Chapter 326: Isolating the Whole Group

Beauty with Eight-Pack Abs: Wow, Senior Brother is so handsome, and he sings so well @Qingcai Keke

Beauty with Eight-Pack Abs: I want to learn this song!

Beauty with Eight-Pack Abs: Teach me, teach me!

"Pah! Think I don't know? To learn the song to sing for a summoned beast, she doesn't mind kissing up to him. They're in the same grade, yet she calls him Senior Brother. Shameless!"

Zhang Suannai thought with disdain.

Haoran: He really is quite handsome.

"Comatose for eight months, her brain must be broken! Maybe when Cao Ci extracted the origin, he sucked out her intelligence along with it!"

Zhang Suannai shook her head repeatedly.

Gate of All Wonders: A divine couple.

Green Lamp Ancient Buddha: Amitabha.

"Pah, pah, pah..."

Zhang Suannai made the sounds repeatedly, a machine gun of "pah"s.

Just Call Me Luo Huaian: He is handsome.

"The Royal Court and the Sword Sect are sworn enemies. To belittle me, this person doesn't hesitate to praise my opponent! Dirty, childish tactics. Typical trash from the Royal Court!"

Zhang Suannai squatted by the roadside, yet she was giggling foolishly.

Qingcai Keke: /embarrassed

Qingcai Keke: It's quite awkward to be secretly filmed.

"Hypocritical! Fake! Who knows how happy he is inside right now, probably holding back laughter! What a poser! And he can't even pose properly! And here I was, thinking you had some skill after the Martial Body meet ended, even regarding you as a rival and wanting to have a fair fight with you to determine the winner. I didn't expect you to take advantage of my absence to show off and steal my spotlight with such underhanded tricks. Despicable and shameless!"

Green Lamp Ancient Buddha: I really didn't expect Donor Qingcai to sing so well.

Gate of All Wonders: Senior Brother is almost moved by worldly feelings, right?

Just Call Me Luo Huaian: Didn't expect it +1.

Haoran: He is the producer for Zhusha. Back when he was short on money, Zhusha would often ask him to help with guidance on many songs.

Green Lamp Ancient Buddha: Donor Qingcai is full of hidden talents.

Gate of All Wonders: You could tell a bit even normally, at least unlike someone who can't do anything and isn't very smart either.

"The whole group is kissing up to him?"

Zhang Suannai frowned and scratched an itch.

"By the way, who is this 'someone'?"

"It must be Wu Eiwei..."

Just Call Me Luo Huaian: Where is that person who said they wanted to fight Qingcai in front of Zhaoye Qing, so Zhaoye Qing could see Qingcai getting beaten up? You can come out now to be beaten by Zhaoye Qing and Qingcai together.

"You guys can chat, but why bring me up?"

"I didn't even say anything!"

Gate of All Wonders: @Nainai Zongshuo

Green Lamp Ancient Buddha: @Nainai Zongshuo

"They're actually @-ing me!!"

Zhang Suannai's brow furrowed tighter and tighter.

She felt it was going too far.

Why is the whole group against me? Do these people have something wrong with them?

Zhang Suannai couldn't hold back anymore and typed frantically.

Nainai Zongshuo: You guys have something wrong with you!

Nainai Zongshuo: I'm not playing with idiots!

Nainai Zongshuo: I've decided! For the next period of time, I'm going to isolate all of you!

After sending it, Zhang Suannai didn't look at their replies, directly turned off the device, put away her Mobile Phone, got up, and walked toward the Dormitory to go back and seek comfort from her roommate.

Throughout the whole thing, only her roommate didn't mock her in the group.

Her roommate is still the best to her.

Ten minutes later.

Zhang Suannai carried a box of Iron Plate Squid Potato back to the Dormitory. Seeing Xiaoxiao lying on the table playing with a fake frog, she immediately beamed and called out:

"I'm back!"

The little girl turned her head to look at her, her gaze dropping down, before she said:

"Welcome."

"I brought you some squid and potato."

"Thank you, Sister Suannai."

"What is this again?"

"A green frog."

"Oh, oh... where is Qingqing?"

"Not in the Dormitory."

"Ah? She went out?"

"Yes."

"When did she go out?"

"Last night."

"Ah? She didn't come back all night?"

"Yes."

"Ah..."

Zhang Suannai was stunned; she blinked her eyes, a bad premonition rising in her heart.

Could it be that last night they...

Could it be that in the future, if she bullied that silly vegetable in the group chat again, or beat up that silly vegetable again, she would really have to face a mixed doubles match from her roommate and him?

