By evening, Node Four had been repaired.
The Middle Court had also sent a more formidable expert to replace the slain Kong Ning.
Xu Yang knew the man. He was Li Zihua, the student who had once briefly claimed first place in the Heavenly Strategy Wind and Cloud Rankings.
After his twenty-year term ended, he had stayed at the Heavenly Strategy Academy as well.
With Li Zihua joining the defense, Liu Ze, Wang Xu, and the others breathed a sigh of relief.
A former number one of the Heavenly Strategy Academy, even if he had only held the position briefly, possessed unquestionable combat prowess. Slaughtering ordinary Ninth Heavenly Origin cultivators would be as easy as killing chickens and dogs. Anyone wishing to destroy Node Four again could no longer accomplish it by sending one or two ordinary Ninth Heavenly Origin cultivators.
The Han Family probably won't dare send anyone else, Xu Yang mused.
Even a Millennium Family had only so many hidden forces.
He had already killed two of the Han Family's Ninth Heavenly Origin cultivators and two of their Eighth Heavenly Origin cultivators. They could not possibly have stronger forces left.
They would never dare send their publicly known members to attack the node. If anything went wrong, the consequences would be more than the Han Family could bear.
There's almost a month left. I'll settle today's debt with the Han Family later.
During the days that followed, Xu Yang devoted most of his energy to cultivating martial arts and secret arts, doing little to advance his cultivation.
He would use this time to bring his secret arts and martial arts close to where he wanted them. Once he returned to the Heavenly Strategy Academy, he could focus entirely on accelerating his cultivation. With his improved comprehension and the