After awakening, the female supporting character in the abused novel only wants to ascend to immorta

Chapter 60 Ranking Improvement
Chen Weiwei's pupils contracted as she saw the girl with azure phoenix wings unfurled in the air. Her face suddenly turned terrified: "Lin..."

But she could no longer utter the next word about life.

— Lin Zhao's bone sword had already pierced through her brow.

Lin Zhao slowly landed on the ground, handed Lu Yuan and the three first-level enlightened cultivators a perfect-quality Spirit Recovery Pill each, and then took Yao Nian from him. Looking at the wounds on Yao Nian's face, Lin Zhao channeled spiritual energy into his hands, helping her recover from her injuries.

"This..." Lu Yuan was alright, but the three first-level consecrated, perfect-quality grade three pills made his hands tremble.

The Grade Three Rejuvenating Pill can repair internal and external injuries and restore spiritual energy. A perfect-quality pill, however, leaves virtually no trace of toxins; even selling them wouldn't buy such a pill. Lin Zhao just gave them such a valuable item directly?
"Thank you all for protecting Nian Nian these past few days. Please accept this little something." Lin Zhao patted Yao Nian's head and sighed.

"It's my fault as the older sister. I only found out that Niannian was also in the freshman competition. Niannian, you've all worked so hard these past few days."

She had just emerged from the jungle the day before and saw a lot of news in the Tian Tong Mirror while on her way. It wasn't until she saw someone in the square saying that Chen Weiwei had her eye on Princess Yao Nian of Yonghui that she realized her nine-year-old cousin had also participated in the competition.

Despite rushing all the way, I still almost arrived late.

Seeing that Lu Yuan had recovered to about 70-80%, Lin Zhao handed Yao Nian to him: "Cover Nian Nian's eyes."

Lu Yuanyi did as he was told. Lin Zhao walked to Chen Weiwei's corpse, raised his bone sword, and cut off her head, throwing it to the enemy's fifth-level enlightened cultivator who had just gotten up.

The person who had been enlightened for five days was filled with fear of her after being knocked to the ground by Lin Zhao's spiritual energy.

He had just stood up when a severed head was found in his arms, and he was so frightened that he almost knelt down.

Ignoring the other party's fear, Lin Zhao wiped the blood off the bone sword. "Gather your jade tokens and give them to me. Take what I gave you and tell Jialan that from today onwards, Lin Zhao will repay his kindness to me little by little. This gift is just a token of my respect."

The five-tiered consecrator had no choice but to painstakingly collect all the jade tablets, including those from his own and Chen Weiwei's corpses, and hand them all over to Lin Zhao.

Looking at the other cultivators who were almost able to sit up, Lin Zhao slowly said, "Whether you live or die is entirely up to you. Those who want to live should swear to withdraw from the competition now, otherwise you will perish. I will not leave myself any opponents for the future."

The other cultivators exchanged glances, their faces full of wry smiles. Not wanting to offend this jinx, they obediently swore an oath.

After all, they have more than one chance to enroll, and with their talent, they have plenty of places to go even if they don't join the South China Sea, so their lives are more important.

After resolving the crisis, Lin Zhao led Yonghui and his group to take a short rest.

The next day.

Lin Zhao opened the Heavenly Mirror and discovered that his ranking had jumped from over one hundred to forty-nine without him even realizing it.

Although she is still quite far from the top five, she is no longer at the point where people would deny her current strength just because they mention her.

Moreover, many people speculate that this level of forty-nine is far from the limit of Lin Zhao's current strength.

After all, a single burst of spiritual energy could intimidate more than a dozen people at the mid-stage of the Enlightenment Realm. Even those at the seventh level of the Enlightenment Realm would need to put in some effort.

In the office of the South China Sea's high-ranking officials, the white-browed old man and the middle-aged man fell silent as they watched Lin Zhao's bone sword pierce Chen Weiwei's brow.

In fact, the killing in the jungle was not unstoppable, but it was a large-scale brawl involving thousands of people, and there weren't enough teachers to supervise. However, Chen Weiwei was actually accompanied by Teacher Nanhai.

However, even as Lin Zhao killed Chen Weiwei, the teacher didn't intervene.

"Is your little girl Hanyan in charge of this area?" the kind old man asked.

