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Chapter 8: Certain His Sister Would Keep Her Chastity, Unaware the Cabbage Had Already Been Snatched

Who spouted nonsense, and why are you so anxious?

How did he come in again, and do we really not need to throw him out?

No one had originally been paying attention to Qin Yu, but his outburst instantly drew countless looks.

“Qin Yu, calm down.”

Lin Yueyao had been verbally abused to the point of trauma.

She hurriedly took Qin Yu away to a spot where no one was cursing them.

“Yueyao, didn’t you hear what they said?” Qin Yu could not calm down at all, “They actually slandered my sister and Ning Bei as Dao companions, and I can’t tolerate that for a second!”

His beloved sister could never be together with Ning Bei.

“……”

Lin Yueyao felt a mix of emotions and could not find the words.

How could those words not sound harsh to her ears?

Yet she could only bite the bullet and tell Qin Yu the rumor about the two being together.

“What, holding hands?”

Qin Yu was dumbfounded.

His aloof sister… how could she hold hands with a man?

For years, even as her brother he had never held Qin Jiujiu’s hand once, not to mention that only a few days had passed since Ning Bei annulled his engagement with Lin Yueyao.

Even picking up a rebound would not happen that fast!

“I don’t believe it either, but we can only get to the truth after the test ends,” Lin Yueyao looked around and urged earnestly, “Qin Yu, stop making a scene, or they’ll really drive you out in the end.”

“I…” Qin Yu ground his teeth but found no rebuttal.

Right now, he was practically a rat crossing the street.

But he told himself to endure for now, and the truth would come out once his sister emerged.

Moreover, with his sister’s temperament, if she learned that people had falsely linked her to Ning Bei as Dao companions, she would surely keep her distance from him in the future.

That would be a good thing!

Thinking of this, Qin Yu’s eyes lit up, “Yueyao, I have a plan.”

“Hmm?”

“You should do this…”

After hearing Qin Yu’s plan, Lin Yueyao was left speechless, dark veins popping on her forehead.

“Yueyao, you don’t want Ning Bei and my sister getting too close either, right?” Qin Yu coaxed, “As long as we seize the chance to add fuel to the rumors that they’re Dao companions, my sister will definitely grow disgusted with Ning Bei, and then Jiujiu will surely take a detour whenever she sees him.”

“Are you sure? Will Qin Jiujiu really dislike Ning Bei because of that?”

“Of course, she’s my sister, and no one in this world knows her better than I do,” Qin Yu patted his chest and guaranteed that nothing could go wrong.

“…Fine, I’ll give it a try.”

Lin Yueyao agreed with pursed lips.

She truly did not want Ning Bei and Qin Jiujiu to get too close, since Ning Bei was her fiancé and what did it mean if he got tangled in rumors with another woman?

That was called disloyalty!

Lin Yueyao decided to take a gamble, so she found a few close female friends in the academy.

“Shall we spread the word that Ning Bei and Qin Jiujiu are Dao companions?”

“Don’t worry, Yueyao, since Ning Bei wronged you first, we definitely won’t let him off easy.”

“Ning Bei is such a cringe-worthy guy; he doesn’t cherish a wonderful fiancée like you and actually goes flirting with another woman.”

The several friends readily agreed.

They were born with the ability to love and could not bear to see Lin Yueyao wronged.

Thus.

A rumor about Ning Bei and Qin Jiujiu snowballed.

Achoo~

Ning Bei sneezed several times in a row.

[Detected a scheme against the host, attempting to sully the host’s reputation with Qin Jiujiu so that she keeps her distance…]

[Please take measures, host, to prevent the petty people from succeeding.]

After receiving the system’s reminder, Ning Bei curled his lips, “Clumsy tricks.”

“What did you say?”

Qin Jiujiu lifted her delicate head and blinked her long lashes curiously.

“Jiujiu, I have a bad feeling,” Ning Bei deliberately lowered his voice, “Someone saw us holding hands, and now we’re acting together; I’m afraid people outside will spread even wilder tales about us.”

“Mm?”

Qin Jiujiu’s lovely face shifted, though she had actually foreseen this.

She knew the Divine Mirror could pick up sound, so she lowered her voice as well and said, “Let them gossip if they want; relax, I won’t let you face it alone.”

