A Quan hadn't expected this guy to move so fast. He'd barely set foot inside Taiyi Academy's gates before he was itching to kill someone.
But there was nothing he could do. He could only call for the other brothers to follow and provide cover, forming a formation when Gongsun Qi made his move so the people of Taiyi wouldn't notice.
The family head had ordered them to put Gongsun Qi's safety first. Nothing else mattered.
A Quan caught up with Gongsun Qi and asked cautiously, "Dear Brother, give us a heads-up. What realm's strength are you planning to use?"
"Tenth Realm," Gongsun Qi said.
"Got it." A Quan turned to the brothers behind him. "Set up the Explosion-proof Barrier for the Thirteenth Realm."
The Mechanism Technicians of the Murong Family nodded confidently.
Yan Xiaochuan went to visit his master, Mu Yong'an, in high spirits. As soon as he entered the little building, he heard a man's cough that couldn't be concealed. The smile faded from his face, and he hurried upstairs.
"Master!"
Yan Xiaochuan pushed open the door, briskly opened the various medicine bottles on the table, and took out medicine to give to the ailing Mu Yong'an.
"Why didn't you call me back sooner? If you'd told me you weren't well, why would I have gone to the Daoist School to make trouble?" Though Yan Xiaochuan said this, his eyes were full of self-reproach.
Mu Yong'an coughed up blood, unable to speak. Yan Xiaochuan felt his wrist. It was cold, and even stiff, like a corpse.
Yan Xiaochuan banished the awful thought from his mind. As he fed him medicine, he said, "Master, I'm withdrawing from the Night Walk Trial. You should stop handling Night Walk matters, too. Let another instructor take the watch. Your health was already