Chapter 238: Out of the Game

The mark did not look like a scar, but a pattern, a totem, with vines and arrows intertwined into a falling anchor...

Many villagers, like that villager, raised their left hands to the sky. They had the same symbol on their arms. Arms were raised toward the sky in the dark night. The dark villages on the map were now set on fire.

"Believe in the cult and destroy the demons."

"Believe in the Order and eliminate heresy!"

"Why are you staying in the tree and not coming down?"

The woman in green landed silently on another branch. Chang Feichang, who was leaning against the tree, turned his head to look at her. There was no expression in the boy's dark eyes.

"Through faith, they gained the power to resist the demon world, which is a good thing," said Bixiao.

"In Weng Xingyun's time, people didn't need to believe in her to gain power," Chang Feichang said.

"So they had no reverence, no gratitude. That's why she died." Bi Xiao said, "So we had to make them fearful and submissive from the beginning. Human nature is just so mean."

He was often very silent, just looking up at the night sky.

"There's no way to revive Weng Xingyun. She's anxious, right?" he said. "What does she want to do? Take the opportunity to use the power of faith to create a god, activate the altar, open the gate to heaven, and revive her?"

"You ask too many questions, Chang Feichang." Bi Xiao said, "You shouldn't ask so many questions about the boss."

"Go see Liu Shuang when you have time. She misses you very much."

Bixiao turned and left. Behind her, Chang Feichang asked, "You did it, didn't you?"

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"Marquis Fengshi wanted to test his magic with monks, and he could use monks from anywhere. But you chose to lure the monks from the Qingji Sect. So one thing led to another, with Jiang Duo's sneak attack, Xiang Wuxing's fall, and the demon world's massive invasion. The world was in chaos, and that gave you the opportunity to preach in the human world." Chang Feichang said, "A good situation."

Bixiao said: "Did I tell you that you are asking too many questions?"

"I'm not afraid of you." Chang said calmly, "Liu Shuang is not a powerless person. If you touch her, you don't want to know the price you will pay."

Bixiao lost his voice. After a moment, she laughed and said, "Chang Feichang, you don't really think of yourself as a member of the Qingji Sect, do you? Don't you hate the hardships, the filth, and the blood of your family members? Have you forgotten?"

He often looked at her very coldly. He said: "Those big sects will pay the price for this. And the imperial court... I will never forget it in my life."

"Chang Feichang, don't have any thoughts that shouldn't be had." Bixiao said.

Neither of them said a word. Bixiao turned and walked into the darkness. Behind her is an oasis of faith and a paradise for believers. What they got in their hands was candy packaged as faith and taken as reality.

From the small village on the border, to Wangyue Town, and then to deeper and deeper places.

At the same time, the Qingji Sect built a new window to the world. Next to the Window of the World are the Dayin Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where the material and cultural heritage of the ghost world has finally been well preserved. Many international students from the demon world were jealous of how well the culture of the ghost world was preserved, and decided to donate the treasures of their own tribes to the Qingji Sect so that they could be well preserved.

The water of the River Lethe gurgles through the many pipes in the laboratory. Finally, Xue Li's voice came from the laboratory: "Success!"

The experiment to separate all the chaos from the Xirang was successful!

The Xirang and Wangchuan Bingpo were properly preserved, and the regenerative parts of them became new wicks. Ning Mingmei took out his lotus lantern in a deserted place and poured three kinds of wicks into it one by one.

Green, blue, yellow.

The earthen wick created the world, built mountains and filled the sea. From the highest peaks to the deepest mines, everything is under Ning Mingmei's control. All minerals are neatly arranged in the land, moved, and defended by erecting high walls, with all functions available.

The water lamp wick stirs up huge waves, but in addition, it actually has a mysterious effect that affects people's mind and soul. Compared with the powerful protective power of earthen wicks, the power of water wicks lies in their flow and change. It can create illusions of mirages and infinity, and generate inner demons in people's hearts. It can also flow through everyone's blood vessels and freeze into solid ice in an instant.

