Li Shen grabbed at his head as he couldn’t comprehend what was happening. This was just way too sudden!
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
More banging sounds echoed out and Li Shen raised his head to the sky to curse.
“You have to be fu-”
However, he paused when he saw that the bell was slowly dissipating. The noise hadn’t come from it.
“EIGHTH ELDER!! JUST WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU’RE DOING?!!”
Li Shen’s head swerved to look towards one of the floating islands in the distance, to see the chains that extended from it into the void had been severed. They let out an irritating clanking noise as they send shockwaves everywhere as they swerve around erratically.
The island itself was tittering to one side about to fall over.
Screams of disciples were heard in Li Shen’s ears that sent a chill down his spine.
The shout from before came from a streak of silver sword light.
Li Shen recognized it as Ye Fei’s own.
A terrifying Sword Energy suddenly slashed across the sky and shot from him to the figure above the floating island.
“GLORY TO THE DEMONIC CULT!!”
That man who was supposed to be the eighth Elder of the Sword Pavilion, who was supposed to be the protector of the academy, suddenly made a shocking declaration before his body immediately combusted.
Ye Fei’s sword energy was too late, the explosion from such an expert cause the entire Conclave Academy and the sky above it to tremble uncontrollably.
Li Shen had to hold on tight to the tree branches of the tree he was in because of the shockwaves of the blast, despite it being kilometers away.
Snap.
The tree he was in couldn’t handle the shockwaves and was uprooted from the ground.
“Ugh!”
Li Shen groan as he was knocked into the air.
He flew back several dozen meters before he began slowing down, before he could fall, his body became light as he floated in mid-air.
His gaze turned back to look at where the explosion was and his heart shook when he saw nothing.
The floating island was completely gone.
All the Worker Disciples and possibly some Conclave Disciples of the Sword Pavilion were killed in that blast.
The only thing remaining was a crack in the fabric of space un the sky, showing how devastating the explosion was.
The only reason why this entire Sword Pavilion mountain hadn’t gone along with it was because of Ye Fei’s Sword Energy. Instead of stopping the explosion, he tried to contain it.
However, killing a mass number of disciples wasn’t the main goal of that explosion.
Li Shen looked up in the sky and saw that the Grand Formation around the entire Celestial Academy had become visible.
“The Grand Formation Main nodes are these floating Islands.”
After Li Shen mumbled that, his gaze turned in a certain direction. At the same time, an explosion rang out on a nearby mountain.
It was from the Blade Pavilion mountain.
A few more explosions rang out and it sound like the end of the world. A cataclysmic event.
This was Patriarch Evernight going through with his threat.
Li Shen’s body shook in the air and he looked up to see the Grand Formation slowly fading away.
Clenching his fists, he spun around and his body created a sonic boom as he shot towards the Inner Academy.
‘TAI!!’
Li Shen called out worriedly using their mental connection, he couldn’t speak to Tai directly because of the distance, but Tai could sense his calling.
Li Shen felt a tug back on their connection and released a sigh of relief.
‘Come back.’
With that, Li Shen focused on heading back to his courtyard as fast as possible.
“AHHHH!!!”
“You-what are you doing attacking fellow disciples?!!”
“Kill them! They aren’t a part of our Celestial Academy!!”
“No not me! I’m not one of them!!”
The disciple who was attacking paused because of that, but the disciple who just yelled with a terrified expression quickly had his eyes flickering with killing intent.
The disciple who stopped his attack was caught off guard and was killed by a sword through his chest. His eyes remained wide open and they were filled with hatred and regret.
Li Shen looked down below him as he flew over the academy. Disciples were fighting disciples. It was complete confusion as to who were spies of the Dark Moon Assassins Guild and who weren’t.
‘This shouldn’t have come as a surprise, that they allowed their disciples to cultivate normal cultivation methods to blend into the Righteous Faction. That’s what makes them so terrifying as an enemy.’
As Li Shen said that, a thought suddenly hit him.
“That’s right! This is their method of infiltrating the Righteous Faction! Don’t tell me this was the Academy Leader’s plan, to force the Dark Moon Assassins Guild into action to reveal their members in the Academy. But is this the right way to go about it? How many people are going to be killed like this?”
