First place in the freshman list

In the past, Gu Xiaoyue had truly only thought that Chu Li was a simple playboy.

Even the appearance of the Azure Phoenix was merely a tool for Chu Li to please the original owner and be clingy with her.

But his words now made Gu Xiaoyue feel that she had underestimated Chu Li.

This version of Chu Li seemed to have experienced life and death—he understood how to cherish life and was extremely responsible.

Gu Xiaoyue smiled knowingly. "If you want to train, then train. Why give money! You are my creditor. The money you give me, I just have to use it to pay you back. It's moving money from the left pocket to the right pocket; there's no need for that!"

Chu Li also smiled, like winter sunlight, soft and warm.

"But I never wanted you to pay me back."

He wanted to say, in a past life, you saved my life; even if I gave my life to you, I would do it willingly.

Chu Li held it back; this was his deepest secret.

Thus, Gu Xiaoyue and Chu Li returned to how they were in middle school, when the two of them often trained together.

However, now Ye Wanrou and Chen Yixuan would sometimes join them for activities.

Gu Xiaoyue and Chu Li practiced their summoning skills, while Ye Wanrou trained her Unicorn on the side, and Chen Yixuan practiced healing skills nearby.

After completing her daily check-in, Gu Xiaoyue exchanged for some lanzhi grass and fed it to Xiao Lan, Xiao Lu, and Xiao Mo.

She had two pieces left, which she still shared with Ye Wanrou and Chen Yixuan.

Chen Yixuan, who was in the healing class, didn't need to fight for the Freshman Ranking List; they had their own rankings.

The top ten receive 500,000 star coins per person each month, eleventh to twentieth get 300,000, and those after twentieth get 150,000 per person.

Simply put, as long as you are in the healing class, everyone gets a reward.

It's just that with that little bit of bonus, how long would one have to save to buy a single piece of lanzhi grass!

Chen Yixuan was full of gratitude toward Gu Xiaoyue. With this piece of lanzhi grass, his pet beast should be able to reach the Young life stage level 7 this month.

Ye Wanrou also gave her a bear hug, burying her face in Gu Xiaoyue's chest, and said emotionally, "Xiao Yue, you are my goddess! From now on, if you tell me to go east, I will absolutely not go west!"

This time, Chu Li wasn't jealous at all. They were moved to tears just by being given two pieces of lanzhi grass.

If they knew that Xiao Yue had given him golden scale fruit, wouldn't they be fuming with jealousy?

Gu Xiaoyue had thought that since Chu Li challenged Wei Liuyun and took first place on the Freshman Ranking List, he would be challenged every day and be very busy.

But the reality was—more than two weeks had passed, and not a single person had challenged him.

On the contrary, the other rankings were being fought for intensely.

Gu Xiaoyue's Xiao Qi, Xiao Jiu, and Qingqing had all reached the Young life stage level 9.

Once Chu Li's Fire Phoenix also reached the Young life stage level 9, someone finally came to challenge him.

This person was named Fang Xiaoyu. He had successfully challenged several people on the Freshman Ranking List and was currently ranked second.

He actually knew his strength wasn't as good as Chu Li's, but he still wanted to try fighting him to understand the gap between them.

Chu Li accepted his challenge, which made Fang Xiaoyu very excited; he was an out-and-out warmonger.

On the arena, Chu Li only summoned his Young life stage level 9 Fire Phoenix, and it completely suppressed Fang Xiaoyu's Devouring Golden Claw Leopard.

Although it was also a Heaven Level pet beast, it was only a Young life stage level 8 mid-grade Heaven Level, so Fang Xiaoyu's defeat was without any suspense.

However, compared to Wei Liuyun's unwillingness to accept defeat, Fang Xiaoyu excitedly thanked Chu Li for giving him the chance to spar.

Fang Xiaoyu knew that Chu Li could have easily released two pet beasts to end the battle quickly.

But Chu Li only used one pet beast, which meant he treated him as a worthy opponent and fought seriously.

