Chapter 3228: Jidu
A three-pronged attack.
Purple Flower reckoned that even if First University had four or five Legendary Wizards, they would still be thrown into a flurry. If it was lucky, its true body could devour that spellbook, void the Edge Academy dean's trick contract, and eliminate future troubles. If it was unlucky and accidentally lost its true body, it could still take its newly refined dharma body underground and wait for another day.
As for that ball of flesh it had blasted into the sky, success would be assured so long as it drew the attention of one Legendary. It had never expected First University's Legendaries to stumble into the same pit twice in a row.
At that thought.
Purple Flower was immensely pleased with itself, feeling that its skills in divination and deduction had finally reached perfection.
In its delight, the enormous petals opened and closed ever faster. They spasmed with every movement, each one accompanied by the teeth-grating pull of mucus and a rotten stench that seemed to rise from the deepest part of a swamp. Around the petals, countless thick, dark-green tentacles spread innumerable clawed hands with long talons and distinct knuckles, frantically scratching forward as though they wished to cling to Taiyi like ivy before finding a chance to swallow that spellbook.
Just then.
A soft chuckle sounded by his ear.
"—As expected of Caitou Kai's Spiritual Corpse. You're truly skilled at that Golden Cicada Sheds Its Shell trick. But if we let you escape again, where would the school's dignity be?"
The dean of First University's Edge Academy chuckled, reached forward, and grabbed at the air before calling softly:
"Jidu, where are you?"
The moment the words fell, the spellbook at his side suddenly blazed with light. The fist-sized "copper bean" rolling toward