Chapter 63

The spiritual energy on Earth is almost depleted, making it impossible to produce powerful spiritual energy collectors. Someone like Yun Haiyong, who has practiced for decades and can split stones with his bare hands, is considered an expert.

However, even Yun Haiyong, who has dedicated decades to cultivation, collects spiritual energy very slowly. In front of him, Wu Simeng's rate of collecting spiritual energy is more than ten times faster. This is abnormal and should not be the collection speed of a carbon-based life form in the early stage!

Li Yi quickly walked to Wu Simeng's side and immediately understood the reason. At this moment, Wu Simeng frowned and opened her eyes.

Being disturbed during cultivation is a very unpleasant experience. Wu Simeng looked at Li Yi and asked somewhat unhappily, "You... Oh, it's you? What's up?"

Wu Simeng and Li Yi are not in the same class and are not familiar with each other. She couldn't call out Li Yi's name but still recognized him.

Last semester, Li Yi provoked a young thug from outside the school. The thug brought a group of hooligans to the school gate to block him. Wu Simeng saw her schoolmate being beaten by outsiders and stepped forward to save Li Yi.

For Wu Simeng, this was a trivial matter. She had stood up for schoolmates many times before.

In fact, after saving Li Yi, Wu Simeng never gave him a second glance. To her, Li Yi was just another face in the crowd, indistinguishable from the thousands of other students.

But for Li Yi, that act of bravery was a significant event in his life. For a long time, Wu Simeng's heroic image remained in his heart, becoming an indelible shadow. He had tried to pursue her several times but always backed out at the last moment.

First, he and Wu Simeng were not familiar with each other, and pursuing someone he didn't know would be too shameless. Second, Li Yi felt that Wu Simeng was too strong. How could he have the nerve to pursue someone he couldn't even fight? Third, Wu Simeng's charm was outstanding, and she was pursued by countless people, but she ignored all of them. Pursuing her would only lead to rejection.

The reason Li Yi pursued Gu Xiaoyan was actually quite funny. He thought Gu Xiaoyan looked a lot like Wu Simeng, and since they were desk partners, they were relatively familiar. It seemed easier to succeed...

Of course, the result was that Li Yi was rejected, and he became a laughingstock in the class.

After being rejected by Gu Xiaoyan, Li Yi lost even more courage to pursue Wu Simeng.

Looking at the beautiful girl in front of him, a bit of his youthful sentiment welled up in Li Yi's heart, though it was just a little. Those youthful feelings had long faded in the river of time.

"Your cultivation seems to have a problem," Li Yi said with a smile.

Wu Simeng had helped him, and no matter the reason, he should return the favor. Besides, helping Wu Simeng wouldn't be much trouble for him.

Wu Simeng's brows furrowed.

A few months ago, this boy was beaten up by a group of hooligans at the school gate. If she hadn't intervened, he might have ended up in the hospital. How could someone who can't even fight off a few hooligans come to guide her in cultivation? Have boys become so lowbrow in their approaches lately?

Moreover, five days ago, she had a miraculous encounter, and her cultivation speed increased by dozens of times. She had been in a state of excitement for the past few days, feeling that her cultivation had not only improved but made a leap forward!

"My cultivation is fine. Please don't disturb me!" Wu Simeng said, then closed her eyes.

Li Yi wasn't the first or the last boy to try to strike up a conversation with her. Such people were more annoying the more attention they got, so it was better to give them a cold shoulder early.

"What are the patterns on your abdomen?" Li Yi asked softly.

Wu Simeng was slightly startled and quickly opened her eyes. Her cultivation speed improvement was entirely due to these patterns, but they were on her abdomen. How did Li Yi know about them?

Before she could recover from her surprise, a finger touched her forehead—it was Li Yi's finger!

"You!" Wu Simeng screamed and stood up from the ground.

Many boys had tried to strike up conversations with her, but Li Yi was the first to touch her without permission!

He actually touched her!

First, he disturbed her cultivation with a strange reason, and now he touched her face. Wu Simeng's anger flared up.

Almost in the same second, Wu Simeng extended her delicate hand at lightning speed and grabbed Li Yi's wrist.

No boy had ever taken advantage of her, and even a single finger from Li Yi was unacceptable!

Wu Simeng's grappling techniques were very skilled, and she could match her father. In school, she could take down any member of the martial arts team with one move, let alone ordinary people.

However, she didn't expect that as soon as she used her grappling technique, it was caught by another large hand. That large hand was so strong that she couldn't struggle free.

"What are you doing? Want to spar?" Li Yi held her soft, boneless hands and said with a half-smile.

Wu Simeng was even more furious when she saw Li Yi's face. What kind of person was this, touching her face and then grabbing her hand?

From a young age, her hands had never been held so intimately by anyone!

Almost in the same breath, Wu Simeng's entire body rose into the air. Her hand was still held by Li Yi, but her long, graceful legs drew an elegant arc and aimed for Li Yi's neck!

Actually, Wu Simeng rarely used the scissor kick because she thought it was unrefined for a girl to wrap her legs around someone. If Li Yi hadn't provoked her, she wouldn't have used this move.

But rarely used doesn't mean it's not strong. In the Wu family's martial arts, the coiling scissor kick is one of the few unique techniques.

During practice at home, she had used this move countless times on the iron dummy. Her legs were long and flexible, and the technique was both fast and fierce. If the iron dummy were a small tree, she could even snap it with one hit!

However, something unexpected happened.

Wu Simeng found that after using the scissor kick, she didn't catch Li Yi's neck but wrapped around his waist!

No matter how hard she thought, she couldn't understand how a scissor kick from above could end up around the waist!

But wrapping around the waist was better. After all, a scissor kick to the neck could be fatal, while a scissor kick to the waist was harmless. Wu Simeng immediately used the "coiling" technique, tightening her legs around Li Yi's waist and twisting to the side to try to knock him down!

"Your legs are pretty slim!" Li Yi found it somewhat amusing to see the beautiful girl's hands held by him and her legs wrapped around his waist, and he lightly teased her.

"You... You!" Wu Simeng used all her strength, her face turning red, but Li Yi didn't budge at all.