Chapter 11

“Is this information about Su Lanjin?”

In an office, everyone was staring at the investigation report prepared by their subordinate, stunned: “Are you sure there’s no mistake?”

Seemingly intimidated by the leader’s authority, the subordinate nodded tremblingly and said, “It is indeed the information on Su Lanjin.”

“Alright, you may leave.”

The man waved his hand, and the subordinate immediately turned and hurried away. Meanwhile, other factions frowned deeply after seeing Su Lanjin’s information.

“This… can’t be possible, right?”

Someone was the first to raise doubts, pointing to the rank listed on the report: “Su Lanjin is C rank? I don’t believe it, how could that be?”

“Yeah, how is that possible? A C rank can use spiritual energy to draw talismans?”

“A C rank can take over and redraw another formation master’s formation?”

“A C rank can kill all the sinister demons?”

“A C rank can kill all the sinister demons deep in the underground abyss without running out of spiritual energy?”

“…”

Everyone was speechless but their expressions looked unpleasant.

“Could this information have been deliberately leaked from the selection competition? Otherwise, why wasn’t she found earlier, but only now at this moment?”

“Exactly, it must be that. A C rank’s information wouldn’t be worth investigating for so long, there’s definitely something fishy about it.”

Everyone present nodded repeatedly in response to these words.

“Hmph, there must be people from the military in the selection competition, otherwise how could they keep Su Lanjin’s information hidden? And what’s more, a trash planet? Hah, they didn’t even bother to make up a decent planet. With Su Lanjin’s skills, how could she be from a trash planet? It’s a joke.”

“Who doesn’t know that people from trash planets barely survive, how could they come up with a method to kill sinister demons on their own? This has to be a trick by those people.”

“If Su Lanjin was from outside, I might believe it a little. But now saying she’s from a trash planet? The Federation is clearly looking down on us!”

Slap! The table was slammed heavily, and everyone around instantly fell silent.

Sitting in the grand chair, Lin Yuxiu rubbed his wrist and snorted coldly:

“It’s just the military being petty as usual, always liking to pull out those poor people or those from small planets, saying it’s all about effort after birth. Isn’t this just a disguised way to push our noble families to improve? Ridiculous.”

“Our noble families are no worse than those filthy things. Those people without status still want to climb over us.”

“If you ask me, we should have agreed to the lord long ago—we don’t need to suffer this crap under the Federation!”

“Hah, I never wanted to do it anyway!”

Lin Yuxiu glanced coldly at the few still talking. His face was tense, his eyes calm, but he took their words to heart.

“The Federation…”

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The new student selection competition live stream room.

“Why can’t the emergency spray heal skin corroded by acid rain?!”

A voice of complaint echoed across the wilderness, followed immediately by a series of loud noisy complaints.

The reason was clear: after everyone realized the burning stinging pain on their skin wouldn’t go away, they cursed the person in charge for picking such a terrible place to make them suffer like this.

All the contestants, thanks to Su Lanjin’s rescue, temporarily took shelter behind the enlarged spiritual energy sword. However, the previous corrosion still made them itch and scratch, so they took out their scarce emergency sprays. Yet, the areas that should have been healed still felt severely burned.

“How could this happen?”

“Does that mean we have to withdraw from the competition?”

The contestants complained loudly, while also weighing in their minds whether to quit.

After all, acid rain corrosion has a certain emergency treatment window—if that time is exceeded, it could cause scarring or skin problems. No one wanted to end up with artificial skin.

A few contestants, crying, prepared to withdraw. They were all from small planets, and if their bodily damage couldn’t be repaired, their future fate might be even worse than now.

“There seems to be sinister energy inside.”

As the people around gasped, Jian Xiangxue was already examining the wounds. According to the Federation’s database, acid rain couldn’t be treated only if there was one reason—it wasn’t acid rain.

“It’s sinister energy rain.”

