Liu Yun's hand trembled slightly as she looked toward the southeast, her lips twitching.
“Tian Guannan.”
The man she called out to was the Edgerunner in charge of the North District. Hearing his name, he instinctively stood a little straighter. “What are your orders, Prophet?”
“Is there something wrong with your subordinates?” Liu Yun's voice was flat, but her eyes seemed to pierce right into his soul.
“The Graduation Show is a serious matter. There shouldn't be any petty tricks.”
Tian Guannan froze, a troubled smile forming on his face. “Prophet Liu, I... I don't know what you mean.”
Liu Yun shook her head. “The instructor leading Qingping Academy isn't someone easy to deal with.”
With that, her body blurred into an afterimage and she dashed away.
Tian Guannan's expression shifted. He turned and shouted to his men:
“Camp here!”
Then, he activated his own Escape Art and vanished.
Behind him, Wan Qianhong and the others also snapped out of it, and the group of high-ranking Scavengers quickly set off.
...
Meanwhile, back at the Qingping Academy group's location.
The battle had devolved into absolute chaos.
The students of Qingping Academy looked like entirely different people. Their eyes gleamed with excitement, and their strikes were far too ruthless to belong to mere students.
Ye Yu only realized today that after sparring with “Bai Feifei,” fighting these people was basically a dimensional strike.
The students from a top academy already had decent ranks; compared to the North District Scavengers, they had only lacked real combat experience.
But now, they lacked neither experience nor the right combat mindset. After all, their training in the illusions had always been life-or-death struggles!
Moreover, they had the advantage in numbers, came from powerful backgrounds, and had absolutely no fear of the consequences. For a moment, the tables were completely turned!
Teaming up in groups of two or three against each opponent, they left the North District Scavengers howling in pain.
Are these fucking students? What the hell are they teaching in the Inner City academies these days?
Having held in their frustration for so long during training, the students unleashed it all today.
At first, Xu Hu had planned to capture the leader to stop the rest, charging straight toward “Bai Feifei.”
Standing two meters tall with a massive build, he charged like an out-of-control armored vehicle.
Right away, he roared out his Word Soul.
【The Tiger Roars in the Forest, All Beasts Tremble in Fear!】
The moment the Word Soul left his mouth, Xu Hu's body began to swell.
Power surged into his muscles, his bones popped and cracked, and his frame shot up by a massive margin.
Now standing two and a half meters tall, his clothes ripped at the seams. Dark gold patterns emerged on his bare skin, resembling tiger stripes or some ancient totem.
He looked like a tiger standing on its hind legs.
The struggling North District Scavengers were barely holding on, pinning all their hopes on whether their leader could quickly take down “Bai Feifei.”
In this tiger form, his strength, speed, and defense skyrocketed, leaving him with virtually no equals in the same rank.
More impressively, he exuded the aura of an apex predator, forcing his opponents to feel instinctive dread and severely dampening their combat strength.
Yet Xu Mo merely commented casually:
“Garbage Word Soul.”
“It looks flashy, but any Word Soul that doesn't have a unique effect and just boosts physical stats is garbage.”
Facing the charging Xu Hu, Xu Mo leaped into the air, spun, and kicked the joint of his opponent's wrist.
Crack!
The sound of shattering bone was exceptionally crisp.
Xu Hu's right claw went limp at a bizarre angle, and he let out a painful roar.
He swung his other hand like mad, the whipping wind kicking up loose gravel from the ground.
Yet Xu Mo remained completely unbothered. His movements were fluid and effortless; he precisely predicted every single one of Xu Hu's attacks, letting them brush past his clothes without a single thread being touched.
The surrounding Scavengers watched in utter disbelief.
“What's going on... Captain Xu can't even hit her?”
“No, we can't hold them off!”
The more Xu Hu fought, the more frustrated he became, and the more he missed.
In his tiger form, his sanity was already suppressed, and being unable to land a hit for so long was driving him insane.
How on earth could this person be just a Rank 4 Scavenger?!
“What the fuck... is wrong with you?!”
He roared, his voice no longer sounding human.
Xu Mo chuckled.
“Heh, is this all you've got?”
He hadn't even used his Containment Objects yet. This guy's combat and Word Soul levels were far below Wan Qianhong's!
Xu Mo continued to fight leisurely, chatting as he did.
“Did Xu Linyuan send you?”
“Did he tell you to delay us? Or did he tell you to find an opportunity to kill me?”
He wasn't just saying this to advance the storyline; he was also wondering if he should add another name to his kill list.
Come to think of it, Liu Qing, Huang Xin, Li Tai... He still had so many people left to kill.
My playstyle this time is actually so gentle. I deserve a pat on the back.
Xu Hu attacked wildly in his frenzy; naturally, he wasn't going to say a word.
Xu Mo wasn't in a hurry either. He danced around him, occasionally using his sword to draw some blood.
It was like taming a wild beast.
Just then, his ears twitched.
Thanks to the Heart of the World Medal, he detected a heartbeat in the distance.
The sound wasn't far, and it was closing in at a blinding speed.
The smile vanished from Xu Mo's face instantly.
“What a pain. Looks like playtime is over.”
Black energy suddenly surged from his heart, flowing down his meridians into his right leg. It even caused several scales to sprout beneath the fabric of his shin!
All of a sudden, his attack power multiplied, and he stomped downward!
His target was the largest weakness on Xu Hu's chest, marked by the Killing Machine.
Boom!
The physical impact actually produced a metallic roar!
Instantly, Xu Hu's sternum caved in, and his entire body went limp.
With a miserable shriek, blood rushed to his eyes as his body convulsed on the ground.
Xu Mo pinned him to the ground with a foot on his chest and looked down at him.
“Someone's coming to collect your life. Don't blame me for this!”
In the distance, a green light descended from the sky, accompanied by a familiar voice:
“Stop!”
Liu Yun's figure materialized on the ruins. She stood there, staring at the devastated battlefield and the North District Scavengers littered across the ground before the students.
Her lips parted slightly, a trace of helplessness flashing in her eyes.
Behind her, Tian Guannan arrived as well.
The moment this top leader of the North District appeared, his face was filled with nothing but shock! He even looked a little dazed.
What the hell happened?
How could the reality be so far from what I imagined? Are these really the students of Qingping Academy?
The look in those students' eyes... they were like a pack of wolves!
“What... what's going on here?” he blurted out instinctively.
Xu Mo raised his head, looking first at Tian Guannan, then at Liu Yun.
Then, he bent down, grabbed Xu Hu by the neck, and lifted him up like a wet rag.
Grinning, Xu Mo turned his gaze to the half-dead Xu Hu.
“Yeah, we're asking you.” He smiled. “What's going on here?”
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