Teacher, Save Me!

Cloud City.

Grade 12 Class 4 classroom.

"Classmates, time to eat."

Homeroom teacher Li Bindao, his expression somewhat haggard, used his own blood energy to lift forty-four boxes of food as he walked into the classroom.

The Martial Exam wasn't over yet, and rescue operations were still ongoing. None of the rescued students had gone home; they waited in the classroom for those who hadn't yet returned.

The Department of Education and Great Xia's high-level officials had discussed it—this incident had left an indelible psychological shadow on the students, and compensation was necessary.

So, for the seven days before the Martial Exam ended, all meals for the rescued students were specially supplied by each city.

They used the highest-grade Monster Beast meat that Martial Apprentice-level students could handle, spirit vegetables, nourishing medicinal herbs. Even the rice was blood rice!

Truly extravagant.

The Department of Education and Great Xia's high-level officials spared no expense this time, hoping to make up for it just a little, and also to ease some of the guilt in their own hearts.

The Martial Exam system had major problems.

This sudden incident wasn't an accident. Now, although rescue operations were still ongoing and would continue until the Martial Exam ended, Great Xia's high-level officials had already begun discussing reforms to the Martial Exam system.

The Martial Exam could no longer be held in secret realms!

Li Bindao looked at the students whose mental states hadn't fully recovered yet, then at the two empty seats that were the only ones left in the class, and sighed softly.

"I wonder how Liang Shixian and Ji Ruo are doing—if they're eating well, if they're going hungry."

"Run! Run fast!"

Ji Ruo shouted at the top of his lungs, leading the charge as he sprinted through the forest.

Their luck hadn't held out forever.

Not long after they'd finished eating, they ran into a group of Nine-Eyed Demon Spiders.

These Nine-Eyed Demon Spiders were monsters at the ninth-level Martial Apprentice tier!

Their eight legs were incredibly sharp, with hardness comparable to rock!

What's more, the ninth eye of a Nine-Eyed Demon Spider could release a special magic ray that slowed down its target's movements. Once you entered a ten-meter range, you'd be attacked.

And on top of that, these things were also pack animals!

Who knew why all the monsters in Ten Thousand Beast Mountain liked living in groups? In less than two days, Ji Ruo and the others had already run into their third group of pack monsters!

"Ji Ruo! Drop that little wooden stick of yours right now! Look at the mess you've caused!" Liang Shixian roared.

"It's not my fault! How was I supposed to know those webs were from Nine-Eyed Demon Spiders? If I'd known earlier... I'd have run halfway through!"

Liang Shixian shouted back in exasperation, "Is that the point?!"

Zhang Quan and Liu Neng stayed silent, their expressions twisted with effort, as if they were running for their lives, too out of breath to speak.

They felt like they'd run through the entire year's worth of roads in just these two days.

They'd been hopping through the trees just fine, no danger at all, until Ji Ruo spotted a patch of spiderwebs, gleefully grabbed his little stick, and went to mess with them.

Then the Nine-Eyed Demon Spider swarm came charging out. Each spider was as big as a watermelon, with a hideous, terrifying appearance, and they chased relentlessly.

"So, a third of the blame?" Ji Ruo shouted tentatively.

Liang Shixian nearly spat blood: "Do you even know what you did wrong?!"

"I get it! Next time I'll use Iron Sand Palm and burn all those webs to a crisp!"

"Can't you just leave the damn webs alone?!"

"But if the webs aren't cleaned up, it's unhygienic!"

"..."

Liang Shixian rolled his eyes wildly, at a loss for words.

Ji Ruo kept using [Absolute Sense of Direction] to correct their heading. Each time, he only got a 5% correction effect, but after multiple adjustments, the results were still fairly noticeable.

'Safe, safe, safe, safe.'

Ji Ruo urged inwardly.

"This way! Follow me!"

Fortunately, the Nine-Eyed Demon Spiders' movement speed wasn't outrageously fast. The four of them kept a distance of over ten meters from the spiders behind them, avoiding the Slow Demon Eye's influence.

A moment later—

"There's a cave over there! It should be safe—let's get in!"

Ji Ruo shouted.

The guidance from [Absolute Sense of Direction] vaguely pointed toward that cave.

