Chapter 277: A Master of Acting

Everything is hard at the beginning.

After the first scream was let out, the following two became a matter of course.

After Feng Tianyu finished screaming, he even felt a sense of relief.

"I did as you said, can you let us go now?" Feng Tianyu looked at Ye Lin indignantly.

"Of course."

Ye Lin nodded, and a powerful wave of energy surged from his body.

"Forbidden Spell—One Qi Transforms into Three Purities!"

Two level-63 clones instantly appeared by Ye Lin's side.

Then, Ye Lin swung his Emperor Gold Spear and chopped off the head of one of the clones.

"Look! I stake it on my own head; I lied to you, so now I am giving you my head." Ye Lin tossed his head to Feng Tianyu. "I don't have any other merits, but I am honest enough!"

Feng Tianyu held the head of Ye Lin, stunned for a long while, unable to process what exactly was happening.

"You want to kill us? Killing is forbidden in the Mountain and Sea Secret Realm! If you dare to kill, the Son of Heaven will not let you off! Neither will the teachers of our Supreme Academy!" Feng Tianyu threatened, his voice harsh but his spirit weak.

"Sigh! Don't talk nonsense, I'm not killing you! The one killing you is Xie Zhanxin of the Xie family!"

Ye Lin hurriedly spoke to correct Feng Tianyu's mistake.

Afterward, he took out the Illusion Face, placed it on the face of the other clone, and stuffed the Voice-Changing Cicada he bought from Qiu Xingyuan's shop into the clone's mouth.

"Ahem! Sound check! Sound check!"

Ye Lin tested it for a bit, and after confirming that his clone's appearance and voice were exactly the same as Xie Zhanxin's, he snatched the Mountain and Sea Secret Seal from the Supreme Academy, grabbed Feng Tianyu's phone, turned on the video recording function, and set it aside to record.

The 'Xie Zhanxin' in the video spoke in a cold voice.

"Hmph! A mere Supreme Academy dares to snatch things from my Xie family? You are truly tired of living! Since that is the case, I, Xie Zhanxin, will let you understand today why the Xie family is one of the Five Great Families!"

Crackle!

Dazzling lightning carrying violent energy fluctuations swept toward the five people including Feng Tianyu. This time, the forbidden spell held nothing back; the violent lightning engulfed the five, including the burly man.

The five, including the burly man, were terrified out of their wits. They never expected that Ye Lin would actually want to kill them too, but it was clearly too late to run now.

Black clouds pressed down, wild winds howled, and it seemed as if only a single bolt of lightning remained between heaven and earth, its powerful aura seemingly capable of tearing the entire Mountain and Sea Secret Realm apart.

The five, including Feng Tianyu, never imagined that Ye Lin would actually dare to kill!

"No!"

As the lightning crashed down, the screams came to an abrupt end, and along with them, the lives of Feng Tianyu, the burly man, and the others vanished.

When the light dissipated, ten charred corpses lay on the ground, their faces unrecognizable.

And 'Xie Zhanxin', with his hands behind his back, looked down coldly at all of this, as if killing Feng Tianyu and the others was just a trivial matter to him.

Swish!

In an instant, a red beam of light shot straight into the sky! The light was extremely dazzling, and almost everyone within the Mountain and Sea Secret Realm could see it.

"Someone killed? Is he crazy? Doing this will make him a public enemy; everyone will want to kill him, and there might even be a reward for slaying him!"

"That's right! Even if he isn't killed in the Mountain and Sea Secret Realm, once he leaves, he will face the sanctions of the Son of Heaven's Palace! I remember a guy who killed someone ten years ago, and he's still locked up in the dungeon of the Son of Heaven's Palace!"

"We're small fry, let's not join in the fun and stay far away from that red light. Killing one is killing, and killing two is also killing; that guy might have already gone on a killing spree!"

Seeing the red light appear, the people in the Mountain and Sea Secret Realm discussed it heatedly.

At this moment, Ye Lin had perfectly recorded the killing process of 'Xie Zhanxin' using Feng Tianyu's phone.

Then, Ye Lin let out a loud shout and rushed out, brandishing the Emperor Gold Spear. He was panting, looking as if he had just rushed over from a distance.

"How could you kill! The people of the Supreme Academy are all the future pillars of our Great Xia! Feng Tianyu among them is my close friend; how could you kill them!" Ye Lin was filled with grief and indignation, his heart aching.

