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The cub was asking for death, and Feng Wu was happy to oblige.

Thump! Thump! Thump!

The battle didn’t take long. The cub collapsed on the ground, its blood painting the snow red.

It was still staring at Feng Wu as its pupils dilated and its breathing turned shallow…

Its last thought was that if it didn’t smell human flesh, didn’t wake up its hibernating parents, and didn’t get greedy, would they still be alive?

But that was spilled milk now.

The cut on Feng Wu’s cheek was no longer bleeding, but it was a deep gash and looked quite severe.

But Feng Wu didn’t think much of it.

With her rejuvenating pills, her face was in safe hands. All she needed to do was wait for the wound to close up on its own.

Ding —

Feng Wu sensed that another star had lit up immediately after she killed the cub!

That was fast?!

And Feng Wu wasn’t the only one who thought that; so did Grand Secretary Fang, in front of the screen.

By now, Priest Wu had fallen asleep on the table from boredom, and Grand Secretary Fang was the only one monitoring the screen.

Grand Secretary Fang indeed showed his bias.

Out of the 1000 candidates, he only cared about Xiao Wu. As for Mu Yaoyao…

He had forgotten about her completely.

Looking at the five shining stars on Feng Wu’s forehead, Grand Secretary Fang grinned.

What a wonderful girl.

The portal had transported the candidates to random locations on the snowfield, and the girl was one of the most unlucky ones. She was thrown directly into the center of Proud Snowfield and ran into magical beasts at the intermediate Spiritual Grandmaster stage right away.

Most of the candidates were junior Spiritual Grandmasters.

Those between Levels 1 and 3 were considered junior Spiritual Grandmasters.

Levels 4 to 6 were intermediate.

And senior Spiritual Grandmasters were between Levels 7 and 9.

Therefore, if she managed to defeat intermediate Spiritual Grandmaster magical beasts, she would obtain a considerable amount of spiritual energy!

After killing all three Spiny Frost Beasts, five of Feng Wu’s stars lit up in total!

If her name was displayed on the screen, she would be ranked first!

However, Grand Secretary Fang was still praising Feng Wu when —

The stars on Feng Wu’s headband went out one after another like broken light bulbs…

Soon, all five went dim and the headband returned to its initial state.

Grand Secretary Fang was shocked!

Feng Wu had also noticed it.

She was the first to sense it.

All the spiritual essence stored in the headband was gone, as if they had never been there.

“Beep —”

Grand Secretary Fang talked to Feng Wu telepathically. “Xiao Wu? What happened? Why did your stars go off?”

Feng Wu said in frustration, “I don’t know. They disappeared just like that, without any warning. Why did that happen?”

They were both at a loss.

Grand Secretary Fang came back to himself first. “Kid, don’t worry. You still have seven days left; I’m sure you’ll figure it out by then.”

Feng Wu felt like crying.

Her original plan was to light up all seven stars as soon as possible. That way, she could make her way into the central forest and get her hands on some Frost Essence. But things turned out to be more complicated than she expected…

Feng Wu had no idea that her troubles had only just begun.

At that moment, she heard footsteps approaching.

“Is someone here?”

“Watch out. I can small magical beasts and intermediate Spiritual Grandmasters at least!”

Feng Wu turned her head involuntarily when she heard the voices.

She then saw a team of six.

“That’s incredible! Who killed this Spiritual Grandmaster magical beast?!”

“One, two… and here’s another one! Three Spiny Frost Beasts! Unbelievable!”

The team of six soon walked into Feng Wu’s sight.

“Feng Wu?” One of them recognized Feng Wu and cried out in surprise.

“You know me?” Feng Wu darted her a look.

The girl exploded.

“I’m Huo Yin!” she yelled at Feng Wu.

“Huo Yin?” Feng Wu frowned. “Who’s that?”

The girl thought she was going to have a heart attack!

The others looked at Huo Yin in bewilderment.

All the candidates had been dropped in random locations when they were transported to Proud Snowfield. No one could find their friends, and this team of six was only a temporary thing.

On their way here, Huo Yin had been telling everyone about her encounter with Feng Wu and how hypocritical the latter was… and her teammates were shocked!

Feng Wu was that kind of person?!

