Chapter 145: Shadow Cat

The moment Su Jin sensed three wild dogs attacking her, three gourd seeds swiftly appeared beside her, and in the blink of an eye transformed into three gourd vines; five gourd vines danced simultaneously, pa-pa-pa.

They successively whipped back the bird-snakes, insects, and the three wild dogs that had attacked her.

Especially the three wild dogs, which were whipped to the ground and couldn't get up for a long time.

Su Qingniao, who had just run over, stood there with her mouth agape.

Five gourd vines!!

Su Jin had erupted in a major display this time.

"Su Qingniao, hurry up; two field mice have run over to your side." Su Jin, looking at the stunned Su Qingniao nearby, helplessly twitched her mouth corners and quickly reminded her. She didn't have the ability to wield all five gourd vines for too long.

So she still needed this little helper, Su Qingniao.

The instant she opened her mouth to remind her, a black shadow leaped out at extreme speed from the thicket of miscellaneous trees on her left.

Its sharp claws were so white and bright they were terrifying, even in the pitch-black night.

This was a fairly large wild beast; it lunged directly at her neck.

"Not good, it's a Shadow Cat, Su Jin, be careful!" Su Qingniao screamed at the top of her lungs.

However, just as that black shadow approached Su Jin, when it was less than one chi away from her, a beam of Jin Guang whooshed past, slicing right over its head.

A black-and-gray striped big cat, the size of a dog, crashed down with a thud at Su Jin's feet.

Su Jin looked down; the big cat had been split in half from head to toe, truly in the style of her Bu Sa Tan—perfectly divided. "This cat has no martial ethics."

Su Qingniao froze for a moment, stumbled with one foot, and only then, in a daze, killed the two plump little field mice that had almost run past her feet.

"Su Jin, was that your trump card just now?"

"Mm, my grandpa said that when you're out and about, if your hands don't have a couple of trump cards, you can't even complete missions. Originally I didn't believe it, but now I do." Su Jin, while directing the five gourd vines to whip away numerous small animals and large insects, said with a face full of nostalgia.

Hahaha!!

A clear, youthful voice came from the sky overhead.

"Whose child is this? Why is he so interesting?"

"This is the child of Elder Chang Ying! What happened just now? How did you accidentally let a Shadow Cat slip through?" Another voice of an older cultivator also came down.

"It wasn't intentional, and I chased it all the way back here," the youth said.

"If that child hadn't been carrying a trump card with him, Elder Chang Ying would have gone to your family and strangled you when he got back."

"I really didn't mean to," the youth defended.

"If you let another one slip through, I'll know you definitely did it on purpose."

Su Jin listened, speechless, thinking: How are these two family cultivators so unreliable? Why are they still talking about whether one slipped through before? Hurry to the front line and work! Save us from letting even more through.

She looked up, but the sky was too dark, and she couldn't see anyone.

The insects and bird-snakes on this side had also been whipped by her until most were dead or paralyzed.

Su Jin quickly gathered all the spoils of war to feed to Little Wu Tian, and only then did she have time to look up and shout: "You should be more careful! If a few more Shadow Cats slip through, even with my trump card, I'll die."

"I understand. I will pay attention." A clear voice of a youth came down from the sky.

The sound of another older cultivator snorting with laughter also came down.

After waiting quite a while longer, no sound came down from the sky anymore.

Su Jin had also collected all the spoils of war.

Only then did Su Qingniao walk over with an expression of disbelief.

"Su Jin, how dare you shout at those Foundation Establishment cultivators from the families? Anyone who can fly is a Foundation Establishment cultivator!"

Su Jin looked back at her in shock: "They are all family elders. If his mistake almost got me killed, can't I say a word?"

"Won't they get angry?"

"Probably not?"

Su Qingniao: "..."

"Alright, stop thinking about that; another swarm of insects is flying over." Su Jin conjured four new gourd vines again.

Since she had suddenly erupted and used five gourd vines just now, Su Jin discovered that when using four gourd vines simultaneously, it was much smoother. Controlling them with soul threads was no longer so difficult.

"Su Jin, we just lost more than ten Spirit Rice plants," Su Qingniao said immediately after inspecting the area.

"That's not much; in three days, it adds up to less than one hundred plants. It's already past midnight; we only have a little over two hours of guarding time left. Just hold on a bit longer and we'll be done," Su Jin said.

Su Qingniao thought about it and realized there was indeed some logic to that.

The two of them were about to complete their mission.

So, get back to work.

The Spirit Rice had ripened; the rice fields were like huge, sweet baits, attracting all the creatures around that greedily ate Spirit Rice.

Since it wasn't easy for them to break through where Su Jin and Su Qingniao were, they turned to charge other plots. After all, not all the student children were as powerful as Su Jin and Su Qingniao.

So, rice fields were soon breached.

The sky gradually brightened.

Su Jin and the others finally waited for a group of adult cultivators who had rushed over overnight to harvest.

Everyone was exhausted, but their mood was not bad.

Especially when they saw the vast expanse of golden rice.

The last two-plus hours were too agonizing; Su Jin and the other girl lost another fifty-plus Spirit Rice plants.

So, they failed to keep it under one hundred plants; in total over three days, the two of them lost one hundred and thirty-five Spirit Rice plants.

Master Liu this time brought a large flying carriage to pick them up.

"Today, you can go home first, take a bath, change your clothes, and bring plenty of supplies. Tomorrow morning, assemble at the main gate of the Clan School at school time." After speaking, she tossed the student children into the flying carriage as if picking up kitten cubs, then had the driver pull everyone running toward the inner city district.

The student children were sent all the way home; Su Jin also got off the carriage at the entrance of her own alley.

By the time she got home, the merit points had been issued. This mission gave her two points, and reporting the insect disaster gave her another point.

So she scored one hundred and fifty-six points.

Sigh!!

Earning points is really hard!

Still, at least she managed to get an extra small patch of over a hundred stalks of Rouge Spirit Rice from the Spirit Rice Field.

Maybe in the future she could achieve Spirit Rice freedom.

After Su Jin finished washing the clothes, finished bathing, she took some Bing Chen Lu, Earth-Heart Blueberry Dew, and Mu Hun Ye and put them into Little Wu Tian. Especially the Mu Hun Ye — although she had already broken through Qi Refining Layer Three.

But according to the little breakthrough trick Grandpa secretly told her in private, once her cultivation broke through Qi Refining Layer Three, she absolutely had to adopt the explosive cultivation method.

Break through to Qi Refining Layer Four at the fastest speed.

Otherwise she would be stuck at this bottleneck for a long time.

Grandpa said breaking through to Qi Refining Layer Four was a very strange matter: the more you delay, the more you want to steadily and cautiously polish yourself, the harder it is to break through.

The more you charge forward boldly, the more spirit items you stumble upon along the way, the easier it is to break through.

Anyway, back then he only spent six months to break through Qi Refining Layer Four.

And those with the same aptitude as him, or even better aptitude, all spent over a year or even two or three years to break through.