With his body covered in invisibility and concealment talismans, Shushu quietly chose a cave with a monitoring screen and hid directly opposite it.
They say the most dangerous place is also the safest place, and that's exactly what Shushu is planning now.
As it turned out, her approach, while indeed carrying significant risks, was also extremely effective, saving her from a major wave of impending repercussions.
Because the moment she successfully obtained the high score token, someone among the group of teachers standing in front of the light screen, watching intently, subtly leaked the news.
The news traveled around in circles before finally reaching a few of the participants who were still competing.
Upon receiving the message and reading its contents, those people, almost without hesitation, immediately changed their search from for points tokens to for millet, intending to claim the points tokens for themselves.
Unfortunately, they mobilized everyone around them to search for a long time. A whole day passed, but they couldn't find the whereabouts of the yam, let alone anyone who had seen it.
This result almost made them suspect that someone they had bribed had sent in false information just to get by.
With a day wasted in vain and only two days left, their points tokens could no longer guarantee their safe entry into the inner courtyard.
Even if these people were unwilling, they dared not take any more risks. They could only reluctantly give up the search for millet and instead go to collect other level score cards in order to ensure their ranking.
Meanwhile, Shushu hid in the same cave he had started in, without moving an inch for a whole day, during which countless groups of people came and went.
Among them were many with higher cultivation levels than her, yet not a single one of them noticed her.
On the contrary, she obtained a lot of useful information from these people's conversations, such as where her senior brother Lu Li was at this moment.
Hearing these people huddled together, plotting to rob her senior brother of his points tokens, Shushu didn't hesitate and followed them, ready to make things worse.
These people had probably been watching Lu Li for a long time. They quickly found him and prepared to ambush him in batches, so that no matter which direction Lu Li went, he would fall into their trap.
While they were digging holes and setting up ambushes, Shushu squatted down next to them and sabotaged them.
They would either move their array flags and stones, take away their spirit stones, tug at their storage bags, or poke them with a twig.
Because Shushu didn't use any spiritual power and relied entirely on his own skills, he quickly jumped away after succeeding, so those people naturally didn't notice his presence.
Under Shushu's persistent sabotage, these people also realized that something was wrong.
One of them, a coward who was afraid of ghosts and monsters, thought he had encountered those things. He was so scared that his face turned white. He didn't care about alliances or anything like that and ran away screaming.
As soon as she ran, the remaining people were startled and all ran after her in a panic, not even caring about their belongings.
With such a commotion, Lu Li, who was not far away, naturally noticed it as well, but he showed no intention of coming over. Instead, he prepared to turn around and walk back.
It was only thanks to Shushu's timely telepathic message that he was stopped.
After Shushu explained the whole story, he didn't let Shushu show himself and instead had Shushu remain invisible.
Then they swiftly and efficiently picked up all the things that people had dropped, and the senior and junior disciples began to cooperate openly and secretly, working together seamlessly.
Not only did they gain a lot of points, they also managed to rob several groups of people who saw Lu Li alone and wanted to rob him.
Lu Li had more points than Shushu, and he planned to share some with Shushu, but she firmly refused.
He kept whispering to himself, "The senior brother did all the work; I just scouted around and passed on messages. I didn't use any spiritual energy at all."
In short, no matter what Lu Li said, she simply refused to accept it!
Lu Li listened to her reasonable rebuttal and, unable to persuade her otherwise, did not bring up the matter again. Instead, he changed the subject and asked Shushu via telepathy.
'Junior sister, do you know where nearby is a good place to hide and rest?'
They all have over 20,000 points now, and there's only one day left. Those who haven't accumulated enough points might make a desperate comeback to secure a place in the university.
Shushu understood what Lu Li meant and carefully recalled the description of the small secret realm given by the three Gale Eagle cubs.
Just as they were carefully analyzing which places were suitable for hiding, a familiar, shrill scream suddenly rang in their ears. The voice was childish, yet it carried a shocking force that seemed to pierce everyone's eardrums.
Following the sound, Shushu saw two adult Gale Eagles flapping their wings and beating their chicks in a huge bird's nest on the tallest tree in the distance.
The three Gale Eagle chicks that were being chased around their nest looked very familiar; they were the same three that Shushu had encountered before, the ones whose points tokens she had tricked out of with Jade Fruit.
It turned out that she and Lu Li had unknowingly wandered back to this area.
For some reason, looking at the three Gale Eagle cubs crying loudly after being beaten, Shushu felt a little guilty.
Because Shushu was currently invisible, Lu Li couldn't see her expression, but after she fell silent, he immediately sensed something was wrong and quickly asked her telepathically.
"Junior Sister, what's wrong?"
His question made Shushu even more guilty. After stammering for a while, he finally decided to tell Lu Li.
"Hehe, Senior Brother, do you think it's possible that those Gale Eagle cubs that got beaten up were the same three that gave me the points tokens?"
The words were quite clear, and Lu Li naturally confirmed it as well: the identities of the three who were being beaten were somewhat amusing, and for a moment he didn't know what to say.
Just as the senior and junior disciples were silent, the two Gale Eagles that had been vigorously beating the child in the tree suddenly stopped.
As if sensing something, its pupils suddenly contracted, and after looking around, it quickly locked onto the direction of Lu Li and Shushu.
The next moment, almost without hesitation, they swooped down at lightning speed, arriving in front of the two people in the blink of an eye.
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