Murim's Weakest Princess

Unlike Researcher Yang’s lab, which is located far from the main street, Researcher Ke’s quarter is smaller but easier to locate. It was on the third street, a place that Anji passed by yesterday without knowing.

Compared to Researcher Yan’s neglected quarters, Researcher Ke’s lab was rather neat, even though many things were around. Someone must have been taking care of it.

Remaining silent behind Researcher Yang, who greeted Researcher Ke, Anji observed her poor complexion. At first glance, Anji could already tell how much the talented young researcher neglected her health while working on her project.

Point-to-point teleportation was a spell that employed very advanced techniques. Anji was still studying how to determine a location using the grid method. However, applying this calculation was tricky, and nobody ever succeeded because reality often differed according to the terrain. Predicting a point-to-point teleportation location was impossible without fixing the start and end locations with pre-written coordinates on talismans. It was how portals were first created. The future failures eventually led to teleportation scrolls being widely used in the murim world by rich cultivators in emergencies. These scrolls were very expensive despite teleporting the user to a random location, which could be bad. However, it was better than teleporting the user to a random location with half their body in the ground. At least, the present teleportation talisman created ensured survival.

"Anji, this is Researcher Ke, the only person in this sect working on advanced time-space spells. She might be able to help you with your studies and what you were struggling with," Researcher Yang finally introduced her, and Anji quickly bowed.

Exchanging a curt greeting, Researcher Ke yelled for someone called Hu, and Anji saw a short man with dark circles around his eyes, which was worse than Researcher Ke’s. The panda-like man introduced himself as Assistant Hu and greeted Anji with a friendly smile despite his fatigue. He exchanged greetings with Researcher Yang, who entrusted Anji in their hands before leaving and wished Anji all the best. Anji felt slightly uncertain about the ill-tempered researcher lady and her half-dead assistant. However, their hospitality was slightly better than what happened yesterday.

Once Researcher Yang was out of sight, Researcher Ke’s remaining cordial treatment vanished. Anji stiffened a little when she glared at her. Behind her, the short and thin man with panda-like eyes quickly stood in front of Anji, laughing to diffuse the situation and asked if Researcher Ke wanted some breakfast.

Clicking her tongue, the lady researcher pointed her index finger at Anji’s nose, uncaring if the gesture was rude.

"You! If it were not for Researcher Yang, I would never have accepted this babysitting request. I don’t need you to do any chores, but I won’t stop you from doing them if you want. The books are in the library. Hu will show them to you. But you must put them back where you found them. Do not touch any experiments without setup, or I will kick you out immediately. Understood?"

Nodding quickly, Anji promised not to cause trouble. However, Researcher Ke remained unconvinced.