Chapter 944: Lost Dignity! Long-Awaited Roasted Meat!

Underground space.

Watching Su Qingli, arms crossed, deliberately looking away from him.

Xu Jingming couldn't help but feel amused.

Su Qingli, this ninth-rank Law Saint, now carried herself no differently from some little girl.

'Of course—losing her most important power, the teacher probably feels unsafe.'

Shaking his head, Xu Jingming didn't dwell on it, glanced at the time, and said:

'Since the teacher said she'll listen to me, let's set off now—we should head back and regroup with those Golden Flow Guards.'

Seventeen hours had passed since they entered the seventh layer of the Void-Breaking Tower; they had already traveled over four thousand kilometers.

They needed to return to the starting point to regroup, consolidate the mapped data, and redefine their direction.

'Alright.'

Su Qingli, feigning anger, didn't turn around, still gazing to the side, and let out a light huff.

Gulu gulu~~

Suddenly, a sound arose from her body.

Though extremely faint, Xu Jingming's hearing easily detected it.

It was the sound of an empty stomach.

Su Qingli's fair, delicate face flushed crimson to her ears, looking utterly adorable.

Seeing this, Xu Jingming nearly broke his composure, cleared his throat, and said:

'Then let's rest a bit longer—eat first before we set off.'

High-rank psychics could go ten days or even half a month without eating with no effect.

At the level of eighth-rank Grand Master or ninth-rank Law Saint,

one could directly absorb primal energy from the air, never needing to eat at all.

Like her and Su Qingli—since entering the Void-Breaking Tower, they hadn't consumed any food.

Now that Su Qingli's power had dropped to second-rank, her stomach was empty, so hunger naturally arose.

'Mmm...'

Su Qingli gently bit her red lips, her voice as faint as a whispering mosquito.

At the same time, she secretly felt embarrassed and annoyed.

Why did this stomach choose to rumble now? Of all times?

It destroyed her teacher's dignity completely!

But upon closer thought, her dignity had already vanished long ago...

Crack, crack...

A small bonfire burned, with six branches laid across it.

Each branch was skewered with generous chunks of meat.

The meat was slightly charred, golden fat dripping down the branches into the fire, continuously crackling.

'Roasted meat? Don't we have simpler energy bars?'

Beside the fire, Su Qingli crouched there, curious.

Her legs were long and slender; now crouched, her knees pressed against her chest.

Immediately, the curves beneath her tight combat suit were squeezed into an alluring shape.

'I'm tired of energy bars—I prefer the natural kind.'

Xu Jingming, turning the branches to ensure even roasting, smiled.

Come to think of it, since he broke through to seventh-rank and no longer needed to eat, this was his first time roasting meat.

'Aren't there many flavors in energy bars? How could you get tired of them?'

Su Qingli asked, puzzled.

When she trained in the Wild Zone, she'd loved eating energy bars most.

Grape, banana, apple...

Different-flavored energy bars always felt novel to her.

Later, as her rank rose, she grew to prefer flavorless energy bars instead.

'S-class operatives stay too long in the Wild Zone—energy bars only come in so many flavors. Eat them daily, anyone would get sick of them.'

The holographic projection of Eva, the green-haired twin-tailed little girl, shook her head.

'Stay too long...'

Su Qingli froze, recalling the moment she first saw Xu Jingming's file.

After enrolling at Metropolis Psychic University, he spent 80% of his time training in the Wild Zone.

This level of combat intensity truly surpassed ordinary psychics.

Even after joining Lei Ting Martial Gym, it remained the same.

'No wonder.'

Su Qingli nodded in understanding, her beautiful eyes fixed on Xu Jingming, faint curiosity glimmering within:

'Jingming, could you tell me about your experiences training in the Wild Zone?'

'Nothing worth telling—just killing monsters, killing monsters. But sometimes it was pretty thrilling...'

Xu Jingming didn't know why Su Qingli suddenly became interested in these experiences, but he began recounting them.

Since arriving on Blue Star over two years ago, he'd spent most of his time in the Wild Zone hunting monsters to earn psychic points.

Though most of the time was relatively safe, there were still dangerous moments.

Although Su Qingli roughly knew Xu Jingming's movements, she had never looked into them carefully.

Hearing about certain perilous experiences now, she couldn't help but feel secretly tense.

"Alright, that's pretty much all of my experiences."

Half an hour later, Xu Jingming finally finished recounting his own experiences.

Beside him, Su Qingli still felt somewhat unsatisfied.

Hunting fierce beasts in the wilderness, facing Sakura Country's targeting in secret realms, escaping death several times — these experiences were extraordinarily thrilling.

"With experiences like these, no wonder your strength has improved so quickly, Jingming," Su Qingli remarked with feeling.

The crisis between life and death is the best catalyst for the strong.

Hearing this, Xu Jingming just smiled and said nothing.

Experiences are only the surface; the most crucial thing is still the system and ability points.

Otherwise, among so many ability users, he alone wouldn't have broken through to mid-tier of the eighth rank before turning twenty-one.

"The roasted meat is done, Teacher. Eat up."

Xu Jingming smiled, took a skewer of roasted meat from the fire, and handed it to Su Qingli.

This piece of meat had been taken from a sixth-rank demon beast.

Seven-tenths of it was lean meat; the rest was fat.

After half an hour of roasting, it had already been roasted to a golden color.

Combined with the spices Xu Jingming sprinkled on at the end, it gave off an enticing meat aroma that made one's mouth water.

It made Su Qingli have to shift her attention to it, and she said with some surprise:

"It looks pretty good."

"It'll taste even better," Xu Jingming said with a smile.

After tempering himself in the wilderness for so long.

If roasting meat had proficiency like combat techniques did, he would definitely be at the mastery level.

"Really?" Su Qingli took the meat skewer with a doubtful look.

She took a light bite, and instantly her mouth was filled with meat fragrance, the flavors on her taste buds extremely rich.

"Mmm, delicious!" Su Qingli's eyes lit up, and she instinctively praised.

"If it's good, eat more."

Xu Jingming smiled, also took down a meat skewer, and put it in his mouth.

The taste was indeed as good as always.

But this time the main purpose was to fill Su Qingli's stomach, so he only ate one skewer.

The remaining five skewers all went to Su Qingli.

At first Su Qingli was still a bit reserved, but later she completely let go and ate heartily.

Half an hour later, Su Qingli, who had finished off all the meat skewers, only then came back to her senses and said somewhat embarrassedly:

"Sorry, I ate them all."

"It's fine, these were prepared for you in the first place, Teacher."

Xu Jingming smiled, stood up, and said, "Let's go, it's time to regroup."

"Okay." Su Qingli nodded.

But just as she stood up, she suddenly thought of a fatal problem.

Her strength had now dropped to the second rank, and she had no way to fly — how was she supposed to go on from here?