Reincarnated as a Tabby Cat: Daily Life with the School Beauty Empress

The days slipped by quietly amidst the alternation of training and trials.

Half a month has passed in the blink of an eye.

For most of the new students at the Imperial Academy in the capital, the past two weeks have been a period of hardship and adaptation. They have experienced the pressure of a gathering of geniuses for the first time, and they have been careful and team up to fight for the essence of a second-grade spiritual herb or the blood of a third-order exotic beast in the primary training ground.

But for Su Qianxue, these past two weeks have been another solid step on her path back to the top.

Her strength has already firmly reached the threshold of the fifth level of martial artist.

Yi Chen did not evolve again, but he followed Su Qianxue to eat various spiritual fruits and refine the flesh and blood of exotic beasts every day, and his level also rose with him, jumping from the fourth rank to the fifth rank.

More importantly, its skill called "Gravity Space" successfully upgraded from level one to level two after consuming 5000 Warmth Points.

The second level of gravity space has an effect 10 to 30 times greater.

This means that now, when a human and a cat team up, they are no longer facing sixth-tier beasts that need to be carefully avoided, but rather prey that can be confronted head-on.

In the trial realm, whenever other students saw a fifth-tier beast, they would turn and run away. Occasionally, three or five daring students would team up to barely manage to gang up on a fifth-tier beast in poor condition, and afterwards they would have to divide the spoils for a long time.

As for Su Qianxue, she had long since lost interest in fifth-tier beasts. Now, she was more like a lone hunter, searching for sixth-tier beasts in the vast secret realm.

That afternoon, at the training grounds, in a valley filled with jagged rocks.

Su Qianxue had just dealt with a fifth-tier peak Earth-Splitting Pangolin and was preparing to collect its essence blood when she caught a glimpse of two figures not far away, limping out from the other end of the valley.

One of them was supporting the other. Both of them were dressed in rags, covered in dust, and looked disheveled, as if they were hiding from something terrifying.

"Su Qianxue, it's you?" The boy who helped the woman was named Zhang Beibei. When she saw Su Qianxue's face, she was first stunned, then her expression was complicated, as if she had seen a savior, or as if she was afraid of attracting disaster. "Quick, let's go! It's dangerous here!"

Su Qianxue's gaze fell on the boy she was supporting. Qin Yong, another classmate, was pale-faced, his left trouser leg was empty, and blood stained half of his body.

"What happened? Where's your leg?" Su Qianxue asked.

Qin Yong grimaced, wincing in pain.

He knew Su Qianxue was very strong; she had intimidated Wang Teng with that cat on the first day of school. But for the past two weeks, Su Qianxue had been going her own way, and no one knew just how strong she really was.

"Don't even mention it," Qin Yong said with a gloomy expression. "The two of us accidentally wandered into the territory of a huge creature, right there in that little hill behind us. That guy... was at least a peak sixth-tier! Luckily we ran fast, otherwise... otherwise we'd be dead."

"Peak of the sixth tier?" Su Qianxue's eyes flickered slightly. "Did you see clearly what kind of beast it is?"

Both of them shook their heads.

"It was too fast. I only saw a shadow, and that aura... just thinking about it now makes my legs cramp." Zhang Beibei patted her chest with lingering fear.

Seeing Su Qianxue's thoughtful expression, she suddenly understood something, and her tone changed: "No, Su Qianxue, you don't mean to go there alone, do you? Don't blame me for not warning you, that place is now a death trap. Going there alone will surely mean certain death!"

Yichen, who had been dozing on Su Qianxue's shoulder, twitched his ears and opened his emerald green cat eyes upon hearing this.

"Meow!" [Hehe, peak sixth rank? Interesting, I can give it a try!]

It stood up from Su Qianxue's shoulder, stretched, its tail drawing a provocative arc in the air, and its gaze turned towards the direction of the small hill.

Su Qianxue ignored Zhang Beibei's advice and started walking in that direction.

"Wait!" Qin Yong suddenly called out to her, "Su Qianxue, could... could you do me a favor?"

"Um?"

Qin Yong's face flushed red, half from pain and half from embarrassment. He gritted his teeth, as if making a huge decision:

"Um, I was thinking, if you really are going... could you... could you also check if my leg... is still there? If you could help me get it back, I... I'll trade you a treasure!"

Pick up his leg? Su Qianxue stopped and turned to look at him.

She knew, of course, that while severed limbs could regenerate for martial artists, it required a large amount of life essence and rare and precious materials, and took a considerable amount of time. However, if the severed limb could be retrieved and reattached in a short period of time, the recovery would be much faster.

Upon hearing this, Yi Chen almost fell off Su Qianxue's shoulder laughing.

"Meow, meow!" [Hahaha, this is hilarious! Picking up your leg? How could you even think of that! Are you sure your leg is still there, or that it's been used as a chew toy and chewed on?]

Zhang Beibei and Qin Yong watched the tabby cat jumping around. Although they couldn't understand cat language, the mockery in the cat's language was all too obvious, and both of them felt a little embarrassed.

