“Alright, why don’t you get in line? I think it’s about time—the instructor should be here soon.”
Unlike the others, Wu Jing didn’t join in mocking Lin Jiaxin.
He really wanted to see her make a fool of herself.
But more than the entertainment, he cared about making a good first impression on the instructor.
If he left a positive impression, it would make it easier for him to later campaign for the real class monitor.
After all, having the word “temporary” as a prefix sounded terrible. He had been class monitor for twelve years, and this time was no exception!
“No rush.”
Lin Jiaxin could see right through him. He just wanted to suck up to the teacher or instructor. But she still refused!
It wasn’t that she didn’t want to cooperate—if she got in line, some people wouldn’t be able to see her because of the angle.
Standing outside would make it easier for everyone to watch her interact with the instructor.
So Lin Jiaxin remained calm and composed. “I told you, I need to ask the instructor for an extra twenty kilograms of weighted training equipment. I’m different from you all—our physiques aren’t the same.”
“What do you mean… can’t you just ask after you’re in line? Getting in line doesn’t silence you!”
Wu Jing’s forehead veins bulged, and he barely held back his urge to shout. “Look at the other classmates—they’re all the same age as you, standing properly. Can’t you learn from them and stop making trouble?”
In less than ten minutes, he had gone from wanting to stir up trouble and watch the show to practically begging Lin Jiaxin.
If she weren’t a girl, and a cute one at that, he would have already yelled at her.
Don’t underestimate the authority he had built during twelve military summer camps!
“What? Who?”
But Lin Jiaxin looked surprised at his words. “Are you saying I should learn from them?”
Wu Jing didn’t catch the weird tone in her voice and thought his lecture was working.
His tone softened a little as he nodded. “Yeah, after we graduate, we’re all going to the Outer Domain Battlefield. By then, we’ll basically be half soldiers.”
“You have to understand, on the battlefield, the military controls and maintains the forts. If you don’t follow orders, you’ll have to camp outside. Spells outside don’t have eyes, and cultivators from other countries don’t share a common language. It’s easy to start fights…”
Wu Jing shook his head as he spoke, looking quite knowledgeable, as if he had really been to the Outer Domain Battlefield.
But Lin Jia interrupted his preachy lecture.
She curled her lip in disdain. “Tch, what is there to learn from them? They’re just a bunch of kids.”
“…?!”
“Huh?… Who are you talking about?”
“Wait, she called us kids?”
The people around were stunned too.
Wasn’t everyone just starting their freshman year?
They were all seventeen or eighteen—what made her so mature?
But this time Lin Jiaxin wasn’t trying to show off; she meant it.
She had lived twenty-nine years in her previous life, plus eighteen in this one—over forty years total.
She genuinely saw these students as children. She just knew no one would believe the truth if she told them.
So Lin Jiaxin naturally added, “People my age only play mobile games, read boring novels, and waste time on that lame two-dimensional culture. What else can they do besides childish stuff? Not like me…”
“What?”
Everyone was stunned again, expecting her to drop some profound wisdom.
But Lin Jiaxin changed her tone, showing an extremely confident and determined look as she said softly:
“Not like me—I only play with stocks and funds, navigate the capital market… Even when I rest, I only play high-end puzzle games like Steam.”
“…Pfft!”
“HAHAHAHAHA!”
“She’s close to a goddess, far from a mortal… a divine mortal!”
The crowd couldn’t hold it in and burst out laughing again.
Some had started laughing the moment she showed her determined expression.
One person couldn’t help but ask back:
“Classmate, you’re so amazing? What rank are you on Steam?”
Lin Jiaxin’s confident expression froze.
It was like someone had hit a sore spot. She was a bit embarrassed, deliberately coughed a few times, and replied, but this time her voice was inexplicably much quieter.
“Uh… I just hit Diamond… mainly because I skipped last season and dropped. I used to be the Strongest King.”
She then forced a final addition: “Anyway, let’s add each other later. When I’m done playing Tonghuashun, I can carry you up the ranks.”
“???”
Everyone present, even the bystanders who had come to watch, was dumbfounded.
They felt their IQ was being affected.
An invisible, powerful force seemed to blanket their brains.
It even smoothed out the folds on their cerebral cortex!
Seriously, girl? Even after that, you still talk tough?
Steam doesn’t have ranks, only levels! What Diamond and Strongest King are you talking about?
‘Heh, truly can’t argue with someone who only sees summer bugs… You really think I don’t know Steam? It’s just the platform for PUBG! How could I not know? I’m just pretending to be dumb to mess with you!’
Lin Jiaxin looked at the dumbfounded students, suppressed the heat rising in her dantian, and slightly curled the left corner of her mouth, savoring this moment of stillness.
Kids are kids, even when they’re adults. Their experience is lacking. It’s pitiful how easily they’re fooled by an adult.
Lin Jiaxin laughed inwardly, raised her hand to smooth her bangs that the wind had messed up—she couldn’t let her image slip!
After fixing her hair, she glanced at her watch.
9:25. The military training assembly was required before 9:40.
The instructor should arrive within five minutes.
‘Good, I’ve shown off enough. I can tone it down now.’
‘Once training starts and the scene isn’t so chaotic, I’ll act accordingly.’
With that thought, Lin Jiaxin stood still and closed her eyes to rest.
But she wasn’t really resting—she wanted to test if she could circulate her cultivation technique while standing still without using the standard meditation posture.
She hadn’t tried before, mainly because she lacked time and opportunity.
And now, she had just replenished a huge wave of Manifestation True Qi from “Public Saint Manifestation.”
If it really worked, even a tiny bit of progress would let her outpace everyone else.
Everyone else: just standing.
She: secretly studying while standing.
That was…
Meanwhile, the others finally came to their senses.
“Amazing! It’s like a star-studded gathering of humanity—you’re truly incredible!”
“Eh… I don’t know why, but I kind of admire her.”
“Yeah, having such thick skin and a steel tongue—she seems like someone who can succeed at anything!”
The crowd buzzed with conversation. Some still thought she was a divine fool and kept laughing.
Others found it amusing, even admiring Lin Jiaxin.
After all, an eighteen-year-old college girl who could brag in front of so many people without stage fright—
And when she was caught, she still shot back without losing her cool. Such a divine person was truly rare in the world!
Of course, these were the minority, and the latter group was an even smaller minority.
The vast majority of students, after the farce temporarily ended, gave the same verdict.
This girl… probably had some mental issues!
No one would have thought that Lin Jiaxin had chosen the technique from the Pitfall Avoidance Guide.
Everything she did was for one thing: cultivation!
Techniques are for people to cultivate. People use techniques. Techniques need spiritual energy. Spiritual energy requires Manifestation True Qi.
Manifestation True Qi! The debt of gratitude to the great one is endless!
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