Month-End Killing Plot, Rakshasa Descends

The night was as black as ink, so thick it seemed impossible to dissolve. Nuoding City slept in silence. Only the howling cold wind swept through the empty streets, stirring scattered scraps of paper and producing sounds like mournful sobs.

The end of the month—the night when the academy's defenses were at their weakest.

In the shadows behind the mountain, outside Yu Xiaogang's secluded cottage, two figures lurked like coiled venomous snakes, silently sharpening their fangs.

Tang San's left arm was still wrapped in bandages, but his aura was more condensed and sinister than it had been days ago. Beneath his feet, a bright purple Spirit Ring pulsed slowly, emitting the fluctuations of a three-ringed Soul Elder! Just yesterday, under Yu Xiaogang's protection, he had fought desperately against a thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider lured in with special medicine. He had successfully absorbed his Third Spirit Ring, and his Soul Power had broken through to level thirty-one in one stroke! The Man Faced Demon Spider had granted him his Third Soul Skill—Spider Web Restraint. It was extraordinarily tough and carried a neuroparalytic toxin, making it the perfect means of control!

In his hands, he repeatedly polished a strangely shaped metal cylinder. Its body was cold and covered in dense, tiny holes. It was the "Heavenly Net" he had barely pieced together over the past few days through sleepless effort, combining fragmented memories with wild ideas! Though it was far less exquisite than an authentic Tang Sect Hidden Weapon, it was packed with over a hundred hair-thin needles tempered in a mixture of deadly poisons. Triggered instantly through mechanisms and Soul Power, it could blanket an area within five meters in indiscriminate fire! This was one of his trump cards for revenge!

Dai Mubai stood nearby, but the aura around him was unusually violent and unstable. His eyes were bloodshot, and it seemed as though bloody light flowed beneath his skin. He tightly gripped the blood-red Blood Burst Pill, the size of a longan, in his hand. Hesitation and fear were ultimately swallowed by endless humiliation and killing intent!

"Boss Dai, the time is almost here." Tang San's voice was hoarse and cold, like the frigid wind of hell. "Yang Yu has been at the abandoned Training Ground behind the mountain all night. He just returned, so he's in his exhausted period after expending Soul Power. Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong are in their rooms as well. This is the best opportunity!"

Dai Mubai's chest heaved violently. Then he threw back his head and swallowed the Blood Burst Pill!

"Urghhh—!" The instant the pill entered his stomach, it was like swallowing a ball of burning magma! Incomparably violent energy exploded, madly washing through and tearing apart his meridians! Dai Mubai let out a pained, suppressed roar. Every muscle in his body swelled and knotted uncontrollably, while his skin turned crimson. Veins bulged and writhed like earthworms! Yellow, yellow, purple, purple! Four Spirit Rings surged wildly from beneath his feet without his control! The color of the fourth Spirit Ring flickered unsteadily. It had clearly been forcibly elevated by the pill, yet the energy fluctuations it emitted were terrifying!

Level forty-two! The realm of a Soul Ancestor! Power surged through his entire body like a tide, bringing the illusion that he could destroy everything—but the agony of his forcibly expanded meridians also came in wave after wave!

"Move!" Dai Mubai forced the word through clenched teeth. His voice was as hoarse as a beast's, and his sinister heterochromatic eyes had been completely filled with bloodlust and brutality! He was the first to become a bloody afterimage, shooting toward the dormitory area behind the mountain like a cannonball! A fierce glint flashed through Tang San's eyes as he deployed Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track and followed close behind like a festering parasite!

The night of slaughter had begun!

The dormitory corridor was deathly silent. Like a raging rhinoceros, Dai Mubai could not be bothered to hide. He charged straight at Yang Yu's door! Bloody Soul Power wrapped around his fist, carrying the madness to tear apart everything as it smashed toward the thin wooden door!

Boom!!! The wooden door exploded like paper, splinters flying everywhere!

Inside the room, Yang Yu seemed to have just finished meditating. He sat at the table, idly turning the silver Soul Tool Rune in his hand. There was no surprise on his face at the sight of the two intruders, and he did not even raise his eyelids.

"You little bastard! Die!" The moment Dai Mubai saw Yang Yu's calm expression, all his old and new hatred erupted at once! He gave Yang Yu no time to react. The fourth Spirit Ring around him suddenly lit up! The unstable purple ring erupted with dazzling light!

"Fourth Spirit Ability! White Tiger God Annihilation!"

