On the Devil Crushing Path, more and more students were imprisoned, the vines wrapping them up tightly in the forest.
Some people angrily cursed, some coldly watched, some of them looked with disdain and scorn, and some of them focused entirely on watching the battle.
Tang Jie was still fighting.
He no longer remembered what number this opponent was.
If he hadn’t comprehended that secret, he might have already fallen to Ye Tianshang.
Even so, the students that came after that were endless, and as more time passed, more and more of them came. And no matter how exquisite was the truth of the Dao of Insight he had comprehended, he was still running out of physical strength. As for spiritual energy, with the Cosmic Breeze Pearl and spirit-returning pills, this wasn’t a problem.
He was currently facing four students working together.
These four students were of average strength, but when they worked together, even Tang Jie began to falter. If the little tiger hadn’t been taking on two of them, Tang Jie would have already lost. As for Yiyi, the more students that were imprisoned, the greater the pressure on her became, so she could no longer help. She could only watch in deep concern, and it was for this reason that she had failed to take note of Su Xinyue’s actions.
She looked at Peng Yaolong, who gave her a look of understanding in return.
“Done?” Peng Yaolong mouthed.
Su Xinyue mouthed back that she would be done soon.
Peng Yaolong was elated.
Tang Jie had made this spirit-draining formation in haste, without any materials, so it had already been lacking in power. If the people in the formation hadn’t been bound up, Su Xinyue could have broken out of the formation without the aid of a formation breaker. Now, without the formation breaker, Su Xinyue had managed to find the formation’s weakness and was in the middle of breaking it. She had just reached the critical moment.
Nearby, in a gust of wind, as Tang Jie was still battling the four other students, another figure entered the path.
Cai Junyang.
He had finally come.
When he saw Tang Jie locked in bitter combat, Cai Junyang laughed, “It was worth it to wait until now! Tang Jie, as expected, you didn’t disappoint me.”
Tang Jie laughed. “You rascal, sure enough, your patience has improved. If I really let you get through, then I admit defeat!”
“Cai Junyang, don’t even think about trying to take what’s ours!” One of the four students panicked when he saw Cai Junyang appear, and he quickly withdrew from the battlefield. He brought his arms together, lightning crackling in his palms, and then he unleashed a giant beam of lightning at Tang Jie.
This lightning struck Tang Jie, and he howled as he flew backward and crashed into the ground.
The four students were delighted, all of them rushing toward the floral formation.
Cai Junyang also charged over, and one of the students unleashed a spiritual wave to impede him.
“Out of my way!” Cai Junyang furiously roared. He had waited patiently until this moment so that he could arrive on the scene and settle things with one move, but to his surprise, Tang Jie was already at the end of his tether and had been knocked down with a single bolt of lightning. It was now these four students who blocked his path.
Deeply unhappy, he unleashed a vicious wave of sword energy.
The 19 Star Sword!
19 points of starlight shot at the four. This was none other than the secret art he had learned from the Divine Firmament Sword Classic.
The creator of this spell was none other than the current Sword of the Basking Moon Sect, Xiao Biehan.
Xiao Biehan had displayed astounding talent from an early age, and he only favored the sword. Before entering the academy, he had declared that he would take ownership of one of the 19 Star Mountains.
The 19 Star Mountains were 19 most important peaks of the Basking Moon Sect. Each mountain master was one of the 19 Celestial Chiefs of the Basking Moon Sect, and these 19 chiefs were divided into 18 hall masters and 1 department master.
The Basking Moon Sect had sixteen halls, but the sixteenth hall, the War Hall, was actually the War Department. It had three halls under it, and together with the leader of the War Department, the Sword of the Basking Moon Sect, there were 19 Celestial Chiefs.
As for Misty Mountain, where the sect master dwelled, it was not considered one of the 19 Star Mountains.
Just like Tang Jie’s declaration that he would become a disciple, Xiao Biehan’s declaration that he would become one of the 19 Celestial Chiefs had earned him much scorn from the students of his class. But Xiao Biehan had trained diligently, and the first sword spell he had ended up developing was the 19 Star Sword. With this name and the ambition behind it, he had ascended to his current position as Sword of the sect, his status second only to Sect Master Ling Xiao. He had fulfilled his old aspiration and had slapped countless people in the face.
He had honed the 19 Star Sword countless times since then, making it into one of the most powerful spell arts he had created.
Cai Junyang cultivated the Massing Wave Mantra, which advantaged energy circulation and swift attacks. The 19 Star Sword could make nineteen swords into one and one sword into nineteen. It was ideal for applying power over a large area and thus perfect for him.
As the 19 Star Sword activated, one sword turned into nineteen, each point of starlight a powerful attack comparable to Windcleaver. Under this salvo of nineteen swords, the four students were heavily injured and sent flying.
With one strike, Cai Junyang had heavily wounded four students!
Cai Junyang charged into the flower formation.
At this sight, Su Xinyue frowned and shouted, “Go!”
Peng Yaolong bellowed, spiritual energy erupting from both of his arms. Bang! A spiritual shockwave traveled through the formation, knocking over the numerous students imprisoned within it.
At this moment, the vines binding Peng Yaolong began to crack.
