"How is this possible? Am I having a nightmare? People
stared in terror at Ye Ziwen, who had been sent flying, unable to believe their eyes.
That was the tenth rank of the Heavenly Ranking peerless prodigy. Among the academy's tens of millions of disciples, fewer than a handful could defeat him. Yet now, he was severely wounded by this young man in black with a single blow.
With a loud explosion, Ye Ziwen crashed into a building, spitting out a mouthful of blood from his heart.
"Ssshh!"
A long spear pressed against his cheek and pierced into the building beside him. At that moment, Ye Ziwen was so terrified his face turned pale.
Long Chen's attack came without warning, impossible to dodge. If Long Chen wanted to kill him, the spear would precisely pierce his brow. Life and death would be decided in an instant. At that moment, sweat slid down his forehead from his cheeks.
"You tried to kill me. Normally, you would have died today, but when you struck, you restrained some of your aura, not wanting to harm the two of them. Your shred of kindness saved your life. Otherwise, there would have been no one named Ye Ziwen in this world." Long Chen walked forward slowly, speaking calmly.
At that moment, Ye Ziwen was shaken by a wave of fear. He hadn't expected that this shred of kindness would pull him back from the abyss of death.
"Who exactly are you, sir? Why make things difficult for my academy disciples? Ye Ziwen said in a trembling voice.
"It's not that I'm making things difficult for them, but that they deserve to die. I'm just exercising my duties and rights." Long Chen said calmly.
"Who exactly are you?" Ye Ziwen gritted his teeth and asked again.
"Who is the dean of this academy?" Long Chen asked.
"Of course, Lord Luchengkong." Ye Ziwen replied without hesitation.
"You're wrong. The dean of the First Branch of Lingxiao Academy isn't him!" After Long Chen finished speaking, he continued walking forward.
Soon, the figure quietly disappeared, and everyone fell into endless confusion. The dean of Lingxiao Academy was Lord Lu Chengkong—even children knew him, so why did he say it wasn't him?
"Could it be ...?"
Suddenly, someone exclaimed, disbelief appearing in their eyes.
"Is he Long Chen?"
Ye Ziwen's mouth dropped open, his eyes nearly popping out.
Long Chen—a name they had never seen before, but everyone had heard of—or rather, a name everyone ridiculed.
It turned out that when Long Chen left, Bai Letian and his men had only occupied a stronghold. When the Hall Master returned, they used the most violent and bloody methods to reclaim the First Branch and wiped out all the invading areas, completely intimidating everyone.
And after Bai Letian and the others took over the First Branch, they immediately activated the foundation, awakening their fortune and causing the entire Lingxiao Academy to revive.
Dan Gu saw the situation and knew he could no longer stop Lingxiao Academy, so he stopped futile struggle and began to retreat.
With no outside interference left, Bai Letian began activating the magic array of Lingxiao Academy, using it to communicate with the small world connected to the academy.
These small worlds were all created before the First Branch was destroyed. Many small worlds have already fallen, but some can still be opened.
Within these small worlds were resources and ancient texts left behind by the First Branch. When Bai Letian opened a small world, he was pleasantly surprised to find that there were still people there.
It turned out that before the First Branch was destroyed, everyone had taken refuge in small worlds in batches, and at that time, seven small worlds were hiding people.
After the place was occupied by monsters, people wreaked havoc on the small worlds. Out of the seven small worlds, six collapsed, meaning everyone inside died.
Only the people in this small world managed to survive by luck, relying on the resources left by the First Branch to recuperate and recuperate in the small world.
Because the First Academy was the richest among all the academies, the resources left behind still hadn't been exhausted. When the small world was opened and tens of millions of disciples and countless powerful figures appeared, Bai Letian and the others were overjoyed.
And these disciples sealed within the small world were all descendants of those who were once sealed. They had never seen the outside world and could only rely on books and legends to understand the outside world.
When they emerged from the small world, it was like birds in a caged being set free. They were incredibly excited, because here, their cultivation could grow without limits.
When Qin Feng first went to the Long family to look for Long Chen, Bai Letian hadn't opened this small world yet, so Long Chen had no idea what was happening here.
However, Bai Letian's excitement didn't last long before he encountered a problem that gave him a headache.
That is, inside the small world, there was originally a dean, and he was an extremely powerful existence.
If it were just powerful, it would be one thing. But this director might have been locked up for too long, like a prisoner released from prison. Soon, he became arrogant, completely disregarding Bai Letian and the others.
The only person the dean feared was the Hall Master, but the Hall Master never paid attention to such tedious matters. After reclaiming the academy, he began his secluded cultivation.
As a result, the dean began planning the reconstruction of Lingxiao Academy. However, the dean seemed to look down on Bai Letian—not just Bai Letian alone, but all these "outsiders."
It wasn't just the dean who looked down on them; those who came from the small world seemed to have an innate sense of superiority, as if they were born rulers. Even if Bai Letian and the others released them, they didn't seem to feel any gratitude.
During the reconstruction of Lingxiao Academy, the director never consulted Bai Letian for his opinion, and in the academy's planning, local disciples were separated from outsiders.
Even someone with such a good temper couldn't stand Bai Letian. One day, when all the experts were present, Bai Letian laid his cards on the table.
He directly stated that this was the First Branch of Lingxiao Academy, under the jurisdiction of the main institute. Back then, Long Chen single-handedly took over the stronghold, broke the deadlock, and everything that followed was possible.
With the approval of the main institute, Long Chen was already the dean of the First Branch. When he heard that Long Chen was just a disciple and was actually vying for the dean, he nearly laughed to death.
Bai Letian didn't argue with them and returned directly to his residence, never interacting with them again. Even the Dragon Blood Legion and the former academy disciples stopped communicating with them.
At first, people treated this as a joke, and Long Chen's name became a laughingstock.
But today, no one could laugh anymore. Ye Ziwen and the others watched Long Chen's departing figure, and a very bad feeling immediately rose in their hearts.
"I'm afraid something big is about to happen." Ye Ziwen and the others looked at each other, following Long Chen's footsteps deeper into the academy.