Chapter 279: The Dragon Palace Reappears

Outside Lotus Flower City, the sound of thunder permeated the air.

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The massive sound immediately alerted the Cultivators within the city.

Within the city, a woman in palace attire with the highest cultivation base opened her eyes and teleported outside her Immortal Cave.

!! Shua!

Immediately after, several Nascent Soul Cultivators appeared by her side.

“Elder—”

If Lin Jing were here, he would definitely recognize that these Nascent Soul Cultivators were all teachers employed at the Academy.

Lin Jing had even attended classes taught by two of them.

As for the woman in palace attire, she was one of the Academy’s Soul Transformation Elders.

Whether it was during the attack by the Nan Shan Demon Emperor or presiding over the Autumn Hunt, this Academy Elder had made an appearance.

During the Academy’s Great Relocation incident, it wasn’t just the Foundation Establishment Stage students who were affected; even the Nascent Soul Stage teachers and Soul Transformation Stage Elders had no power to resist before the teleportation treasure of that time.

This group of Academy experts were the Academy Cultivators who happened to land in Qingzhou.

After arriving in Qingzhou, they were in no hurry to return to the Ancient Kingdom. Firstly, traversing the Mist Forest was extremely dangerous, and secondly, there were still too many students scattered about. As teachers, their primary task was to find as many of the geniuses who had also been affected and sent to Qingzhou as possible, then return to the Ancient Kingdom together.

This Lotus Flower City on the Tongtian Path was their temporary resting place. This group of Academy teachers had long since sent out word,

asking any Academy students who had arrived in Qingzhou to gather here as much as possible.

“It’s the little princess of the Thunder Dragon Clan,” an Academy teacher remarked. “She has been challenging human prodigies of the same realm everywhere lately—I didn’t expect her to come to Lotus Flower City as well.”

“She is accompanied by a Soul Transformation Stage Thunder Dragon Prince. Just let a few students take up the challenge; there’s no need to provoke her.”

“We don’t need to show ourselves.”

“I remember the Thunder Dragon Clan seems to be a member of the Demon Court—” another teacher hesitated. “The Beast Taming Sect and the Demon Court are inextricably linked. Could our Academy student, Lin Jing, have already been found by the Demon Court first—”

“I’m not sure if this Thunder Dragon Princess knows anything. Should we ask her?”

“That’s almost impossible,” the woman in palace attire said. “The various tribes within the Demon Court are more like an Alliance; the connections between each Yao Beast group are not deep. Although Xu Qingyao from the Beast Taming Sect became the Demon Court’s Third Holy Maiden, for a great clan with a Profound Void Demon Ancestor overseeing them, their relationship with these Saintesses isn’t very significant. Those who are deeply connected with these Saintesses are mostly some Soul Transformation Stage Demon Emperors and their respective tribes.”

“Only those Yao Beast species without a ‘Demon Ancestor’ would choose to bet on a Saintess to trade for a chance for their race to soar. This Thunder Dragon Clan has always been isolated from the world, making it even less likely for them to have much connection with a Saintess.”

“We don’t need to worry about Lin Jing’s matter; leave it to the Vice Dean—” As the woman in palace attire finished speaking, several Academy geniuses, under the teachers’ voice transmissions, had already headed outside the city to face the Thunder Dragon Princess.

In Qingzhou, besides this group of Academy experts, a Vice Dean with a cultivation level at the Void Profound Realm had also arrived to search for Lin Jing. This wasn’t because of Lin Jing’s status as an Academy student or an Ancient Kingdom Prodigy, but purely to prevent the Yin Corpse Sect and Gu God Sect from gaining any benefit.

Since the Yin Corpse Sect values the Longevity Physique so much, they must absolutely not be allowed to obtain it. Finding and protecting Lin Jing is also a way to thwart the schemes of the Ancient Kingdom’s and the Academy’s enemies.

However, Lin Jing was too good at hiding. Even though the Ancient Kingdom dispatched an Academy Vice Dean at the Void Profound Realm, they still couldn’t find Lin Jing in Qingzhou.

Even when the Academy enlisted the help of experts from the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, they could only initially deduce that Lin Jing was located within Qingzhou.

The item to shroud heavenly secrets given by Senior Divine Pine before their parting had truly been a great help to Lin Jing.

“Are they here!!!”

Meanwhile, outside Lotus Flower City, the Thunder Dragon Princess’s eyes lit up as she watched the dozen or so Ancient Kingdom prodigies flying toward her.

