Right now, inside the campus hospital.
“African Star… hehehe… snacking… mine… it’s all mine…”
Lin Jiaxin smacked her lips, tossing and turning on the hospital bed.
Whatever sweet dream she was having, it made her body movements unusually animated.
“Eheheheh…”
But just at that moment, she moved too wildly. She accidentally rolled too far and tumbled off the bed.
Her head met the floor intimately. The pain jolted her awake immediately.
“Ouch!”
Lin Jiaxin clutched the huge lump on her head, grabbed the bedsheet, and groggily climbed back onto the bed.
She rubbed her eyes with her free hand, glanced around the room, and spoke instinctively: “Wait, I’m… where am I? Wasn’t I just successfully sneaking snacks as a little mouse?”
Creak—
Before Lin Jiaxin could fully process things, the ward door swung open.
The person entering was a doctor wearing a white coat and a mask, their face unidentifiable.
“You’re awake?”
“Ah…”
Lin Jiaxin nodded but still looked at him blankly: “Teacher, am I… in the campus hospital? Why is there such a big bump on my head?!”
Could it be that this huge lump on her head… was from someone sneaking up on her because her earlier behavior was too asking for a beating?!
That seemed very possible!
The doctor simply glanced at the notebook in his hand and explained: “Well, this morning you were running with twenty kilograms of weight, exhausted yourself, and hit a lamppost. Your classmates brought you here. Don’t you remember?”
“No… I only remember I was still running at the time. I don’t remember anything after that…”
Lin Jiaxin shook her head honestly.
She truly didn’t remember. Aside from the dream about tamarind porridge she just had.
Her last impression was when the running song was about to end.
But even then, her mind was completely empty…
“Hmm?”
The doctor frowned upon hearing this.
He put away the notebook and carefully observed Lin Jiaxin’s eyes.
They weren’t cloudy or unfocused.
He thought for a moment, then picked up Lin Jiaxin’s hand and sensed the Spiritual Energy flow inside her body.
But again, nothing was wrong.
The doctor finally let out a relieved breath: “Well, according to the examination results, there’s no hidden damage to your body… Perhaps your subconscious is so strong that it prevented your body from being drained of potential and damaging your foundation.”
“But just because you got lucky this time doesn’t mean you’ll be lucky every time. Before your strength improves, you’d better not challenge such high-difficulty training volumes, to avoid causing irreversible damage.”
He said this, then frowned with some dissatisfaction and lectured: “Twenty kilograms of weight. How could a first-year Magic Cultivation Department student like you handle that?”
The doctor knew that Lin Jiaxin had applied for the weighted training.
But it wasn’t that he hated show-offs. As a doctor, he just didn’t want to see anyone get hurt.
“Hah, what’s so hard about that? When I was little, I went to the countryside and saw a yellow ox. All my friends were wearing red clothes, so the ox charged at us when it saw us. Several of my friends were sent flying. Luckily, I was a track and field athlete. When the ox tried to ram me, I grabbed its horns and snapped them off with my bare hands.”
“And this is just a measly twenty kilograms. People have different physiques… It’s normal that you wouldn’t understand.”
But upon hearing this, Lin Jiaxin instinctively lifted her chin like a proud goose and began recounting a personal experience she’d just made up, using a slightly disdainful tone.
The moment the words left her mouth, she froze.
Wait, hold on!
What am I doing?!
When did I ever fight an ox?
And track and field athlete breaking an ox’s horns barehanded…
Why did I start bragging out of nowhere? And I didn’t even realize there was a problem at first?
Wait, the doctor was just concerned about me!
There’s no one else here! What the hell am I doing!!!
Lin Jiaxin was so embarrassed she bit her lip until it bled.
Under the blanket, her feet twisted together as if they were fighting!
The Manifestation True Qi slowly filling up in her chest again made her even more mortified.
Sure enough, she’d shown off in front of someone again… even though this time it really was just a subconscious habit…
—
The air in the ward was thick with awkwardness. A long silence stretched between them.
