Chapter 137

The girl breathed a sigh of relief and quickly went over to stand on the outside.

This scene made Saerjia feel utterly humiliated, and he turned and yelled at the others:

"Anyone else wanting to go? Get out!"

To his surprise, several people hesitated for a moment, gritted their teeth, and actually walked over there.

This really hit Saerjia where it hurt. He glared hatefully at the group, and the Azure Jade students spent the rest of the class in a tense atmosphere.

However, his impotent rage did not affect Wen Jing in the slightest. She continued to share her experiences with her classmates, and everyone quickly got into the flow, discussing their insights from time to time.

The newly joined Azure Jade students listened silently, a feeling of gratitude mixed with shame rising in their hearts.

Actually, as long as she doesn't provoke Wen Jing, she's a pretty good person...

As Saerjia left after class, his cold gaze swept over Wen Jing and Sang Qing.

He used to only hate Wen Jing, but now he clearly hates even the teaching assistant who has followed him for many years.

However, Sang Qing, who usually avoids conflict with Saerjia, seemed to have made up her mind this time and looked directly at him.

"Professor, is there something you need?"

Saerjia said nothing, gave a meaningful snort, and left.

Seeing the other person disappear, Sang Qing slowly exhaled, then turned and went to find Wen Jing.

As early as when Wen Jing first encountered Saerjia's difficult behavior, she had already seen his terrifying talent.

"Wen Jing, would you be interested in participating in my project to optimize the Prism Shield? Your expanded shield model is very innovative and inspiring. If it is successfully verified and included in the new textbook for this course, you can also obtain copyright revenue from it."

"Sure."

Wen Jing raised his eyebrows and smiled at her.

She naturally understood the other party's subtext: this teaching assistant was going to completely side with her—participating in the project meant accessing the other party's research findings on the Prism Shield combat technique, which was a skill beyond the current curriculum.

When the time comes to compete with Saerjia in combat skills, Wen Jing's chances of winning will be even more secure.

This is also an opportunity for Sang Qing.

When Saerjia was removed from her professorship, she presented the results of her optimized combat techniques... Who will ultimately be the most likely to fill the vacancy as professor for this course?

It can only be said that opportunity always favors the prepared.

At the Azure Jade Academy, teaching assistants like Sang Qing are not isolated cases. More and more teaching assistants, after weighing the pros and cons, have extended olive branches to Wen Jing.

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Underworld.

Around the large, pale white worm, which exuded a dangerous aura, icy blue threads spread rapidly, forming a Ice Domain.

Perhaps thanks to the mental attributes and [Calmness] characteristics he gained from growing up in the Ancient Wilderness, Wen Jing to fall into chaos. On the contrary, he was able to draw inferences from one instance to another and gained new insights into the application of energy characteristics.

This insight has translated into increased strength, and her mastery of the Ice Domain is now even greater than it was with the Spider King in the cave.

After forming a stable domain in less than ten seconds, Wen Jing soared into the sky and continued his daily routine.

An invisible ripple of energy spread out continuously, sweeping across the swarm of jellyfish drifting in the sky, quickly filling the air with a buzzing sound of energy.

This is already more than fifty instances of spiritual reprimand.

"Um?"

A moment later, Wen Jing exclaimed in surprise, realizing that this time the situation was different, more intense than ever before.

It seems like... it's finally overloaded.

The cold flames inside some of the closest jellyfish began to flicker erratically. Their previously slow, drifting movements changed, and the arcs of their tentacles widened. They began to wave erratically and unconsciously, even colliding and entangled with each other.

The harmonious beauty of the past has vanished, replaced by a restless, or rather, mad, state on the verge of collapse.

A strong sense of foreboding washed over him, Wen Jing didn't hesitate to use his fastest Phase Jump, teleporting into the Ice Domain.

The moment she entered the Ice Domain, she sensed the energy fluctuations sweeping in from behind.

Wen Jing's compound eyes reflected the scene behind him—among the jellyfish swarm, the cold flame inside one jellyfish suddenly compressed inward, its light surging to a blinding intensity, like a miniature blue star.

"Boom!!"

The jellyfish completely transformed into an extremely cold blue flame, which expanded instantly, and the shockwave mixed with core fragments raged outwards.

But this is just the beginning.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Like toppling the first domino, the jellyfish's Symbiosis Network nature instantly transforms into a death chain: two, four, sixteen...

The chain reaction spread exponentially to other jellyfish, and the surface space of the entire underground world was instantly covered by countless blue cold flames, which overlapped and merged to form an absolute zero storm that swept everything away.

