The Master of Zong Yu Bi’anhua was also her mother, a woman whose beauty rivaled Bi’anhua’s own, only more mature than her daughter.
“Very well, I am indeed Bi’anhua. Zhu Wen Huangzi, you truly have an impressive presence, a real dragon and phoenix among men. From now on, we should get much closer!”
This woman spoke with no restraint at all, and her single sentence made Zhu Wen’s heart pound wildly.
Jian Mo frowned and quickly said, “Junior Sister, Ling Xiao is nothing more than an ant. Dealing with him would take only a moment, nothing exciting. Why don’t you go back and rest first?”
He had always regarded Zong Yu Bi’anhua as his exclusive possession, even though nothing had ever happened between them.
Bi’anhua seemed friendly with everyone and appeared easy to obtain, yet no one had ever truly possessed her.
At most, they might touch her hand.
That was why Jian Mo wanted to be the first to claim her, and precisely for that reason, he did not want her showing herself in public here.
“Senior Brother, I just want to watch the fun. Let Ling Xiao come out. A few days ago, wasn’t he acting so arrogantly when he destroyed Lingyue Courtyard? He shouldn’t be a coward who hides his head.”
Zong Yu Bi’anhua naturally refused to leave.
She greatly enjoyed watching others suffer. This twisted mentality brought her immense pleasure.
“Did you hear that? Where is Ling Xiao? Get him out here right now, or today I will start a real massacre!”
Jian Mo coldly stared at the group of Qingxu Academy disciples below, his eyes filled with intense killing intent.
In terms of arrogance and tyranny, this man was truly no less than Ling Xiao.
When he said he would kill, he absolutely meant it.
No one spoke. Even their strongest teacher, who had reached the Fourth Heavenly Cave Realm, had been killed. What could the rest do?
The Xuan Realm was a world where the strong preyed on the weak. If your strength was inferior, you had to endure humiliation.
If you refused to become a dog, you died.
As the saying goes, better to live poorly than die well. Most people probably did not want to lose their lives over a rash action.
Even now, no one dared approach the corpse of that tragically dead teacher to clean it up.
“Hahahaha, trash! A pack of dogs too scared to bark. What use are you?”
Amid his wild laughter, Jian Mo thrust his black sword forward again. Sword qi soared into the sky, transforming into a massive phantom that enveloped almost everyone below the platform.
He really attacked!
He attacked without any hesitation!
He did not take the people below seriously at all.
“It’s over!”
The disciples of Qingxu Academy, including those teachers who had only recently broken through to the Heavenly Cave Realm, felt utter despair and sorrow.
To be massacred inside Qingxu Academy itself. If word got out, who would believe it?
How frustrating!
Boom!
Just as that sword qi was about to crash into the crowd, someone finally deflected it.
The sword qi struck the ground, producing a tremendous roar. A huge crater appeared there, its edges cut so cleanly that the stone and earth looked perfectly sliced.
“Oh? I didn’t expect Qingxu Academy to have someone with such courage. What’s your name?”
Jian Mo paused, then showed a trace of a smile.
The man before him clearly had lower cultivation than the previous teacher, yet he had blocked one of Jian Mo’s sword qi attacks. That proved his strength was remarkable, and he was undoubtedly a genius-level figure.
However, this person was missing his left arm, and his hair had turned completely white.
“Qingxu Academy disciple, Shangguan Hong!”
The one-armed young man raised his head to look at the four people standing on the statue. Though his eyes showed a serious expression, there was not the slightest fear.
“So you are that Shangguan Hong who nearly obtained the position of Huangzi. After Ling Xiao severed your arm, you became his dog instead?”
Jian Mo sneered.
Shangguan Hong glanced at Jian Mo with an indifferent expression and said, “Jian Mo, what exactly do you intend by seeking Senior Brother Ling Xiao?”
He knew that with his current strength, he was no match for any of these four. Still, holding one of them back for dozens of moves was within his ability.
“Kill him.”
Jian Mo answered with absolute directness.
He hid nothing. He had come here today specifically to kill Ling Xiao in front of the entire Qingxu Academy. Otherwise, he would not have bothered showing up.
“Do you realise that Senior Brother Ling Xiao is the number one expert of Qingxu Academy, a core disciple under special cultivation? Killing him means making an enemy of the whole Qingxu Academy?”
Shangguan Hong asked again.
“Of course I know. A bunch of turtles who don’t even dare resist. Why would I be afraid?”
Jian Mo laughed mockingly.
“Brother Jian Mo’s words may be harsh, but they are true. We came today only for Ling Xiao. If Qingxu Academy hands him over, no one else needs to die.”
Zhu Wen also spoke calmly. “Don’t expect Dean Zhou Yun or Dean Feng Qingyan to appear. Neither of them will come today.”
To ensure Ling Xiao’s death with certainty, their plan this time was extremely thorough.
Zhou Yun and Feng Qingyan had been summoned by Feng Ming Wuliang to discuss important matters, so they naturally would not know what was happening here today.
As for the Moon Lady, the Chief would deal with her.
Leng Mei and Die Nu would be handled by others, which should be more than enough.
Qingxu Academy had no other Yin-Yang Realm experts left. As long as Ling Xiao could not withstand them, he was doomed. No one would come to save him.
Today, Ling Xiao faced certain death.
Hearing these words, the teachers and disciples of Qingxu Academy already felt the urge to flee.
None of them could afford to offend these people.
They knew Ling Xiao’s character well. Betraying or selling him out would almost certainly end in death.
Yet standing up for him today would likely also lead to death.
They did not know what to do.
Shangguan Hong frowned as well, realising that today’s situation was most likely hopeless.
But his thoughts differed from the others.
On the day at Lingyue Courtyard, the enemy’s scheme had seemed flawless, yet Ling Xiao still found a flaw and turned the tables to kill them instead.
Today’s matter appeared to offer no chance of reversal, but as long as one did not give up, there was surely still hope!
After that moment of enlightenment, Shangguan Hong could not claim he no longer feared death. He still feared it, of course. But he absolutely refused to abandon his principles as a human being or his martial path just because of that fear.
Otherwise, he would truly be finished, with no chance of ever rising again.
Even though he knew that Jian Mo alone, without Zhou Yun and Feng Qingyan present, could sweep through Qingxu Academy.
Not to mention the other two, whose strength was in no way inferior to Jian Mo’s.
If all three truly wanted to destroy Qingxu Academy, they might actually succeed today.
All he, Shangguan Hong, could do was try his best to block them.
Whether he would succeed depended on fate.
At the very least, he no longer wanted to run away or surrender the moment he was defeated, as he had done before.
Today, he wanted to live like a true martial artist!
