Chapter 2 Encounter with Bai Qianyu
The name “Scarlet Flame Wolf” was quite renowned among students who hadn’t experienced the world, known as the “newcomer killer.” Many rookies on their first university training expedition had died under its claws.
“Goo Goo—”
Its well-formed muscles, with a ferocious expression, stared intently at Su Jiu. Within its mouth, a certain aura was brewing, and the surrounding air began to slowly rise and become viscous.
“The book says its weakness is its lower back. No wonder all those previous hits to its head were useless. Wolves, like dogs, are all the same: iron head, tofu waist.”
Su Jiu maintained a calm expression, her gaze as placid as water, looking at the Scarlet Flame Wolf’s lower abdomen. She held her iron sword horizontally, adopting a defensive stance.
In the next moment, a faint red light seemed to ignite in the Scarlet Flame Wolf’s mouth.
The next moment, it slightly opened its mouth, and scorching magma shot out like an arrow towards Su Jiu. The surrounding air misted with wisps of fog, as if being incinerated.
Su Jiu dodged with an extremely peculiar twist, as if she had predicted it. Just by being close, she could feel her hair curling from the heat.
“I was waiting for you to breathe fire!”
Without the slightest hesitation, Su Jiu used the momentum to slide forward, “Ch” it went, beneath the Scarlet Flame Wolf’s belly. She could see the veins bulging on the back of her hand as she thrust her iron sword forcefully into the wolf’s stomach.
Unlike ordinary students whose blood coagulation was only at sixty percent, the power brought by ninety percent blood coagulation was almost three times that of theirs.
“Roar!”
In the next moment, a splash of bloodlight appeared. The Scarlet Flame Wolf, feeling the pain, hurriedly recoiled backward, its body becoming unsteady. Seeing this, Su Jiu’s eyes lit up. As long as she could keep it occupied for a while longer, she could kill it.
The creatures in this illusion, just like real creatures, would become sluggish once injured.
Su Jiu used her blood-stained iron sword to support herself, flipped up with a鲤鱼打挺 (fish-flop jump), and quickly created distance. Even though the opponent was injured, she still lacked the Qi protection of a novice warrior, making close combat difficult.
Su Jiu took a deep breath, softly chanting a sword technique, and began to lightly swing her iron sword. The sword suddenly became coated with a layer of frost.
A ferocious glint flashed in the Scarlet Flame Wolf’s eyes. Unmindful of the wound that had cracked open on its chest, its body like a small charging car, it rammed towards Su Jiu, though its speed was far less than before.
“Frost Slash!”
Seeing the Scarlet Flame Wolf about to charge again, a sharp glint flashed in Su Jiu’s eyes. Her eyes blinked open and closed as she gently swung towards the Scarlet Flame Wolf’s point of impact.
“Woo—”
Subsequently, a sword energy imbued with frost slowly collided with the Scarlet Flame Wolf’s body. With a muffled groan, frost continuously formed on the Scarlet Flame Wolf, and it heavily collapsed onto the ground.
“If it weren’t injured, Frost Slash wouldn’t have hit it at all,” Su Jiu muttered to herself, throwing away her iron sword and looking at the dead Scarlet Flame Wolf. Her offensive techniques were still too limited.
If the students from outside who were also in high school knew what she was thinking, they would surely call her shameless, greedy for more. She had already mastered a combat technique before even reaching the Low-Rank Warrior stage, and yet she wasn’t satisfied?
Not long after, the Scarlet Flame Wolf’s body turned into streaks of white light and flowed into Su Jiu’s body within the illusion. Then, all scenes began to shift, leading her to an empty black space.
Above, marked in blood-red characters, was “Countdown: 2 days 23 hours 59 minutes 59 seconds.” Su Jiu seemed accustomed to these things. She carefully felt the changes in her body, and a hint of joy had yet to appear on her face.
The surrounding scenery began to change repeatedly. She only felt a pulling sensation in her body, and then she was back to her body leaning against the big tree. She slowly opened her eyes, looked up at the already setting sun, pouted her lips at first, and then slightly bared them into a smile.
She had skipped two more classes. She was bound to get a scolding from her cheap old man when she got back. But her blood coagulation had actually reached one hundred percent.
Although she didn’t feel anything special now, only basic attributes like strength, the benefits of blood coagulation concentration would only manifest during awakening, so she wasn’t too disappointed.
