxiang.
"I obtained a new ability that improves the foundation of light and plant spirits. We tried in Xiang, to try if she could breakthrough. The reaction was so strong that she almost died. Finally, thanks to Lingling healing and my ability Xiang resisted enough to transform her spirit from the wind element to a light element breaking through in the process" I explained.
"Congratulations, Chenxiang! You finally could cultivate without worry, now you would keep the team level" Mayi said.
At this moment from the destroyed door came the other team members "Can we enter? Mayi shot towards here, I don't know if we may molest" said Osler.
"All is good now, you can enter" I said.
"What the fuck did you do here!? The door is destroyed, a big hole at the center of the floor and all the furniture is crashed toward the wall, all of them with burning marks" asked Yan.
"It's my fault, sorry. But it is not like it is the first time we made a little wreck" answered Chenxiang.
"Who is the beauty?" asked Osler pointing at Chenxiang.
"Oh, pitiful me. For you to not remember this pretty me" said Chenxiang with fake tears.
"Yu Feng!" shouted Osler "Woah, you really changed. I have already known that you were a girl but I never imagined you to be so beautiful"
All the other team members were confused "Was Feng always a girl?" asked Yan shocked.
"Oh? You never know it. Spending time with her is was kind of obvious. I didn't say anything, waiting for her to start" said Osler.
"Okay, so Feng is a girl. Could you explain what happened here and your changes?" Yan asked.
Chenxiang bowed "Sorry for lying to all of you. My true name is Bai Chenxiang. As you may have guessed I am part of the Speed Clan. With my strength-oriented ring configuration I was blocked at rank 38 impossible to breakthrough due to the limitation of my clan spirit, only being possible to go for speed" She explained
"Bai gifted me some special and unique treasure to help me breakthrough, even to arrive at rank 40" She spun around "This is the result. In the process, I had a very violent reaction and destroyed the room a little"
Chenxiang pointed the door and then the hole "For the door, the culprit is Bai when entered and the hole it was now made by Mayi"
"You can finally follow us, congratulations Fe-... Chenxiang, congratulations Chenxiang!" said Tianheng.
"What are you going to do now, Xiang?" I asked seriously.
"I'm gonna leave the academy" said calmly Chenxiang.
"WHAT! Just as you finally breakthrough you want to leave, why?" asked surprised Yan.
"The academy's board plus the supervisor expelled me. They discovered my true identity and my condition" explained Chenxiang.
"But you can stay. You're arrived a rank 40 with 13 years, I true genius! It will easy to convince the academy to accept you again" said Yan.
Chenxiang shook her head "No. I will quit the academy. They never trust me, always despising me for not being noble, they only accepted for my talent and when they found a fault they quickly expelled. I will show them my power! I will you all the world the power of the Speed Clan! I will make them regret expelling me!" Chenxiang said with conviction.
"Xiang, I'm with you. The only salvation of the academy is the principal, the board is completely rotten, only looking at your nobility, not the talent or effort. They not only expelled you, they even expelled my sister and her friend" I looked at Chenxiang eyes "I will go with you".
"Me too!" said Mayi.
Lingling nodded.
"I don't know how I will explain to grandfather but I will join you" said Yan
"We are a team, we will be together" said Tianheng
The Shi brothers nodded.
Chenxiang smiled brightly even she cried in joy "Thanks guys!" but after a second shook her head "But no. If you leave the academy you won't be able to participate in the Continental Tournament, they surely will ban you for leaving, in my case, there's no problem because I was expelled. I don't want you to lose this opportunity. Moreover, I want for the academy to regret me leaving the academy due to my own power, not because the academy lost all of you"
"I will join another academy, surely any other will accept me. In the future we will fight against" said Chenxiang smiling "Please don't lose too badly against me" she teased us.
I smiled at her "If it's your decision I will accept it and I imagine the others so". All the other members nodded.
"Good luck, Xiang!" I said lifting my hand.
She smiled and rejected my hand hitting it, then she hugged me "Thanks!".
Mayi puffed her cheeks and separated us, she turned to Chenxiang and said "Good luck" with a little frown. After Mayi, all the other members gave their encouragement.
"Before you leave we must do a farewell party!" said Osler.
"This night party!" I shouted "Let's have three days free of training to celebrate"
"Uooooooh!" All shouted excited.