35. Chapter 35: What if it blooms completely? (1st update)

This time, aside from the hunters recruited by the Mu Family, the Mu Family's younger generation had come as well.

From another bus, a graceful figure slowly stepped down, instantly drawing everyone's attention.

The girl had long hair and a slim, graceful figure. Dressed in tight-fitting sportswear, her curves were outlined to perfection.

The prominent outline of her chest made everyone secretly click their tongues in amazement.

As Song Jie looked at her, someone suddenly came to mind—Mu Nu Jiao!

She was also one of the hunters recruited by the Mu Family, which was why he thought of Mu Nu Jiao!

Good heavens, isn't Mu Nu Jiao only in her senior year of high school? She already has a figure like that? Song Jie thought in shock.

What would happen once she fully grew up?

When it came to beautiful women, any man would take a few extra looks to feast his eyes.

Besides, some experts online had claimed that looking at beautiful women could even extend one's lifespan.

As for whether that was true or not, it did not matter.

"Brother Lei." Mu Nu Jiao walked up to Mu Lei. They were both members of the Mu Family who had come here to train this time.

Mu Lei nodded. His gaze was currently sweeping over the hunters.

Suddenly, his eyes landed on someone who looked somewhat familiar.

"Why is he here?" Mu Lei's eyes were filled with confusion.

"Brother Lei, who are you talking about?" Mu Nu Jiao had a fairly good relationship with Mu Lei, and they often helped each other.

"A classmate," Mu Lei replied, withdrawing his gaze at the same time.

The person he had just seen was Song Jie, and Song Jie had seen him as well.

"Brother Lei, congratulations on becoming a student of Pearl Academy," Mu Nu Jiao said.

She had been cultivating in seclusion before, and only after coming out did she hear that Mu Lei had passed the assessment.

Mu Lei nodded, looking somewhat distracted.

During their assessment back then, Song Jie had utterly crushed everyone else, leaving Mu Lei deeply impressed.

Mu Nu Jiao followed the direction Mu Lei had been looking and fixed her gaze on Song Jie in the crowd.

"Holy shit, is she looking at me? I feel like I'm about to save myself twenty years of hard work!!"

"Quit fantasizing. With that face of yours, how could she possibly be interested in you? She's obviously looking at me!!"

"What are you idiots thinking? She's clearly looking at me!! She must have been drawn in by my muscles!"

Everyone let their imaginations run wild, all hoping to save themselves twenty years of hard work.

Hearing the comparisons and boasting around him, Song Jie could not help shaking his head.

He knew Mu Nu Jiao had only looked this way because of Mu Lei.

Before long, Mu Nu Jiao and Mu Lei came to stand behind three middle-aged men.

Song Jie looked at them. These three were clearly the three High-level Mages assigned to this trip.

"If you're ready, then hurry up and set off," one of the middle-aged men with slicked-back hair said coldly.

"Alright, we'll leave right away."

The middle-aged man nodded with an ingratiating smile and called for Song Jie and the others to enter the Post Station.

They needed to pass through the Post Station before heading through another gate toward Little Kun Mountain.

Along the way, the Mu Family members walked at the front, while hunters like Song Jie followed behind.

"Little Kun Mountain is pretty dangerous. If you run into danger later, remember to run toward those people." A man pointed at the three High-level Mages at the front of the group.

"Thanks for the reminder, brother!" A young man immediately lit a cigarette for him.

Song Jie stood nearby, listening as well. He felt that the man made a lot of sense.

If they lured the demon beasts over there, the three High-level Mages naturally would not just stand by and do nothing.

"Brother, are there a lot of Plant Stamens in Little Kun Mountain?" someone asked.

"A lot, my ass. Finding one or two plants and making it out alive would already count as good luck!" the man said as he smoked.

"Ah? There are so few?" Some people looked disappointed. They had all been talked into coming, thinking they could strike it rich.

However, what Song Jie cared about was not how many Plant Stamens there were, but the fact that the man said merely getting out alive counted as luck!

