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Chapter 347 "Skillful Hands Taking Things"

“Hmph…Hmph~Hmph…”

Miao Kaijie was wandering in the woods with a silk thread hanging on his neck, humming a tuneless song. It was unclear whether he was humming casually or the rhythm was too bad, and it was impossible to make out what he was humming.

The third one.

Miao Kaijie thought carelessly. He didn't know if it was because those academies didn't have any good talents or if he was just too lucky, but the three people he met were all in the lower to middle level of the Profound Realm and posed no threat to him at all.

"Ok?"

He didn't know if God heard his thoughts, but a thorn as thin as a spider silk passed by his ear. If Miao Kaijie hadn't tilted his head at the critical moment, he would have been hit.

Miao Kaijie quickly reeled in the line and quickly moved away from the direction where the flying spikes came from. He dodged five times in a row and finally landed on the crown of a tall tree. The answer from his previous listening was revealed. The silk threads came out from between his five fingers and flew into the forest. With a sudden force, he actually tore a tree in half.

Miao Kaijie's smile remained, but his eyes grew sharper as he stared fixedly in that direction, his entire body tense. Invisible threads of silk quietly descended around him, intertwining at both ends and gradually tightening, like scattered spider silk, only faintly discernible in the sun.

However, the sunlight is now dim, and the dense threads in the forest are completely invisible, just like a moth cannot see the silk quietly dropped by spiders around its body.

"Which girl dropped her embroidery needle while in a hurry? That was a close call." Miao Kaijie's eyebrows curved, but his heart sank. He did not get any information from the dense silk threads around him.

The silk thread connected to his senses. The wind blew the leaves, the insects chirped, and the birds sing, any sound would produce a slight vibration. He relied on the vibration transmitted by the silk thread to sense the surrounding environment. However, even though he had placed the silk thread within two miles of his body, he still could not sense where the attack just now came from.

Miao Kaijie's eyes narrowed, and he jerked back, dodging a scorpion that was falling from above. The scorpion landed on the tree trunk, its pincers nipping in the air twice. As Miao Kaijie lowered his head to observe, its stinger suddenly erected, and a poisonous stinger shot out, heading straight for his eye.

Just as the poison needle was about to pierce the eyeball, a nearly invisible thread pierced through the needle, cutting it in two. The poison needle quickly dissipated into the air, and the thread began to rot rapidly where it had touched the needle, transforming into poisonous vapor that evaporated into the air before it even hit the ground.

Miao Kaijie's figure flashed, landing on the web his own silk threads had woven in the air. The threads grew wildly, covering an area of ten miles in the blink of an eye. Even a mouse, let alone a human, would touch the threads with the slightest movement.

Miao Kaijie noticed corrosion somewhere, and almost at the same moment, he disappeared from the spot - not running away, but approaching that direction at the fastest speed.

Passing through layers of green leaves, the culprit finally appeared before his eyes——

"Oh, it turns out she's not a girl."

Miao Kaijie stopped on a branch behind the attacker, crouched down, and looked at him with a half-smile: "Look at you, we are both men, why are you throwing scorpions to scare me?"

Miao Kaijie's eyes flickered coldly, but he still smiled nonsensically: "But I am indeed a little scared. Oh, it really scared me to death."

As Miao Kaijie spoke, he patted his chest tenderly like a woman, seeming to be quite frightened.

Lan Huaiqing: ...

If he hadn't seen him acting normal at the training ground before, he would have really suspected that Yu Shi was abusing people - actually letting someone with a mental problem play.

But after all, she had investigated him, so Lan Huaiqing certainly didn't think he was as frivolous as he appeared. He would not rush over recklessly without any preparation.

"I have no intention of fighting you." Lan Huaiqing looked at him. He held no ill will towards the people from Jade Academy. As far as he knew, the people from the first round were not easy to deal with. Besides, they were also her classmates, so there was no need to make enemies.

"But your scorpion doesn't seem to say that." Miao Kaijie smiled.

"...It's that kid." Yuan Tao looked at Miao Kaijie who was talking to Lan Huaiqing on the projection, and her fingers tightened.

"Yuan Tao." Lan Xinci glanced at her and reminded her.

Yuan Tao snorted coldly, her fingers gradually loosening. "I want to see what this little rascal is capable of to make her so rebellious."

Lan Xinci frowned and said nothing more.

"I'm sorry, I don't know who it is."

To Miao Kaijie's surprise, Lan Huaiqing nodded in apology and explained, "I just wanted to make my opponent lose consciousness."

