Idly Tapping Chess Pieces as Lamp Flowers Fall (First Update! Please Subscribe!)

The rain poured in torrents, lightning flashed, and thunder roared.

Wind swept rain through the covered walkway, dampening the robes of all three.

The students around them stared blankly, while the old teacher's expression darkened.

"Your examination is over. Where do you think you're going?" the old teacher asked slowly, his voice cold and sinister.

Pei Ling furrowed his brow. Based on the memories he'd accumulated over the past two days, he knew all too well that this Headmaster was far harder to deal with than those students!

He, the fourth prince of the Liulan Dynasty, Zhong Kui Jingyi, and Ji Changfu, the Young Sect Master of the Innate Religion, had all been forced by this Headmaster to serve as teachers at the academy, responsible for instructing its students.

Now that he'd recovered his memories under the influence of the "law," he obviously couldn't keep teaching. But Ji Changfu and Zhong Kui Jingyi were still under the other party's control.

They couldn't use magic here. If they came to blows...

Before he could finish the thought, Yan Minghua's voice reached his ear in a message: "We can use the rules of the 'mystery' to kill the students, but the Headmaster should be the most dangerous presence within this 'mystery.' Don't fight him yet! See if we can just go around him."

Pei Ling nodded and was about to move when a purplish-blue lightning serpent suddenly burst above his head.

BOOM!!!

The deafening crash shook all of Xiwu Academy. Pei Ling suddenly blanked. When he came to, he found himself standing at the lectern in Class A. The students below were all staring up at him, eagerly awaiting his demonstration.

His expression changed. Yan Minghua and Zhong Kui Jingyi had both vanished!

No!

More precisely, the three of them had been