In the morning, Lin Li went to the Beast Hunter Guild to take the Beast Hunter Qualification Exam.
Although he passed the exam smoothly, he had also suffered some minor injuries.
At that moment, his right arm, which was holding the phone, was covered in bruises. They were precisely from that exam.
Although Lin Li had rubbed them with Red Flower Oil, the bruises wouldn't fade so quickly.
If he went to Su Yue's house for Dumplings now, she would inevitably see the bruises on his arm. If she asked about them, he wouldn't have any way to explain.
It was impossible for him to tell her that he had taken off, that he was already a Cultivator with a First-Order Peak cultivation level, and that he had passed the Beast Hunter Qualification Exam that morning.
After all, Su Yue knew that his cultivation aptitude was incredibly poor. He had no hope of becoming a Cultivator in this lifetime, much less passing the Beast Hunter Qualification Exam.
Just a few days ago, he had been a total weakling, but now he had become an expert. This... this was far too unreasonable.
"Thanks! It's raining outside right now, and I can't be bothered to go out. Just eat without me!"
"It's not even raining that hard outside. It'd only take ten minutes to get here with an umbrella, and you still can't be bothered to go out... Fine! I'll eat by myself, then!"
After hanging up, Lin Li thought about how he would have to eat egg-and-shredded-pork noodles again that evening, and an aggrieved look immediately appeared on his face.
"I'll go take a shower first!"
Having missed the Dumplings Su Yue had made herself, Lin Li's appetite had plummeted. He turned around, went to the bedroom to get a change of clothes, and took a shower.
The next morning, the rain that had fallen all night finally stopped.
As the morning sun rose over the horizon and golden sunlight shone on the dewdrops hanging from the flowers, grass, and trees, the droplets refracted dazzling rays of light.
Lin Li rose early, brushed his teeth, washed his face, ate breakfast, and changed into a set of camouflage clothing.
He slung his backpack over his shoulders, carried the wooden box containing the Spirit Artifact Longsword in his hand, and set off.
At Ping'an Garden Residential Area, Building Six, Lin Li walked out of the corridor and encountered an auntie who had risen early to exercise.
The auntie knew Lin Li. Seeing him dressed like this, she asked curiously, "Little Lin, what are you going to do?"
"Good morning, Auntie Wang! I'm getting ready to go camping with some friends," Lin Li said casually.
"Camping? Little Lin, don't tell me you're going camping in the wilderness? There are lots of exotic beasts out there right now. It's very dangerous..." Auntie Wang said with a worried look.
"Auntie Wang, the wilderness is so dangerous right now that we wouldn't dare camp out there. The camping spot my friend found is in a safe area on the outskirts..."
Lin Li chatted with Auntie Wang for a few minutes before heading toward the entrance of the residential area.
After leaving the residential area, Lin Li, who had only fifty-five yuan left on him, hailed a taxi by the roadside. Once inside, he gave the driver an address. "Driver, take me to Chenghua Avenue."
The driver froze for a moment when he heard Lin Li say he was going to Chenghua Avenue. Then he started the car and drove toward the eastern outskirts.
After the taxi started moving, Lin Li closed his eyes and calmed his nervous emotions.
After all, before long, he would have to fight terrifying exotic beasts in the wilderness. For Lin Li, who had never fought an exotic beast before, the psychological pressure was immense.
The taxi driver was about forty-five or forty-six years old. Through the rearview mirror, he observed the young man sitting in the back, who looked about the same age as his own son.
"Young man, are you going to the wilderness beyond the suburbs to hunt exotic beasts?" the taxi driver asked curiously.
Lin Li was calming his nervous emotions. Hearing the taxi driver's curious question, he opened his eyes. "Yes."
"Judging by your age, you should be about the same age as my son.
To already dare hunt exotic beasts in the wilderness at such a young age, you're really something!" the driver exclaimed.
Hearing the other man's sincere praise, Lin Li's nervousness unexpectedly subsided.
"That'll be twenty-five yuan."
After arriving at Chenghua Avenue, Lin Li paid the fare and got out of the taxi.
Chenghua Avenue was still some distance from the wilderness. For safety reasons, taxi drivers would generally only take passengers this far. The rest of the journey had to be made on foot.
"Once I make a fortune, I'm definitely buying a car." Standing beneath the shade of a tree in camouflage clothes, with a backpack on his back and a wooden box in his hand, Lin Li muttered this before heading toward the wilderness.
Although it had rained all night the day before, there was not much water on the road.
This showed that even though his current location was already very close to the wilderness, the underground drainage system here was still quite well designed.
The weather in July had already begun to heat up. Under normal circumstances, temperatures would exceed thirty degrees.
However, because it had rained the day before, today's temperature was slightly lower.
As Lin Li proceeded toward the wilderness along the shade of the roadside trees, the occasional breeze left him feeling pleasantly cool.
Setting out from Chenghua Avenue, he continued forward on foot, and the surrounding buildings gradually became fewer.
Half an hour later, an endless wilderness appeared before Lin Li.
Behind him lay a bustling, prosperous, and peaceful urban district. Before him stretched an endless wilderness fraught with danger. The stark contrast left Lin Li's mind momentarily dazed.
"Phew..."
After taking a deep breath, Lin Li clenched his fist and relaxed it again, his expression resolute.
"Click."
He opened the wooden box and took out the Spirit Artifact Longsword that had cost him half his savings.
"What should I do with this wooden box? Throw it away?" Lin Li held the Spirit Artifact Longsword in his right hand and the wooden box in his left, looking troubled.
He looked around. There wasn't a single person in sight.
"If I throw it away, I won't have a wooden box to store the Spirit Artifact Longsword in later. I might as well put it on the Mysterious Small Island!" The instant this thought arose in Lin Li's mind, the wooden box in his hand vanished without a trace.
"It can do that?!!!"
Lin Li had originally planned to carry the wooden box into the Mysterious Small Island. He had never expected that he could put the item in his hand onto the Mysterious Small Island without taking his physical body inside.
"Come out." With a thought, the vanished wooden box instantly appeared in Lin Li's hand.
After sensing the changes in the Spiritual Energy within his body, he discovered that putting an item onto the Mysterious Small Island consumed far less Spiritual Energy than taking his physical body into the Mysterious Small Island once.
"Haha! It really works! Doesn't that mean I can use the Mysterious Small Island as my storage space from now on?"
Having unintentionally developed a new use for the Mysterious Small Island, Lin Li laughed foolishly in this uninhabited place.
Then he also put the backpack on his back, which weighed more than ten pounds, into the Mysterious Small Island.
After that, he tightened his grip on the Spirit Artifact Longsword and cautiously stepped into the wilderness ahead.
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