“Ha~”

Facing the girl’s sweet smile and that familiar response, Ning Bei could not help laughing.

It was settled.

The scene flipped, and two disciples who had not reached the Foundation Establishment realm had already been swallowed by beasts.

Death inside the Divine Mirror offered no resurrection; it was true death!

“The Grand Preceptor has arrived.”

A silver-browed elder with a stooped back walked into the arena with a solemn expression.

After seeing the two disciples fall, he said nothing and released a powerful force from within, directly breaking the isolation of the Divine Mirror; and he transmitted his voice to the ten people in the image, “I have opened guidance for you; rendezvous at once, follow the light to find the Divine Tree together, and leave the Divine Mirror.”

In the picture, lines of light spread out under the feet of Ning Bei and the others.

This allowed them to sense each other’s position.

There was also a broader path of light pointing the ten of them toward the Divine Tree, which was also the exit.

This was to terminate the test!

Although everyone felt regret, they also agreed strongly.

The last Inferno-difficulty trial had been more than a hundred years ago, and that time the entire group had been wiped out.

Heavenly Martial Academy had lost a batch of top prodigies because of it, and it remained a sorrow to this day.

They must never repeat that mistake!

“Grand Preceptor, can they come out alive?” an Elder asked.

The elder called Grand Preceptor, named Wuyue, shook his head, “Hard to say; they have no idea how frightening Inferno difficulty is, and they didn’t stay put at the start; it was our negligence too, thinking this level would never appear again, yet the Divine Mirror actually used its remaining power to impose another Inferno-difficulty test!”

The Elders fell silent.

They knew the elder had witnessed that catastrophe more than a century ago with his own eyes.

No one understood the terror of Inferno difficulty better than Wuyue.

Soon.

Ning Bei and the others gathered together.

Sadly, only nine were still alive, as one had his head ripped off by a bird beast while hurrying to join them.

Wang Teng ran up to Ning Bei, still shaken, and said, “I admit I did speak a bit too loudly earlier.”

“So did I.”

Zhao Ming bent over, hands on knees, panting as he chimed in.

“Cut the nonsense and hurry to find the Divine Tree.”

Ning Bei had no time to say more and added, “Everyone keep an eye on the surroundings; monsters even more dangerous than before could appear at any moment.”

He had already noticed that the beasts were growing stronger, and it was not because they were venturing deeper.

It was because of time!

In other words, they were now racing against time.

They had to find the Divine Tree before an irresistible force appeared, or they would never leave this place.

Fortunately, with the Grand Preceptor’s guidance, the nine avoided wrong turns and finally saw the glowing Divine Tree after pressing forward.

“The Divine Tree…damn, it’s the Divine Tree!”

Wang Teng jumped and cheered excitedly.

“Senior Brother Wang, we still have to pluck a Sacred Fruit before the portal will open,” Zhao Ming reminded him.

“Ah!”

Just then a scream suddenly came from behind them.

A disciple had his ankle entangled by a vine.

Before Ning Bei and the others could save him, sharp thorns burst from the vine and pierced the disciple’s body in an instant.

In a blink, the man turned into a cloud of blood mist.

A collective gasp!

Seeing this, people both inside and outside the Divine Mirror drew in a sharp breath.

“Is this Core Formation realm power?!”

Sensing the aura of the demon vine, Qin Jiujiu urged anxiously, “Quick, take the Sacred Fruit; we can no longer fight the power here.”

“Right, hurry and get the Sacred Fruit.”

Wang Teng and the others came back to themselves, walked to a Sacred Fruit apiece, and placed their hands on it.

As long as one person could pick a Sacred Fruit, not only would he receive the opportunity granted by the Divine Mirror, the exit portal would also open.

But reality was not so kind.

A Sacred Fruit in Inferno difficulty was not easy to pluck, and of course the fortune within was even greater.

Wang Teng and the others exerted all their strength, yet the Sacred Fruit did not budge in the slightest.

After sensing the Sacred Fruit, Ning Bei and Qin Jiujiu were also at a loss for the moment.

Watching this scene, everyone held their breath.

“Look quickly, what’s that?”

“It’s a beast tide…damn… it’s a Core Formation realm beast tide?!”

In the next moment, the onlookers outside the image let out a chorus of exclamations.

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