He threw out both fists. Violent bloody Soul Power surged like a broken dam, transforming into two twisted, roaring blood-red tiger heads. Carrying destructive force, they instantly filled the entire room and blasted toward Yang Yu! This was forbidden power he had forcibly unleashed under the effects of the Blood Burst Pill, far beyond what his body could bear! Its might was enough to severely injure an ordinary Soul King!

Almost the instant Dai Mubai attacked, poisonous light flashed in Tang San's eyes! He did not approach. Instead, he clung ghostlike to the shadow beside the broken doorframe, raising the cylinder of "Heavenly Net" in his hand toward Yang Yu! His thumb viciously pressed the trigger!

Click! Twang! A nearly imperceptible mechanical sound rang out! The next instant, countless hair-thin poisoned needles glinting with ghostly blue light burst silently from the metal cylinder like a dense rainstorm! They covered every possible avenue of escape around Yang Yu! They were faster than sound!

Before him was Dai Mubai's violent, destructive blood-red tiger roar! All around him were Tang San's sinister, deadly silent needles! A perfect killing trap! The two worked together flawlessly, clearly having rehearsed it many times! They intended to leave Yang Yu nowhere to evade and kill him instantly!

Facing this sudden lethal assault, Yang Yu finally raised his head. His gaze was still calm, even carrying a hint of... mockery?

Buzz! His deep-purple First Spirit Ability instantly lit up! Yet this time, its light was extraordinarily profound!

"Void Mirror!"

At the instant the blood-red tiger roars and countless poisoned needles were about to strike him, the space around Yang Yu twisted and rippled violently like water! Layer upon layer of invisible, intangible transparent prisms, seemingly formed from solidified space, instantly emerged around him and refracted!

The two violent blood-red tiger-roar energies entered the distorted spatial prisms and seemed to fall into an endless labyrinth. They were frantically refracted, diverted, and scattered! Their power plummeted! The dense swarm of ghostly blue poisoned needles seemed to enter a viscous swamp. Their speed dropped sharply, their trajectories were forcibly twisted, and they collided with one another before clattering to the floor!

The cruel smiles on Dai Mubai and Tang San's faces instantly froze! They turned into utter shock and disbelief! What kind of bizarre ability was this?!

"First Spirit Ability, Mark of Time."

Yang Yu's cold voice was like Death's whisper. He held two fingers together like a blade and lightly slashed at the blood-red energy that had been refracted and scattered by the spatial prisms, its power greatly reduced!

Hiss—! An invisible ripple carrying the aura of time's annihilation swept forward!

The once-violent blood-red energy seemed to have all life drained from it. It instantly dimmed, dispersed, and vanished into nothingness!

And in that split-second while Yang Yu neutralized the frontal attack, a mad resolve flashed through Tang San's eyes! He had known he might not be able to kill Yang Yu in one blow! His true killing move was the control that followed! The newly acquired purple Third Spirit Ring beneath his feet instantly lit up!

"Third Soul Skill! Spider Web Restraint!"

A massive spiderweb covered in viscous fluid and glimmering with purple-black poisonous light shot from the shadows above Yang Yu without warning, descending like a Heavenly Net! Its speed was astonishing! The timing was also flawless—it struck precisely when Yang Yu had just exhausted his old force and had not yet generated new force, at the moment he neutralized the frontal attack!

At the same time! "Die!" Dai Mubai went completely mad. Ignoring the agonizing pain of his torn meridians, he forcibly gathered Soul Power again and spat out a blazing White Tiger Fierce Light Wave toward Yang Yu's lower body! It sealed off his final escape route!

Above him, a poisonous spiderweb descended! Below him, a Fierce Light Wave blocked the way! There was still lingering spatial interference in between!

Yang Yu was about to be completely enveloped by the sticky spiderweb!

At that critical moment, a cold glint finally flashed through Yang Yu's eyes! It seemed he had been waiting for this very instant!

He did not attempt to evade the descending spiderweb, nor did he pay attention to the Fierce Light Wave blasting toward his feet! His right hand suddenly rose. In his palm, the phantom of the Dragon of Eternity and Time let out a silent roar! A vast Dragon Might, far more condensed and terrifying than before, erupted like a volcano that had been building pressure for ages! But this time, it was not a wide-range impact. It condensed into an invisible spike that twisted time itself and stabbed precisely toward Tang San's brow!

Soul Impact: Time Spike!

"Urgh—!!!"

