Martial Arrogance Dragon Soul-Chapter 390 - 372: Not a Single Fighter?

The scorching sun blazed overhead.

Even though it was only early summer, Tianyong City had already entered the sweltering season.

At this moment, outside the Wind-Fire Academy, the sound of a bell echoed incessantly as disciples from the Tai’a Academy gathered outside, challenging those within.

"Disciples of Wind-Fire Academy, what’s the matter? Have you all become turtles, hiding in your shells?"

"Hiding inside, too scared to come out?"

"Didn’t you act all high and mighty the last time on Cloud Nine Mountain? When you killed our Tai’a Academy brethren, why are you all acting like rats, afraid to show your faces now?"

"The Wind-Fire Academy is full of trash, a bunch of weaklings and cowards!"

The voices of these Tai’a Academy disciples were deliberately raised, amplified by spiritual power, reaching into the Wind-Fire Academy.

Although the disciples of the Wind-Fire Academy were scattered about the spacious grounds, they all heard the taunts clearly.

Quickly, these disciples of the Wind-Fire Academy gathered around Qin Qing.

"Senior Qin, are you there?" Feng Wangjing approached the outside of Qin Qing’s courtyard and shouted inside.

"I am! Come on in," Qin Qing replied.

Feng Wangjing entered from outside, followed by several other disciples.

These were the same individuals who had been by Feng Wangjing’s side on Cloud Nine Mountain that day.

"Palace Master! Sister Zhu, Brother Cang!"

Entering, Feng Wangjing only then noticed that Zhu Jirong and Cang Yuan were also present with Qin Qing.

"Hmm!" Zhu Jirong nodded slightly.

Qin Qing also nodded in response.

"Senior Qin, what should we do now?" Feng Wangjing looked back at Qin Qing.

Following the battle at Cloud Nine Mountain, these disciples of the Wind-Fire Academy had all implicitly started looking to Qin Qing as their leader.

Qin Qing turned to face Zhu Jirong.

"This is your affair!" Zhu Jirong shrugged, "We have no right to intervene in a challenge between disciples!"

"If that’s the case, of course, we fight back!" Qin Qing’s brows quirked slightly, "They come knocking on our door, screeching for a fight, so how can there be any reason to shrink back now?"

A fighting spirit began to surge in Qin Qing.

"Good!" Cang Yuan could hardly wait, clenched his teeth, and said, "Those people from Tai’a Academy are too full of themselves. Without a lesson, they really think we’re easy to bully!"

"Hehe..." Zhu Linglong chuckled and said, "You’re right, since they’ve shown up to provoke us, naturally, we can’t act like scared turtles. But I have to remind you, that Luo Zeyi is one of the Tai’a Ten Heroes, now possessing a Seventh Level Golden Core cultivation."

Zhu Linglong’s words rendered Cang Yuan temporarily speechless.

Tai’a Ten Heroes, huh?

Having been in Tai’a Academy before, Cang Yuan was naturally familiar with the fame of the Tai’a Ten Heroes and Luo Zeyi.

So, he was well aware of Luo Zeyi’s prowess.

"What, are you scared?" Qin Qing observed Cang Yuan with a smile.

"Scared? Why should I be? At worst, I can’t win, and I’ll lose my life. If someone comes to our doorstep causing trouble, how can we possibly avoid the fight?" Cang Yuan replied with a grin.

"Exactly, that’s the spirit!" Qin Qing laughed heartily, "In that case... brothers, let’s go! Let’s have a clash with these fellows from Tai’a Academy!"

The main gates of the Wind-Fire Academy opened, and Qin Qing and the others appeared at the entrance.

"Finally opened the door, have you?"

About thirty disciples from Tai’a Academy were present, with one in the forefront wearing a white long robe, his black hair bound behind his head with a white hairband, all of which gave him a somewhat ethereal air.

This person appeared to be Luo Zeyi, one of the Ten Heroes from Tai’a Academy.