The middle-aged man, Xiao Yuantian, nodded: "She has a strong personality and can't stand people with cruel and vicious minds. If Chen Weiwei falls into her territory and no one takes action, fine. But if someone takes action to deal with her, Han Yan will absolutely not interfere."

The kind old man could easily tell that Xiao Yuantian was trying to exonerate his wife, but he didn't make things difficult for him. He chuckled and said, "However, Chen Weiwei was the one who first harbored murderous intent, so she can't blame anyone else. Little Black Duck, what do you think?"

Although Vice Dean Mo Ya, who was called Little Black Duck, didn't want to acknowledge the nickname, she smiled as she looked at the image on the spirit crystal: "It seems that Lin Zhao is to Han Yan's liking."

In truth, even if Lin Zhao hadn't intervened, Han Yan wouldn't have allowed Chen Weiwei to kill Yao Nian. Of course, since Lin Zhao did intervene, she was happy to see Chen Weiwei die. The white-browed elder raised his eyebrows: "After this competition, I will send one of my disciples to the Ten Thousand Swords Sect to give Cloud Peak a warning. We South Sea disciples are not to be bullied by them."

Lin Zhao now truly deserves the right to protect the South China Sea.

The kind old man smiled slightly and said nothing more.

……

Lin Zhao divided the jade token he obtained into seven parts, keeping two for himself and giving one of the other five parts to each of the five people, including Yonghui.

The three men, each with a different expression, accepted the item after it was consecrated, their gratitude towards Lin Zhao growing even stronger.

Lin Zhao could have kept this for herself, but she still took it out. Of course, this was mainly because they had risked their lives to protect Yao Nian, but we cannot ignore the care Lin Zhao had given them.

"What are your plans for the next month or so?" Lin Zhao asked after distributing the items.

“Our cultivation levels are not high. After being kicked out by Zhao Jixing, the other rookie king teams will definitely not want us either, so we will follow you.”

Lin Zhao thought the same thing: "Alright, at least you'll be guaranteed admission if you come with me. Zhao Jixing is a direct descendant of the Zhao family, right?"

Of the eight great families, the Ji family and the Zhao family are currently the most powerful. It was these two families who initially advocated for driving the Lin family out of the aristocratic community.

Lu Yuan nodded, "Moreover, Zhao Jixing is just as popular as Jialan, and almost a third of the newcomers in their teams have joined them."

"Heh, in that case, it's time to settle old scores and new grudges." Lin Zhao added a handful of firewood to the campfire in front of her. The firelight reflected in the girl's eyes, but it had no warmth, only a chilling and fierce light.

Those three who had just completed the first stage of consecration couldn't help but tremble as they watched.

They sensed that a ferocious beast had been awakened within the girl, and whoever awakened it would likely be torn to pieces.

"Can Sister Zhao Zhao beat that Jia Lan?" Yao Nian asked with some worry.

Lin Zhao pinched her smooth, restored face: "Fighting him isn't a big problem, but Jialan isn't the problem now; the problem lies with the others."

Although her cultivation level is only at the sixth level of the Enlightenment stage, Lin Zhao can still fight against anyone who is not at the peak of the Enlightenment stage.

Zhao Jixing and Ji Xiao, whose whereabouts are unknown, are the biggest hidden dangers.

"Isn't the princess on good terms with the Holy Son of Penglai and the Young Sect Master of the Inviting Moon Sect? Could we ask them for help?"

After a moment's thought, Lin Zhao also thought this was a good idea. Going it alone was not a good idea, and now she was not afraid of Jialan or Ji Xiao coming to cause her trouble. At most, she would only have some trouble with Zhao Jixing.

"Yes, I'll message them both right now."

Lin Zhao quickly received replies from both of them after sending the message.

"Meet me tomorrow at noon under the tallest ancient tree in the central area."

However, upon receiving this reply, Lin Zhao had a bad feeling. Neither Mingyue nor Qu Shu seemed like the type to form an alliance, yet the two of them sent the exact same message at the same time.

Either they've been captured—that's the message from the enemy—or the two are now forced to stay together.

In either case, there was an ominous atmosphere.

“Jialan…” Lin Zhao repeated the name, his eyes revealing undisguised killing intent. “You’d better pray they don’t get into trouble because of you, or I’ll take your life.”

(End of this chapter)