Chapter 844 - Being looked down on

It was a fallacious and preposterous argument, but they still had to spend their crystals to buy a few pills from her.

Although they watched as they lost a few thousand crystals, Mo Bin and He Feng didn’t feel much about it. One of them was loaded, while the other didn’t care much about money. Tan Yan was the only one who was reluctant to part with it.

When he saw that Sima You Yue was just giving out the pills to the others, he asked, “Why don’t they have to pay?”

“We’re a group. Of course they don’t’ have to.”

“We’re in the group with you as well.” Tang Yan argued.

“Not close to you.” Sima You Yue didn’t feel like replying to him.

“Our first meeting was as acquaintances, but our second was as friends. We’ve seen each other so many times, so we’ve been close long ago.” Tang Yan refuted.

“They’re my brothers, and Fatty and the others are my companions who have grown up with me. We’ve been living together for ten to twenty years.” Sima You Yue said, “If we were the same, I would not take your money either.”

Tang Yan wanted to tell her that ten years was not a long time, but thinking about how young she was, ten years was really a relatively long time for her.

Sima You Yue did not wait for him to finish speaking as she turned around to pat the golden sand off her. “Alright, I’m going to refine more pills. Bei Gong, Ouyang, you guys can rest for a moment before coming.”

“Alright, you can go ahead.” Bei Gong Tang nodded.

Because there were outsiders present, they did not go to the spirit pagoda to cultivate, but refined a few more furnaces full of pills. Each batch produced ten pills, and the three of them refined over a hundred pills that night.

As they were refining, two waves of golden scorpions came on the oasis. They were cleared away by everyone without bothering the three who were refining.

“More than a hundred golden scorpions came within a single night. The frequency is rather large!” Mo Bin said, “There were times back then that we could go an entire day without encountering one, and less than twenty or thirty at a time.”

“It’s no wonder that they said the golden scorpions had exploded in number!” Tang Yan said, “They aren’t that strong, but there are so many of them. If a huge bunch appear, it will be hard to battle them!”

“We don’t know how this ended up happening either.” Sima You Lin said.

“We encountered so many in a single night, so I bet that the other students won’t encounter any less. I wonder how things are on their end?” Mo Bin was a little worried.

“If you’re worried about them, you can go and look for them.” Fatty Qu said.

Go, if he goes, he will no longer stick to them.

“We’re sticking with you.” He Feng was resolute. He didn’t care how others were doing. If he were to care, he would only care about it after his battle with Sima You Yue.

“Once Fourth Brother wakes up, we can look for other people.” Sima You Yue pulled the tent and came out.

“Yue Yue, are we really going to go?” Little Seven said.

“We should. Principal Yuan and Teacher Ge are people who care a lot for the students. If they found out that something had happened to the students, they would definitely be anxious.” Sima You Yue said.

Teacher Ge and the others had gone to such a dangerous place in order to find a way to cure the problem with her body. Little Seven was also very close to the other teachers in the sect. They treated her very well, so now that she was aware of this, she could not just stand by and do nothing.

If they didn’t know about it then it was fine, but now that she knew, and also had a way to combat it, if she didn’t do anything, she would be letting them down.

“That’s true.” Little Seven said, “Then we’ll go once Fourth Brother wakes up.”

Sima You Yue first called out a few thousand scarlet bees, getting them to fly around and scout for information.

After reproducing for so many years, Scarlet had produced a few average queen bees in the spirit pagoda. Their numbers were growing steadily.

When Mo Bin and the others saw the scarlet bees flying away, they were so surprised that they couldn’t close their mouths for a long time.

When night came, Sima You Le woke up. When he heard about his dangerous condition from them, he was terrified.

“It’s late now, let’s head off tomorrow morning.” Sima You Yue said.

The bees that had been sent out did not report that anything too dangerous was happening, so there was no need to rush out. They could still refine a few more pills.

On the morning of the second day, they kept their tents away and Sima You Yue called out Halcyon to fly them off in a random direction.

On the road, they stopped to collect any golden scorpions they passed by. They killed a few hundreds in a day.

“There’s an oasis up ahead, let’s pitch our tents there tonight.” Sima You Yue said.

Halcyon took them to the oasis. For convenience’s sake, everyone was too lazy to set up their tents. They set up a fire, then sat around it and meditated.

“Someone’s coming.” Sima You Yue said as she opened her eyes.

“Probably a student from the sect?” Fatty Qu asked.

“Mm, there are quite a few of them too.” Sima You Yue said.

Very quickly, a group of people came flying over on their spirit beasts. There were a few tens of them, and the leader of which was Wang Si Miao and the others.

When they saw Sima You Yue and the others, those students immediately recognised Mo Bin and Tang Yan.

“It’s Mo Bin and Tang Yan! That’s great! The top ten of the billboard have all gathered together. We’ll be even stronger now!”

“There’s also Crazy He!”

“You’re right! We’re all gathered now.”

Hua Piao Mian didn’t think that the ones at the oasis would be Sima You Yue at the others. Seeing that some of them were laughing and bantering, her expression fell.

“Mo Bin, are you guys alright?” Pang Jia Nan was a little concerned as he asked. It was just that the look in his eyes was a little fake.

“Yeah.” Mo Bin replied casually.

“The Karma Desert is a little abnormal. Those golden scorpions are a lot more powerful than the ones we encountered years ago. Coming along with these freshmen, you weren’t dragged down were you?” Hua Piao Miao asked as she walked over.

“That’s right. We wanted to let you come with our group, but you insisted on going with these freshmen. Now, these golden scorpions can kill many in a few moments. Bringing those freshmen along with you…” Pang Jia Nan agreed, but he was interrupted halfway.

“Pang Jia Nan, you’re wrong. We’re perfectly fine, so why do you guys keep saying that You Yue and the others are dragging us down?” Tang Yan didn’t like them, so he replied poisonously.

Sima You Yue and the others were annoyed by Hua Piao Miao and Pang Jian Nan’s two person act, and were pacified greatly by what Tang Yan said.

“That’s right, Pang Jian Nan, you can’t just randomly say this and that about the freshmen. They’re powerful!” He Feng said.

“How is that possible?” A female shouted, “Even if they have a few alchemists and spirit tool masters, for these kinds of practical combat, they’ll drag you down. Right, Senior Wang?”

Wang Si Miao didn’t nod, but he didn’t deny it either.

From their perspective, freshmen would only drag them down. For a qualifying round as dangerous as this, they should stay in the sect grounds obediently, not come here and make trouble for others.

“That’s right. Earlier on, there were two freshmen who had been surrounded by golden scorpions. The others obviously could have escaped, but it was precisely because of them that a few freshmen died.” Someone added on. It was obviously dripping with dissatisfaction towards the freshmen.

As for those freshmen that were inside the group, they were hanging their heads down guiltily.