The Patrol Examiner Could Never Have an Accident!

Even though he had already been transmigrated for a few months and had long since merged with the original owner's memories, Ji Ruo hadn't actually accepted much of the original owner's social connections.

Ji Ruo seemed familiar with his classmates, but only he himself knew that he still felt a peculiar sense of strangeness toward these "familiar" classmates.

The original owner's memories were, after all, just that—the original owner's memories.

In Ji Ruo's view, these "familiar" classmates were only familiar to the original owner.

But earlier, when Liang Shixian, as the class monitor, decided to set an example and hold the rear for Ji Ruo and the other "ordinary classmates," Ji Ruo's heart was shaken deeply.

That line, "I'm the class monitor after all!" struck like a heavy hammer, shattering the faint barrier in Ji Ruo's heart.

It sounded nice, but what was the result of staying behind to hold the rear?

Death!

Did Liang Shixian not know that? Of course he did!

Even so, Liang Shixian still chose to hold the rear, even though he was terrified himself, even though his voice trembled, he still activated his Iron Cloth Shirt at the First Glimpse of the Path level.

Ji Ruo's heart was moved.

In the memories left by the original owner, there were countless little moments from school life.

Liang Shixian wasn't the only one who had helped Ji Ruo.

Cloud City High School Grade 3 Class 4 was very united; no bullying had ever occurred.

Liang Shixian's words, "I'm the class monitor after all!" were like a sharp sword piercing the barrier between the original owner's memories and Ji Ruo's own, forcibly merging Ji Ruo's life with the original owner's.

The images in his memories became clear. At that moment, Ji Ruo suddenly felt that having a group of classmates like this wasn't so bad.

So he stopped, turned around, comprehended the sword technique, and faced the demonic beasts!

Liang Shixian wanted to learn the sword technique, and Ji Ruo had no intention of holding back.

This sword technique wasn't anything particularly precious to Ji Ruo now.

Besides, Liang Shixian had earned it with his life.

Even though Liang Shixian never had the chance to face danger in the end, the courage he showed when he first stopped was worth Ji Ruo remembering this class monitor, whom he had only known for a few months.

"Let's go this way. I'll teach you along the road," Ji Ruo said, after briefly discerning their direction.

Ji Ruo had been guiding them the whole way, but the correction percentage of [Absolute Sense of Direction] hadn't increased.

Thinking about it, it made sense. If such an overpowered ability were so easy to improve, that would be too unreasonable.

"Mm." Liang Shixian nodded.

By now, he had no doubts about Ji Ruo's navigation ability.

Only one day into the Martial Exam, and they had already reached the undergraduate level on average. Although luck played a big part, in the end, it was all thanks to Ji Ruo's guidance.

Theoretically, if all of this was luck, it was entirely Ji Ruo's luck.

As they walked, Ji Ruo taught Liang Shixian the Nine Swords of Dugu: Arrow Breaking Form. Liang Shixian studied very seriously but didn't let his guard down, staying alert to every sound and movement around them.

Being in the Ten Thousand Beast Mountain Secret Realm, they couldn't afford to be careless.

Zhang Quan and Liu Neng cast envious glances at the two but didn't get too close.

They were still alive only because of these two good classmates from another school they had met halfway.

Counting it up, Ji Ruo had saved them several times already. Although Ji Ruo's behavior was a bit childish and he liked to sing unfamiliar nursery rhymes, his strength was undeniable.

Moreover, Ji Ruo was genuinely a good person. He had brought them, two strangers they had met by chance, this far. Earlier, when they were being chased by Tail-Stinger Demon Bees, Zhang Quan and Liu Neng had never stopped running. Now, even though they wanted to learn Ji Ruo's sword technique, they felt too embarrassed to ask.

They slowed their pace slightly, too ashamed to ask Ji Ruo to teach them.

They would learn after the Martial Exam was over, when they could buy the technique.

Zhang Quan raised his wristwatch and glanced at it. The distress signal displayed on it hadn't changed at all.

