Xiang Beifei looked up at the earthen wall above and, relying on his spiritual power, forcefully ignited the wall as well.
The extensive flames exhausted Xiang Beifei, but luckily he always had sunflower seeds from Elder Luo in his pocket, which he quickly fished out. Not bothering with the shells, he stuffed them directly into his mouth.
"Do you guys eat sunflower seeds?"
As Xiang Beifei replenished his spiritual power, the seeds proved incredibly potent, quickly rejuvenating him.
"Eat sunflower seeds?"
Fan Kai was somewhat astonished—who had time to eat sunflower seeds at a time !
"They're supplements, for restoring energy," Xiang Beifei explained.
Upon hearing this, Fan Kai hurriedly took the seeds and gave them a crack, but he immediately let out a cry of pain.
"Are these stones or what? These aren't sunflower seeds!"
Fan Kai felt like his teeth were nearly broken. He took out the seeds and touched his cheek.
"Oh? You can't crack them?"
Xiang Beifei was surprised and suddenly remembered something Ye Changfeng had said on the day of the entrance exam—not everyone is qualified to eat Elder Luo's sunflower seeds. At the time, he hadn't thought much of it, assuming it meant Elder Luo wouldn't just share his seeds with anyone; but now, it seemed there was another meaning.
Turns out Elder Luo's sunflower seeds were indeed no ordinary seeds!
"Forget the sunflower seeds then. Do you have any other supplies? Hurry up and restore your strength."
Xiang Beifei took back the seeds, even the one Fan Kai couldn't crack. He activated his spiritual power to break the shells, peeled them, and discarded the shells, making sure not a single seed was wasted.
Every time he saw Elder Luo, who would often give him a bag of seeds casually, Xiang Beifei, who would nibble on them every day full of vigor, had never given it much thought until now when he realized just how precious these seeds were.
"I have some replenishing elixirs, but they can only restore 30 percent of someone else's strength. We need to quickly figure out a way to leave," Sun Yushan said as she took out two elixirs from the system, stuffed them in her mouth, and then threw two more into Fan Kai's mouth before turning to look at the mucous blocking the window. She had already made a Vajra hammer appear in her hand!
Sun Yushan swung her hammer, which erupted with a golden light, emanating a dense aura. Spiritual power surged forth, smashing towards the window!
The whole building seemed to tremble slightly.
With early-stage Meridian Opening strength, Sun Yushan was proficient in eighteen types of weapons. The Vajra hammer, like a small mountain, wielded such force that it was astounding.
The mucous crystalline material blocking the window shattered into pieces just by her hammering!
Though her cultivation was higher than Xiang Beifei's, and what he couldn't shatter, she had solved with a single hammer strike, even causing the wall to crack. From those cracks, however, various tendrils appeared—the entire building seemed to have been overtaken by them.
"I'll throw a bomb! See if we can blast through this," Fan Kai immediately threw a marble-sized bomb towards that window, but just then, a delicate little hand suddenly extended from the mass of tendrils!
This hand, like that of a two or three-year-old child, was impeccably white and smooth, seemingly crafted from porcelain, inordinately adorable.
However, this very hand caught the bomb with unerring precision and lightly kneaded it, turning the bomb to dust!
"What the hell is this?" Fan Kai exclaimed in shock.
By this time, the crying sound of an infant from inside the building grew louder, echoing throughout the corridor, tensing all three of them. The cries seemed to emanate from just outside the window they were facing.
The crying became louder.
Soon, another porcelain-like little hand stretched out from the tendrils, followed by an infant's head, and then a plump baby in a onesie crawled out from the tendrils.
The baby kept crying, though no tears fell from its eyes, which made the crying sound strangely abnormal.
This was an odd infant, appearing to be about three years old, possibly a boy, with eyes shrouded in a layer of gray mist and unsettling blood vessels visible.
Xiang Beifei suddenly recognized those eyes!
It was the very eye that had spied on them from the hole in the fourth-floor corridor!
"Is this also a desolate beast?" Fan Kai asked in wonder.
"Would an ordinary child be able to catch a bomb?"
Without any hesitation, Sun Yushan swung her hammer again, aiming for the child. But tendrils burst through the cracks on either side, wrapping around her hammer.
After struggling for a while, Sun Yushan couldn't retrieve her hammer, and Xiang Beifei, with flames rising on his fists again, pushed past her, aiming for the infant!
His fist flame spread around him, extremely violent, compressing the space. Although not as strong as Sun Yushan, his flames forced the infant to recoil. The tendrils reached for Xiang Beifei but were repelled by the flames before they could get close.
The infant quickly extended its hand to block, and an open palm, smaller than Xiang Beifei's fist, still managed to stop his punch.
But Xiang Beifei's fist flame scorched the infant's skin, igniting it on contact. The child hastily retreated, frantically waving its hands, trying to pat out the flames on its arm.
Seizing the opportunity, Xiang Beifei focused his gaze on the flames blocking the window, his spiritual power surged forth, igniting the tendrils, and then he turned and swung a punch toward the tendrils holding Sun Yushan's hammer, driving back the flames.