Chapter 269: The Unlucky Group of Five

"We're on the same side, big brother! The person who threw the firecracker just headed that way!" Ye Lin pointed in the direction of Hu Bai and the others.

"Do you really take me for a fool?"

The expression on the burly man's face grew increasingly manic, and then he sized up Ye Lin and Duan Ling, narrowing his eyes as he asked.

"Are you from the Great Xia Academy? Why are there only two of you? Where are your teammates?"

For other academies, recognizing faces is a very necessary practice; for instance, one must remember the faces of people from the Four Great Families, the Supreme Academy, and the Great Xia Academy to avoid accidentally kicking an iron plate.

But when his gaze swept over the Mountain and Sea Secret Seal in Ye Lin's hand, his eyes went straight instantly.

"The Mountain and Sea Secret Seal!"

In an instant, the expressions of the five burly men became somewhat excited.

"We just got in and already ran into a second Mountain and Sea Secret Seal; heaven is truly helping me! Kid, hand over the Mountain and Sea Secret Seal in your hand!" the burly man barked.

"A second one? You have one too?" Now it was Ye Lin's turn to be excited; it really was a case of someone handing him a pillow just as he was getting sleepy.

Seeing that Ye Lin was not only unafraid but actually excited, the burly man and his group were stunned for a moment, and they asked with some trepidation.

"Are your teammates nearby?"

"No! They're really far away from us!" Ye Lin confessed with a look of innocence.

"They're very far from you? Good, good, good!" The burly man grinned, revealing a mouthful of white teeth. "Then I'll give you ten seconds to hand over the Mountain and Sea Secret Seal in your hand with both hands! Otherwise... don't blame us for not holding back!"

"Why are you stealing my lines! Those are the things I was going to say!" Ye Lin said very seriously.

The burly man and his group were stunned at first, then burst into wanton laughter, looking at Ye Lin as if they were looking at a clown.

"Kid, do you mean that the two of you want to take on the five of us? Are you serious?"

"Of course not!" Ye Lin changed his tune. "It's me alone taking on the five of you."

The smiles on the faces of the burly man and his group slowly faded, replaced by a touch of coldness.

If all five members of the Great Xia Academy were present, he would definitely turn and run without a second word, as the gap in strength between the two sides was indeed quite large.

But now that the others from the Great Xia Academy were not around, Ye Lin dared to boast that he wanted to take on all five of them alone; this was simply not taking them seriously at all!

"Kid, do you really think we're made of mud? One against five, aren't you afraid of biting your tongue from all that wind?"

As soon as the words fell, the five burly men attacked immediately. The five of them coordinated with extreme tacit understanding, attacking Ye Lin simultaneously with ruthless and fierce momentum.

Even though there was only one opponent, the five burly men still did not dare to be the least bit careless or underestimate the enemy, choosing instead to go all out.

It's just that some things cannot be solved by going all out, such as advanced calculus problems or why a girlfriend is angry.

Ye Lin simply gave his Great Sumeru Ring a light wipe, and a handful of white powder drifted with the wind, landing on the five burly men.

The five of them subconsciously closed their eyes, assuming that Ye Lin had sprinkled lime powder to affect their vision.

But soon, they realized they were wrong!

They saw that the skin exposed to the white powder instantly became incredibly itchy; the more they scratched, the itchier it got, yet there was also a strange, soothing sensation while scratching.

"What is that powder! What did you do to us?" The five burly men were shocked and furious, scratching left and right just like monkeys.

"Is this a poison that acts directly on the skin? Where did you get it?" Duan Ling looked at Ye Lin with some suspicion; she remembered that Ye Lin didn't know how to use poison.

"Hehe, from a good place! I'll take you there next time!"

Ye Lin chuckled. He hadn't expected the powerful itching powder he got from Qiu Xingyuan to be so effective. If it had been a lethal poison, it would have alerted the other party and made them cautious.

But this stuff was white and odorless, just like ordinary wall dust; it was fast-acting and powerful—truly an essential item for home, travel, and killing people to silence them!

If nothing else, catching someone off guard with a direct hit could effectively dismantle their combat power, and the five burly men before him were the best proof.

"How about it, big brother, can you hand over the Mountain and Sea Secret Seal now?" Ye Lin asked with a smile.

"Don't even think about it!" The burly man roared, enduring the itch that felt like ten thousand ants crawling on him, and prepared to charge at Ye Lin.

Seeing this, Ye Lin gripped the Imperial Gold Spear backhanded and swept it out in an instant!

The long spear tore through the air, leaving a black trail, carrying endless baleful energy as it bore down on the five burly men.

The five of them couldn't react in time before they were struck by the Imperial Gold Spear; they let out a scream, flew backward, and collapsed limply onto the ground.

A faint scent of blood permeated the air.

The burly man and his group looked at Ye Lin in terror, clearly not expecting Ye Lin's strength to be so terrifying that he could easily resolve them all with just one strike.

"You're clearly this strong, so why did you have to use poison?" The burly man couldn't fathom it.

"I'm a cautious person," Ye Lin said earnestly.

Upon hearing this, the burly man and his group nearly spat out a mouthful of old blood.

Strong, shameless, and capable of using poison—what kind of bad luck did they have to run into an opponent like this!

It's like having a wrestling match with the Hulk tomorrow, only for the Hulk to secretly put laxatives in your food before the match, making you have diarrhea when you get on stage—could you handle that?

After knocking down the five, Ye Lin used both reason and emotion, finally succeeding in getting the second Mountain and Sea Secret Seal from the burly man's hands.

It was a pity that after obtaining two Mountain and Sea Secret Seals, Ye Lin still couldn't gather natural elements in that world, but fortunately, the time that world spent falling apart had been extended a little.

This showed that his line of thinking was correct; as long as he collected enough Mountain and Sea Secret Seals, he would be able to successfully gather elements in that world and gain the opportunity to comprehend the Forbidden Spellcaster profession.

However, relying on himself alone, the Mountain and Sea Secret Realm was so vast that he probably wouldn't find many seals before it closed in a month, so he needed helpers.

Thinking of this, Ye Lin gave the five burly men a smile as kind, amiable, and refined as Brother Black Hand the Divine Eagle, letting anyone who saw it know he was a polite person.

"Five classmates, actually I'm a graduate student, mainly researching on a physical level the transition of the human respiratory tract from dynamic to static, as well as the clinical manifestations of human muscle fibers colliding with metal. Would you like to become my research subjects?"