Chapter 391: Biological Weapons Attack

After taking the pill, nourished by its medicinal power, the three students whose vital energy had been flagging finally recovered a little.

Then, with the support of the classmates beside them, they struggled to their feet.

"Envoy, is there any chance for us to recover?" one student could not help but ask.

Once the medicinal power maintaining the false appearance was dissolved, the feeling of overdrawn potential and damaged foundations could be perceived with absolute clarity.

Weakness all over, dry mouth and parched throat, palpitations and dizziness—even the spiritual power circulating within their bodies seemed to have become rootless duckweed, ready to dissipate and drain away at any moment…

That sensation of vitality slipping away would unsettle even a beast of extremely low intelligence, let alone humans—and cultivators at that.

Zhang Yunlu paused, glanced at the three, and finally shook her head slightly: "Generally speaking, no."

Once a pill of this kind—one that hacks away at one's own primordial qi and overdrafts potential and foundations—is taken, the damage it causes is very difficult to reverse.

Unless one can obtain some rare spiritual medicines, wondrous pills, or have a high-level cultivator skilled in the Dao of Vitality intervene.

Under normal circumstances, it's simply impossible!

But this time counts as lucky—her martial uncle happens to be right here.

However, her martial uncle has not yet made a move, clearly intending to let them remember this lesson well…

No need to spell it out for now.

Sure enough, upon hearing Zhang Yunlu's words, the relief in the eyes of the remaining students grew even stronger, while the expressions of those three students each differed.

Anger, sorrow, dread…

But whatever the emotion, hidden beneath it all was a despair beyond which there is no greater sorrow than a dead heart.

Zhang Yunlu could understand this, to be fair.

They were at an age full of youthful vigor, dreaming of a beautiful future every day, yet suddenly struck by such a calamity—not wailing and thrashing about already counted as strong…

Wuu wuu~

Someone finally could not hold back and began sobbing softly, tears falling.

"…"

Well, putting herself in their place, she probably wouldn't be doing much better either.

So thought the modest little Zhang.

Meanwhile, outside the gymnasium.

After binding the principal of Yuyao No. 1 Middle School with sword silk and dragging him outside the gymnasium, Chi Jiuyu flew up high and looked down.

Golden light flowed in her eyes as she swept them across the entire school, taking in the foundation condition of every teacher and student.

Anyone who had taken a Life-Cutting Pill had nowhere to hide before the Grand Void Gold-Pupil of Piercing Falsehood.

"Thirty percent have taken it—you've got some nerve."

If Yuyao No. 1 Middle School was already like this, there was no need to mention the other schools—the proportion would only be higher.

Because Chi Jiuyu had previously sealed his cultivation, the principal, now dangling in mid-air swaying on the sword silk, had gone a little pale.

That wisp of magic power was far too domineering—not only did it completely suppress all his magic power, even his divine soul and physical body were suppressed to the level of an ordinary person.

In other words, if he were to accidentally fall from the height he was currently at, he really would die!

"…" Whether he hadn't heard clearly or was suppressing the fear rising ceaselessly within, the principal was silent for a moment. "Since the envoy has such methods, why bother with all that elaborate procedure earlier?"

The Guardian my lord had notified him to be careful, saying this Sword Sect Inspector Envoy was very unusual…

Chi Jiuyu…

Worthy of being the legendary number one of the younger generation—truly a reputation well deserved.

He couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart.

"Of course we have to follow procedure. Besides, our mission is only to investigate; punishment isn't our jurisdiction, so naturally we have to gather some evidence and such."

And this is martial uncle's test—if I resolved it in one glance, what if martial uncle refuses to acknowledge it!

As she was speaking, she suddenly raised her head to look at the horizon: "There, your backup has arrived."

Viewed with the naked eye, the night sky of Yuyao's fourth planet was not much different from that of the Central Continent.

A silver moon hung high, stars scattered like grains.

Perhaps because of the formations inscribed within it, that crescent hanging in the sky was even brighter than those over the Central Continent.

Two streaks of escape light shot across the night sky like meteors, hurrying toward the school.

It was precisely the Planetary Guardian You Hao, along with his deputy.

Chi Jiuyu shook the sword silk: "Want to confess his criminal facts first? Leniency for those who come clean!"

But the principal merely hung his head low, saying nothing.

The more said, the more mistakes—just wait for the Guardian my lord to arrive.

Fine!

Chi Jiuyu stopped asking, and once again hauled him off flying in a certain direction.

……

……

A little over a minute later, the principal's office.

Several glittering golden pills were piled on the desk; judging by their appearance alone, one might mistake them for some wondrous pill.

The principal, meanwhile, was pale-faced and had been casually tossed onto the sofa.

Chi Jiuyu stood before the desk, looking toward a bookshelf nearby—she had just noticed a hidden chamber inside…

Buzz buzz~!

A flash of sword light swept past.

Boom!

Dust billowed everywhere; though it was a specially reinforced secret chamber, it failed to slow that sword light in the slightest.

The entire principal's office instantly became a complete mess.

With a casual wave, the scattered dust instantly settled. Through the broken wall and the remaining half of the array patterns, one could see boxes upon boxes of pills stacked inside.

These were precisely the resources that had been delivered in the past for planetary construction.

"That's merely a secret room used to store pills. Envoy, what do you mean by this?"

