"Trash, I'll leave your legs here today! Hahaha."
Zhu Guang laughed wildly, cracking his knuckles, which made a *crackling* sound.
"So you fight with your mouth. I've seen it all."
"You!!"
"Wait until I cripple you, then let's see how tough your mouth is!"
In his eyes, Xin Ci, despite being the top newcomer, was merely a piece of trash at the mid-Yellow Realm. He wouldn't bother with such a weakling if it weren't for Senior Brother Nalan's orders.
He flexed his arm, muscles bulging, and channeled spiritual energy into his fist, grinning broadly.
"That's a mid-grade Spirit Rank martial skill, Mountain Shattering Fist!"
"It seems Zhu Guang has refined his Mountain Shattering Fist to the Great Accomplishment stage."
"This junior brother is in trouble now."
The crowd seemed to have already pictured Xin Ci's defeat, murmuring amongst themselves.
Xin Ci raised an eyebrow, his expressionless face uttering,
"Boring."
Then, the Cross Lock suddenly appeared, entangling Zhu Guang's limbs.
"What?"
Before Zhu Guang could react, he felt his world spin.
With a *thud*, he was slammed heavily onto the ground by the chains.
Gritting his teeth against the pain and trying to get up, Xin Ci stomped on his chest, pinning him back down.
"Speak! Who sent you to cause trouble for me!"
"Never! You're just a newcomer, don't be so arrogant!"
Zhu Guang's mouth was still tough, gritting his teeth and refusing to reveal the mastermind.
"Since you won't speak, then I can't let you live!"
"You can't do that. The Four Symbols Academy expressly forbids killing."
Oh, so there was such a rule.
Seeing Xin Ci hesitate, Zhu Guang thought he wouldn't dare do anything. He started to get cocky. "Newcomers are indeed newcomers, not even knowing this rule. If you compensate me with a hundred thousand points as an apology, I might... Ah!!!"
Before he could finish, Xin Ci delivered another kick, crushing his palm bones, eliciting a heart-wrenching scream.
"You better understand who the cleaver is and who is the fish now!"
"Although I can't kill you, crippling your limbs should not be pursued by the academy."
Saying this, Xin Ci raised his foot, preparing to stomp on his other hand.
"Spare me! I'll talk! I'll talk!!"
Zhu Guang panicked. If his limbs were crippled, what would be the difference between him and a cripple? He wouldn't even be able to stay at the Four Symbols Academy.
He hurriedly said, "It was Senior Brother Nalan who ordered me to do this."
"Nalan Wuchang?"
Hearing the name Nalan, Xin Ci thought of Nalan Wuchang. He quickly realized that guy was seeking revenge through someone else after losing to him.
However, one thing confused him: why did Zhu Guang say "Senior Brother Nalan"?
Someone nearby quickly chimed in, "This junior brother, the Senior Brother Nalan Zhu Guang mentioned is actually Nalan Wuxia from the Azure Dragon Hall."
Nalan Wuxia?
Xin Ci didn't know him. From the name, he should be Nalan Wuchang's elder brother.
But others were different. Upon hearing the name Nalan Wuxia, everyone's faces turned pale with shock.
"Nalan Wuxia! This junior brother is truly finished now."
"I wonder what this junior brother did to provoke Nalan Wuxia."
"Senior Brother Nalan is extremely protective and has a bad temper. Those who provoke him usually don't end up well."
"Moreover, Senior Brother Nalan is a prominent figure on the Heavenly Ranking. This junior brother is likely doomed."
From the surrounding whispers, Xin Ci learned that Nalan Wuxia seemed to be an Earth Realm expert.
Xin Ci indeed found himself in a difficult situation. He was far from being able to deal with an Earth Realm martial artist.
"Hahaha, don't think you can live peacefully at the Four Symbols Academy just because you defeated me. After provoking Senior Brother Nalan, you probably won't even know how to write the word 'death' in a few days."
Zhu Guang laughed wildly on the ground, seemingly forgetting how he was defeated.
"Noisy!"
Xin Ci kicked him directly in the chest, knocking him unconscious.
The surrounding people looked at him with pity and instinctively kept their distance. Now that Xin Ci had provoked Nalan Wuxia, they naturally didn't dare to speak to him, fearing they might get caught in the crossfire.
Xin Ci returned to his room in the separate courtyard. Regardless of how powerful Nalan Wuxia was, he would not yield to anyone. After this incident, Xin Ci believed Nalan Wuxia would not let it go. It was possible that in a few days, another Profound Realm martial artist would come looking for trouble. Of course, the most troublesome would be Nalan Wuxia himself coming to settle the score. Therefore, the only way now was to improve his strength rapidly.
He placed the martial skill he brought from the cultivation technique pavilion by his bedside. However, no matter how Xin Ci looked at it, he couldn't find anything special about this martial skill.
"Why did she choose this particular martial skill for me?"
"The intent of that cultivation technique will is indeed difficult to comprehend," Elder Han said, coming out to examine the martial skill.
Only Mu Qing'er, in the consciousness space, stomped her feet anxiously and complained with a pout, "You're the cultivation technique will, you're the one who's difficult to comprehend. Can't you just flip a few more pages?"
Xin Ci, for some reason, felt an urge to keep flipping through. When he reached the last few pages, he found a black page mixed in. Xin Ci looked at it, feeling as if he had seen this black page somewhere before. He then took out the black page he had obtained from the belly of the Green Scaled Snake from his spatial ring.
The two pages were identical! Suddenly, the two pages exerted a strange attraction, sticking together, and a book appeared out of thin air. The cover radiated three golden characters: "Phoenix Nirvana Art."
Unfortunately, this martial art was not complete, only having the first three levels. However, its power was comparable to a top-grade Spirit Rank martial skill. Cultivating this martial art required undergoing three nirvanas. Each completed nirvana would greatly enhance the user's physical strength and recovery ability. After completing three nirvanas, one could be invincible beneath the King Realm with physical strength alone.
Both Xin Ci and Elder Han were shocked by this transformation. Elder Han was the most surprised, as, in his memory, Mu Qing'er was merely a will of a cultivation technique within Xin Ci's body and should not possess the intelligence to know that black pages could combine to form a cultivation art. Could it be that the strange thing within Xin Ci's body was not a cultivation technique will?