You Must Take Responsibility for Me! (2nd update)

With Mu Lei's help, Song Jie quickly added Mu Nu Jiao's chat account.

The other side accepted in seconds.

Song Jie looked at the chat window and hesitated for a moment. Just as he was about to break the ice, she sent him a message.

[Mu Nu Jiao: Thank you for saving me again. When you have time, I'll treat you to a meal.]

After being rescued twice, Mu Nu Jiao felt grateful. This training trip of hers could truly be said to have nearly cost her life.

Fortunately, there was Song Jie. He could always save her at the critical moment.

[Song Jie: If a beauty is treating me to a meal, I'm definitely going.]

Mu Nu Jiao looked at Song Jie's reply and smiled. Who didn't like hearing others praise them for being pretty?

[Mu Nu Jiao: By the way, because of the changes at Little Kun Mountain, Plant Stamens have already gone up in price. They've risen to one hundred thousand each.]

After Song Jie found out, he could not help clicking his tongue inwardly.

In that case, the value of the Plant Stamens he had obtained had directly doubled, going from over one million to over two million!

To ordinary people, this was already no small sum.

But he would not sell them. These were Little Green's snacks.

[Mu Nu Jiao: I wanted to help you look for Plant Stamens before, but I couldn't find any.]

Seeing this, Song Jie was not surprised, because Plant Stamens were too rare. He had only gotten so many by snatching them from the jaws of demons.

However, Mu Nu Jiao had actually gone to help him look for Plant Stamens? That was something he had not expected.

But he could more or less guess that she probably wanted to repay him for saving her life.

After Song Jie chatted with Mu Nu Jiao for a while, they each went off to do their own things.

Before long, Mu Lei sent him a message.

[Mu Lei: How is it? How is it?]

[Song Jie: How is what? /confused]

[Mu Lei: Song Jie, you're not being loyal. I practically delivered Jiao Jiao into your arms, and you're still hiding things from me.]

[Song Jie: /rolls eyes]

Mu Lei smiled at his phone screen. As for family marriage alliances, he would rather Mu Nu Jiao find someone she liked.

It was just that whether these two could end up together or not mainly depended on Song Jie.

[Mu Lei: By the way, there's something I need to tell you. After school starts, you might have big trouble.]

[Song Jie: What do you mean?]

[Mu Lei: In every past year, Pearl Academy has held a Beast Fighting Competition during the welcome assembly. When the time comes, all the teachers and students from Green Campus will be there.]

[Mu Lei: And every welcome assembly has the Summoning Element send out Summoned Beasts to fight the students...]

Song Jie looked at the message Mu Lei sent him. He also knew about this Beast Fighting Competition.

After all, Mo Fan had relied on this Beast Fighting Competition to directly defeat two hundred people and become Pearl Academy's great demon king!

[Mu Lei: But now, it seems like you're the only new student in the Summoning Element, so I'm saying you're going to have big trouble.]

Seeing this, Song Jie did not take it seriously. With the strength he had currently revealed, fighting two hundred should not be a problem.

Moreover, with the help of the Plant Stamens, Little Green had every chance of advancing before the Beast Fighting Competition.

Not to mention becoming General-level, but at the very least, it could break through and become an Advanced Stage Servant-level Summoned Beast!

There was still a huge difference between the Advanced Stage and an ordinary Servant-level, because the Advanced Stage was already in the transition phase toward becoming General-level.

So, this stage could already be called half-General-level.

[Mu Lei: But the school should probably take care of you too. Otherwise, making you face so many students from Green Campus alone would be unfair.]

[Mu Lei: Right, have you completed your Dimensional Summon? If not, I can help.]

[Song Jie: I've completed it.]

[Mu Lei: If there's anything you need my help with, you can tell me.]

Song Jie had saved Mu Nu Jiao twice. As her older brother, he naturally had to make some kind of gesture.

[Song Jie: Not right now.]

[Mu Lei: Tell me when there is. As long as I can help.]

The two chatted for a while longer before ending the conversation.

Song Jie went out to eat something. After returning, he sat on the sofa and began controlling his Light Element stars.

His life afterward followed the same two-point routine: the place where he ate and the rental apartment.

Time slipped by in the blink of an eye.

Summer vacation was quietly passing, but the scorching weather outside stubbornly did not change in the slightest.

Song Jie sat on the sofa and suddenly opened his eyes, a smile tugging at the corner of his mouth.

"It worked!"

He cried out, excitement stirring in his chest.

After cultivating for so long, he could finally control all forty-nine stars!

That meant he could already cast Intermediate Light Magic!

Song Jie stood up, impatient to try drawing a Star Atlas!

He closed his eyes. In his spiritual world, forty-nine stars filled the Nebula.

Begin!

Song Jie said inwardly, then connected the stars into Star Tracks.

After a while, the seven Star Tracks were almost complete. What he still had to do was draw the seven Star Tracks into a single Star Atlas!

Song Jie drew extremely slowly, terrified that one careless slip would break the connection!

At the final moment, he pushed through in one burst and completed the last strokes of the Star Atlas!

The next instant!

A golden six-pointed Star Atlas suddenly appeared beneath his feet, dazzling with radiant light!

"Light Blessing!"

"Holy Shield!!"

A holy golden shield of light quickly appeared around Song Jie, protecting him firmly within.

He had used it once before with the Star Atlas Book, but this time felt different, because he had cast it on his own.

Before long, the golden light gradually faded into nothing.

After that, Song Jie summoned Little Green, wanting to see how it was doing.

"Ring-ring-ring!" After Little Green came out of the dimensional space, it flew happily back and forth around the house.

"Come to Daddy."

Song Jie sat on the sofa and beckoned to it.

Little Green answered with a "ring-ring-ring," then quickly threw itself into Song Jie's arms.

"Has your strength improved?" Song Jie asked gently, stroking the green leaf on top of its head.

"Ring-ring-ring!"

"Still a little short?"

"Ring-ring-ring!" Little Green nodded like a chick pecking at grain.

"I still have a few Plant Stamens here. If they're not enough, I'll go buy some more when the time comes." Song Jie rubbed its green leaves.

During this period, he had also gone out to do Bounty Missions, so he had earned quite a bit of commission.

Besides, Little Green could search for Plant Stamens in dense forests. It would be incredibly useful in the future!

Spend a little money to make big money—this investment was definitely worth it!

Just then, Song Jie's phone screen lit up. Someone had sent him a message.

He lowered his head to look. It was a message from Mu Nu Jiao.

[Mu Nu Jiao: I'm really sorry. After that training trip, I went into seclusion to cultivate and didn't have time to tell you.]

Mu Nu Jiao had gained a great deal of insight after returning from that training trip, so she had immediately gone into seclusion after being discharged from the hospital.

But Mu Lei had told him about it, so Song Jie knew that Mu Nu Jiao was in seclusion.

However, Song Jie planned to tease Mu Nu Jiao a little, wanting to see how she would react.

[Song Jie: You promised to treat me to a meal before. I waited for a month and never got it. I'm so hungry I've wasted away. You have to take responsibility for me! /sob]

On the other end, Mu Nu Jiao felt terribly embarrassed. Looking at Song Jie's message, she panicked, not knowing how to reply.