Li Yunxian felt like something complicated was happening, but at the same time, it seemed to have nothing to do with her.
After thinking for three seconds, Li Yunxian decisively pretended she had only heard the last five words Duan Qiu said: “No need to answer.”
She hung up the phone briskly.
After hanging up, Li Yunxian glanced around to make sure no one was nearby, then said directly, “So, there really isn’t any world crisis?”
“No.”
Su Wenjing’s cold voice echoed again in Li Yunxian’s ear.
Li Yunxian sighed with regret, then said coldly and ruthlessly, “Fine, then please mind your privacy. I don’t like being monitored.”
Sensing something.
She had a vague feeling she was being used and discarded, and Su Wenjing responded: “This is normal surveillance in the Academy’s public area. It’s my official duty.”
Su Wenjing’s mouth twitched slightly as he answered.
As a senior official who usually skipped classes and didn’t get involved in affairs, he still wasn’t someone who lived for free!
“Oh~” Li Yunxian responded with a hint of realization, “So that means if there really was something going on, I could have just called you directly?”
Su Wenjing didn’t reply.
Li Yunxian called out hesitantly, “Su Wenjing?”
Still no reply.
“Su Fox?”
“Fox Su?”
“Little Fox?”
Li Yunxian kept calling him by different nicknames, increasingly outlandish, and when she confirmed Su Wenjing still didn’t respond, she realized he had simply cut off communication with her.
No wonder he’s an old fox—he’s quick to run when he senses something’s wrong.
Li Yunxian regretfully gave up and the various plans forming in her mind dissipated.
***
Afterwards, Li Yunxian enjoyed a rare period of peaceful study time.
In short, she attended classes in the morning, then in the afternoon she put on some face-covering makeup to conceal her complexion, using that time for extra tutoring while taking a few hits herself.
The rest of the time was spent cultivating or doing some physical activity inside Wanwuwu.
Her life was very orderly.
Meanwhile, Li Yunxian’s classmates were living quite lively lives, participating in all sorts of activities, rankings, and competitions. Li Yunxian found it entertaining to watch.
The only thing somewhat related to Li Yunxian was Shen Bofeng, who, after being seriously beaten at the start of the semester, was particularly motivated and had recently leveled up his cultivation.
He was now at Qi Refining Ninth Layer.
His control over magic techniques had also greatly improved. It could only be said that being Immortal Bone made his spiritual force and magic synergy extremely high.
His arena ranking had jumped to 81st, surpassing Li Yunxian and making him the highest-ranked freshman on the arena list.
— Li Yunxian currently ranked 83rd, down ten spots from before.
Some people graduated, others like Shen Bofeng improved, then challenged those who ranked ahead of Li Yunxian.
With this ebb and flow, and Li Yunxian no longer attending the arena, her ranking naturally slipped.
Then, Li Yunxian saw a message relayed in their group chat: Shen Bofeng was waiting for Li Yunxian to catch up in cultivation so he could challenge her!
Li Yunxian rolled her eyes, looking at her barely entering Qi Refining Sixth Layer cultivation.
Though she hadn’t caught up to Shen Bofeng yet, she was quite tempted to give him a good beating.
But she let it go…………….
Li Yunxian lowered her head and frowned at the new practice problems her teacher had assigned after class.
Too difficult, too difficult!
At first, Li Yunxian relied on her soul trait to easily handle the assignments given by Li Tianying.
She basically completed them the same day they were assigned.
Operation-type tasks were finished with just a little review.
But once Li Yunxian finished learning all the standard apparatus operations and faced serious magic tool design and manufacturing, things became difficult.
At first, she could still bluff a bit using her previous knowledge of Artifact Crafting from the cultivation world.
She managed to hand in assignments on time the next day.
Then Li Yunxian felt the difficulty of her assignments rapidly increased step by step.
Staring at the homework in her hands, she couldn’t help but wonder if this was really something that could be done at the Qi Refining Stage?
