This Is Carrying Out Heaven's Justice

The next day, Quiz Melee became the number-one quiz Dreamscape in Heaven Origin and began breaking out of that circle, showing signs of entering the puzzle-game scene.

At first, everyone had been drawn in by the ten points of mana.

But after suffering the Bratty Girl's torment and the harassment of answering questions, the gameplay's balance of randomness and fun, the novel Dreamscape format of battle royale, and the ability to utterly crush the Bratty Girl quickly pushed this Dreamscape beyond its niche. It spawned countless memes and rapidly became popular.

If not for the Dreamscape platform's Regional Lock, which prevented it from actively spreading to other cities, this Dreamscape might even have stirred up a wave and carried the winds of quizzes and battle royale elsewhere.

Before long, the Dreamscape spread to Heaven Origin Second High School, also known as Culture High School.

As Tianyuan City's pride, Culture High School's students were the best among Heaven Origin's top students, the elite among elites, receiving the highest standard of treatment from the Tianyuan Cultivators Committee.

Their monthly subsidy was five hundred, but outstanding students could receive an additional five hundred. Nearly every Culture High School student could get that extra five hundred, effectively doubling the money they could spend on cultivation each month.

Furthermore, Culture High School's cafeteria was personally managed by the Tianyuan Cultivators Committee. Every student could obtain large amounts of carbohydrates and protein for very little money, ensuring they received sufficient nutrition.

The Spiritual Qi concentration here was also higher than elsewhere. The Spirit-Gathering Array buried beneath the school raised the Spiritual Qi concentration to level three, far surpassing other areas.

Students admitted to this high school needed a Spiritual Root rating above eighty points and had to sleep fewer than two hours a day. They also needed extremely strict control over their bodies. Boys were forbidden from getting erections during the day, while girls were asked to postpone their unpleasant days until after the National College Entrance Examination.

Any academic Grades below ninety were considered disgraceful. No matter how high their scores in other subjects were, they would still be mocked for an entire year.

Here, Grades were everything. Scores were everything. The student ranked first in the year was the emperor of this place. The harsh score system forced everyone to devote all their energy to studying, without the slightest slackness.

Inside the school building, several enormous banners greeted visitors:

[Entertainment is a crime!]

[Wasting time means you were raised by catgirls!]

[The hardship you refuse to endure today will turn into tears you'll have to swallow tomorrow!]

[How can you sleep at your age? Get up and study!]

[Don't study today, and tomorrow you'll be in a septic tank. Don't study tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow you'll be in a septic tank.]

Besides the many banners, the most conspicuous thing was the massive spell board.

The board was a ranking list left behind by the previous principal. It displayed every student's Grades and arranged them according to their total scores.

It also had a progress ranking and a shame ranking. The fifty students with the lowest scores would all be listed, then begin bearing immense psychological pressure.

Culture High School had no expulsion system, but every year, students unable to bear the humiliation chose to drop out, becoming honorable high school dropouts and enjoying society's care ahead of schedule.

Today was the day this week's Grades were released.

Standing before the board, a beautiful, slender girl with waterfall-like hair gazed at the rankings. There was not a trace of a smile on her cold face.

Beside her, a classmate looked at the rankings enviously before saying, "Wang Chuyun, you're first again. And with 430 points! You're only in your second year, so how are your Grades even better than the third-years'?"

"Normal performance."

"So nice. Great Grades, pretty face, great figure... how can someone be so perfect? First place gets a thousand yuan as a bonus. What are you going to do with it?"

"Save it."

"Fine, then. I'm going to the library to study. What about you?"

"I'm taking a walk in the grove."

"Okay, I'm leaving."

After seeing off her classmate, Wang Chuyun headed toward the grove.

She shone like a star. The halo of first place made her appearance even more captivating. As she passed by, everyone's eyes focused on her, and only after she had left did they remember they could breathe.

After walking alone to a secluded spot in the grove, she took out a handkerchief and wiped the water from the stone bench. Then she gathered her short skirt, neatly pressed together her legs wrapped in black stockings, and sat down.

Taking a deep breath, she pulled out her phone. When she saw the notification reading [1,000.00 yuan received], a three-millimeter smile appeared at the corner of her lips.

But the money was transferred away immediately afterward, followed by a message from Blessing Hospital: [Miss Wang, automatic payment has been completed. One thousand yuan has been received. Wang Chuyu's hospitalization fees have been renewed. Current remaining hospitalization balance: 11.53 yuan. Please make future payments promptly to avoid delaying the patient's normal treatment.]

She stared at the message for a long while, then sighed again.

Blessing was a city adjacent to Tianyuan, also part of Longevity Continent, and an extremely prosperous city.

Its medical care was highly advanced. Many illnesses that could not be treated in Tianyuan could be cured there. The downside was that it was expensive.

Absurdly expensive.

The basic daily fee alone was two hundred, with additional charges if anything unexpected happened. Yet her sister's Congenital Spiritual Qi Deficiency Syndrome could only be treated there, and the day of her recovery was still nowhere in sight.

Looking at the money she had left, Wang Chuyun bit her lip, picked up her phone, and began searching for part-time jobs that could earn money.

Her previous tutoring job had paid quite well, but her student's Grades had already risen to the third tier of universities, and the student's family was not well-off either. So Wang Chuyun had voluntarily quit, allowing them some breathing room.

Food delivery suited her as well, but she was not a specialized Body Cultivator. To improve her efficiency, she would need to burn mana, which actually meant she would earn less.

Some jobs looked easy, but they either required photo verification or were outright scams.

After realizing she could no longer make money through legitimate means, she covered her face and let out a long sigh.

(Since legitimate means can't make money, why not take the crooked path?)

A voice suddenly sounded, but Wang Chuyun was not surprised.

She had been able to hear this voice since childhood. It had always tempted her with various things, trying to force her onto an evil path.

The first time, ignorant and naive, she had listened to its temptation and gained a ninety-point Spiritual Root, but the price had been her parents suffering severe injuries.

The second time she listened, she had saved her sister's life, but the price was that she could barely express her emotions normally and could only present herself with indifference.

The other party had never concealed Its identity. After she began cultivating, It had even directly revealed Its title.

Evil God.

These things loved parasitizing cultivators with potential, tormenting them through various means in order to achieve their unspeakable goals.

It had not revealed Its true name, because once Its true name was revealed, Wang Chuyun would have the means to restrain It and could even drive It away.

There were cities that could handle such problems, but first, she had no way of getting there, and second, exorcism was ridiculously expensive. Better to endure it.

After offering a simple temptation, the Evil God softly said, (You know, the easiest way to make money is to scam those who make scam Dreamscapes instead. You're the best at this, aren't you? This isn't my temptation. It's a choice you've made through rational thought. Even if I hadn't reminded you, you would have realized it yourself, wouldn't you?)

Seeing that Wang Chuyun remained silent, the Evil God continued, (You're out of money, and your sister is still waiting for it. What's wrong with trying it at a time like this? Besides, you wouldn't be scamming people. You'd be carrying out Heaven's justice.)

Hearing this, Wang Chuyun remained silent for a while longer, then finally nodded faintly.

That's right.

This is carrying out Heaven's justice. I'm not wrong.

Then she opened her phone and pulled up the recently released quiz Dreamscape, Quiz Melee.