The power of the wood wick is still growth, healing and purification, and perhaps purification and mutation. Ning Mingmei combined the power of the three together, and the wooden whip whipped through the mud spots mixed with water and soil, and human figures climbed up on the ground one by one.

What kind of Nuwa simulator is this?

Ning Mingmei can freely change the appearance of these clay figures and control their movements with his ability, but they still lack the vitality that can be radiated, and the clay figures without backbones are like a pile of loose sand that will be scattered by the wind.

"These clay figures need a little backbone of gold and joy of fire."

In addition, the combination of water and soil, water and wood, and earth and wood also has ever-changing power. Now all that is missing to form the final, inextinguishable wick is fire and gold.

Ning Mingmei raised the lotus lantern and stared at it.

The Lotus Lantern is very honest and does not have a veto power. Now that the number of wicks has exceeded half, the bill to purify the lotus lamps can be passed. The original black marks in the lamp body had been mostly washed away by the flowing spiritual energy. The crystal clear lamp body gradually reveals its dazzling beauty.

What are these black things inside?

This thought flashed through Ning Mingmei's mind for only a moment, but soon, a faint light lit up in the lotus lamp... At that moment, Ning Mingmei actually felt that his mind and the magic weapon were connected, and scenes actually flowed out from the lotus lamp and into Ning Mingmei's heart.

After Weng Xingyun's death, this lotus lantern was picked up and fought over...a wick with the five elements attributes is too difficult to find. So someone came up with a brilliant idea.

Several talented young monks were imprisoned. They possess a pure single spiritual root, and if they are well cultivated, they should have superhuman cultivation speed. Unfortunately, they are still young at the moment, and have talent but no strength. What’s worse, their backgrounds are not clean enough. They are more or less related to the remnants of Spark Island.

From then on, these girls and boys were called "core people". They were tied up in various places and forced to take natural treasures to purify their blood like ducks. People drew their blood rich in the spiritual energy of a single spiritual root, mixed them, and used them as "lamp oil" containing the power of the five elements. If the boys don't want to be blood slaves, then break their legs. If they refuse to eat, force them to eat. If they refuse to obey, tie their families in front of them and cut their bodies with the knife... People's imagination only advances so rapidly when they enslave their own kind.

The blood containing power and hatred flowed into the lotus lamp and into every vein of the lotus lamp. The crystal clear lotus lantern was stained with dirty blood, emitting an eerie light, but also releasing powerful power. They held lotus lanterns and killed all the people on Spark Island...

Finally, someone came who killed those people and saved the boys. The young men looked at the survivors of Spark Island and thought this was the arrival of hope. But all they saw in their eyes was the desperate fire of revenge.

——Since they have done it, why can't we do it too?

——I'm sorry, but this is all for revenge.

——If you want to blame someone, blame them!

They fell from one hell into another.

Then, after several rounds of fighting, the dirty blood flowing in the lotus lantern no longer had any quality or guarantee. Young people died in batches. Finally, the guardian of Spark Island fought desperately to retrieve the lotus lantern, but now he was also at the end of his strength.

He held the lamp and headed for the ghost world to meet up with another guardian, Yun Simu. He should have done this at the risk of his life, but at the junction of the desert and the forest, he... chickened out.

He didn't go to the ghost world. Even though he knew, Yun Simu was waiting for him there. Even if he knew, Yun Simu's whereabouts would be exposed and he would be besieged by people all over the world. But the dirty blood was dripping down along the lotus lantern. The guardian looked down at the lotus lantern, and at that moment, he remembered something he had done just now when he broke through the encirclement in order to retrieve the lotus lantern.

——He used a knife to cut the throat of the person next to him and injected his blood into the lotus lantern. Then he injected magic power into the lotus lantern and drove it.

What does that feel like? Even though his life was slipping away, he still felt the majestic, driven, and seemingly omnipotent energy in the lotus lantern. He felt his body expanding, his strength expanding as well - so it turned out that the power of the lotus lamp had been like this for all these years - so it turned out that Weng Xingyun had been using such a good thing for all these years - he felt his body becoming light, until he heard the words that his enemy, who had hurried over and witnessed him killing his friend, said to him while dying, spitting out blood bubbles.

