In the advanced fire-attribute mimicry environment training room, Luo Jiarui, a student from the ordinary class, was being chased by three or five thousand-year-old soul beasts, the Fire Molten Lizards, which the academy had deliberately kept in captivity. He was running through a cave so hot it could steam buns, while glancing back at the Fire Molten Lizards that were opening their mouths wide to bite him. He would occasionally unleash his three soul skills to deal with the mud fire bullets that the Fire Molten Lizards were spraying from their mouths.
Even so, his clothes became tattered and torn due to occasional missed dodges.
"Stop chasing me! You've been chasing me for so long, we're practically old acquaintances, aren't we? Can't you give me some face and let me rest for a bit before you chase me again?!" Luo Jiarui, whose soul power was gradually being exhausted, was being chased so hard that he was practically jumping up and down, and he was covered in dust and dirt.
He nimbly dodged another wave of mud fire bullets that weren't hit by his soul skills, shouting as he tried to negotiate with the group of not-so-intelligent thousand-year-old fire lizards.
However, the fire lizards, driven only by their survival instincts, ignored everything and hissed behind them, their eyes bloodshot with hunger, their only focus on the large piece of meat that was running so fast.
Luo Jiarui, who had set aside three hours for his cultivation, felt only bitterness in his heart.
He had finally accumulated enough credits to train in the advanced simulated environment training room, but he overestimated his abilities and thought he could actually endure three hours of training in the advanced simulated environment training room.
Only an hour and a half has passed, and he's already about to give up.
But if I back down now and ask the teacher on duty to bail me out, it would be a huge waste of the credits I've already earned—and those credits are non-refundable!
Elite class students have it easy; they don't need points to enter the advanced simulated environment training room. It's different for ordinary class students. Although they can set their own training time, it can't exceed 6 hours, and each entry into the advanced simulated environment training room costs 100 credits.
The students in the elite class not only don't have to spend credits, but their training time is also entirely up to them, and they can stay there as long as they want.
Luo Jiarui under the lemon tree.
Feeling his rapidly depleting physical strength and almost exhausted soul power, Luo Jiarui gritted his teeth, wanting to hold on for a little longer, when an unexpected event occurred!
He was completely unaware, and the primitive, dangerous radar of the fire lizards chasing closely behind him gave them no warning whatsoever.
Dangerous footsteps approached silently from the humans and the spirit beasts.
As Luo Jiarui reached the fork in the road in the cave, he lifted his foot, and just as he was about to step into that familiar, dimly lit path, the intense heat in the air vanished.
It felt like stepping from a scorching volcano into a snow-covered plain; the chill filled the sweltering air, as if someone had poured a bucket of ice water over your head, and your mind went blank for a brief moment.
White.
The entire landscape was filled with white.
A misty, cool white fog clung to his legs. While his thoughts were still preoccupied with whether or not to end his training, his movements seemed to be paused, and the fire lizards chasing him frantically were also frozen in their comical running postures.
"Click-clack,"
Translucent, ice-like white prismatic crystals condensed in the void, emitting a soft, rustling sound.
It shouldn't be at this time and place; the bright, full moon hangs high in the sky, its serene light flowing like water, its radiance stretching into transparent silver threads suspended above them.
This isn't right.
Luo Jiarui belatedly realized the anomaly.
He felt his body move on its own without his master's command.
He spun and jumped, his eyes closed.
It was as if an invisible force was manipulating him.
That unseen hand manipulated and toyed with him like a puppet.
"Help! Help! My body is out of control!?"
Luo Jiarui stared in horror at the fire lizards, who, like him, had started spinning uncontrollably on their bipedal stance. It was as if he had seen something filthy; it was extremely offensive to his eyes.
"What on earth is going on?!"
"Aaaaaah! Teacher, help me!"
Upon discovering that he could still control his mouth and facial expressions, Luo Jiarui instinctively sought help from someone more powerful, but after calling out several times, there was no response.
His mind became sluggish, and he suddenly realized that the intermediate and advanced simulated environment training rooms were equivalent to being in a closed valley. Apart from pressing the mechanisms set at the entrance and exit to get the responsible teacher on duty to rescue him, shouting was completely useless.
Regret surged into my heart like a tide.
The answer is always the same: I regret not leaving sooner!
What are you trying to prove?
Unbeknownst to Luo Jiarui, the fire lizards that had been circling around him had stopped, maintaining an upward-looking posture, their dark brown beast eyes clearly reflecting the moon radiating a serene glow, blank and completely non-aggressive.
Filled with anxiety, Luo Jiarui mentally slapped himself a few times, clinging to almost no hope, while frantically begging for mercy from the big shot who had caused this series of events.
So noisy
Located elsewhere, Qian Yuelong frowned slightly.
Every move within the divine realm is under her control.
Although somewhat stubborn, however...
With a slight thought, Qian Yuelong, whose soul power and mental power were both higher than Luo Jiarui's, caused Luo Jiarui's head, which was still chattering, to suddenly lift up uncontrollably and look at the full moon hanging in the void. The noise in his mouth stopped abruptly, and his black eyes lost their original luster as he stared blankly at the full moon in the sky.
Not only Luo Jiarui, but all the students who entered the advanced simulated environment training room at this time were pulled into the divine realm.
All the noise disappeared the moment they looked up and gazed at the moon.
The divine realm returned to a deathly stillness.
[Beep - Faith Points +4]
[Beep - Faith Points +6]
[Beep - Faith Points +2]
The notification sound of scattered faith value increases kept ringing.
886 looked tremblingly at the ethereal Qian Yuelong and cautiously called out "person" again.
[Host, are you alright?]
It had felt this way before when it intercepted its host.
That almost divine aura still haunts it to this day.
Qian Yuelong gave a soft "hmm," which eased some of the unfamiliar feeling that made 886's heart flutter.
886 breathed a barely perceptible sigh of relief, casting aside its fear, and projected the Faith Value details screen in front of Qian Yuelong, happily saying: 【Host, look! Our Faith Value has suddenly started to increase!】
Even a tiny mosquito is still meat.
Although it was sporadic, the last time there was such a large-scale, fragmented increase in the number of people was when Qian Daoliu issued the new cultivation method written by the host.
We need more of this kind of "Renaissance"!
Looking at the rows of unfamiliar names appearing on the details panel, Qian Yuelong fell into an eerie silence, not appearing particularly happy.
Noticing Qian Yuelong's mood, 886's joy faded, and he nudged her: [Host, why are you unhappy?]
Qian Yuelong silently lowered her head.
—A side note—
Today's rehabilitation session failed. Slow and sluggish, like a slithering koi fish. (jpg)
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