"What?"
"Xiao Pei has mutated?"
"I can’t control the array anymore!"
Lin Muqing shouted, "Everyone be careful, Xiao Pei has taken control of the array..."
As she spoke, she looked toward the staircase, where a middle-aged man was slowly standing up. Her heart leapt with joy, "Teacher Zhou Shan! That’s right, he also lives in this building."
It was Zhou Shan, who had previously replaced Xing Jun in teaching Zuo Dao and highly admired Zuo Dao’s talents. He had also tried to have Zhou Bai expelled on several occasions.
Zhou Shan looked at Xiao Pei and said, "Don’t worry, Teacher Lin, you go out first. I’ll hold her off. Xiao Pei, you truly disappoint me."
Xiao Pei lowered her head and sighed deeply, "Why must it be this way?"
Seeing one teacher after another step forward, Lin Muqing felt slightly relieved and didn’t run away anymore. Even if the array was powerful, Xiao Pei couldn’t possibly defeat so many cultivators of the fourth and fifth realms alone.
Especially Teacher Zhou Shan, with his mastery of the Sword Array and having reached the peak of the fifth realm, was more than capable of stabilizing the situation.
Pfft...
Lin Muqing looked at her chest in shock as an invisible blade pierced her back and emerged from her chest.
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’It’s... Cheng Ying...’ Lin Muqing turned her head slightly and saw Zhou Shan watching her impassively, "Xiao Pei, you really let people down. Why did you reveal yourself to Lin Muqing."
"Teacher Lin..." Xiao Pei said, "I told you, you should have talked with ’us’."
"Us?" Lin Muqing struggled to turn her head, only to realize that the teachers around her had all started to look at her with cold expressions.
"You!" Lin Muqing activated her Primordial Spirit, channeling its power continuously into her physical body to temporarily sustain her life functions.
Xiao Pei slowly floated in front of her and sighed.
Meanwhile, the twisted shadow that Lin Muqing had previously noticed slowly approached, gradually taking on a human form, pitch black in color.
"Heavenly Demon?!" Lin Muqing glared at everyone present, "You sided with the Heavenly Demon? Have you gone mad?"
"In fact," the Heavenly Demon spoke slowly, "I think compared to them who joined me in sharing eternal life, you die-hard fighters are the crazier ones."
Lin Muqing grimly laughed, "Once I’m dead, the Night Army will surely detect your presence here."
"So what if they detect it?" Xiao Pei extended her hands toward the people around her and slowly said, "Teacher Lin, our forces... are far stronger than you imagine. Even if grandfather detects it, it’s already too late. This is the tide of history, destiny is with me, but humanity has already lost."
As she spoke, she leaned in toward Lin Muqing, tilting her chin up, "Teacher Lin, you now have two choices, join us and live forever, or die right now."
"Heh heh heh. You guys who’ve never even been on the battlefield... simply don’t understand how much humanity has sacrificed today to fight the Heavenly Demon," Lin Muqing scoffed coldly, "Human scum."
Boom!
"She’s going to detonate her Primordial Spirit!"
"Stop her!"
"Be careful!"
Cracks suddenly appeared on Lin Muqing’s face, and dazzling golden light burst out from those cracks as she stared crazily at Xiao Pei and screamed, "Humanity will never compromise!"
A smile appeared on her face as she thought to herself, ’So I am to die here after all...’ She remembered the surprised looks and concealed disdain she encountered when she had retired from the battlefield.
But she knew she was never afraid to die; she was just afraid to die without meaning. She had so many more things she wanted to do, so many more futures she wanted to witness.
Unexpectedly, she would still die here.
But she couldn’t compromise with the Heavenly Demon.
"Foolishness to the extreme, you narrow-minded racist. You have no idea about the greatness of what we are doing now. I am leading humanity into a new era, even the immortals and gods will be trampled beneath our feet..."
Xiao Pei thrust out his palm, which suddenly turned pitch black and directly pierced Lin Muqing’s brain, sending streams of blue electricity into her brain. The power of Lin Muqing’s Primordial Spirit, which had been boiling, began to extinguish gradually.
Seeing this, Lin Muqing’s heart slightly trembled, "The transformation into a Heavenly Demon is already complete... No... It seems not completely."
Xiao Pei coldly looked at Lin Muqing before him and said indifferently, "Those who obstruct my eternity."
"Must be killed."
The light in Lin Muqing’s eyes slowly faded, but her gaze at Xiao Pei always carried a hint of mockery, which irritated Xiao Pei and made him increase his power output.
Lin Muqing sighed in her heart. Memories of the past flowed incessantly, seemingly taking her back to that battlefield filled with iron and blood, death, and sacrifice.
...
Screams, explosions.
Comrades’ corpses, superiors’ blood.
A sudden encounter.
A Heavenly Demon over a kilometer long.
The gods abandoning support.
Thus, the entire squadron perished, with only Lin Muqing left, shivering in the bushes.
Hearing terrifying roars from all around, she trembled all over, her heart filled with fear of death, unable to muster any fighting spirit.
But within the next few minutes, the continuous explosions kept sounding, the Heavenly Demon’s roars grew fainter, and eventually, the entire battlefield quieted down.
"Are you alright?"
Lin Muqing, like a frightened animal, suddenly stood up, her Primordial Spirit’s power burst forth, unleashing the Three Talents Formation that exploded with flames and lightning towards the direction of the sound.
The figure of the newcomer was immensely tall, who with a casual wave, dissipated Lin Muqing’s attack and gently said, "It’s over, I’ve driven the Heavenly Demons back; you’re safe now."
The person stretched out both hands and slowly walked up, and Lin Muqing just stared dumbly at the man in front of her until he embraced her.
Suddenly, she burst out screaming, tears streaming down her face, and she cried as if she had collapsed.
The man silently stroked her back, softly saying, "It’s alright, it’s all over now."
But Lin Muqing didn’t stop crying, for her tears were not just for her own plight or mourning her comrades’ tragic deaths, but also for the despair over humanity’s future.
No matter how calm, passionate, or hopeful she was at Dao School,
It was only when she truly stepped onto the battlefield that she realized the disadvantage humanity was at in their battle against the Heavenly Demons.
While crying, she yelled, "We can’t win; we simply can’t win."
The man lifted her face, his eyes filled with an unusual determination, and a faint smile at the corner of his mouth, seeming to hold hope even in the direst circumstances.
Man: "It’s alright; humanity will definitely prevail in the end."
Lin Muqing: "On what basis?"
The man confidently said, "Because I have already figured out a surefire strategy."
He opened his mouth, quietly stating his reasons, then stretched out his hand to Lin Muqing, "Do you want to join? To change this world with me, to witness the advent of a new world—a world without war, without Heavenly Demons, and without gods."
"What’s your name?"
"You can call me Li Xiuzhu."
...
Dao School, 22:14 at night.