Chapter 144: Two Choices! The Power of a Master Zongshi!

"Someone actually dares to attack the Three Schools Alliance Team? Death wish!"

"Principal Xu, Principal Jiang, head to the plantation!"

The instant Hu Ping shattered the talisman tablet, a furious feminine cry rang out from Shun'an Supply Base: Deputy Principal Ling Shuang!

As nearby adepts at the supply base remained confused.

A powerful aura belonging to an Eighth-Rank Master Zongshi erupted suddenly from within the supply base!

Caught off guard, many staggered and nearly collapsed to their knees!

Boom! Boom!

Immediately after, two more formidable Master Zongshi auras erupted.

Causing many adepts already trembling with fear to collapse outright onto the ground with a thud!

"Principals, let's go!"

Before the supply base, a void gate suddenly formed.

Immediately, Deputy Principal Ling Shuang and the other two, radiating fury and formidable Master Zongshi auras, burst out from the supply base.

They entered it and vanished.

"Whoa! What terrifying auras!"

"Damn, these three are all Grand Masters, right? Such terrifying auras."

"Indeed, aren't these three the deputy principals of the three top universities?"

"Three school deputy principals? Holy shit, did something happen to the students on the study trip?"

"Looks like something big is about to happen."

"......"

On the streets near the supply base, many low-rank adepts who had knelt rose from the ground.

There was no awkwardness among them.

After all, being crushed by the aura of an Eighth-Rank Master Zongshi wasn't shameful.

More than that, they were concerned about why the three deputy principals had left in such fury.

"Did something happen at the Demon Cavern plantation?"

On the rooftop of the Shun'an Supply Base, Chief Supervisor Zhou Ying also heard Ling Shuang's voice.

Her beautiful face tightened with furrowed brows.

She immediately pulled out a communicator and ordered:

"Glory Corps, Ninth and Tenth Squads, proceed immediately to the Demon Cavern Plantation! Protect Young Lady!"

"Yes!"

A deep response came from the other end of the line.

"Xiao Yun has a protective talisman, and three Eighth-Rank Grand Masters from the three schools are en route to guard her—she should be fine."

"But who dares to strike at the three top universities?"

Zhou Ying stood before the floor-to-ceiling window, gazing toward the Demon Cavern Plantation, her beautiful face filled with deep confusion.

For any nation, young adepts represent hope, represent the future!

They are an absolute taboo, an inviolable scale!

Even in the great-power struggles, they rarely target rising prodigies still in their youth.

Much less make such a massive disturbance.

"Is this... a spatial energy fluctuation?!"

On the other side, seeing the entire plantation enveloped by strange spatial fluctuations, Hu Ping's face turned pale.

Meanwhile, after shattering the talisman tablet, Ling Shuang and the other two who should have teleported directly to Hu Ping's side.

Were now sealed outside the plantation!

"I already told you—your spatial Master Zongshi is useless!"

The Grand Archbishop let out a wild laugh, his face twisted as he extended a swollen, jet-black beast claw:

"As for you, die first! Black Cloud Claw!"

The Grand Archbishop himself was a Seventh-Rank Master; Hu Ping was merely at the peak of Sixth-Rank, and her heart had already been crushed by a surprise attack.

Even though she drew her weapon and fought desperately to counterattack.

She was still smashed into a mist of blood by that terrifying claw...

"Fuck!"

Seeing Hu Ping's death, Kiran finally snapped out of his shock and cursed under his breath.

Xu Jingming beside him also wore a Solemn expression.

Seventh-Rank Master!

Even if I unleashed all my hidden cards, I couldn't possibly resist!

Boom—boom—boom~~~

Yet at that moment, the ground trembled slightly, and the space subtly enveloping the plantation began to destabilize!

"Can this even shake the Beast Emperor's Space?!"

The Grand Archbishop sneered at the three figures floating in the distance, then glanced at Dong Sheng:

"Son of the Saint, I leave this to you."

Hum~~~

With those words, the Grand Archbishop's blood qi surged again, flooding entirely into the beast bone as it slowly rose toward the sky.

The space faintly covering the entire plantation stabilized once more.

Around them, four adepts clad in black robes stepped forward, their auras at Fourth Tier Low Rank.

Unlike ordinary adepts, these four seemed to have entered a bestial transformation.

Some had sharp horns on their heads, others their thighs transformed into massive beast limbs.

Their auras were chaotic and mottled, faintly resembling those of ferocious beasts!

After stepping forward, these four bizarre Fourth Tier adepts respectfully moved behind Dong Sheng.

"Finally, finally, the moment has come for the Tianming Sect to take the stage!"

"Xu Jingming, Jilan, come—let you see my true form!"

Dong Sheng's handsome face wore a maniacal smile.

Immediately, his body twisted violently, as if mutating!

Puch! Puch!......

Four arms burst from his abdomen, two antlers grew from his head, and his legs thickened like those of a tiger or leopard!

At the same time, his aura began to surge rapidly!

Second Tier Mid Rank... Second Tier High Rank... Third Tier Low Rank......

In the end, Dong Sheng's aura rose from Second Tier Mid Rank all the way to Fourth Tier Peak!

His form, like those of the four surrounding adepts, appeared grotesque—as if forcibly fused from human and ferocious beast.

"Shit?! What kind of technique is this? It can boost power by two major tiers?!"

Jilan's eyes widened in shock.

"The aura of divine blood..."

Xu Jingming's gaze flickered—he wondered if it was because he had absorbed divine blood.

He could faintly sense that Dong Sheng carried the auras of several kinds of divine blood!

You should know that a single divine bloodline is an SSS-grade resource!

Several kinds of divine blood fused together, reaching Fourth Tier Peak strength, didn't seem strange.