"Take a look first, and see what treasure you'll exchange it for." Su Qianxue became interested.

Despite the pain, Qin Yong rummaged in his pocket for a while and finally pulled out a plaque that was entirely purple and engraved with intricate patterns. As soon as the plaque appeared, the surrounding spiritual energy seemed to be drawn to it, producing a barely perceptible fluctuation.

"Look, this is a [Magic Rune Token], a beginner-level secret realm teleportation token," Qin Yong explained. "With it, you can teleport randomly within this beginner-level secret realm. However, there's a three-minute cooldown period after each use."

"Magic rune card!" Su Qianxue's pupils contracted slightly.

She certainly recognized it; these spatial artifacts were strategic-level resources. She hadn't expected that a "simplified version" of such a thing could be produced in a small, beginner-level secret realm.

This novice training ground covers a million square kilometers, vast and boundless. Normally, searching for high-level beasts involves most of the time wasted on travel, relying purely on luck. With this thing, efficiency will increase more than tenfold!

Su Qianxue instantly understood why Qin Yong had broken his leg.

This guy must have been using this sign to teleport around looking for treasure, but he was unlucky and ended up teleporting into the lair of a sixth-tier peak alien beast. Because the three-minute cooldown hadn't expired, he could only flee for his life in a sorry state.

This thing is a death warrant in the hands of the weak, but a divine weapon in the hands of the strong!

"Okay, I'll go check it out." Su Qianxue nodded. "You guys wait for me here."

Qin Yong said solemnly, "Then I'll leave it to you!"

He hadn't expected Su Qianxue to actually dare to go, and he felt both admiration and worry.

After Su Qianxue left, only Zhang Beibei and Qin Yong remained in the valley.

"Do you think... she can handle it?" Zhang Beibei looked at Su Qianxue's disappearing figure, still feeling uneasy. "She's at the peak of the sixth rank! The two of us at the fourth rank are nothing compared to her."

"I don't know." Qin Yong leaned against a rock, panting heavily. "But she dared to take this job, either she's crazy or she's confident. I bet on the latter. I heard that even a strongman like Wang Teng couldn't last a single round against her cat. We can't fathom her strength at all."

After discussing it for a while, the two finally came to a conclusion: Su Qianxue was most likely just relying on her strength to scout out the situation and see if she could find the leg on the outskirts. As for challenging a peak sixth-tier beast? Impossible, absolutely impossible.

Meanwhile, Su Qianxue had already stepped into the territory of that small mountain.

Upon entering the forest, the temperature in the air suddenly rose, and a smell mixed with sulfur and wildness hit us.

On the ground, the vegetation was charred black, and some rocks even showed signs of vitrification.

Su Qianxue stopped in front of a boulder with several huge claw marks on it, each half a foot deep with smooth edges, as if it had been branded by a red-hot iron.

She frowned slightly, and made a judgment in her mind: This is a subspecies of dragon, and it is of the fire attribute.

"Dragon Clan Beast, Yi Chen, are you confident?"

"Meow!" [Absolutely! Although Cat Lord hasn't evolved yet, he's still at least Tier 5! My gravity space is now Tier 2, with 30 times the gravity. Whatever dragon it is, I'll crush it first!] Yi Chen was full of fighting spirit.

"Alright, let's move on."

As they went deeper, the oppressive force grew heavier and heavier, and the air seemed to thicken, with each breath carrying a scorching heat.

Suddenly, Su Qianxue stopped in her tracks.

Deep in the dense forest ahead, in the darkness, two enormous, flame-burning "lanterns" slowly lit up.

Those weren't lanterns, they were a pair of eyes!

"What is that?" Su Qianxue's muscles tensed instantly, and her spiritual energy gathered in her meridians, ready to be unleashed.

"roar,!"

A deep roar resounded, and the entire hill trembled.

A massive figure emerged from the darkness, leaving a burning footprint on the ground with each step it took.

It was a strange beast that was over four meters long, resembled a lion, but had a single, imposing horn on its head.

Its entire body was covered in crimson scales, with magma-like light flowing between the gaps in the scales. Its four hooves trod on fire, and its mane flowed like flames.

Su Qianxue's breath caught in her throat for a moment.

Sacred Flame Qilin!

A King-level talent, currently at the peak of the sixth tier!

This is a mythical beast with an extremely noble bloodline. If it grows up, it is enough to step into the Emperor level, and its strength can even reach the tenth level. It is one of the true overlords of heaven and earth!

Unexpectedly, a young Sacred Fire Qilin was hidden in this small, beginner-level secret realm!

Su Qianxue dared not be careless in the slightest, and quickly scanned her surroundings.

Sure enough, in the grass next to the boulder where the Sacred Fire Qilin was perched, she saw a human leg.

It seems that this proud Qilin only harbors murderous intent towards intruders who trespass into its territory, and has no interest whatsoever in tasting human flesh.

This saved a lot of trouble.

Su Qianxue's eyes turned completely cold.

The essence blood of a mythical beast with king-level aptitude was an irresistible temptation for her.