It’s just that the virtual space seemed to open again? In the novels of her past life, one hundred percent was already the limit, so what was going on?
Su Jiu shook her head and decided not to dwell on it. She got up, patted her butt, and tidied her clothes a bit, after all, she was a girl now.
It was Friday today, and she could go out and eat some “junk food” by the school gate that she never dared to buy when she was a teacher.
Thinking about those snacks, Su Jiu chuckled, humming a tune, and strolled directly towards the school gate. Her casual JK uniform formed a stark contrast with the students carrying backpacks in groups.
……
Outside the campus, at a small stall, several men in black shirts were surrounding a girl wearing the uniform of Zhiyuan High School.
“Qianyu, why are you selling snacks here? You didn’t even call your brothers to come buy, really…”
A rather rough voice rang out. Looking towards the source, it was a burly, fierce-looking young man with a buzz cut, appearing to be the leader of the men in black.
As he spoke, his hand began to unceremoniously reach for Bai Qianyu’s shoulder. Bai Qianyu’s eyes flashed with disgust, and she slapped his hand away forcefully with her gloved hand, then coldly said:
“Lin Lie, don’t push your luck! This is the school gate, aren’t you afraid the school will expel you?”
“Push my luck? Tsk, looking at you like this, what’s the difference between you and a streetwalker?”
Lin Lie sneered, gestured with his eyes for his subordinates to drive away the onlookers, then chuckled and reached for Bai Qianyu’s seemingly tender arm again: “You don’t think the school would casually expel me, a young master of the Lin family with seventy-six percent blood coagulation, do you?”
“Heh heh…”
Just as the onlookers thought Bai Qianyu was going to resign herself like the girls bullied by this Lin family young master before, her expression remained unchanged. With her slender hand, she firmly pressed Lin Lie’s wrist, and with a surge of strength, she pushed his entire arm onto the red-hot iron plate.
“Ah!! Your blood coagulation is over eighty percent?”
Feeling the strength in his arm, Lin Lie’s face stiffened slightly, and his face immediately turned red. He quickly withdrew his large hand, completely unprepared for the other party’s immense strength.
He knew that reaching seventy-six percent blood coagulation had consumed numerous rare natural treasures from his family. This Bai Qianyu, penniless, couldn’t even produce a thousand yuan on her whole person, how could she possibly reach eighty?
Even for a genius, this shouldn’t be the case.
“Get lost!”
Bai Qianyu shouted coldly. She no longer had the mood to help her mother set up the stall and just wanted to pack up and go home quickly. She really couldn’t afford to provoke the Lin family.
In her ignorance, she had tricked some money from the mayor’s son when she was young. She was only disciplined and her injuries healed within half a month. But this Lin family was a notorious bullying family in Huayang City. They had committed many acts of murder and arson, and even had some influence in official circles, making them someone she absolutely could not afford to offend.
“Get lost? Someone, smash her stall!”
A fierce glint flashed in Lin Lie’s eyes, and he shouted at his subordinates behind him. Anger immediately suppressed his previous thoughts. He felt that the other party might just have good talent.
A few subordinates obeyed the order without further thought, approaching Bai Qianyu with malicious smiles. Even with over eighty percent blood coagulation, she was not a Warrior Class, and two fists are no match for four hands.
Seeing this, Bai Qianyu looked at the surrounding so-called classmates. Facing Bai Qianyu’s gaze, the students who were merely in ivory towers dared not step forward to help.
Instantly, she had to take a deep breath, preparing to go to the hospital again, and secretly cursed herself for being so impulsive…
“Aunt Chen, give me five skewers of roasted sparrow.”
Just as the two were in a standoff, a petite figure squeezed through the crowd. She held a bowl of stinky tofu, her mouth smeared with sauce.
This person was Su Jiu, who wanted to treat herself. She gently looked up and met the pretty face she feared the most. The stinky tofu in her mouth no longer tasted good, even chewing it felt like wax.
“Who let this girl in?” Lin Lie frowned, his gaze sweeping over Su Jiu, and asked unhappily to the two subordinates who had tried to block her.
“She just slipped in. We couldn’t stop her.”
The two subordinates lowered their heads, looking somewhat embarrassed. They, who had around sixty percent blood coagulation, were slipped past by a junior schoolmate who looked like she was in a lower grade…
