The sounds of fighting in the South Miasma Jungle were so loud that even the poisonous miasma churned.
Just as lightning flared on the right, a dazzling golden light suddenly burst through the forest on the left. It was neither as scorching as fire nor as violent as lightning. Though gentle, it pierced through everything, and the poisonous miasma dissolved with a sizzling hiss the moment it touched the light.
"The people from Literary Way Academy have joined the fight!" Zhao Hu's eyes lit up.
Three figures darted out from the other side of the transport ship. The one in front was a scholar in a green robe, holding a brush tipped with goat hair. An inkstone hovered at its tip, and a faint scent of ink lingered around him. His name was Qin Mu, a top student at Literary Way Academy. He was in the mid-Taiyi Realm and specialized in Righteous Literary Qi.
"Bone Rotting Bee Swarm, you spread calamity with your poison. You must be destroyed!" Qin Mu declared, his voice imbued with Righteous Qi, so powerful that the nearby bees' wings trembled. He dipped his brush in ink and flicked his wrist. Three drops of ink flew from the inkstone and transformed in midair into four enormous seal-script characters: "Slay," "Demons," "Exterminate," "Evil"!
The four characters hung in the air as golden light blazed around them. They transformed into four golden swords, each ten feet long, and slashed toward the swarm with the majestic force of Heaven. Wherever the swordlight passed, Bone Rotting Bees crumbled on contact, and even the poisonous fog was washed away. Stranger still, the bees killed by the swordlight quickly turned to ash when their corpses hit the ground, leaving not a trace of poison behind.
"What incredible Righteous Qi!" Su Xue stared