"Snowflakes drifting, north wind whistling, the world, a vast expanse... a single branch of winter plum, standing proudly in the snow, only for, the beloved, to drift with fragrance..."

The singing drifted out from the courtyard, piercing the clouds in this early morning, startling the sparrows on the branches.

Chen Shu was wearing a tank top and shorts, singing at the top of his lungs.

The singing stopped abruptly.

"Qingqing."

Chen Shu handed his Mobile Phone toward Qingqing: "Look quickly, someone filmed the scene of you kissing me and even posted it online."

Ning Qing glanced at the phone screen but did not reach out to take it; after watching for a few seconds, she raised her eyes to look at him:

"I kissed you?"

"Isn't that so?"

Chen Shu adjusted the progress bar, freezing it on the frame where Ning Qing was leaning toward him, and showed it to her again:

"Look, the crime scene, the ironclad evidence is like a mountain."

"Shameless."

"Who are you calling shameless?"

"You."

"You're the one who's shameless!"

"You aren't even wearing clothes."

"Isn't this clothing?"

"A tank top."

"A tank top doesn't count as clothing? Mine even has 'Advanced Production Worker' written on it, look, 'Capital Steel Factory', '1983', do you know this is an honor unique to our working class?"

"Twenty yuan a piece."

"What? Do you look down on cheap clothes?"

"Can't be bothered with you..."

"You bourgeois! Down with you!"

"..."

"Fine if you don't care."

Chen Shu continued scrolling through the forum, searching for short videos, and saw someone's split-personality scene again.

One moment they were a student from Ling'an Academy, accusing him of being a spy; the next they were a student from Yujing Academy, accusing him of being a traitor; then they transformed into a student from the neighboring National Comprehensive University to eat melons and stir up trouble; and then they were a spokesperson for the Yujing Academy student affairs office, saying they wanted to represent all teachers and students to expel him from Yujing Academy.

Chen Shu screenshotted them all and sent them to the group chat to watch for fun.

"True feelings~ are as vast as the grasslands, layer upon layer of wind and rain cannot block them... Eh, the group owner is awake now too, only the anonymous person is left." Chen Shu said, turning his head to glance at Qingqing beside him, "Do you know what the situation is with the anonymous person now?"

"Breakfast is here."

Ning Qing looked at her phone and got up to go out.

Chen Shu watched her back, shook his head, and opened WeChat again, entering "Dormitory of the Unawakened".

Chen Shu: Brother Meng, Brother Jiang, are you out yet?

Chen Shu: @Meng Chunqiu @Jiang Lai

Meng Chunqiu: Out, Brother Chen, do not worry.

Jiang Lai: Just left Qingshan Ridge.

Chen Shu: How was the harvest?

Meng Chunqiu: Ashamed, ashamed, only reached the Fifth Stage.

Jiang Lai: Very big.

Meng Chunqiu: It's a long story, let's talk in detail when we get back. Anyway, Brother Jiang experienced a death and finally found the path to a High-level Martial Artist. Perhaps the first High-level Martial Artist in the history of the world is about to be born in our Dormitory.

Chen Shu: Congratulations, congratulations.

Chen Shu: But I'm with my girlfriend whom I'm not dating yet, come back in the afternoon, let's chat slowly.

Meng Chunqiu: Good.

Jiang Lai: Good.

Chen Shu put down his Mobile Phone and glanced ahead.

Qingqing was back, carrying breakfast.

Today, Qingqing was wearing a long-sleeved shirt with a ribbon collar; the fabric had a silky texture, smooth, a very fresh light water-green, loose and elegant. Below was a high-waisted satin skirt, white, and a pair of strappy sandals with a small heel but not high. The whole person exuded a cold yet gentle air, walking slowly toward him, making the early morning much more colorful.

Two portions of breakfast were placed on the table.

Two bowls of fast-food rice noodles, a steamer of small steamed buns, a bag of pan-fried dumplings, two tea eggs, steaming hot, ordinary and simple.

Ning Qing raised her eyes to look at him:

"What are you looking at?"

"Looking at you."

"Silly."

"You are really beautiful..."

"Eat."

Ning Qing's expression was as calm as usual; judging by her face, she seemed completely unmoved by his praise. She only earnestly untied the knot on the takeout bag and said to him, "Haven't you been in the Forbidden Land for two and a half months? Don't you want to eat this kind of home-cooked breakfast..."

"What about your black spaghetti-strap dress? When are you going to wear it?"

