By the time the academy's higher-ups arrived, it was just in time. They barely managed to save Lin Xianyang; one step later, and he might have been burned alive by the Fire God Furnace!
The power of a quasi-Comet level was still not enough to cleanly kill a Heavenly River Thearch nearing the peak. Of course, if Zhou Heng had unleashed the Heaven-Soaring Nine Styles, then in Lin Xianyang's current state, he absolutely would not have been able to evade it!
It was not that Zhou Heng had not considered killing him. Rather, he knew that the Great Sun Glazed Mirror hanging above would not permit him to kill, so he had merely tortured Lin Xianyang—though he did not know that the Great Sun Glazed Mirror was already under Red Moon's control!
Only after the academy's higher-ups rescued Lin Xianyang did Zhou Heng suddenly realize!
It had to be Red Moon!
Otherwise, the Great Sun Glazed Mirror would have stopped things the moment he started getting beaten up. There would have been no need for the academy's higher-ups to come out and break up the fight now!
But Lin Xianyang had only one breath left. He was merely using Spiritual Power to protect his vital points, forming one final layer of defense. His entire body had already fallen into a near-unconscious state.
The academy's higher-ups all wore expressions dark as thunder. With Lin Xianyang in this state, how were they supposed to answer to Lin Wubing? Yet they dared not reprimand Zhou Heng either. They merely announced that the competition would continue, then hurried away with Lin Xianyang.
—They had no right whatsoever to interfere in a battle between two great figures. Naturally, the two parties would settle it themselves.
Once they left, everyone else naturally scattered as well. Lin