Xiong Bei Ming spoke calmly, but Xu Yi knew how much hardship and how many hair-raising dangers lay behind that calm.
He rose to his feet and bowed deeply to Xiong Bei Ming, but Xiong Bei Ming hurriedly caught him. "Brother Xu, what are you doing?"
Xu Yi said, "All right, let's leave it at that. Old Bear, you've been through enough. Leave the rest to me."
Xiong Bei Ming nodded firmly and said, "Brother Xu, you absolutely mustn't let your guard down. Pang Qingyun may be a bastard, but he's a rare genius, and the Pang Family is no ordinary clan. His father is one of the Cultivation Sect's Five Dao Lords, ranking just below the Three Dao Masters. Pang Qingyun has cultivated for less than fifty years, yet he has already severed a corpse. They say he deliberately suppresses his cultivation to practice demonic arts and refuses to sever his middle corpse. But his strength is such that even Azure Corpses among the middle corpses are no match for him. In short, he's an extremely dangerous man."
"Moreover, over the years, many of the Cultivation Sect's geniuses have entered the various dojos, and most of them have shown the Pang Family some deference. So the Pang Family's influence in Biyou Academy is no small matter. The two corpse-severing experts Brother Xu just killed were merely Pang Qingyun's guards. Judging by that villain's arrogance, he clearly doesn't take Steward Hong, a man of considerable standing, seriously."
"Two men accompanying Pang Qingyun into the world of Biyou Academy are especially fearsome. One is Zhang Beidou, whom I pledged myself to. He's a Preceptor of the Cultivation Sect, with the cultivation of an Azure Corpse among the middle corpses. The other is Old Master Guo, a retainer of the Pang Family,