Chapter 32: The Abandoned Young Master Long Aotian
After three days of meticulous preparation, Wu Lingnan succeeded... one could say without any preparation.
On the first day, practice seriously and prepare tactics; on the second day, keep a normal mind and recall the practice skills; on the third day, ahhh, I have no idea what to prepare, so I will just get started, tease my dear little cuties, and continue to study how to bypass the restrictions of the Sutra Library and sneak into the fourth floor under her mother's nose.
Modern cultivators should be free and follow their hearts.
Didi——
A shrill ringing ringtone suddenly filled the room. Wu Lingnan's face darkened. He clicked on the message and saw it was an email from the school: All new students, please go to Yingcai Plaza. Those who don't arrive after 9:00 will be eliminated!
She looked at the time and saw that it was only ten minutes until nine o'clock. Yingcai Square was far away from the freshman dormitory area from north to south. It seemed that the first hurdle had already begun.
Wu Lingnan didn't dawdle. She didn't need to bring anything extra except the green bracelet. She immediately stood up and walked out of the dormitory building. Then she made a hand gesture and rushed towards Yingcai Square. She passed countless spiritual lights that rose up along the way and arrived at Yingcai Square in less than a minute.
She landed gracefully on the ground, straightened her slightly disheveled sleeves, her features as beautiful as the moon, her posture noble and elegant, she looked like a fairy.
Xiang Gucheng saw this scene from afar and couldn't help but twitching his lips. He landed beside Wu Lingnan, his chin slightly raised, his face stern, but his lips moved slightly, and he said calmly: "Why, Junior Sister, have you finally come to your senses and decided to go the aloof route?"
Hearing the teasing in Xiang Gucheng's words, Wu Lingnan almost lost her temper. She also replied in a voice transmission: "Haha, haven't you also created an identity for yourself as a sinister and cold Xiangxi boss? Let's not talk about the second brother, don't think I don't visit the school forum, okay?"
Damn it, he created this character without informing me. We should be together. Are we still friends?
Although her original intention was to see if her brother was among the new students, logically her brother should look quite similar to her and her mother, and as Long Aotian, he would probably choose Huaqing, the number one university in Daxia.
But to Wu Lingnan's disappointment, she didn't find even a familiar face under the popular first-place freshman guessing post.
After hearing what Wu Lingnan said, Xiang Gucheng fell into silence. After a while, he replied with a subtle expression: "Is it possible that I didn't set up a persona, and those guys just think of me like this, but I actually didn't do anything." He even thought that his attitude should be very friendly.
Wu Lingnan: ...I'm sorry for being so presumptuous. I never imagined the reputation of our Miao region in Xiangxi would be so horrific. It's simply impossible to reverse this!
No, she didn't click on her own post out of shame. Could it be... Wu Lingnan fell into deep thought.
At exactly nine o'clock, a melodious and heavy chime rang out from the tall clock tower in front of the square. The chimes echoed throughout the entire campus, and a vast and gentle spiritual energy slowly spread out. After three chimes, a middle-aged man in white rose into the air, his face stern. The sound of him using his spiritual power echoed throughout the square:
"There are a total of 1,223 freshmen this year, 1,179 of whom arrived on time, and 44 were eliminated." After he finished speaking, he waved his hand, and dozens of rays of light fell on the square. Wu Lingnan looked closely and saw that the people enveloped by the light circle had disappeared. It seemed that they had been transmitted to another place.
Seeing that the noisy crowd had fallen silent, the man in white looked around with satisfaction and said, "For this freshman trial, you will be sent to Maple Moon, one of the secret realms controlled by Huaqing. A dual ranking system will be adopted, based on both individual points and team points. The conversion ratio between points and credits is 1000:1. Huaqing will only admit the top 800 credit scorers."
Upon hearing this, everyone in the square was in an uproar. Over a thousand people were admitted, but only 800 were accepted. That was too few places! If they were eliminated, wouldn't all their hard work along the way be wasted?
Wu Lingnan's eyes turned, and he understood why Huaqing was the only one to start school a month earlier. He thought it was to give those eliminated freshmen time to find other colleges. If they could pass Huaqing, it would be enough for other universities to scramble for them. From this point of view, Huaqing students are pretty good.
"Silence!" A terrifying spiritual pressure instantly weighed down on everyone. Everyone endured the pain and fell silent. Seeing that the square had returned to silence, the man in white gathered his sleeves to suppress the spiritual pressure and continued, "All the spiritual herbs and spiritual beasts you collect can be used as points. The token will automatically identify the point level. The token must not be placed in any storage item, otherwise the score will be automatically invalidated."
"Team points are the sum of individual points, and teams are limited to 3-5 people. Those ranked 1-10 in individual points will receive 1,000-100 extra credits, respectively. The top five teams will receive 500-100 extra credits."
"Also," he said with a strange smile, "freshmen can directly steal other people's points by snatching tokens from each other. If senior students snatch freshmen's tokens, their points will be halved. If freshmen snatch senior students' tokens, their points will be doubled. The trial will last for 10 days, and team members will not be fixed until the end of the time. So, now you have 5 minutes to form teams. In 5 minutes, the trial will begin!"
Little monsters, show off!
What a cruel rule! Wu Lingnan's heart trembled. She only needed to think about it for a moment before she realized the danger in it.
Putting aside the question of how points would be distributed within the team, the fact that the membership wasn't fixed until the end, coupled with the fact that freshmen could snatch tokens from each other, all sorts of bloody and treacherous plots flashed through Wu Lingnan's mind. This Huaqing exam wasn't just about strength, it was also about people's hearts!
"Oh, right, I forgot one thing," the man in white said lightly, "For new students at Huachen College, the initial credits will automatically be 50 points."
