Everyone ascended, but I didn't get on board

Chapter 192 A Different Kind of Rule

Qiu Ci didn't expect that before she could even look for anyone, she would run into Miao Jia at the hotel the next day. Miao Jia seemed to be in a hurry to leave, and she was carrying a large thermos that she had forgotten to put in her storage bag. When she saw Qiu Ci walking towards her, she suddenly stopped.

"You..." A flash of surprise crossed her eyes, but it quickly turned into a look of fear, as if she was afraid that she would suddenly attack. "What are you doing here?" She had not forgotten that this was the person in front of her who had sent all the members of the temple exploration team to the hospital with a single punch. She had never seen such a ferocious Nascent Soul cultivator before, not even before she came here.

“This is the hotel where our exploration team is resting, why can’t I stay here?” Qiu Ci replied casually.

She paused for a moment, as if she had just remembered that the other person was also a member of the exploration team. It was just that the Federation members lived on the sixth floor while they lived on the fifth floor, which was why they hadn't run into each other.

"Is there something you need?" She subconsciously took a step back, her eyes slightly timid.

"It's nothing, I just happened to be passing by." Qiu Ci was telling the truth. She had originally planned to go out, but after seeing the other person, she changed her mind. She looked her up and down and said, "You don't look too well. Are you feeling unwell?"

"Ah! I didn't..." She was about to shake her head when Qiu Ci interrupted her first.

"How about I take a look at you?" she said, reaching out and grabbing her wrist as if to take her pulse.

Miao Jia tried to pull her hand back, but couldn't, so she gave up and said, "Thank you."

"Damn system, scan!" Seizing the rare opportunity, Qiu Ci subtly observed the other party's primordial spirit while simultaneously issuing the command in her mind.

The small ball of light flew out instantly, circled around Miao Jia once, and then flew back after a while.

[Master, no data fluctuations were detected in the system!]

Qiu Ci frowned. She couldn't find anything unusual either. The other person's primordial spirit was clean and pure, without any strange parasites. So where was the system hiding? She couldn't figure it out for a moment, so she withdrew her divine sense and successfully checked the other person's body. What she saw shocked her.

Her meridians appeared several times wider than those of a Nascent Soul cultivator, but for some unknown reason, they were currently in disarray, and she also exuded an aura of dissipated spiritual consciousness. This situation could only be due to…

"You once dropped a major realm?" It turns out she wasn't originally at the Nascent Soul stage, but rather fell from the Deity Transformation stage.

"How did you know?" Miao Jia was stunned.

"Of course I could tell." Qiu Ci released his hand, pondered for a moment, and then said in a deep voice, "Although your meridians have been initially repaired, many hidden injuries remain, and your spiritual consciousness is severely scattered. If it is not repaired in time, your cultivation level will continue to drop."

“…” Miao Jia lowered her head; she already knew all this.

"The most important thing now is to quickly repair the damage to your divine sense and clear out that special energy in your meridians in order to preserve your cultivation level. Otherwise, you may never be able to return to the Nascent Soul stage," she continued.

"Energy? What energy?" Miao Jia was stunned, looking at her blankly.

"You don't know?" Qiu Ci asked, somewhat surprised, glancing at her up and down before answering, "The spiritual energy within your body contains a powerful energy that doesn't belong to you, continuously damaging your meridians. That's why you have so many hidden injuries, preventing your scattered spiritual consciousness from repairing itself." Miao Jia looked flustered, then seemed to remember something. Her eyes lit up, as if she had finally found hope, and she said excitedly, "Miss Chu, you mean, you have a way..."

Before she could finish speaking, a familiar electronic voice suddenly rang out.

[Ding! The target is currently injured. Please go to the hospital as soon as possible to begin the romance strategy, comfort him, warm his heart, and make him see you as his only one.]
Miao Jia froze, the light in her eyes dimmed instantly, then returned to a deathly silence. She said in a low voice, "Sorry! I have something to do, I'll be going now!"

After saying that, she buried her head and prepared to leave.

"Wait a minute." Qiu Ci frowned, couldn't help but reach out to stop her, then thought for a moment and took out a talisman and stuffed it into her hand. "Here, this might help with your injuries. We're colleagues after all, so if you have any trouble, you can come to me. Any trouble is fine with me!"

Miao Jia looked up at her in shock, opened her mouth as if to say something, but the system urged her again.

[Ding! Please proceed to the hospital as soon as possible, or punishment will be activated.]
"Thank you!" she said, then hurried away with the thermos in her hand.

Qiu Ci sighed and turned to go upstairs to discuss the matter with Juan Shan.

"I checked, but I couldn't find the location of the system on her body." Qiu Ci recounted what had just happened, then added in a deep voice, "Moreover, I always feel that the system on her body seems different from any I've seen before. It seems like there's something wrong with it?"

"What does the Venerable One mean?" Juanshan was taken aback.

Qiu Ci thought for a moment before continuing, "Whether it was Di Zifan before or Feng Shanming later, they were both very dependent on the system, especially when it came to completing the tasks they were given. But this Miao Jia seems... unwilling to do these tasks?"

"Huh?" Juanshan was also somewhat surprised. "But didn't Lord Chen say that the essence of all systems is to penetrate the body? Why are you unwilling?"

"That's what I can't understand either." Although Miao Jia has the cultivation of a Nascent Soul cultivator, the physical condition she just examined is terrible, and it seems to be continuously deteriorating. This doesn't look like someone whose body has been penetrated.

“In that case, why don’t we go and see what her so-called mission is all about?” Juanshan immediately suggested.

"That's exactly what I was thinking." Qiu Ci nodded, then added after a moment's thought, "However, we'll need to add two other colleagues."

When visiting someone in the hospital, you should go together.

As she spoke, she went directly to notify the other two federal team members, Ge Zhen and He Hai. Compared to Huo Yanting and the others who were still in the hospital, the two of them were also injured, but not as seriously. With Qiu Ci's medicine, they recovered completely after just one night of recuperation.

Upon hearing that they were going to visit someone in the hospital, their eyes lit up, filled with the excitement of kicking someone when they were down. They immediately agreed to go out with them, as they certainly couldn't miss the chance to see their rival make a fool of himself.

The four of them arrived at the hospital quickly, and because they arrived so fast, they caught up with Miao Jia, who had left earlier. Qiu Ci was about to greet her when she found Miao Jia standing at the door of a ward, but she didn't push the door open and went in. Her face was as pale as paper, as if she had suffered some kind of blow.

She couldn't help but pause and stop a short distance away. The group's spiritual senses could easily hear the sounds coming from the ward, and the people inside made no attempt to hide anything, blatantly transmitting long passages of conversation into their ears.