The two elders were naturally extremely familiar with the environment around Mount Tai. Before long, they led everybody down the mountain using a small path that led straight to Godsend Academy’s back door.

When everybody finally entered Godsend Academy while following the two proctors, they heaved a sigh of relief.

Godsend Academy was located in a beautiful environment. It was populated with trees that created shade, and the air was filled with the scent of flowers and grasses, accompanied by the faint medicinal fragrance coming from the medicinal building far away.

“Everybody can check whether you can open your inner worlds with your mystic conscious now,” the two elders reminded with a smile.

Zhou Danjin and company all tested it out and subsequently nodded in delight. They said in unison, “We can now.”

“That’s great.” The elder nodded before explaining tirelessly, “Actually, there is a kind of tree that can block people’s mystic conscious and spiritual conscious which grows within certain special areas inside Mount Tai. We call it a screening tree.”

“Previously, Mount Tai’s protective beast, the double-headed flood dragon, caused the entire mountain to shake due to its battle with another entity. This made the entire surface cave in. The majority of people were transferred out from inside the mountain, while a minority, including you all, got swept inside the mountain.”

The dean thus dispatched the academy’s elders to stand guard at the exits so that they could immediately lead you out the moment they saw you.

“The other people came out after several days in groups, but we were only able to encounter your teams today. Speaking of which, the second round of the academy ranking competition will take place in three days. You all came out right on time!”

Everybody was finally enlightened and understood why they were unable to use their spiritual conscious after going underground.

Most likely, one of the screening tree’s roots was connected to that place deep inside the mountain, putting it in its area of influence.

“In that case, we have passed the preliminaries?” A Sunlight Academy student asked excitedly.

The elder promptly gave them an affirmative nod. “But of course! You have already destroyed the entire zombie underground base. Your meritorious service is unparalleled!”

“There is no question that all of you have passed the preliminaries.”

Everybody finally felt in high spirits. Originally, they had been muttering in their minds how they had only been focused on fighting and missed the chance to scavenge through the zombies’ remains, so they had no evidence to prove the number of zombies that they had killed.

Upon hearing this, Qiao Mu poured out a large heap of bones from her storage talisman. She deadpanned, “You should’ve said so earlier!”

/You made her collect so much garbage for nothing!/

/It was simply tainting her storage talisman!/

Everyone: “…”

“Pfft.” It was unknown who started bursting out into laughter.

The other people also couldn’t resist getting infected by the laughter. After recovering their wits, they thought this little stoic did not seem as vicious and was rather immeasurably adorable.

/It was simply too comical!/

/It turned out that this little stoic didn’t forget to collect these zombies’ bones for them while she was fighting./

/Even though she didn’t say it, she took everything into account for them./

/She was worried that they would be unable to produce the bones as evidence after they spent so much energy to kill them, and that their labor would amount to nothing./

All the students cupped their hands toward her and said with a smile, “Thank you.”

Yet the little stoic turned her petite face aside and muttered expressionlessly, “It’s not like I picked them up for you. You’re thinking too much.”