Chapter 945: I

Just as Su Qingli was thinking about how to proceed next, Xu Jingming extended his arms and said:

"Come on, Teacher, I'll carry you."

Su Qingli froze for a moment, then immediately reacted, her almond eyes widening in utter disbelief:

"You mean carry me through the air?"

"There's no other way—we'll have to slightly inconvenience you, Teacher. Either hold you or carry you on my back," Xu Jingming nodded.

Under triple gravity, the Black Glory-class fighter's maximum flight speed is only four times the speed of sound.

Four times the speed of sound is already very fast—faster than my own flight speed.

But a thirty-meter-long fuselage is far too conspicuous here in the Void-Piercing Tower, like a live target.

If we encounter danger, we can only escape using the Space Beast Bone.

But the Space Beast Bone only offers two teleportations every 24 hours.

Using it in a situation like this would be far too wasteful.

We can't use the fighter, and Eva's Chi Mang Liu Jin guards can't fly either, so carrying you is simply more convenient.

That way, even if elementalists cast spells from afar, I can protect you in time.

"This..." Su Qingli found herself in a difficult position.

She clearly understood the drawbacks of using the fighter, but being carried by her own student felt embarrassingly intimate.

Yet if she didn't do this, there seemed to be no other solution.

'Forget it—earlier he carried me back anyway; one more time won't matter.'

Steeling herself, Su Qingli gave a slight nod. "Then carry me on your back."

It was fine when she was unconscious before.

But now, she was fully conscious, held in her student's arms, their eyes meeting.

That image was too beautiful—she couldn't even imagine it; carrying her on his back was better.

Yet the moment Xu Jingming lifted her onto his back, she regretted it.

She was 1.72 meters tall; Xu Jingming was 1.93 meters—twenty-one centimeters taller.

Once on his back, most of her body pressed against his broad back, and it felt strangely intimate.

Especially the male scent so close to her.

It made her, for the first time in her life, so close to a member of the opposite sex, her gaze grow hazy, her slender frame squirming restlessly...

"Su Laoshi, can you stop moving?"

Xu Jingming sighed in exasperation.

Su Qingli was wearing a form-fitting female combat suit.

As her body shifted, he could distinctly feel two heavy pressures pressing and grinding against him.

He couldn't help but silently marvel.

He'd never noticed before, but Su Laoshi was actually quite well-endowed.

"I understand."

Su Qingli's cheeks flushed red; she forced down the strange sensation, stopped squirming, and whispered softly.

"Hold on tight! We're off!"

Thunder Dragon Wings unfurled behind him; lightning surged around Xu Jingming as he shot skyward like a black streak!

Su Qingli was tall and slender, 1.72 meters—tall enough to tower over most women.

But beside Gao Da's Xu Jingming, she still looked petite.

Even with her on his back, the Thunder Dragon Wings unfolded without hindrance.

The return journey was over four thousand kilometers; Xu Jingming didn't rush blindly.

Instead, he had Tie Xian Lian search for Void Stones and beast groups along the way.

But their luck seemed to have run out—they found no major gains.

By the time they reached the rendezvous point with the Chi Mang Liu Jin guards, they'd gathered only 64,000 Void Stones and gained just over 40,000 Ability Points.

Zzzzzz~

On the ice plain, dozens of Chi Mang Liu Jin guards stood in neat formation, behind them lay over a thousand parked drones.

Xu Jingming stood on the ice plain, beside him was Su Qingli, who had just jumped down from his back, her face still tinged with blush.

In midair, the green-haired, twin-tailed little girl's eyes streamed with countless data.

She was compiling and analyzing the information gathered by the Chi Mang Liu Jin subunits and the thousand drones.

After several minutes, Eva exclaimed excitedly: "Found it! The entrance to the next level is southwest!"

"Found it this fast?" Xu Jingming was surprised.

These Chi Mang Liu Jin guards were only seventh-rank—they couldn't fly, and their sprinting speed didn't exceed the speed of sound.

In such a short time, the distance they could cover was extremely limited.

He'd expected to need at least four or five search cycles to find the entrance.

"Of course."

Eva proudly puffed out her chest. "These Chi Mang Liu Jin guards are my subunits—they wouldn't be so foolish as to just run around blindly.

Seventh-rank power is enough for them to do many things.

This information was 'asked' from other ability users.

Also, they collected 100,000 Void Stones and some Ice Essence."

Seventh-rank Chi Mang Liu Jin guards, as long as their cores aren't found, are immortal until their energy runs out.

Among the hundreds of thousands of ability users who entered the Void-Piercing Tower, they rank among the strongest.

With Eva's body under her control, extorting information and supplies from other ability users had already become a very practiced operation.

"All this has been compiled together, S-rank, take a look."

Under Eva's control, a Liujin guard stepped out from the formation, came before Xu Jingming, and held out a spatial ring.

A sweep of spiritual force confirmed the spatial ring indeed contained a large amount of void stones, as well as an ice ball radiating a cold aura.

"Ice Element Essence."

Xu Jingming's eyes lit up. He took this ice ball out of the spatial ring, then took out his own Ice Element Essence.

The moment the two Ice Element Essences touched, they automatically fused together.

They formed an energy ball of a deeper color, snow-white, radiating a bone-piercing chill.

"The ice element concentration has increased." Su Qingli, surrounded by black Lei Ting, said softly.

If not for Xu Jingming's Doushen Shenlei protection, given her current state, she wouldn't even be able to withstand this chill.

"Mm, but it's still far from perfection."

Xu Jingming nodded and said.

This Ice Element Essence could allow an ice-type ability user's ability to evolve to SS-rank.

But looking at the current situation, the success rate was at most less than 5%.

"Once we get back, we could let Jiang Chu Xuan try it. Most likely, it won't be able to evolve.

But you never know—if we can find more Ice Element Essence later, we can continue to raise the success rate."

Putting the fused Ice Element Essence into the spatial ring, Xu Jingming turned his head to look at Su Qingli: "Teacher, let's continue on our way."

Even though she had been carried on his back more than once, Su Qingli still wasn't quite used to it.

But no matter how unused to it she was, she still obediently let Xu Jingming carry her on his back.

"Let's go. Time to head to the next level, and while we're at it, see if we can find that Divine Son at the entrance."

Xu Jingming's gaze sharpened slightly.

He stored all the Liujin guards and drones into the spatial ring, then unfurled his Thunder Dragon Wings and transformed into a black streak of light flying toward the southwest.