Chapter 88: Forcefully Taking Away

Force?

Jia Tianyang considered his own fists to be very hard; it was difficult to find an opponent for him on the Firo Continent.

But he didn’t dare to defy the words left by the Dao Soldier.

“Tianyang, you must not make an enemy of that Xu Lingqing. There is someone behind her…”

Jia Tianyang clenched his fists. The suppressed clarity caused the spiritual rhyme in his body to run rampant, and rage rushed to his heart.

He was the dean of Jialan Academy, above ten thousand people, yet he didn’t dare to refute a junior.

“Xu… Ling… Qing…”

Jia Tianyang gritted his teeth and squeezed out her name.

At this moment, Xu Lingqing’s hair was draped behind her back. A wisp of violet-gold light shone from her eyes. The deep violet light within her pupils reflected off the heavens and earth, freezing the space in front of her.

A violet-gold light erupted from the ground around her hand. The hairpin in her hand was ready to be unleashed, and a sinister wind enveloped the area around Jia Tianyang.

“Come on! I’ll duel you one-on-one!”

“Let me see just how strong the dean of Jialan Academy is!”

Gong Yue’s face changed drastically. He never would have thought that Xu Lingqing would actually choose to duel Jia Tianyang.

One was at the third level of the Meridian Unblocking Realm, the other at the half-step Soul Condensation Realm. There was a gap of countless realms between them.

If they dueled, did she really have a chance of winning?

Xu Lingqing stood her ground calmly, her cold gaze locked on Jia Tianyang. The moment he made a move, she would attack with the Immortal Fire Talisman, followed by the Immortal Fire Spell to annihilate him. Adding the power of the violet hairpin and the violet-gold pipa, even a half-step Soul Condensation Realm expert might not be able to withstand her combination of skills.

At this moment, all the pressure was on Jia Tianyang. He was the head of an academy. Was he really going to back down like this?

But the Dao Soldier’s warning made him utterly afraid to provoke this woman who ‘had someone behind her’.

In an instant, Jia Tianyang shot to his feet, abandoning all thoughts of fighting. Instead, he suppressed all the anger in his heart.

“Xu Lingqing, are you trying to destroy Jialan Academy?”

Jia Tianyang’s voice trembled slightly, tinged with a bit of melancholy and helplessness.

Xu Lingqing coldly raised her long, beautiful arm and reinserted the hairpin into her temple. She took small steps to the side of Elder Zhao’s coffin.

“Jia Tianyang, sometimes, face is something you give yourself!”

Jia Tianyang’s voice actually trembled, “You… you… you…”

As soon as his voice fell, Gong Yue and Lin Jintian arrived at the front and back of Elder Zhao’s coffin, hoisting it onto their shoulders.

“Let’s go!”

Xu Lingqing paid no mind to how ugly Jia Tianyang’s expression was, nor did she worry that he would dare to attack. Just like that, she took Elder Zhao’s coffin and left Jialan Academy.

This was because when she proposed the duel, Jia Tianyang chose to retreat and avoid the fight, dooming him to lose everything.

On the Firo Continent, and indeed on any continent, if you lack the courage to fight, you also lose the right to choose.

All the students looked at the cold silhouette of Xu Lingqing in the sky, a sense of reverence involuntarily growing in their hearts.

The funeral in Jialan Academy’s square continued. Several of the academy’s most senior elders were dead. Now, only the junior elders were left to manage the situation.

Jia Tianyang, having been thoroughly humiliated, rushed back to the ancestral land in a towering rage.

The Divine Realm Dao Soldier, compared to its madness after being injured and losing its great axe, had calmed down a bit and was now able to communicate normally.

“Tianyang, did Xu Lingqing come to Jialan Academy again?”

Jia Tianyang, filled with grief and indignation, slammed his hand against a nearby ancient stone tablet. In an instant, his hand was dripping with blood, dyeing the entire tablet red.

“Old Ancestor… I’m so angry, so angry!”

“When you’re under someone else’s roof, you have to bow your head. I don’t believe Xu Lingqing will have good luck forever. One day, she will die prematurely due to her arrogance.”

Jia Tianyang gave a cold smile, “It would be best if those people behind her all died as well!”

“Tianyang, be careful with your words! Some great powers are not for us to slander. What if they hear…”

Just then, a cold, bone-piercing wind swept through the ancestral land. A flash of green light streaked through the wind.

That green light was like a ghostly light from hell, illuminating the originally ink-black ancestral land with a sinister and terrifying glow.

Jia Tianyang’s expression went blank. A chill ran down his back, and he turned his head with a look of disbelief.

“Sect Master Hui… how did you get in!”

A faint green immortal light flowed around Hui Liyi’s body, creating ripples around her that caused the air to tremble slightly.

Immediately, a Green Luan Divine Sword appeared in Hui Liyi’s hand from out of nowhere. The blade was long and slender, engraved with a large Green Luan bird. The hilt was like a bird’s beak, clasped in her hand.

“Jia Tianyang! Jialan Academy has some nerve, daring to kill our Green Luan Sect’s divine beast, the Green Luan bird!”

Jia Tianyang’s eyes widened in frustration, “Sect Master Hui, you can’t just say things like that. When have we ever done such a thing?”

“Hehe, the Green Luan bird is dead. I don’t care whether you went there or not, but only you have the strength to kill it!”

“Sect Master Hui… you are…”

As the words fell, Hui Liyi giggled. The Green Luan Sword in her hand moved half an inch, and a whistling sound erupted in the air, as if a Green Luan bird was roaring.

Jia Tianyang swallowed hard, his eyes filled with incomparable horror. He hadn’t expected Hui Liyi’s aura to be even stronger than the Divine Realm Dao Soldier at its peak.

The Divine Realm Dao Soldier’s heart clenched, and it shouted in alarm, “Tianyang, run! She’s here to kill you!”

“Can you run?”

Hui Liyi raised her upper lip in a sneer. The sword, like an eagle’s beak, swung out with a cunning and swift posture.

Chirp, chirp, chirp…

The roaring cries of the Green Luan bird rang out in the air as the sword slashed towards Jia Tianyang’s head.

“You are not allowed to harm him!”

The Divine Realm Dao Soldier recklessly charged forward, using its already shattered armor to block the Green Luan Sword.

Puchi…

This one sword strike shattered all the fragments of its armor, severely injuring the souls of dozens of generations of Jialan Academy’s ancestors.

“A heavily injured Divine Realm puppet dares to dream of blocking this Immortal’s strike!”

“Tianyang, run!”

“Old Ancestor…”

Jia Tianyang’s sobs wouldn’t stop, tears falling like rain. His body was already stiff with shock.

The next second, the Green Luan Sword rose again. The trace left by the sword’s edge was like a falcon hunting its prey, directly swallowing several souls.

“Ah… run… or Jialan Academy will be finished…”

The Divine Realm Dao Soldier had completely crumbled. The remaining souls used their hands to desperately hold onto Hui Liyi’s body.

Hui Liyi faintly clenched her fair fist. The punch shattered the soul of a Jialan Academy ancestor, turning it into a puff of black smoke.

Jia Tianyang numbly wiped away the tears in his heart. Seeing the ancestors sacrificing themselves to block the enemy, he naturally could not fail their expectations.

‘Escape!’

A secret technique surged forth, and his figure instantly disappeared from the spot.

Hui Liyi pursed her lips, slightly annoyed, but she had no way to break free from those troublesome souls in a short time.

“Damn it!”

“Jia Tianyang, do you really think you can get away?”

Thus, the super academy that had stood on the Firo Continent for a thousand years, Jialan Academy, vanished into the long river of history.

[End of Chapter]