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That night.
In the core area of the Central Courtyard, which the glow of soul skills had lit as bright as day and thrown into utter chaos.
In one corner, that lean figure was playing the Nine Phoenix Auspicious Xiao with all his might.
Ji Shuran—the captain of Chang'an Academy's security team—wore the academy's fitted uniform, now torn open in many places with bloody gashes.
Beside him, several Chang'an Academy teachers and guards, likewise drenched in blood, had formed a defensive ring, resisting several Black-Clad Men who were cutting in fiercely from the flank.
Ji Shuran's xiao notes were urgent and high.
His xiao had never sounded so urgent and mournful. Blades of sound mixed with phoenix phantoms poured out like desperate shockwaves, barely holding back the storm-like assault of three black-clad Soul Sages.
"Screee—!"
The sixth soul ring flared with piercing light!
Five enormous phoenixes whirled, condensed, and dove, their sharp ice claws raking straight down!
Boom!
Bursting white mist spread in an instant, temporarily blocking the enemies' charge.
"Captain Ji!" a guard shouted in delighted surprise.
But there was not the slightest trace of ease on his face.
The price of overdriving his soul power was the crimson blood seeping from the corner of his mouth. He could clearly feel the Soul Power Seed burning like a block of charcoal, already overloaded.
And in the brief instant of stiffness after he had forced out his ultimate move—
Right then.
A figure as swift as a ghost suddenly broke through the barrier of icy mist, using the drifting vapor and ice shards as cover to appear soundlessly on the eaves diagonally above Ji Shuran.
The timing was viciously precise!
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