Rebirth: A Cinderella's Counterattack

Chapter 1753: Chapter 1733:

When the ”Crown Prince” Di Jun woke up and opened his eyes, he found everyone around looking at him with strange expressions, which left him a bit confused. ”What’s going on?”

Luo Qianqian also opened her eyes. Using Spirit Stones would indeed speed up cultivation quite a bit, but they were in a critical situation right now—it wasn’t like she could just treat this as a closed-door seclusion...

”Here, I didn’t finish using it, I’m giving it back.” Luo Qianqian naturally handed the Spirit Stone back.

Di Jun took it and instinctively probed it, only to find that the remaining power in this Spirit Stone wasn’t much, far less than his own had been. Clearly, Luo Qianqian’s absorption and refinement speed was faster than his.

That alone was enough to make him look at her in a new light. But right now he had no time to be impressed with Luo Qianqian, because all these weird looks around him were enough to give him a full-body case of goosebumps...

”Why is everyone looking at me like that?” Di Jun asked suspiciously, turning to Long Tu.

Long Tu stroked his own chin—smooth and flat, no stubble at all—very satisfied.

”Roughly... because you exposed how rich you are?” Long Tu said. He himself didn’t feel the need to give Di Jun any strange looks, but in an environment like this, it was better to stay cautious. If you could avoid exposing your trump cards, you should. After all... not everyone would always be your ally.

There are no eternal friends, only eternal interests.

Driven by利益, who could guarantee that the so-called friends around you wouldn’t smile in front of you and stab you in the back? No one could guarantee that, right?

He admitted, there were that kind of true friends. But with so many people here, was every single one of them going to be that sort of person? Not likely, right?

”Rich? What’s wrong with me having money?” Di Jun’s face was full of puzzlement. ”If I didn’t have money, I’m this old already—if I’m not out making money to support my family, would I be in school?”

”If you put it that way, it sounds like there isn’t a single poor person here...” Luo Qianqian couldn’t help but laugh. At least from the people they’d interacted with so far, none of them looked like they were short on cash. In that sense, what Di Jun said wasn’t wrong.

”Time is money. Having time to loaf around is the greatest wealth of all.” Di Jun said this completely naturally, then looked at everyone and shrugged. ”It’s just that I might be richer than you think. So when I make friends, I never care about their status or how much money they have, because either way they’ll never be richer than me.” With that, he flashed a slightly proud smile. ”This is the living environment my family provided me with.”

Luo Qianqian stared blankly at Di Jun, feeling that his words sounded a bit familiar somehow...

”Right, what are we supposed to be doing now? Don’t tell me the next round is eliminating those with poor stamina?” Di Jun’s face was full of doubt. Everyone had weak points; if they were really going to be taken down one by one, then in the end only the Heaven Class and Earth Class crowd would be left, right? In that case, there’d be no need for the Mystery Class and Yellow Class to exist at all. The comparison would be too brutal, they’d feel ashamed, lose their fighting spirit, live in constant anxiety, and finally just leave in a downward spiral of self-destruction.

”The only one who should know about this is probably...” Everyone turned to look at Ji Lei. Ji Lei just shrugged, not particularly bothered by these gazes. Although this Yellow Class was somewhat impressive, right now, this was only the beginning.

Still, they weren’t wrong. The next round would indeed require stamina; but it would also demand other qualities, including combat power.

Because of the number of people they had, the Yellow Class had taken advantage in this particular item, but he still had to admit this counted as a pretty good way of getting through the first round.

From the first round alone, this year’s Yellow Class was in the lead. They were even ahead of the Heaven Class and Earth Class due to the numbers. In a rare twist, the Earth Class was also ahead of the Heaven Class.

But the first round wasn’t that important.

Because what came next was the key part, something that could very well crush the Yellow Class’s fighting spirit.

Still, even the current situation was already unprecedented. The fact that this year’s Yellow Class had made such a splash was something already set in stone.

Of course, they might also become a joke... for coming out swinging with huge momentum, only to lose miserably.

”Next, you need to choose your mode of participation. The arena will be the back mountain. On the back mountain there are fifty Digital Tokens placed. Once they’re all taken, the hiding place of the fifty-first Token will be revealed. If you want to obtain someone else’s Token, you can’t just rob them; you have to choose a battle format that the other side agrees to—one-on-one, three-on-three, or five-on-five. The winner takes the Token. At the same time, if you want to challenge someone to a fight, you must have the corresponding number of Tokens; otherwise, you’re not qualified to challenge.” Ji Lei waited until everyone had calmed down before slowly hanging a terrain map on the blackboard in front of the classroom, pointing at it as he spoke. ”This green area is the Primary Zone, low difficulty. There are Low-Level Spirit Beasts present, but accordingly, this area only has five Tokens. These two yellow areas are the Intermediate Zone—there are two Intermediate Zones, with a total of fifteen Tokens. Low-Level Spirit Beasts are very common there, and Intermediate Spirit Beasts can be seen from time to time. Finally, this red area is the Advanced Area, which has thirty Tokens in total and is extremely dangerous. If you’re not confident, don’t go.” Ji Lei explained calmly. ”While you were resting, the upper grades have already started. Of course, the content of the monthly assessments will be different each time, but anyone who quits in the first stage has no right to participate in the following assessments. Understood?”

”So how you want to participate, that’s up to you. I’ve said everything I can say. Oh, and you’re not allowed to deliberately go for the kill.” Ji Lei didn’t forget to add this last line.

Almost as soon as he finished speaking, everyone turned to look at Long Tu.

Just now, the only one who seemed to have held back his full strength was Long Tu, right?

”Mind if I take charge?” Luo Qianqian saw that Ji Lei had already stepped aside, and eagerly stepped forward. ”In my opinion, since we’re already here, there’s no reason not to go take a look, right? Teacher, we can quit halfway through, can’t we?”

”You can, but it’ll deduct from the final class score.” Ji Lei nodded.

”Alright, a deduction is fine. Anyway, the Yellow Class never achieved much in previous years, right? Oh, and Teacher, can you tell us how the class Tokens were distributed in the past?” Luo Qianqian pondered for a moment and then asked.

”I can.” There was no rule against talking about that. Ji Lei secretly let out a breath of relief—he’d really been worried Luo Qianqian would ask him something awkward...

”In past years, it was roughly twenty pieces for the Heaven Class, fifteen for the Earth Class, ten for the Mystery Class, and five for the Yellow Class. More or less like that. But the Heaven Class often took around twenty-five, completely suppressing the other classes. The most tragic case for the Yellow Class was when they only had one piece left.” Ji Lei said loudly.

Everyone was shocked. Only one piece at the worst? Actually, that wasn’t so bad—they hadn’t been completely wiped out...

That was probably the other classes giving the Yellow Class some face, right?

”Alright, I more or less get it now. Shiliu, Di Jun, close the door and keep out unrelated people.” Ji Lei was promptly kicked out, his face full of speechlessness. These brats used him and then immediately shooed him away? They really had no sense of respecting their teacher at all!