Make Him Take Back What He Said

Jiang Ming had not yet walked out of the alley when a burst of heavy, hurried footsteps sounded behind him.

Those footsteps carried an undisguised sense of oppression.

Soul Elder-level Soul Power fluctuations spread over from behind like a vast net, blotting out the sky and covering the earth.

Jiang Ming stopped and turned around.

A blond youth was striding toward him.

The other party was tall and straight, a full head taller than his peers.

His pupils were actually different colors.

His left eye was a deep blue, while his right was black like dark jade, both glinting with an eerie cold light beneath the dim yellow lamplight.

This visitor had come with ill intent.

Jiang Ming's gaze swept over him before finally settling on those mismatched eyes.

A blond youth in Suotuo City with mismatched pupils.

There was a high chance he was Dai Mubai.

"Need something?"

Jiang Ming's tone was neither warm nor cold.

"So you're the brat who made a fool out of our dean?"

Dai Mubai stopped ten steps away from Jiang Ming.

He looked down at the youth before him, who was half a head shorter than himself.

"Made a fool of him?"

"I merely spoke the truth. Shrek Academy relies on bragging to recruit students, and people aren't allowed to point it out?"

Jiang Ming smiled, a hint of mockery in that smile.

"Brat, watch your mouth. Shrek Academy isn't something you can insult as you please."

Dai Mubai's expression darkened, and his mismatched pupils narrowed slightly.

"I'll give you two choices now."

Dai Mubai raised two fingers.

"First, kneel and admit your mistake, then take back what you said."

"Second—"

"I'll beat you until you take it back."

The alley fell silent for a moment.

The evening breeze passed through the narrow passage, making several clumps of dead grass atop the walls rustle.

Jiang Ming looked at Dai Mubai without the slightest panic or fear on his face.

"The way Shrek Academy does things really is consistent."

"When your bragging gets exposed, you send in someone bigger to beat people up. Afterward, are you going to say this is just a normal sparring exchange?"

Jiang Ming's tone was calm, as though he were stating an objective fact.

Dai Mubai's pupils contracted slightly.

Those words were far too unpleasant.

Yet they fit their dean's behavior from earlier perfectly.

"Enough nonsense."

Dai Mubai no longer wanted to waste words with him.

"White Tiger Possession!"

A layer of white Soul Power light surged from his body, giving Dai Mubai a complete makeover!

The changes were enormous!

White tiger fur grew over his body, and his hands transformed into sharp beast claws.

His spine bent slightly, assuming the posture of a predator about to pounce and kill.

Yellow, yellow, purple!

Three Soul Rings rose from beneath Dai Mubai's feet and circled around him.

A Soul Elder!

But Jiang Ming did not know his exact rank.

When Tang San was twelve, Dai Mubai seemed to have been rank 37.

So now, he probably had not surpassed rank 35.

Jiang Ming stood where he was as Soul Power light rose from his body as well.

His Soul Power was a nearly transparent silver, standing out especially clearly in the dim alley.

Only a single yellow hundred-year Soul Ring floated beneath his feet.

The contrast between them was so vast it was despairing.

"Brat, I'll give you one more chance..."

Seeing that solitary Soul Ring, Dai Mubai curled his lips in disdain.

Before Dai Mubai could finish speaking, Jiang Ming moved.

There was no warning, no opening stance, not even a change in his gaze.

Jiang Ming's body vanished into thin air, and in the next instant, he appeared two meters behind Dai Mubai.

His five right fingers curled loosely as silver-white Soul Power condensed in his palm.

Dai Mubai reacted extremely quickly as well.

The instant Jiang Ming vanished, he immediately unleashed a soul skill!

White Tiger Protection Barrier!

The silver-white Soul Power slash struck the barrier with a piercing shriek.

It did not sound like metal clashing. It sounded more like two forces tearing at each other.

The Soul Power Jiang Ming released attempted to rip open the barrier, while Dai Mubai's soul skill kept it outside.

They remained deadlocked for less than a second.

A clear crack appeared on the barrier, but the Soul Power dissipated at the same time.

Dai Mubai grinned and threw his right fist at Jiang Ming, wrapped in the glow of the White Tiger Protection Barrier.

But Jiang Ming's body vanished again.

He appeared to Dai Mubai's left.

This time, the distance was closer, and the angle of the Space Tear attack was even trickier.

It struck directly at the barrier's weak point beneath Dai Mubai's ribs.

Riiip—

The cracks on the barrier grew denser, but it still did not shatter!

"Can you only run?"

The Soul Rings around Dai Mubai abruptly lit up.

A white light wave shot from his mouth, blasting toward Jiang Ming's position.

White Tiger Intense Light Wave.

The light wave was as large as a washbasin, and the air exploded everywhere it passed.

Jiang Ming used Space Shift again, his body barely brushing past the edge of the light wave.

The light wave slammed into the courtyard wall behind him.

A hole half a meter wide was blasted into the blue-brick wall.

The instant Jiang Ming landed, he did not pause at all. Space Shift activated once more.

His figure flickered through the alley, darting left and right, forward and back.

The condensed Soul Power precisely struck the same spot on Dai Mubai's barrier.

The fifth time.

The sixth time.

The seventh time.

Dai Mubai's expression shifted from initial disdain to solemnity.

He had never fought such a frustrating battle.

The other party's Soul Power was clearly far weaker than his.

Yet that bizarre teleportation ability caused all of his attacks to strike empty air. He could not even touch a corner of Jiang Ming's clothes.

Crack—

The fractures on the barrier grew increasingly dense, spreading across the entire side like glass on the verge of shattering.

"Interesting."

Dai Mubai took a deep breath, and his third Soul Ring lit up.

White Tiger Vajra Transformation!

His body suddenly swelled by a full size, his muscles bulging high.

White Soul Power condensed over the surface of his skin into a layer of pale golden keratin.

His pupils became sharper, his teeth faintly pointed, and his entire body radiated the oppressive aura of a savage beast.

With the enhancement of the White Tiger Vajra Transformation, the White Tiger Protection Barrier also became several times more solid. The patterns on its surface changed from phantoms into tangible golden tiger stripes.

The previous cracks rapidly healed beneath the repair of the golden light, raising its defense to another level.

Jiang Ming appeared five steps away.

He looked at the solid golden barrier around Dai Mubai without any change in expression.

Only the light in the depths of his eyes grew sharper.

"You think strengthening your defense will stop me?"

Jiang Ming's voice was soft, as though he were speaking to himself.

In the next instant, his body vanished again.

This time, even Dai Mubai froze at the position where he appeared.

Not behind him, not at his flank, but directly in front of him.

Face-to-face.

Less than an arm's length away.

Jiang Ming pressed the fingers of his right hand together, condensing a spatial rift at his fingertips.

That's right!

It was not a soul skill, nor was it Soul Power, but a spatial rift unleashed through the origin of space itself!

The rift was only three inches long, so thin it was nearly invisible.

Yet the sharp radiance it emitted was more dazzling than any of the previous attacks.

He compressed all his power into this single point.

Then he thrust it out.