Chapter 72 The Silent Tortoise
Love me, love my dog.
Although Xiao Shi had been hiding in front of the new tenant Nie Xiaoxiao, seeing her getting along peacefully with A Chen, she found a book called "The Poison Fairy's Notebook" in the tenth-floor tower.
“Here, give this to her and say it’s a family heirloom that you don’t need yourself, but you thought she might find it useful, so you’re showing it to her,” Xiao Shi said, stuffing the book into A Chen’s hands.
"I don't want to show her this. She's already poisonous enough. If she sees this 'Poison Fairy's Handbook,' she'll poison me to death!" Ah Chen shook his head desperately.
"Hey! How could you be so stupid? She's your tenant now. You taught her martial arts and gave her this notebook. In her heart, you're practically a mentor."
"Even if she doesn't take care of you in the future, at least she will definitely stand up to protect you if you are in danger." Xiao Shi looked at her with exasperation.
“I’m a grown man, why would I need her protection?” Achen retorted.
"Tch~ Haven't you heard that you're now under the Little Witch's protection?"
"Several people with ill intentions wanted to spar with you right here at your gate, but they all quietly retreated because they were afraid of her," Xiao Shi said, pursing her lips.
Seeing his "you've taken advantage and you're still acting innocent" expression, Ah Chen was so angry he wanted to hit him, but unfortunately he couldn't hit Xiao Shi at all.
Even though Xiao Shi can now touch physical objects, it's one-sided. In other words, Xiao Shi can beat him up, but he can't touch Xiao Shi; he can only get beaten up.
Ah Chen was extremely depressed. There was someone in the house who could bully him, and there was another person downstairs who could bully him, making him a weakling that anyone could bully.
No, he has to go out and find someone to bully!
It's definitely not worth it to openly bully your seniors in class; you'll be punished if your advisor finds out.
However, he soon got a chance to openly bully people.
Because the academy holds a quarterly departmental competition.
The rule of the competition is—there are no rules.
Regardless of which department you belong to, you must participate. During the competition, there are no restrictions on the means you use. You can even use super-grade magic artifacts bestowed by your elders. However, once a magic artifact is detected as being super-grade, it will be confiscated.
Do you feel sorry for me?
Ah Chen came from a poor background, so he naturally couldn't bring a super-grade magic weapon into battle. Therefore, he could draw more talismans.
During this period, the instructors guided them to make talisman paper by hand, and most of the students in the talisman-making department have accumulated quite a lot of talisman paper.
Many of them were reluctant to sell their talismans, so this time, everyone planned to draw more talismans for battle.
These talismans are not considered top-tier magical artifacts, yet they can play a significant role in actual combat.
The students of the talisman-making department were all eager to get started and wait for the competition to begin.
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Shifang Academy has ten departments, which are ten beginner classes, with a total of 426 students.
In the large square, all the trainees stood together, waiting for the competition to begin.
A voice rang out: "Begin!"
Then they saw a huge hemispherical light shield that enveloped everyone.
Next, we saw everyone start fighting amongst themselves.
This was the first time Ah Chen had ever seen such a scene, and he was momentarily stunned.
Then someone rushed up to him, tugged at his sleeve, and said, "What are you standing there for? Where are your Vajra Talismans? Hurry up and take out two!"
Ah Chen realized that the person tugging at his sleeve was Nie Xiaoxiao, so he didn't throw away the Mountain-Moving Talisman he was holding in his palm.
Previously, Senior Sister Leng Qiuchan and the others had reminded him that the first stage of this competition was a chaotic free-for-all, and that he should try to push the people around him out of the light shield as much as possible.
Anyone who leaves the light shield is eliminated. When only 100 people remain inside the light shield, the second stage begins.
The senior female students also said that during a large-scale battle, it's best not to use talismans that are too powerful, otherwise it's easy to accidentally injure their talisman-making classmates.
To prevent other factions from wiping out their rune-making faction, they should spread out as much as possible when positioning themselves.
Ah Chen didn't expect Nie Xiaoxiao to come to his side on her own initiative. Of course, he didn't intend to kick her out either, after all, he and she had been living together for nearly two months.
It wasn't that Nie Xiaoxiao's monthly exam results were bad, but rather that the spiritual plants she had replanted in the experimental field that she had ruined hadn't even grown yet. So her instructor decided to deduct 50 credits from her every month until the experimental field was restored to its original state.
Nie Xiaoxiao stayed at Achen's place, and after a while, she found it quite nice. He didn't bother her, and occasionally when he cooked dinner separately, he would share some with her if she smelled the aroma and came over.
Most importantly, he recently gave her a copy of "The Poison Fairy's Notebook," which contains incredibly ingenious recipes for poison powder and poison pills!
Nie Xiaoxiao now truly regards Achen as her junior brother whom she protects. Occasionally, when she hears someone speaking ill of him out of jealousy, she will mercilessly make that person develop rashes for a few days.
She had decided to protect him from the very beginning of this competition, which is why she chose a position close to him when she was standing.
Without hesitation, Achen took out an enhanced Vajra Talisman and enveloped both him and Nie Xiaoxiao within it.