He frowned. "Why is it so slow? A whole day has passed, and the Patrol Examiner still hasn't come. The teacher never said anything about this!"

Liu Neng hesitated. "Could something have gone wrong?"

Zhang Quan raised an eyebrow. "Impossible! The areas open for the Martial Exam don't have any monster beasts or demonic beasts that can threaten Qi Pulse Realm martial artists. Even if something happens to us, there's no way something happens to the Patrol Examiner!"

"Then why hasn't any Patrol Examiner found us after all this time?"

Zhang Quan was stunned. "Yeah... why?"

"Renxu District..."

The Director of the Education Bureau gasped for breath, identifying the original sequence of the area before him through some traces.

Humans had divided the controlled territory of Ten Thousand Beast Mountain into sixty zones, named after the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches.

Renxu District was originally the second-to-last zone, with an extremely high danger level!

But now, due to large-scale geological shifts, the originally last zone, Guihai District, had been displaced to who knows where. Renxu District was no longer in its original position either, but it had become the zone closest to the "Mountainside."

Simply put, beyond the current Renxu District lay territory not yet controlled by humans.

The second-to-last had become the last.

"I hope there are no examinees here." The Director of the Education Bureau took a deep breath. If any examinee had been unlucky enough to be teleported to this zone, they were most likely already in grave danger.

He did not possess the divine power to raise the dead and restore flesh to bones; even if he found them, he would only be collecting corpses for the examinees.

In the span of a single day, this Department Head had managed to rescue thousands of examinees through sheer strength, but far more had already perished—he had merely returned their broken remains.

Every time he saw an examinee's corpse, it pained him deeply.

The Department Head did not pause; he charged straight into the Renxu District.

Though he held no hope, he still had to search.

Even if rescue was impossible, he would at least collect the bodies for the students.

Even in the worst-case scenario, he could not let these young scholars be buried in a foreign land!

"Huh? Why is the smell of blood so thick?" The Department Head froze. "Could it be..."

He accelerated, his entire form transforming into a streak of brilliant light as he raced toward the source of the bloody scent.

In the blink of an eye, the Department Head crossed dozens of miles of forest and saw the corpses of over a hundred dead Monster Beasts and Demonic Beasts.

Above the corpses, a large swarm of Tail-Stinger Demon Bees was slowly transporting bits of flesh and blood.

"This place..."

The hellish scene did not frighten the Department Head—after all, he was a Department Head, well-traveled and experienced.

"It seems the Demonic Beasts and Monster Beasts clashed over some reason, causing chaos and mutual destruction. The thick smell of blood drew the Tail-Stinger Demon Bees?"

The Department Head pondered, not bothering to conceal his aura, and was quickly discovered by the Tail-Stinger Demon Bees.

The swarm had just let a few running meals slip away; now new food had delivered itself—how could they hold back?

They immediately attacked the Department Head.

"Hmph! Courting death!"

The Department Head snorted coldly. He had been traveling all day, witnessing too much death, and now felt both guilt and urgency. These Tail-Stinger Demon Bees dared to strike first?

They were simply asking to die!

"Heavenly Stele Palm!"

His surging blood energy roared without cease as the Department Head struck out with a palm. The dense blood energy coalesced in midair into a massive golden palm ten zhang square, every line and crease of the fingers clearly visible.

The giant palm erupted with an abnormally strong suction force, pulling the hundreds of Tail-Stinger Demon Bees directly into its center, then annihilated them with a single strike!

Having dealt with the Tail-Stinger Demon Bees, the Department Head stepped into the pile of corpses.

Though he no longer held any hope, before leaving the Renxu District, he still had to check whether any traces of students or missing Patrol Examiners remained here.

"Huh? This is... Iron Sand Palm?!"

On the chest of a Goblin Chieftain's corpse, the Department Head was startled to discover a pair of scorched palm prints.

He was very familiar with those two marks.

They were unmistakably left by Iron Sand Palm!