"Shut the fuck up, I think I'm gonna pass out." Was Zhi Ruo's response, as she clutched her bloodied thigh. Which was healing in a visible speed but Zhi Ruo didn't feel better even after her injury healed. Her tone pricked the masked man like an ice shard going against your skin.   Nonetheless, the masked man knew where she was getting at and he was a but guilty for his impulsive actions, when they were supposed to be partners in this. If Zhi Ruo heard what guilty thoughts the masked man had floating in his head then she would've added 'temporary' beside the word partner.   Nonetheless, Zhi Ruo pulled out a vial from her ring and chugged it while rasing her arm out and trying to block an attack with her sand. Zhōngguó was floating independenty around her and was playing whack a mole with the other contestants. Zhi Ruo reverted back into the first tactic she and the masked man had fir

"Gu?" Zhi Ruo tilted her head in confusion, before a memory flashed in her thoughts making her nod slowly. "That's right, I was playing with Gu back when I was the hunting grounds. I remember that I was putting them in a container— or was it a bottle I don't know, anyways I put them in one place and I left it to you."   Zhi Ruo stared blankly at the table in front of her while recalling the events that transpired, she did it in the moment; gather the Gu and all. Now that Ravel reminded her, it sparked her curiosity.   "That's right, only one Gu was left, it seemed to have eaten the others and it mutated." Ravel nodded as he informed what happened to the Gu. "What would you like to do with it?"   "It'd be nice if there's someone that can contract a Gu in the team." She wistfully said referring to Han Meng and the others, cupping her hands

Apparently, the person that the masked man saw was indeed Yu Zhúlín who was lurking around the establishment they were currently in. Zhi Ruo's senior ended up scolding the masked girl, along with the masked man that was innocently acting like he wasn't part of the whole ordeal."I get that you are mad, but why are you acting like it was my idea to go around and earning points like that?" The masked man sneakily gave Yu Zhúlín food, and it was like magic when Yu Zhúlín calmed down of his tirade after he took a bite. Food was really the key to a man's heart."Are you saying that it wasn't your idea?" Yu Zhúlín grumbled over his soup, he looked at the masked man giving his silent thanks for the food in his hands. Which he instantly knew that the masked man was paying for, because by now he certainly knew Zhi Ruo enough.The masked man shrugged mischievously, as if he was bent on digging a grave for Zhi Ruo. "It certainly wasn't mine, I was just her partner. She was the first one that ask

"Team, get ready to move out. Contestants of the Sighted Valley should already be in position." Those were the words that are passed around in between the two towers that was under the Sighted Valley's control.    Zhi Ruo who was also part of this team naturally got the message, though she did nothing of sorts when she heard it. It was dawn when her team made their move. And the raid that the Sighted Valley team planned had officially started the moment the word spread around.    When Zhi Ruo stepped into the territory of the Sighted Valley, there was a tense undercurrent that she herself could also feel. A day has passed, and Zhi Ruo had not slept a wink, but this didn't damper her curiosity at how the raid that her team planned would go out. She made herself scarce, and for the first time since the second part of the tournament started, she decided to head into one of the towers

Zhi Ruo managed to look around at the plans scattered around the table, while Jiayi was still kneeling with a blade to her neck. It was a wise decision for Jiayi to stay silent and do nothing to resist until Zhi Ruo was done with looking around.   Because the Ye clan members would not hesitate to draw blood from her throat of she really dared to resist. The Ye clan were prideful people, especially so because they were called great that they are prideful.    Having Zhi Ruo being insulted in front of them, irked them as much as it irked Zhi Ruo herself. After all, they finally got an heiress, if anything happened to the heiress or if they did not obey their heiress. Regardless of whether they are currently in a competition or not, the chances of their head flying was pretty much guaranteed.   If their patriarch weren't the one who kills them