Everyone ascended, but I didn't get on board

Chapter 148: Eradicate the Insect System

What exactly is going on with the system?

Di Zifan was clearly startled by the voice in his mind and began to ask anxiously. You see, he had been bound to the system for so long and had never seen such strange luck. Ordinary people's luck was at most a few hundred or a thousand, and even Feng Ting, the system-certified woman of luck, only had tens of thousands of luck.

But what did he just hear? Hundreds of millions, even billions of fortunes! How could that not excite him? But what about that zero at the end? Could it really be a system error?

He wanted to ask for clarification, but it was clear that the system he was using did not have a question-and-answer function, and no matter how he asked, there was no response.

However, his conflicted expression was clearly seen by the other pavilion masters, which only deepened their suspicions. Di Zifan, however, thought he had concealed his true feelings well. Recalling the incident with the black dragon, he immediately stood up and bowed to the crowd.

"This student greets the Dean and all the Pavilion Masters."

Dean Yu frowned. To be honest, he didn't particularly like students with ulterior motives. The academy was a place for cultivation and learning, not a place for people to be preoccupied with personal gain. So he didn't bother with playing games with him and asked directly, "Now that you're awake, tell us what you know about the black dragon in the Sword Enlightenment Pool that injured people."

Di Zifan's eyes flickered. Unaware that he had been exposed, he thought the dean was going to reward him for his previous act of saving people. A hint of smugness appeared on his face. "Reporting to the dean, I only did what I should do. I couldn't bear to see that black dragon suddenly attack and injure my fellow disciples, so I took action to stop it."

His righteous demeanor made everyone frown, but the Valley Master, who was still petting the little white dragon, couldn't help but sneer, "Oh? So, we should reward you for risking your life to injure the demon beast and save those students?"

"You flatter me, Master. This is what I should do." He was overjoyed and even began to wonder if the Masters had brought him here for treatment because they intended to take him as their disciple.

Everyone was speechless, but Pavilion Master Gu simply snorted coldly, "Hmph! Then how did you manage to bypass the restrictions in my backyard and lure the black dragon to the Sword Enlightenment Pool?"

"What?" Di Zifan realized something was wrong, looked up at the solemn-looking pavilion masters, and his heart skipped a beat. Undeterred, he asked, "Pavilion Masters, what does this mean?"

"How come you injured my spirit beast but dare not say why?" Pavilion Master Gu said coldly.

Di Zifan's face paled, but he still feigned innocence and said, "I...I don't know what the Pavilion Master is talking about? What restriction? Does the Pavilion Master think that the black dragon's appearance in the Sword Enlightenment Pool was my doing?"

"Hmph, isn't that right?"

Di Zifan panicked for a moment, but quickly calmed down. Impossible, they couldn't have discovered what the system had done. So he immediately put on a humiliated expression, looking like he had been wronged, and said, "Even if you are the Pavilion Master, you can't slander someone's name for no reason. My heart is as clear as the sun and moon, and I would never do such a thing. Besides, I am just a sword cultivator, and I don't have any beast-taming skills. How could I possibly control a fifth-tier demon beast?"

"I also want to know that." Dean Yu said in a deep voice. Especially after seeing the appearance of his primordial spirit, he began to doubt whether the person in front of him was still a person. Perhaps he had long been parasitized by some demon and turned into a puppet. "How did you transform the spirit beast into a demon beast? And what kind of poison did you give your fellow disciples that they could not see anything wrong with even a Nascent Soul cultivator?"

"What?!" How could they know! Di Zifan was truly shocked. His face turned pale instantly, and his expression became somewhat flustered. "I... I didn't know. The Dean and the Pavilion Master are deliberately trying to frame me. I have nothing to say, but I will never admit to doing something I didn't do."

"Aren't you going to tell the truth?" Seeing that he still looked innocent, the faces of the group darkened. Although they were all powerful beings above the Integration Realm, they had been in the academy for many years, and their first reaction when facing students was still to educate them rather than to use methods to interrogate them.

Di Zifan, however, thought that they were only guessing and had not confirmed that he had done it. So he straightened his body and said with even more righteous indignation, "If you really suspect that I, Di, have evil intentions, please produce evidence. If you can prove these crimes, I will accept whatever punishment you give me."

"..." Everyone was even more speechless. Was this guy an idiot? With so many Nascent Soul and Mahayana cultivators here, any one of them could search him thoroughly. What evidence did he need?
"I'm curious..." Qiu Ci, who had been standing there for a while, finally couldn't help but look him up and down and said, "Whose power are you relying on to be so self-righteous?" "What."

"Is it the system within you?"

"How could you..." Di Zifan's face turned completely pale this time, and he looked at her in disbelief.

"How would I know you have a system?" Qiu Ci was too lazy to argue with him and went straight to the point, "You've made it so obvious, it's hard for me not to notice, and besides..."

She took two steps forward, stopped in front of him, and said, word by word.

"Your system's voice is disturbing me!"

"..."

Qiu Ci didn't waste words with him. Instead, she made a hand seal and slapped it on the top of his head, channeling her spiritual power to envelop the spider-like insect on his primordial spirit. Since he wouldn't talk, she would just ask the system!

"Aaaaaah~!!!!" Di Zifan let out a miserable scream instantly. The pain of his primordial spirit being torn apart was beyond what a Nascent Soul cultivator like him could endure, and he immediately tried to resist.

"Immobilization spell." Dean Yu, who was standing to the side, reacted the fastest. He saw what Qiu Ci was trying to do and immediately immobilized her.

Qiu Ci didn't stop; instead, she sped up the process of pulling out the insects, while commanding in her mind, "Damn system, get to work!"

[Alright, Master! The binding of the primordial spirit is being severed, current progress: 0%...]

The small ball of light instantly transformed into strands of golden threads, which, like scalpels, converged at the point where the insect and the other's primordial spirit met. Then, they cut it apart little by little, pulling out the claws embedded in the primordial spirit. With each part cut off, Qiu Ci immediately used spiritual energy to isolate the two, preventing them from having the chance to reconnect.

This was the first time Qiu Ci had done such delicate work, and it took her a full half hour to completely separate the two. Di Zifan had already fainted again from the pain.

She forcibly pulled the entire insect out of the other party's primordial spirit, and the so-called system, the moment its primordial spirit was separated, also began to materialize. In less than half a moment, an eight-legged insect with a silver-gray body appeared in front of everyone.

"What...what exactly is this thing?" The dean and the pavilion masters were all stunned, staring at the object enveloped in layers of spiritual energy, which was beyond their comprehension. Crucially, the crystal on the insect's back was still flashing. "It's actually alive! Young friend Chu..."

"I can't be sure yet," Qiu Ci replied seriously. "To be specific, we need to take it back to Lan Academy and let Master study it."

“That’s right, the ancestor is very knowledgeable and only he could see through it.” The dean nodded repeatedly, then added worriedly, “However, this thing can reside in the primordial spirit, making it extremely difficult to detect. What if the other students also…”

"Probably not!" Qiu Ci shook her head. Things from Blue Star aren't that common. "As for this item... I'll tell you all about it when I get back."

Without delay, she picked up the insect and went straight back to the Blue Courtyard.