Blood-Sucking Array!

"Teacher, what is the background of this Yan Xuan?" Chu Yuan asked.

Worrying about it now was useless anyway; if the sky fell, the tall ones would hold it up... and wasn't Qi Da holding it up right now?

"Yan Xuan..." A complex expression appeared on Huang Bo's face, a mix of heartache, anger, and regret.

"You all should know a few things. Actually, he was your senior... though that was ten years ago."

"Ten years ago? That means Yan Xuan is only twenty-eight or twenty-nine? How does he look like he's in his forties or fifties?"

"...Something happened back then. His martial arts foundation was crippled, and his body was hollowed out, so he looks quite old." Huang Bo explained, then continued: "When I first came to teach at First High School, I heard the name Yan Xuan; he was a martial arts genius! From receiving the Essence Tempering Technique to entering the Blood-Qi Realm, it only took him one week. Later, on the eve of the college entrance exams, he had reached the mid-stage of the Impermeable Realm! He shone brilliantly during the exams! He took first place in Chenyang City and third in Yunan Prefecture, and was admitted to Shendu Martial Academy, one of the four great martial arts schools..."

Many people's gazes turned toward Chu Yuan involuntarily. A martial arts genius... wasn't Chu Yuan also a martial arts genius? Perhaps, like Yan Xuan back then, he had already entered the Blood-Qi Realm?

Someone asked directly: "Chu Yuan, have you already reached the Blood-Qi Realm?"

Chu Yuan nodded: "Yes."

Yang Yi naturally knew that Chu Yuan was not in the Blood-Qi Realm, so he quickly changed the subject: "Then what happened later? How did he get crippled?"

Huang Bo shook his head: "I don't know the details very clearly... I only heard that while he was training at the Outer-Heaven Frontline Battlefield and executing a school mission, some accident occurred; and then... At that time, the principal of our First High School wasn't Principal Qi, but Principal Chen. After Principal Chen heard the news, he personally went to Shendu to bring him back and settled him in the school. Who would have thought..."

"Teacher, I heard it was because he obtained the inheritance of a powerful expert, which led to him being targeted and sabotaged?"

Huang Bo said vaguely: "Perhaps. After all, although the Outer-Heaven Battlefield has many opportunities, any kind of accident can happen; you all should be careful when you go to the Outer-Heaven Battlefield in the future..."

Though he said that, Huang Bo knew in his heart that most people went to the Outer-Heaven Battlefield as ordinary soldiers in the army, without much authority for independent action... and naturally, they wouldn't encounter things similar to what happened to Yan Xuan. In fact, a considerable number of students wouldn't even be able to go; they would only be able to stay in Great Qin and join low-level combat sequences like the Public Security Bureau or the City Guard Army. These were also known as retirement units. Although there was no danger, there were no opportunities either; often, their cultivation level remained the same years or even a decade after they were hired. Just like himself...

In the gap between sentences, a roar filled with energy rang out again. It was Qi Da, his tone tinged with faint panic: "Yan Xuan! Stop!! Do you really want to die!?"

The glass in the classroom was shattered by this roar, and many people fell to the ground, swaying as if they were drunk; however, this naturally had no lethality against Yan Xuan, who was also in the Supernatural Realm. The numbness on his face slowly faded, replaced by excitement and fanaticism: "Hahahaha~ Principal Qi, I still prefer the way you looked when you were in control of everything just now..."

Qi Da was silent for a moment, then gritted his teeth: "If you leave now, I will pretend I never saw you today!"

"Naive..." Yan Xuan looked at Qi Da with a mocking face, then, without hesitation, tore off his own arm and threw it hard onto the ground!

The arm plunged deep into the ground like a javelin, and blood-red patterns began to spread out from it. For a martial artist of his level, a severed limb was not a very serious injury; there were too many ways to regrow a lost limb. But at this moment, Yan Xuan's face was pale, and he stood unsteadily, as if he had suffered some irreversible, heavy trauma!

Qi Da knew the reason: Yan Xuan had poured most of the energy essence in his body into that arm! Blood-colored patterns climbed onto Yan Xuan's legs out of thin air...

"I heard about that incident back then, I know... you hold resentment in your heart toward many people!" Qi Da paused, his tone sincere: "But, ordinary people are innocent..."

The mockery on Yan Xuan's face deepened: "Innocent? The weak have no right to speak, nor do they have the right to survive! The weak... only need to sacrifice themselves! That is the lesson they taught me back then..."

"They did something wrong, and they paid the price! I think they regret it more than you do..."

"Pushing out a few inconsequential pawns counts as the price? And I shouldn't hold a grudge?" Yan Xuan sneered again. "Then, after I sacrifice these ants, I will apologize too; I hope you'll forgive me on their behalf when the time comes..."

By now, the blood-red patterns had spread across Yan Xuan's entire body.

The ground within First High School was glowing with a crimson light everywhere! Through the damaged sections of the floor, one could see the writhing blood-red patterns beneath, resembling the veins of the earth.

Qi Da felt anxious, not because he didn't want to strike, but because he couldn't!

Because he recognized this thing...

The Blood-Sucking Array!

It was extremely cumbersome to set up, but conversely, the returns were immense!

With Yan Xuan acting as the array core, having activated the formation at the cost of his own arm, Qi Da could do nothing to him until the array was broken.

All of his attacks would not harm Yan Xuan, but would instead be borne by the others within the array!

It wouldn't be him, but rather the students and teachers of First High School...

"Teacher, I feel dizzy..."

"Me too, I have no strength in my body... Is this the aftermath of a battle between powerhouses?"

"Eh? When did you get a tattoo?"

"What tattoo?"

Huang Bo felt a jolt of alarm, and just as he was about to speak, a wave of weakness surged into his heart.

He raised his hand, and blood-red patterns had coiled across the back of his hand at some unknown moment.

The internal energy within his own body was being greedily devoured and absorbed by these blood-red patterns...

Chu Yuan also frowned as he looked at the blood-red patterns on the back of his hand, similarly feeling his flesh and blood essence being drained.

It was even attempting to draw upon the spiritual energy within his body.

However, the quality of the latter seemed far too high for it; like a heavy iron weight, it couldn't be budged at all...

Chu Yuan circulated his cultivation technique, and as his spiritual energy vibrated slightly, the blood-red patterns blurred instantly, as if about to dissipate.

Yet in the blink of an eye, a fresh surge of energy replenished them, causing the patterns on the back of his hand to solidify once more!

Chu Yuan sensed the energy fluctuations and turned his head to look at the classroom wall.

He perceived that a large portion of the energy source for these blood-red patterns was coming from... the Energy Gathering Array?