Chapter 1608: The World Changed in an Instant, Ten Thousand Years in a Breath
Jiang Yue was like a stand-up comedian. Every line he delivered was gentle in tone, as if he were just chatting with the neighbors.
But every word sounded deeply sarcastic to Jiang Ling, like a devil's jeer, battering his emotions again and again.
The cruelest thing you could do to someone wasn't mockery or a curse. It was laying one brutal truth after another, raw and bloody, before them and letting them break on their own.
Jiang Ling hadn't broken yet, but he was close to madness. The furious roars echoing across the battlefield were a vivid portrait of the Chief Grand Scholar of Titan Academy at that moment.
"Who are you? You can't be Shuijing!"
"There's no way Five Elements Academy has a freak like you!"
"Even that brat Shen Guang was nothing but a plaything before me. Who the hell are you?"
Jiang Ling was genuinely panicked and furious. In the subterranean world, he had always been someone else's nightmare. He had never imagined that one day someone would become the nightmare of his own arrival. This nightmare was so overwhelming that he couldn't wake from it.
Jiang Ling had always believed that in the subterranean world, there was no problem that couldn't be solved with force. And Titan Academy was best at solving problems with force.
For thousands of years, Titan Academy had relied on force to solve every problem. Yet now, even with the strength of its Chief Grand Scholar, he couldn't solve the problem. Instead, he had plunged Titan Academy into an even deeper crisis.
This unforeseen defeat made Jiang Ling realize, with despair, that the subterranean world might truly be on the verge of a great upheaval. The era of