"So you are just like us. You have already lost..."

At that moment, the guardian laughed out loud: "What nonsense are you talking about? The person who is about to die is you!"

He stabbed the man's body with a knife to get more blood and more strength. But the man stared at him intently, with a mocking look in his eyes: "Look, now you are the same as us..."

"You people from Spark Island are terrible... Just like Weng Xingyun, she died, but she is not dead. She is still endangering us... And you are already dead at this moment, the moment you killed your friend..."

"You finally lost! Totally!"

No one knows what the guardian is thinking in the end. Maybe he didn't want to see Yun Simu again, maybe he didn't want to see himself again, maybe he was afraid of the outside world from the bottom of his heart, or maybe he wanted to monopolize the lotus lantern to heal himself. In short, in the end, he came to the cave with the lotus lantern. That cave eventually became his burial place.

Ning Mingmei pulled himself away from the flood of memories. He stared at the lotus lantern for a while and said, "Are you a...spiritual being?"

After he said this, he felt that it was unnecessary - a true artifact like the lotus lantern naturally had some mystery in it. The seventh lotus seed, which is from the same mother as the lotus lantern, can also fulfill people's wishes. And the lotus pod it left behind, although it was only made into a semi-artifact Pangu Axe by Jiang Heng, would make cursing sounds every time Ning Mingmei used it to steal land, and refused to have a spiritual connection with Ning Mingmei.

Of course, Ning Mingmei had no intention of refining Pangu Axe into his own magical weapon. Ning Mingmei's business empire is so vast, but Pangu Axe is just a real estate prop. How could a mere tool who has only been involved in the real estate industry have the qualifications to have a spiritual connection with Ning Mingmei?

——Perhaps because of this, Ning Mingmei later found it increasingly difficult to manage the land. Fortunately, he has a lot of Gundams specifically for collecting plots of land. This saved Ning Mingmei time in building a good relationship with Pangu Axe, because Ning Mingmei could directly put Pangu Axe into the hands of the mindless robot unmanned Gundam, let the Gundam wield Pangu Axe according to the established program, and transmit spiritual power through the spiritual energy pipeline.

The spirit in Pangu Axe cannot communicate with Gundam, a mechanical creature without intelligence, but it has to use it to chop the ground. Moreover, it does not know the source of the spiritual energy injected into its body. This feeling of being used anonymously is like having your butt stuck in a hole in the wall, and you can't see who is wiping your butt. Pangu Axe is obviously an E-spirit. It is very depressed and autistic, and also needs communication and affirmation from the outside world. Therefore, it always wanted to meet Ning Mingmei and talk more with Ning Mingmei. Even though Ning Mingmei was evil, it was better than dealing with an unintelligent Gundam, and at least it was 1V1.

But Ning Mingmei was very indifferent and would never look back to the fate that had already passed. Besides, this is all the use value of Pangu Axe. Since its value has been squeezed out by Ning Mingmei, Ning Mingmei no longer has any need to communicate with it. At the same time, Ning Mingmei is also studying the mass production of Pangu Axe to achieve the salary inversion of the old Pangu Axe.

These are all beside the point. At this moment, Ning Mingmei was studying the spirit in the lotus lantern. He asked, "Can you... speak?"

He added: "I have had many experiences with spirits in artifacts. They all like me very much."

Pangu Axe gave this a middle finger.

Ning Mingmei could feel the lotus lantern flickering slightly. However, when it flickered, the remaining black matter in its veins was still like fog and mud, blocking its movement.

Ning Mingmei soon realized that Liandeng was just telling him the truth: as long as he collected the five ingredients and flushed out the impurities in Liandeng's body, Liandeng would return to normal, communicate with him, and even give him an online course on the history of the world of immortal cultivation. Moreover, as an ancient artifact, the lotus lantern probably has the same problems as all the ancient artifacts in the world of immortal cultivation: after Ning Mingmei restored the lotus lantern's appearance, the lotus lantern would become a riddle lantern, constantly spitting out fragments to induce Ning Mingmei to do things. Moreover, this behavior will be euphemistically called: ethereal and mysterious.

