The Xiao Family's Might!

One Cloud-Piercing Arrow, and Thousands of Soldiers would come rushing to meet it!

Across the entire Plaza, everyone looked at the gleaming "Xiao" character high in the sky, and their breathing unconsciously grew heavier.

Everyone in Wutan City knew that this was the Xiao Family's signal flare, because they had seen it once half a year ago.

That time, outside Wutan City, the Xiao Family's goods had been robbed. A firework shot into the sky, and the "Xiao" character shook the heavens.

An incomparably terrifying Dou Qi swept across all of Wutan City, rising into the air from the Xiao Family. Those dazzling Cyan Dou Qi wings told everyone that the Xiao Family's Dou Wang had acted!

Now, within Wutan City, the Xiao Family's Cloud-Piercing Arrow had appeared once more!

In the Plaza, Luo Bu watched the signal Xiao Ning had fired. He had thought something would happen, but nothing did. He sneered coldly, a trace of chill flashing through his eyes.

"You haven't even joined Jia Nan Academy, yet you already dare to lay hands on us. If we don't teach you a proper lesson, you'll truly become lawless."

Beside Luo Bu, Ge Ci gave a cold smile and cracked his knuckles, ready to show the twenty-odd members of the Xiao Family what they were made of.

Yet at that moment, a hurried, perfectly synchronized sound came from afar, drawing closer and closer.

The sounds of "clop!" and "clop!" rang without end. They seemed like hoofbeats, yet also like the collision of heavy armor.

"Third Elder, this is a misunderstanding!"

"Move aside, or don't blame me for showing no mercy!"

Outside the Plaza, one clamor after another rose up, unbearably noisy.

At the same time, the soldiers stationed outside could vaguely be seen drawing their weapons. War was on the verge of erupting!

"Gulp..." Luo Bu, Ge Ci, and the others swallowed hard. Only now did they realize that they seemed to have caused enormous trouble.

Moreover, as time passed, more and more people turned to look in their direction.

Luo Bu and the others could see quite a few new students in the distance, their gazes carrying a trace of pity—not for Xiao Yan and the others, but for them!

"Damn it! What's going on?!"

Luo Bu, Ge Ci, and the others were deeply troubled. It was as though a dark cloud hung over their hearts, the pressure unbearably heavy.

Boom!

At that moment, a powerful wave of Dou Qi swept through the entire Plaza. The first to bear the brunt were the soldiers blocking the Xiao Family.

Whether they were Dou Zhe or Dou Master soldiers, the moment that powerful Dou Qi swept over them, they were all forced several steps back, their faces turning deathly pale.

In this world, where great power belonged to the individual, no number of weaklings could stop the steps of the strong.

More than three hundred years ago, the Jia Ma Empire's only Dou Emperor at the time had suffered a tragedy when a neighboring country launched a war, and his family was caught in the disaster.

In his fury, that Dou Emperor single-handedly slaughtered an elite Ten-Thousand Cavalry Legion from the opposing side. Blood flowed like rivers in that massacre, and his fearsome name shook the entire nation.

Although Xiao Lin was not yet a Dou Emperor, his strength as a Seven-Star Dou King was enough. His Dou Qi transformed into a fierce gale, which suddenly surged forth, sending violent winds howling across the entire Plaza.

"Move aside! Senior, please show mercy!"

The leader of those soldiers knew that staying here any longer would truly be courting death, so he hurriedly called out.

Within the gale, one Wind Blade after another sliced through the soldiers' heavy armor, leaving deep bloody gashes across their bodies.

Before he had even shown himself, a mere gust of wind had severely injured those soldiers!

That was only because Xiao Lin had held back. He did not wish to completely fall out with Jia Nan Academy; otherwise, he could have simply wiped these people out.

"Charge!"

The Third Elder sat atop a Black Horse, clad from head to toe in heavy armor. With a sweep of his hand, dozens of heavily armored soldiers wielding sharp blades charged in after him and directly surrounded Luo Bu, Ge Ci, and the others.

"Third Elder, save us! If you had come any later, the Xiao Family's younger generation would have been beaten to death in Wutan City!"

Xiao Ning pointed at the wounds on their bodies, then at Luo Bu and the others, his eyes icy cold.

"Kill them. Half a year ago, some people dared to rob the Xiao Family's goods. There were eighty-nine of them, and every last one was executed by the Xiao Family. Their bodies were chopped up and fed to dogs. These few can follow the same example."

The Third Elder spoke neither quickly nor slowly. As his final word fell, the weapons in the hands of those dozens of fully armed Dou Zhe flashed, ready to kill Luo Bu and the others on the spot.

"Don't!"

"Spare us!"

No matter how arrogant Luo Bu, Ge Ci, and the others had been, they were still merely academy students. How could they have ever seen such a scene? A foul stench immediately spread from their bodies—they had actually been scared into wetting themselves.

Xiao Yu hurriedly said, "Third Elder, surely it doesn't have to come to this?"

"Sis, you're still speaking up for them? Think about it—if an Ordinary Student, someone not from our Xiao Family, had been targeted by these beasts, what would have happened? We're eradicating evil completely. We're doing a good deed!"

Xiao Ning directly pulled his own elder sister, Xiao Yu, back.

As this farce escalated, it naturally drew over the instructors who had still been conducting the assessments.

"What is going on...?"

A Woman in a cyan dress was called over. Looking at the scene before her, her beautiful eyes were filled with confusion.

"Instructor Ruo Lin!"

Even Xiao Yu, who had always been unruly, had been frightened by the Xiao Family's display. Seeing an instructor she knew arrive, she quickly went over and explained everything clearly.

"If that's the case..." After hearing Xiao Yu's account, Ruo Lin frowned deeply. This matter could be either major or minor.

But given the current situation, even if Xiao Yu did not wish to pursue the matter, the Xiao Family would not listen to her. Those few unreliable students had not only brought a deadly calamity upon themselves, but had also caused trouble for Jia Nan Academy!

"Third Elder of the Xiao Family, could you..." Before Instructor Ruo Lin could finish, the Xiao Family's Third Elder shook his head with a faint smile and pointed upward.

Ruo Lin's heart skipped a beat. Following his finger, she looked toward the sky. High above, amid the white clouds, a cyan-robed figure could faintly be seen.

"So he really has been alarmed..."

Instructor Ruo Lin let out a long sigh, feeling even more vexed at those students who had caused such trouble.

If it had been some hot-tempered Dou Wang, he could have simply descended, killed them, and left. Even Jia Nan Academy could not possibly go looking for trouble with a Dou Wang afterward.

High in the sky, Xiao Lin stood with his hands clasped behind his back, his crystalline cyan wings slowly beating. Looking at Ruo Lin below, he also knew that this matter did not have much to do with Jia Nan Academy.

After all, it was merely the students causing trouble. They could not dump the issue onto Jia Nan Academy. But now that things had escalated, if the Xiao Family could be humiliated on their own turf in Wutan City and still leave peacefully, they would truly become a joke.

"How about this? They may be spared from death, but they cannot escape punishment. Expel those few from Jia Nan Academy. What does Instructor think?"

In the end, Xiao Lin proposed an option both sides could more or less accept.

"No! Instructor, please don't! We were wrong!"

"We were wrong! Don't expel us!"

Seeing the thoughtful look on Instructor Ruo Lin's face, Luo Bu and Ge Ci hurriedly bowed to her. With tears and snot streaming down their faces, their acting was superb.