However, now that Huo Yin had run into Feng Wu, Feng Wu didn’t seem to recognize her at all.

Everyone looked at Huo Yin strangely.

Huo Yin snapped, “Feng Wu! How can you not recognize me? We’ve met before!”

Feng Wu looked at her in bewilderment.

Huo Yin said hastily, “In Elegant Ink Gallery, the incident with Ye Yafei? I’m Ye Yafei’s friend! And I was in World Tower, too! Remember? You know me!”

Feng Wu shook her head. “Not really.”

Huo Yin was speechless.

Everyone else looked at Huo Yin.

She had been trashing Feng Wu so badly that Feng Wu sounded like the most evil person on the planet. As it turned out, Feng Wu didn’t even know who she was…

Huo Yin felt as if she had just been slapped hard in the face.

She stomped her foot in frustration, but there was nothing she could do. Feng Wu just didn’t remember her.

All of a sudden, Huo Yin’s eyes flickered and she asked, “Who killed those Spiny Frost Beasts? Where did that master go?”

Everyone looked at Feng Wu, for she had been the only one here when they arrived.

Feng Wu said casually, “Well, you’re looking at her.”

“What?!”

Fang Xueyu, a teenage girl next to Huo Yin, cried out, “You?”

Feng Wu nodded.

Huo Yin smirked. “If that’s the case, why didn’t your stars light up?”

Feng Wu didn’t know what to say. Why did Huo Yin have to ask that question?

Fang Xueyu and the others eyed Feng Wu suspiciously.

Feng Wu sighed. “I’d like to know the answer, too.”

Huo Yin smirked. “Don’t flatter yourself. You don’t have any spiritual essence. How could you have killed those Spiny Frost Beasts? Do you know what level they were at?

“The two large ones were intermediate Spiritual Grandmasters at least!

“And the smaller one, if I’m guessing right, was a junior Spiritual Grandmaster, which made it a Level 3 Spiritual Grandmaster at least!”

Huo Yin sneered at Feng Wu. “And you’re telling me you killed all three magical beasts?

“Feng Wu, you’re so…”

Feng Wu cut her off with a smile. “What level are you at, then?”

“I’m a Level 1 Spiritual Grandmaster! It’s not much, but at least I’m better than you —”

However, before Huo Yin could go on, Feng Wu slapped her right in the face!

“Smack —”

It was hard and loud!

Everyone stared at Feng Wu in astonishment.

It happened so suddenly that Huo Yin was taken by surprise.

Feng Wu smiled. “A Level 1 Spiritual Grandmaster? How petty —”

Feng Wu swaggered off after slapping Huo Yin.

Huo Yin shouted, “…Feng Wu! Stop there! Stop right there!”

However, Feng Wu had already dashed off and become a little dot on the horizon.

That was fast…

Everyone looked at Huo Yin in bewilderment.

Fang Xueyu found Huo Yin’s claim highly suspicious. “Didn’t you tell us that Feng Wu has no cultivation ability at all?”

Huo Yin stomped her foot. “She has none!”

Fang Xueyu asked, “If that’s really the case, why was she able to slap you, a Level 1 Spiritual Grandmaster?”

Zhu Qing, another teenage girl, also eyed Huo Yin. “You couldn’t even catch up to her after she slapped you.”

“You people — are you questioning me now?!” Huo Yin was exasperated. “I’m very close to Princess Mu!”

Princess Mu?

Fang Xueyu and Zhu Qing exchanged looks.

All the other girls in the team came from other provinces and had no connections in the imperial capital. After hearing Huo Yin bragging about all the people she knew, the team tried to butter Huo Yin up right away.

Fang Xueyu asked, “By Princess Mu, are you referring to Princess Mu Yaoyao?”

“Of course!” Huo Yin gloated. “Princess Mu is already a prominent figure, then Grand Secretary Fang became the acting principal of Imperial College, which has only raised Princess Mu’s status. After we get into Imperial College, you’ll be rewarded for your contributions now.”

Fang Xueyu and the others weren’t naive, and they got the hint right away.

With Mu Yaoyao as their patron, these newbies who were unfamiliar with the city wouldn’t be bullied in Imperial College.

