Encounter

Looking at Jiang Yuanjie, Mu Qing gave a calm smile, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "You are still underestimating your own ability."

Immediately, a flash of cold light flickered in Mu Qing's eyes.

He said, "With your powerful sensory ability, we could completely avoid every team from the North Campus, but why must we keep retreating?"

"Our strength is not weak. Ling Fei has already reached the sixth stage of Blood Qi. As long as their numbers aren't too high, we are fully capable of knocking them unconscious before that group from the North Campus can even call for help."

"The people from the North Campus can seize points from students of other campuses, so we can just as easily seize their points!"

Jiang Yuanjie was clearly startled by Mu Qing's plan. His face turned pale with shock as he asked, "Are you sure?"

"Of course I'm sure!"

This sentence came from Ling Fei. He looked excited as he said, "This is just a mock exam, why be so timid?"

"Exactly." Mu Qing nodded and said, "If we keep hiding, the points in our hands will never grow. Even when the mock exam ends, we won't make it into the top ten to receive rewards."

Ling Fei chuckled, "So, we need to take the initiative and snatch all the points from those brats in the North Campus!"

Ling Fei was completely fired up. After breaking through to the sixth stage of Blood Qi, his strength was formidable; he alone was enough to handle three or four students at the fifth stage of Blood Qi simultaneously.

"Let's go! We'll get closer to check out the situation!"

Mu Qing dropped these words and his figure darted toward the direction Jiang Yuanjie had pointed out earlier.

Following that, Ling Fei followed closely behind.

Watching Mu Qing and Ling Fei rush out without hesitation, Jiang Yuanjie's expression shifted for a moment before he followed suit.

His stout body, despite his size, moved with surprising speed. Within a few breaths, he had caught up to the other two.

"Let's lie in wait first!"

After the three arrived not far from the team Jiang Yuanjie had mentioned, Mu Qing stopped and said.

He signaled the other two with his eyes to turn off the lights on their communication devices.

The three of them crawled into the tall grass and looked into the distance, where they saw beams of light in the darkness—the glow from communication devices.

"Luo Ya! What exactly is your North Campus trying to do!" A sharp, angry voice rang out, causing Mu Qing, who was hiding in the grass, to freeze.

It's Yang Shanshan! Mu Qing's heart skipped a beat. Only then did he realize that the people being hunted by the North Campus were none other than class monitor Ji Jia's best friend, Yang Shanshan, who was also a top student with immense strength and background.

It was rumored that Yang Shanshan's strength was on par with Ji Jia's, though Mu Qing hadn't paid much attention before and wasn't clear on their specific power levels.

However, he knew from Ling Fei that Ji Jia was also among the first batch of top students to break through to the fifth stage of Blood Qi. Now that Wang Haixuan and Ling Fei had both broken through, it was possible that Ji Jia had also reached the sixth stage.

And Yang Shanshan, for all he knew, might also be at the sixth stage of Blood Qi.

For a moment, Mu Qing felt a hint of pressure.

When he awakened his Blood Spirit, he had thought he hadn't been left behind, but now it seemed his cultivation was still in the second tier, while those in the first tier had already reached the sixth stage of Blood Qi.

It seems I need to train even harder after the mock exam ends to keep up with Ling Fei and the others! Mu Qing muttered to himself.

He looked toward Yang Shanshan's side and saw another graceful figure beside her. Disheveled crimson hair draped over her shoulders as she breathed heavily—it was none other than Ji Jia.

Both Ji Jia and Yang Shanshan looked rather disheveled; their school uniforms were tattered, revealing skin as clear and white as jade.

Surrounding the two of them were five people from the North Campus. The leader, wearing a short-sleeved shirt with dyed yellow hair, exuded a powerful aura—he actually possessed the strength of the sixth stage of Blood Qi!

"I know this guy, Luo Ya!" Jiang Yuanjie, who was lurking nearby, suddenly spoke up to introduce him to the others: "Luo Ya is 18 years old. He was already quite famous back in the North Campus for his excellent talent. He was one of the first to break through to the fifth stage of Blood Qi, and his family lives in..."

Once Jiang Yuanjie started, he was like a rushing river, unstoppable. He knew everything clearly, not just Luo Ya's personality, but even some of his dark history from childhood.

"Stop!" Mu Qing interrupted him, then exchanged a strange look with Ling Fei before asking, "How do you know all of this so clearly?"

"Well, of course!" Jiang Yuanjie said with pride, "I am the head of the News Department, the greatest paparazzo... ahem, the greatest journalist. I know almost everything clearly!"

"Luo Ya is at the sixth stage of Blood Qi. Could it be that he organized everyone in the North Campus to unite against the other three campuses?" Ling Fei asked.

Mu Qing pondered for a moment and replied, "I think that's unlikely. Even in our East Campus, Wang Haixuan, who has reached the sixth stage of Blood Qi, only managed to pull together twenty or so people, and that's only because he has the Wang Family behind him!"

While Mu Qing's group was discussing this, the situation on Ji Jia's side was looking quite grim.

Ji Jia and Yang Shanshan were surrounded in the center, and the students led by Luo Ya were grinning, their eyes revealing a fierce light.

"It's a pity that teachers are watching this Lake Heart Island at all times, otherwise we could have had some fun." Luo Ya chuckled.

"Bullshit! Can you stop being so disgusting? Once the mock exam is over, see how I deal with you!" Yang Shanshan roared. Her pretty face flushed pink, and a surge of energy erupted from her, matching Luo Ya's—she was indeed at the sixth stage of Blood Qi.

Beside her, the slightly disheveled Ji Jia also released her aura, which was also clearly at the sixth stage of Blood Qi.

"Hehe, you two don't need to put on a brave front." Although Luo Ya was the only one on his side at the sixth stage of Blood Qi, he wasn't worried at all and laughed out loud.

He looked at the exquisite figures of Ji Jia and Yang Shanshan, his eyes gleaming.

Luo Ya said, "You two have been hunted by Brother Liu Tianyu for an entire day, and the Origin Force in your bodies is completely exhausted. Now, everyone is searching for you two and that fat guy Jiang."

"If I bring you to Brother Liu Tianyu, I'll probably secure a spot in the top ten directly! You know, Brother Liu has been admiring you for a long time!" Luo Ya let out a weird laugh as he and the other four closed in.

Yang Shanshan and Ji Jia's faces turned pale, and their beautiful eyes burned with fury.

As two of the school beauties who also possessed great strength, the team they had built was naturally not weak—it was even slightly stronger than Wang Haixuan's.

Yet, even such a team could not compare to the unity of the entire North Campus student body. The team they led had been brutally crushed; aside from a few who escaped, everyone else had already been eliminated!