As the Pilewave Sword activated, Wei Tianchong and Shi Meng turned and ran.
“Cai Junyang, this is none of your business!” Ye Tianshang rushed up and slashed at Cai Junyang. He was much stronger than Cai Junyang, pushing back Cai Junyang with one strike. At the same time, in the distance, Meng Shixue threw out a wave of frost to try to stop the other two from fleeing.
Yiyi waved her hand, laying down an illusion formation.
Even if these people broke through the illusion formation, they would have to waste some time, giving the two a chance to escape.
But to her surprise, the Frost Fairy howled, and an icy fog surged, blasting apart the illusion formation she had just laid down.
At this moment, it felt like the sprite was working with the students.
The little tiger grew furious and unleashed a Galethunder Blade at the ice sprite. This time, the ice sprite failed to dodge. While she had powerful spell arts, her defensive abilities were average. She screamed as the spell knocked her flying, the attack unexpectedly knocking her out.
But with the illusion formation broken, it seemed like Wei Tianchong wouldn’t be able to escape. At this moment, however, a wave of saber energy swept out from the Frigid Pond, attacking the other students. It was none other than Tang Jie.
“Tang Jie, you still came out!” Long Dao crowed in delight.
Everyone turned around and attacked Tang Jie. Wei Tianchong wanted to go back to try to save him, but all he got was a glare from Tang Jie. “You guys still aren’t gone?”
Cai Junyang ran over and shouted at Wei Tianchong, “Hurry and go! You’re just preventing him from retreating by staying here!”
‘Preventing him from retreating’?
Wei Tianchong was startled by these words.
Even after cultivating up to this point, I’m still just a burden?
At that moment, as he watched Tang Jie being attacked from all sides, having reappeared because of him even though he could have safely escaped after getting the Red Lotus, Wei Tianchong felt deeply ashamed.
Cai Junyang and Shi Meng pulled him along, but he suddenly shook off their hands and yelled at Tang Jie, “Tang Jie, do you remember everything that you’ve done for me? Relax! In the future, I will work hard to make myself stronger! I won’t disappoint you!”
At this moment, he was filled with resentment, hating his incompetence and furious at his inability. Never before had he so ardently desired to get stronger.
Tang Jie was slightly taken aback by this declaration.
But the result of this slight daze was a savage chop from Liu Yuan.
Yet he still smiled and nodded at Wei Tianchong, accepting these words.
Wei Tianchong wiped his tears and turned around, running off with Cai Junyang.
Even Cai Junyang couldn’t help but comment as he watched Tang Jie in the middle of the brawl, “Tang Jie, you’ve already gone too far past me. But just wait. One day, I’ll catch up to you!”
His heart erupted with an endless will to fight.
In the cave, Tang Jie was still fighting with all the other students.
Without the threat of the ice sprite, the students could finally go all-out.
In the face of their attacks, Tang Jie showed neither happiness nor sorrow. “Fighting with each other is one thing, but to strike so viciously at your own people makes it no longer a simple fight, you bastard!”
With the Red Lotus in hand, he could have safely left, but Liu Yuan’s words had forced him back out, so he made Liu Yuan the main target of his ire.
“You plan to kill me by yourself?” Liu Yuan angrily replied.
“You would just be another Lu Fei!”
Sweeping his saber around, Tang Jie charged through the students like a beast. As Liu Yuan raised his own saber to block, the force of the impact was so great that his weapon went flying.
Ye Tianshang thrust out his sword from the side, striking beneath the armpit and sinking the blade three inches into Tang Jie’s flesh. With a roar, Tang Jie countered with a palm, sending Ye Tianshang flying with one strike.
Meng Shixue rushed up and shot an ice spike at Tang Jie, causing him to stagger. But Tang Jie instantly rushed up and kicked Meng Shixue.
There was a howl at his ear, and Tang Jie reached out and grabbed the incoming arrow. The trembling of the arrow tail left long and bloody scratches on his hand.
While he was distracted by the arrow, Peng Yaolong was able to thrust a palm at Tang Jie’s back. Tang Jie wasn’t able to endure this powerful blow and coughed up a mouthful of blood. Several other students used this chance to hack at him, but there was a flash of golden light from Tang Jie’s hand as he flipped it over. He hacked at Peng Yaolong’s shoulder, the golden light slicing right through and almost lopping off his arm.
Peng Yaolong howled in pain as he kicked out, striking Tang Jie in the abdomen.
Liu Yuan was delighted. “Tang Jie, just you can’t even think about trying to kill me!”
A moment later, he saw Tang Jie rushing forward at him like a cannonball, instantly accelerating up to Liu Yuan. Tang Jie thrust out the saber with his right hand, stabbing it deep into Liu Yuan’s abdomen.
“Aaaaah!” Liu Yuan screamed in disbelief.
Countless lights exploded behind Tang Jie, and he rolled and brought Liu Yuan to the ground with him.
The numerous spells caused spiritual energy to seethe within the cave. The two of them rolled several times on the snowy ground and then stopped moving.
Long Dao cautiously walked over and kicked Tang Jie. Seeing that Tang Jie wasn’t moving, Long Dao kicked him aside and went to grab the Mustard Seed Bag.
Tang Jie turned over, his saber flashing.
Long Dao knew this was bad and hastily retreated, but the Heartbreak Saber had already left a bloody hole in his body.
Thankfully, that hook hadn’t entered his body and dragged out his organs. A moment later, Meng Shixue thrust out her Ice Palm while Ye Tianshang used his Galefury Blade. Tang Jie was sent flying while drenched in blood, and his Mustard Seed Bag landed on the ground.
The Mustard Seed Bag had barely landed when An Rumeng drifted over to grab it. But just as she was about to take it, Peng Yaolong suddenly punched.