"I, Xie Zhanxin, do as I please in this life; why should I explain myself to you?"

'Xie Zhanxin' raised his eyelids and glanced at Ye Lin indifferently, his eyes filled with apathy.

"I, Xie Zhanxin, kill whoever I want to kill, and I do whatever I want to do!"

"I am a direct descendant of the Xie family! I am someone who stood at the peak the moment I was born. Having everything go my way is my privilege; this world exists only to welcome my arrival!"

"When the day comes that I, Xie Zhanxin, am invincible under the heavens, drawing my blade to leave the forbidden lands and holding the head of the Son of Heaven in my hand—that is not impossible!"

When 'Xie Zhanxin' said these words, both his gaze and expression were very calm; clearly, these were his true inner thoughts.

Ye Lin's face turned pale, clearly frightened by these rebellious words from Xie Zhanxin, and then his eyes gradually became firm.

"Although I, Ye Lin, am not a big shot, I have my principles! Every man has a share of responsibility for the fate of his country. A reckless guy like you who attempts to harm Great Xia deserves to be killed by everyone!"

"The life of a Forbidden Spellcaster... is not long to begin with, but for the sake of the world's common people and this land I love beneath my feet, I am willing to burn myself once here! Even if I have to bet my life, I will avenge Brother Feng Tianyu and the others!"

"Take this, Xie Zhanxin! I will make you understand! The fury of a small person!"

Ye Lin roared and rushed toward 'Xie Zhanxin' with the Emperor Gold Spear.

The strong wind from the charge caused the phone propped up by Feng Tianyu to fall to the ground; the screen could no longer be seen, only the sounds could be heard.

"Fight!"

Bang bang bang! Crash crash crash! Swish swish swish!

Just by listening to the sounds, one knew the battle had entered a white-hot stage.

"Damn it! The Xie family is worthy of being one of the Five Great Families; their strength is actually this terrifying. Even with a divine artifact in hand, am I not their match?"

"In that case! Forbidden Spell—Wrath of the Sea God!"

Swish!

Pfft!

"Ah!!! You dare to hurt me! You actually dare to hurt a direct descendant of the Xie family? Do you really think I don't have a divine artifact? I will let you know right now why everyone fears my Xie Zhanxin's lightning arts!"

Rumble!

Zzzzz!

The roar of lightning sounded incessantly, and along with it, Ye Lin's shrill screams—truly enough to make the listener sad and the hearer weep—followed by a dead silence.

Afterward, someone picked up the phone from the ground, and a close-up of 'Xie Zhanxin's' face appeared on the screen.

"Hmph! The ants of the Supreme Academy actually wanted to secretly record evidence? Still daydreaming even after they're dead."

Having said that, 'Xie Zhanxin' wanted to destroy the phone directly, but at this moment, Ye Lin's blood-covered face suddenly appeared behind him, ferocious as a vengeful ghost.

"Why? Why can you still stand up after taking my full-force blow?" 'Xie Zhanxin's' pupils shrank violently.

"Don't underestimate the bond of friendship between me and Brother Feng Tianyu, you bastard!"

"Forbidden Spell—Eternal Geng Metal!"

As tiny golden light spots gathered, a golden long spear condensed and pierced directly toward 'Xie Zhanxin'.

'Xie Zhanxin' could not dodge in time and was pierced through the body by the golden long spear. He looked down at the golden spear in his chest, his eyes filled with disbelief.

"It's not like this... it shouldn't be like this... I, Xie Zhanxin... should have a bright future, how could I die in a place like this..."

'Xie Zhanxin's' body crashed to the ground. The moment he fell, his finger happened to press stop on the recording.

"Phew! Done!"

Ye Lin breathed a sigh of relief and picked up Feng Tianyu's phone.

Come to think of it, he had to thank the intelligence provided by that Ji Tianxuan; otherwise, he wouldn't have known Xie Zhanxin was skilled in lightning arts, making it harder to frame him.

With this frame-up, he would have a legitimate reason to kill Xie Zhanxin later. He and Xie Zhanxin were enemies, not friends, and a battle between them was inevitable sooner or later.

Although the things Qiu Xingyuan researched had no practical combat power, sometimes their lethality was truly more exaggerated than divine artifacts. Once he left the Mountain and Sea Secret Realm, he must go to his shop to ransack... go on a shopping spree!