Chapter 975: The Abnormal Su Qingli! Eyes Like Silk!

As soon as he flew over, Xu Jingming saw Su Qingli with her eyes tightly shut, her face twisted in pain.

“Has Teacher Su not woken up yet?”

Xu Jingming’s heart lurched.

“No.”

Su Tianrui’s expression was anxious. “Logically, even if affected by a hallucination, once the void creature is slain, she should awaken.”

As a ninth-rank peak expert, his willpower was extremely strong.

Thus, even with his power diminished, the mental shriek earlier had no effect on him.

But he was not a mental ability user, and his mental energy was severely depleted—he had no way to handle Su Qingli’s current condition.

“It should indeed be so. It seems something else has happened to Teacher Su.”

Xu Jingming nodded and asked Eva: “Eva, do you have any records of this situation in your database?”

“No.”

The full-projection Eva shook her head. “I already scanned it earlier—there are no matching records.”

Hearing this, Xu Jingming frowned and murmured: “Then I’ll have to enter Teacher’s mental sea.”

Shhh—

Xu Jingming closed his eyes slightly, and a thin strand of mental energy surged forth.

It pierced through Su Qingli’s pale forehead and entered her mental sea.

Crackling—

The moment he entered, a dense storm of thunder roared toward him.

Half a year ago, Su Qingli had switched to the SSS-grade mental cultivation technique, “The Thunder Sea Contemplation Method.”

Now, the mental energy within her sea churned like a raging ocean of lightning!

Yet Xu Jingming quickly noticed something was wrong.

The mental sea is the core of any ability user.

When invaded by another’s mental energy, it should automatically resist—not remain utterly inert like this.

The only possibility was that Su Qingli’s majority mental energy was fighting a far stronger presence.

His gaze swept through, and he spotted a massive mass of mental energy deep within Su Qingli’s mental sea.

This mass was clearly different from Su Qingli’s own.

At this moment, the bulk of Su Qingli’s mental energy was desperately resisting its invasion.

“It’s the mental energy that invaded Teacher’s consciousness during the giant void creature’s shriek.”

Xu Jingming frowned.

This King was truly extraordinary—even after its body died, its mental energy remained active.

“This is troublesome. It’s inside Teacher’s mental sea—I can’t act lightly.”

As the heir of a mental master, Xu Jingming could easily obliterate this mass by summoning more mental energy.

But Su Qingli was already trapped in the hallucination; her mental energy was instinctively shredding the foreign presence.

If he poured too much of his own energy in, it would be shredded too.

And he couldn’t strike back—that would mean harming Teacher Su herself.

It had become an inescapable deadlock—he couldn’t act at all.

“But if I can wake Teacher Su from the hallucination, this will all be resolved.”

Shhh—

His mental energy swiftly withdrew from Su Qingli’s mind. Back in reality, Xu Jingming recounted the situation to Su Tianrui.

“Teacher Su isn’t in immediate danger. My suggestion is we leave the spatial turbulence layer first, then find a solution.”

Xu Jingming spoke quickly.

The spatial turbulence layer was extremely dangerous—if another, stronger void creature appeared, even he might not survive.

“You handle the arrangements,” Su Tianrui nodded.

Joking—he had a mental sword a hundred thousand times stronger!

In the mental field, Xu Jingming was unquestionably a master.

He naturally wouldn’t interfere with the other’s decision.

“Then I’ll be rude.”

A faint glow from his space ring—Xu Jingming directly stored Su Tianrui inside the pre-prepared ring.

The crimson thunderball radiating high-risk energy vanished instantly.

“Good thing Senior Su can fit inside a space ring—otherwise it’d be worse.”

Xu Jingming walked to Su Qingli’s side, slung her onto his back.

Whether from muscle memory or not, even in deep hallucination, she clung tightly to him.

He could even smell her faint, clean body scent.

“Eva, let’s go.”

Sssshh—!!

With a flap of his Thunder Dragon Wings, Xu Jingming shot forward like a black lightning bolt, leaving only a lingering afterimage.

Coming here, he’d moved slowly to scout.

Now, returning, he flew at full speed.

Fortunately, no incidents occurred on the way back—he passed through the spatial rift and returned to the Break Void Tower in just three minutes.

He retracted the Golden Guard units surrounding him into his space ring, then shot away as a streak of black light.

After flying over two hundred kilometers, he replicated the method and dove into the ground, sinking a hundred meters deep.

“Eva, is there any way to wake Teacher Su?”

At this moment, Xu Jingming had exited Thunder Storm Mode.

Not far across from him, Su Qingli lay on a white bed, eyes tightly shut.

His space ring was large enough now—he carried some daily necessities.

This large bed was perfect—far more comfortable than the vine bed woven from Iron Lotus tendrils.

As for Su Tianrui, Xu Jingming hadn’t released him.

One reason: the Crimson Xiao Thunder was too large to extract easily.

Another: Su Tianrui couldn’t offer advice, and his concern for his daughter would only add to his distress.

“Being dragged into a hallucination stems from insufficient mental energy and willpower,” Eva mused.

“Willpower depends on personal experience—we can’t strengthen Teacher Su’s now.

The only option is to boost her mental energy. For S-rank, try Nourishing Spirit Elixir.”

“Understood.”

The giant void creature’s death left nearly one liter of Nourishing Spirit Elixir.

Xu Jingming had no hesitation—he took a small portion immediately.

“Teacher Su, forgive me.”

With his fingers, he gently pried open her tightly shut lips, then fed her the elixir.

“Mmm~~”

With a soft moan, Su Qingli slowly opened her eyes.

“Teacher Su, you’re awake?”

Xu Jingming’s eyes lit up—but then he noticed her condition seemed off.

She pressed her hand to her chest, cheeks flushed, eyes glazed, breathing rapid.

“Jingming...”

A soft, honeyed voice sounded as Su Qingli turned her beautiful eyes toward him.

But unlike her usual cold detachment, her gaze now dripped with seduction—as if weaving silk threads.

Xu Jingming was no stranger to this look.

He’d seen it on Song Qiuyun, Jiang Chuxuan, and Ling Shuang.

But never—never—on Teacher Su’s face.

“What... is going on?” Xu Jingming was stunned.

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