Someone standing beside Luo Zeyi pointed at Qin Qing and the others, taunting them, "We thought you trash wouldn’t dare to come out!"

"Hehe..." Qin Qing sneered coldly, "What, are you in such a hurry to die?"

The words of Qin Qing turned the faces of the group of Tai’a Academy disciples frosty, and the person next to Luo Zeyi stared coldly at Qin Qing, saying, "I take it you must be Qin Qing?"

"That’s right, he is Qin Qing!"

Before Qin Qing could respond, Luo Zeyi nodded in acknowledgment.

"I saw you when I was at Tai’a Academy, it was during that time at the Wind-Fire Tower!" Luo Zeyi looked at Qin Qing, shaking his head with a mocking smile, "I really don’t understand, even if Tai’a Academy kicked you out, why on earth would you come to a place like Wind-Fire Academy?"

"After all, you should be well aware of the state Wind-Fire Academy has fallen into."

"Have you come here to spout nonsense?" Qin Qing cut off Luo Zeyi’s words.

Luo Zeyi’s expression turned cold: "Fine! If you’re eager for death, then let’s get started."

"Will it be a one-on-one fight or a brawl?" Qin Qing asked coldly.

"Do we need so many people to deal with trash like you?"

The person beside Luo Zeyi looked down on Qin Qing and Cang Yuan with contempt.

"I’m Ji Caodian! I’ll challenge you first. Who’s up first? Or, you can all come at me together!"

Ji Caodian was exceedingly arrogant, and his presence was clearly displayed in that moment.

Golden Core Sixth Realm!

Although Ji Caodian was only at the Sixth Layer of the Golden Core Realm, Qin Qing sensed a completely different aura from him than from the Tai’a Academy disciple he had slain with his spear on Cloud Nine Mountain, who was also of the Golden Core Sixth Realm.

Just from the aura of these two individuals alone, one could sense a vast difference in power between them!

"I’ll do it!"

Before Qin Qing could speak, Cang Yuan stepped forward.

"Cang Yuan! I know you!" Ji Caodian sneered with a smile, "Come on!"

A black long staff appeared in Ji Caodian’s hands, its surface covered with fish-scale-like patterns.

In an instant, Ji Caodian’s Martial Soul manifested; it was a black bird, more precisely, a Black Wind Sculpture.

Cang Yuan’s Martial Soul also manifested immediately, taking the form of a white Pagoda floating in the void, hovering up and down.

"An Instrument Martial Spirit!"

Qin Qing narrowed his eyes.

It seemed Cang Yuan’s Martial Soul was quite special and likely of a high grade!

"Kill!"

Ji Caodian quickly launched an attack, swinging his long staff in the air and creating a series of black afterimages.

"Yo! Yo!"

At the same time, his Martial Soul, the Black Wing Sculpture, let out a piercing cry, with circles of black ripples undulating outward.

Cang Yuan met him with his three-foot Longsword, his Sword Qi crisscrossing!

Ding ding ding ding...

The crisp sounds of clashing were incessant.

Their exchange was as fast as lightning.

In the time it takes to brew a cup of tea, they had already fought over a hundred rounds.

"Cang Yuan, that’s all you’ve got!"

Suddenly!

Ji Caodian roared and leaped down from a nearby mountain peak, diving towards Cang Yuan.

A few hundred feet of distance closed in the blink of an eye.

"Heaven and Earth Shatter!"

His black Fish-Scale Long Staff crashed down fiercely.

In an instant, the void trembled, and the Spiritual Power imbued with robust True Intention carried a terrifying force as it pressed down on Cang Yuan.

Cang Yuan’s pupils constricted, as the successive exchanges had already put him at a disadvantage.

After all, in terms of Cultivation Realm, he was several small realms below Ji Caodian.

Although Cang Yuan was a genius, Ji Caodian was definitely a disciple of genius caliber as well.

"Swoosh swoosh swoosh!"

