There was no time to think about what was happening. He looked up at the void and shouted angrily, "What are you waiting for? Aren't you going to save me?"
Crack!
High above, the space all around suddenly shattered. Then, one terrifying presence after another surged out of the void like a tide!
The next moment, nine figures surrounded Su Chen in an instant. One of them stared at him and said coldly, "Let him go, and we can spare your life!"
Seeing this, the people around them looked at Su Chen.
This guy's finished!
"Haha... hahaha!"
Just then, Su Chen burst out laughing. "Interesting. How very interesting!"
He truly did find it interesting. Wasn't it amusing to be threatened by people from his own faction?
Everyone frowned.
What did he mean?
Had he gone mad?
Or had he been scared witless?
Su Chen swept his gaze over the nine of them, then clenched his right hand!
Bang!
Song Jingshan's neck was crushed outright!
Everyone stared in disbelief.
He actually had the fucking guts to kill him?
Badass!
"You're courting death!"
Once the nine came to their senses, they flew into a rage. Terrifying presences erupted from their bodies, and they attacked as one!
Heaven and earth suddenly trembled as if a massive earthquake had struck, shaking everyone to the core!
Su Chen remained calm. He looked up at the sky and said helplessly, "Mother, you're making things difficult for me by not coming out!"
Mother?
Everyone frowned at his words, unable to understand what he meant.
"Haha, I just saw you instantly kill a Saint King, so I thought you could beat them. That's why I didn't come out." Just then, a gentle, captivating voice rang out.
At the sound of that voice, the nine instructors seemed to realize something and abruptly stopped.
Then, a terrifying, world-destroying presence came crashing down like a range of mountains toppling over. At that moment, the entire space instantly began to boil!
Boom!
Everyone except Su Chen was crushed to the ground by the terrifying presence.
Everyone was dumbfounded.
Holy shit!
What was happening?
Heaven and earth shattered with a roar, and a woman stepped out. She wore a long dress threaded with gold and possessed peerless beauty, with dark, arched brows, red lips, and white teeth. Her bearing was so elegant and noble that no one could look away.
The woman was none other than Su Chen's mother, Qin An!
"Dean!"
The academy disciples recognized Qin An and cried out in alarm.
At that moment, everyone recalled what Su Chen had said earlier.
Mother?
Holy shit!
Could that man be the dean's child?
Everyone's eyes went wide, and they instantly turned to stone, frozen like statues.
They hadn't expected Su Chen's identity to be so heaven-defying-he was actually the dean's child!
Who could compare to a background like that?
Holy shit!
In the distance, Xia Qing'an clenched her fists, a complicated expression on her face as a wave of regret washed over her.
If... if I'd stood on his side just now, would I have...
At the thought, her hands clenched even tighter.
Regret!
She truly regretted it!
At that moment, unease and fear rose in the hearts of the nine instructors.
How could they not be astute?
The instant Qin An's voice rang out, they knew who Su Chen was.
Qin An looked at Su Chen and smiled faintly. "I didn't expect you to be able to instantly kill a Saint King after just over a decade. Good, very good. As expected of my son!"
At those words, everyone felt as if they'd been struck by five bolts of lightning, frozen on the spot.
They'd still had their doubts before, but now they were utterly convinced. Su Chen really was their dean's child!
Su Chen shrugged. "I just got lucky."
Everyone: "..."
Lucky, my fucking ass!
A Saint King!
That was a Saint King!
Was a little luck enough to defeat one?
What kind of joke was that?
Qin An shook her head with a smile. "Oh, you."
Then he glanced at the nine instructors.
The nine instructors shuddered all over and hurriedly fell to their knees. "D-Dean!" they cried in trembling voices.
Qin An didn't speak to them. Instead, she looked at Su Chen and smiled. "Deal with them as you see fit. Come find me when you're done, and we can have a mother-and-son chat."
Su Chen nodded. "All right!"
Qin An smiled radiantly, then vanished from the spot.
Su Chen looked at the nine instructors.
"Young master!" they hastily cried.
They were trembling all over, their hearts full of apprehension.
Su Chen said calmly, "I'll give you two choices. One, kill yourselves here, and I won't hold your Lineages responsible. Two, put up a fight, and you'll be slaughtered along with your nine generations of kin."
At his words, the nine instructors' faces instantly turned deathly pale, without a trace of blood.
The people around them fell silent after hearing Su Chen's words.
The dean's child was ruthless!
One instructor was unwilling to accept it. "Young master," he said gravely, "if we die, who will teach the academy's disciples?"
Su Chen gave him an indifferent glance and said nothing.
Puchi!
A flash of sword light pierced straight through the instructor's glabella. His eyes went wide, and his breath ceased.
Gulp...
At the sight, everyone swallowed, horrified.
They hadn't expected Su Chen to strike the moment someone disagreed with him.
Waaah...
That was terrifying!
Su Chen called out calmly, "Someone, come here!"
Boom!
A figure immediately flew out from Yingtian Academy's inner cabinet and stopped before Su Chen. It was an old man.
The old man was bent over, his face deeply lined. Even so, the terrifying presence he gave off left everyone present struggling to breathe.
The old man lowered his head and called out respectfully, "Young master!"
Su Chen said evenly, "There's no need for the Lineage behind him to exist anymore."
The old man nodded and turned to leave.
"Wait!"
Su Chen called out.
The old man stopped and turned to look at him.
Su Chen pointed at Song Jingshan's corpse. "There's no need for the Lineage of that man surnamed Song to exist either."
The old man nodded, then disappeared.
By now, everyone nearby was afraid to breathe too loudly, making their presence as inconspicuous as possible. They were terrified of making Su Chen uncomfortable and having the Lineages behind them slaughtered too.
It couldn't be helped!
Su Chen's oppressive presence was too overwhelming!
Su Chen looked at the eight remaining instructors without saying a word.
The eight instructors fell silent. They had originally wanted to beg for mercy, but after seeing what had happened to the one before them...
Alas...
They sighed inwardly, then, their gazes resolute, wasted no more words. They raised their right hands and struck their own glabellas.
Boom!
They directly erased their own divine souls!
In the end, they chose to kill themselves.
At the sight, everyone felt a chill and looked at Su Chen in terror, with respect deep in their eyes.
Standing there, Su Chen murmured, "Should I slaughter the Lineages behind them too, or not?"
Though he spoke very quietly, the people around him still heard, and their faces filled with disbelief.
Holy shit!
They'd already killed themselves, and he still wasn't willing to spare their kin!
He... he was a devil, wasn't he?
At that moment, they resolved to take a detour whenever they saw Su Chen in the future!
Su Chen thought for a moment, then shook his head. "Forget it. They taught here under Mother, after all. Even if they had no achievements to their names, they still put in the hard work."