There are many roads, where are you now?
Inside a classroom at Xuancang College, students were sitting at their desks writing furiously. Bai Roushuang raised her eyes to look at the sandalwood used to time the subject, sighed, and continued to work on the assessment of the essence of spiritual energy transformation.
Thinking of the resolute figure of her senior sister when she left yesterday, she bit the pen hard. This time she couldn't coax her! Cherry-flavored ice cream was useless!
The teachers of Xuan Cang College would never take the students' dignity into consideration when setting test questions. They would make the questions as difficult as possible. Fortunately, she had a solid foundation, so even if she missed classes for some time, she would not be unable to understand the test questions.
After racking her brains to fill several sheets of rice paper, the sandalwood burned out. Bai Roushuang stood in line to hand the rice paper to the teacher, and then she breathed a sigh of relief, but then she heard the teacher say, "Very good, my small test is over. There will be a small test tomorrow for other teachers. Everyone remember to rest early tonight and recharge your energy."
“…”
There was a sudden wailing sound from the hall. Xuancang Academy was good in every way except that the tests were too frequent.
Bai Roushuang had no mood to meet up with her classmates whom she hadn't seen for many days. She ate a quick meal and returned to her dormitory with heavy steps.
After carefully reading the book of magic for two hours, she lit some soothing incense in a copper stove to help her sleep as it was getting dark. She lay on the bed and casually flipped through the storybook she got from her senior sister. She soon felt sleepy. She raised her hand to send out a breeze to extinguish the candle in the room, and Bai Roushuang slept soundly.
She felt like she had slept for a long time. When she woke up, it was still dark outside the window. She stood up, opened the window and looked at the full moon hanging high in the sky and the stars shining brightly. She stretched again and planned to go back to bed and sleep for a while, wait...
Bai Roushuang had just laid back down when she jumped up again and poked her head out of the window. A full moon was hanging high in the sky? There was clearly a crescent moon in the sky last night, so why was it...
She quickly realized that this might be the content of this assessment. The teachers of Xuan Cang College still like to surprise people.
Bai Roushuang simply washed up for a while, pushed open the door, and saw a girl wearing the uniform white robe of Xuancang Academy standing outside the door, who seemed to be waiting for her.
She immediately recognized the figure: "Senior Sister? You're back?"
"Um."
Bai Roushuang was immediately furious. You ran faster than anyone else in the literary test, but you came back when it came to the martial arts test. You knew so much about the college's small test arrangements, but you didn't even help your junior sister.
However, considering that senior sister was waiting at her door as soon as she came back... Bai Roushuang frowned. Why not forgive her first?
Bai Roushuang cleared her throat, folded her arms and stood there, waiting for her senior sister to take out some ice cream to comfort her. She had already thought about how to go down the stairs, but the other party had no intention of giving her the stairs. She just nodded to her and said, "Let's go."
"..." Bai Roushuang could only follow reluctantly.
The two walked in silence for a while, and Bai Roushuang was busy observing the changes around the academy: "Senior sister, do you know the specific content of this assessment?"
“I don’t know.”
Bai Roushuang couldn't help but complain: "This idea was definitely from Master Zhou. He likes to be mysterious."
"Um."
Bai Roushuang felt that her senior sister seemed a little cold today: "Are you in a bad mood? What happened to you after we separated?"
"No, I'm just worried about the quiz."
"oh."
“…”
"I don't know if the dining hall is closed," Bai Roushuang rubbed her stomach, "Sister, do you want to have breakfast?"
“No need.”
Bai Roushuang tried to find something to say for a while, but finally she couldn't hold it any longer and fell silent. It was late at night and she could only hear occasional screams from unknown people. The atmosphere was quite scary indeed.
"Senior sister, I heard what seemed to be a classmate's scream. Should we go over and take a look?"
"Mind your own business."
"oh."
Cultivators all have sharp ears and eyes. Bai Roushuang looked at the road silently and soon found something wrong: "Master, Senior Sister, what is that black shadow moving on the road?"
“…”
"It's a shadow monster. I encountered it during the assessment in the small secret realm!" Without waiting for her senior sister to answer, Bai Roushuang saw the clue first, "But it seems to have grown a lot bigger. Could it be that they are more aggressive at night?"
