The wind of the whip was fierce as it struck straight toward her.
Yet in the next instant, spiritual light swirled around Mu Guili’s fingertips. She swiftly drew a talisman in midair, then flung it out. With a boom, the whip wind was scattered in an instant.
Ren Ningning was actually forced back several steps. She stared at Mu Guili in disbelief. “You can draw talismans?!”
For a talisman master, drawing talismans first required powerful spiritual force, as well as a special spirit brush. Ink and paper were indispensable, and the failure rate was extremely high. As a result, drawing talismans required not only talent but also an enormous expenditure of spirit stones.
Yet just now, Mu Guili had drawn a talisman directly in midair without a brush, ink, or paper—and had succeeded on her first attempt.
How had she done it?!
Ren Ningning let out a jealous snort. “It has no killing power. It’s nothing special!”
“A piece of trash like you doesn’t deserve to possess such talent!”
In the blink of an eye, spiritual power erupted from her, producing an even sharper whip wind than before as it struck straight at Mu Guili’s face.
She actually intended to cripple the hand Mu Guili used to draw talismans.
Impatience surfaced in Mu Guili’s eyes. Her figure suddenly dodged like a ghost, and she rushed forward, viciously slapping Ren Ningning across the face before kicking her in the abdomen.
So fast!!
Ren Ningning spat out a mouthful of blood. Before she could react, Mu Guili grabbed her by the hair and dragged her into the room, then pressed her face hard against the filthy water and rubbed it back and forth.
Ren Ningning struggled and screamed in pain. “Mu Guili, what are you doing? Let go of me!”
Mu Guili said coldly, “Ren Ningning, my patience is limited. You should be glad we’re in the academy, where it’s inconvenient to cause trouble.”
“Otherwise—” She clamped a hand around Ren Ningning’s neck, her tone cold and terrifying. “Today would be your deathday.”
Ren Ningning’s face, covered in dirty water, flushed red from suffocation as she stared fixedly at Mu Guili.
She was serious. She really wanted to kill her!
But compared to that, what Ren Ningning found even more impossible to accept was that she had actually been unable to withstand a single move from the publicly acknowledged piece of trash!
She could sense the powerful pressure of Mu Guili’s spiritual power, yet she could not sense Mu Guili’s level. That meant—
Mu Guili’s strength was actually above hers!!
“You’ve… been hiding your abilities…” Anger filled Ren Ningning’s eyes as she spoke hoarsely and with difficulty. “Why… didn’t you go to Jiazi Class? Do you look down on us?!”
Mu Guili raised her brows in surprise, then flung her hand away and released her. “You have one hour to clean my quarters.”
After coughing as though her lungs were being torn apart, Ren Ningning took a long while to recover before straightening up. Even so, her fury had twisted her expression.
“Mu Guili, don’t get so arrogant! I’m merely the weakest person in Jiazi Class. There are plenty of people who could crush you. No wonder Ye Chen looks down on you. In his eyes, you’re nothing but a piece of trash!”
What on earth was this woman talking about?
Mu Guili swept her a cold glance.
Ren Ningning instinctively retreated a step and said warily, “I’ll have someone clean your quarters, and I’ll replace the furniture with new pieces. But I absolutely won’t lose to you in this assessment again. I’ll make you understand that Jiazi Class isn’t something you can hold in contempt. Hurry up and break off your engagement with Ye Chen. You shamelessly chose to rot away in Ding Class…”
So long-winded.
‘Bang, bang, bang—’
Unable to bear it any longer, Mu Guili went up and beat her violently again.
Ren Ningning’s eyes instantly reddened from the pain. She choked out a furious roar, “I already lost! How can you still hit me?!”
Mu Guili: “…”
Mu Guili pointed expressionlessly toward the door. “Get out!”
The tears streaming down Ren Ningning’s face washed the filth from it, making her look like a ghost. Her pride completely shattered, she still could not help throwing out one last furious threat before leaving.
“The Crimson Sun Shield from this assessment will definitely belong to my Jiazi Class! Just wait until you’re eliminated!”
For a moment, Mu Guili thought she had misheard. But Ren Ningning had already run away, and Mu Guili’s expression immediately turned cold.
The Crimson Sun Shield was a high-grade protective artifact. It was entirely reasonable to use it as an assessment reward.
But wasn’t this something that belonged to Big Brother?!
