"Yang Jian." Flender's voice sank. "What exactly is going on here? You just joined the academy, and you're already bullying your classmates?"
Yang Jian did not answer.
He bent down, grabbed Dai Mubai's left hand, and twisted hard.
Crack!
"Aah—!"
Dai Mubai's scream was even more agonized than before. His entire arm twisted at a grotesque angle, and the pain made his whole body convulse.
Using his remaining right hand to brace himself against the ground, he desperately scrambled backward, his eyes filled with terror.
"Headmaster Flender! Teacher Zhao Wuji!" Dai Mubai shouted again. "What are you waiting for? Are you going to watch him beat me to death?"
Flender's expression darkened completely.
Zhao Wuji clenched his fists as well.
"Stop!"
The two moved at the same time.
Flender charged in from the front while Zhao Wuji circled in from the side.
The two Soul Sages worked together flawlessly, one on each side, cutting off every route of escape for Yang Jian.
Yang Jian sneered.
He seized Dai Mubai's remaining right hand, lifted him like a chick, and hurled him at Zhao Wuji.
Dai Mubai traced an arc through the air, flying straight at Zhao Wuji's face.
Zhao Wuji hurriedly reached out with both hands to catch him.
His martial soul was the Mighty Vajra Bear. As a strength-type Soul Sage, catching a person should have been effortless.
But the instant Dai Mubai crashed into his arms, his expression changed.
An immense force surged from Dai Mubai's body!
Zhao Wuji's forward momentum was forcibly halted, and he was even shoved back several steps before barely managing to steady himself.
He looked down at Dai Mubai in his arms, then raised his head to look at Yang Jian, his eyes full of shock.
He was a strength-type Soul Sage, yet he