Chapter 46: This is a Small Matter?

Jialan Academy’s ancestral land.

This was where the remains of all the deans who had fallen over the past thousand years were buried. The small area was filled with rich spiritual energy.

Jia Tianyang had returned here after being burned by the Immortal Fire Spell. At this moment, he was lying in the palace of the mausoleum. Standing before him was a skinny old man dressed in a black robe.

This person looked as if he had one foot in hell, but no one dared to ignore the one thousand five hundred specks of spiritual rhyme in his dantian.

A half-step Soul Condensation Realm powerhouse!

If it weren’t for the lack of a wisp of immortal energy needed to advance to the Soul Condensation Realm on the Firo Continent today, this person would have probably broken through long ago.

The old man gently touched the scorched wounds on Jia Tianyang’s body and asked in astonishment.

“Yang’er, did you encounter a Soul Condensation Realm powerhouse?”

Jia Tianyang shook his head in pain and told him what had happened that day in Jumin Canyon.

The old man narrowed his eyes to a slit, his gaze piercing through the mausoleum to look directly at the northern sky.

In an instant, an overwhelmingly terrifying and exceptionally abrupt majesty appeared, shooting from within the mausoleum towards the sky.

Above the vast sky, this pressure connected with the heavens, but there was no ripple, no response at all.

The old man shook his head in frustration, retracting all his aura back into himself.

“Impossible! The Firo Continent has no immortal energy at all, so how could such a fire spell be created!”

Jia Tianyang was on the verge of tears. “Grandpa, please help me heal quickly. Otherwise, your grandson’s face will be ruined.”

The old man placed his hand on the scorched area. The incomparably thin wisp of immortal fire energy flowed into his palm.

Gradually, the wounds on Jia Tianyang’s body began to heal. His eyes, full of fear, reflected clusters of flames.

“Hmph! So what if it’s immortal fire? I have my own ways to resist it!”

…

Old Zhao!

Isn’t he the Second Elder of Jialan Academy? With Jialan Academy’s current healing methods, he should be fine after a period of recuperation at most.

Why would he suddenly… not have much time left?

Xu Lingqing lowered her brows, looking at the familiar characters on the letter. She was completely certain that this letter was in Old Zhao’s handwriting.

“Zhang Yaocen! What did you do to Elder Zhao?”

Zhang Yaocen had just recovered from the bone-chilling frost when she suddenly saw a gaze even colder than that frost. Her heart almost stopped.

“Tell me quickly! What is Elder Zhao’s situation right now?”

Xu Lingqing clenched her fists, and ripples of frost formed on her skin.

Zhang Yaocen was scared out of her wits, trembling all over, and stammered in reply.

“I… I don’t know either. I just came to deliver the letter. I don’t know anything else.”

Xu Lingqing closed her beautiful eyes for a moment. “Wan Shaohui or Zou Yongzhi?”

“It… it was Senior Brother Zou Yongzhi. He said that if I delivered this letter to you, he would give me a pill.”

Zhang Yaocen had not yet realized the seriousness of the matter. She tremblingly handed the pill to Xu Lingqing, still thinking she was the same Xu Lingqing as before.

“Lingqing… you take this pill. Will you come back to Jialan Academy with me?”

Xu Lingqing was momentarily stunned, then couldn’t help but throw her head back and laugh, her laughter filled with ridicule.

“Hahaha! You are so kind.”

“Take your things and go back and tell Zou Yongzhi that I, Xu Lingqing, will definitely return!”

Zhang Yaocen smiled faintly, unconcerned. “Lingqing, we are all family. There’s no need to make things unpleasant over such a small matter.”

A small matter?

The meridians in all four limbs were shattered, the dantian was destroyed, half of the Extreme Ice Body spiritual root was stripped away, and most ridiculously, 12,576 people in Jialan Academy called her a lone star of heavenly calamity.

This is called a small matter?

Xu Lingqing laughed sinisterly in her heart. At this moment, she couldn’t control the suppressed emotions in her heart at all. A violet-gold light from her body instantly illuminated the sky.

In the next second, Zhang Yaocen only felt that purple light flash past her shoulder.

Puchi.

Without any warning, a spray of blood scattered on the ground. The meridians in her right hand were forcefully severed. From now on, her right hand would have no strength at all.

Zhang Yaocen’s face instantly turned deathly pale, her lips trembled violently, and her pupils dilated rapidly. Her right arm had already lost all feeling.

“You… why did you?”

“Zhang Yaocen, I ask you, is this a small matter?”

“This… is not.”

Xu Lingqing laughed wantonly. “Since this is not the small matter you speak of, then get lost!”

“Without experiencing another’s suffering, do not advise them to be kind!”

“Some things, only after you’ve been through them, do you know what despair is!”

Zhang Yaocen was completely dumbfounded, unable to believe that this was the Xu Lingqing she knew.

She couldn’t believe even more that the once-so-weak Xu Lingqing had actually severed her meridians.

Chen Anping watched the game screen and gave a thumbs-up in praise.

“Good job, baby Lingqing!”

“Make those who look down on you pay the price!”

“Ten days east of the river, ten days west of the river. I will make all of you fear my baby Lingqing!”

Chen Anping was fired up. At this moment, he felt that he was not playing a game, but as if it were his own personal experience.

He was venting the resentful emotions in his heart through the game, making everyone regret leaving him!

…

Xu Lingqing kicked Zhang Yaocen away and returned to her room with a stern, straight face.

At this moment, Violet Lightning was still in that state of cultivation. She picked up the dog food and studied it for a long time, but couldn’t figure anything out.

“It should be a type of food that contains powerful spiritual energy!”

With this thought, Xu Lingqing took out a puppet from her spatial ring whose spirit stones had been depleted.

She fed a piece of dog food into the low-level puppet’s mouth. After swallowing one piece, a progressively colder divine light instantly appeared in the puppet’s eyes.

A puppet operated by spirit stones was only at the first or second level of the Origin Opening Realm. After being fed the dog food, it could at least reach the strength of the fourth or even fifth level of the Origin Opening Realm.

It could be said to be an absolute bargain!

Chen Anping, who was watching from across the screen, couldn’t help but exclaim in surprise.

“Holy cow, so the dog food wasn’t for people to eat!”

Xu Lingqing was stunned and tested it. A Meridian Unblocking Realm puppet’s strength also increased significantly after consuming it.

‘Senior’ is truly a heavenly being!

It would not be an exaggeration to call this invention the most outstanding marvel in the world.

…

In the evening, Zhang Yaocen staggered back to Jialan Academy, dragging her broken arm.

At this moment, Zou Yongzhi was being intimate with Tang Anni in a room. The latter was leaning against the former like a delicate bird, two rosy clouds on her cheeks.

“That toad, Senior Brother, said he would help me deal with Lingqing, but now he’s nowhere to be seen.”

Zou Yongzhi’s lips curled up into a sinister and cunning smile, his eyes flashing with a vicious light.

“Sister Anni, I have already had someone notify that traitor Xu Lingqing. Tomorrow, she will disappear from this world…”

Tang Anni deliberately rubbed against his chest and said in a soft, affected voice.

“Third Brother… you’re the one who pampers me the most~”

A ferocious smile appeared on Zou Yongzhi’s lips, as if he could already see the two of them spending a passionate night together.

He lowered his head and leaned in for a kiss…

Suddenly, an extremely mood-killing voice from outside the door broke their intimacy.

“Senior Brother Zou… Senior Brother Zou, save me!”

[End of Chapter]