CHAPTER 37: CHAPTER 36: UNDER ATTACK (PART 3)

"Thanks, I’ll repay you later." Fifty thousand star coins, only Young Master Tang Dou can afford to use intermediate Energy Stones to restore his Primordial Spirit.

Tang Dou rolled his eyes and grumbled, "Hmph, who wants you to repay me? Save the money for buying supplements, you’re as skinny as a stick..."

Li Xing secretly pocketed the Energy Stone, saving it for Hui Hui to feast on. She quickly adjusted her breath, making her complexion rosy as if she had absorbed the energy.

Seeing her complexion improve, Tang Dou’s tense brow slowly relaxed. He leaned against the wall to sit down, exhausted.

"The situation was so urgent just now. If I didn’t fight, I wouldn’t have survived. Who cares about a future when your life is at stake?" Li Xing showed everyone a carefree smile and said, "Gold shines wherever it is. Even in an ordinary military school, I can become a general."

Tang Dou really wanted to say "daydreaming," but deep down, he felt this person always acts out of the ordinary. It seemed as if whatever she aimed for, she could achieve, maybe she really can. After all, someone who transformed from a physical wreck to a violent top student in one semester is definitely abnormal. An abnormal person with dreams, no one can stop.

Li Xing sat up and took out jerky from her Spiritual Pendant, eating it heartily, as the recent battle had drained her energy and she was hungry again.

She had many life principles, one of the most important being never to go hungry.

"Ma Le, how many casualties do we have?"

"Replying to Sister Xing, 179 are injured in total, all have been given basic bandages and hemostatic medication."

Ma Le, a Level 5 Wood Element Spirit, knew he lacked the intellect and intuition to be a Healing Master, so he chose to become a martial master. Despite poor grades, he was well-liked.

According to Li Xing’s strategy allocation, the logistics team needed to be filled in, so Ma Le took the initiative to lead a group of students with similar grades to take on the task of assisting the injured.

"Have the teachers replied? When will they arrive?"

Everyone looked at each other, suddenly realizing a serious issue: everyone was so busy earlier that no one remembered to send a signal to the teachers!

"Oh my goodness, what is this!"

Ma Le was almost brought to tears by his people’s foolishness, forgetting such an important task!

In the shelter now, they couldn’t fire signal flares. They could only use smart devices to communicate. But oddly, messages kept showing "sending," as if the network was disrupted.

Li Xing: "Stop trying; the Wolf-headed Bat’s ultrasound interferes with the signal. We can only wait for the teachers to notice the abnormality and come by themselves."

"Bang!" "Bang bang!"

After such a setback, the outside Wolf-headed Bats were furious. Their eyes turned red, persistently attacking the shelter with Sound Wave Cannons without any signs of dispersing.

Under continuous assault, the shelter developed web-like cracks, dust falling down, and the students’ hearts gradually sinking as they waited.

Half an hour passed yet no assistance had arrived. Even though Tang Dou led ongoing repairs inside, the shelter’s cracks had multiplied and appeared close to collapse.

"We can’t wait any longer."

Since the teachers hadn’t come yet, the only possibility was that they encountered similar trouble. Now, they could only save themselves.

Li Xing devised a plan but needed cooperation.

Taking out the Shennong Cauldron, Li Xing asked Tang Dou, "Can you open a hole on the top precisely the same size as this?"

Tang Dou looked at the strange black cauldron with a round mouth and a big belly, nodding: "I can, but... why do you carry a cauldron with you?"

"It’s not a cauldron; it’s called a tripod!"

"What’s a tripod?"

"An ancient cooking... pot."

"So tell me again, why do you carry an ancient pot with you?"

"To cook, can’t I?"

Tang Dou resigned, "You’re indeed abnormal!"

Li Xing glared at him, took out the Snake-tailed Tiger Beast’s corpse, cut open its blood vessels, and filled the cauldron halfway with blood, explaining the plan to Tang Dou. Among everyone now, only Tang Dou still had the strength to cooperate with her.

"Soon, I’ll throw the cauldron out. The blood-thirsty Wolf-headed Bats will surely scramble into the cauldron as they smell the blood. Once the cauldron lands, it’s bound to trap several. You quickly seal the hole, and I’ll handle the Wolf-headed Bats caught in the cauldron, alright?"

However many we can kill is fine, and it buys the wobbly shelter more time.

"Alright!"

The shelter’s situation gave no time to delay. Tang Dou made a hole according to the cauldron’s size. Li Xing exerted force with both arms and swiftly tossed the Shennong Cauldron out.

As Li Xing predicted, the blood-smelling Wolf-headed Bats rushed into the cauldron, even ignoring the large hole on the shelter.

The Shennong Cauldron, having recognized its owner, was controlled by Li Xing’s Divine Sense outside the shelter, suspended in mid-air. Once enough Wolf-headed Bats entered, the cauldron body flipped upside down, landing back in the shelter.

Tang Dou hurriedly sealed the hole. No one noticed the Shennong Cauldron’s strange hovering, thinking Li Xing threw it high hence the late descent.

Li Xing covered the lid with one hand, gripped the soot of the cauldron bottom with another, uprighted it on the ground, and started refining with the Three-thousand Lotus Technique.

The temperature inside the cauldron rapidly rose, initially with scattered crashing sounds, only to swiftly return to silence.

After a few minutes, Li Xing opened the cauldron lid, quietly pocketing over a dozen Crystal Stones into her Spiritual Pendant under the cover of smoke. The Shennong Cauldron had a carved Spatial Array, making its real capacity much larger than it appeared.

"What happened to the Wolf-headed Bats?" Ma Le was stunned, thinking it was a magic trick.

"Burned to ash."

To prove she wasn’t lying, Li Xing flipped the Shennong Cauldron over and patted its belly, letting grayish-white residue—reminiscent of ashes—fall to the ground.

"Sister Xing, no, Goddess, please accept my knees!"

"Woohoo, long live Sister Xing!"

Ignoring the jumping and shouting guys, Li Xing filled another half cauldron of Beast Blood, calling out:

"Dou Er! Continue!"

Thus, after repeated bait and refining, the Wolf-headed Bats outside the shelter dwindled, while the number of Crystal Stones in Li Xing’s Spiritual Pendant accumulated to eighty-six.

Li Xing secretly rejoiced: Oh my god, middle-level Crystal Stones—one can exchange for thirty low-level Crystal Stones—riches truly come from taking risks!

Just then, a call rang outside, followed by the sound of Elemental Power explosions—rescue finally arrived.

The teachers’ combat skills and Primordial Spirit reserves far surpassed those of the novices like them, swiftly exterminating the remaining Wolf-headed Bats.

Seeing the students file out of the shelter, none missing, Yang Zhou almost teared up.

As Li Xing predicted, the teachers encountered a larger and higher-level Wolf-headed Bat group while en route to the gathering site.

Seeing another group heading towards the students, Yang Zhou felt anxious but couldn’t send reinforcements to help.

After struggling out of their entrapment, Yang Zhou led the group to the gathering point with haste.

Initially ready for the worst, prepared to collect bodies, they found the youngsters used tactics to support each other through the initial danger and later hid in the shelter, wearing out numerous Wolf-headed Bats.

Due to the significant exam mishap, the assessment phase was paused. After briefly inquiring about the incident, Yang Zhou let the students go home to rest, while the injured were sent to the hospital for treatment. As for the deceased Wolf-headed Bat bodies, the school collected them for disposal.

That night, Li Yi returned with the latest news: the Wolf-headed Bat attack incident was technically collateral damage.