The ship wasn’t actually very slow, but in Wei Tianchong’s eyes, it was like a crawling turtle. When he turned around, he saw a human flood of students chasing after Tang Jie, and he became so anxious that he stomped his feet and hollered, “Faster! Faster!”
On the other end, Tang Jie fled for his life from several hundred students chasing him.
They were already sick of Tang Jie, so all of them called out, “Beat him up! Beat him up!”
The cries came from all around.
The first spell flashed as it hurtled toward Tang Jie’s back.
No matter how fast Tang Jie’s Violet Lightning Lunge was, it couldn’t outrun a spell. That light struck Tang Jie and caused him to stagger, allowing many more students to catch up and fire spells at him.
“Damn it!” Tang Jie knew that this was a dire situation.
These students didn’t even think about what might happen if too many people attacked at once.
They might not have wanted to kill anyone, but when enough people threw rocks, even an elephant would get pummeled to death.
Tang Jie had heard of incidents like this more than once!
As those countless spells shot toward him, Tang Jie was infuriated.
He considered himself a rather tolerant and inconspicuous person who never engaged in meaningless fights, and this was precisely why he had earned the favor of Xie Fengtang and the others. But when facing these brainless brutes, it didn’t matter how smart he was. At this moment, combat was the only way to solve his problems.
“Alright! If you want a fight, let’s fight!” Tang Jie bellowed.
For the first time in his life, Tang Jie had been thoroughly enraged by all these scoundrel students. He charged into the fray and began to attack the students.
The Aquagel Shroud activated!
The Formless Golden Body activated!
The light wave of a spell struck him and exploded. At the same time, Tang Jie shot into the pack of people like a lightning bolt.
As this group was already madly charging at him, Tang Jie was almost instantly in the thick of it, the Heartbreak Saber flashing with cold flames as he slashed at a student.
That student had never imagined that Tang Jie would counterattack and was caught off guard. He was struck by Tang Jie’s Windcleaver Saber and howled in pain as he was sent flying.
Tang Jie continued to attack the students.
There were five hundred students here, and if all of them cast spells, or even just one spell each, even Tang Jie wouldn’t be able to withstand it. But now that he was in the middle of the students, they didn’t dare to recklessly cast spells for fear of harming their own. But there were also those who didn’t care and randomly fired off spells, but rather than hitting the target, they only hurt the people around Tang Jie.
Yet those people around Tang Jie also didn’t seem to care.
There were students of various years in this crowd, those who knew only one or two spells and those who were considerably powerful…
Tang Jie was like a charging tiger, and at this moment, all of them tacitly agreed to work together. As all of them unleashed their strength, a savage battle of metal and flame played out on the shore of Jade Belt Lake.
Spiritual energy surged while wind and fire mixed, creating the most resplendent colors of the mortal realm and fully displaying the greediest passions of humanity.
In this torrent of attacks, Tang Jie was like a tiger shark in the ocean, rushing here and there and fighting against the waves. All around him were people, and the waves of light created by numerous spells were like savage ocean waves. With his formidable body, Tang Jie vigorously charged, his will to fight at a boiling point. He swung his Heartbreak Saber again and again, stirring up showers of blood.
“Aroooo!” With a violent cry, Tang Jie unleashed his wild side, imbuing the edge of his saber with all his emotions.
“Thousand Rupture Slash!”
Saber energy danced!
“Go!”
Before the ship could get close to the shore, Wei Tianchong and Shi Meng jumped off the deck and ran toward the mountain. But before they could get very far, another person blocked their path.
“Ye Tianshang?” Shi Meng cried out in alarm.
The one blocking their path was none other than their pursuer from Cloudflow Academy, Ye Tianshang.
Sword in hand, Ye Tianshang grunted, “It seems that you guys really did manage to kill Lin Lang. Talk! Where did you put the head?”
After losing Tang Jie at Cloudflow Academy, he had gone back to look at the files, but he had fallen for Tang Jie’s feint and ended up wasting time going around in circles.
After Lin Lang was killed, Ye Tianshang guessed that Tang Jie’s group had likely succeeded, becoming the only one besides Liu Hongyan’s group to be so certain of this. Thus, he hastened back, but rather than waiting with the others, he chose to stand guard in the academy, where fighting was not allowed.
Though he was on the mountain, he had been observing the activity on the lake shore this entire time. He had watched the two of them get searched, so he knew that they didn’t have Lin Lang’s head. But when the two of them rushed back to the mountain as the battle started, Ye Tianshang became even more certain about his conclusion. He knew that their group must have found some way of sending the head into the academy, so he had moved to intercept them.
Wei Tianchong angrily said, “It has nothing to do with you! Stand aside!”
He rushed off to the side of the road, but to his surprise, Ye Tianshang confidently swung his sword at Wei Tianchong, causing Wei Tianchong to back away in fear. “Ye Tianshang, you dare to attack me? This is the academy! Students aren’t allowed to fight here!”
“Wrong!” Ye Tianshang replied, unperturbed. “Rather, if students fight each other, the offender will lose points.”
“What are you saying?” Wei Tianchong was shaken.