But Ning Mingmei has always been the only one who makes big promises. Ning Mingmei then persuaded him kindly: "Don't worry. When you recover, I will teach you a good thing called Morse code. Then you can flash yourself according to the Morse code and communicate with me."

Lotus Lantern: ...

Ning Mingmei: "Do you have anything else to say? If not, I'm hanging up. By the way, I think the lamp housing on you is pretty good. I won't change it for now."

Lotus Lantern: ...

The lotus lantern is probably the Northeast lotus lantern. After all, Ning Mingmei accompanied it in bathing, so they were close friends for life. Therefore, even though it was as dirty as a rag doll and had poor contact, the lotus lantern still tried its best to flash a picture for Ning Mingmei.

It sank into Ning Mingmei's mind again.

In the picture, the girl lowered her head. She had her hair combed into two buns and was wearing a crabapple flower dress. She was busy grinding a wick in her hand. Suddenly, she looked up and opened her mouth as if she heard something.

"Yuehe?"

Ning Mingmei narrowed his eyes slightly. Then a tall woman in white appeared on the screen.

This memory may be too old, and the faces of both people are blurry. The girl chattered on and on, talking about her discovery of the lotus lantern as a substitute for the wick, as well as her confusion and areas where she needed help. The voice of the woman in white was neither hurried nor slow, and was even very gentle. Whenever the girl talked about innovation, she would smile a little more and give some of her own ideas, and the praise she uttered seemed sincere.

Judging from this clip alone, the woman named "Ye He" must be very fond of this girl.

If this was Weng Xingyun and Ye He, Ning Mingmei could understand why Weng Xingyun trusted Ye He so much: at the moment, Weng Xingyun's cultivation was only at the Golden Core stage, but he had a lotus lantern in his hand, a good thing that even a cultivator in the Spirit Transformation stage would be very excited about. Ye He’s cultivation level is very high, so it would be a piece of cake to snatch this magical weapon from her. But not only did she not try to snatch it away, she also taught Weng Xingyun everything she knew, helping him find ways to better utilize and refine the lotus lantern.

Moreover, even Ning Mingmei could not see from this scene any sign that Ye He was taking advantage of or plotting against Weng Xingyun. She seemed to really like this young and enthusiastic girl. Compared to her, Weng Xingyun was like a fledgling. She looked at this senior who was both her teacher and friend, with love and gratitude in her eyes.

Perhaps that was why she didn't believe that Ye He would betray her until the end.

The memories end here. Ning Mingmei tried to touch the lotus lantern again, but found that it had run out of battery and was turned off. He thought for a moment, put the lotus lantern into his Qiankun bag, and rushed to the back mountain of Piaomiao Peak.

In the laboratory in the back mountain, many monks are already on full alert. Xue Li and the other monks stood in a row. Seeing Ning Mingmei coming back, she asked nervously, "Ning Xianzun, is our project successful?"

Ning Mingmei nodded. The crowd cheered and started sharing the free pizza and soda with other research institutes who came to join in the fun. During this PhD-style celebration banquet, Xue Li and Shen Fu found Ning Mingmei, hoping to have a talk with him.

Ning Mingmei knew what the two wanted to talk about at a glance. He came out onto the balcony with a box of Peking duck pizza and three cans of grapefruit sparkling water. The three of them stood together and discussed what they wanted to discuss.

"Didn't Tang Wan come?" Ning Mingmei asked.

Next, there are three key projects in the back mountain of Piaomiao Peak, which are respectively in charge of Xue Li, Tang Wan and Shen Fu. Xue Li shook his head and said, "We want to talk to you in private."

Ning Mingmei took a sip of water. He knew the difference between Tang Wan and these two people.

The research in Tang Wan's hands is still the purification of chaos. Since the water of Wangchuan River is useful for purifying Xirang, is it also useful for treating creatures infected by Hunlun? In this regard, Tang Wan conducted many experiments - such as using a special spray prepared with Wangchuan water to purify mice that were severely infected by Hunlun. Unfortunately, the little white mouse was indeed partially purified, but it forgot the fact that it was a mouse. It even mistakenly thought it was a cat, and made meowing sounds in the laboratory, which was really ridiculous.