Li Shen didn’t know how to feel now knowing the possible truth of Lu Xue Wen’s plan. On one hand, he wanted to say this was an effective and brilliant plan, but on the other hand, he was repulsed by the casualties that would occur.
But he guessed this was what war was like.
“You! Stop right there Demonic Cult bastard!”
Someone suddenly flew up from the ground to chase after Li Shen in the air.
Li Shen didn’t pause for a second but he still turned his body fully to that person.
Seeing Li Shen’s face, that female disciple was shocked.
“You-”
However, Li Shen's eyes flashed with a cold light as he pointed at her.
BANG!
A metal Sword Qi suddenly materialized in front of Li Shen and shot towards her. Without her even having time to struggle, it pierce the void to carve out a massive hole in the side of her head.
“Don’t come near me with so much killing intent in your heart. A normal Celestial Academy disciple in this situation would be scared and filled with hesitation to attack a fellow disciple so decisively. If not, why the hell were you feeling so much joy to kill me?”
Li Shen turned back around and decided to rip apart his ragged upper robes to wrap around his face. Hiding it along with his hair and only leaving his eyes.
His golden hair was too much of a giveaway and he changed his golden pupils to red as well.
“STOP DEMONIC DISCIPLE!!”
“How dare you kill a member of my Celestial Academy!!”
Li Shen almost rolled his eyes at these two on flying swords, who weren’t fooling anyone with their ridiculous acting.
Pitua!
Pitua!
With a flick of his hands, two mid-stage Foundation Realm had their heads blown apart.
Li Shen went to continue forward but more disciples took notice of him and their eyes flickered as they rushed towards him.
Li Shen wanted to use his Qi Creation Daoist Magic discreetly but seeing this he realized he couldn’t.
“Fine.”
As long as there weren’t any Core Formation realm cultivators he’ll use his physique.
The two disciples on flying swords charged towards a masked Li Shen.
Li Shen’s flying speed didn’t slow down even as these two released sword attacks.
Bang!
Bang!
Their attacks from their Spirit Weapon Artifacts landed on Li Shen’s exposed upper body, but they stared on shocked as he continued completely unaffected.
Not even a white mark to be seen where they attacked him. Instead, it was their arms that were feeling numb.
“W-What are you?!”
“Your killer.”
Li Shen replied in a distorted voice that sent chills down the two demonic cultivators' spines.
They didn’t have time to retreat as Li Shen’s palms, which were glowing with golden light and starry black light latched onto their throats.
Twisting his hand violently two snaps echoed out as their necks were broken.
Li Shen went to move forward again but his jade slipped suddenly tugged at his senses.
Flipping over his palm, his jade medallion that identified him as Second Prince appeared in hand.
Sending his perception inside he saw a message from his father.
“It’s not safe in he Academy at the moment, gather your friends I’m on my way.”
Li Shen after reading the message placed it back into his storage ring.
He looked around at all the chaos, disciples fighting each other.
There was a sense that he was leaving the academy when he should be fighting as well, but he had to think about his and everyone’s safety.
Li Shen had a feeling that this wasn’t it, that this was just merely sowing discord in enemy ranks as a distraction. A tactic that was used commonly in large-scale battles.
‘The Demonic Cult is aiming for something.’
Li Shen’s eyes flash as two indistinguishable flames appeared in his pupils.
“Returning to the Palace now is still within my plans, but while I head back to the others… I’m going to kill as many of these bastards as I can.”
Li Shen’s body released a suffocating aura as he shot forwards, his stature suddenly grew to nearly seven feet. His muscle mass increased making him resemble a typical Fleshly Body cultivator.
His body flicked down to the ground and his large hand latched onto a disciple’s neck and wringing it. Before that disciple’s body could land on the ground Li Shen was already somewhere else in the crowd.
As he moved to the Inner Academy, his figure flashed in and out of existence as he killed the Dark Moon Assassins' spies within the crowd.
A pile of disciples with caved-in chests and broken necks was left in his wake.
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