The pills inside hadn't been tampered with, so the principal was completely unruffled.

Chi Jiuyu glanced at him: "None of your business."

"..."

Just then, two figures pushed the door open and entered. It was You Hao and his deputy; the two had finally arrived.

Seeing the mess all over the floor and the principal covered in dust, You Hao also froze for a moment.

"Envoy, what is this...?"

"Oh? Your backer is here." Chi Jiuyu looked at him. "Is there anything else you want to confess?"

"What makes the Envoy say so? Have I done something wrong?" You Hao's face was full of incomprehension.

"Look here, Fat Mouse Pills. Thirty percent of this school's students have taken them." Chi Jiuyu pointed at the pills on the table.

Because of the commotion just now, a few had already fallen to the floor.

"How could this be?!" You Hao looked at the principal with utter disbelief, then immediately cursed, "How do you even serve as principal! How could this kind of demonic pill appear in the school!"

The principal opened his mouth, then suddenly had a flash of inspiration: "It's my incompetence. I don't know when a demonic cultivator infiltrated the school and bewitched the students into taking it..."

As he spoke, his expression grew increasingly 'bitter'.

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"And that demonic cultivator somehow snuck into my office at some point and put that Life-Cutting Pill..."

"Fat Mouse Pills," Chi Jiuyu reminded him.

"..." The principal's face twitched, but he still gritted his teeth and said, "put those Fat Mouse Pills in the office to frame me, causing me to previously misunderstand the Envoy."

Interesting—insulting himself as a 'fat mouse'.

"Worthless!" You Hao cursed again. "Didn't you distribute the required cultivation resources on time?"

"I did! The weekly resources were all distributed on time, never delayed, and everyone knows how much there is each week. How would I dare to mess around!"

"Then how could so many students have been bewitched!"

"It's my fault, my fault! My anti-fraud education wasn't thorough enough. I will self-criticize!"

The two went back and forth, directly defining the nature of the incident as a 'demonic cultivator' causing trouble.

After 'arguing' like this for quite a while, during which Zhang Yunlu also arrived at the principal's office.

Amid the principal's continuous confessions, You Hao's cursing only stopped after a long while, and he turned to look at Chi Jiuyu.

"What do you think..."

"Go on, why'd you stop?"

You Hao: "..."

"That's all you have to say?" Chi Jiuyu was a bit disappointed; she still wanted to hear how much more these two could make up. "You say it's demonic cultivators causing trouble, then it definitely isn't just this school where this is happening, right?"

"..."

"And those schools with weaker security forces would definitely have more bewitched students."

"..." After a long silence, You Hao could only squeeze out, "The Envoy is wise."

Everything that needed to be said had been said; what else could he say.

"Wise your ass*!"

The sudden profanity made You Hao, his deputy, and the principal all freeze.

Everyone here is a refined person, not some low-quality brute from the body cultivators—how could you swear like that!

"Make up some story and think you can sweep this under the rug? Am I stupid, or are you stupid?"

"..."

"You just said the cultivation resources were all distributed on time?" Chi Jiuyu asked again.

"Correct! The Envoy can ask any student in the school!" the principal hurriedly said.

"They are indeed distributed on time and in full, but how much medicinal efficacy remains within them is unclear."

Having said that, Chi Jiuyu didn't waste any more words. She directly drew a box of pills from the secret room nearby, then took out an identical box from her storage ring—only it looked somewhat more ancient in appearance.

They had only come to the school to investigate late at night; the time before that hadn't been spent eating, drinking, and having fun.

You Hao's expression shifted slightly.

Zhang Yunlu took out a Mysterious Light Stone: "This is the record of how this box of pills was obtained."

Chi Jiuyu had originally intended to pour the pills out, but suddenly seemed to think of something and glared viciously at the principal on the sofa.

"Say that one more time and I'll stab you to death with my sword!"

The principal: "..."

He hadn't planned to say it, alright.

She poured out a silver box made of metal from the container. Upon opening it, seven pills could be seen neatly arranged inside.

Qi-Nurturing Pills—the most commonly taken type of pill for Qi Refining stage cultivators.

The medicinal properties are stable and don't easily dissipate, making them convenient for storage and transport.

Comparing the two, the difference became immediately apparent.

The pills taken from the secret room were crystalline and translucent, with a rich medicinal fragrance and abundant medicinal efficacy.

Meanwhile, the pills taken from that more ancient-looking box also appeared crystalline and translucent, with a no-lesser medicinal fragrance, but their insides were dim, and the medicinal efficacy only had one-tenth remaining.

"Swallow nine, keep one. Saying you're fat mice shouldn't be too much, right?"

"……"

You Hao could only fall silent.

To cope with this inspection, he had made many preparations.

But the one who came was none other than Chi Jiuyu — not only was her identity special, her divine abilities were also astonishing, which rendered many of his preparations for naught…

At this point, he no longer hoped to deceive everyone and walk away unscathed.

He only hoped to minimize the losses, and not end up losing his life in the process…

He opened his mouth, about to say something.

"This is the Yuyao Star System."

"I am the Star System Garrison Commander, Return-to-Void realm Feng Tianrui."

"Biological weapons are approaching. In thirty seconds I will activate the Star System Protective Grand Array. All cultivators at Nascent Soul and above within the star system are to leave the planet immediately and follow me to meet the enemy!" (End of Chapter)