Only a faint blood-red tint showed in the eyes of the Demon Kings who spoke. This proved they had not fully entered a combat state and still retained enough reason to undermine the fleeing scholars. As long as a third of them wavered, they could easily catch up to the fugitives.
Over a long journey, a Grand Academician's Walking the Blue Clouds surpassed a Demon King, but in a short burst of speed, a Demon King utterly outclassed a Grand Academician.
Grand Academician Guo sneered and used Tongue Blossoms Thunder. "Apart from Void Sage Fang, are all our lives put together worth a single Transmissible Battle Poem? Are they worth two? What about three or four? Demon Barbarians truly are fools. Of course Void Sage Fang deserves our protection!"
The armless Hanlin Academician Peng Zouzhao added, "If he deserves the full might of your Demon Realm hunting him down, then he deserves the full might of our human race protecting him!"
Those words rang like a bell warning the world, giving every scholar a more immediate sense of Fang Yun's worth. A scholar whom all the sages of the Demon Realm wanted dead at any cost was naturally worth protecting. Never mind fifteen Grand Academicians-even fifteen Great Scholars would have been worth deploying to protect him!
Fang Yun stood upon Grand Academician Guo's Walking the Blue Clouds, emotions surging in his heart, his gaze growing ever firmer.
Zong Jibing retorted, "The Demon Race is stupid beyond belief, trying to sow discord with such a pathetic trick. If we fell for it, we might as well bash our heads against something and die."
"Everyone, do be understanding toward the Demon Race. Their intelligence is low, after all. Coming up with a way to sow discord was already quite an achievement for