The pebbles shot through the air at breakneck speed, vibrating wildly as if charging up power. Luo Lin frowned, and the stones rained down like a storm on the man who had already landed.
Bang! Bang!
For a moment, it was as though the ground below had been bombarded.
Luo Lin did not look down. Instead, she watched Meng Xi, where the woman with the bow was still firing, each attack striking the boulder barriers with tremendous force.
A gap had already been blasted into the boulders. The woman chuckled. "Just one more shot."
A vortex seemed to appear in her eyes as she drew her bow farther and farther back, black currents of air seemingly gathering in her hand.
"Power! Accuracy!"
Whoosh!
A piercing whistle rang out. A black eagle seemed to appear in the air, the currents around it ripped apart by its tremendous power as it flew at the boulders.
After a thunderous crash, smoke completely obscured the area.
She had already put away her bow and arrows. Narrowing her eyes, she said, "That shot should have been enough."
She had even held back a little, since she did not want anyone to die here.
Floating in the air, Luo Lin was somewhat worried, but a voice suddenly rang out beside her ear. "Your teammate is already down!!"
The man stood on the ground completely unscathed, a smile on his face and an infuriating expression.
He refused to believe that the wall had survived that shot. It must have hit the woman; he just did not know whether she was dead.
Luo Lin suddenly raised her eyes and laughed. "I was never worried about her getting hurt. I was worried about whether you'd disturbed her and made her fall into a Dream. Her ability is A-rank, you know. How could your little scuffles possibly defeat her so easily? Otherwise, she wouldn't be ranked tenth in the special class!!"
Suddenly, a dreamlike current of air blew away the smoke. Meng Xi stood there with her eyes tightly shut and a hand held gently in front of her, as if she were sleepwalking.
Her small, cherry-red lips parted slightly, as though she were drawing a breath. Then she opened her eyes. Her gaze was vacant, and her black hair floated in the air. She raised her palm slightly and murmured, "There's too much sand. Go to sleep, all of you. Sleep in your Dreams."
The dreamlike current enveloped everyone. Luo Lin smiled as she floated in the air. She had learned how frightening Meng Xi's ability was, as well as its weakness, when she first met her a long time ago.
But these people knew nothing about it. As soon as the dreamlike current touched them, their eyelids began to droop.
"Damn it, didn't I hit her?!!" The woman with the bow and arrows was already sitting on the ground, her eyelids drooping. She could feel her body trembling slightly, no longer obeying her.
She was about to fall asleep. She did not know how to resist this power. Perhaps if her spiritual power had been a little stronger, she could have blocked it.
The man on the other side grew increasingly savage in expression, pinching himself repeatedly as he tried to resist the strange power. Luo Lin simply watched from the sky without attacking.
She knew this was an opportunity. As long as he fell asleep, they would win. Attacking now was also a good option, but the power of the Dream was not something this group of Dripping Water Realm students could withstand.
A moment later...
The man's body was covered in scratches he had inflicted on himself, but he had collapsed, powerless.
Luo Lin rubbed the spot where she had been kicked and said quietly, "The special class really is worthy of being a class prepared for Imperial Capital Academy. The students in it really are frightening."
Not far away, Meng Xi had also closed her eyes and fallen into a deep sleep. That was one of her weaknesses: after using her ability, she would fall asleep. Perhaps that flaw would disappear as her realm improved.
Just then, a figure descended from the sky. It was Faluo. He looked somewhat serious, as though displeased by their fight, but then he suddenly grinned.
Luo Lin was a little confused, but she spoke up anyway. "Instructor Faluo?"
Only then did Faluo react. He scratched his head. "The fight was fairly good, but there's a lot you need to improve. Even though it wasn't a fight to the death, you were too hesitant. The boy lying on the ground did much better than you girls. He was decisive."
Luo Lin was even more confused now. Not only had he not criticized them, he was even instructing them.
Faluo smiled, then suddenly turned serious and continued, "The special class exists to prove what our Canglan Academy can do. If you just trained and sparred normally every day like the other ordinary students, how would you grow?"
"Do you expect me to teach you how to fight personally? Of course that's impossible. I wouldn't slack off... memorize your abilities one by one."
Luo Lin brushed back her hair and lifted a finger, making Meng Xi, who lay asleep on the ground in the distance, float into the air.
She said, "Instructor Faluo, I'm going to help my teammate."
Faluo grinned, grabbed the boy on the ground and hoisted him up, then shot into the sky.
The girl who had fallen over there had also suddenly disappeared just now. She had probably been taken away too.
Rumble! Rumble!
Li Chen stared coldly at the rampaging Tree Demon, holding the unconscious woman at his waist with one hand.
Countless blades of light circled him, while an energy bomb continued to gather in his other hand.
"Almost there!!" Li Chen frowned slightly. He could feel his spiritual power being consumed rapidly, while the surrounding energy continued to replenish him. For a time, the rates at which his spiritual power and energy were restored and consumed were entirely different.
But the energy bomb in his hand continued to shrink and compress.
The blades of light around him continued to sever the Tree Demon's erratic attacks.
Just then, a soft "Mm" sounded, and something stirred weakly at his waist.
Di Li opened her eyes, her face full of confusion. All she remembered was that her spiritual power had suddenly been drained while she was controlling the Tree Demon, and she had passed out. Shouldn't she have been on the Tree Demon's head?
"Where am I?" Di Li suddenly realized that someone was holding her at his waist, her head facing the ground.
Seeing this, Li Chen immediately let go. Before she could react, she slammed into the ground with a cry of pain.
He had no time to deal with the culprit now. Instead, he looked at the Tree Demon as the energy bomb in his palm continued to compress.
"Go!!" With a wave of his hand, the faintly glowing energy bomb slowly floated through the air toward the Tree Demon.
It was not that he did not want to hurl it directly at the Tree Demon, but that the energy bomb had already been compressed to the limit of his control. If he made even a slight mistake controlling it, it would explode, and its power could well be imagined.