After leaving the Fire Institute, Mo Fan stopped thinking about it. He returned to his apartment, pnning to take a comfortable shower and get a good night’s sleep.
After that, he would head to Hangzhou to see Teacher Tang Yue and Xin Xia.
These past few days in the wilderness with Mu Ningxue, he kept recalling her cool, smooth skin.
Tsk.
Why did he wake up so te that day?
Damn it. He really missed out.
That feeling lingered vividly in his mind. Opportunities like that would probably never come again.
Not long after Mo Fan returned, Mu Ningjiao and Ai Tutu also came back.
When Mu Ningjiao saw him, complicated emotions flickered in her eyes.
He was alive. That alone was enough.
If Mo Fan had not drawn Lu Nian’s forces away, they would not have escaped safely.
Ai Tutu stared at him. “Hey, Great Demon Head, you caused chaos the moment you came back. You openly called half the Fire Institute trash and criticized Director Wei Rong’s teaching methods. The campus forum is exploding.”
“The Fire Institute is different from the mini Pearl Campus,” Mu Ningjiao said calmly.
“I thought you’d give me a hug first,” Mo Fan shrugged.
Mu Ningjiao rolled her eyes.
Ai Tutu huffed. “Do you want me to pick you up after your next beating? I feel like you’re going to get crushed.”
“If you pick me up, will you heal me?” Mo Fan teased.
Ai Tutu flushed and began scolding him furiously.
Soon the two girls left him to rest.
As Mo Fan entered his room, Mu Ningjiao unknowingly revealed a faint smile.
“Hey Sister Mu, you’re smiling at Great Demon Head. Don’t tell me…” Ai Tutu gasped dramatically.
Mu Ningjiao froze, then felt heat rise to her cheeks.
“No. I’m just grateful he saved me. Seeing him safe… I’m relieved.”
Ai Tutu gave her a meaningful look.
Mu Ningjiao quickly escaped to her room.
After a good sleep, Mo Fan decided to head to the Ancient Capital again.
Spirit essences were easier to obtain there. Undead dropped strange bones and materials that could be sold. He needed money for a Star River Vein.
As for the Pseudo Terror Demon seeds, he had arranged for Zhao Manyan to sell them.
Zhao Manyan had been shocked Mo Fan possessed such things, but Mo Fan had saved his life. Compared to that, material value meant nothing.
Now Zhao Manyan stood firmly on a rising path.
The Water Pearl had fused permanently into his Water Nebu, forming Fifth Tier Water Control: Water Avoiding Pearl. It functioned like an innate supernatural ability and could not be removed unless he died.
Under Dean Xiao’s training in Water, Space, and formation magic, Zhao Manyan was moving toward rge scale environmental manipution.
Mo Fan, meanwhile, chose a simpler path.
Profit through sughter.
At the Ancient Capital, Mo Fan did not remain near the city walls. He stepped directly into the wilderness. Night fell.
The ft earth became silent.
Then— “Ugh~~~ Ugh wooo~~~”
The ground shifted. Undead crawled out one after another. Cold, faint lights locked onto him.
A living human.
In undead territory.
Truly dancing on graves.
“Whoosh!”
A bzing fireball shot forward.
Boom!
Fmes erupted outward, incinerating the nearest rotten corpses.
More undead surged forward.
In seconds, nearly a hundred surrounded him.
An ordinary Intermediate Mage would be dead already.
Mo Fan remained calm.
“Fierce Fist!”
Fmes condensed into his fist.
“Nine Paces!”
He smmed his fist into the ground.
The earth trembled.
Fire pilrs exploded upward in a Nine Paces formation.
Boom. Boom. Boom.
Over a hundred rotten corpses were annihited.
A servant level spirit essence popped out.
Mo Fan’s eyes lit up.
“Shadow Escape!”
He vanished into darkness, reappearing near the edge of the swarm.
“Intermediate magic Level 2 Thunderbolt: Yaksha – Mad Dance!”
Lightning rained down violently.
Dozens more undead were bsted apart.
Then—
A roar echoed from the distance.