At this moment, spells, talismans, magical artifacts, and hidden weapons attacked one after another from all around. Some even released homemade puppets to launch surprise attacks on unsuspecting students.
The Vajra Talisman can block ordinary attacks, but it cannot block all attacks.
Nie Xiaoxiao then released her contracted spiritual plant—a fourth-tier immortal thorn.
The cactus thorn is thick and elastic, and its entire body is covered with sharp thorns. Any part of the body that is pricked by the thorns will immediately become numb.
This not only stopped all attacks, but no one dared to approach them anymore.
Those familiar with Nie Xiaoxiao, especially those in the planting department, wished they could stay as far away as possible when they saw the little witch release the fairy thorns.
Some people even took the opportunity to gossip while dodging the attacks.
"Hey! Look at that talisman-making kid, he's really being protected by the little witch. How come he's so lucky?"
"Yeah, yeah! I also want the little witch to protect me, so I can easily make it to the second level without having to do anything."
"He has a pretty face, while you have a dark, charcoal-like face. Don't even mention the little witch, even the fattest and ugliest senior in the class wouldn't look at you!"
Xiao Shi, always eager for a good show, mimicked the words of those people to A Chen in a vivid and expressive manner, just like a ventriloquist.
Ah Chen was furious!
Xiao Shi had told him before that there were rumors about his relationship with the Little Witch, but he was busy studying the Void Drawing Talisman and couldn't be bothered to pay attention.
After all, who isn't talked about behind their back? As long as it's not discussed to his face, he'll pretend he doesn't know anything.
But in this chaotic situation, these people still have the nerve to belittle him. If he doesn't retaliate, he's not Zuo Chen!
Thinking of this, Ah Chen, under the cover of the large cloak, began to draw talismans in the air.
He is now very skilled at drawing symbols in the void, and his ability to construct flat spaces is almost effortless.
After constructing the space, I used my mind to drive the compressed spiritual energy to flow within the flat space, and in the blink of an eye, a silencing talisman was drawn.
Then he drew another tortoise-walking talisman, forming a combined void talisman, which can also be considered a small void talisman array.
As the name suggests, the silencing charm prevents the person from making any sound for a short period of time.
The Tortoise Walking Talisman is an innovative creation he made by combining the Mount Tai Pressing Down Talisman and the Slow Travel Talisman.
The "Mount Tai Pressing Down Talisman" instantly applies immense pressure to the opponent during battle, pinning them to the ground. While not fatal, it significantly reduces the enemy's combat effectiveness.
The Slow Rune is the opposite of the Swift Rune; it controls enemies to move slowly in one direction.
When these two talismans are combined, they become the Tortoise-Walking Talisman.
Ah Chen once secretly went to the academy's spirit beast garden to conduct an experiment. The third-tier cloud leopard that was hit by his tortoise-walking talisman could only crawl on its knees for a quarter of an hour and could not stand up at all, let alone run or jump.
There were three people discussing him. After Ah Chen drew three sets of Void Talismans combining Silence Talisman and Tortoise Walking Talisman, in order to ensure that all three of them would be hit at the same time without any mistakes, he directly used the skills of teleportation and stealth.
The three people were back to back forming a circle, blocking attacks from all sides, when suddenly they felt a chill between their brows, as if some kind of power had been forcibly injected into their bodies.
The next second, the three of them felt as if a mountain was pressing down on them, and they all knelt down on the ground.
Their instincts made them want to scream, but they found that they couldn't utter a sound.
The most terrifying thing is that even when they are kneeling on the ground, their bodies still involuntarily crawl forward slowly.
The light shield in the square is hemispherical. As a result of crawling in one direction, it naturally crawled outside the light shield.
The three of them were crawling forward, and they were all on the verge of going crazy!
They didn't want to crawl on their knees, much less crawl towards the edge of the light shield, but they had no choice.
They wanted to scream loudly and call for help, but they couldn't make a sound.
At first, the people in the melee didn't notice, but when they realized their strange behavior, many forgot to attack and stared at them.
After watching for a while, everyone basically understood that these three people had offended someone they couldn't afford to offend.
Killing someone is usually just a matter of beheading them. Normally, they would just be kicked away and that would be the end of it. But instead, they were forced to crawl on their knees in such a humiliating way, and at a snail's pace, crawling step by step.
"Not bad, kid! That's creative!" Xiao Shi clapped excitedly from the side.
Nie Xiaoxiao, who was spared attack by anyone because of the Immortal Thorn, was watching the chaotic battle around her with nothing to do when she witnessed this scene.
"Wow! That's amazing! Whose masterpiece is this? These three guys are always so cheeky, they really deserve it!" Nie Xiaoxiao exclaimed excitedly.
After the initial excitement subsided, she suddenly remembered that a similar incident seemed to have occurred when she invited Ah Chen to a restaurant for dinner last time.
It seems that among those people in the plantation department who had their excrement poured on them by the chamber pot, these three unlucky souls are among them.
A sudden thought flashed through her mind: This must have been done by the same person!
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