But he didn't know how Dong Sheng had managed to absorb so many kinds of divine blood...

"From Second Tier Mid Rank to Fourth Tier Peak! This is the power of the Tianming Sect!"

Dong Sheng gazed at his own form, his eyes filled with rapture.

Then he turned a mocking gaze toward Xu Jingming and Jilan:

"I give you two choices. First: join the Tianming Sect and hunt other students with me.

Second: be crushed and killed by me.

So—what will you choose?"

"Protect the students!"

"Hold the line! The vice principals have arrived—they'll be coming in any moment!"

"Break out immediately! Protect Xu Jingming!"

"......"

Throughout the plantation, the adept squads guarding it clashed with the emerging Tianming Sect disciples.

Many instructors tried to break through toward Xu Jingming's position.

The most outstanding S-Rank adept in modern Daya must not be lost!

If he perished due to a heretical sect, their guilt would be immense!

Yet the Tianming Sect had more Sixth Tier adepts than the instructors!

For now, the instructors could not shake off these adepts' persistent entanglement.

Under the protection of the instructors and surrounding adepts, the freshmen from the three schools suffered relatively few casualties.

Some were in a state of panic, yet some outstanding freshmen remained calm.

They fought together, slaying the emerging Tianming Sect disciples around them!

Song Qiuyun was one such standout.

Qi Dongxia and Liu Wentao were still only First Tier, so she acted alone.

Once the protective talisman was activated, she could not leave its range, so she chose not to activate it.

Instead, she gripped her halberd, her beautiful eyes resolute, struggling forward toward Xu Jingming's direction.

"Principal Ling Shuang, why don't we teleport directly into the plantation?"

In midair, Vice Principal Xu Ping, watching the chaos below among the freshmen and instructors, exclaimed anxiously.

Vice Principal Jiang Mo of Jin University also looked puzzled.

"I tried—it's impossible to break the space within the plantation."

Ling Shuang gazed coldly at the figure floating mid-air above the plantation, clutching a beast bone:

"The bone in his hand is likely the Ninth Tier Beast Emperor's bone with spatial abilities—the plantation's space has been sealed."

"A Ninth Tier Beast Emperor's bone with spatial abilities?"

Xu Ping's heart lurched.

A Ninth Tier Beast Emperor's entire body is a treasure trove.

Not only can its blood be refined into SSS-grade resources beneficial to human adepts.

If lucky, certain bones of the Beast Emperor may retain abilities it possessed in life!

And such abilities—even an Eighth Tier Master Zongshi cannot easily break through!

More importantly, there are still two S-Ranks inside the plantation now.

If either of them is harmed, the situation will become dire.

"So what if there are three Grandmasters? I want you to watch helplessly as my Tianming Sect slaughters every single freshman!"

"Today is the greatest awakening day for my Tianming Sect!"

Seeing that Hearing Ling Shuang and the others could not break through, the Archbishop's arrogant laughter rang out in sync.

"It's actually the Tianming Sect?!"

Capital University's Vice President Xu Ping's expression darkened:

"Sixty years ago we already wiped them from Daxia's territory. Who would have thought they'd make a comeback!"

The Tianming Sect worships fierce beasts as their gods.

They believe fierce beasts will ultimately rule Blue Star — they are 'traitors to humanity' in the truest sense!

No matter which country it is, upon discovering any trace of the Tianming Sect, they will spare no effort to exterminate them.

And the Daxia Kingdom had completely annihilated the Tianming Sect within its borders sixty years ago.

Who could have expected them to return in such a manner now!

Beside her, Hearing Ling Shuang did not utter any harsh words, only her gaze grew colder and colder,

"Let's strike together. In three minutes, we should be able to break through his spatial lock."

"Three minutes?"

Jin University's Vice President Jiang Mo frowned deeply.

In three minutes, the freshmen and teachers inside might be able to save some of them, but those two S-ranks were surely already dead beyond any doubt!

But right now, they had no other options.

"Let's act. I want to make the Tianming Sect pay the heaviest price!"

Capital University Vice President Xu Ping suppressed the fury on his face, having already accepted the sacrifice of Xu Jingming and Kiran.

"Xu Jingming, I hope you can hold on until we break through the lock......"

Although she clearly knew Xu Jingming's chances of survival were slim, Hearing Ling Shuang still could not help muttering in her heart.

She then slowly exhaled a breath, her pair of icy beautiful eyes looking toward the plantation ahead, her spatial ability pushed to the absolute limit:

"Rise!"

Hearing Ling Shuang's long black hair whipped wildly behind her, the aura of an eighth-rank Grandmaster revealed without a trace.

The next moment,

Accompanied by a rumbling sound, the entire plantation of over ten thousand mu actually lifted off the ground, rising into the air!

Zzzzz~~~

Two different spatial forces collided with each other, faintly revealing the space locking down the plantation!

It was a spherical space, enveloping the entire plantation, including the ground beneath!

"The underground space is locked, cannot break through. The weakest point of the space is in the southeast direction!"

Hearing Ling Shuang cried out sharply.

"Understood!"

Xu Ping and Jiang Mo nodded simultaneously.

Immediately after, Xu Ping's entire body swelled, his ability activated, and he actually transformed into a ten-plus-meter-tall golden giant ape!

A club over ten meters long was taken out from his spatial ring, his massive feet stomping through the forest as he strode toward the southeast!

And Jiang Mo's body suddenly dispersed, transforming into towering dark-blue seawater, sweeping toward the southeast!

PS: I'm back, I'm back. Getting married was far more exhausting than I imagined, but I've finally completed one of life's major milestones.

I just sent my mother-in-law and the others off yesterday, and starting today I'll resume updates.

My apologies to the readers who waited for updates these past few days. (Sincere apologies)