A Skeleton Ox General emerged.
Its massive skeletal body thundered toward him. Behind it, more skeletons gathered.
Mo Fan narrowed his eyes.
“Dimensional Summoning.”
The air trembled.
A frost covered rift opened behind him.
Slowly, majestically, a towering white figure stepped out.
The Snow Frost Star Wolf.
Warrior level.
From Antarctica.
Its fur shimmered with crystalline frost. Extreme Dust flowed around its paws like drifting starlight. Its presence alone pressed downward like an invisible mountain.
Lower undead instinctively recoiled.
That was Emperor bloodline suppression.
Even the Skeleton Ox General hesitated for half a second.
The Snow Frost Star Wolf raised its head, eyes cold and proud.
It did not howl wildly.
It did not rush blindly.
It simply stepped forward.
Frost spread across the ground instantly.
Ice crept along the bones of the nearest undead, freezing them mid movement.
“Block the small ones,” Mo Fan said calmly.
The Snow Frost Star Wolf did not even look at him.
It leaped.
With a sweep of its cws, ice waves erupted outward. Rotten corpses froze solid and shattered like gss.
Behind them, the Skeleton Ox General charged.
Mo Fan summoned the Underworld Shield.
Dark blue light condensed into a diamond shaped barrier embedded into the ground before him.
Bang.
The Ox General smmed into the shield.
The shockwave rippled outward.
Mo Fan smirked.
“Now let’s see which of us breaks first.”
The Bone General charged forward with terrifying momentum.
But the moment it was bsted backward by the frost fractured shockwave, its body was already covered in cracks.
Mo Fan did not hesitate.
“Nine Paces!”
He smmed his fist into the ground.
Fme pilrs erupted in a bzing grid, engulfing the airborne Bone General mid flight.
For a split second, a thought surfaced in Mo Fan’s mind.
Let it turn into soup.
Hmm.
Very reasonable.
“Giant Shadow Nail!”
Bck shadows pierced through the air.
The Giant Shadow Nails nailed directly into the Bone General’s limbs the moment Mo Fan scattered them.
Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud.
Its arms and legs were locked in pce mid colpse.
“Ugh, aow~~~!!!”
The Bone General roared in fury, but Mo Fan’s counterattack chain had been seamless.
Ever since gaining the Evil System, his reaction speed and composure had changed.
He could fight.
Calcute.
And think random thoughts at the same time.
Confidence? Yes.
Maybe too much.
“Thousand Ton – Thunderbolt – Wild Dance!”
Boom boom boom!!!
Lightning descended violently.
Because the battlefield was still coated in Extreme Dust frost from earlier, conductivity surged.
Electric arcs crawled across the Bone General’s frozen fractures.
The skeleton trembled violently under the thunder bombardment.
Rumble rumble!
Cracks spread deeper.
But—
It still was not dead.
The Bone General struggled violently, bck energy pulsing from its core.
“Damn. It’s really durable.”
Mo Fan clicked his tongue.
The Snow Frost Star Wolf stepped forward calmly.
It did not attack.
It simply exhaled once.
Camity Frost Fme drifted low across the ground and tched onto the Bone General’s rib cage.
This was not normal freezing.
The frost seeped inward.
Mana flow slowed.
Joint movement stiffened further.
The wolf narrowed its eyes slightly, clearly displeased the thing was still moving.
Mo Fan raised his fist again.
“Fierce Fist — Earth Fiend!”
He struck downward.
Fmes erupted from beneath the Bone General.
A green lotus blossomed within the explosion.
The internal frost and external fire collided violently inside the cracked bones.
The sudden thermal stress finished what the thunder had started.
Boom.
The Bone General shattered completely.
Silence returned to the battlefield.
Bone fragments scattered across the frozen ground.
A spirit essence slowly rose.
Mo Fan exhaled.
“Now that’s better.”
The Snow Frost Star Wolf turned its head slightly, posture elegant.
As if saying:
You took long enough.
Mo Fan collected the spirit essence with a grin.
“Alright. Next one.”
And in the darkness beyond—
More undead began to stir.
