Chapter 10 Even without failing the college entrance exam, the defenses would be even more broken.
Mu Jianjian sincerely extended an invitation to the dazed boy, completely unaware of the horror of her "resurrection".
She felt a bit nauseous from eating too many leaves, but she was grateful for the token given to her by the original owner's father—it could eliminate one of the two attacks below the Nascent Soul stage.
Without this token, even with the system, it would be too late to save them.
"You...you're not dead?" The boy realized he'd said something pointless after he finished speaking, and added, "How did you block it?"
The giant spider's final attack was even comparable to a Foundation Establishment cultivator at the peak of their cultivation. It had a small range but was incredibly powerful. How did she manage to block it?
After blocking the attack, he concealed his presence so well that even he didn't notice.
After looking at it from all angles, it became clear that the other party's cultivation level was only at the Foundation Establishment stage.
"Of course it's because I have a secret technique," Mu Jianjian lied, putting the pine and cypress leaves back into her system space. She clapped her hands and stood up. "It's just that my back is a little sore."
If I had to say, the one that hurt the most was the buttock.
"Really? You're amazing." The boy's eyes lit up as he moved closer to Mu Jianjian, his tone light and cheerful.
"Want to go to the cave together? Let's get your beast core back from her." Mu Jianjian thought highly of the young man and extended an invitation to him.
She wanted to help him get the beast core back.
The boy touched the empty black scorpion box and nodded slightly. "My name is Ling..."
The voice was very low and soft, and Mu Jianjian didn't hear it. She extended her right hand and said, "Hello, Sun Yu. My name is Mu Yuanyuan. You can just call me Yuanyuan."
She had heard those people call him that in the previous small group.
Mu Yuanyuan.
Sun Yu slowly typed the name into his mind. He knew her; she was the kind person who had stood up for the manager at the inn yesterday.
Looking at the other person's fair and smooth hands, Sun Yu blinked his dark blue pupils from inside the veil.
"Ah," Mu Jianjian realized when the other person didn't move, and withdrew her hand to explain, "This is a custom from where I used to live, where shaking hands is a sign of friendship."
The girl's features were quite ordinary, but her smile was as warm as the sun.
Just a moment ago, he was tricked and knocked out, but now he acts like nothing happened and chats and laughs with him.
As Sun Yu followed the girl, he lowered his eyes and tapped the head of the slender snake, listening to her softly recount interesting stories along the way, and his heart gradually calmed down.
[Host, aren't you angry?] After the system became nervous and scared, it started to feel resentful. Why was that Qiu Bin so vicious!
"There's no need to be angry with yourself. The sooner you learn from this mistake, the better. Just be more vigilant and avoid making the same mistake next time."
After all, it's a cultivation world, a secret realm. To put it nicely, it's about seizing treasures and encountering opportunities; to put it bluntly, it's just a battle royale in a different setting.
Mu Jianjian is not a stubborn person. In her previous life, she grew up in an orphanage. She studied hard, won scholarships, and entered the workforce early. If she complained every time she encountered a setback, she would be living a very pitiful life.
Why was she outmaneuvered by Qiu Bin? Ultimately, it was because she underestimated the wickedness of human nature and was too weak. Despite having the strength to spare, she was unable to resist a high-ranking subordinate.
The two stood at the entrance of the cave. The flowers and green leaves of Butterfly Valley died just a few feet away from the cave. The dark black soil enveloped the endless darkness. Mu Jianjian said softly, "Let's go down."
——
Dark purple light reflected off the cave walls, with white spiderwebs covering the crevices. Hundreds of feet below the land, sunlight was blocked, and decaying grass grew in reverse, parasitizing countless tiny insects. Amidst the putrid smell, a strange fragrance subtly permeated the air.
Sun Yu tilted his head, sensing something was off about the incense. Just as he was about to turn around, he discovered that the scene had changed in an instant. Mu Jianjian's figure had disappeared, and he was now standing on the stone steps of a cliff, surrounded by howling winds and a bone-chilling cold.
He looked up and saw a kind-looking woman holding hands with a handsome young man on a pavilion not far away, smiling happily.
The red lacquer of the pavilion stands out strikingly against the backdrop of this landscape painting, echoing the eerie talismans hanging above its five corners.
Just as Sun Yu was in a daze, the woman noticed him, waved happily, and said two words.
The wind was too strong, and he couldn't hear clearly, but a familiar murmur echoed in his mind. Sun Yu touched his face, and the veil had disappeared at some point. Instantly, his face turned pale and his whole body trembled.
As Mu Jianjian walked along, she suddenly realized that Sun Yu was gone, and she immediately became alert.
Qiu Bin's ambush? Sun Yu's scheme? The test of the secret realm?
When my mind wavered, the scene changed, the sky suddenly brightened, and after regaining my composure, I found myself in a bright and clean classroom.
The lively and chaotic conversations around her seemed so real that Mu Jianjian felt a moment of disorientation.
"System?" she thought to herself, looking at the familiar sticky notes, books, and stationery on her desk.
There was no response in my mind.
"Jianjian! My dear Jianjian!" Her shoulders were shaken violently, and when Mu Jianjian turned her head, she saw a cute girl with pigtails on her head.
"Ruan Ruan..." Mu Jianjian's eyes stung as her long-lost best friend appeared before her.
"What's wrong with you? You're not moving at all during break, you seem distracted," Tang Ruan asked, puzzled. "You'll be in your class later, be careful he doesn't catch you like this!"
Mu Jianjian gave a soft "hmm," and as the school bell rang, a teacher with a receding hairline rushed into the classroom and slammed his books onto the podium.
"Something extremely bad has recently happened in our class! We must be very strict with it..."
Ignoring what the class monitor said, Mu Jianjian pinched her hand hard. The pain shot through her, but she didn't wake up. Now that she was sure it was an illusion, all she needed to do was find a way to break free...
"I'm talking about you! Mu Jianjian!"
"Huh?" Mu Jianjian looked up in a daze, while the surrounding classmates chuckled softly.
"Stand up! What kind of behavior is this?" The class monitor slammed his ruler down on the podium.
Mu Jianjian obediently stood up, finally remembering the matter in her mind. Looking at the disappointed class monitor in front of her, she found it amusing.
An orphan abandoned by her parents, wearing tattered clothes for three years, and having an eccentric personality that no one loves—these were the labels others attached to her throughout her three years of high school, and the things that once made Mu Jianjian feel ashamed and inferior.
One day, the school heartthrob in her class came to check on her because of a bet. She actually thought she had made a new friend and foolishly clung to him. As a result, she received an increasingly outrageous rumor that "Mu Jianjian has a crush on and is obsessed with the school heartthrob".
When the rumors reached the class monitor, her grades had just started to decline. With concrete "evidence," the monitor came to "question" her and severely criticized her in front of the whole class, causing the already self-conscious Mu Jianjian to become even more taciturn.
"...What time is it now? Senior year of high school! What's the most important thing in senior year? Studying!"
As Mu Jianjian listened to the class monitor's heartfelt words, the whispers of her classmates behind her were clear yet subtle. Her smile, like a blooming magnolia, radiated joy and satisfaction. In her heart, she thought, word by word—
"Do you want to break me down with this? Being criticized in front of the whole class and ridiculed by the whole school, but that's not as devastating as failing the college entrance exam. It's just a pity that I didn't fail the college entrance exam."
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