Dozens of miles away, a group of teachers and students from the academy were surrounding a petite woman. When she slowly opened her eyes, cheers immediately broke out from the crowd.

"Xiao Xi, you're finally awake." Bai Susu patted her chest, looking extremely shocked.

Ji Xiaoxi opened her eyes groggily, and her memories slowly returned to her mind. In the valley, her brother, Azu, lured the zombies away to save her. She wanted to help, but all her skills were of no use to these zombies.

Remembering the instructions the other person gave her before leaving, she could only hold back her tears and watch as Zaun led a large number of zombies away, before she hurriedly ran out of the valley to find help.

Unfortunately, the grasslands became much more dangerous at night. For some reason, the dragon dung she carried seemed to be much less effective. Although many ferocious beasts dared not approach her, they did not keep their distance as they would when they were outside.

Many ferocious beasts were lurking nearby. After realizing that she was just a little girl, some even began to probe her. Later, she encountered a pack of wolves and was chased until she had nowhere to run. In desperation, she fired the signal flare that Bai Susu had given her earlier.

Just then, Bai Susu and her group were nearby and rushed to her rescue after hearing the news. However, she had fainted from exhaustion due to the long escape and only woke up now.

"Xiao Xi, how are you now?" Bai Susu secretly breathed a sigh of relief. If something had happened to her, Principal Jiang would definitely have gone crazy.

"I...I'm fine, hurry and save Brother Azu," Ji Xiaoxi said hurriedly, feeling utterly useless for fainting at such a crucial moment.

"Zu An?" The people around her then remembered that she and Zu An were together. Just now, everyone's attention was on her, and people like Zu An were completely ignored.

"What's wrong with him? What exactly happened between you two?" Bai Susu asked patiently.

"We first encountered a group of golden-haired monster rats. In order to escape them, we accidentally ran into a mysterious valley. Little did we know that it was the beginning of a nightmare..." Ji Xiaoxi quickly recounted what had happened.

“Zombies everywhere!” Bai Susu’s expression changed. This situation had never occurred before. Although the school had made it sound serious, it was mainly to keep the students on their guard. Overall, the Yao Guang Secret Realm was still very safe, which had been proven over the past few hundred years.

As for so many bizarre zombies, I've never heard of them before.

However, he did not doubt Ji Xiaoxi's words. Not to mention that she was a well-known obedient girl who never lied; based on what he had seen and heard since entering the secret realm, he also noticed that there were some unusual things in the secret realm. Whether it was the number of ferocious beasts or their aggressiveness, they were much, much greater than before.

"Hurry up and save him!" Ji Xiaoxi hurriedly tugged at Bai Susu's sleeve, while pleading with the classmates around her.

The others looked at each other, and someone said, "If there really are that many zombies, we'll just be throwing our lives away if we go."

"That's right, and so much time has passed. Even if he had gone back, he would probably already be dead by zombies..."

...

"You're talking nonsense! Brother Azu will definitely be alright!" Ji Xiaoxi was gentle and kind-hearted, and had never argued with anyone in all these years, but upon hearing this, she couldn't help but stand up and became angry for the first time ever.

Bai Susu fell into deep thought. Actually, what her classmates said made sense. They weren't necessarily afraid of death, but rather, based on common sense, they figured that Zu'an was probably already...

If these people were to go and rescue him, and they happened to encounter a horde of zombies, countless people would perish. As the teacher protecting these students, he also had a responsibility to them.

"If you won't go save me, I'll go myself!" Ji Xiaoxi stood up and turned to leave, but unfortunately she twisted her ankle while fleeing and almost fell to the ground in pain.

"How can you save anyone in this condition?" Bai Susu had a headache. "How about this, you all stay here, I'll go and check on them by myself."

Although leaving these students here is somewhat dangerous, their numbers are not small, and they should be able to handle any ferocious beasts that appear. Moreover, this is the outer edge of the secret realm, so there shouldn't be too much danger.

"Let me go." Just then, a clear, cold voice came.

Everyone turned around and saw a graceful and elegant woman in white standing to the side. Who else could it be but Chu Chuyan?

"Miss Chu, what are you doing here?"

"Miss Chu, are you alright?"

...

The group was pleasantly surprised, and many men went over to offer their concern and care.

Unfortunately, Chu Chuyan didn't even glance at those people, and walked straight to Ji Xiaoxi: "Where is the valley where you separated? Describe it to me in detail."

It turned out that she felt mentally unsettled during her visit to the secret realm, and she was also worried that Zu An's sudden emergence in the family competition had damaged the interests of too many people, and that someone might take the opportunity to retaliate against him.

So after walking a distance into the depths of the secret realm, he turned back and happened to see Ji Xiaoxi's distress signal in the distance. He rushed over and heard what she had just said.

Ji Xiaoxi looked at the beautiful woman in front of her with some surprise. She only came to her senses when the woman asked her again. She hurriedly drew the valley on the ground.

Chu Chuyan said to Bai Susu, "Teacher Bai, you continue to protect their safety. I'll go." With that, she lightly touched the ground with her toes and floated away.

Watching her disappearing figure, Ji Xiaoxi couldn't help but murmur: "Upon closer inspection just now, Sister Chu is truly unbelievably beautiful..."

Bai Susu nodded secretly. It was best to send Chu Chuyan. Her cultivation level was already close to that of the academy's teachers, and she was more than capable of protecting herself. Moreover, she was going to act alone anyway, so she didn't need to worry about the safety of other students like she did.

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