The Whole City!

Chu Yuan stood up abruptly and smashed a fist into the adjacent wall.

The plaster peeled away, revealing a series of Blood Veins that caught his eye.

"Teacher, are the patterns of the Energy Gathering Array supposed to look like this?"

"Of course not! This is..." Panic flashed in Huang Bo's eyes; he realized that something had gone terribly wrong.

"Quick! Get out! Do not stay in the classroom!"

However, apart from him, who could still barely move, the rest of the students had already collapsed to the floor, unable to hold on any longer.

Huang Bo lifted his foot, only to find it felt as if it had taken root in the ground.

The dense, tangled Blood Veins were dragging him down...

Chu Yuan struck the Blood Veins with another punch, shattering them as if blood were splashing outward.

But before he could even catch his breath, the Blood Veins were restored to their original state by energy coming from an unknown source.

The strength of this thing was not outrageous, but its regeneration speed was simply too fast!

Chu Yuan did not intend to struggle with it; he flashed to the classroom door and kicked it to pieces.

He immediately condensed his spiritual power and severed the Blood Veins beneath Huang Bo's feet.

"Teacher, get out first!"

Huang Bo had intended to tell him to save the students first, but seeing Chu Yuan rush toward Yang Yi without waiting for him to speak, he shut his mouth.

As soon as he stepped out of the classroom and regained his footing, a figure was thrown toward him.

Huang Bo caught it and discovered it was Yang Yi.

Before he could speak, another figure was tossed over.

He casually dropped Yang Yi onto the floor and moved to catch the next one...

Chu Yuan's movements were incredibly swift; in just one minute, he had tossed all the students from the classroom, piling them up densely in the hallway.

He then ran out himself.

The exertion was not significant; the Blood Veins seemed unable to withstand his spiritual power.

If this was the only backup plan Yan Xuan had prepared, then his scheme for today was destined to fail!

"Chu Yuan! Do you still have strength?"

"I do."

"Go and help the other classes." Huang Bo's tone was not a command, but a plea.

The Energy Gathering Array had been tampered with and transformed into something unknown; by the time the Blood Veins were discovered, it was already too late.

Although he did not know why Chu Yuan remained unaffected, now was not the time to ask.

"Fine." Chu Yuan agreed immediately, kicked open the door to the adjacent Class One, and saw a pile of students collapsed on the floor...

In truth, it was not just Chu Yuan who knew; Huang Bo knew as well.

It was impossible for Chu Yuan alone to save everyone.

According to the absorption rate of the Blood Veins, students who had not yet entered the Blood-Qi Realm would be sucked into mummified corpses in just five minutes!

There was simply not enough time!

First High School had thousands of students, and there were twelve senior classes equipped with Energy Gathering Arrays!

Even if Chu Yuan cleared one classroom per minute, he would need at least twelve minutes!

That amount of time was more than enough for the students who hadn't reached the Blood-Qi Realm to die twice over...

Qi Da suddenly turned his head to look to one side.

Huang Bo's body leaned out from the outer wall of the hallway, shouting, "Principal! The Energy Gathering Array has malfunctioned, but Chu Yuan saved us all! He has a way to break this thing!"

He did not know if this information would be of any help to Qi Da, but he had to tell him at the very least!

Qi Da's eyes brightened; Chu Yuan had such an ability?

Looking back at the equally stunned Yan Xuan, Qi Da let out a thunderous roar: "Yan Xuan!"

His body suddenly transformed into an afterimage, descending from the sky with a leg strike.

Violent gale winds whistled, resembling a giant axe splitting a mountain!

Yan Xuan raised his arms to block, but with a deafening boom, his body was smashed deep into the earth!

Only a massive crater remained where he had stood...

However...

In the corner of his eye, Qi Da saw Huang Bo in the distance suddenly collapse, as if he had died of a sudden heart attack!

"..."

Qi Da reacted quickly, grasping the crux of the situation in an instant.

It seemed Chu Yuan had not actually broken the Blood-Sucking Array.

The marks branded onto Huang Bo and the others by the Blood-Sucking Array had not been cleared!

But this could not be blamed on Huang Bo; after all, he was only in the Internal Breath Realm, his experience was limited, and he had never even seen a Blood-Sucking Array before.

"Haha, Teacher Huang, you really are humorous..." Yan Xuan climbed out of the crater once more, mocking him. "Principal, you truly are valiant. That kick of yours just now killed at least ten of your own fine students... tsk tsk."

He stood completely unguarded, yet Qi Da only looked on with a gloomy expression, not daring to strike again.

That was the trouble with these rebels!

Their overt combat strength was certainly no match for the Martial Suppression Bureau, yet they always managed to concoct such disgusting schemes!

In truth, Yan Xuan felt some confusion himself. He had long since altered all the Energy Gathering Arrays in the senior classrooms; logically, once activated, no one should have been able to escape.

After all, those locations could be considered the "array eyes."

Their lethality was naturally far greater!

Yet, judging by Huang Bo's words, that Chu Yuan had actually managed to shake off the influence of the Blood-Sucking Array and even save others?

At that very moment, the sky seemed to turn red in an instant.

Qi Da looked up instinctively and saw five blood-red pillars of light erupting into the sky from within Chenyang City, radiating an eerie and ominous aura!

Yan Xuan looked up as well, his expression turning fanatical.

"Principal! I was waiting for them to activate the array... what were you waiting for?"

Accompanied by a sneer, a blood-red pillar of light erupted into the sky, centered on Yan Xuan's own body!

Qi Da's eyelids twitched, and he felt his hands and feet turn icy cold.

"A Compound Array..."

He finally realized that he had underestimated the ambition of Yan Xuan and those behind him!

He had originally thought the enemy only wanted to cause destruction at First High School, but now Qi Da realized:

Their goal was actually a blood sacrifice... of the entire Chenyang City!

"You are all insane... Even if Chenyang City falls, you will surely die! You will face the pursuit of Seventh Realm or even Eighth Realm powerhouses!"

"Pfft~ What use is that? Even if a Ninth Realm expert arrives in person... wouldn't the people of Chenyang City already be dead?" Yan Xuan did not care in the slightest about Qi Da's threats.

The grand array had been fully activated; from here on out, he only needed to obediently serve as the array eye.

Qi Da dared not strike him, because if he did, the damage would be borne by the teachers and students of First High School trapped within the Blood-Sucking Array!

But if Qi Da did not act, the people within the range of the Blood-Sucking Array would still be unable to escape death!

Furthermore, communications in Chenyang City had been severed the moment they made their move! The authorities would not receive the news immediately, and naturally, no powerhouses would come to provide reinforcements!

By the time the authorities discovered the anomaly in Chenyang City... it would likely already be a dead city!

"Principal, why don't you kowtow to me? If you kowtow once, I'll let one person go, how about that?" Yan Xuan teased. "If you kowtow fast enough... you might even be able to save several hundred people, right?"