How Come There's No Top Student from Jiang University?

Zhang Hua recognized that blade, and so did everyone else.

It was Chen Sanyan's blade!

The blade was too fast, too strange.

Silent and soundless, leaving people completely unaware.

"The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind, and behind that there's even an eagle, hahaha..."

Ji Ziling laughed, laughing so hard she rocked back and forth, not even caring about the injuries on her body.

She had no time to deal with the Star Demon beside her either.

Chen Sanyan was the helper Zhang Hua had invited.

Yet at this moment, he had stabbed him, becoming the final oriole.

"Leave the Star Demon..."

The three from Kexiang shouted furiously and charged at the newcomer.

He wore an ordinary warrior uniform, his head covered tightly, with only a pair of eyes exposed.

"Kill him! I'll kill you!"

Zhang Hua roared hysterically, ignoring the pain of his severed hand. Sword light slashed down as he attacked the masked man.

The blade rose again, still silent and soundless, like an antelope hanging its horns—no trace to be found.

Hiss.

Blade met sword. The blade slid along the sword and cut into the hilt, but it was swiftly withdrawn again.

Clang.

The longsword fell from his hand. He appeared uninjured, but the hand that had held the sword had gone limp and could no longer be raised.

Zhang Hua screamed again. The moment he opened his mouth, blood gushed out wildly.

His left hand turned into a palm, golden Star Power surging out in a mighty wave. The three from Kexiang retreated, yet landed easily, unharmed.

Carrying the special Star Demon, the masked man flashed backward and withdrew.

"Stop right there."

A Kexiang student shouted angrily and was about to give chase.

"Don't chase him. That person is very strong, and he didn't want to hurt us."

The Kexiang girl called the student back, a grave look flashing across her fair face. "The urgent matter now is no longer the Star Stones. Set up a barrier."

"Yes."

The Kexiang students hurriedly took out instruments and set up an energy barrier.

More and more Star Demons were gathering here. With them injured and crippled as they were now, there was no way they could break out.

Setting up a barrier and recovering from their injuries was the most pressing matter.

Once the barrier was set up, the group entered it and hid.

As for the two Star Demons at the Peak Nebula Level, after being heavily injured, they had already hidden themselves among the Star Demon horde. Having followed the special Star Demon around, they had gained a little bit of brains too.

Because they had been caught in the blast of the Star Power bombs earlier, all these people together numbered fewer than twenty.

Kexiang School took out four barriers to protect everyone.

Ji Ziling waved her hand and threw healing spells on herself and Ying Yanxue, then healed the four people beside her before finally sitting down cross-legged.

"Thank you, senior." The four were all students from martial arts schools. After thanking her, they hurriedly began recovering.

Inside the other barriers, the people from Kexiang School had brought oral healing potions.

Although they were not as powerful as healing abilities when it came to external wounds, they were a great help for internal injuries.

The people from the martial arts schools looked at them eagerly. Earlier, when they had been caught in the blast of the Star Power bombs, although they had not been the targets...

The power had been enormous. Quite a few of them had suffered severe injuries, blood flowing everywhere, their lives hanging by a thread.

"Heal the people from the martial arts schools," the leading Kexiang girl said.

"Yes, senior."

Only then did the people from Kexiang step in to help.

"Give... give me some treatment too."

A weak voice came over. Zhang Hua leaned against the barrier, his face deathly pale, his forehead covered in beads of sweat.

Beside him lay a severed hand.

At the wound, starlight shimmered, stopping the blood.

Cao Ye sat beside him, looking at him expressionlessly.

"You still have the nerve to ask us to heal you?"

Ji Ziling opened her eyes and said angrily, "Look at those corpses. They're all because of you!"

"We're all badly wounded now because of you!"

"I suggest we throw him out and let the Star Demons eat him."

A martial arts school student who had barely managed to stop his injuries from worsening spoke out in anger.

The Kexiang students were just as furious. "Right. Throw him out and let the Star Demons eat him."

In that Star Power explosion just now, Kexiang had lost two people as well. How could they not be angry?

Panic gripped Zhang Hua. He had just opened his mouth when his injuries worsened, and he spat out another mouthful of bloody water.

Cao Ye still watched expressionlessly, making no move at all.

