After making a quick circuit, he found that everyone was more or less all right, but their spirits had visibly sunk. Their initial energy was gone.
Everyone from Pearl Academy was accounted for, though Luo Song and Shen Mingxiao had been beaten black and blue after being bewitched. They looked like a pair of pigs.
Since Xu Dalong had been over here, he had escaped injury—a small mercy amid the misfortune.
Come to think of it, Nu Jiao still seemed to be missing.
Mo Xie glanced around and, finding no sign of Mu Nujiao, walked over to Bai Tingting and Song Xia to ask.
"Tingting, Song Xia, have you seen where Mu Nujiao went?"
The two women exchanged a look, then pointed behind the Church.
"After Mu Ningxue left, Mu Nujiao seemed to head behind the Church."
"All right."
Mo Xie soon reached the back of the Church and found Mu Nujiao sitting alone amid a patch of plants—plants she had created herself.
Her arms were wrapped around her legs, her mind seemed to be elsewhere, and her gaze was somewhat vacant. But the crimson tinge between her brows had vanished completely, restoring her usual pure, noble air.
"Nu Jiao, are you all right?"
Mo Xie walked up to Mu Nujiao. Seeing that she was still caught in that strange emotional state, he connected a Psychic Element star orbit, and a pink ripple enveloped her entire body.
"Spirit Ripple: Soothing!"
A trace of emotion gradually returned to Mu Nujiao's beautiful eyes. It was fear, as though she had just woken from a nightmare and was still caught in its atmosphere, trembling at the memory.
"I... what happened to me?"
Mu Nujiao curled up, asking with a somewhat dazed expression.
She remembered little of what she had done. All she recalled