"Are you going to eat or not?"

Ning Qing stopped what she was doing and looked at him indifferently, giving off the strong feeling that if he didn't eat, he shouldn't bother eating at all.

"Eating, eating, eating..."

Chen Shu was the first to grab a steamed bun.

Ning Qing sat beside him, looking pure and beautiful, making one worry that the broth from the rice noodles might splash onto her and dirty her clothes, staining her with the mundane world—which was inappropriate for a figure like her, who was like a goddess.

Ning Qing ate with focus, her table manners elegant.

Her peripheral vision caught the person beside her glancing at her repeatedly; on the surface, she remained calm, but inside, she was actually a little smug and happy.

……

That afternoon.

Chen Shu returned to the Dormitory, took out the Mooncake he and Qingqing had made all morning, and while eating, shared his experiences in the Forbidden Land with his two roommates.

Brother Meng's experience was relatively monotonous; ever since he arrived at the Beast Camp, he had been cultivating diligently under the protection of the exotic beasts. For a rookie like him who was only Fourth Stage when he first entered the Forbidden Land, this was the best choice. It wasn't until the last few days when he advanced to the Fifth Stage that he followed the exotic beasts out of the camp to fight against the Resurrected One together.

Yet this person loved to talk and had a silver tongue; even if it was just things that happened inside the camp, he could make it sound extraordinary.

Brother Jiang's experience was very exciting, but Brother Jiang wasn't very good at telling stories, which caused the level of excitement to drop.

"Soon we encountered another fox demon from Dongzhou..."

"A fox demon?"

"Yes."

"Hmm..."

Chen Shu and Meng Chunqiu exchanged a look: "Brother Jiang is quite lucky with the ladies."

"It was a man."

Jiang Lai said in a low voice.

"A man?"

Chen Shu couldn't help but glance at Brother Meng again before continuing to ask: "What did he look like? Was he the same style as Brother Meng?"

"A Tibetan fox."

"……That has a certain flavor to it."

The appearance of the Fox God appeared in Chen Shu's mind.

The statue of the Fox God seen in the Yuding Shendian was also a man, with small eyes, a large face with wide cheeks, and a beard; in short, it was completely different from the fox demon clan of Dongzhou, which was rumored to be as beautiful as flowers or exceptionally handsome.

"And then?"

"After that, we continued to look for you, but Student Yan said that some of you had hidden yourselves, and some had gone in too deep, so we didn't dare to go in. Not long after, we encountered danger and hid in a large tomb..."

Jiang Lai said dryly.

Meng Chunqiu occasionally interjected a few sentences to polish it for him.

"Student Yan said that Lord Linjian had been observing me, observing me for a long time, so he bestowed Founding Spiritual Power upon me. Then I started to fuse it, but with the help of Senior Chen Qing, the fusion still failed, until the Bodhisattva resurrected me..."

"What does death feel like?"

"……"

Jiang Lai thought for a long time before saying: "Consciousness gradually shrinks, getting smaller and narrower bit by bit, until there is nothing left, and then there is just nothing. Waking up again is like having slept a very deep sleep."

"Brother Jiang, you're amazing, it's like you got the protagonist's script." Chen Shu sighed, "So how do you feel now?"

"I feel very good."

"Tell me more."

"My body is very strong, and my power is also very strong, much, much stronger than before. I still don't have a Spirit Sea, but the Spirit Power in my body has increased many times over. It seems the quality of the Spirit Power is also leaning toward that of a Cultivator, only the type is different from a Cultivator's. I still can't use Spell, but after my body and Spirit Power were transformed, I can use this Spirit Power like an exotic beast. The most basic application is probably the same as an ordinary Martial Artist who has had a Beast Bloodline implanted, but I haven't explored the specific methods of application yet; I only came back to life last night."

"Amazing..."

Chen Shu's first reaction after hearing this was actually: "Then wouldn't the Arena boss who signed you have made a fortune?"

Jiang Lai pondered for a moment, then said earnestly:

"Not necessarily."

"Haha..."

Chen Shu actually understood what he meant.

It was rare for Brother Jiang to be confident; he meant that he could have helped the Arena boss compete in the Martial King Tournament and eventually win the championship anyway, it was just a matter of whether it would take one year or several years. Now that he had obtained the Founding Spiritual Power of an exotic beast and transformed into a Humanoid Exotic Beast, he was almost certain to advance to High-Tier. The only High-level Martial Artist in history; once he advanced to High-Tier, there would be no more opportunities to step into the Arena.

Brother Jiang was too serious.