"-Elder Su Qian!"
The door to Su Qian's office was suddenly slammed open. He had been looking through a list of academy affairs and was so startled that he shot to his feet.
Once he saw who had come, he breathed a sigh of relief and glared at the visitor.
"Headmaster Hu Gan, why are you being so rash?"
The visitor was Hu Gan, the deputy headmaster of Jia Nan Academy's Outer Academy, a plump-looking old man whose expression was rather grave at the moment.
"Sorry, Elder Su, but I really do have something important to report. Something big has happened in the Black-Corner Region!"
Su Qian froze at Hu Gan's words, then hurried out from behind his desk.
"What happened? Don't tell me that Medicine Emperor has gathered the Dou Zong and Dou Emperors of the Black-Corner Region..."
"Uh, it does have something to do with the Medicine Emperor, but it isn't directed at our Jia Nan Academy..."
Hu Gan scratched his cheek awkwardly.
"Medicine Emperor Han Feng got beaten up, and the man who beat him got away..."
Su Qian: ...?
"Huh?"
"Hahahahaha-beating up scum really does lift the spirits! Though, honestly, he didn't have any personal conflict with me..."
But there was a conflict of interests.
Sun Buxiao wanted to unify the Black-Corner Region, and knocking Han Feng out of the picture was a necessary condition.
So there was no problem!
"Urgh-cough, cough!"
Sun Buxiao laughed as he walked, then suddenly coughed up a mouthful of blood.
"Tsk, this is troublesome..."
He lowered his head, loosened the front of his clothes, and glanced at his chest.
The poison line had grown even more vivid and was closing in on his heart, with less than three centimeters remaining between them.
His legs were already packed with the Netherworld