But the research in the hands of these two people is different.

The research in Shen Fu's hands is a weapon related to fission and fusion - of course, this part is still research at the physical level, and at most it can add some fairy damage through the technology of the fairy world. But Xue Li’s research is a little different.

The research that Xue Li wants to do is to find ways to apply various weapon solutions to Hunlun, such as the solution in Shen Fu's hand, whether it is biological, chemical, or physical... When that time comes, combined with the guidance technology developed in another laboratory in the back mountain, what they produce will be a very terrifying thing.

A net that can accurately cover the six realms.

"Ning Xianzun." Xue Li said, "I have always been very grateful to you for giving me the opportunity to live again - and to live again as a human being. If it weren't for you, I might have died long ago. For example, when the righteous people invaded Dongji Mountain, I, as a villain, should have been beheaded and displayed to the public. Or, before that, when I was abducted to Dongji Mountain by Chang Qing, I would have been 'dead' long ago."

"And you have given me a decent life and job opportunities in the back mountain of Piaomiao Peak, and a platform for me to continue to use the knowledge I have learned. I am very grateful for all of this."

Ning Mingmei: “Yeah.”

"...So, I really don't want you to do something that you will regret in the end. After all, your dream is also the direction we are heading towards." Xue Li said slowly, "For example, now..."

"Do we have to... continue with the things we are going to do?" Xue Li said.

Ning Mingmei said: "Definitely."

“…”

Ning Mingmei: "You are all cultivators from the human world. You should have witnessed what the demon world did to us, right?"

"But once you do this, all the sins of killing will be placed on you..." Xue Li said.

Ning Mingmei pushed his glasses up: "I don't care."

Facing the gazes of the two, Ning Mingmei thought for a moment and said, "Only when a person feels enough pain and enough threat will he be willing to sit down and have a good talk with the person opposite him. Qingji Sect has already lost one Xiang Wuxing, and cannot lose more people. If it is the way of heaven..."

He took a sip of soda and said, "If there really is a law of nature, it should be ashamed of itself for creating a world full of crime and hatred. It is itself that should apologize."

"Immortal Lord!" Xue Li shouted anxiously, "Please don't say that..."

She was really afraid that Ning Mingmei would suffer backlash from the heavens because of this. Finally, after the three of them finished eating pizza in silence, Xue Li said, "I understand everything."

"Me too." Shen Fu said, "We will do what you have assigned to us. This can save the people from danger, and this is also what you expect."

The two of them held their soda cans and clinked glasses with Ning Mingmei. Ning Mingmei waved his hand and asked them to leave.

It is summer now, but there are still gusts of cold wind on the back mountain of Piaomiao Peak. Ning Mingmei was walking in the back mountains when he heard Gui Ruoxue's voice: "How come you ran out in the middle of the celebration party?"

Ning Mingmei turned around and saw Gui Ruoxue standing under the tree with her hands folded. Next to him, there is Baimian. Seeing Ning Mingmei looking over, Gui Ruoxue turned to Baimian and said, "I came here first. Mingmei and I are going for a walk. You just wait here."

Baimian: ...

Bai Mian also looked a little worried. Ning Mingmei left him and went for a walk with Gui Ruoxue. Ning Mingmei asked, "Why didn't you stay at the celebration party to drink soda today, but instead ran out for a walk?"

Gui Ruoxue said: "There is no Sprite today."

Ning Mingmei: "Isn't there?"

"Today's are all diet and sugar-free!" Gui Ruoxue was furious.

Ning Mingmei: "I told you to drink less. You are a cultivator in the Spiritualization Stage, and you still got a pimple because of drinking Sprite. How much did you drink?"

Gui Ruoxue: "It only happened once. Don't mention it next time!"

The two of them strolled in the mountains. Passing by the Institute of Optics in Wong Chuk Toh. Gui Ruoxue said: "The Institute of Optics has been researching laser weapons recently."

