The one who had struck was Qi Da;
The moment the fist imprint left his hand, it formed a three-zhang phantom, but as it flew forward, it grew increasingly compressed.
By the time it reached Yan Xuan, it was no bigger than an ordinary fist, gleaming with golden light and seeming to hold tremendous power;
Yan Xuan held Miao Jun in one hand and swung his other fist at Qi Da!
A tremendous clang rang out, like metal striking metal, and Yan Xuan staggered back two steps;
But Miao Jun, whom he was holding, was in much worse shape. Yan Xuan had no intention of protecting him in the middle of a fight like this;
Miao Jun's body now hung limply from Yan Xuan's hand, like a lump of mud. He was clearly dead...
Qi Da sighed inwardly. He hadn't expected that he still wouldn't be able to save Miao Jun;
Even more surprising was that Yan Xuan was a Fifth Realm martial artist!
How had he failed to notice, all these years, with Yan Xuan right under his nose?
"Yan Xuan, you really are a beast..."
Qi Da spoke with complicated emotions;
"Back then, when you had nowhere else to go, First High School took you in. Everyone sympathized with what you'd been through. If I remember right, Teacher Miao Jun treated you pretty well, didn't he?"
"Back then? Heh..." Yan Xuan didn't seem inclined to explain. He casually tossed Miao Jun's corpse aside, then turned his gaze to Chu Yuan. "How did you discover me?"
He simply couldn't understand it. The method he used to conceal his cultivation had been passed down by a revered figure in his sect;
Even Qi Da had never noticed anything amiss about him. So how had Chu Yuan... pinned him down so quickly?
Chu Yuan didn't respond. He only moved farther away from Yan Xuan;
From the clash between Yan Xuan and Qi Da just moments ago, Chu Yuan had realized that the gap between them was enormous.
He had no chance of standing up to Yan Xuan... Thankfully, he'd had the foresight to notify Qi Da right away...
"You're finished!" Qi Da had lost patience. He moved in a flash and attacked!
No matter what had happened to Yan Xuan, once he was captured, he would eventually come clean;
Qi Da wasn't good at interrogations, but the Martial Suppression Bureau had plenty of experts in torture.
Those people wouldn't bother showing any humanity to rebels...
The students and teachers nearby had been stunned by the shocking turn of events;
But the moment the two men clashed, the teachers snapped out of it.
They had no time to mourn Miao Jun's death. They hurriedly organized the students and ushered them into the classrooms;
The first three martial realms were Qi and Blood, Imperviousness, and Inner Breath.
They could still be judged by common sense, and their destructive power remained within certain limits;
But the middle three realms—Skywalking, the Supernatural Realm, and the King Realm—had sharply greater destructive power, well beyond the ordinary!
Qi Da was in the fifth realm, a martial artist of the Supernatural Realm;
And Yan Xuan, who could contend with him, was naturally also a martial artist of the Supernatural Realm!
Martial artists of this level had the power to wipe out a city in a short time!
Qi Da usually kept a low profile, seeming like an ordinary principal who worried about his students;
But if he wanted to, he could reduce Chenyang City to ruins in no time!
Of course, that was assuming the Martial Suppression Bureau and the military didn't intervene...
"Chu Yuan! Get over here!" A familiar voice rang out. It was Huang Bo;
He'd heard about Chu Yuan's "heroic deed" of beating up a janitor on his way back to class and had rushed over at once, never expecting to find a scene like this...
Chu Yuan obediently followed Huang Bo, running toward his classroom.
The classrooms at First High School had Energy Gathering Arrays installed, and when activated, the arrays provided some protection;
They couldn't withstand a powerful attack, but to hold off a few shock waves... they would probably be enough.
He glanced back. By now, Qi Da and Yan Xuan were both impossible to make out clearly. Only two blurry afterimages could be seen, entangled as they collided.
The ground all around them had already burst apart, sending chunks of brick and stone flying;
Even the greenery had been flung into the air...
The destructive power of Fifth Realm experts wasn't limited to this, of course. But martial artists who were familiar with controlling their power would try to channel as much of their energy as possible into their opponent when fighting;
Letting it spill into the surroundings might make a spectacular show, but it only weakened their attacks for no reason.
They soon made it back to the classroom. The whole class was there, too.
After all, most students returned to class as soon as they finished eating instead of wandering around...
The students saw Huang Bo and immediately crowded around him;
Yang Yi was the first to ask, "Teach! What's going on out there?"
The classroom shook again and again, and many students looked frightened and uneasy.
They knew that powerful martial artists were fighting, but they had no idea why powerful martial artists were fighting at First High School.
"It's the principal fighting Yan Xuan..." Huang Bo said, his face full of worry as he looked out the window;
But there was nothing to see, only a whirlwind-like gale.
"Who's Yan Xuan?"
Chu Yuan wasn't the only one who didn't know his name. Most of the students at the school didn't know it either;
Only those who were especially interested in his past had looked into him, Yang Yi among them.
Before Huang Bo could say anything, Yang Yi blurted out in disbelief, "Yan Xuan? How could that be?"
"Yang Yi, who's Yan Xuan?"
"Yan Xuan is... he's the janitor who usually cleans the corridors and toilets in this building!"
"Him? How is that possible? How could such a powerful martial artist..."
Huang Bo had no reason to lie to them. Although they said it was impossible, most of them still believed it instinctively;
At the same time, a sense of foreboding rose in their hearts.
Just as someone had said, a martial artist this powerful wouldn't lower himself to clean toilets;
If he really had, it could only mean he had some huge scheme in mind!
For example, setting something up at the school...
"My dad happens to be in Chenyang City! I'll ask him to come help!" Yang Yi reacted at once, his voice low and firm.
Huang Bo opened his mouth. He'd wanted to say that the principal could take Yan Xuan down on his own, but then he thought of all the students at the school... and said nothing.
Yang Yi called a number on his terminal. A few seconds later, he looked grim and raised his head. "Communications have been cut off!"
"Seriously?" Someone tried using their own terminal;
"The call went through the first time, but right after that, there was no signal..." Yang Yi said worriedly. He could only hope his dad would somehow know what to do.
Chu Yuan, meanwhile, froze for a moment as a few things occurred to him;
The signal had suddenly been cut. It definitely couldn't have been Yan Xuan.
He didn't have the ability to arrange something like that while facing Qi Da's attacks;
So... Yan Xuan had accomplices?
Had they learned that he had been exposed and cut off communications as a result?
What were they trying to do...
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