Ignoring the blood spilling from his mouth, Zhang Hua said in terror, "It was all because I was possessed by greed. I've already realized my mistake.

"I'm willing to compensate for what happened this time. After we return to the city, I'll definitely make it up to their families."

"Compensate? Can you afford to?" the students from both schools roared. "Those were lives! Several lives!"

"Believe me. I'll do everything I can to make it up to them.

"Even if it takes my whole life, I'll atone for it. I really know I was wrong. I'll take good care of their families."

Zhang Hua struggled to rise, propping himself up on his elbows, almost crawling on the ground.

"Brothers who died, rest assured. I, Zhang Hua, swear here that I am willing to spend this life repenting and spend this life making amends."

After saying that, his face twisted in pain as he kowtowed heavily several times, while his arm lightly brushed Cao Ye.

"Now you know you were wrong?" Ji Ziling watched him coldly, not moved in the slightest.

Ying Yanxue said nothing, her expression cold.

Cao Ye's face was calm as he looked at Zhang Hua, who had even kowtowed in order to survive.

There was no trace of his former high spirits, only wretchedness and disgrace. How was he still some super top student?

Glancing at his arm, Cao Ye moved his lips. "Treat him anyway. Let them spend their lives atoning for their sins."

Zhang Hua hurriedly lifted his head, his pained face filled with sincerity and remorse. "I'm willing to spend my whole life atoning."

"It'd still be better to throw him to the Star Demons," Ji Ziling said coldly.

"Right, throw him to the Star Demons."

"Let him atone instead."

With Cao Ye speaking up, some of the martial arts school students began to waver as well.

But there were still some who insisted on throwing Zhang Hua out and turning him into Star Demon rations.

A strange look flashed through the Kexiang woman's eyes. "Treat him. Make sure he doesn't die, and reattach his hand too."

"Senior."

The Kexiang students who had been in the same shield as Zhang Hua were somewhat dissatisfied. On what grounds? People from Kexiang had died too.

If not for Zhang Hua, the special Star Stone would definitely have been theirs.

"Enough. Kexiang's people should handle this impartially. After we return to the city, hand Zhang Hua over to the Federation."

The Kexiang woman said in a deep voice, "Privately using a Star Power bomb—this matter must be investigated thoroughly!

"We have no right to deal with him. I'll also report everything that happened here to the Federation truthfully."

Only then did the Kexiang School students fall silent.

However, from the sound of that, it seemed like an enormous contribution?

If they finished Zhang Hua off, sure, it would feel satisfying, but what about when the Federation pursued responsibility afterward?

Privately using military ordnance was a major crime. If they killed him, the trail would be cut off.

Ji Ziling also stopped talking. Since this involved military ordnance, she could not kill Zhang Hua either.

"Thank you, thank you. I'll definitely atone."

Zhang Hua thanked them again and again, letting out a breath of relief inside. His life was saved. It was just this hand...

The Kexiang student reattached it for him, his attitude very poor. With a cold snort, he said, "Senior, with our limited conditions, this hand can only be barely reattached.

"As for the other hand, there are no surface wounds, but the inside has already been severed. There's nothing I can do."

Zhang Hua's face went pale, but he did not despair. Once they returned to the city, the hospital would definitely be able to heal both his hands.

"As long as it's reattached," the Kexiang woman said calmly. "Everyone, let me introduce myself. Kexiang School, Tang Ruoxi."

"Martial Arts School, Ji Ziling, Ying Yanxue..."

Everyone introduced themselves one by one, which counted as getting acquainted.

"Huh? Why isn't Jiang Changkong here, Top Student Jiang?" came a surprised voice.

"Jiang Changkong, Top Student Jiang?" The martial arts school students looked stunned. "Do you mean that Jiang Changkong at Star Qi Peak?"

"Star Qi Peak? You're joking. Top Student Jiang can blow up Late Nebula Level Star Demons."

Zhang Xiaoyu said unhappily, "What's wrong with you people? You don't know him?"

"I had Changkong return to the city," Ji Ziling said. "He's fairly strong, but it's too dangerous here. I didn't let him come."

"Oh, oh." Zhang Xiaoyu and the others suddenly understood.