Chapter 134: Ten Thousand Ways to Play with a Witch

Two days later.

The turmoil of the entrance exam finally came to an end.

The first lesson for the new batch of students was finally about to arrive.

In February, Full Moon Academy had still not walked out of the bitter cold of severe winter.

The faint breeze blowing in from outside the window made Li Cheng sneeze muddled in his sleep.

He opened his eyes, glanced at the magic clock on the wall, Li Cheng turned over and got out of bed, walked out of the Storm King Palace Bedroom, holding a toothbrush in his mouth.

Today was the first day of school, and also the day Li Cheng planned to "coincidentally encounter" the Abyssal Eye Witch; he had to make proper preparations.

Walking to the washstand, looking at himself smiling in the mirror, he nodded.

"Hmm, this game's experience is really too realistic; not only does it require sleep, it also requires normal eating, drinking, defecating, and urinating — simply like a real world; quantum technology, you really have some stuff!"

"Good thing the manual said the time flow ratio between the game and the real world is 1000 to 1, and the game pod is also equipped with life-support devices; I can enjoy to the fullest."

"Awesome!"

He yawned, turned his head.

Only to see Lilith, hugging a frog doll, walking out from the room.

She rubbed her bleary eyes; her silver hair was like a puffed-up cat; her pajamas were loose and slipping off her shoulders, revealing round, snow-white northern hemispheres.

The scene was between a crime scene and a crime scene that had not yet occurred.

"Li Cheng, are you going out?"

Lilith yawned; these two days were the most comfortable two days she had spent on Tianming Continent.

No one disturbed her, and she didn't need to engage enemies; she just had to lie in the room and sleep.

Happiness!

If only every day could be this happy~ Lilith thought to herself.

"Mm." Li Cheng nodded, and began putting on his clothes.

"Let me see~" Lilith patted her face; golden light flashed on her body, and she returned to her usual nun appearance.

She took out a notebook from her bosom, looking at Li Cheng's schedule she had recorded:

"Morning: go find the Abyssal Eye Witch; afternoon: attend Abyss Servant Summoning class... heh, that's Professor Jerryl's class; wonder how her daughter is doing."

"Professor Jerryl's daughter?" Li Cheng glanced at her.

"That's right, the one who mocked Tata before, the one you turned into 'Smile Blend Variable Qi', hehehe." Lilith grinned wickedly.

"Oh." Li Cheng nodded: "Let's go."

In the school building corridor, the students who had just started school were originally chatting enthusiastically; upon seeing Li Cheng come out, they all inhaled sharply in unison, then shut their mouths.

The air instantly became much warmer.

But Li Cheng frowned.

【You made them feel Great Love, Abyss of Pain Reputation +1】

【Abyss of Pain Reputation +0.1】

【Abyss of Pain Reputation +0.3...】

No, I didn't do anything; how did they just taste suffering?

Li Cheng was a bit baffled.

"Hehe." Lilith timely took out the school newspaper from the side, shaking her head as she read: "Entrance Exam Shock: History Fixer Appears! Two Academy Goddesses Fight Over Student, Full Moon Students' Dreams Shattered!"

"This person is actually the strongest Chief who placed first in all three rounds of the entrance exam! Creating history!"

"That's not all!"

"Reliable news: caught this person and Blood Clan Princess Latanaya running wildly in the Forbidden Forest!"

"Also reliable news: says Lady Yenifer and this boy have already privately pledged lifelong commitment! Hiss, this one seems to have been published in the newspaper by Liuli herself."

"Hehe."

Li Cheng's mouth corner twitched twice; he now understood where these Pain Points came from.

This is youth.

Shaking his head, Li Cheng revealed his trademark sunshine smile, and passed through the crowd.

Full Moon Academy's Male Student Dormitory is divided into 6 floors, corresponding exactly to 6 grades; but the corridors between floors are Z-shaped.

To go to the next floor, one must pass through the previous floor's corridor.

This batch of freshmen has very bad luck; newly arrived, they were assigned to the top floor.

This means that every day when going to and from school, they have to pass through the five floors below, listening to seniors' complaints and grumbles.

"Stop grinding, stop studying, I'm begging you, go play games!"

"No way, brothers, it's just the start of school and you're already cramming?"

"Fucking worried, failed 14 courses last year..."

"Sigh, still haven't found a job, the Radiant Church won't let me intern either..."