In an instant, the world seemed to be left with only this vast expanse of deep blue, filled with endings and icy silence.

Wen Jing held nothing back, unleashing his full power of the Energy Structure Method to erect Prism Shield within the Frost Domain.

The shield has a pentagonal shape, which is more refined than the standard model. It is a higher-defense version optimized by Sang Qing.

Almost the instant the shield formed, the devastating shockwave of cold flames crashed down like a tsunami.

"Crack... creak..."

A chilling sound, like a glacier breaking apart, rang out. Wen Jing's Extreme Cold Core within his body frantically operated to maintain the Ice Domain.

But she could still feel that the domain was rapidly eroding, its range was constantly shrinking, and it was being pushed off the surface by the impact into the underground area.

"I can't afford to fail here! I still have over six hundred Skill Points left to use!"

Wen Jing gritted his teeth, unleashing a torrent of energy as he desperately tried to keep the shield from collapsing.

Because she hadn't anticipated that this would be the final straw that broke the jellyfish's back, and given the current situation where she needed to exert all her strength, she certainly couldn't undergo an evolution that would cause her to lose consciousness.

Outside, there were deafening explosions and the roar of collapsing rocks, as if the whole world was collapsing.

I don't know how much time passed; it felt like only a few seconds, yet also like centuries.

Finally, the terrifying energy storm outside gradually subsided.

Wen Jing's energy was almost exhausted, and after the level four shield flickered a few times, it disappeared completely.

She hadn't felt this exhausted in a long time. After resting for a while, she continued her work.

"Whoosh!"

A rubble was torn open by Sharpness forelimbs, and the shocking scene around it came into view through the compound eyes.

The once diverse underground world... no longer exists.

The countless layers of rock above collapsed completely in the terrifying chain of explosions, burying all kinds of underground plants, jellyfish remains, and the upper part of the cave where she was located, forming a huge ruin.

However, the ruins were not the most noticeable feature at this point.

There was already a small rift valley in the area of the Reverse Flow Waterfall, where the giant worm once ventured deep.

At this moment, due to the collapse, the rift valley was as if it had been cleaved open by a giant axe, expanding into an enormous abyss.

The edges of the abyss were jagged, and a cold wind carrying a strange aura rushed up from below.

Wen Jing cautiously approached and looked down.

In the past, when observing the rift valley, it was so narrow that all one could see was pitch black.

As the area expanded, a pale, icy light could be seen shining from the deepest part of Wen Jing's body, causing the Extreme Cold Core within him to tremble involuntarily.

Besides this largest ray of light, there were also some twinkling lights around it, like stars surrounding the moon.

A deeper layer of the underground world revealed its mysterious veil to Wen Jing.

Chapter 137

The deeper underground world is certainly alluring, but before that, we definitely need to gather our spoils first.

"I never expected the jellyfish to explode. I hope there's anything left..."

Wen Jing turned his gaze back to the ruins in front of him, then paused, recalling his earlier complaints about the massive explosion.

So she first opened the panel in her mind and chose to evolve the Gravity Silk.

[The direction of evolution has been determined...]

[Evolve by consuming points...]

[695→210]

As the world peeled away layer by layer, Wen Jing felt a power spreading from her abdomen throughout her body. With the improvement of her attributes, she hadn't felt this intense sensation in a long time since she had evolved.

Just like when the Gravity Silk Gland first evolved, the panel blurred slightly.

Immediately afterwards, the senses that had been stripped away returned one by one from a new perspective and in a new state.

[Evolution complete]

[Gravity Silk Gland I → Gravity Silk Gland II]

[Gained Traits: Gravitational Field, Gravitational Lens, Advanced Invisibility, Inertia Manipulation, Trajectory Prediction]

Five consecutive feature prompts brought Wen Jing back to his senses.

It's no wonder it has a feature that consumes a full 485 Skill Points!

Excluding [?? Devour], Geometry true value is unknown, Gravity Silk, as the biggest contributor to her growth, undoubtedly ranks first in terms of Skill Points consumption.

The upgraded Wen Jing immediately felt and adapted to the new changes.

The most obvious difference... is that the Mechanical Sensing that this organ once gave her has been upgraded to Spacetime Curvature Sensing.

She can now perceive more subtle forces and energy flows, and predict more attack trajectories based on inertial motion, because the motion of any object is affected by spacetime Geometry.

While the previous level of Gravity Silk did enhance Wen Jing's predictive abilities, it relied more on her calculations and combat intuition, allowing her to anticipate every move in an instant.