After realizing what it was, Bai Roushuang calmed down. She had fought against the shadow monster alone in the small secret realm before, so she was naturally confident now. She was about to raise her sword to attack, but Senior Sister Que pulled her back and said, "Run!"
"Ah?" Bai Roushuang ran after him in a daze, feeling a little ashamed as she ran. She thought that her senior sister must have seen that the shadow monster was more powerful than the one she saw in the small secret realm, so she dragged her away. She was a little blindly confident because she had dealt with shadow monsters before.
Sure enough, after flying and running for a distance, he ran into a female cultivator from the same class. There were several shadow monsters following behind her. When they saw Bai Roushuang, they warned her, "Run! Don't get bitten by those things, or you will be assimilated!"
"What do you mean by assimilation?" Bai Roushuang glanced at the shadow monsters behind her. "Are you saying that among this dark mass, there are our classmates?"
"That's right. Number 210, who was traveling with me just now, was bitten by them, and his palms gradually turned black, and then slowly turned into this appearance," the woman said anxiously, "The slender one chasing after me now is her!"
Bai Roushuang looked back while running, but she couldn't really tell which one was slimmer among the blurry monsters. However, she couldn't care less about that at the moment, so she just frowned and said, "It's just a small test in the academy, the teacher won't let us get into trouble..."
"Be careful!" She was just talking when her senior sister pulled her hard, interrupting her thoughts. Bai Roushuang turned around and saw that the shadow monster was still some distance away from her. Perhaps her senior sister was too worried about her. She didn't have time to think carefully and turned to ask her senior sister, "Where should we escape to?"
"Come with me, I know a safe place." Seeing her senior sister's words, Bai Roushuang hurriedly pulled the female cultivator to follow. The three of them came to a school, only to see that the lights were on, and there were indeed no monsters inside.
The female cultivator breathed a sigh of relief and sat down against the wall. However, Bai Roushuang felt vaguely uneasy. The academy was completely dark, and only this place was brightly lit. It was like a... target.
Just as she was about to say something, she saw her senior sister pointed her sword at the female cultivator's throat: "You've been bitten too."
Bai Roushuang was stunned. The female cultivator shook her head repeatedly to deny: "No, I didn't!"
"I saw that your palms were black."
Bai Roushuang frowned: "If you want us to help, tell the truth."
Seeing that she could not deny it any more, the female cultivator stretched out her clenched fisted left hand in front of them and slowly opened her palm. Sure enough, it was already black and was about to spread to her fingertips.
"This..." Bai Roushuang looked at her senior sister hesitantly, asking her with her eyes how to deal with it.
"Kill her!"
"What?"
"You've heard what she said. She'll soon become that kind of monster, and will be bad for us."
“…”
Seeing that Bai Roushuang didn't move, she drew her sword and stabbed the female cultivator herself.
The female cultivator’s face was filled with fear: “No, don’t…”
A "clang" sound was heard, which was the sound of metal clashing. Two long swords collided in front of the female cultivator. Unexpectedly, one of them was Bai Roushuang's magic weapon "Qilu".
Qilu is a sharp sword forged by a famous contemporary master. It is inspired by the saying "There are so many forked roads, where are they now?" There are so many forked roads, where is the true path? When Bai Roushuang was choosing a sword, she resonated with it at the first sight of this sword.
At this moment, the long sword shone brightly in the moonlight, but it was not as firm as the light in Bai Roushuang's eyes. She looked at the person in front of her and said word by word: "You are not my senior sister, who are you?"
"What are you talking about?"
Bai Roushuang looked at her, suddenly put away her sword, took out a plush cloak with pompoms and put it on herself, fastened the hood with little tiger ears, stretched her head in front of the other person, and deliberately shook her head and shook her ears.
“…What are you doing?”
"You are not my senior sister," Bai Roushuang snorted coldly, "My real senior sister would definitely raise her hand and touch my head!"
She spoke such funny words in such a serious tone, and the other two people present were silent for a while.
"Humph! My senior sister would never kill innocent people, let alone the classmate in front of me who hasn't turned into that scary monster yet," Bai Roushuang looked up and down at the person in front of her, "even if he has already turned into a monster, my senior sister will dig him out!"
"…When did you start to doubt me?"
"I felt something was wrong since you refused to eat breakfast," Bai Roushuang held the sword again, "My senior sister is a well-known drunkard and never refuses any proposal for a meal!"