At that thought, they went back to playing up to Huo Yin and trashing Feng Wu.

Huo Yin was pleased.

“Although, who on earth killed these three Spiny Frost Beasts?” Fang Xueyu asked curiously.

“Not Feng Wu, obviously. She didn’t even have one star on her headband.”

“Who, then?”

–

They went on discussing possibilities.

However, they couldn’t figure it out no matter how they tried.

After Feng Wu left the team of six, she jumped into a snow pit deep in the pine grove.

Feng Wu needed to readjust her body after the battle against the Spiny Frost Beasts, and she wanted to find out why her spiritual essence disappeared for no reason.

After circulating her spiritual essence throughout her body —

Feng Wu was ready to break through to Level 6 when something happened!

The spiritual essence she had painstakingly gathered flowed out of her…

And it was gone!

Feng Wu opened her eyes wide!

“How is that possible?! Why did my spiritual essence disappear?!”

Feng Wu knew that Zuo Qingluan was a Spiritual Elder already.

But Feng Wu was making even quicker progress. Only days after making it to the Spiritual Grandmaster stage, she was a Level 5 Spiritual Grandmaster!

It was unimaginable to other people!

But Feng Wu was able to make progress at that speed!

However, before she realized it, the spiritual essence she gathered had dissipated!

After the disappearance of the spiritual essence she obtained from killing the Spiny Frost Beasts, the same thing was happening to her own spiritual essence! What the heck?

Feng Wu began to panic!

She examined her body over and over again, but no matter how many times she checked, she couldn’t find anything wrong with herself!

Just then —

Feng Wu heard the sound of someone snoring.

That was…

She pulled something the size of her palm out of her pocket.

Feng Tutu?

Her little tiger cub?

To Feng Wu’s surprise, little Feng Tutu was deep asleep — so deep that it looked like it had passed out. Its cheeks were flushed and it was completely ignorant of what was going on around it.

What was more…

Feng Wu was amazed when she saw that Feng Tutu was absorbing spiritual essence through its fur — she could almost see little swirls on it.

Absorbing spiritual essence?!

Feng Wu was astonished!

Had Feng Tutu been sucking away all her spiritual essence this whole time?

With that question in mind, Feng Wu flipped Feng Tutu over and touched its plump belly with a finger. A streak of spiritual essence flew into its body at her touch.

The spiritual essence was so familiar and compatible with hers…

It had to have originally come from her!

Feng Wu was baffled!

And realization struck her immediately.

“That’s why my spiritual essence’s been disappearing. It’s all your doing.” Feng Wu poked the little thing in its forehead with a finger.

However, the cub went on sleeping flat on its back, with little care for what was going on around it…

Feng Wu was speechless.

What should she do?

She was completely at a loss.

However, she could clearly sense that as the spiritual essence was absorbed, the cub was getting stronger.

“You’re taking the easy way.” Feng Wu smiled bitterly.

She sighed in resignation, but there was nothing she could do. “You greedy little thing. There has to be a point where you’re sated, right?”

Once the cub’s spiritual essence reached a saturation point, Feng Wu would probably be able to resume her cultivation.

Bearing that in mind, Feng Wu stuffed Feng Tutu back into her pocket, jumped out of the snow pit, and continued on her journey.

This was such a rare opportunity.

With Grand Secretary Fang’s help, no one else in Imperial College would be able to see how she performed.

With no other candidates around, she could practice her skills on the magical beasts without hesitation.

She had been making rapid progress without engaging in much actual combat. Feng Wu had been longing for such an opportunity.

Beep —

Feng Wu’s headband made a tiny beeping sound.

Then, to her amazement, a map appeared in her mind, with a lot of red dots on it. There had to be around a thousand of them.

Feng Wu then realized that each dot represented a candidate.

Instructions appeared on the map.

“In a life-threatening situation, the candidate can choose to press the panic button. After doing so, the candidate will be teleported out of the terrain with immediate effect. At the same time, the candidate will fail the exam, so please be cautious about using this course of action.”

Meanwhile, the same map and instructions appeared in every candidate’s head.

Feng Wu counted the red dots.

There had been 1000 candidates in total at the beginning, but now, there were only 950 left.