Lin Jiaxin awkwardly picked at a hole in the bedsheet, not knowing how to break the silence.
The doctor, on the other hand, was left speechless by her shocking words.
He was considering whether to arrange a mental health test for her.
Why did he always feel like this girl talked like she wasn’t quite normal?
As for the things Lin Jiaxin had said, he didn’t believe a single word.
Come on, he had just finished checking her body. Both machine and Spiritual Energy scans had been done.
Her meridians were indeed strong, her talent high. She had already managed to introduce Qi into her body in just a few days.
But her physique… without special equipment, he couldn’t determine the specifics.
And based on experience, Lin Jiaxin definitely couldn’t be one of those special physiques with innate divine strength.
Why? Would you believe that a hundred-pound female freshman who couldn’t even run ten kilometers with twenty kilograms of weight could kill an ox?
The doctor shook his head and sighed softly.
He spoke as if coaxing a child, perfunctorily: “Alright, well, you’re really impressive then, classmate.”
Good words are wasted on someone who wants to die!
This bratty girl wouldn’t learn until she suffered a major loss.
He decided not to say anything more. If he did, she might just find him, this boring adult, too talkative.
“Haha…”
Lin Jiaxin responded with a dry laugh.
And nothing else followed.
What else could she say?
‘Teacher, I just have a habit of bragging and subconsciously wanted to show off big-time but couldn’t control myself?’
Who would believe that?!
“Ahem…”
Lin Jiaxin lowered her head, struggling to move her sore limbs, wanting to quickly leave this awkward place.
But just as she got out of bed, the doctor stopped her.
“Wait, don’t leave yet…”
“Ah?”
Lin Jiaxin looked up at him, then suddenly remembered something. She quickly pulled out her phone from her pocket.
She gave an embarrassed smile, thinking he was going to ask for payment, and hurriedly said: “Payment, right? Okay, I’ll go right now…”
“What payment?”
The doctor just looked at her strangely: “The campus hospital at Southwest United University doesn’t charge medical fees. It’s in the Freshman Handbook. Haven’t you read it? The school only occasionally arranges for healing-type freshmen to come here for internships and practical training. That’s all.”
“Haha… right, I forgot all about that, haha…”
Lin Jiaxin coughed lightly, thinking to herself that as soon as she enrolled, she was too busy scavenging for bargains to even check the school forum.
Otherwise, how could she have been stupid enough to think she scored a great deal by picking this huge cultivation method, forcing her to show off every day until now she was practically obsessed, starting to brag subconsciously…
“While you were asleep, your class has already arranged your dormitory. Your classmate asked me to remind you to take your luggage and go to No. 2 Female Dormitory Building on the west side.”
The doctor glanced at the memo saved on his phone and dutifully fulfilled his notification duty.
“Ah, okay, thank you, teacher…”
After Lin Jiaxin finished thanking him, she grabbed her camo jacket and made a quick escape.
But on her way back to pack her luggage, she still muttered in confusion.
“Dorm? I thought the school arranged single rooms. I completely forgot about that… How stingy…”
—
However, Lin Jiaxin, who had never read the Freshman Handbook, had completely underestimated Southwest United University’s scale this time.
As the only cultivator undergraduate institution in the Southwest region, Southwest United University was rich in resources and generous with its spending.
If they could arrange temporary single rooms for freshmen, how could they possibly not afford real single rooms?
The Freshman Handbook clearly stated:
The school wasn’t being stingy. The purpose of arranging dormitories was to cultivate bonds between students.
In plain terms, they wanted students to get used to having someone around to rest with and learn how to get along with others in daily life.
Because no matter whether they joined the military upon graduation or not,
most of Southwest United University’s students would eventually enter the Ancient Battlefield to protect humanity and fight against non-human creatures.
And there, they wouldn’t only face those eerie extraterrestrial evils, but also cultivators from other countries eyeing their spoils of war.
Fighting alone would leave your back exposed, making it easy to suffer losses.
That’s why teamwork was necessary, to protect each other’s backs!