"What if it's a dead end..."

Before Liang Shixian could finish his sentence, Ji Ruo had already charged into the cave.

With the spider swarm chasing them, entering a cave was clearly not a wise move, but since Ji Ruo had already rushed in, they had no choice.

Liang Shixian gritted his teeth. "Follow me!"

The few of them followed closely behind, charging into the cave.

As soon as they entered, they saw the cave covered in spiderwebs of all sizes, giving off that familiar feeling, just like the patch Ji Ruo had torn down with a small stick earlier.

In the darkness, countless pairs of glowing red eyes stared at them, too many to count.

Their hearts instantly turned ice-cold.

Liang Shixian thought in despair, "This Humble One's life is over!"

But Ji Ruo, charging at the front, had already raised his crimson palm and slammed it fiercely onto the largest web in the cave.

"Eat my Iron Sand Palm!"

Whoosh!

The high temperature of the Iron Sand Palm instantly ignited the web, which was already a flammable material. The fire spread extremely quickly, and in an instant, the entire cave turned into a sea of flames!

Ji Ruo shouted, "Stay behind me!"

At the same time, he pulled the blade and sword from his back, aligning the handles together and pointing them toward the cave interior, spinning them rapidly (reference Stephen Chow's The Lucrative Job of a Royal Chef).

"Watch my Blower!"

The airflow reversed—it didn't affect the fire at all, after all, Ji Ruo was only a sixth-level Martial Apprentice, barely reaching the seventh level. How fast could he spin?

In truth, the youth was trying to trigger an achievement, but it didn't happen.

However, those Nine-Eyed Demon Spiders didn't approach any closer; instead, they kept retreating.

Ji Ruo, having inherited the original body's scholarly nature, knew very well that Nine-Eyed Demon Spiders feared fire!

The webs grew denser the deeper into the cave, so the fire burned inward. Ji Ruo said to stay behind him, but it didn't really matter whether they did or not.

At this moment, behind them were over a dozen Nine-Eyed Demon Spiders, ahead of them was a raging fire, and beyond the fire was a massive, uncountable swarm of Nine-Eyed Demon Spiders.

At first glance, it was an absolute dead end.

Although the Nine-Eyed Demon Spiders behind them hadn't dared to approach because of the flames, they hadn't left either.

They kept a constant distance from Ji Ruo and the others. As the fire spread deeper into the cave, Ji Ruo and his group moved deeper with the flames, and the spiders inside frantically retreated.

The other three had no choice but to steel themselves and follow Ji Ruo deeper into the cave.

The Nine-Eyed Demon Spiders behind them had already entered the cave, completely blocking their escape route.

Once the webs burned out, whether the Nine-Eyed Demon Spiders ahead died or not, Ji Ruo and the others would still be doomed!

Nine-Eyed Demon Spiders at the ninth-level Martial Apprentice stage were far beyond what a few sixth-level Martial Apprentice high school examinees could handle, whether in terms of physical strength or venom.

But Ji Ruo wasn't panicking at all. Well, not completely.

Because this direction was the one corrected by [Absolute Sense of Direction]!

After multiple inquiries and corrections, taking the average, theoretically, this cave was the path to survival!

"Thump!"

Suddenly, the sound of a heavy object hitting the ground rang out, cutting through the strange noise of flames burning spider silk and the terrified screeches of the Nine-Eyed Demon Spiders, exceptionally jarring.

Ji Ruo's sharp eyes caught sight of a large silk cocoon at the center of the web that had just burned away above them.

The sound of the heavy object hitting the ground came from that cocoon being destroyed, dropping the 'spider's food' inside to the floor.

It was a human!

But they were already unconscious. Judging by the hair and figure, it was a woman.

Ji Ruo stepped forward, grabbed the person by the collar, and flipped them over.

Her features were delicate, but her face was slightly purple, clearly poisoned.

On her chest, she wore a Patrol Examiner badge.

A Patrol Examiner?!

Ji Ruo raised his hand and slapped the unconscious female examiner hard across the face, instantly swelling half her face and even knocking out two of her teeth.

"Teacher! Wake up, don't sleep! Help!"

Cherishing beauty? Not a chance. If this Patrol Examiner didn't wake up, everyone here would die today!