The hornets were absolutely furious.
Do you know how much effort it took us to build this hive? You come in and wreck it straight away?
Watch me sting you to death.
Each one possessed by the spirit of a vengeful seamstress, they jabbed madly at Xiang Zu.
Their tiny needles moved almost as fast as a sewing machine.
Xiang Zu: !!!
[Resentment value from Xiang Zu +1000!]
[From Xiang Zu…]
His resentment value instantly maxed out.
His body swelled up like rising dough.
His eyes narrowed to slits, his lips puffed into sausages, and he ballooned into a 300-jin fatty, whimpering inside the hive.
(◦`＝´◦)
His mindset completely collapsed.
Damn you, Jiang Nan. You aimed this throw on purpose, didn’t you?
I knew it. You did it deliberately. You’re settling personal scores.
Just before Xiang Zu passed out from the venom, the paralysis finally wore off.
He shot upright, howling in agony toward the sky.
(◦༎ຶ口༎ຶ◦) Ah! Bloody hell!
The wail of despair echoed for kilometres through the mountains.
It was a cry torn from the depths of his soul.
“Jiang Nan! I’ll get you for this. Just you wait!”
[Resentment value from Xiang Zu +1000!]
Rage surging, he waved a hand. “Collapse!”
The entire hornet nest exploded into dust.
Queen bee: (ꐦಠ益ಠ) Buzz buzz buzz!
(Go call all my great-uncle’s second cousin’s third aunt’s seventh grandad’s family!)
“Buzz buzz!”
(I swear eternal enmity with this bastard!)
The swarm went berserk, stabbing Xiang Zu without mercy.
Xiang Zu’s face filled with terror. These hornets might only be egg-sized, but every one was solid gold rank.
He couldn’t hold off an entire swarm like this.
Raging helplessly felt good for a moment, but afterwards he was done for.
At this point, Xiang Zu had no time to think. He bolted desperately through the forest, as nimble as a 300-jin fatty could be.
Every so often a hornet stung him, and heart-rending screams echoed nonstop.
[Resentment value from Xiang Zu +1000!]
[From Xiang Zu…]
Meanwhile, Jiang Nan sat leisurely by the river roasting wild boar when his face suddenly showed surprise.
This Xiang Zu kid has quite a temper. In just this short time he’s already given me 300,000 resentment points?
Still so unconvinced.
I’ll teach him another lesson later.
“Little Dimple, smaller flame!”
Little Dimple, breathing fire onto the boar nearby, nodded and reduced the flames.
It was nervous inside, terrified it might end up the one on the spit next.
At this moment, more than thirty trainees who had been thrown as javelins by Jiang Nan had joined up with the twenty-odd who had escaped earlier.
Over fifty people crouched together, faces tense.
A white eagle beast-form landed from the sky and reported excitedly. “Scouted it! The two beautiful instructors are on that thickest stone pillar mountain!”
At these words, everyone grew excited.
“God Nan is impossible to crack. Let’s leave him for now!”
“To win, we start here. These two women look easy to bully!”
“Heh. More than easy. One ranged, one melee. Pull the melee away, and once the ranged gets closed on, we can do whatever we want to her.”
“We’ve got numbers. In a bit, we might even make them cry.”
They exchanged glances, fighting spirit blazing again.
After carefully reviewing the plan, the group stealthily approached the pillar mountain.
At this moment, Xia Yao crouched bored at the cliff edge, nose twitching, silver-white wolf ears twitching slightly.
“They’ve finally finished discussing! They’re heading this way!”
“They say we two are easy to bully and want to make us cry!”
Her powerful sense of smell and hearing gave her complete awareness of everything below.
Zhong Yingxue smiled sweetly. “Then let’s bully them a little.”
“Do it like we planned!”
Xia Yao giggled, wrist flicking as her blood-drinking wolf claws extended.
At that instant, eight or nine winged figures burst through the treeline, shooting into the sky at extreme speed.
Each carried an elemental attacker in their arms, preparing ranged bombardment.
Below, earth-element trainees pressed hands to the pillar mountain, and protrusions suddenly formed on the surface for climbing.
Melee fighters and tanks began frantically scaling the rock, charging the summit.
Xia Yao stood with her back to the cliff, playfully winking at Zhong Yingxue.
(∗❛ั˂̶∗)⟡
Then she leaned backwards, free-falling, wind whistling past her ears.
She flipped neatly, legs together, descending like a silver arrow from the heavens.
She slammed both feet into the face of a hardened tank, sending him plummeting like a lead weight.
Her wolf claws easily pierced the rock wall, sparks flying as she bled off momentum.
Then, hands and feet working together, she moved swiftly across the vertical cliff as if it were flat ground.
In moments she had knocked seven or eight climbers off, sending them falling hundreds of metres to crater the ground.
“Bloody hell! Part gecko? Ignore her. We’ve got numbers. As long as we reach the top… ah!”
“Hiss. Such insane physical ability. Climb faster! Hurry up!”
“What are the ones in the air doing? Attack!”
Instantly, terrifying wind blades, water knives, and fireballs rained down on Zhong Yingxue at the summit.