"No, this Li Cheng just enrolled, how come his credits are higher than mine?"

"Shh, stop talking, he's coming down..."

Li Cheng jogged past each floor's corridor; for some reason, whenever he appeared, the noisy clamor would come to an abrupt stop.

Making him like a human silencer.

"This game's dialogue is quite down-to-earth... and the treatment given to players is high; this kind of envious, jealous, hateful gaze — hmm, quantum technology really knows how to make players feel good."

"Hehe."

Lilith laughed awkwardly on the side.

Is there not a possibility that this envy, jealousy, and hate isn't because you're a player, but because the results you achieved in the assessment are too dazzling?

Ordinary students need to complete 12 credits in one year, and only after passing the graduation exam can they successfully advance to the next grade at the end of the semester.

These 12 credits can be obtained through three domains: magic research, coursework completion, and Secret Realm exploration.

And final graduation requires a full 100 points.

The student quality at Full Moon Academy is very high; it can be said they are all geniuses in their own stories. In order to make this group of geniuses even more genius, the Academy deliberately increased the difficulty of obtaining credits.

For example, assigning 3rd Stage or higher Secret Realm explorations to first-year students, requiring fifth-year students to create a Forbidden Spell themselves, requiring sixth-year examinees to lead a team to conquer an Abyss Fortress and kill an Abyss 7th Rank Magic Beast, and so on.

These measures indeed made the students' overall quality higher and higher, but at the same time...

They also made them suffer unspeakably.

Every year there are many students who have to repeat a grade because of insufficient credits. According to statistical data, only 67% of students can graduate smoothly from Full Moon Academy, and the average graduation year is 15 years.

It can be said that even the Hengshui Model has nothing on Full Moon Academy's intensity.

"And Li Cheng's credits are..." Lilith flipped open the Small Booklet again, looked at the value of 69 points above, and the corner of her mouth twitched.

Of these 69 points, 6 points are the reward credits for placing first in each round of assessment, 3 points are the extra reward for placing first in all three rounds, and the remaining 60 points are the reward for "Freezing History".

In Professor Tifeng's words, it is—

"Li Cheng's this move proved to us that the history in Secret Realm exploration can be artificially frozen. This changes the exploration mode and will make more people, when delving deep into Secret Realms, choose to intervene in the Plot and obtain more powerful Blessings."

"The historical significance of this matter is even higher than an EX Rank rating clearing a 7th Stage Secret Realm itself."

Therefore, Li Cheng obtained such a high reward score. At the same time, the textbook "Secret Realm Exploration Basic Theory" is also currently being nervously revised.

Student Li Cheng, who clearly did not participate in the compilation, actually obtained the second author signature on this book. Hmm, the first author is all the teachers of the Full Moon Academy Sage Court.

When this book's revision is completed, he will also receive additional credit rewards.

And credits can not only be used for graduation, but also to exchange for all kinds of strange Relics and Items in the Academy, and obtain various permissions, such as access to the Library, training rooms, Meditation Basins, reward Secret Realms, and other areas.

Don't look at Li Cheng having just enrolled; his permissions are already about the same as fourth- and fifth-year students.

And those students are all Strong Ones close to the 7th Stage.

No wonder the Full Moon Academy students envy, jealousy, and hate.

Clearly all are lumbar discs, why are you so outstanding? "Unbelievable, unbelievable. Even treating reality as a game, this is a bit too outrageous."

Looking at the results Li Cheng achieved, Lilith couldn't help but show Color Art.

Hehehe, with this level, even if those Saviors rated as "Legendary" came to the Tianming Continent, they couldn't do it, right? My Li Cheng truly has the makings of a Legend!

What Lilith is thinking, Li Cheng doesn't know, and he doesn't care.

He is currently familiarly traversing the West Gate of the male dormitory's second floor, passing through the Library's Teleportation Gate, arriving at the Magic Department's fifth floor, then using a ladder to sneak into the Magic Department's elevator, arriving at the first basement level, then knocking a secret code on the door, opening the hidden passage leading to the school's Back Mountain.

The entire process is smooth beyond compare, as if rehearsed many times.

It made Lilith stare dumbfounded.

After entering the Back Mountain, he jogged all the way to a deserted Small Wooden House at the mountainside, and took out several plants and an Iron Hoe from Lilith's pocket.