Suddenly, from within Cang Yuan’s Martial Soul Pagoda, countless beams of white light shot out.

These white lights turned out to be streams of Sword Qi.

In that moment, the Sword Qi surged, weaving together into a Sword Qi River, rushing upstream to meet Ji Caodian’s earth-shattering staff blow...

"Whoosh!"

Ji Caodian’s staff momentum was overwhelming, seemingly unstoppable.

The Sword Qi River was torn half open from the center, with Sword Qi either dissipating or diverging to both sides.

"Boom!"

The staff came crashing down onto Cang Yuan’s head with brute force.

Cang Yuan counterattacked with his Longsword.

The collision of Spiritual Power released a deafening explosion.

Then Cang Yuan spat out a mouthful of blood and was hurled away.

The disciples from Tai’a Academy were instantly in an uproar.

Ji Caodian’s mouth turned up in a mocking cold smile, but his movements didn’t stop; he stepped forward as swiftly as a black lightning bolt, his Fish-Scale Long Staff continuing to cleave towards Cang Yuan.

Clearly, Ji Caodian intended to finish him off, planning to kill Cang Yuan on the spot.

Just at that moment, two beams of Sword Qi lashed out from the side.

Zhu Linglong had already made her move, positioning herself in front of Cang Yuan.

"Oh? Someone new has entered the fray?"

Ji Caodian dodged Zhu Linglong’s swords and retreated three steps backward, looking at Zhu Linglong with a smirk that wasn’t quite a smile.

Zhu Linglong’s expression was solemn.

Her Cultivation was about the same as Cang Yuan’s, or even slightly lower.

Both were only at the Golden Core Preliminary Stage, while Ji Caodian was in the Golden Core Sixth Layer, securely at the Peak of the Golden Core Middle Stage, just one step away from entering the Golden Core Late Stage...

"How about you both take me on together?" Ji Caodian taunted.

"No need! You are just relying on a few more years of cultivation than us," Zhu Linglong glared at Ji Caodian. "If I were as old as you, I could definitely kill you instantly!"

"Heh, as expected, all you trash from Wind-Fire Academy have left is your big mouths! I also say that if you give me ten years, I could instantly kill Zhu Jirong from your Wind-Fire Academy!" Ji Caodian said with disdain.

"How dare you!"

Zhu Linglong’s face changed, and she shouted as she attacked.

She wielded dual swords, her Sword Qi even sharper than Cang Yuan’s.

Qin Qing stood by, silently watching.

Zhu Linglong’s Sword Qi was sharper, giving an impression of an exposed edge. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

Cang Yuan, on the other hand, was much more restrained.

However, the strength of the two was actually not much different; Cang Yuan might even be slightly stronger.

Thus, the outcome of this duel was already predestined.

Sure enough, it wasn’t long before Zhu Linglong found herself unable to cope.

"Whoosh!"

Ji Caodian struck again with his staff, with a force so massive it seemed like it would split the void.

Zhu Linglong used her swords to block, but she was violently shaken and sent flying back, her arms trembling, her Qi-Blood churning. Although she forcefully suppressed the urge to spit out blood, her internal organs had already suffered a fierce blow.

"Zhu Jirong’s daughter, that’s all you are!"

Ji Caodian looked at Zhu Linglong with a sneer, shaking his head: "I told you, all of you disciples from Wind-Fire Academy are garbage! Not a single one of you can put up a fight!"

"Have you finished spouting your nonsense?"

It was then that Qin Qing stepped forward.

"Heh, what now? Qin Qing... Zhu Linglong and Cang Yuan both lost. Are you not willing to accept defeat?" Ji Caodian looked at Qin Qing mockingly.

In Ji Caodian’s eyes, Qin Qing had just entered the Golden Core Realm, and not even his aura was stable yet. His Cultivation was even less than that of Cang Yuan and Zhu Linglong; having seen them both defeated, what courage did Qin Qing have to step forward?

"Why don’t you try me and find out?" Qin Qing said coldly.