Ning Mingmei said "hmm". The two passed by the Fluctuation Institute again. Gui Ruoxue added: "Why did that guy stop doing flaw detection and instead start doing his old business - infrasonic weapons."

Ning Mingmei said again: "Yeah."

They walked slowly, passing all the research institutes in the back mountain and reaching the farmland. Gui Ruoxue spoke in this vast midsummer: "Recently, the technology produced in the back mountain that can play a role in improving life has become less and less. On the contrary, all research has begun to move towards military use. At every meeting, everyone is thinking about one thing: What impact can this thing in our hands have on the war situation? How can it be used to eliminate the demon cultivators in front of us or far away?"

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"The beverage factory no longer has new products, and the Optics Institute has no time to work on its laser engraving..." Gui Ruoxue said, "Those inventions seem to have stopped from the moment the war started. Even the farmland under the Snow Bamboo Tube..."

farmland?

Ning Mingmei didn't think it was a big deal this time: "What could be wrong with the farmland? Didn't Xuezhu already finish his hybrid rice?"

Even the octoploid strawberries were finished.

Gui Ruoxue: "No, you see, Xuezhu is studying ways to get crops involved in the battle."

Ning Mingmei suddenly felt the earth shaking as he was walking. It was as if something bounced high and then fell heavily, bringing a huge tremor as it crushed the land... Ning Mingmei looked in the direction where the noise came from.

Then there was silence.

Gui Ruoxue: "This is a pumpkin."

Ning Mingmei: "I know this is a fool."

Ning Mingmei ran into this private research farmland belonging to Xue Zhu... and then saw a few peas.

I feel numb.

Gui Ruoxue: "This is a pea."

Ning Mingmei: "I know this is a pea plant, but why is it spraying beans out?"

Gui Ruoxue: "This is a fire spirit root pea."

Ning Mingmei: "Is this the reason why it spews out fire-breathing beans?"

Gui Ruoxue: "The one next to it is an ice spirit root pea."

Ning Mingmei: "Very good. So it sprayed out peas that froze the mountaintops."

Gui Ruoxue: "This is a plant... a bunch of machine gun peas."

Ning Mingmei fell silent again, and the place fell into dead silence. After a moment, he said, "Come to think of it, a niche cultivator profession has indeed appeared in Qingji Sect recently - spear cultivation."

Gui Ruoxue: “Ah?”

Ning Mingmei: "And this gun is not that gun - not the kind of gun Zhao Zilong uses. It has rifling and fires spiritual bullets outwards."

Gui Ruoxue: “Ah?”

Ning Mingmei: "There are also artillery repairmen, the kind that run around with a spiritual power cannon on their backs."

Gui Ruoxue: “Ah?”

Gui Ruoxue likes one word very much at this moment, which is "Ah?". Ning Mingmei looked at the lush farmland and said, "Let Xuezhu register the patent quickly, and then sell this technology to Minghua Valley."

This will be a renaissance for the alchemy and medicine practitioners in Minghua Valley. From now on, Minghua Valley will no longer be nicknamed "drug battle". They will prove that truly powerful medicine and pill makers rely only on raw materials.

Gui Ruoxue said: "But this was made by Xuezhu and Dai Fu together. Dai Fu is your new disciple."

Ning Mingmei: "Then let them both write the patent together. It seems that the back mountain still lacks manpower and needs more talents."

After a moment, he said, "You are right. The nearest mountain behind Piao Miao Peak is indeed..."

"Do you need me to make some poison?" Gui Ruoxue suddenly said, "I can help."

Ning Mingmei raised an eyebrow at him: "Don't you want to drink Sprite?"

"Your business is the most important." Gui Ruoxue snorted coldly.

He is like many people in the back mountain. These fringe researchers who are excluded by the world of immortal cultivation do not care about the future of the world of immortal cultivation. Even a large number of them have grudges against the human world, and do not care about the harm caused by the demon world to the human world. Otherwise, they would not be called evil cultivators.

They had come to this point because of Ning Mingmei.

Ning Mingmei waved his hand at him, and after a moment, he said: "The back mountain does need more talents."

