"Retreat?"
The person beside the man holding the Bronze Mirror looked at him in surprise. Before he could ask anything, he saw the black-robed man flying backward.
"Bang, bang, bang!!!"
Several blows rang out in succession.
Lin Ke appeared where the black-robed man had stood, a phantom Bamboo Staff in his hand. Even the side of the staff seemed to have a keen edge.
Bolstered by the power of numerous poems, Lin Ke's aura surged.
"The Novelists' School? Zhou Tales? You're the Sage Son of the Yu Chu Sage Domain?"
Lin Ke looked at another man nearby.
"My name is Yu Kong..."
Seeing that Lin Ke had not attacked the next person, Yu Kong straightened his clothes and headwear, preparing to continue.
Only to see Lin Ke vanish from where he stood once again.
He was too fast!
Yu Kong's expression changed drastically, and he shouted, "Zhou Tales World!"
The space around him immediately grew thick as ink, as though a world were about to be constructed within it.
But just like the black-robed man's defenses, this protective power was sliced open in an instant by the phantom Bamboo Staff, like a hot knife through lard.
"Bang!"
The Bamboo Staff struck Yu Kong's cheek.
"Pfft!!" Yu Kong flew sideways, spraying a mouthful of blood in midair.
"You bear the legacy of Great Sage Yu Chu, yet to think you couldn't withstand a single blow."
Lin Ke shook his head, then looked at a woman holding a feather fan. "You're from the Eclectic School? That Borrow Strength technique is utterly shoddy!"
The woman holding the feather fan paled, but she kept her eyes fixed on Lin Ke, not daring to reply.
Lin Ke had seized on the momentary distraction when Yu Kong answered him and knocked him unconscious outright.
"You..."
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