When he thought about those memories, Baili Qingxue's heart softened. His thin lips parted slightly as if he was about to say something.
However, he wasn't very good at explaining, so eventually he just quietly pursed his lips and used his clear eyes to look gently at Lin Wanyue.
Lin Wanyue's head was lowered while she secretly started thinking about how to deal with Yun Qingyan and didn't notice Baili Qingxue looking at her.
Once all the teams had reached the assembly point, they could head off on their own. The rest of the activities had to be completed by the students themselves, so the teachers would not interfere anymore.
"Ooh! This is the Forest of No Return? It's really huge." A young man in blue from the team looked at the dense forest of old trees and couldn't help but exclaim.
"Of course it is. The Forest of No Return is the biggest in the Tianyuan Continent. It spans across the Beian Nation, the Xingluo Nation, and the Nanjiang Nation, so of course, it's huge," the young man next to him said excitedly. "I heard that the Forest of No Return is famous precisely because its paths are extremely treacherous and many ferocious and vicious Magical Beasts hide within it. Out of all the adventurers who enter the forest, almost nobody makes it out alive and most of them end up leaving their skeletons behind here. After some time, it ended up being called the Forest of No Return."
After that, he continued to shake his head. "But no matter how dangerous it is, it can't stop adventurers from going in to explore. There are dangers but there are also opportunities. It has all sorts of valuable and rare treasures and herbs. Absolutely everything you ever wished for."
The young man looked a little sad now. "Unfortunately, we can only walk along the outskirts of the forest, and we can't go in to see."
The group continued walking through the forest as they discussed this fervently.
Lin Wanyue was walking right in front when she heard these words. A glint flashed in her eyes and she stopped in her footsteps. "Does everyone want to have a look at the middle of the forest?"
Her gentle voice instantly calmed down the anxious feeling in everyone's hearts as they came out to explore for the first time.
"Senior Wanyue, I… don't think that's a good idea." The young man who seemed raring to go earlier immediately looked hesitant. It was one thing to be ambitious, but another to send himself to his grave.
Just the outskirts of the Forest of No Return was already dangerous enough to them. The middle of the Forest of No Return wasn't a place that rookies like them who had just become Elementalists could enter.
Baili Qingxue also pursed his lips and frowned. Before they left the academy, Elder Yue had specifically reminded everyone not to move around outside the demarcated area.
If they went to the middle of the Forest of No Return, the teachers would not be able to arrive in time to save anyone in danger, and there were some powerful Magical Beasts that even the teachers of Qingxuan Academy were unable to handle.
"Dear junior, don't worry. I'm already a First Stage Earth Elementalist, and I'm able to handle going into the middle of the Forest of No Return. If anything happens, I promise to do my best to protect all my lovely juniors." A proud expression appeared on Lin Wanyue's face. In the Beian Nation, it was not bad that she could become an Earth Elementalist at her age, and it was more surprising because she was a woman.
Lin Wanyue's almond-shaped eyes stole a glance at Baili Qingxue. "Even if I'm not good enough, we still have Qingxue, right? Qingxue is already a Heaven Elementalist, so even if he can't get to the deep center of the Forest of No Return, he would still survive."
After noticing the wavering and struggling looks on everyone's faces, Lin Wanyue decided to add more fuel to the fire, "The middle section of the Forest of No Return has even more opportunities and Magical Beasts. Qingxue and I will help to attack the Magical Beasts, while the rest of you work together and surround them as well. As opposed to fighting with everybody else on the outer section for a bunch of low-level rabbits, the chances of winning are higher if we go to the middle."
Yun Qingyan had been ostracized all this entire time and was left at the back of the team to be treated as a part of the background. She lazily glanced at Lin Wanyue and her lips curled upwards.
It was a good thing to have self-confidence, but having too much of it was as good as courting death.
Only an Elementalist who was spoilt and sheltered with no experience in fighting would view a forest filled with dangerous Magical Beasts so simply.
But Lin Wanyue seemed very insistent on going to the middle of the Forest of No Return. What was she trying to do?