Gui Ruoxue: ...

"Well, I thought you would be a little hesitant or regretful." Gui Ruoxue shrugged and said, "Since you are the same as always, I feel relieved."

Ning Mingmei: "I am serious. We need more laborers to be trapped in the back mountains."

After sending Gui Ruoxue away, Ning Mingmei went on another trip with Bai Mian. Today, Bai Mian is not only the human resources director of Back Mountain (although he is in charge of puppets), but also the kindest male mother to everyone in Back Mountain. Because Ning Mingmei is an undercover agent, he devotes his heart and soul to Ning Mingmei's career.

It's easier to walk with Baimian. Ning Mingmei would guess it without him saying anything. At the end, Baimian said: "Mingmei, I am sorry for wronging you. When a country prospers, the people suffer. When a country perishes, the people suffer. This is true of most things in this world. But it is unnecessary and painful to shoulder this responsibility on your own shoulders."

Ning Mingmei just said: "Okay."

Baimian: "It is not despicable to want to end the chaos. It is despicable to take advantage of the chaos and the suffering of the people to achieve your own goals."

After bidding farewell to the back mountain, Ning Mingmei just came out of the back mountain and saw Old Twenty-One who was now working in place of Wen Siheng. Old Twenty-one: "Master, today is a big day."

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Old Twenty-One: "Master, the results of this year's college entrance examination for the outer sect of Piaomiao Peak have been announced!"

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Ning Mingmei raised his eyebrows and said without surprise: "Let's go and take a look."

The Piaomiao Summit will make public the college entrance examination results of all outer disciples and post them on the bulletin board. Ning Mingmei saw from afar that the bulletin hall was crowded with people.

As an insider, Ning Mingmei naturally doesn't have to squeeze with many people. He was invited to sit in the inner room, holding this year's college entrance examination results in his hand.

College entrance examination scores are divided into individual subject scores and total scores. But no matter how you divide it, there is one name hanging high at the top of the list.

Liancheng Moon.

Lian Chengyue is the top scorer in this year's college entrance examination!

"This kid has finally gotten some pride." Ning Mingmei commented.

After a year of tutoring, Lian Chengyue caught up and made his way to the first place - all of this was inseparable from a new artifact Lian Chengyue obtained during his adventure - it must be said that Lian Chengyue is the male protagonist after all. This is also something he must have obtained in the original book.

In this magical space, one day for Lian Chengyue feels like thirty days. In the original novel, Lian Chengyue used this magical artifact to practice. In the present world, Lian Chengyue used this magical artifact to prepare for the exam, making one year of repeating seem like thirty years of study. Whenever someone else was talking, Lian Chengyue would pause for a moment and correct them: "The sentence you just said is semantically incorrect, with double negation and lack of a subject."

It's like learning something to the point of obsession, forming muscle memory.

Hard work pays off. Lian Chengyue finally became the top scorer in the college entrance examination after repeating his senior year for thirty years. Unfortunately, the time for repeating a grade can be extended to thirty years, but the time for working outside cannot be extended to thirty years. Therefore, Lian Chengyue is still penniless at this moment.

But no problem!

Because summer is here!

Summer vacation is here! This is the only summer vacation between the college entrance examination and Neimen University. Lian Chengyue will use this summer vacation to work like crazy to save money for his university!

Speaking of this, Ning Mingmei remembered that before Lian Chengyue took the college entrance examination, he once transformed into Merlin and went to see Lian Chengyue - of course, to provoke him. As a result, Lian Chengyue was not only not irritated by him, but also looked at him with a frown.

And he also asked him: "Is your relationship with your mother and father not very good?"

After a while, he continued, "Although I think that people don't need to be filial. For example, I have never been filial to anyone in my family. But I also think that if your father is very powerful, excellent, and wonderful, you should be filial to your father."

Then he continued, "Merlin, although it's a pleasure to get along with you, you should spend more time accompanying your parents. Or, I can go accompany your father."

...Lian Chengyue felt like he had been reviewing for too long and his brain was acting up.

