Lan Yue had no idea what the people around her were scheming. She was flipping through her system panel while secretly trying to suppress the smile tugging at her lips.
In the end, she simply could not hold it back and laughed outright, drawing curious glances from quite a few people.
Those gazes were so intense that even Lan Yue noticed some of them and looked around.
"Lan Yue, what's wrong?" Yun Xi asked quietly.
"Yun Xi, do you feel like people keep staring at us?" Lan Yue was puzzled. She had felt it more than once, as though quite a few people were constantly looking their way, leaving her feeling as if thorns were pricking her back.
"Are they? I don't think I noticed. They're probably just curious about how the two of us tied for first place, right?" Yun Xi explained without betraying anything, afraid that one wrong word would let Lan Yue realize something was amiss.
"They didn't really believe it in the first place. After all, we're only at Foundation Establishment, a far cry from the Golden Core cultivators they favored."
Of course, "a far cry" was how those people described it, not what she herself thought.
Yun Xi had long since been brainwashed by Lan Yue. In her eyes, she was outstanding, which was why she had always been so confident and never doubted herself.
"Yun Xi, don't listen to those people's rambling. They don't know how amazing you are, but don't we, your own people, know perfectly well? You'll even be able to take us along when you ascend someday!"
After hearing that, Lan Yue hurried to comfort her friend, afraid Yun Xi might be affected.
Her tone was so proud that Yun Xi could not help smiling.
"Lan Yue, actually, I..." Yun Xi