NOVPUB"Mo Feiyun,
Qing Lan,
Zhan Jun,
Bai Yaoyao."
The four reported their names to each other and then turned their gaze to Xu Zimei.
"True Martial Holy Sect Xu Zimei," Xu Zimei said with a smile, and then inquired, "Is there something you need?"
"I’d like to get acquainted with Young Master Xu," Bai Yaoyao responded with a smile, her pure white long hair giving her an extraordinary demeanor.
"It’s an honor to meet disciples from the Heavenly Dao Academy," Xu Zimei replied.
"Young Master Xu, don’t joke around. That senior from before was from the True Martial Holy Sect, wasn’t he?" Qing Lan said with a laugh to the side.
"Sort of," Xu Zimei said noncommittally with a nod.
"Is Young Master Xu also here for this relic site?" Bai Yaoyao asked, "And why not enter?"
Xu Zimei immediately understood their intentions—they wanted to probe for information and gain useful intelligence from him.
He chuckled and said, "Well, I want to let them go in first to see if there’s any danger."
"If there is no danger, wouldn’t someone like Young Master Xu be gifting the treasure to others?" Zhan Jun said with a laugh.
"Not at all, if there’s no danger, once they bring the treasures out, I can just snatch them away," Xu Zimei replied.
Zhan Jun’s expression froze for a moment; he had not expected someone to speak such frank and forthright words so openly.
Not even bothering with pretense.
But considering the power of the senior from before, this approach seemed conceivable after all.
"Young Master Xu must be joking," Zhan Jun said with a stiff face.
"Your Heavenly Dao Academy is quite interesting. I’ll have to visit when I have the time," Xu Zimei chuckled.
"The academy is not like the Sect Gate. I fear Young Master Xu might not adapt well to such a discrepancy," Mo Yunfei said coldly from the side.
"Within the True Martial Holy Sect, Young Master Xu is a Talented Disciple.
But in our Heavenly Dao Academy, there’s an abundance of Talented Disciples, plenty of Evil Beings.
Like us, we are merely ordinary students."
Hearing Mo Yunfei’s words, Xu Zimei let out a soft chuckle and said, "Indeed very ordinary. I can tell, you are quite weak,
so weak that you don’t even have the qualifications to catch my eye."
"You," Mo Yunfei’ face changed slightly, and he glanced at Xu Zimei.
He scoffed and said, "If you’re so confident, why don’t we ditch our ancestors’ glory and have a direct battle between us?"
"You want to battle me?" Xu Zimei said with a light laugh.
"Yes, a fair and square fight, what do you say?" Mo Yunfei proposed.
"Forget it, you’re too weak. I can’t muster any interest," Xu Zimei shook his head in response.
"Are you scared?" Mo Yunfei took a deep breath and mocked, "Some people are only good at talking big, hiding under the shadow of their ancestors."
Xu Zimei had not yet had a chance to reply when he heard an explosion coming from inside the entrance.
Then he saw the elderly man from Heavenly Dao Academy emerge with his hair disheveled.
His scholar’s robe was dotted with many small holes, and the hair that had been meticulously combed was now completely disarrayed.
It obscured his entire face.
"Master," the fellow students from the Heavenly Dao Academy all called out.
"Your master has come out; shouldn’t you go and greet him?" Xu Zimei commented while grabbing Mo Yunfei by the collar and tossing him toward the old man.
"What are you doing?" Mo Yunfei cried out in alarm, being thrown out directly.
When his body heavily fell in front of the old man, it was only then that Mo Yunfei, from bottom to top, saw the old man’s face obscured by his disheveled hair.
"Master, Master," Mo Yunfei called out tremblingly.
But at the next moment, the elder from the Heavenly Dao Academy let out a roar, a growl akin to that of a wild beast.
He directly grabbed Mo Yunfei’s body and pinned him down to the ground, biting ferociously.
Screams echoed through the air as Mo Yunfei was bitten to death, still alive.
The old man devoured him voraciously, leaving no part untouched.
"How could Master have become like this," the few people beside them were almost about to vomit.
After eating Mo Yunfei’s corpse, the elder stood up again and looked at the people with a sinister gaze.
His eyes were blood-red, and a dark aura seemed to be flowing on his face.
"Master, it’s us!" Bai Yaoyao and the others shouted.
However, the elder just bared his teeth, the might of the Divine Vein Realm surging around him as he charged towards the crowd.
"If you ask for my help, I might consider saving you," Xu Zimei said with a smile from aside.
"Young Master Xu, please save my Master," Bai Yaoyao pleaded urgently.
"He’s beyond saving, something has eroded his mind; he is now just a corpse that only knows slaughter, without any consciousness," Xu Zimei shook his head and said.
With a wave of his right hand, the Binding Immortal Lock flew out.
Spiritual Energy surged on the iron lock, which swiftly bound the elder.
To speak of this Binding Immortal Lock, as Xu Zimei’s strength has increased, its usefulness has grown significantly.
The old man, now bound, struggled furiously to no avail.
He just kept growling deeply in his throat, struggling incoherently.
"Consider this as saving your lives. Besides, your Heavenly Dao Academy now owes me a favor," Xu Zimei stated.
"Is there any hope for our Master?" Bai Yaoyao quickly nodded and asked.
"Let the experts from your academy come and clear out whatever is deluding his mind, and he should be fine," Xu Zimei proposed.
"But hurry, or it will be too late."
"Thank you, Young Master Xu," Bai Yaoyao and the others quickly expressed their gratitude and began to contact the academy using a special method.
"Shall we go in?" the Divine Emperor asked Xu Zimei again.
"If it were a normal relic, I wouldn’t have wanted to go in, but now that even the Divine Vein Realm is having trouble, it seems interesting."
Xu Zimei nodded in agreement.
The Divine Vein Realm was already one of the pinnacles on this continent, and there were very few places they could not go.
Together with the Divine Emperor, they stepped through the portal. The spider webs that covered the walls were almost completely destroyed.
Xu Zimei moved unobstructed, the light inside was dim, and the air was stagnant and foul-smelling.
Xu Zimei felt a power that he had sensed before, now even more intense than before the incident.
It was actively trying to merge with Xu Zimei, fusing with the Spiritual Energy within him.
"This power is strange; it’s better for us to keep it at bay," the Divine Emperor said with a frown.
Xu Zimei nodded his head.
As they continued forward, they began to come across some corpses.
To be precise, they were the corpses of spiders, large black spiders with eight legs.
It seemed that the spider webs were spun by them.
After walking a distance, Xu Zimei finally found the first human corpse.
He approached the corpse, crouched slightly, and the deceased was none other than the Blade Emperor.
