Chapter 126: The Angry Fierce Rat

“Ah!!!”

The Pine Leaf Squirrel flew through the curtain of rain, landing beneath the giant leaf of the Raining Guanyin, in front of a treasure chest radiating precious light.

It was incredibly excited, never expecting to obtain the treasure so easily.

Breaking through this rain, in its view, wasn’t that difficult.

Merely by influencing this Fierce Plant from a distance for a moment, it had opened a path. The Azure Emperor Longevity Art taught by Senior Divine Pine was truly the bane of vegetation!

The Pine Leaf Squirrel nervously opened the treasure chest, then froze, taking out a piece of scrap paper filled with glowing handwriting.

The paper read: “The path of Immortal Cultivation is not always smooth sailing. What you obtain after enduring hardships may not be an Opportunity or treasure; it could also be a trap.”

The next instant, the opened treasure chest exploded. Although the power wasn’t great, the insult was immense.

Holding the paper that had been blasted into ashes, the Pine Leaf Squirrel spat out a puff of black smoke and stood there blankly, its young heart wounded.

“Hahahaha—” Above the clouds, seeing someone fall for it, a group of teachers laughed loudly.

“Which Fellow Daoist was that? Setting up a Fierce Plant test but not giving the person any treasure in return—”

“It seems to be Brother Cao—”

“Ahem—” Cao Ziwei looked down, smiling, “A trial is a trial; one must teach the students about the dangers of the Immortal Cultivation World. However—my original intention was to have them work together to pass through the rain and eat together. Who knew this Squirrel would take the first step.”

“It seems this wood-attribute Spirit Beast can influence the activity of the Fierce Plant to a certain extent.”

“That’s fine. Lin Jing has obtained so many treasures; let his Pet Beast take the loss for him.”

The Pine Leaf Squirrel disappointedly plucked the Raining Guanyin and tossed it into its Storage Pouch, making the teachers’ lips twitch.

The rain vanished. Just as it was sighing and preparing to leave, who would have thought that as the rain dissipated, threads of Divine Sense quickly locked onto it.

“Little Squirrel, what treasure did you get inside? Take it out and let us see.”

A youth in luxurious clothing looked at the Pine Leaf Squirrel with a smile.

“That’s right. We were waiting for the rain to stop to take the treasure. You aren’t being very polite.” Another person said. Although the others didn’t speak, including Tang Yun from the heavenly pride ranking and Chen Lingxi from the Divine Symbol Sect, they were all locking onto the Pine Leaf Squirrel. Clearly, they did not intend to let the Pine Leaf Squirrel take the treasure away easily.

The Pine Leaf Squirrel was startled and opened its mouth slightly, wanting to say there was nothing inside. But seeing the stance of the surrounding Geniuses, the Pine Leaf Squirrel understood that even if it told the truth, no one would believe it.

The three-eyed Liu Yu, who followed closely behind, and even the Heavenly God Body Wang Xiao, were all staring at the Pine Leaf Squirrel, believing it had obtained some treasure.

Although they were well aware that there wouldn’t be any world-changing supreme treasures in the Autumn Examination, curiosity was boundless. Before the nature of the treasure was clear, no one would give up.

“Go!!!” The next instant, someone made a move. The youth in luxurious clothing who had spoken first threw a large net, smashing it toward the Pine Leaf Squirrel.

A Magic Treasure, the Beast Trapping Net, made from Dragon tendons, had a powerful suppression effect on beast Bloodlines!

“Ah!” The Pine Leaf Squirrel was angry and aggrieved.

Being tricked was one thing, but the people outside actually wanted to attack it!

“If there’s any treasure, just snatch it back; no need to be polite.” Suddenly, Lin Jing’s words flashed through the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s mind.

Its eyes lit up as it looked at the Beast Trapping Net. Since these people could snatch its things, then it—could it snatch their things?

After figuring this out, the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s eyes suddenly burned with heat. Ignoring the giant net that had landed on it, it looked at the crowd—

The next second, it flicked its tail gently. Under a red light, the Beast Trapping Net was sliced open directly, causing the youth who had thrown it to freeze, then cough up a mouthful of blood.

The Beast Trapping Net had already been refined by him. The Pine Leaf Squirrel couldn’t put it directly into its Storage Pouch; it had to smash the net first to sever the connection between them before putting it into the Storage Pouch.

Afterward, the Pine Leaf Squirrel looked sharply at the youth in luxurious clothing, and a red leaf, like a Flying Sword, struck toward him!!!