“…”
"Also, my senior sister is a well-known pushover. She would never turn a deaf ear to her classmates' screams."
The person in front of her suddenly laughed, and this laugh looked ferocious, unlike Xu Shulou: "Unfortunately, you reacted too late."
She clapped her hands, and from under the tables, chairs, under the lights, and any place where there was a shadow in the lobby, a group of black things swam out, gradually gathering together, and were about to turn into a giant several meters tall.
"You deliberately led us here to ambush us? Why? The one outside..." Bai Roushuang held her long sword Qilu across her body. She paused, secretly hating herself for not reacting earlier. "The shadow monster outside isn't that dangerous, right? You knew I could handle it, so you stopped me and led me to this giant monster."
"Stop talking nonsense," the man with Xu Shulou's face suddenly attacked him, "I want to see if you are willing to attack your senior sister."
Bai Roushuang looked at her face and felt a little reluctant to confront her with sword.
The female cultivator at the side also took up her weapon and stepped forward to help Bai Roushuang. The man in front of her raised an eyebrow: "You will soon become one of us, why are you still helping her?"
"Bah, who is one of you!"
The man made a contemptuous expression: "Idiot."
"Don't use my senior sister's face to make such an expression!" Bai Roushuang raised her sword and stabbed it directly at the opponent's chest. When she raised her sword to block, she shouted to the female cultivator behind her, "Run!"
Her sword move was just a feint, and at this moment she suddenly bounced out of the window. She didn't know if there were other ambushes in the school, so it was not advisable to fight against the enemy. She might as well leave here first.
Bai Roushuang broke through the window and fell to the ground. She looked up and saw the scene in front of her and was shocked. It turned out that the school had been quietly surrounded by shadow monsters.
These pitch-black things, standing in a row in the night, are really creepy at first glance.
She smiled bitterly. Sure enough, this brightly lit school was a target.
The female cultivator looked at her and said, "There's no need for me to escape anymore. What are you going to do?"
"What else can we do? Just fight." Bai Roushuang felt that she had been infected with a more reckless spirit by her senior sister. She raised her hand and swung a sword at the shadow monster that was blocking her way. Sure enough, this shadow monster did not have any strong attack power, but it suddenly jumped up and bit people in an unexpected way. Bai Roushuang was prepared for this, so they were helpless.
The guy dressed as Xu Shulou also jumped out of the window and attacked with a sword. Bai Roushuang gritted her teeth and used the Swallow Returns to the Nest move to attack the opponent's back: "You can't possibly imitate my senior sister's strength? Let's fight!"
That person really didn't have Xu Shulou's strength. But then again, if he had that strength, why would he go to so much trouble to lie to her and could just take action directly.
The two of them exchanged several moves in a blink of an eye. If it was a one-on-one fight, Bai Roushuang was confident that she could defeat her, but the giant monster had already thrown the female cultivator who came to help her out and knocked her unconscious, and was about to come over to deal with her. The surrounding shadow monsters also seized the opportunity to bite her. Bai Roushuang really couldn't handle so many monsters, so she simply risked being bitten by the shadow monsters to get rid of the "senior sister" who tricked her here first.
The other person still had a disgusting smile on his face, and her sword pierced his heart. At the same time, Bai Roushuang closed her eyes, waiting for the bite to hit her right arm before she could dodge.
She didn't wait to feel the pain, but only heard a "dang" sound in her ears, this time it was the sound of teeth biting on the sword blade. Judging from the crisp sound, the shadow monster must have broken a mouthful of silver teeth.
Bai Roushuang widened her eyes as she watched another senior sister appear in front of her, and a group of classmates following behind her.
She looked at the person in front of her carefully: "Senior Sister, is that you?"
Xu Shulou smiled at her, and Bai Roushuang felt relieved.
It's the same face, but it can give people completely different feelings.
Bai Roushuang, who had dared to fight just now, immediately became weak and acted coquettishly to Xu Shulou: "Senior Sister, that monster turned into your appearance to deceive me. I feel so sad. You don't even know what it feels like to face you with a sword. I can't bear it..."
"I understand. I've killed three of you along the way."
"..." Then you are really decisive. Bai Roushuang's coquettish words were choked in her throat, and she silently withdrew her hands that were about to hug her senior sister.
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