Chapter 1175: Chapter 1171: Face-eating Worm

Er Dan happily lowered its head and started eating the grass on the ground. It had only made the tiniest move and already got such benefits—totally a huge profit.

The others came back one after another. Seeing "Yun Ran" sitting in the most conspicuous spot, they no longer had any objections.

Seeing how quickly these people recognized the situation, Ginsengfruit was very satisfied.

The people waiting nearby to see what happened next had thought they’d get to watch some big drama, and in the end—this was it?

"Looks like the rules of Moonlight City seem to vary from person to person. If it were anyone else causing this kind of commotion, who knows what kind of punishment they’d be facing."

The person speaking clearly carried a trace of jealousy and unwillingness in their tone.

But he only dared to complain in a low voice like this, and didn’t dare walk up to Yun Ran and say anything to her face.

A loud boom suddenly rang out, yanking everyone’s attention away.

Even Er Dan, who was in the middle of munching grass, lifted its head to look. Multicolored smoke exploded at the center of the Martial Arts Arena.

The preliminary round of the selection tournament was about to begin, yet there was not the slightest shadow of Yun Ran to be seen.

A trace of worry instantly tinted Ginsengfruit’s eyes.

He had no idea where the Host was at the moment. He could substitute for the Host and attend that selection tournament, but he didn’t know what specific plan the Host had.

Meanwhile, Yun Ran was still wandering around this unknown place. She’d been searching for a long time without finding a single useful clue.

Another gust of wind blew over from who-knows-where. Yun Ran still planned to raise her hand and bat the wind away.

Only, this time the wind was clearly different. The moment Yun Ran touched that gust, a wave of drowsiness suddenly washed over her.

This immediately made her sense that something was off. In that instant, Yun Ran decided to go along with that drowsiness.

She wanted to see what would happen next.

The drowsiness came fast and hard. As Yun Ran collapsed, she instinctively relaxed the strength in her body, so she didn’t end up hurting herself.

Half-conscious, Yun Ran heard some indistinct whispering at her ears.

The sound seemed to carry no obvious direct lethality, yet the damage it did to the Divine Soul was clearly not small.

Yun Ran pretended to have been hit. Those whispers entered her ears, but in truth, the damage they did to her was limited.

This was thanks to Yun Ran cultivating Thunder Techniques to begin with and having endured quite a bit of tempering by Heavenly Thunder before; the influence of Evil Spirits on her was very limited.

Just when Yun Ran thought the methods of these Evil Spirits amounted to nothing more than this, something crawled onto her face.

Right after, a faint sting spread across her face, like something was pricking her skin.

Yun Ran: ...

Good grief, she was only pretending to be hit, and those unknown bastards actually dared to lay hands on her for real!

Yun Ran abruptly opened her eyes and reached out, trying to grab the thing causing trouble, but her hand closed on nothing.

The prickling feeling on her face, however, only grew more obvious.

Yun Ran reached into her bag and took out the copper mirror, wanting to see what exactly was going on with her face.

The copper mirror thought Yun Ran had taken it out because she had some task for it, yet all it saw was Yun Ran staring at it, looking herself over from left to right.

[If you have something to say, just say it directly. No need to look at me with that weird gaze. I’m a little scared...]

Yun Ran immediately rolled her eyes at the copper mirror, and the Yun Ran reflected in the mirror rolled her eyes in sync.

"Check what’s making my face all prickly?"

She had no idea what was acting up here. Ginsengfruit hadn’t been able to scan this place earlier, and she herself couldn’t see through the situation here either.

The moment the copper mirror heard this, it felt an immense pressure.

It had already been contracted by Yun Ran; anything Yun Ran didn’t know, the copper mirror figured there was a very low chance it would know either.

But no matter what, the copper mirror didn’t dare refuse Yun Ran, so it could only grit its metaphorical teeth and start displaying.

A streak of light flashed across the copper mirror, and Yun Ran finally saw what exactly was happening on her face in the reflection.

Countless tiny insects were clinging to her face. After just a short while, Yun Ran’s face began to blur in the mirror.

Yun Ran’s reaction was still fairly normal, as if there was no image that could really surprise her.

The copper mirror, however, was shocked. It only felt that the Yun Ran in the mirror, whose face was starting to blur, looked terrifying.

[These bugs will steal your face and turn you into a faceless monster!]

Yun Ran had seen plenty of things like people’s treasures being taken, or their Talent and achievements being stripped away.

Someone having their face taken—this was the first time she’d heard of such a thing. Truly a "live-long-enough-and-you’ll-see-everything" moment.

Qingfeng Temple couldn’t possibly know all the methods of sinister forces, so when Qingfeng Temple disciples traveled outside, they would record any unfamiliar methods they encountered.

For others, this moment would be the textbook definition of a life-or-death emergency.

Yun Ran, however, pulled out Qingfeng Temple’s special field record booklet at the first opportunity.

After biting open the cap of her pen, she thought for a moment, then began to write, recording not only her own sensations, but also sketching what the bugs looked like.

To record these bugs more thoroughly, Yun Ran even tested several common methods on them, observing their reactions.

She completely didn’t treat the fact that these invisible bugs were tearing at her face as anything worth worrying about.

The results, however, were not ideal.

The copper mirror watched this kind of Yun Ran with lingering fear, yet also with a bit of relief.

Thankfully, it had been perceptive earlier and hadn’t tried to play any tricks on Yun Ran.

Otherwise, crossing a ruthless person who didn’t even care about her own face and could treat it as a tool—well, it might really have ended up as a pile of scrap.

Yun Ran quickly finished recording these unknown bugs and even gave them a temporary name—Face-eating Worms.

After closing the record booklet, Yun Ran took out a very small bottle, caught some of the bugs, and sealed them inside.

Only when the stinging on her face grew more intense, even seeping out a bit of blood, did Yun Ran finally start lazily dealing with the bugs.

The copper mirror only saw Yun Ran take out a bottle of greenish powder and pour the entire thing over her own face.

This made Yun Ran look like some kind of green-faced monster.

If anyone else were here watching, they’d definitely be scared half to death.

The green powder, once scattered over her face, quickly formed a hard shell.

Only after the stinging on her face vanished did Yun Ran peel off that green shell, which had perfectly "printed" her facial contours.

Looking into the mirror again, that face which had been gnawed blurry by the bugs had returned to normal.

The copper mirror: ...

If it hadn’t seen this with its own eyes, it would absolutely have thought this was a magic trick!