Then, dashingly dig soil! This scene once again made Lilith stare dumbfounded. She completely didn't know what Li Cheng was doing, why he didn't go to school for class, and insisted on running to this Back Mountain.

And why he suddenly took out a shovel to dig soil.

Sharing her doubt is the Abyssal Eye Witch hiding inside the dilapidated Small Wooden House, concealing her figure.

One hand grasping the Yan Blade, the other hand pawing at the door frame, staring at Li Cheng's back view.

"Second Stage... just an ordinary student, wants to plant some rare materials for himself on the Back Mountain?"

Originally hearing footsteps, she thought she was exposed, that the Full Moon Queen brought people to chase her.

But didn't expect, a flower-planting youth actually came...

No wait, you want to plant flowers, can't you go plant somewhere else?

Why did you run in front of me to plant? And your flower-planting method, digging method, one look shows you're a novice... actually still want to plant Yin Nether Fruit in the soil?

That way it's simply impossible to grow Yin Nether Fruit alive! Right, the Abyssal Eye Witch has a hobby—planting plants.

This was originally just a pastime to kill boredom. After all, at the very bottom of the Abyss, besides her half-dead mother, she couldn't find any creature to speak with.

And unstable Witch's Power made her frequently fall into slumber.

Compared to raising magic fish and magic insects and such creatures, plants—life that can live a bit longer—are more suitable for her.

And in the ten-thousand-year cycle of waking, sleeping, planting flowers and grass repeating, her pastime gradually became a hobby, and the hobby in turn became a specialty.

Watching the youth's clumsy Planting Technique, the Abyssal Eye Witch got angry out of nowhere.

Yin Nether Fruit is an extremely precious plant. Its effect is to clear Abyss erosion and pollution. A single plant's selling price can reach tens of thousands of Gold Coins.

The ten-odd twenty plants this youth has placed at his side, at least several hundred thousand Gold Coins. If planted like this, afraid not a single one will survive.

"Truly a waste of heaven's gifts."

The Abyssal Eye Witch muttered, about to put down the Window, but her gaze suddenly froze.

Only to see Li Cheng take out another new plant from his bosom.

That is Blazing Fire Withered Leaf, an excellent Medicinal Herb for treating Frostbite.

And on that one plant, there hung three fruits.

The Abyssal Eye Witch lowered her head, looking at her right leg covered in Frost and almost unable to move, frowned.

Blazing Fire Withered Leaf is a plant even rarer than Yin Nether Fruit. A single plant's price can even reach thousands of Magic Badge Stones.

Right, not Gold Coins. Gold Coins can't buy such a rare thing.

This kid, merely a 2nd Stage Mage, the clothes on his body aren't luxurious either. Where did he get such precious Medicinal Herbs from?

She herself just suffered Heavy Injury, and a person carrying Medicinal Herbs that can treat her appears in front of her.

Where in this world is there such a coincidence? This matter has fraud!

The Abyssal Eye Witch's first thought was to run away.

But upon seeing that Blazing Fire Withered Leaf, she hesitated again.

No way. She was beaten heavily injured by the Full Moon Queen. Not only are the Rune Meridians on her body almost completely shattered, even the Relics she carried were all Frozen.

The contact relic was among them, of course.

At this moment, whether escaping Full Moon Academy or contacting Liuli, she could do neither.

That Blazing Fire Withered Leaf could not only heal her frostbite, but also melt the ice seal and repair the contact relic, truly solving her urgent problem.

Thinking of this, the Abyssal Eye Witch gripped her Abyss Blade tightly.

Want to gamble? Just as she hesitated, Big Boss took out another plant.

That was the water-attribute Abyss Sea Wangshu, its rarity not inferior to the Blazing Fire Withered Leaf.

Immediately after came the second plant, the third plant...

One precious plant after another, he took them out as if they were worthless, then planted them into the soil with clumsy technique to the extreme—oh no, should say stuffed them in.

That kind of operation method simply did not deserve to be called planting.

The Abyssal Eye Witch stood to the side, staring dumbfounded.

So many plants, added up must be several thousand, even tens of thousands of Magic Badge Stones, right?

Just stuffed into the soil like that? Regardless of whether they could survive?

Where did this big spender come from? Even her best friend Liuli wouldn't waste like this? "Waste, waste, the rising Dong Xi!"

Although she felt disdain in her heart, the Abyssal Eye Witch's hanging heart relaxed a little.