Tang San, who was controlling the spiderweb with all his strength and believed his scheme had succeeded, felt as though an invisible spear of time had viciously pierced his soul! It felt as though his mind had been ripped apart in an instant! Every thought, every shred of consciousness, every trace of Soul Power control completely collapsed at that moment! His vision went black, and blood burst from his eyes, ears, mouth, and nose like a fountain! He let out a shriek so miserable it barely sounded human, then fell backward stiffly as though all bones had been removed from his body! The descending spiderweb also lost control and instantly went limp!

At almost the same instant, Yang Yu pressed his left hand vaguely toward the White Tiger Fierce Light Wave blasting at his feet! The phantom of the Creation Lotus flashed and vanished!

"Creation Guard!"

A thin Emerald Light Membrane instantly appeared beneath his feet. Though it rippled violently, it firmly blocked the violent energy impact!

Bang! Amid the dull crash of colliding energy, Yang Yu used the recoil to drift backward as lightly as a willow catkin, neatly evading the limp spiderweb!

The exchange of offense and defense had taken only an instant!

Dai Mubai watched helplessly as Tang San inexplicably screamed and collapsed. He watched Yang Yu effortlessly neutralize every attack, even using his own attack to rebound away! A bone-deep chill shot from the soles of his feet to the top of his head! Fear! Boundless fear seized him once more!

"Monster! You're a monster!" Dai Mubai let out a despairing roar. The power of the Blood Burst Pill was beginning to backfire, and his meridians felt as though they were being sliced apart by knives. He turned and tried to flee!

"Leaving now? Too late."

Yang Yu's cold voice sounded as if it were right beside his ear! At some point, Yang Yu had already appeared at his side like a ghost!

Dai Mubai's soul nearly left his body. Instinctively, he threw a punch to the side!

Yang Yu neither dodged nor retreated. His right hand shot out like lightning, moving after yet arriving first, and accurately seized Dai Mubai's incoming wrist! His five fingers tightened like iron pincers!

Crack! A teeth-grating sound of breaking bone rang out!

"Ah—!" Dai Mubai screamed like a slaughtered pig! He felt as though the bones in his wrist had been crushed!

A cold glint flashed through Yang Yu's eyes. He yanked Dai Mubai forward by the wrist while his left knee shot out like a cannonball, viciously smashing into Dai Mubai's lower abdomen!

Bang!!! Another earth-shaking, muffled impact rang out!

Dai Mubai's eyes bulged, bloodshot and wide! The blow to his abdomen instantly sent the violent Soul Power from the Blood Burst Pill out of control, rampaging through his body! Like a boiled shrimp, he doubled over as blood mixed with bitter bile sprayed from his mouth! He was launched away like a rag sack, slamming heavily into the hard corridor wall before slowly sliding to the ground. His body twitched. He had only breath leaving him, none entering. He was completely crippled!

From the door being broken down to the end, only a dozen or so breaths had passed!

Two Soul Elders—one temporarily elevated to a Soul Ancestor—who had taken Blood Burst Pills and carefully planned an ambush, had ended with one dead and one crippled!

Yang Yu stood where he was, breathing slightly heavily, his face a little pale. The repeated use of high-burden Spirit Abilities, especially that final precise soul spike, had drained him considerably. He coldly swept his gaze across Dai Mubai, who lay on the ground like a dead dog, and Tang San in the distance, whose fate was unknown. There was not the slightest ripple in his eyes.

Just then! A sudden change occurred!

An indescribable, terrifying aura filled with evil, coldness, venomous resentment, and the power to devour all light descended without warning like an icy wind from the deepest hell! It instantly enveloped the entire corridor—even the whole of Nuoding Academy!

The air instantly became thick, cold, and heavy! A thin layer of purple-black frost carrying an ominous aura condensed across the walls at a visible speed! Countless faint cries, filled with pain and curses, seemed to ring directly within their souls!

The shadows at the end of the corridor twisted and writhed violently as though alive! A blurry, tall figure shrouded in dense purple-black mist slowly stepped out!

With every step he took, the ground beneath his feet seemed to corrode and blacken! Two crimson points lit up within the mist where his eyes should have been, filled with the purest desire for slaughter, madness, and destruction! A terrifying pressure far beyond that of a Soul Douluo, even faintly touching another level, descended upon Yang Yu like a tangible mountain!