Thinking back to what happened that day, Ning Mingmei was speechless. He tapped the table with his finger and said, "I think Lian Chengyue's phone has been bombarded with calls from the admissions offices of various departments today."

The staff member next to him said, "Are you talking about Lian Chengyue? He probably can't answer the phone right now."

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Staff: "After Lian Chengyue finished the college entrance examination, he kept accepting tasks from the Gongshantang. As a result, he drove too fast when using the fairy car inside the mountain gate and was caught by the sect police. After being caught, the sect police found that he did not have a sect driver's license and detained him directly. Lian Chengyue said that he did not know that the Qingji Sect needed to take a driver's license. He was studying every day and no one told him about it. This was regarded as a challenge by the sect police, so Lian Chengyue was imprisoned in the Cliff of Repentance for twenty days."

Ning Mingmei: ...

Staff: "According to the calculation, Lian Chengyue should be able to come out today."

Ning Mingmei called Old Twenty-One, stood up and said, "Let's go."

Old Twenty-One is a diligent examiner like Wen Siheng. He said, "Master, where are we going?"

Ning Mingmei: "Let's go to Siguo Cliff and take a look."

Siguo Cliff was originally located in the most remote place of Qingji Sect. But now, thanks to Ning Mingmei's efforts, the entire Qingji Sect has become warmer, and this place has become a good place for people to hide away. As soon as Ning Mingmei came over, he saw Bai Ruoru patrolling here.

She brought a few disciples who had betrayed the sect and personally put them in jail. Seeing Ning Mingmei coming, Bai Ruoru turned around and smiled at Ning Mingmei: "Junior brother."

Her smile is still gentle, but it is more majestic than before. Over the past six months, Bai Ruoru has finally seized control of the Qingji Sect with majestic means that she never knew how to use in the past, and has gradually put the Elders' Council at a disadvantage. Even though there were messages everywhere in the sect, there were always people saying that she sent her disciples to the front line just because she wanted Xiang Wuxing to survive, and she didn't care about her disciples.

Bai Ruoru did not react to these rumors. She is still majestic, still gentle, and still handles all matters perfectly. But Ning Mingmei sometimes thought that she didn't look happy.

Ning Mingmei exchanged a few words with her. Bai Ruoru said, "It's almost time, Junior Brother, I should go."

"What's so urgent?" Ning Mingmei asked.

Bai Ruoru said: "I calculated that I will break through to the Void Refining Stage in the next few days. I will go back to my blessed land to prepare."

Ning Mingmei nodded.

In the good academic atmosphere of Qing Jizong. In just half a year, Fang Wuyu reached the great perfection of the Spirit Transformation Stage and was only one opportunity away from entering the Void Refinement Stage. Yin Xisheng broke through to the Void Refinement Stage, and now Bai Ruoru is also about to break through to the Void Refinement Stage. By this calculation, all the core members of this group have reached the Void Refinement Stage. Their ability to marginalize the Council of Elders is also inseparable from this great improvement in strength.

Ning Mingmei nodded. He looked at Bai Ruoru's figure floating away, and somehow, he had a strange premonition in his heart again.

The small door of Siguo Cliff over there was opened. Just as the back mountain of Piaomiao Peak was expanded, Siguo Cliff was also expanded, and different types of offending disciples were imprisoned in different places. For example, Lian Chengyue, who drove without a license, was imprisoned in the group with the least serious crime.

From a distance, Ning Mingmei saw Lian Chengyue coming out of the small door. Half a year has passed...

Ning Mingmei frowned.

Why has Lian Chengyue grown taller again? ? ?

Half a year ago, Lian Chengyue and Ning Mingmei were of the same height. Half a year later, Lian Chengyue was already half a head taller than Ning Mingmei - although judging from his bone age, this should be the last for Lian Chengyue.

But this still made Ning Mingmei a little unhappy.

Lian Chengyue took his belongings from the guards. Soon, he saw Ning Mingmei.

At that moment, Lian Chengyue couldn't believe his eyes.

"Immortal Ning." He trotted over, bowed his head respectfully, and spoke in a low voice.