"So that's it...it's a misunderstanding." Although Miao Kaijie didn't know what he was up to, he saw that he didn't look like he wanted to fight. He felt a little relieved, but he accidentally glanced at the patterns embroidered on his clothes and paused.

"Qin Zong?"

Lan Huaiqing didn't know if it was an illusion, but she felt that Miao Kaijie's words sounded a little strange.

"……Yes."

Miao Kaijie smiled inexplicably and extended his hand towards him: "Since you have no intention of fighting with me, I also want to maintain peace... How about we go together?"

Lan Huaiqing was stunned.

"How about it? I promise I won't hold you back." Miao Kaijie's bright eyes curved. His handsome, youthful face easily led one to believe he was naive, but perhaps because he always wore an unpleasant, smirk, the first impression he gave was that of a shady, unreliable hoodlum.

But when Lan Huaiqing looked at him carefully, he could feel from the Qi emanating from him that this man was not weak and was far from being as harmless as he appeared.

Lan Huaiqing thought for a moment and decided to agree.

Perhaps because Lan Huaiqing hadn't responded for a long time, Miao Kaijie's eyes rolled around, and he suddenly took out a golden storage bag and asked him with a smile, "Is this yours?"

Then, a jade token appeared in his hand.

Lan Huaiqing: ...?

Lan Huaiqing's eyes fixed on it, and when he touched his body, it was gone.

"I don't think you want to be eliminated so early, do you?" Miao Kaijie said with a smile, "How about joining me?"

"...Are you threatening me?" Lan Huaiqing was looking at him straight in the eye, as if there was a flow of vital energy in him.

"Hmm...how could that be?" Miao Kaijie blinked innocently, gripping the jade token tightly as if ready to crush it at any moment. "Believe me, I'm faster than you."

The atmosphere suddenly became tense. Looking at Miao Kaijie who seemed to be sure of victory on the tree, Lan Huaiqing tightened his fingers.

Although he acted so strong now, he knew in his heart that what the boy said was right.

Lan Huaiqing could sense the looming murderous intent all around him. He knew the young man above him had already unleashed his power, but he still hadn't found it, putting him at a disadvantage. Furthermore, the young man's power had already enveloped him, even extending to a ten-mile radius, preventing him from escaping his grasp.

Lan Huaiqing's brows were furrowed, his entire body tense, like a leopard trapped in a corner, ferocious and dangerous. But Miao Kaijie still had a smile on his face, his eyelids slightly lowered, his gaze lightly falling on him.

It's like a hunter on a spider web, staring at the prey on the web carelessly in the dark, admiring its dying struggle.

Lan Huaiqing was a little puzzled. This storage bag clearly had checkpoints, so why could he unlock it and take it out in such a short time? But now was not the time to think about this problem.

Lan Huaiqing held him at a stalemate for a moment, then sighed, closed his eyes, and retracted his attitude: "I... agree."

In fact, he would have agreed even without the threat.

Lan Huaiqing looked at Miao Kaijie with a complicated expression, her eyes deep as she watched him smile.

He clearly had no other choice. The young man was right. He could not either take back the jade token or escape from here.

Lan Huaiqing thought about it and glanced at Miao Kaijie.

Miao Kaijie didn't think too much about it. Seeing him retract his attributes, he also took back his Yuan Qi and kept his storage bag on himself first: "I'll return it to you when I get out."

Lan Huaiqing didn't answer: "What's your name?"

"Hmm?" Miao Kaijie glanced at him, said "Oh", and seemed to react, smiling at him, "My name is Miao Kaijie, I work with jade."

"Lan Huaiqing."

Lan Huaiqing saw a hint of surprise flash across Miao Kaijie's eyes the moment he said his name.

Lan Huaiqing knew what he was thinking: "She is my sister."

Miao Kaijie didn't answer, but just smiled and said, "Do you have any battle plan?"

"……No."

Lan Huaiqing’s idea is very simple - kill one if you see one.

"Too violent." Miao Kaijie shook his head, disagreeing with his plan, "Why don't we wait a little longer."

"Wait?" Lan Huaiqing frowned.

"Well, there must be quite a few left. We should definitely wait until the final battle." Miao Kaijie wasn't prepared to waste his energy. "Before that, let's avoid taking action if possible. Just watch them kill each other."

"So we're not going to do anything now?"

"No, let's go find someone." A long, thin stone appeared in Miao Kaijie's hand. The tip of the stone spun twice before slowly stopping and pointing in one direction.

"How about we meet up with my companions first?" Miao Kaijie said with a smile, "Or maybe you want to find your companions too?"

"No need." Lan Huaiqing didn't know whether he was worried about him or he really thought it was unnecessary, so he stood up and left, "Let's go and find your companions."