Vicious, so vicious! Wu Lingnan gritted her teeth. They were treating the students of Huachen College as targets. Seeing the eyes of the people around her gradually turning red, she was just glad that her identity as a freshman of Huachen College had not been exposed yet, otherwise, she would definitely be the focus of attention from the beginning.
Wu Lingnan looked solemnly at the token floating in front of her eyes, reached out and held it in her hand, and lightly touched it with Xiang Gucheng's token. This was the team they formed. Xiang Gucheng was the only person among the freshmen she could completely trust, and she must have thought the same of Xiang Gucheng. However, their team was still short of one person. Wu Lingnan and Xiang Gucheng looked at each other, both in a dilemma.
"Please consider me, both of you."
Wu Lingnan looked in the direction of the voice and saw a paper fan with the words "handsome and elegant" written on it. She immediately felt something was wrong. The fan slowly closed, revealing a dashing face behind it. He smiled slightly and said, "My name is Zhuge Yu. Nice to meet you. Thank you for your guidance."
This surname, coupled with such a romantic face and an inappropriate fan, immediately made Wu Lingnan feel complicated and indescribable.
Xiang Gucheng took a look at the conspicuous spiritual robe and magical weapon on the other person, and he knew in his heart: this was a rich young man like him.
He pondered for a moment and then asked, "Who is your relative to Zhuge Feng, the son of gossip in this generation of the Zhuge family in Shudu?"
Zhuge Yu's smile froze slightly, and he said, "It's my brother."
"So it's the second young master of the Zhuge family," Xiang Gucheng suddenly realized, then asked in confusion: "But why haven't I heard that the Zhuge family has a second young master before?"
Xiang Gucheng, shut up!
Seeing that the other person's smile had faded, Wu Lingnan quickly changed the subject and asked the most crucial question: "Zhuge Yu, hello, I'm Wu Lingnan, and this is my senior brother Xiang Gucheng." She paused, frowned, and asked: "I'd like to ask, why do you want to join us?"
Zhuge Yu smiled confidently, unfolded his paper fan, and gently waved it: "Of course, my fortune-telling told me that I will join your team."
...so metaphysical
"Excuse me," Wu Lingnan asked sincerely, "is your divination accurate?"
"..." After a critical hit, Zhuge Yu's smile not only turned dark, but also froze.
"Junior sister, if his divination is accurate, the gossipy son of this generation of Zhuge family would not be his brother." Xiang Gucheng reminded in a low voice, but it might not be a very low voice, because Wu Lingnan watched with her own eyes, and the other party's smile seemed to be about to break.
She coughed lightly and directly approved Zhuge Yu's application. Anyway, she couldn't find anyone else at the moment, and it was just right that there was someone who recommended himself. She didn't care about anything else since they were just making up the numbers.
As for what to do if Zhuge Yu stabbed them in the back, Wu Lingnan gently stroked the bracelet on her wrist, not worried at all. She dared to say that when it comes to playing dirty tricks, no one among these thousand people could compare to her and Xiang Gucheng. The witchcraft poison from Miaojiang and the ghost corpse poison from Xiangxi were enough for Zhuge Yu to drink.
Now that everyone was gathered, Wu Lingnan and the other two waited quietly for the trial to begin. There were so many people here, it wasn't a good time to communicate.
"The time has come. I declare that the 31st Huaqing freshman trial begins now!"
As the man in white finished speaking, the tokens in everyone's hands emitted a brilliant white light. Wu Lingnan's eyes flashed, and she appeared in a beautiful place. She calmed herself down and looked around. She saw Xiang Gucheng and Zhuge Yu beside her. She realized that the tokens automatically teleported the team members to a place, and she breathed a sigh of relief.
It seems that Hua Qing is not that perverted yet.
Wu Lingnan did not dare to relax. She moved her fingers slightly, and several almost invisible poisonous insects flew out from her sleeves. She sent them to patrol the surroundings. After the poisonous insects sent a message indicating that the place was safe, Wu Lingnan looked up and exchanged a knowing look with Xiang Gucheng.
Since neither of them noticed the danger, this place should be safe for the time being.
Wu Lingnan looked at Zhuge Yu, who seemed to be idly fanning himself, and smiled, saying, "Before, there were so many people around, it was difficult to communicate much. But since we have taken the initiative to form a team, we should be relatively honest with each other."
"Let me introduce myself again. I'm Wu Lingnan, from the Miaojiang Five Immortals Sect. I'm a freshman at Huachen College and in the early stages of my cultivation."
Xiang Gucheng also spoke up: "Xiang Gucheng, Huachen Academy, Xiangxi lineage, late foundation building stage."
Upon hearing the origins of Wu Lingnan and the other, Zhuge Yu didn't seem surprised. He waved his fan and smiled charmingly, "Zhuge Yu, from the Zhuge family of Bashu, a new student at Huachen Academy. I've heard of your great names for a long time. My strength is slightly inferior to yours, but I'm only in the middle stage of Foundation Establishment."
Having heard of her name for a long time, Wu Lingnan raised an eyebrow. She had only been here a few days, so it couldn't be that famous. She had a feeling it wasn't a good reputation...
【Author’s words】
Cultivation is divided into: Qi training, foundation building, opening, golden elixir, Yuanying, spirit transformation, and tribulation. The spiritual energy of the modern world is weak, and the tribulation period has not been seen for nearly ten thousand years. The spirit transformation is all ridiculously old men. The heroine's mother is a Yuanying boss.
Hahaha, when their facial features are separated, they actually look a bit like their parents, but when they are put together, they are nothing alike, so the sister didn't recognize them at all, hahaha
Why, I haven't written about my brother's appearance yet, I'm lost in thought
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