Death Planet.
Yujing City.
Xirang High School.
Xiao Mengyu was eating in the cafeteria.
Her phone suddenly rang.
She picked it up and looked, surprise appearing on her face. She wiped her mouth with a tissue, stood, and headed outside.
"Mengyu, you haven't finished eating! Why are you leaving?"
The girl with her couldn't help calling out.
"Something came up," Xiao Mengyu said.
"Need help? I can go with you," the girl said.
"No need," Xiao Mengyu said.
She left the cafeteria, and in a flash, vanished from the doorway.
On the other side of campus.
Atop the Teaching Building.
A girl with twin ponytails crouched on the railing, a lollipop in her mouth, surveying the entire school.
Xiao Mengyu landed lightly behind her and said coolly:
"I didn't expect you to come looking for me."
Without turning around, the girl with twin ponytails said, "You're a sword cultivator. Can you fight without worrying in a skirt?"
Xiao Mengyu looked down at her long black skirt, her tone turning cold:
"If you only came to comment on my clothes, I won't keep you company."
"Don't be like that. There isn't really any grudge between us. Besides-"
The girl with twin ponytails snapped her fingers.
Ripples of Spellcraft spread.
Several girls' voices rang out in the void:
"Why did Xiao Mengyu leave?"
"Who knows? I heard her swordsmanship is so good because she gets hotel rooms with those experts outside school in exchange for them teaching her advanced skills."
"Huh? Really? I heard that too."
"I never imagined she was like that in private. Strength like that really isn't worth envying."
"Right. Tell other people too. Don't let everyone be fooled by her looks."
The girl with twin ponytails snapped her fingers again.
The voices vanished.
"Did you hear that? That's