This punch was aimed at the ground, causing a wave to travel through the earth. It struck An Rumeng, blasting her into the air.
At the same time, Meng Shixue and Ye Tianshang glanced at each other and attacked simultaneously, a palm and a sword aimed at Long Dao.
“You two…” Long Dao was shocked and furious, but he was instantly knocked flying by the attacks.
Meng and Ye glanced at the remaining students at Long Dao’s side. “You guys still want to fight?”
Long Dao was heavily injured, so the others glanced at each other and immediately fell back, An Rumeng also flying out of the cave.
As for those students who had been with Liu Yuan, when they saw that he was dead, they immediately took to their heels.
Only the Peng Yaolong and Ye-Meng group were left.
Ye Tianshang laughed. “Senior Brother Peng, I admit that you possess divine strength, but at this point, if we put aside the other two students, it’s two versus one, and you’re injured. You don’t have a chance of winning. In my view, the Iceflame Lotus is bound to be mine.”
“Is that so?” Peng Yaolong laughed, looking at the arm that Tang Jie had wounded.
It was a powerful blow, and he wouldn’t be able to use his arm for a short time.
Sighing, Peng Yaolong said, “I admit that in a one versus two, I’m no match for you two. Thankfully, fortunately, I’m not the one in a one-versus-two situation.”
“What?” Ye Tianshang was startled, his wariness rising. With a hiss, he charged forward.
Alas, he was a step too slow.
Slender, jade-white fingers stabbed into his back, a chill erupting. Bang! Ye Tianshang vomited blood mixed with countless bits of ice.
“Meng Shixue!” Ye Tianshang howled as he fell to the ground.
Meng Shixue drew back her hand. “My apologies. I was actually with him.”
“You were with him? What can he give you?” Ye Tianshang furiously shouted.
“Much more than you. A good bird knows how to pick its perch. Ye Tianshang, whether it’s strength, promise, trust, or affection, I’m far better than you. Why shouldn’t Junior Sister Meng pick me?” Peng Yaolong smugly laughed.
Many people assumed from his fierce fighting style that he was a brainless brute, but if he were so brainless, how could he have possibly lived this long?
He and Meng Shixue had helped each other many times over the years and were on extremely friendly terms, but very few people knew of it. This was all so that it could be used precisely for a day like this.
Now that Liu Yuan was dead, Tang Jie and Ye Tianshang were heavily injured, and Long Dao and An Rumeng had fled, Peng Yaolong was the master of the Ice Cave. The Iceflame Lotus was at hand, and Peng Yaolong couldn’t help but get excited, striding over and reaching out toward the Mustard Seed Bag.
At this moment, someone icily laughed, “Heh, ha, haha! Amusing, amusing. What an excellent show.”
Peng Yaolong’s hand froze.
Turning around, he saw that the ice sprite that had fainted from the tiger’s Galethunder Blade had stood back up.
Peng Yaolong’s eyes flashed. “So it’s true that sprites are cunning. It seems that you were feigning weakness so that we would fight each other.”
“Even if you guessed at what I was up to, didn’t you go ahead and do it anyway?” the ice sprite proudly shot back.
Peng Yaolong pursed his lips.
Yes.
The students weren’t fools. They had already realized the ice sprite’s scheme.
But just realizing it didn’t mean that they could do anything about it.
There was a very simple reason for this: if the ice sprite got the Red Lotus, she would just put it back in the pond to absorb its essence. But if the students got the Red Lotus, they would take it away, depriving everyone else of the chance to get it.
Thus, when it came to the ultimate victor, the students would prefer that the ice sprite won over any of their number.
Because if the ice sprite won, they still had a chance.
But if another student won, they wouldn’t have another shot.
It was precisely for this reason that the students chose to fight each other, even though they knew that this aligned with the sprite’s plan.
Peng Yaolong grabbed the Mustard Seed Bag and coldly said, “It’s true that when the mantis stalks the cicada, the oriole lurks behind. But who the oriole is depends on whose fists are stronger. Sprite, while you baited us into internal strife, the injuries you sustained are real. Your body isn’t that strong at all, and those injuries are probably having a lot of effect on you, right? This area is cramped and not suitable for casting spells, and you can’t use your ice palace. Thus, the outcome of this battle is not certain.”
The ice sprite froze at these words.
Peng Yaolong was right. To have the students believe that she was no match, she had sustained real injuries.
And in the Floral Forest, her ice palace had been destroyed, consuming immense amounts of spiritual energy, and this terrain wasn’t suitable for her style of combat. At present, she couldn’t even use thirty percent of her full strength.
But the Red Lotus was connected to her cultivation, and she could not let an enemy take it.
With a savage light in her eyes, she viciously said, “You think that you can deal with me just because you destroyed my ice palace?”
A halo flashed in her body and the ice scepter in her hand transformed into a sword that she thrust at Peng Yaolong. But she was strong in spells and weak in body, and this sword thrust seemed to have little strength.
But Peng Yaolong was cautious. As the sword came over, he fell back rather than taking the attack directly, at the same time shouting at the other students, “Kill her!”
The students rushed up, one of them even laughing, “A sprite playing with swords? How rare!”
He raised a sword to meet the sprite’s ice sword, and they clashed. While the ice sword was knocked away, the student’s sword erupted with frost that traveled along the sword and instantly froze the student.
The sprite thrust a palm at the student, and with a bang, the student was blasted to pieces!
“Little Tu!” a student shouted in shock. In his fury, he cast a spell at the ice sprite.
But to his surprise, the sprite didn’t dodge, simply snorting and saying, “Frost and snow, congeal into a divine body!”
Ice gathered on her body, and she gradually grew from a little person only one meter tall to the height of an adult, and her body also grew more agile.