Wei Liuyun, who was watching from below, was so angry that his teeth itched. How had Chu Li's pet beast leveled up!

His own pet beast was still at the Young life stage level 8 and would take at least until the end of the month or next month to level up. Did that mean he would always be suppressed by Chu Li?

Wei Liuyun left in resentment.

It wasn't until the day before the Freshman Ranking List was released that Chu Li and Gu Xiaoyue went to report to their Head Teacher.

"Gu Xiaoyue challenges Chu Li. Let me register that."

Director Ding XinYu registered it mechanically, and only after a long while did she react— "What! Gu Xiaoyue, you want to challenge Chu Li?"

Gu Xiaoyue looked at Head Teacher Ding's flustered appearance and found it somewhat funny, but she couldn't laugh out loud.

She had to suppress her laughter and nodded.

Director Ding XinYu looked at Gu Xiaoyue with a worried expression.

She knew this girl had cleared the college entrance exam in just over 30 minutes.

Not to mention students with Heaven or Earth Level talent, even they might not necessarily achieve such a result, let alone this twelve-attribute Human Level talent.

Surely it must have been that the machine had malfunctioned and teleported her out early.

Although the probability of a machine malfunction was very low, perhaps one in a million, it wasn't impossible.

Director Ding XinYu thought with certainty. However, since they had come to report, she would register it for them.

The arena match was scheduled for the afternoon. There were always many people at every one of Chu Li's arena matches.

Today was the last day, so there were even more people.

Gu Xiaoyue and Chu Li stepped onto the arena, and the people below were whispering and discussing.

Many of them knew Gu Xiaoyue, as she trained with Chu Li every day, but they also knew about her useless attributes and just thought of her as someone riding on his coattails.

The referee's whistle blew, but Gu Xiaoyue and Chu Li just stood on the stage without making a move.

The students below became anxious and started urging them on.

"Fight, will you! What are you standing there for?"

"Summon your pet beasts, brother and sister!"

Under everyone's impatient urging, Chu Li spoke up: "I concede!"

This caused an uproar—

"What the hell? I came to watch the battle, and I watched nothing!"

"Wait, is this PDA?"

"Brother, I think so too. This is definitely PDA!"

Only Bai Youlian was below the stage, screaming hysterically, "Cheating! Gu Xiaoyue, this is cheating! — —"

Gu Xiaoyue narrowed her eyes. The last person to accuse her of cheating was Gu Xiaoxing; both of them were equally noisy!

However, Gu Xiaoyue ignored her and just asked the referee if she could be declared the winner.

The referee nodded awkwardly. Since the first place on the Freshman Ranking List conceded to Gu Xiaoyue, Gu Xiaoyue was the undisputed first place.

Who made a rule saying you can't concede?

They hadn't violated any rules, and as for the dissatisfied voices below—they could just get their revenge next month.

The referee announced that Gu Xiaoyue was the first place on the Freshman Ranking List and incidentally told her that the ranking list would be published in the morning, and the rewards would arrive in the afternoon.

Gu Xiaoyue returned to her dormitory, very happy, not only because she had taken first place on the Freshman Ranking List—but also because Xiao Qi's Wind Manipulation skill had reached the Advanced level.

It shouldn't have leveled up so quickly, but Gu Xiaoyue saw that the system check-in gave a drop of spirit condensation dew every day, so she fed two drops to Xiao Qi.

spirit condensation dew was originally meant to help pet beast skills advance from Proficient to Perfect, but she didn't expect it to be very helpful for advancing from Intermediate to Advanced as well.

Gu Xiaoyue hadn't told anyone; otherwise, she would definitely be accused of "chewing peonies like a cow"—wasting precious materials.

Immediately, she fed two drops to each of her other seven pet beasts.

She wanted them all to reach Advanced, and then all to reach Proficient. She couldn't help but curl her lips in satisfaction.

Until the voice of Bai Youlian appeared, ruining Gu Xiaoyue's good mood.

"Gu Xiaoyue, go tell the Head Teacher that you cheated to get off the Freshman Ranking List!"