Physical mage, challenge me to a solo duel!

Ding Lan reluctantly stuffed the remaining roasted meat from the dagger into her mouth, chewing vigorously while muttering incoherently, "Boss, weren't you watching those kids? Why are you back?"

"They're resting, there aren't any particularly dangerous magical beasts nearby, and their teacher is with them, so I came back first." Huang Ya leisurely walked to the campfire and sat cross-legged as well.

Huang Ya stood tall and straight, his posture serious, a stark contrast to the lazy Zuo Jinxiu.

"What a lucky bunch of kids." Ding Lan swallowed all the roasted meat in her mouth, then leaned back and lay sprawled on the solid rock, saying with some envy, "Why didn't I have this kind of treatment before? They can enter the interdimensional passage to hunt right after they start, and they even have a nanny accompanying them all the way."

Zuo Jinxiu yawned, then clicked her tongue twice and said, "Who told you to not have a good teacher back then? The homeroom teacher personally went to Zhang Tuan's house to ask for these few spots for his students."

Zhang Tuan is something else. Giving these kids a few spots to broaden their horizons would have been enough, but he actually made us accompany them as babysitters, secretly protecting them along the way.

Do you really think we're bored out of our minds? Doesn't the entrance to the Demon Realm need scouting? Don't those powerful mid-level magical beasts in the inner area need to be dealt with?

Huang Ya frowned slightly upon hearing this: "Alright, stop complaining. Just consider it a day off from Commander Zhang. If we were still on a mission at the entrance, we wouldn't be this relaxed, with the leisure to sleep, daydream, and eat barbecue here."

Ding Lan pursed her lips and twitched her limbs haphazardly in protest.

Zuo Jinxiu seemed to suddenly remember: "Oh right, boss, I remember these kids' homeroom teacher is named Bai Yu. I heard she just graduated from the Capital Magic University, and she's quite pretty. You're her senior, you should know her, right?"

"Bai Yu...?" Huang Ya pondered for a moment: "Two years younger than me, she's quite pretty, has good talent, good combat ability, and a very impressive personality, but it's a pity."

"Oh? This seems familiar!" Zuo Jinxiu immediately perked up, sat up abruptly, and said with a gossipy expression, "Tell me, tell me quickly, what's the pity?"

Ding Lan immediately sat up, picked up a wooden stick, and pretended to casually stir the burning campfire while listening intently.

"It's a pity she went into the education system; otherwise, with her talent and outstanding combat ability, she would have been an excellent reconnaissance soldier in the future."

"Tch~~~" Zuo Jinxiu found it very boring.

Ding Lan first breathed a sigh of relief, then felt a little annoyed for some reason, and asked in confusion, "They have a teacher with them, why do they need our protection? They're just a few novice beginner mages, they won't go too deep, just find a small team to help them out, right?"

Zuo Jinxiu chimed in, "That's right, that's right. We might as well switch with Mo Yu's team. At least they're a bunch of high school senior mages. Maybe we can cause some trouble."

Huang Ya didn't pay much attention to Zuo Jinxiu's complaints, and the group chatted casually for a while longer.

Feeling that the time was about right, Huang Ya once again released the divine-grade magic Azure Feather Wind Wings and flew into the sky to check on Wang Yi and the others.

Watching the black dot disappear rapidly into the sky, Zuo Jinxiu couldn't help but sigh: "Sister Ding, you have no chance with the boss."

Ding Lan, who was drinking water, spat out a mouthful of water upon hearing this: "Pah, who cares about him?"

"How about I give you plastic surgery? I've been researching this skill recently. If I ever decide I don't want to be a soldier anymore, I can work as a plastic surgeon and make a living."

Breast augmentation, buttock enhancement, double eyelid surgery, nose implants, face reduction, teeth straightening, skin whitening, leg slimming, and full-body hair removal—after all this, you'll be able to easily seduce young men, forgetting all about home, and what's a mere morsel compared to that Huang Ya?

"Think about it, Sister Ding. As your first customer, I can give you a 10% discount."

"Hehe." Ding Lan glanced at Zuo Jinxiu and gave a disdainful smile.

"What a tragedy!" Zuo Jinxiu sighed and lay down again.

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"What a tragedy!" Wang Yi sighed inwardly as he looked at the long strip of charred meat in front of him.

After having a meal and a short rest, they continued their journey deeper into Lingnan Shaqiao.

Who knew that they would be attacked by monsters after traveling for only a short while.

This novice gray-backed snake, whether it hadn't eaten meat in a long time or had lost its mind due to its great hostility towards humans, actually dared to rush up from underground alone and then slap Qi Xiaohao on the butt.

Qi Xiaohao was the first person to get injured after entering Lingnan Shaqiao, and the wound was on his buttocks, so it was not very harmful but extremely humiliating.

Fortunately, the greyback snake is a non-venomous species, saving us the trouble of having to suck out the venom.

Having suffered a double blow to his body and mind, Qi Xiaohao was naturally extremely angry.

Even though the gray-spined snake retreated immediately after its attack, and burrowed back into its cave after biting the person, Qi Xiaohao still forced it to drink high-purity alcohol and then burned it out with a fireball spell.

The gray-spined snake, its body ablaze, was then subjected to electrotherapy by Qi Xiaohao, leaving its meter-long body in a terrible state.

While Wang Yi was casting a healing spell on Qi Xiaohao, Jiang Yue stepped forward and harvested the Gray Spine Serpent's magic crystals.

Even a mosquito's leg is still meat. Although the Gray Spine Serpent is the lowest of the low among low-level magical beasts and has virtually no combat power, an ordinary person could easily take it down.

However, the magic power inside the magic crystal is also pure and genuine.

At the very least, it can be used to quickly replenish the magic power consumed by mages.

As usual, Jiang Yue handed the magic crystal to Wang Yi for safekeeping, and Wang Yi then saw the magic contained in the gray serpent.

Sandification [Normal]: Slowly transforms rocks into sand (can be absorbed).

Wang Yi was amazed. He had seen quite a few magic crystals, but this was the first time he had ever seen a magical beast that only knew one spell.

No wonder it's such a weak monster.

This ordinary-grade sand-transforming magic seems to be a pretty good spell, very suitable for those with innate earth and wood divine bodies.

It is precisely through this magic that the gray-backed snake is able to burrow and build nests in the rocky Gobi Desert, where it can live and reproduce.

Unfortunately, not all magic is a useful skill for humans.

The problem with the sand-turning magic is that the speed at which rocks are transformed into sand is simply too slow.

It's not only unsuitable for combat, but it's even too slow to assist in digging.

The sacred body of the earth and wood was greatly disappointed.

At most, it can make someone perform a foolproof magic trick like crushing a stone, so basically no sorcerer would learn it.

After the little incident with the gray-spined snake, Wang Yi and his companions continued on their way. Not long after, Wang Yi suddenly felt a chill run through his body.

Just as he had initially sensed Ayman Morris's surveillance, Wang Yi now suddenly felt like he was being watched.

Moreover, this feeling is more direct, more naked, and even full of malice.

"Wait!" Wang Yi exclaimed urgently, "Be on guard!"