At that moment, these dozen or so Academy students were also observing the Thunder Dragon Princess with serious expressions.

That breathtaking, dozens-of-meters-long divine dragon physique and those scales that sparkled like gems and permeated with lightning truly made them unable to muster any desire to fight.

“The teachers want us to face a monster like this?”

Although this group of Academy students had been tempered to varying degrees due to being stranded in Qingzhou, facing the Thunder Dragon Princess was still far beyond their level.

With the Thunder Dragon Princess’s Peak Emperor-rank Bloodline, looking across the Ancient Kingdom, unless one was at the level of the top few on the heavens pride ranking, they absolutely had no qualification to exchange blows with her.

And as for the top ranks of the heavens pride ranking, before the Academy’s Great Relocation incident, the Academy had only one person.

That was the number one on the heavens pride ranking, the Zhao Family’s Taiyin Body, Zhao Qingyue. If Zhao Qingyue were here, facing this Thunder Dragon Princess would be no problem at all, but the issue was that Zhao Qingyue had not been teleported to Qingzhou.

Among the Academy students teleported to Qingzhou, the highest-ranked on the heavens pride ranking was only twenty-first.

Although twenty-first was also high, there was a world of difference compared to the top ranks.

Those at the top of the ranking could easily insta-kill anyone outside the top ten.

Everyone’s gaze turned toward a young man in fine silk at the Foundation Establishment Great Perfection.

“Let me meet you then. I am Ji Changge of Myriad Sword City, once ranked twenty-first on the Ancient Kingdom’s heavenly pride ranking!” This young man in fine silk was a Sword Cultivator. He was currently soaring on his sword, hands behind his back, with a spiritual sword of extraordinary quality beneath him.

“Twenty-first? So low?” hearing this, the Thunder Dragon Princess’s eyes showed a look of disappointment.

“That’s all in the past,” Ji Changge spoke. Indeed, he used to be only twenty-first on the heavenly pride ranking,

but after coming to Qingzhou, he had other fortuitous encounters and was no longer his former self.

In these few years, his gains in Qingzhou were far greater than those from his secluded cultivation in Sword City or the Academy.

Yu.

A powerful Sword Intent rose from Ji Changge, and sharp Sword Intent began to form materialized yellow Flying Swords around him. One, two, three—in an instant, one hundred and eight Flying Swords entirely condensed from Sword Intent gathered in a sword formation behind him.

Each Flying Sword was permeated with a chilling aura of slaughter, their blades reflecting withered yellow leaves.

“Major Achievement Withered Sword Intent. This Sword Intent has the effect of decaying the enemy’s spiritual power—”

The surrounding Academy students were extremely shocked to see that Ji Changge had actually reached Major Achievement in Sword Intent. The difficulty of reaching Major Achievement in Sword Intent was no less than that of cultivating certain elemental spirit bodies to Major Achievement.

However, even though Ji Changge displayed such powerful means, the woman in palace attire and the teachers observing from behind the scenes still shook their heads. With just this Sword Intent, he would likely still be no match for the Thunder Dragon Princess; after all, it was heard that she had already easily suppressed divine bodies in other places.

Boom!!!

Sure enough, a moment later, the Thunder Dragon Princess allowed the countless Major Achievement Sword Intents to land on her body, but the Sword Intent didn’t even scratch her thunder scales.

Then, she sent Ji Changge flying with a single claw strike.

“I told you, you’re too weak. Are you the strongest Foundation Establishment Stage here? I don’t think so.” The Thunder Dragon Princess had no interest in this Sword Cultivator. Finally, her gaze fell upon the only two relatively calm students among the dozen or so shocked Academy students.

“There seems to be an extraordinary power sleeping within your bodies, much stronger than that fellow—want to have a go?”

Following the Thunder Dragon Princess’s gaze, everyone also looked at this pair of siblings.

“The two Palace Masters of the Dragon Palace, Jiang Lin and Jiang Qi? This Thunder Dragon actually says they are stronger than Senior Brother Ji?” The other students were stunned. One had to know that back at the Academy, this pair of siblings only had a cultivation of Foundation Establishment Middle Stage and had never even made it onto the heavenly pride ranking. Although they had reached Foundation Establishment Perfection now, they weren’t necessarily stronger than Ji Changge.

Before, many people were puzzled as to why Lin Jing had handed over the Dragon Palace he established to these two. Could it be that this pair of siblings wasn’t as simple as they appeared on the surface?

“How can she sense the Ice Soul Gu inside our bodies—” The Jiang Twins looked at each other, sensing trouble.