Yang Yu's pupils abruptly contracted! Every muscle in his body instantly tensed! The Dragon of Eternity and Time and Chaos Creation Lotus martial souls within him both issued intense warnings! This aura... was evil and fallen, yet filled with divinity! The aura of the Rakshasa God?! Tang Hao?! Why had he appeared at this time?! And why was he carrying such dense Rakshasa Divine Power?!

"Hurting my son... die!!!"

A hoarse, twisted roar filled with endless resentment and madness exploded through the corridor like thunder! The figure in the purple-black mist suddenly raised one hand! A massive purple-black claw formed entirely from Rakshasa Divine Power, wrapped in the phantoms of countless vengeful souls, tore through space. Carrying the terrifying aura of annihilating everything, it instantly appeared above Yang Yu and slammed down!

This strike far surpassed every previous attack! It carried the absolute suppression of divine power! Space itself froze! Yang Yu felt as though invisible chains had bound him, making even the movement of a finger immensely difficult! The shadow of death descended in an instant!

At that critical moment!

"Hmph! A mad dog tainted by Rakshasa's evil power dares touch the Holy Son of Spirit Hall?!"

A cold, majestic female voice carrying the supreme authority of the Empress suddenly rang out as though it had pierced endless space!

Buzz! The purple-gold Holy Son Token Yang Yu wore against his chest suddenly erupted with dazzling sacred radiance! A blurry yet incomparably noble and majestic purple-gold phantom instantly projected itself before Yang Yu!

It was the projection of Empress Bibi Dong!

Though it was only a projection, the vast, ocean-like pressure of terrifying Soul Power and the absolute majesty of the Empress instantly stood against the Rakshasa Divine Power!

Bibi Dong's projection coldly watched the Rakshasa claw descend. Her slender jade finger lightly pointed through the air!

"Break."

An extreme point of purple-black light condensed at her fingertip, then erupted! The light was not sacred. Instead, it carried an aura of darkness and death that devoured all things, yet it was purer and nobler! It seemed to be the source of all darkness!

Hiss! The vicious Rakshasa claw let out a piercing wail the instant it touched that point of purple-black light. Like snow meeting the blazing sun, it was instantly corroded, broken down, and annihilated!

"Pfft—!" The figure in the shadows let out a muffled grunt, clearly having suffered a loss!

"Get lost!" Bibi Dong's projection coldly rebuked, her voice seemingly imbued with supreme law!

The figure in the shadows fluctuated violently. Its crimson eyes were filled with unwillingness and crazed killing intent, but it seemed deeply wary of Bibi Dong. In the end, it let out an unwilling roar and slowly melted into the shadows, retreating like the tide along with the terrifying Rakshasa divine might.

Only cold, dead silence remained in the corridor, along with debris scattered across the floor and the slowly fading projection of the Empress.

Yang Yu stood still and took a deep breath, suppressing the churning blood and energy within him. He looked toward the direction where Bibi Dong's projection had vanished, his gaze deep.

Her rescue had come very "promptly"... His Empress teacher had probably been "watching" all along.

His gaze swept across the unconscious Dai Mubai and Tang San, then toward the tightly shut, trembling doors on either side of the corridor. Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing had clearly been alarmed by the clash of divine might, but they did not dare come out.

"Yue Guan," Yang Yu said calmly to the air.

"This subordinate is here." Yue Guan's figure appeared like a ghost. His face still wore that enchanting smile, but his gaze was exceptionally grave. The emergence of the Rakshasa Divine Power had frightened even him.

"Clean this up. Take Tang San away. Don't let him die; he still has his uses. As for Dai Mubai... throw him in front of the Star Luo Embassy." Yang Yu's voice was icy. "Also, spread the 'news.' Star Luo Prince Dai Mubai colluded with an Evil Soul Master and attacked the Holy Son of Spirit Hall in the dead of night. He has been executed on the spot."

A sharp light flashed through Yue Guan's eyes, and he immediately bowed. "Yes, Your Highness!"

Executed on the spot? Dai Mubai clearly still had a breath left... His Highness intended to completely pin this on the Star Luo Imperial Family and intensify the conflict! Ruthless! He liked it!

Yue Guan moved swiftly, dragging Dai Mubai and Tang San away like dead dogs. Golden petals fluttered through the air, quickly cleaning away all traces of the scene.

Yang Yu turned and walked toward his room. As he passed Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing's doors, he did not stop. Only his cold voice entered both rooms:

"Finished watching the show? Training continues as usual tomorrow."