Aghast, Yiyi slapped a small hand down, and numerous flowery vines swept toward Peng Yaolong.
“Hurry!” Peng Yaolong shouted.
Su Xinyue squatted down, and the Violet Ember Wolf next to her spat at the vine.
A violet flame burned the vine on her arm, and under the full focus of the flame, the vine was instantly destroyed, and even part of Su Xinyue’s arm was badly injured. But Su Xinyue didn’t care. With her right arm free, she pressed it against the ground and shouted, “Transpose the Qian position onto the Li, moving with the wind and trembling with the earth!”
A fiendish wind stirred as the earth quaked!
Countless protrusions appeared on the surface of the Devil Crushing Path.
Panicking, Yiyi tried to stop Su Xinyue, but she was too busy dealing with Peng Yaolong.
Seizing this chance, Su Xinyue got her left hand free and thrust it against the ground, and there was another boom. A shockwave obliterated the vines on her body, and she broke free together with her fiend wolf.
“Success!” Peng Yaolong heartily laughed.
Su Xinyue’s breakout meant that the spirit-draining formation was no longer working. Without this formation, these vines were incapable of holding all the students.
Peng Yaolong flexed his arms to try and break free of these annoying vines, but he found that his spiritual energy was still restrained.
“This… What’s going on here?” Peng Yaolong froze, and then he looked up at Su Xinyue, who was smiling.
“I’m sorry; I used you. But there can be only one True Inheritor. Great Brother Peng, I will be going first.” Su Xinyue giggled and rushed off.
“Bastard!” Peng Yaolong now understood what Su Xinyue was up to.
She had never thought about escaping with everyone. She was just using the distraction created by Peng Yaolong and the others to break free on her own.
As Su Xinyue rushed out, Meng Shixue raised her head and spat at her.
A cold air fell on Su Xinyue’s body, and she immediately felt her body stiffen up and her speed drop.
Su Xinyue snorted, “You think that’s going to work?”
While the cold could slow her down, that was all it could do. Everyone else was still imprisoned, so even if she was running slowly, she would still be able to get out.
But Meng Shixue said nothing, only looked at her with a mocking gaze. Su Xinyue knew this wasn’t good and dropped to the ground. There was a rush of air as the little tiger flew over her head, pouncing on her fiend wolf and beginning to fight with it.
In terms of strength, the Violet Ember Wolf was an upper-grade fiend beast, so it was naturally stronger than the little tiger. but the spirit-draining formation had drained more than half of its spiritual energy, and it had used what little was left to help Su Xinyue break free of her restraints. It could now only fight with its body, and this wasn’t enough against the little tiger. A lightning blade flew out, striking the Violet Ember Wolf and causing it to howl in pain.
“Violet!” Su Xinyue shouted as she lashed at the little tiger.
At this moment, there was a flash of sword light behind her, and a voice rang out, “You should just let me be the first to go through!”
It was none other than Cai Junyang.
Having knocked aside all the other students with one strike, Cai Junyang flew out and thrust his sword at Su Xinyue’s back.
“Bastard!” Su Xinyue was so angry that she cursed, and she also silently cursed Tang Jie’s inability, faltering at this critical moment.
It had to be understood that with her knowledge of formations, she could have broken free of the spirit-draining formation long ago. She had waited until now for Tang Jie to finally fall so that she could break free and escape. Otherwise, even if she escaped, she wouldn’t have the spiritual energy to fight, and she would be defeated by Tang Jie again. But now, Cai Junyang had come out to stop her.
Su Xinyue only had time to dodge to the side, but this opened up the path to the exit.
Cai Junyang didn’t push the matter any further, shouting, “Thanks!”
As he ran toward the exit, the vines tried to wrap around him, but there was no stopping someone who was still full of energy. A wave of the Tsunami Sword chopped the vines apart. At best, they were only able to slow him down.
At this moment, a figure suddenly exploded forward, attempting to strike Cai Junyang in the back.
Cai Junyang hadn’t expected this development, and with a roar, he leaped forward, breaking free of the vines.
As he looked back, he and Su Xinyue shouted in surprise, “Peng Shaoqing?”
Nearby, a white-clothed student with a thin and wasted face chuckled. This was none other than the renowned formation genius of Basking Moon Academy, Peng Shaoqing. He looked at Su Xinyue in disdain. “Su Xinyue, you really don’t think that you were the only one who could break that little spirit-draining formation, do you?”
Su Xinyue realized what had happened. Just like her, Peng Shaoqing had decided to wait until Tang Jie was tired out to break free of the formation. But this spirit-draining formation truly wasn’t very difficult to break. Since she and Peng Shaoqing could break free, others probably could as well.
Long Dao waved his arms and snapped apart the vines. “If I didn’t understand anything about formations, why would I even bother to carry around a formation breaker?”
Sure enough, three of them had broken free at the same time.
Cai Junyang laughed. “You’re all pretty good actors. But what does it matter that you managed to break free? An army will be tired out after a protracted battle. All of you are no match for me, so stand aside!”
He roared, once again snapping those vines that had tried to coil around him and moving toward the exit.
“Stay right there!” Long Dao attacked Cai Junyang.