"Nine Fire · Flame Slash!!"
With a raise of Su Zhan's hand, a High-grade Spirit Weapon saber appeared in his grasp.
Blazing flames roared forth, coiling around the blade.
Almost the very next second after the Beginner Martial Artist's dagger slashed out, the saber came crashing down upon him, carrying terrifying power that surpassed an Advanced Quasi-Martial Artist!
Boom!!
An explosion rang out as flames scattered in all directions and shockwaves spread.
Caught completely off guard and dumbfounded, the Beginner Martial Artist was struck head-on. One slash sent him flying backward, and he crashed by the roadside, half his arm and body reduced to a bloody mess!
"Aah!!!"
"They're fighting! They're fighting!!"
"Has Su Zhan gone insane? Attacking someone at school? He's going to be sent before the Martial Artist Court!!"
"Wait... the one he slashed was a Martial Artist, right?"
"Hiss~~ A Quasi-Martial Artist slashed down a Martial Artist?"
"This... a Martial Artist lost in one slash?! Am I seeing things?!"
"..."
The scene instantly sent the surrounding students into a frenzy of screams and uproar.
Fighting and killing within the school grounds was an ironclad rule.
Those who broke it would be expelled at best, or sent before the Martial Artist Court for judgment at worst!
Yet compared to that, the students noticed something even more important: the person Su Zhan had slashed was a Beginner Martial Artist, and Su Zhan had nearly hacked him to death with a single blow!
For a moment, countless students stared at Su Zhan in utter shock.
"Wah!"
The Beginner Martial Artist, who had lost half his body, looked at Su Zhan with trembling pupils. He spat out mouthfuls of blood and murmured, "How is this possible... How can this be possible... He's only an Advanced Quasi-Martial Artist... and he's only in his second year of high school..."
The intelligence had clearly stated that he was a second-year high school student who had only just become an Advanced Quasi-Martial Artist.
Was this the strength someone who had just become an Advanced Quasi-Martial Artist could possess?
His strength had clearly reached the Beginner Martial Artist level... and judging by his power, he was even stronger than him!
Suddenly.
A figure appeared before the Beginner Martial Artist.
It was Elder Feng.
His face held fury and killing intent, but also shock he could not conceal.
"To think he could reach such a level..."
Clearly, even Elder Feng had been stunned.
A Quasi-Martial Artist had nearly chopped a Beginner Martial Artist to death with one slash... Su Zhan clearly possessed the strength to fight across levels!
No.
More precisely, he possessed the strength to kill across levels in an instant!
After that one slash, the Beginner Martial Artist was already on the brink of death. With more air going out than coming in, even medicinal pills would not restore him in time.
This guy would not live much longer...
"A monster... an absolute monster!"
"Lowest Grade is complete bullshit. His talent far surpasses the young lady's... Marquis Rank? No, he might even have King Rank potential!"
A towering tsunami surged through Elder Feng's heart.
He had sheltered many geniuses.
Yet among them, only Su Zhan had ever achieved what stood before him now!
"There is hope for the Lin family's rise... Hope for the Lin family's rise!!"
Elder Feng could not help but grow excited.
"Elder Feng, please step aside."
At that moment, Su Zhan's voice came from behind him.
Elder Feng turned sideways to look at Su Zhan. His eyes held appreciation, praise, and even greater delight.
For such a talent to be recruited by the Lin family, even protected by him... heaven was clearly blessing the Lin family!
"Elder Feng, he tried to kill me. I'm going to finish him off. You don't mind, do you?" Su Zhan said coldly.
"Please, Mr. Su."
There was an unmistakable trace of respect in Elder Feng's manner.
Clearly, he no longer regarded Su Zhan as an elder protecting a junior, nor as the Lin family protecting an investment target... it was more as though he saw Su Zhan as a tremendous future pillar of the Lin family.
As for this Beginner Martial Artist's identity and purpose.
One could figure out with their heel that this was the Meng family's doing.
There was no need to waste breath interrogating him.
Boom!
Almost the instant Elder Feng finished speaking, surging flames descended, blasting the Beginner Martial Artist to death on the spot and ending him completely!
"He really killed him!"
"My god..."
"Su Zhan... that's badass!"
"..."
The nearby students could not help crying out in shock and admiration.
Su Zhan paid them no heed.
He stepped forward and picked up the Beginner Martial Artist's Space Ring in one grab.
Unfortunately.
This man had already prepared himself to die, so the Space Ring contained only spare clothes and nothing else.
"Tch, just this little pile of junk."
Su Zhan shook his head and put away the Space Ring.
"Elder Feng, was this the Meng family's doing?" Su Zhan turned back and asked.
"Ninety-nine percent," Elder Feng replied.
Su Zhan's gaze darkened.
It seemed he had still underestimated the Meng family's determination to kill him.
He had thought Martial General level experts would first fight one another, and only after a victor was decided would they come looking for trouble with him... Yet the Meng family had opened with what was practically a killing blow, leaving him no chance at all!
If his Jade Body had not happened to advance to Minor Accomplishment today.
Then perhaps he would be lying on the ground as well.
And that was not all.
After the Meng family's failure this time, once they learned that he could fight across levels, they would certainly send even stronger assassins next time, using even more vicious methods!
"If even raising the white flag can't make the Meng family give up, then what can I do to keep this trouble from coming after me?"
After thinking it over again and again.
He found that only one road remained: destroy the Meng family!
If he voiced that thought aloud, everyone would likely be horrified and think Su Zhan had gone mad... But Su Zhan knew it was the only efficient solution.
As long as the Meng family remained.
They would always have their eyes on him.
Even if they could not deal with him, they would find every possible way to target those around him and force him to submit... Su Zhan did not want to face such a melodramatic and humiliating situation.
Of course.
The greatest reason Su Zhan could entertain such thoughts was that he had cheats!
What ordinary people deemed impossible, for him... would hold infinite possibilities!
"Very well. Before the college entrance exam, I'll first uproot the Meng family, this hidden scourge... Otherwise, I won't even feel at ease going to school."
Having made up his mind, Su Zhan left the school and headed straight home.
As he walked, he took out his phone and contacted Lin Baitian.
After learning of Su Zhan's plan, Lin Baitian did not hesitate in the slightest. "Fine, no problem. I'll personally come forward and bring your parents to the Lin family headquarters! Unless the Lin family is wiped out, no one will lay a finger on your parents!"
"Then thank you, Brother Lin," Su Zhan said. "Also, I have a marriage engagement. Please bring that family along too."
"What? A marriage engagement?!"
Lin Baitian's voice abruptly rose several decibels.
"You kept coming to see me before, looking for me and my family, emphasizing that I couldn't get too close to your sister... My parents could only find another family for me." Su Zhan smiled. "Brother Lin, that shouldn't be too much trouble, right?"
"Fine... Fine, leave it all to me!"
After hanging up, Lin Baitian was rather speechless.
Su Zhan actually had a marriage engagement!
You're a high school student. Why the hell do you need a marriage engagement? Were you really in such a rush to get married and have children?
Still, Lin Baitian was not worried.
As long as Su Zhan's strength rose quickly enough and became strong enough... if he truly could become a Martial Commander after graduating from college, as he had said, then the engagement did not matter.
The strong, after all—who did not have three wives and four concubines?
At worst, his sister could be the second wife!
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