Why had it ended up at Sacred Heaven Academy?!
Mu Guili had been unable to contact them for a long time and had no idea where Big Brother was.
There was probably only one person hiding in the shadows and watching covetously who knew: Chi Roushu. Mu Guili abruptly closed her eyes.
She had to obtain first place in this assessment!
“Little girl, if you don’t hurry to class, your Instructor Ding is probably going to come drag you there again.”
An aged voice drifted over. Mu Guili suddenly looked in its direction and saw a dirty, frail old man carrying a broom and lying on a tree branch. His eyes were closed as he rocked his head from side to side.
Mu Guili felt as though she had been separated from another lifetime. “Old Shao, it’s been a long time.”
The old man who swept the grounds of Sacred Heaven Academy was an ordinary mortal.
But strangely, in her previous life, after Chi Roushu possessed her body, the old man had disappeared.
Old Shao scratched his filthy, disheveled hair, pulled out a louse, and crushed it between his fingers. He said cheerfully, “This old man was only slacking off a little. Little girl, you have to keep this secret for me later.”
After saying that, he covered his face with the broom and went to sleep.
Mu Guili did not understand what was going on.
In the next instant, an angry roar rang out. “Mu Guili, where have you been running off to these past few days? Don’t even think about dodging your lessons. The assessment is about to begin, too. Do you want to die, and you still dare to slack off? Come back to class with me, now!”
A bare-chested, burly man with a face covered in beard charged over furiously. His eyes were as large as bells. He grabbed Mu Guili and lifted her up, then turned around and walked away.
Mu Guili’s eyelid twitched. She instinctively said, “Instructor Ding, please calm down. I was just about to come find you. I wasn’t trying to slack off.”
Ding Chong snorted coldly. “Admitting your mistake won’t help. You’re as weak as a little chick. What else can you do besides make me lose face?!”
The noisy voices gradually faded into the distance.
On the tree, Old Shao’s filthy finger moved slightly. He suddenly smiled. “The death calamity has just passed, and the Ziwei Emperor Star shines brightly. This little girl is rather interesting.”
In the eyes of everyone else, the students of Ding Class were all a bunch of useless good-for-nothings.
That was true.
But unfortunately, they had a Chief Instructor filled with lofty ambitions.
When Mu Guili took the Sacred Heaven Academy entrance examination, she nearly got eliminated because she had offended the examining elder. As it happened, Instructor Ding passed by at that moment and, overriding everyone’s objections, directly admitted her into Ding Class.
Thus, the name of “piece of trash” spread throughout the academy. Ye Chen even humiliated her without the slightest restraint. Only Instructor Ding refused to give up on her. He had even given her one of the assessment slots, hoping she would become the top scholar to emerge from the village and bring glory to Ding Class.
Moreover, Instructor Ding had been the first person in her previous life to realize that she had been possessed.
Unfortunately, before he had a chance to expose it, Chi Roushu killed him.
Now that she was seeing this irritable yet tenderhearted man again, she could not help feeling nostalgic. She absolutely would not let him die again!
‘Bang—’
Then she was roughly thrown into icy water shimmering with profound cold energy. Instructor Ding’s booming voice rang out: “You’re not allowed to come back up until you’ve mastered the Water-Fixing Art!”
Several richly dressed young men passing by sauntered along, laughing gleefully at her misfortune.
“How did Mu Guili get caught by Old Ding again? Her luck is seriously awful.”
They gnawed on the chicken legs in their hands and took hearty gulps of wine.
“What can you do? Who told Ding Class to produce a promising seed who’s so eager to cultivate? If Old Ding doesn’t keep an eye on her, who else is he supposed to watch?”
Mu Guili: Are you deliberately speaking that loudly? Do you think Old Ding is deaf?
Sure enough, in the next instant, Ding Chong turned around and furiously kicked them all into the icy water as well.
“You slack off and refuse to cultivate every day! All you know from morning till night is eating, drinking, and having fun. You little brats really have itchy hides. Get down there and sober up too! None of you are allowed back up until you’ve stayed there for a full hour!”
Before leaving, he roared one more sentence:
“You really are the worst class I’ve ever taught!”
In the silent icy water, a voice suddenly emerged.
“Isn’t Ding Class the worst in the entire academy?”
Mu Guili stared expressionlessly at the several young men trembling like plucked chickens, then shuddered as well.
So cold.