Sister Lin Falls from the Sky

As Chu Fei and the others pressed onward, the Seven Stars Academic Group in The Inland was holding a meeting. The atmosphere was tense and oppressive.

Three matters were displayed on the large screen.

First, the attempt to seize the Star Battle Suit had failed. Three sides had fought over it, only for a fourth party to suddenly emerge and launch a sneak attack. Cui Yanfang, who had fled with the Star Battle Suit, had already been injured. After the fourth party's ambush, she had been left nearly dead.

Second, the medicine market was in chaos, and cultivation techniques had suddenly become cheap. As a result, a large number of "cannon fodder" secretly gathered by the Seven Stars Academic Group had Awakened. Not only had they fled, some had even turned on their employers. Plans laid over the past decade or two had gone down the drain.

Third, the assassinations had become too insane. No one knew how many medicines Chu Fei had left behind on the black market, but now even the Seven Stars Academic Group's Awakened between 8.0 and 10.0 dared not leave their homes. The killers were calm and deliberate, specifically targeting that range. The entire Seven Stars Academic Group was in a state of panic.

No one spoke in the meeting hall. Everyone stared blankly at the contents displayed on the large screen.

The Seven Stars Academic Group, one of The Inland's Three Great Academic Factions—when had it ever been this miserable?

Amid the silence, everyone's gaze gradually focused on Cui Yanfang.

Cui Yanfang's face was pale. Everything below her shoulders had been replaced with cybernetic implants!

Yet for a 14.0 powerhouse, those implants were less a replacement body than an alternative kind of crutch. No cybernetic implant technology could meet the needs of a 14.0