You Call Out

Fang Yuan's brief upper hand would not last.

As fists and kicks tangled back and forth, he was already panting heavily. Gao Wan, on the other hand, still breathed long and deep; there was a vast gap in their stamina.

At the same time, Gao Wan had loosened up, his body warming as his punches grew faster and faster. He had gradually swept away the numbness and sluggishness brought by the cold, finally showcasing the strength he had honed for decades.

"Kid, you can't beat me. The lineage rules state that you can't use the Moonlight Gu in the academy grounds. You're finished—you're destined to become my prisoner today!" Gao Wan laughed savagely. Rich in combat experience, he tried to crush Fang Yuan's fighting spirit with words.

I'm still a teenager. My body hasn't fully grown yet, and my physical constitution is inferior to this powerful servant's. Fang Yuan's state of mind was like ice. After five hundred years of tempering, how could his fighting spirit possibly be shaken?

"Moonlight Gu!" In his heart, he moved, urging his primeval essence while leaping one step backward to widen the distance from Gao Wan.

Gao Wan wanted to pursue him, but suddenly saw a layer of blue watery radiance emerge from Fang Yuan's palm.

His expression immediately darkened as he called out, "Kid, using Gu worms to fight in the academy means violating the lineage rules!"

"So what if I violate them?" Fang Yuan sneered. He had studied the lineage rules and mastered them; it had never been for the sake of obeying them.

At once, he slashed through the air toward Gao Wan with his palm.

With a soft hiss, a blue moonblade shot straight toward Gao Wan's face.

Gao Wan gritted his teeth and raised both arms, pressing them together before his face to form a shield of arms. Yet his footsteps did not stop; he charged toward Fang Yuan, intending to withstand the blow and end the battle quickly.

The moonblade struck his arm. With a muffled pop, flesh and blood splattered beneath the moonlight. An incomparably intense pain surged into Gao Wan's nerves; caught completely off guard, he nearly fainted from the agony.

"How could this happen?!" His charge came to an abrupt halt as he discovered in terror that both his forearms had been cut open by deep horizontal gashes. Blood streamed ceaselessly from the wounds, and the mangled muscles and tendons could be seen from the side. Even the pale, broken arm bones were visible.

Gao Wan was utterly horrified. Impossible! A Rank 1 Initial Stage moonblade can at most wound my flesh. How can it sever my bones? Only a Rank 1 Mid Stage can do this!!

Naturally, he did not know that although Fang Yuan was only a Rank 1 Initial Stage Gu Master, the refinement of the Wine Worm Gu had given him Rank 1 Mid Stage primeval essence.

Driven by Mid Stage primeval essence, the moonblades fired by the Moonlight Gu were naturally far more powerful than those of the Initial Stage.

"This kid is strange!!" Caught off guard, Gao Wan suffered a devastating blow. All his will to fight vanished, and he made a prompt decision to retreat.

"Do you think you can escape?" Fang Yuan sneered, launching into pursuit as moonblades flew from his hand in rapid succession.

"Help!!" Gao Wan screamed as he fled, his voice carrying far through the silent academy.

"What's going on? Someone's crying for help!" The cries alerted the academy guards nearby.

"It's a servant left behind by Mo family's eldest miss, Mo Yan." The guards rushed over, saw the pursuit, and all stopped in their tracks.

"He's just a household servant. There's no need to protect him!"

"Letting him stay alive is already giving the Mo family face."

"We should still be careful. If he's driven to desperation, he might hurt Fang Yuan."

The tense guards all gathered around, but rather than intervene, they watched from the sidelines.

If this servant called Gao Wan died, then he died; it had nothing to do with them. But if Fang Yuan died or was injured, that would become their responsibility.

At this sight, Gao Wan's heart turned completely cold. He cried out miserably, "We're all outsiders! You can't stand by and watch me die!"

He lost more and more blood, and his speed gradually slowed.

Fang Yuan caught up from behind, his voice cold as ice as he pronounced Gao Wan's death sentence: "Go on, call out. No matter how loudly you scream, it's useless."

As he spoke, he flipped his hand and sent two moonblades flying out in succession.

With two swishes, they struck Gao Wan squarely in the neck.

Gao Wan only felt a chill in his heart, as though he had stepped straight into an abyss.

The next moment, his vision suddenly spun heaven and earth around. He actually saw his own feet, chest, back... and the severed neck.

Then complete darkness claimed him.

Gao Wan was dead.

Fang Yuan beheaded him with two moonblades. His head flew away, while his body ran another ten meters before collapsing. Bright-red blood gushed wildly from his neck like a fountain, dyeing the surrounding flowers and grass blood-red.

"Murder!"

"Fang Yuan killed someone!!"

The guards could not help gasping softly. They had witnessed the entire process with their own eyes, and their Whole Bodies trembled as fear and terror gripped them.

Fang Yuan was only a frail fifteen-year-old boy, yet he had killed a strong adult without changing expression. This was the power of a Gu Master!

The battle was decided.

Fang Yuan slowed his footsteps and strolled over unhurriedly.

His expression was calm, as though he had merely done some trivial thing like eating or drinking. That expression sent even greater chills through the guards' hearts.

Gao Wan's head lay on the ground, his eyes wide open, unwilling to rest even in death.

Expressionless, Fang Yuan lifted a foot and kicked the head away.

The corners of the guards' eyes all twitched.

Fang Yuan approached Gao Wan's body and found it still twitching. Blood quickly spread across the ground, forming a small Blood Pool.

He examined the wounds on Gao Wan's body, his expression somewhat gloomy. The wounds were deep enough to expose the secret that he possessed Mid Stage primeval essence.

Once that secret was exposed, it would soon lead back to his Wine Worm Gu. Once the Wine Worm Gu appeared, the Lineage's higher-ups would naturally think of Flower Wine Wanderer.

Therefore, Fang Yuan had to keep this secret.

"But there are too many witnesses." Fang Yuan swept his gaze over the guards watching nearby—there were more than ten of them. He had less than ten percent of his primeval essence left; it was impossible for him to kill them all.

After thinking a bit, Fang Yuan bent down, grabbed Gao Wan by the ankle, and dragged the corpse upside down as he walked back.

"Young Master Fang Yuan, leave this place to us to handle." Suppressing the chills in their hearts, the guards came forward and spoke respectfully to Fang Yuan.

Mixed into that respect was an unmistakable fear.

Fang Yuan quietly swept his eyes over them. The guards instinctively held their breath, and all lowered their heads.

"Give me the blade." He held out his hand and spoke flatly.

There was an unquestionable authority in his commanding tone.

The guard closest to him involuntarily handed over the blade at his waist.

Fang Yuan took the blade and continued walking.

More than ten guards were left standing there blankly, watching Fang Yuan's retreating back.

The morning sun slowly rose in the east. The first ray of dawn shone through the edge of the mountains and into the academy.

Fifteen-year-old Fang Yuan had a teenager's lean, frail body, and his skin exuded a pallid whiteness.

Under the dawn light, he walked neither hurriedly nor slowly.

In his left hand, he held a gleaming blade.

With his right hand, he dragged a headless corpse upside down.

Wherever he walked, bright-red blood streaked across the blue-black stone bricks.

The guards watched from behind in a daze, chills stiffening their Whole Bodies.

The morning sunlight shone upon them, yet they could not feel even the slightest warmth or light.

Gulp.

No one knew whose Adam's apple bobbed as they swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

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