I Can See the Lines of Fortune - Chapter 20

Chapter 20: Going To Graystone Hill Again

Li Qishui glanced at everyone. He opened his mouth, and asked, “What happened?”

No one dared to say anything.

Li Qishui had always been stern, and he was their headteacher too. Thus, whenever the students saw him, they were like mice that saw a cat.

Li Qishui looked at Mo Xiaobai. The coldness on his face subsided a little. “Xiaobai, what happened? You can speak.”

Mo Xiaobai lifted the corners of his mouth and gave a forced smile. “I suddenly achieved my breakthrough and became a Force Warrior, so my classmates were a little excited—”

“What?!”

Before Mo Xiaobai could finish his sentence, Li Qishui exclaimed with wide eyes.

He hurriedly came beside Mo Xiaobai and carefully felt his aura.

Then, his breathing got heavier and an excited smile blossomed on his stern face. “Good, good, good! This is really unexpected! Not bad!”

He raised his hand and patted Mo Xiaobai’s shoulder. The smile on his face got gentler. “There’s still a period of time before the university entrance exam starts. Continue working hard. Don’t waste your time.”

Mo Xiaobai nodded. “Yes.”

Li Qishui nodded in satisfaction. Then, he turned and returned to the podium. His expression became calm once again.

He scanned the students below, and then said, “I’m sure that all of you know about the murder case this morning, right?

“This is the second victim, and he’s a student from our school.”

Li Qishui frowned slightly before continuing, “The officials are trying their best to catch the killer. For this period of time, don’t linger around outside after school ends, and don’t go to quiet places alone. Do you understand?”

“Yes!”

The reply from the students was exceptionally loud.

Even without Li Qishui’s reminder, no one would dare to go to quiet places.

They were still young. Wasn’t it good to continue living?

***

Four days later, early in the morning, Mo Xiaobai sat cross-legged on his bed and opened his eyes slowly.

He smiled. It was an excited smile.

He finally managed to breakthrough to one force point third-rank!

However, his head started hurting when he saw that there were only around 20 pieces of crystal remnants left in his space ring.

His cultivation was going smoothly, but his crystal remnants were depleting at a fast rate too. They weren’t even able to last him a week.

Fortunately, he managed to reach the third-rank, so his battle power increased slightly. He was able to go to graystone hill to take a look.

After he finished breakfast, Mo Xiaobai told Mo You and Mu Yuzhu that he wanted to go to graystone hill for an expedition. At first, Mo You and Mu Yuzhu didn’t agree.

However, when they heard that Mo Xiaobai had already reached one force point third-rank, they were flabbergasted.

After some consideration, they still agreed with his suggestion.

Cultivation wasn’t the only thing Force Warriors needed to do. Going to the hollow realm for expeditions was a normal thing for them too.

Mo Xiaobai had already reached one force point third-rank. Along with his flawless grade force foundation, his power of the Giants, the uncommon grade Triple Slash force technique, and the full set of elite grade items, his battle power might be higher than that of an ordinary one force point fifth-grade Force Warrior.

If they didn’t allow him to go on an expedition when he had such power, they would be spoiling him too much.

In the end, Mo You agreed to help Mo Xiaobai take leave from his school so that he could go to graystone hill.

Mo Xiaobai heaved a sigh of relief in his heart.

If his parents hadn’t agreed, he would have had to go secretly.

Mo Xiaobai left the house happily as Mu Yuzhu kept reminding him about what he should be careful with.

***

At the graystone hill expedition center.

After Mo Xiaobai entered the main hall, he went to the counter to buy his ticket first.

You only needed to be a one force point Force Warrior if you wanted to enter first-rank normal grade hollow realms. But, for higher grade hollow realms, some required the Force Warriors to reach a certain rank.

The entrance ticket was quite expensive. It cost 10 first-rank crystal remnants.

Fortunately, Mo Xiaobai still had 20 crystal remnants in his storage space. If he wasn’t able to afford the entrance ticket, that would be embarrassing.

He had already come here once, so Mo Xiaobai went to the room with the light door quickly. After the ticket inspection, he stepped through the light door.

When he arrived at the adventurers’ base at the graystone hill, he didn’t stop. He jogged all the way out of the plaza, and ran out of the base.

After he left the city gates, Mo Xiaobai ran towards the east.

As compared to the western region, the magical beasts in the eastern region were more powerful. Most of them were low level or middle-level first-rank. They were suitable for Mo Xiaobai’s current strength.

Of course, his gains would be greater there.

Looking at the eastern region from the outskirts of the city, Mo Xiaobai realized that the mountains in the eastern region were steeper than the western region’s. There was more forest too.

Also, more adventurers were going to the eastern region as compared to the western region.

These adventurers were all one force point Force Warriors. Some were acting alone, just like Mo Xiaobai, while others were in groups.

When they saw Mo Xiaobai, they couldn’t help but take more looks at him.

After all, it was rare to see such a young one force point Force Warrior in Pingxi Town.

Also, this young Force Warrior actually had the guts to go to the eastern region alone. This was astonishing.

Some groups of adventurers were muttering among themselves.

Mo Xiaobai glanced at the groups that walked past him. He raised his eyebrows slightly.

He realized that there were faint gray lines of lights circling a few adventurers.

Did this mean that these adventurers were a threat to him?

Mo Xiaobai personally experienced what Mu Yuzhu reminded him of in the past.

Be careful of the adventurers in the hollow realm.

There were no laws and only an endless amount of treasures here. There would always be some people who would get consumed by greed.

Mo Xiaobai chose an empty spot to enter the forest under the evil gazes of the adventurers.

After entering the forest, he didn’t go deeper immediately. He waited at the side to make sure that no adventurers followed him. Then, he moved forward.

The trees in the forest of the eastern region were taller and bigger than the ones in the western region. The thick tree crowns blocked out almost all of the sunlight. The entire forest was dark.

Mo Xiaobai didn’t care. He ran into the forest, and kept a close watch of the lines of lights around him.

When his cultivation reached third-rank, the range of his white lines of lights reached 120 meters. His range of finding treasures got bigger.

Half an hour later, Mo Xiaobai came out of the forest. He had three bloody-sun plants as well as one four-leaved limestone plant in his space ring.

It was worth 14 crystal remnants.

He earned his ticket back.

Mo Xiaobai smiled and continued looking for treasures.

After Mo Xiaobai left, Mo You and Mu Yuzhu walked out of the forest. They looked in the direction Mo Xiaobai went, and then looked at each other.

“Did you see that? That little brat was able to find three bloody-sun plants and one limestone plant so quickly.”

Mo You was shocked.

“Xiaobai’s luck is good. He just ran here and there, and managed to find the herbs.”

Mu Yuzhu nodded in agreement.

The two of them were worried about Mo Xiaobai coming to the hollow realm alone, so they followed him secretly.

“Of course! Whose son do you think he is? His luck is like mine!”

Mu Yuzhu glanced at the proud Mo You. “Oh? How is your luck good? We have come to the hollow realm so many times, but you’ve never found any hollow treasures.”

Mo You firmly said, “I was able to find such a good wife. Is my luck not good enough?”

“…” Mu Yuzhu.

She rolled her eyes uncontrollably. “You have a glib tongue. Hurry up and follow him!”

She turned and chased after Mo Xiaobai. The edges of her lips moved up. She was smiling.