"Ah Chen, could you all go back in after dinner to search for sothing? Focus primarily on those Spirit Quality Generators. If I’m right, they might be the key to breaking through this stage. Wait a mont, Cotton, try and see if you can use the War Fog to interfere with its perception."
Dou Yanlan looked at Qi Chen with an apologetic expression and then, rembering sothing, addressed Cotton. After a ow, Cotton looked at Dou Yanlan in confusion and nodded. Although it didn’t fully understand what Dou Yanlan wanted, it didn’t oppose her arrangents unless it was extrely dangerous.
"Are you planning on venturing alone into that dense forest?"
Leaping down from the A Mu Tree Crown, Feng Yuan reverted to his original form and spoke to Dou Yanlan. Qi Chen was startled and looked at Dou Yanlan with concern. With a hint of helplessness, Dou Yanlan said,
"There are certain things I need to try myself. After all, if anything goes wrong, we might not be able to get the maximum score this ti."
"Maximum score?!"
Everyone looked at Dou Yanlan in surprise. She scratched her chin, looking thoughtfully at the dense forest and said,
"Exactly. From Ah Chen and their exploration, we understand that the leader or the boss guarding the checkpoint in this area is not blocking a crucial exit. Moreover, its aggressiveness isn’t high. This suggests that this stage likely has two solutions."
As she spoke, Dou Yanlan turned with sharp eyes scanning everyone, solemnly saying,
"The first one, failing to correctly solve the vine monster, ans we can only bypass this stage from the edges. It seems we’ve only lost one docunt, but we have no idea whether that docunt has special uses. Perhaps, like in a ga, certain conditions need to be t to trigger so hidden true storyline?"
After a pause, waiting for everyone to settle their emotions, Dou Yanlan turned back to look at the forest and said,
"The second way is to find a way to take down that boss. Even destroying the Spirit Quality Generators alone might not be effective because... since it’s not a required content to pass, why not make it a bit more challenging?"
"You an, dealing with this thing will be quite an effort?"
Zhang Cheng looked at Dou Yanlan and asked. The others also turned their gaze to Dou Yanlan. Supporting her chin with one hand, after thinking for a mont, Dou Yanlan said,
"At the mont, this seems very likely, unless Feng Yuan gets involved, but doing so..."
"It’s not very aningful... It’s not much different from cheating."
Zhang Cheng said with a bitter smile. Although one or two students were not convinced, seeing others share the sa thought, they didn’t speak up. After all, cheating to achieve good results isn’t sothing easily accepted, especially since such achievents hold little real value.
Once out of the academy, no one cares about your past grades; they only care about your current abilities. And within the academy, because the resource crisis has been temporarily resolved, the demand for credits isn’t as urgent as before. At this point, relying on Feng Yuan to cheat for good grades clearly isn’t necessary.
More importantly, they also don’t believe they are inferior. Dou Yanlan’s words implied they could solve this on their own without relying on Feng Yuan.
"So, what do you all think?"
Dou Yanlan asked the group. If they truly wanted to be lazy and avoid the challenge, it wasn’t impossible. While she was curious about what was hidden, that could wait until the trial ended and be asked to the teacher.
The group discussed for a while but couldn’t make up their minds. Zhang Cheng sighed and stepped up to say,
"Everyone calm down for a mont and listen to ..."
With Zhang Cheng’s reminder, the group realized that even if they attempted it, there was not much to lose. Although the sky still appeared azure, the ti on their phones accurately showed 6 PM. However, since the sky showed no day-night changes, it created an illusion.
"Wait, there’s no night here? What would happen if we used the Starnight Ultimate Move?"
Recalling sothing, Wu Dingwu asked curiously. Dou Yanlan and the others stroked their chins and shook their heads after thinking for a while. They didn’t know what might happen, but for safety reasons, such attempts had to wait until after dinner.
Taking turns guarding the temporary frontline and finishing dinner, everyone rested for a while, gazing silently at the scorched land.
They didn’t know if the vines had given up on this area since they hadn’t attacked in a long ti. If that’s the case, avoiding the challenge might indeed be a viable option. However, they speculated that perfectly conquering this area might be difficult.
Just like exam questions designed to differentiate between average students and top students, this optional challenge might be testing the extre limits of their entire grade’s capabilities, and they belong to Class 1.
"It might not be as difficult as imagined, as our academy doesn’t pursue power alone. The gap between us and Class 1 isn’t irreconcilably vast,"
Seeing that many seed hesitant, Liu Ziwen spoke up. This batch of students wasn’t the sa as previous ones; even without Feng Yuan, they had fought fiercely with Class 1 before.
It was because their strengths were close and they fought so fiercely early on that the outdoor practice classes were arranged separately. Due to the pre-planned titable, they still attended classes at the sa tis.
In overall strength, they were quite close. This trial was set for entire classes to attempt, aning theoretically they had the ability to overco the challenge. Otherwise, what was the point of the academy setting an impossible challenge?
An intimidation tactic? Given that the academic year had started a while ago, if that was the plan, they’d find a way to sideline Feng Yuan. Trying to intimidate Feng Yuan? That’s laughable. If he doesn’t act, a bunch of Divine Beasts would overwhelm anything exposed to his attacks.
When absolute power supremacy occurs, so-called chanisms beco jokes. As for hidden things capable of self-destruction? Agunas’s power isn’t for show. Before the Power of Ti, apart from specific chanisms, who can ensure secrecy?
But using such power in a trial? Is the academy crazy or are the chaperones going mad?
Liu Ziwen’s words restored confidence to many, and recalling the incident of beating Class 1, they felt oddly emboldened again. Since they could handle the seemingly unbeatable Class 1, this situation also didn’t seem too daunting.
"Let’s not act rashly; I’ll go investigate first. You rest here and wait for my return."
After so thought, Dou Yanlan decided. With the Starnight Ultimate Move, who knew what changes might occur? After a day’s battle, she knew the group was fatigued, and without rest, their combat capability might decline, making the task harder. Keeping combat power was a concern, and she also worried the Starnight Ultimate Move would obscure chanism clues.
She felt the Spirit Quality Generator wasn’t that simple.
Dou Yanlan’s suggestion was approved by everyone. So who considered themselves capable inquired if she needed company, as everyone knew about her situation. Her only Beast Tar companion, Cotton, wasn’t a combat-specialized Beast, and in confrontations with the vines, support-type Beasts held no advantage.
However, Dou Yanlan refused the offer. After Cotton’s attempts, she found that War Fog could indeed disrupt the vines’ perception. Ultimately, Qi Chen and their scout team opened the way and checked for dangers for Dou Yanlan, while she used the opportunity to gather as much information about the dense forest as possible.
Watching Qi Chen and their team disappear into the fog, Feng Yuan shifted back into Little Husky form and lay atop the A Mu Tree Crown. Xiao Ji joined the fray again. Although other flying Spirit Beasts tried to assist Xiao Ji, they didn’t possess Xiao Ji’s additional resistance to the Data Domain’s power.
After being knocked back several tis, only Xiao Ji remained in the sky, attracting the vines’ attention from ti to ti. Feng Yuan noticed Xiao Ji seed to have started slowing down quite a bit; perhaps it could grasp the skill of low-altitude flight during this opportunity?
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