So you're still alive?!

Although they hadn't seen such an imposing ladder to the sky like that of the Pinglan Star Academy before, they were no strangers to this kind of assessment. The Longxing Star Academy, which ranked fifth among the noble family star academies, had a ladder to the sky specifically used to test the willpower of cultivators. There were restrictions set on it, and when people walked on it, it was as if their feet were bound, and they had to use great strength to take a step. The examinee who rushed ahead estimated that the restrictions on this ladder to the sky in front of him would be stronger. As the first one to take the risk, he deliberately showed off his ability and directly used thirty percent of his star power to lift his foot. Never had he expected that there were no restrictions on the ladder to the sky at all. Caught off guard, he used too much force and immediately somersaulted and flew backwards. The noble family cultivators following behind him didn't know what had happened. Worried that there were traps on the ladder to the sky, they hurriedly stopped in their tracks. For a moment, no one dared to go up. Just then, a clear and calm voice rang out behind them: "Excuse me, please make way." The noble family cultivators subconsciously turned around and saw a girl with black dirt on her face standing there, still faintly giving off a sour and stinky smell. They immediately covered their noses and stepped aside to make way. So Lan Zhi smoothly stepped onto the ladder to the sky. Seeing that she walked up step by step, with light and easy steps and without any abnormalities, everyone finally felt relieved and also followed one after another to walk up. As Lan Zhi walked, she suddenly found that the surrounding scene had changed. The sunlight disappeared, the ladder to the sky disappeared, and the cultivators following behind her were also gone. She was walking alone on a dimly lit road. There were many people with unclear faces walking towards her on the road, brushing past her, and finally disappearing. Was this an illusion? Lan Zhi paused slightly in her steps and saw an old woman with a stooped figure among the people walking towards her. She was hunched over, her eyes were cloudy, and there were two deep nasolabial folds on her thin face, making her look a bit mean. As if aware of her gaze, the old woman walked towards her and asked her through gritted teeth, "Why did you curse me to die?! If it weren't for you cursing me to die, I wouldn't have died!" Lan Zhi was stunned for a moment and suddenly remembered that this was the old nanny who had been in charge of taking care of her before she was eight years old. Before she had her star veins tested at the age of eight, she was like a wild grass in the Tianyi Family. As long as she didn't bump into those people, no one would care what she did. Except for this old nanny. The old nanny actually didn't really take care of her either. Usually, she just delivered meals to her small shabby room on time or added some clothes to her, so that she wouldn't starve to death or freeze to death. After knowing that she had secretly gone to the school, the old nanny also turned a blind eye, at most just warned her a sentence or two, telling her not to be discovered by others, and that was all. Later, one day, the old nanny suddenly fell down and fainted in front of her. She was so frightened that she ran to the back of the small room, pulled out a small grass that was said to be able to heal wounds, boiled it in a small broken pot, and wanted to cure the old nanny. But it was inconvenient for the old nanny to lie on her stomach, so she decided to move the other person up first. Before her hand reached out, the old nanny woke up by herself. She was startled and blurted out, "So you're still alive?!" The old nanny got up, gave her a cold glance, and left. That was the last time she met the old nanny and the last time they talked. Later, she learned that the old nanny passed away on the day she returned. Also, it was only later that she realized that the old nanny had been the nicest person to her in the Tianyi Family. For a long time after that, she couldn't help thinking whether the old nanny had died because of that sentence she said which seemed like a curse, and whether the old nanny had died because she hadn't fed her that bowl of medicinal soup.