Ye Tianshang casually replied, “In other words, if you can accept the penalty of ten points, getting into a fight is no big deal. In the past few years, I’ve spent every day in the academy cultivating and haven’t done much wrong. I have ninety-some points on hand, so I can fight seven or eight bouts.”
These words were like a bolt of lightning, slamming into Wei Tianchong’s head.
This was why Ye Tianshang had dared to intercept them. He had refused to fight with the rest of the crowd and quietly waited here precisely for a moment like this.
Only by thinking outside the box could one make outstanding plans. Ye Tianshang had been waiting for this moment for ages.
Pointing his sword at Wei Tianchong, Ye Tianshang grimly said, “In truth, even if you didn’t say anything, I could still make a guess. You must have shipped the head here, right? It’s a very simple and practical method. The item must be at the post station, right? Alas, only the designated individual can take an item from the post station. Wei Tianchong, so long as you write a letter appointing me as your designated receiver, I’ll let you go.”
“Don’t even think about it!” Wei Tianchong angrily replied.
“Is that so?” Ye Tianshang smiled and looked into the distance. “You came rushing back to get the head and complete the mission to get Tang Jie out of danger, right? But with me here, don’t even think about going anywhere. If this goes on, I really wonder how long that guy can last.”
With his sharp eyes, he could easily see what sort of situation Tang Jie was in. Tang Jie was exploiting the melee to move through the crowd and doing his best so that he only took the attacks of three to five people at once. But this sort of frenzied assault was taxing on his physical and spiritual energy. If his luck was bad and he ran into one or two of the stronger ones, a single attack would badly wound him. If not for his astounding constitution and the Formless Golden Body’s origins in the Sword Classic, he would have already been laid out on the ground.
But no matter how able he was, he would eventually be brought down at some point.
Ye Tianshang’s calm words had hit the two right in the weak point, and Wei Tianchong and Shi Meng were rendered speechless.
The two of them exchanged a glance, and then Wei Tianchong stomped his feet and said, “Alright, I’ll write the letter, but you have to promise that when you get the head, you have to immediately turn it in and then go to save Tang Jie.”
At some point, Tang Jie’s life had become more important than the True Inheritor position in Wei Tianchong’s eyes.
This naturally wasn’t anything difficult for Ye Tianshang. Just when he was about to agree, Shi Meng shouted, “No! Tang Jie worked hard to make this plan for you, Young Master, and would never accept you giving up at this juncture. Young Master, get the item and then head to the Bounty Platform. I’ll stop him!”
Before Wei Tianchong could answer, he pushed him forward while the flute in his hand fired off an energy sword at Ye Tianshang.
Ye Tianshang hadn’t expected his opponent to attack first, and he moved to dodge. Wei Tianchong was also taken aback.
Shi Meng shouted, “Go!”
Wei Tianchong grunted and slapped his puppet token, summoning his puppet.
Wei Tianchong pointed at Ye Tianshang and shouted, “Hold him down!”
He ran off.
“Bastard!” Ye Tianshang was furious that Wei Tianchong was trying to run. He flicked the fingers of his left hand, sending a bolt of wind shooting at Wei Tianchong.
But the puppet instantly shot out and blocked the blow for Wei Tianchong. Meanwhile, Wei Tianchong activated the Mistnet Step, wind appearing under his feet as he rushed up the mountain.
Ye Tianshang snorted and was about to chase after Wei Tianchong when Shi Meng rushed over and spread out his arms in front of Ye Tianshang. He didn’t have any other abilities, so he decided to use himself to hold down Ye Tianshang.
Ye Tianshang’s eyes flashed with anger. “Seeking death!”
He prepared to swing his sword!
But Shi Meng didn’t try to dodge, shouting, “Kill me, then!”
Ye Tianshang instantly froze.
He could fight in the academy and only lose some points, but if he killed someone, it wouldn’t end with just losing some points.
Shi Meng was sharp. When he saw that Ye Tianshang didn’t have the guts to kill him, he heedlessly moved to tackle him.
“Bastard, you think that you’re enough to stop me?” Ye Tianshang gruffly said. He flew into the air, jabbing his sheathed sword at Shi Meng while kicking away the puppet.
Bang! Bang! Shi Meng was knocked down while the puppet was kicked away. Ye Tianshang once more took to the skies, his sword flying out and dragging his body behind it as he chased after Wei Tianchong.
An approaching monitor student was just about to stop him when Ye Tianshang threw out his student token and shouted, “Stand aside! Don’t block the road!”
The monitor saw that it was Ye Tianshang, and he had his student token regardless, so he hesitated over what to do. By that point, Ye Tianshang had already flown past him and caught up to Wei Tianchong.
Just when he was about to catch Wei Tianchong, Wei Tianchong suddenly thrust a hand at the ground and shouted, “Tremble!”
Ye Tianshang was alarmed as he heard rumbling beneath his feet. The puppet had raised its arms and then thrust them at the ground, creating a shockwave through the earth that shook Ye Tianshang out of the air.
At the same time, Shi Meng lunged over and latched onto Ye Tianshang. “Young Master, go!”
Ye Tianshang elbowed Shi Meng in the back so hard that Shi Meng vomited blood, but he still kept shouting, “Young Master, go!”