Chapter 687: The Academy's Calamity

The Holy Profound Star Academy.

This academy, usually filled with an atmosphere of peace and harmony, today faced the most chaotic and terrifying day since its founding.

Numerous Gold-Glory and Silver-Glory mentors wore panicked expressions, continuously directing students to evacuate in an orderly fashion from various parts of the academy. From the direction of the academy's Phase Force Tree, terrifying waves of energy were transmitted. A clash of that level was like a natural disaster descending, and even from such a great distance, one could still feel that suffocating pressure.

Those were the academy's Violet-Glory mentors stepping in to intercept the mysterious intruder.

The students of the Holy Profound Star Academy could be considered the elite of the younger generation across the entire Great Xia. They had passed through layers of selection and examinations to enter this premier academy, and after several years of cultivation, they had shed their former greenness; placed in the outside world, they could already be counted as elites capable of standing on their own.

Yet in today's upheaval, they had no qualification to intervene.

Because even the many Gold-Glory mentors could only retreat to the outer perimeter to maintain order.

At a certain spot in the academy, Seeing Yu Lang, Bai Bai Doudou, Bai Bai Mengmeng, Zhao Kuo, and many other students from the One-Star Academy gathered together. Facing the current upheaval, even someone as thick-skinned as Seeing Yu Lang was somewhat panicked and unsettled.

"Mentor, what kind of person dares to invade the Holy Profound Star Academy?!" Bai Bai Doudou gripped a long spear tightly and could not help but ask.

Even now she found it hard to believe that someone would dare to cause trouble at the Holy Profound Star Academy. One must know that this place was where the most experts of the entire Great Xia gathered. Any faction in Great Xia would not dare to act even slightly wantonly here. The Bai family she came from was also considered a clan with considerable foundation in Great Xia, but precisely because of this, she understood even more clearly just how powerful the Holy Profound Star Academy was.

"I don't know. All the Violet-Glory mentors in the academy have rushed over. Vice Principal Suxin and the others are attending the coronation ceremony at the royal palace of Great Xia City right now, but I believe she'll receive the news soon and will rush back!"

"The situation is very dangerous right now. That intruder is extremely terrifying. If you students get caught up in it, there will inevitably be massive casualties, so you must first retreat to a safe area."

The Gold-Glory mentor guiding their retreat spoke in a hurried voice. In his heart, he was actually also filled with shock and doubt at this moment, but in order to soothe the students' emotions, he forcibly suppressed his feelings and did not let them show.

Because he too found it absurd.

Since the founding of the Holy Profound Star Academy, this was the first time such a mad thing had happened.

But he understood one thing: the intruder this time must be unimaginably powerful. Otherwise, those Violet-Glory mentors who went to support would have stabilized the situation long ago and then sent them a signal of safety. However... no such signal had come.

This meant the situation had grown even worse.

What kind of existence could make those powerful Violet-Glory mentors of the academy unable to resist?

A shadow crossed this Gold-Glory mentor's eyes. Anyone who dared to invade the academy so brazenly would certainly not be acting alone; behind them, there was very likely an extremely terrifying faction...

"But we still have Principal Pang. As long as he shows himself, he'll definitely crush every enemy that comes!" The Gold-Glory mentor thought of that pillar of the academy, and an inexplicable confidence welled up in his heart. He then began guiding the many young students toward a safe area.

The academy, where the Phase Force Tree stood.

The gold-and-silver heterochromatic man glanced around. One after another, figures wrapped in overwhelmingly powerful light descended from the sky, attempting to launch attacks on his position, but these attacks were quickly intercepted by the corrupted Violet-Glory mentors.

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The two sides were locked in chaotic combat, fighting fiercely with no clear winner.

"Looking across the many holy academies of the Outer Shenzhou in the Eastern Region, the foundation and strength of the Holy Profound Star Academy are still quite good. If it weren't for your quietly spreading the seeds of malice over the years, these Violet-Glory mentors alone would have given me a hard time." The gold-and-silver heterochromatic man nodded slightly, a hint of praise in his words.

Shen Shen Jinxiao beside him smiled faintly and said, "You're too modest, my lord. With the strength of our 'Return-to-One Society,' destroying a holy academy is but a flick of the wrist."

The gold-and-silver heterochromatic man chuckled and said, "A covert overthrow is our style of operation. To just brazenly bulldoze through directly would be far too lacking in artistic appreciation."

Shen Shen Jinxiao nodded in agreement with a smile.

"But I think Vice Principal Suxin and the others will arrive soon. When that happens, she should bring more reinforcements." Shen Shen Jinxiao reminded him.

The gold-and-silver heterochromatic man gave a disdainful laugh and said, "A rabble, nothing more. For today's upheaval, we have planned for so many years—how could we possibly be stopped by them? The Holy Profound Star Academy is doomed today."

