Free Web NovelChapter 1560: Chapter 1569: The Joy of Money
For a short moment, everyone’s thoughts were in turmoil.
A light layer of blue appeared in Lan Ze’s eyes, giving his handsome face the cold presence of an icy lotus on a high mountain.
His lips slowly curled up, as if he already anticipated that the person opposite him wouldn’t be able to dodge his punch.
Su Li: "What a show-off."
Faced with the approaching fist, he casually swatted it away, just like swatting away an annoying fly.
The pale and slender wrist, like a delicate willow, seemed as if it could be snapped with a gentle pinch, leaving everyone unaware of the earth-shattering power hidden within.
In fact, no one saw how Su Li did it; it was as if they just saw her wave her hand, and then... Lan Ze was sent flying, crashing against the blue protective shield.
The shield instantly developed fine cracks, but they were quickly detected and repaired by the system.
Many people still managed to capture the scene.
The noisy and shouting crowd outside suddenly became exceptionally quiet, with many people standing with their mouths open and arms frozen mid-air, as if time had paused for all of them.
Lan Ze fell down from the protective shield with a thud, fainting right away, and his hand still kept the stance of having thrown a punch.
Many people couldn’t help but think in unison: poor guy!
A protective mechanism was activated with a glow around Lan Ze’s body, and he was immediately forced offline.
Bai Shaoxian never expected to witness such a strange scene just from casually watching a Fog City match.
He couldn’t calm down, considering his spiritual power was similar to Lan Ze’s. Imagining himself in the same situation, he realized his outcome would have been identical to Lan Ze’s.
He couldn’t possibly have dodged it; even with his keen eyesight, while closely watching the arena, he couldn’t see what happened in that instant – the battle was over.
One side of the combat had fainted.
This was, without a doubt, the quickest end to a match ever.
It wouldn’t be surprising if it were a spiritual power user above S-level. The problem was the delicate and beautiful girl didn’t look like a high-level ability user at all.
Looking at the near-nonexistent spiritual waves coming from her, almost everyone would have pegged her as a low ability user.
Yet this woman, supposedly with D or E-level spiritual power, defeated an A-level spiritual ability user.
Has he gone crazy, or has this world gone insane?
Bai Shaoxian was momentarily stunned, and quickly clicked on the personal information of the opponent to inquire, only to find all her information concealed, revealing only that she was from a remote and barren star and had the surname Su.
As for her spiritual power and physical level, it was all unknown.
But this didn’t deter Bai Shaoxian. There’s always a small group of people in the world with privileges that others don’t have.
Just as Bai Shaoxian intended to use family authority to investigate the woman who piqued his curiosity, he suddenly found himself forcibly logged out of the Star Network as his vision blacked out.
"Damn it, who cut off my Star Network?" Bai Shaoxian angrily ripped off the connectors on his temples.
"It was your brother," General Bai stood with arms crossed, coldly watching his troublesome younger brother.
Hearing the familiar voice like a nightmare, Bai Shaoxian instinctively forced a pained smile and appeased, "Slip of the tongue, slip of the tongue, big brother, why did you come to my room?"
"If I didn’t come, I wouldn’t know this is how you perceive me."
Bai Shaoxian: "How could it be, how could it be?"
His brother was great in all ways but was overly petty.
Luckily, this time it seemed like the other party wasn’t planning to pursue the matter further, and quickly glossed over it with his coaxing voice.
General Bai: "Just stay at the academy for now, don’t go anywhere."
Bai Shaoxian’s eyes shifted, and he whispered, "Did something major happen?"
General Bai’s expression suddenly darkened, "Some things aren’t for you to concern yourself with."
However, recalling Bai Shaoxian’s restless nature, afraid he might recklessly cause trouble, he softened his tone and revealed a bit, "The Elder Council detected that the pollution source is getting closer to our inhabited star, and recently many spiritual power polluters appeared in the border areas."
"Reportedly, the pollution source has already expanded to near Shuimu Star, and the Elder Council is currently voting on whether to evacuate the citizens of that Star Domain or abandon them."
Bai Shaoxian was stunned, unable to believe the current situation had deteriorated to this extent.
The Bai Family had a military heritage for generations, and even as a student, Bai Shaoxian knew more insider truths than regular people.
For instance, the pollution source that posed a significant threat to the interstellar populace was never contained. Even until now, the members of the Elder Council haven’t figured out what poses a threat to them.
Seeing Bai Shaoxian’s ashen face, General Bai suddenly realized he might have revealed too much inadvertently, regained his composure, and reminded him again, "Don’t run around and don’t disclose this information to anyone."
After his brother left in a daze, Bai Shaoxian suddenly snapped out of it and quickly scrolled through the rookie ranking board.
Sure enough, Lan Ze’s name had been pushed down, and Su**’s ranking skyrocketed to the tenth place, as if flying a Mecha.
This meant that based on the main brain’s judgment, her actual ability could place her in the top ten of the rookie rankings.
Bai Shaoxian gasped and clicked open her sparse information panel once more.
When he was on the Star Network before, he thought he heard her say that they all came from the remote Shuimu Star.
That woman who stood up for them also came... from Shuimu Star?
For quite a few years, the rookie ranking on the Star Network hadn’t seen significant changes. The familiar faces who made the list were ones everyone knew well, and any dark horse usually came from the top-notch institutions, Central Academy or Military Political Academy.
But that day, almost everyone who followed the rookie rankings received a notification from the main brain: Congratulations to Su** for entering the top ten of the rookie ranking.
??
What Su? Many people immediately started digging, wondering if there were any impressive people with the surname Su on Central Star.
Meanwhile, the Su Family, which had produced a promising member Su Lin, suddenly garnered unprecedented attention from all sides.
The top ten in the rookie rankings generally meant the spiritual power surpassing S-level.
A genius emerging unseen by everyone, how could they not become the center of attention.
Yet, when these interested people tried to probe into Su**’s information, without exception, they all received a warning from the main brain’s highest executor, T.
Amidst all this undercurrent turmoil, Su Li was completely unaware.
She swiftly collected her spoils of war, then left quickly, in one go.
With a hefty sum in her possession, she just wanted to go back, count it, and feel the joy of wealth.