The youth’s expression changed upon seeing this, and he immediately retreated. However, the speed of the flying leaf exceeded his imagination, like a streak of red lightning, passing by him in an instant—what stunned the youth was that this red leaf didn’t seem to be an attack; he felt no pain at all.

However, the next second, he sensed something was wrong and quickly patted his body.

He turned his head abruptly, only to see that the Pine Leaf Squirrel had disappeared from its original spot and was instead standing on the red leaf that had just flown past, hugging a Storage Pouch with an excited expression—

When—

“Space Magic???” The three-eyed Liu Yu asked, confused. He had caught a trace of spatial fluctuation. Don’t tell him this Foundation Establishment Squirrel had just used Space Magic to teleport over!

“It is Space Magic!” Wang Xiao, who was beside him, said. He himself had been—ambushed by this Squirrel’s Space Magic back then!!!

“Damn it, return my Storage Pouch!!!!!” The Storage Pouch was gone. The youth who had just tried to capture the Pine Leaf Squirrel with the Beast Trapping Net turned red-eyed and shouted repeatedly: “Return the Storage Pouch to me!!!”

The Pine Leaf Squirrel seemed not to hear the other person’s words. Its pupils shot out divine radiance, locking onto the next target: Divine Symbol Sect, Chen Lingxi!!!

This fellow practitioner whose Storage Pouch was full of talismans—it had wanted to rob her for a long time.

“What do you want to do!!!” Seeing the Pine Leaf Squirrel look at her, Chen Lingxi was startled and immediately protected her Storage Pouch, not intending to give the Pine Leaf Squirrel any chance. The next instant, a red leaf also flew toward Chen Lingxi!!!

Chen Lingxi tightly guarded her Storage Pouch, her Divine Sense locked tightly onto the red leaf. Just as she wanted to counter, she saw the red leaf vanish right before her eyes.

A moment later, the red leaf appeared again, far away from where she was. At the same time, it was as if a spatial rift appeared around Chen Lingxi, and stacks upon stacks of talismans fell out crazily.

In the moment she was distracted, a flash of red light descended, vanished, and the falling talismans disappeared along with it, leaving Chen Lingxi’s brain in Chaos. Immediately after, her eyes also revealed a mix of grievances, anger, and confusion.

“Damn Squirrel, return them to me!!!” “My talismans!”

How could the Pine Leaf Squirrel hang itself on one tree? Red leaves fluttered like falling flowers, descending from the sky like rain. One Genius after another faced a formidable enemy, a chill spreading up their spines.

“You’ve gone too far!!!” Feeling that he had also been targeted, the sixty-sixth on the heavenly pride ranking, Tang Yun, who had not yet made a move, descended instantly behind the Pine Leaf Squirrel, holding a Thunder Cloud Battle Halberd. He swept the heavy halberd toward the Pine Leaf Squirrel, bringing with him monstrous lightning!!!

Crack, crack, crack, crack, crack. However, the Pine Leaf Squirrel didn’t even turn its head. Countless wooden elements condensed out of thin air in the sky to the right of the Pine Leaf Squirrel, forming a wooden arm. Above the arm was a gigantic Buddha palm!

This arm seemed to be the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s body double, radiating Buddha light with astonishing power.

The Buddha palm clenched into a fist and smashed toward this Genius. The Pine Leaf Squirrel easily replicated the Buddhist technique Lin Jing had learned: Vajra Fist.

With a thunderous boom, the Buddha light pierced through the thunder clouds. As Tang Yun’s pupils constricted, he was smashed several hundred meters away, embedded into the mountain. Only a Storage Pouch fell from his body.

“Pfft—” Tang Yun was smashed away, his internal organs shaken and injured. Liu Yu and Wang Xiao’s expressions changed simultaneously, filled with disbelief.

The scene was deathly silent. Not to mention why a Pine Leaf Squirrel wearing Daoist robes had used the Buddhist Vajra Demon-Subduing Fist, the one it had just smashed away was the sixty-sixth on the heavenly pride ranking, the Cloud Mist Body Tang Yun?

“What is going on—” Everything that happened in a flash also left the academy teachers, who were still laughing, stunned.

“Why aren’t you laughing?” I don’t know when, but a Pine Cone appeared in the sky. It looked down and thought to itself: “The consequences of bullying honest folks; we were originally pure and kind, but alas, the world is devoid of the Dao!”