The sky was filled, the scene spectacular.
A few fireballs even targeted Xia Yao, but she dodged them all nimbly.
Facing the barrage of spirit techniques, Zhong Yingxue pulled out a glass jar from her pocket and took a bite.
“Mmm. Never fought quite like this. Let’s try it. Blech.”
Her little foot stamped, and raging crimson flames instantly engulfed her body. Her black hair rose, making her look like a flame queen.
Scorching heat warped the air.
“Endless mode! Activate!”
Boom!
A massive wave of fire erupted outward from Zhong Yingxue, incinerating every incoming spirit technique.
Then came the second, third, fourth waves, one after another.
Like flaming ocean waves, they turned the entire summit into a crimson hell.
This was not a new technique. She was simply releasing Incinerating Sea without pause.
At the same time, huge disc-sized fireballs flew out endlessly, Red Lotus Explosive Flames.
Above, a twenty-metre Blue Fire Fall formed.
With another lift of her hand, searing black flames poured into the fireball.
Inextinguishable Black Flame.
Instantly the twenty-metre fireball turned black.
“Combined technique! Blue Fire Black Flame!”
Boom!
The black fireball exploded, scattering countless black flames that stuck to over a dozen spirit warriors.
No matter what they tried, they could not extinguish the inextinguishable black flames, and they screamed in pain.
Three were immediately shot down, while the remaining fliers desperately dodged the Red Lotus Explosive Flames.
Even when they found openings to attack Zhong Yingxue, every strike was blocked by the wave-like Incinerating Sea.
In a single moment, every attacking trainee was stunned.
“Who can tell me how many techniques she released in one second? Bloody hell!”
“Insane! This elemental output is way too violent. What kind of firepower is this?”
“We’re squirting water pistols, and she’s got a hundred-barrel Gatling?”
“Close in? Who can get close? The moment you do, you’ll be refined into ash. No need for a crematorium!”
The live stream viewers were completely dumbfounded.
They could no longer even see Zhong Yingxue’s figure. The entire pillar mountain now looked like a torch, flames shooting dozens of metres high.
“This isn’t a fire turret. This is a powder keg!”
“Gave me goosebumps. This is the firepower of Pioneer Academy’s third-ranked?”
The summit rock walls had melted, forming spectacular lava cascades. Falling molten rock scalded the climbers, sending many more tumbling down.
“Don’t panic, everyone! With her spirit force, playing like this she’ll empty out in thirty seconds! Hold on!”
With hope, the trainees gritted their teeth and endured.
And it was true.
Zhong Yingxue’s pretty face visibly paled.
Endless mode was the ultimate skill she had learned from the old Pioneer.
Releasing techniques without pause, even three or four at once.
A powerful elemental attacker should unleash maximum firepower in the shortest time.
At full power, Zhong Yingxue’s spirit force would empty in thirty seconds.
The result was unrivalled firepower. No one could withstand it.
Zhong Yingxue smiled gently. “Sorry, I can keep this up all day.”
Normally she wouldn’t dare play like this, but now with durian flesh that instantly restored her to 150% spirit force, she could eat until sick and never run dry.
The trainees were utterly shell-shocked, faces blackened, bodies covered in inextinguishable black flames, expressions hopeless.
“This isn’t fair! Elemental attackers don’t even need tanks anymore?”
“Too strong! When elemental firepower reaches the extreme, it’s this terrifying?”
“Aaah! Burning me to death! Which bastard said these two beauties were easy to bully? Who’s bullying who here!”
Fifteen minutes later, the summit flames gradually died down, leaving molten rock everywhere.
The peak had been shaved off by seven or eight metres. Xia Yao had taken out over twenty climbers and hopped lightly over on tiptoe. “Hiss. So hot!”
On the ground lay thirty-odd trainees charred like black coals, white smoke pouring from their mouths.
Their hair was singed. The survivors stood dazed in the forest, eyes empty.
This wasn’t a gap. This was a chasm.
Jiang Nan arrived leisurely, riding Little Dimple, skewering a golden-roasted wild boar on his Blood-Drinking Halberd.
Seeing the devastated pillar mountain and the blackened corpses on the ground, Jiang Nan looked sympathetic.
“Who else would you provoke but Xuexue? Got wrecked, didn’t you? Serves you right.”
Trainees: (;´༎ຶ﹏༎ຶ`)
Jiang Nan grinned. “Oh my. Which two little cuties were so amazing? I saw the firelight from dozens of kilometres away!”
“Anyone want roast pig?”
Xia Yao: (｡⟡﹃⟡｡)ﾉ
Her eyes lit up, and she quickly raised her hand.
“Me, me, me! I do!”
Zhong Yingxue swallowed and nodded. They hadn’t eaten for over ten hours and were starving.
Looking at the glistening roast pig on Jiang Nan’s halberd, the trainees’ mouths watered with regretful tears.
[Resentment value from Shao Hua +1000!]
[From…]
Meanwhile, another group of over forty trainees marched confidently toward Big Bear and Second Bear, full of determination!
