(Fourth update)
After driving off the black-clad bandits, everyone felt as though a great weight had been lifted from their shoulders.
This sudden calamity had caused losses, to varying degrees, for all fifteen Advanced Soul Master Academies present. Spirit Hall had clearly taken this opportunity to eliminate dissidents and deal a heavy blow to the academies outside the Five Elements Academy.
The Exotic Beast Academy, where Meng Yiran studied, had been singled out in particular. Three reserve students had been ambushed and killed by the men in black. If the academy's teachers had not noticed that something was wrong and risked their lives charging into the black-clad men for a desperate battle, several official team members might have died as well. They would not even need to go to Spirit City for the finals; they might as well surrender outright.
There were several other academies in circumstances similar to the Exotic Beast Academy. One academy had even had a Spirit Emperor-level teacher lose both arms after a moment of carelessness, leaving him drenched in blood and in a miserable state.
When a Titled Douluo had appeared among the black-clad men earlier, the teachers and students of those Advanced Soul Master Academies had all felt their hearts leap into their throats.
Do not doubt their intelligence. Anyone qualified to teach or study at an Advanced Soul Master Academy was no fool. If the teachers and students of Shrek Academy could guess that those men in black came from Spirit Hall, then naturally these people could as well.
But knowing was one thing; there was nothing they could do about it. They did not even dare speak out, for fear of inviting Spirit Hall's frenzied retaliation.
That was the sorrow of the weak.
Douluo Continent had always been a world where the