It was clear that this training expedition was far from as simple as they had imagined.

Otherwise, the Mu Family would not have sent three High-level Mages and more than a dozen Intermediate Mages to accompany them.

Moreover, there were over a hundred hunters here, most of them Novice Mages, though a few Intermediate Mages were mixed in among them.

"Everyone's here to try their luck. Every trip, there are always a few lucky people who manage to find ten or twenty plants," the man said.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief at this, while also hoping they would be among the chosen few.

Song Jie did not believe in luck. If he had been an Intermediate Mage, he definitely would not have come along.

How could making money possibly be this easy? From the start, that uncle had clearly been selling them a pipe dream.

Half an hour later, Song Jie and the others left the waystation and headed toward Little Kun Mountain.

This waystation had been built specifically for Little Kun Mountain, so the journey from there to the mountain took only an hour.

Song Jie remained silent along the way, walking by himself and occasionally listening to the conversations around him.

Before long, their group finally arrived at Little Kun Mountain.

"Next, we'll split into three teams. Each team will have a High-level Mage, so there's nothing to be afraid of!" the uncle said with a smile as he walked over.

There would be too much commotion if so many people entered Little Kun Mountain together, so they would split up first and gather later at the same location.

After the teams were assigned, Song Jie glanced at Mu Nu Jiao before him. He had not expected to end up on the same team as her.

However, he glanced at Mu Lei. That guy seemed to have said something to the uncle just now.

At that moment, Mu Lei suddenly walked over and said with a smile, "I didn't expect us to meet here."

Song Jie smiled faintly in response.

"This is my younger sister, Mu Nu Jiao. She might end up being our junior schoolmate next year," Mu Lei introduced.

Though they were not biological siblings, they were still family.

Mu Nu Jiao nodded at Song Jie. She did not know why Mu Lei thought so highly of this person.

"Song Jie. I'm classmates with your brother," Song Jie said. He also knew that Mu Lei was one of the four selected candidates.

Mu Lei smiled. "Want to come with us? It might be safer that way."

Staying beside the High-level Mage with Mu Nu Jiao would indeed be safer than remaining among the hunters.

Song Jie refused.

For the time being, he did not want to get involved with the Mu Family, because he was here to "hitch a ride."

Mu Lei was not upset. He took Mu Nu Jiao back to the High-level Mage.

Mu Nu Jiao asked, "Brother Lei, is there anything special about Song Jie?"

"He passed the Special Recruitment Exam with me."

"Is that all?"

Mu Lei smiled and nodded. "His Light Element is different from a normal Light Element."

"Different?"

"That's right. Other people's Light Elements are very weak in the early stages, but his can rival an Intermediate Mage's offensive magic," Mu Lei said.

Mu Nu Jiao showed a hint of surprise at this. Didn't that mean he possessed a talent?!

She remembered that Dongfang Lie of the Dongfang Family seemed to possess the talent of "Mutated Star Seeds"!

With Mutated Star Seeds, people generally had only three levels in each realm, while Dongfang Lie had four!

For anyone else to advance to the fourth level, they needed to use an Essence Soul to strengthen their Star Seeds!

But only an idiot would use an Essence Soul to strengthen Star Seeds. Even great clans would not dare squander them like that, given the value of an Essence Soul.

As a result, Dongfang Lie's magic was far more powerful than that of others.

"Does he have a Mutated Light Element?" Mu Nu Jiao asked.

"Yes."

Mu Lei nodded. "His beginner magic can already unleash power comparable to intermediate magic. If it can mutate again once he reaches the intermediate stage, it might even rival high-level magic!"

Mu Nu Jiao's eyes also revealed astonishment at that. If that was true, it would be utterly absurd!

PS: There are three updates today as well, though they're a bit late. Yesterday's recommendation votes were 198—just two short of 200, which would have meant four updates, hahaha...

The screenshot has already been posted in the reader group (QQ Reading).