Then Li Yunxian cheated a little. Since array formation and magic tools are inseparable, she incorporated some Array Craft knowledge and fudged through that assignment.
That day, Li Yunxian saw her teacher silently examine the work for a long time, even replicated it once to confirm it was truly feasible, then quietly explained the orthodox design and manufacturing process of the assignment.
Obediently, Li Yunxian followed her teacher’s instructions, operated various instruments, and finally personally manufactured the detection magic tool.
This was really knowledge for the Qi Refining Stage.
Li Yunxian was thoroughly impressed and felt more convinced that she really wasn’t cut out for Artifact Crafting.
Then, Li Yunxian finally decided to try not submitting homework the next day to lower her teacher’s expectations of her genius.
She originally thought she would face sighs, confusion, questioning, or suspicion from Li Tianying, but there was none.
Instead, after hearing her embarrassed explanation, her teacher smiled gently, even with a hint of joy.
Li Tianying reached out and tenderly patted her head, her voice full of tolerance: “It’s okay, if you didn’t finish today, tell me where you got stuck. We’ll keep learning and try to get it done by tomorrow.”
Li Yunxian recalled her past experiences of having to learn or die, and was moved to tears.
She finally understood why every classmate she met always said having a teacher was such a blessing.
With a teacher like this, who could bear to disappoint her?
After all, she would graduate by Foundation Establishment Stage. Only a year or two left. Why not just keep the teacher happy?
She could always pretend to be a prodigy who burned out later and claim she focused on the battlefield after graduation, naturally neglecting Artifact Crafting.
Li Yunxian gritted her teeth and resumed completing her homework on time.
Her teacher mysteriously returned to that previously stern demeanor.
But it didn’t matter—Li Yunxian now knew how good her teacher truly was!
Except now…………….
Li Yunxian found she was about to give up.
She had stared at today’s homework for over an hour, and even after combining her Array Craft knowledge with all she had learned, she had no idea.
Unless she broke through to Foundation Establishment and used techniques at a higher level.
Li Yunxian sat in silence for another half hour, still no alternative method.
Why was she pretending to be some Artifact Crafting prodigy?
Her eyes went blank.
Collapsing onto the sofa, staring at the ceiling for a long time, Li Yunxian chose to enter Wanwuwu.
She desperately needed to vent.
In reality, she had to hold back when fighting in the arena to spare her classmates, but inside Wanwuwu, she could unleash her fury on all sorts of beasts without restraint!
On the west side of the city, everyone noticed a huge commotion from some battle.
They looked at each other, unsure what had happened.
After hesitating and whispering for a while, though they didn’t see any signal flares or anything, they decided to go check it out.
What if something terrifying had appeared over there and couldn’t send a signal flare because they were too busy fighting?
Saliva.
The group cautiously approached.
When they arrived, they indeed saw a terrifying beast, but it wasn’t some alien race—it was…… Li Yunxian.
They watched as she wildly swung her Spirit Sword, cutting the beast and the surrounding trees into pieces, almost chopping them into pulp.
Their little Li teacher had grown more ferocious in battle ever since she reached Qi Refining Fifth Layer.
Li Yunxian didn’t feel anything was wrong.
She turned to the approaching group, a question mark flashing in her eyes.
“Looking for me?” she asked as she walked toward them.
Her posture clearly said that no matter what, she would come to help.
The group breathed a sigh of relief.
It seemed this was still the Li Yunxian they knew.
So they relaxed and instead started signaling with their eyes at the surrounding scene, silently asking.
“Little Teacher Li, did something unhappy happen in reality?”
“Who bullied you? Tell us! We can each spit on them and kill them!”
Everyone rolled up their sleeves, ready to have Li Yunxian’s back.
Li Yunxian was both amused and helpless.
But she accepted their care.
Since it wasn’t something she couldn’t say, Li Yunxian candidly shared the problem she was facing.
“Magic tool manufacturing homework? Let me see?” someone among them who also knew how to craft magic tools spoke up.