Su Lanjin’s expression turned slightly cold. She parted her lips lightly and said, “It contains sinister energy inside, and the wounds caused by the corrosion are different from those caused by fighting sinister demons.”

As for why the emergency spray couldn’t heal it, Su Lanjin herself did not know.

“Sinister energy rain? What is sinister energy rain?”

“Sinister energy like that from the sinister demons? How could it turn into rain?”

Right after Su Lanjin finished speaking, voices of objection rose around her. Su Lanjin wasn’t annoyed. After glancing at them, she continued:

“If it were acid rain, it would only corrode your skin, but there wouldn’t be other symptoms inside. The emergency spray you have would be able to treat it.”

“You can take a close look at the corroded wounds—if you can feel faint sinister energy inside, that means the rain is polluted by sinister energy. This is caused by sinister demons dying and reaching a certain level of contamination, creating sinister energy rain.”

Hearing this, Song Juncai immediately closed his eyes and tried to sense the sinister energy in his wounds—and he really did find it.

“There really is sinister energy. We need to deal with it quickly, or else…”

Affected by sinister energy, the mild effect is spiritual energy blockage, the severe can cause physical decay, and the worst cases get marked by sinister demons, with a high chance of becoming a vessel—ultimately facing death.

Those standing here are either the pride of the capital star, geniuses raised with abundant resources since childhood, or the best of the small planets. After finally reaching the adult selection competition, how could they just give up like this?

The more everyone thought about it, the more unpleasant it felt.

“Boss, you definitely have a way, right?”

Song Juncai suppressed his wild thoughts and opened his eyes slightly, looking at Su Lanjin with hope.

“Use your own spiritual energy to force the sinister energy out, just like when killing or restraining… the sinister demons.”

Su Lanjin seemed thoughtful. Realizing they could only restrain the sinister demons, she stepped forward, clasped her hands together, and the spiritual energy on her hands twisted and shifted, golden strands of light flowing into Song Juncai’s wrist.

Not only the contestants present were intently watching Song Juncai’s wrist, but so were the viewers.

【Hiss, so tense. So this really is sinister energy rain, not acid rain? And using spiritual energy to force out sinister energy—I understand the words, but put together I have no clue how to do it?】

【Shut up, look carefully.】

All eyes focused on Song Juncai’s wrist. A few seconds later, his eyes suddenly widened. The pain gradually faded, and the wound shifted from a burnt, corroded sensation to a tingling numbness, like scabbed skin that made you want to scratch it.

“Boss, is it done like this?”

“Yeah, that’s it.”

Su Lanjin nodded lightly. “Don’t you all have sinister energy detectors? Use those to check the sinister energy level first, then use the method I taught to expel the sinister energy.”

“Sinister energy detectors? Who brings that to a selection competition? Plus, the emergency kit’s space is already too tight…”

Beep, “0% sinister energy value.”

The contestant who was still speaking immediately shut up, looking embarrassed and annoyed at the others. Meanwhile, the other contestants were shocked by the sinister energy reading just announced.

【!!!】

【Wait, what if it was 0% sinister energy before as well?】

As the comments just appeared, a nearby contestant stubbornly placed their wound under Song Juncai’s detector.

Beep, “Sinister energy value 99%, sinister energy value 99%, please restrain quickly, please restrain quickly!”

“……”

【……】

【I’m convinced…】

【So it really isn’t acid rain? It actually is some kind of sinister energy rain?】

【Suddenly I feel like Su Lanjin knows a lot. We used to say she didn’t understand anything, but now it turns out the clown is me?】

【Thinking carefully, it’s terrifying—how does Su Lanjin know this is sinister energy rain? According to the records, it should be acid rain.】

【But no matter what, we finally survived this sinister energy rain.】

【…Did you forget someone? Several contestants went into the underground abyss.】

A bright red comment appeared, and everyone suddenly realized it. They quickly pulled up a split screen, just in time to see Bian Duhen and his group frantically fleeing.