No matter what this big spender's background was, anyway he should really be here to plant flowers on the Back Mountain, not come here for entrapment law enforcement.

But she was naturally cautious, and still did not choose to directly show herself.

Just like that she lay by the window, staring fixedly at Big Boss.

Until this youth wiped his sweat, said "Oh no, class is about to start" and left, only then did she slightly poke her head out.

After using various Term Arts to scan the surrounding environment several rounds, the Abyssal Eye Witch waited another two hours, then dragged her diseased leg and moved to beside those flowers and grasses.

Even until now, she still had not completely relaxed, just quietly reached out and plucked three leaves from the Blazing Fire Withered Leaf.

She did not dare use them directly, used her magic eye to shoot down a blue bird in the sky, used Frost Term Art to freeze it, and finally placed one leaf on top of that bird-shaped ice sculpture.

Several minutes later, the blue bird recovered as before.

The witch waited nearly another hour, and after finding no adverse reaction on it, only then released the bird and let out a long sigh of relief.

"Looks like there's no poison on the leaves; this matter should just be me overthinking."

Only then did she quickly tear open her Long Robe, rubbing the remaining two leaves onto her jade legs covered in frost.

Epic-grade medicinal herbs were indeed not ordinary things; a heat flow flowed bit by bit into her body along the Rune Meridians, and her jade legs sealed by Cold Ice finally showed signs of being able to move.

Even the bone-deep cold in the Rune Meridians improved quite a bit.

"Pity, only two leaves; if there were more, my injuries could be completely healed."

Sighing, the Abyssal Eye Witch looked guiltily at the wasted leaves in her hand: "Alas, sorry to this little friend; even if it's wasteful, this was bought with real gold and silver."

She thought for a moment, placed the wasted leaves on both sides of the Root, then carefully adjusted the planting method of several surrounding plants.

Finally, she released Epic Rank Magic 【All Things Growth】 onto these plants.

This magic could guarantee the plants would definitely survive to grow up, with lush branches and leaves.

It could be considered compensation for Big Boss.

"I used your three leaves, and return you a flower garden; we're even."

After doing these, the Abyssal Eye Witch wiped the sweat from her forehead; her injury that had just improved a little became heavy again.

Then she quietly sneaked back into the Small Wooden House at the beginning.

And all of this was seen by Miss Lilith who stayed on this side.

She floated back into the Library and shouted beside Big Boss's ear: "Wow, Big Boss! Exactly as you said, you completely calculated her! That woman was too cautious! In the end she only used two leaves!"

"Mm." Big Boss scratched his ears, showing a warm sunlight smile: "By the way, did she help me cultivate other flowers and grasses?"

"She cultivated them, and it was Epic-grade magic!"

"Oh? Actually used such high-level magic, that's beyond my expectation." Big Boss smiled: "With her working for me, this time I can harvest quite a lot of medicinal herbs."

"But, Big Boss, why are you doing this?" Lilith was somewhat doubtful: "You gave her things for healing injuries, yet don't show yourself; how do you grind goodwill like this?"

Unknowingly, Lilith's way of speaking had been led astray by Big Boss.

"Who said I want to grind goodwill with her?"

"Ah? Then what is this?" Lilith was even more doubtful.

"Hehe, to heal the Abyssal Eye Witch's injuries, at least a dozen leaves are needed." Big Boss smiled: "Every day from now on, I will plant several precious plants, of course the Blazing Fire Withered Leaf will definitely be among them."

"She is naturally cautious; if I directly poison her, she will surely see through it."

"So you..." Lilith tilted her head.

"Actually, I already sprayed medicine on the withered leaves." Big Boss shrugged: "However, that medicine is colorless and odorless, and is gaseous; even Druids and nature elves cannot detect it; if taken alone, it's only a good medicine for aiding sleep and calming the mind."

"But if used together with other two medicines that are also beneficial to the body, then it becomes a deadly poison that takes lives."

"The next Day Two, Day Three, I will plant a new Blazing Fire Withered Leaf every day, and spray two other different medicines on the leaves."

"So by Day Three, guess what will happen?"

"Will, will what happen?" Lilith swallowed her saliva.

—Close Door, detoxify, take her in as a dog.

Big Boss did not speak, just lowered his head and continued looking at the book in his hand.

Only the smile on his face became even more warm sunlight.

Chapter Complete