"What about Pang Pang Qianyuan?" Shen Shen Jinxiao asked curiously.

Given the strength of the man before him, in this Great Xia, others indeed need not be worried about. But only that Principal Pang was the true threat.

"Great Xia is a very important link in our plan. This is something perhaps even Pang Pang Qianyuan didn't expect—he won't be able to stop it." The gold-and-silver heterochromatic man smiled faintly, a confidence surfacing in his words.

Then he said no more to Shen Shen Jinxiao and walked straight toward the towering, majestic Phase Force Tree.

As he approached the Phase Force Tree step by step, the tree seemed to sense some intense aura of danger. The next moment, countless crystalline green lights emerged from its trunk. These green lights gathered like a flood and actually formed a verdant talisman roughly a hundred zhang in size.

The talisman was obscure and ancient, halos of light radiating from it. The energy between heaven and earth seemed to be drawn by some intense attraction, pouring in one after another.

An overwhelmingly powerful pressure radiated outward, causing the very void in this area to constantly crack.

Shen Shen Jinxiao stopped in his tracks, his face turning solemn as he gazed at that verdant talisman, and said, "I've long heard that the Phase Force Tree contains a guardian talisman passed down from the Academy Alliance, but I'd never seen it with my own eyes before. Today, my eyes have truly been opened."

Even he sensed an intense aura of danger from this verdant talisman. This made him understand that the power of this talisman was not something he could withstand.

"This is the final protective measure deployed by the Academy Alliance to protect these high-grade Phase Force Trees. Its power is extraordinary—even I wouldn't dare take it head-on." The gold-and-silver heterochromatic man nodded and said.

As he spoke, he extended his palm. The spatial orb on his wrist flashed, and a black jade bottle appeared in his hand.

The surface of the jade bottle was inscribed with countless extremely complex light patterns, as if something were sealed within. And when the jade bottle appeared, Shen Shen Jinxiao noticed that the temperature between heaven and earth seemed to suddenly rise.

The gold-and-silver heterochromatic man formed hand seals with both hands. Streams of light patterns shot out and landed on the black jade bottle. Immediately, the patterns on its surface began to brighten, finally condensing at the mouth of the bottle, slowly tearing open the ring of black light membrane like a seal at the bottle's mouth.

When the light membrane at the bottle's mouth split open, a black flame slowly rose from within.

That black flame swelled with the wind. After several breaths, it transformed before Shen Shen Jinxiao into a slowly rotating black fire lotus.

That black fire lotus emanated an eerie aura. On every petal, patterns writhed. Looking closely, they seemed like countless ferocious human faces letting out agonized screams.

Shen Shen Jinxiao's pupils contracted slightly, and he unconsciously took half a step back. This black fire lotus was extremely bizarre; it made him sense unease and the scent of death. Even a titled marquis-level expert would not dare come into contact with this flame.

"This is the Black Lotus Karma Flame, born from gathering the malice between heaven and earth. Once even the slightest bit touches you, it clings like a maggot to the bone. Even if you abandon your physical body, it is hard to escape its incineration. For today's matter, I've spared no expense."

The gold-and-silver heterochromatic man smiled faintly and waved his hand lightly. The black fire lotus drifted out and directly collided with the verdant talisman.

Hiss!

At the moment of contact, space itself was seen melting. The verdant talisman released vast power, but its force seemed to be countered by the black fire lotus. As the black flame drifted, it burned it all away.

In just a few short minutes, the verdant talisman that even a titled marquis-level expert like Shen Shen Jinxiao was immensely wary of was completely dissolved beneath that black fire lotus.

After dissolving the verdant talisman, the black fire lotus flew directly toward the towering giant tree that carried the heart's blood of countless teachers and students of the Holy Profound Star Academy.

"Be destroyed."

The gold-and-silver heterochromatic man murmured with a smile.

Shen Shen Jinxiao was also staring at the Phase Force Tree. He seemed to sigh with a touch of lament. What a pity. This Phase Force Tree was the symbol and foundation of the Holy Profound Star Academy. In the many years since its founding, countless teachers and students had cultivated diligently here, and also entered the Dark Cave one after another.

Very well. In the future, the students of the Holy Profound Star Academy would no longer need to sacrifice themselves in the Dark Cave.

Because the Holy Profound Star Academy was about to become history.

The black fire lotus shot out. Just as it was about to make contact with the Phase Force Tree, a voice filled with furious rage came from the distant horizon.

"Stop!"

Shen Shen Jinxiao lifted his eyelids, gazing at the rainbow light that came streaking across the distant horizon in a grand, sweeping torrent — Vice Dean Su Xin and the others had finally arrived.