Chapter 57
Chapter 57
Mingjiang No. 7 Special School.
Cao Yi, Li Dao, Zuo Yuanshan, Sun Xingsheng, and the others arrived together.
“You have all traveled a long way,” Shi Xuan said. “The Water God and her teacher have been waiting for some time. Please follow me.”
Cao Yi chuckled. “Deputy Director Shi, are you saying that all of us should go and meet him?”
“What makes him worthy?”
His voice abruptly hardened. A shadow suddenly emerged behind him, separated itself from his body, and lunged at Shi Xuan!
He attacked without warning.
But Shi Xuan possessed the Sundial of Insight and anticipated Cao Yi’s move. He dodged in a flash.
At the same time, a stone needle emerged from the crown of his head.
“Cao Yi, what do you think you’re doing?” Shi Xuan roared.
Cao Yi ignored the question.
“Everyone, this school is probably filled with traps. We don’t need to follow their script. We’ll crush straight through and kill them all!”
As he spoke, his hand tightened secretly around the Burial Shroud hidden inside his wide sleeve.
He had to drive the situation forward quickly and make the anomaly wielders on both sides fight.
During a battle, both sides would leak vast amounts of anomalous aura. The Burial Shroud would capture those auras on its own. Once the Burial Shroud was set alight, every anomaly wielder and anomaly whose aura had been recorded would burn to death with it.
The others immediately joined him.
“Shi! You killed my third brother! Today, you’ll pay with your life!”
Zuo Yuanshan roared. Beside him, Zuo Qingyun opened the urn in his hands by a sliver.
Zuo Qingyun’s grandfather was inside. The old man had become an S-class anomaly. A freezing aura poured from the gap, making everyone present shiver!
“He’s right. Now that we’re here, we should seize the initiative!”
Behind Li Dao, the deathly pale Li Buhai stepped forward. A smile uglier than a sob spread across his face as his gaze swept through the campus.
Blood began seeping from every place his eyes touched. The sight was horrifying.
Sun Xingsheng had planned to stand back and watch, but even he had to reveal part of his power now. Sharp blades suddenly grew from his shoulders and beneath his arms.
This was his anomalous entity, and it possessed an exceptionally strange ability. Once Sun Xingsheng locked onto a target, bizarre long blades would grow inside that person’s body and kill them.
Sun Xingsheng himself would remain unharmed.
In an instant, the five S-class combatants, the numerous A-class anomaly wielders, and their anomalous entities all erupted with dense anomalous auras.
“Stop!”
Xu Changjiang, Leng Qingyan, and the others were furious and tried to resist. But the difference in strength was too great. The anomalous auras alone nearly suffocated them.
“Get back!”
Shi Xuan roared. He would not let them throw their lives away. At the same time, an eerie red light erupted from the Sundial of Insight and burned toward Cao Yi and the others.
But his anomalous entity specialized in insight and observation. Shi Xuan usually commanded from the heart of a battlefield; direct confrontation was not his strength.
Cao Yi’s shadow avoided the red light and raced closer along the ground. Then it struck Shi Xuan’s shadow with one palm.
Shi Xuan spat out a mouthful of blood and stumbled back several steps. The stone needle above his head trembled violently, while the red light from the sundial on his chest faded.
“The famous Deputy Director Shi is no more impressive than this,” Cao Yi mocked, an ugly smile on his aged face.
“The Water God and her teacher await my arrival. Such an imperious challenge…”
“So why are they both hiding like cowards now? Are they afraid to come out?”
Cao Yi swept his gaze around the grounds, stepped forward, and raised his voice.
“I’ll count to three. If that bitch of a Water God and her worthless teacher don’t show themselves, I’ll slaughter every last one of you first!”
Cao Yi suspected that traps had been laid inside the school, so he intended to capture Shi Xuan and the others as hostages before venturing any farther.
Now he was hurling insults to provoke his true opponents into appearing.
That way, even if the Water God anomaly had made preparations in secret, she would have no choice but to reveal herself. The initiative would return to their hands.
The others watched their surroundings coldly. Even now, none of them could sense Rain’s presence.
…
At the same time, outside the auditorium.
“A speech?”
Nightmare had arrived. He looked no different from an ordinary middle-aged man, but there was nothing beneath his skin except shadow. He possessed no physical body at all.
“Let’s see just what kind of creature you really are!”
He pushed the door open and walked inside.
The auditorium was empty aside from a few students clearing away miscellaneous items. At the center of the stage, Meng Mo held the Dreamcatcher with his eyes closed, deep in thought.
“Hey! Where’s your teacher? Tell him to come see me!”
Nightmare shouted at Lin Xiaoyu.
Lin Xiaoyu raised her head and replied earnestly,
“First, my name isn’t ‘Hey.’ It’s Lin Xiaoyu.”
“Second, Sir told Big Sister Bai Lu and me to maintain order, so don’t shout.”
Nightmare laughed in fury.
Ever since he arrived at this school, Qin Shiyu had pushed him around, Li Que had left him cooling his heels, and his own son had treated him with contempt. And now even a little girl dared speak to him like this?!
“Do you have any idea who you’re talking to?”
Shadows suddenly gathered around Nightmare. His eyes turned glacial.
If Li Que refused to appear, he would start fighting and force the man out.
Lin Xiaoyu ignored him and looked at Bai Lu instead.
“Big Sister Bai Lu… if someone causes trouble, how are we supposed to maintain order?”
Bai Lu raised a small mirror and studied her reflection.
“Generally speaking, dead anomalies don’t cause trouble. Just kill him.”
“Huh?” Lin Xiaoyu exclaimed.
He was Meng Mo’s father, after all.
“If you don’t mind the effort, you could also use your divine authority to suppress him,” Bai Lu said. “Mm… That would be better. Sir prepared today’s event for Meng Mo. If you kill his father, we won’t be able to use him.”
Lin Xiaoyu understood and nodded.
“All right. Then I’ll suppress everyone who causes trouble and make them behave and cooperate with Meng Mo!”
Listening to their conversation, Nightmare grew even more furious.
The girl with the mirror actually wanted to kill him? And from the sound of things, Meng Mo was the only reason she had decided to spare his life?
“What the hell do you think you are?”
He exploded with rage. In an instant, more than half the auditorium was swallowed by shadows surging toward Bai Lu and Lin Xiaoyu.
Lin Xiaoyu merely raised her eyes and looked at him.
Her irises suddenly turned pale gold.
Dragon eyes.
The anomalous entity within the red cord on her wrist awakened. A scarlet dragon phantom representing the Water God’s Authority appeared in an instant, and a dragon’s roar thundered through the room!
Nightmare’s shadows began to shake violently. They resembled a black curtain stretched so thin that the slightest touch would tear it apart.
“What? SS-class?!”
Nightmare stared at Lin Xiaoyu in utter shock, as though he were looking at some impossible monster.
…
At that moment.
“Deputy Director Shi, it appears you’re nothing more than a disposable pawn in someone else’s game,” Cao Yi sneered.
Even with Shi Xuan and the others being threatened with death, the Water God and her teacher had yet to appear.
Cao Yi decided to go one step further and slaughter them all on the spot.
“In that case, die!”
His shadow had already reached Shi Xuan and was about to close a hand around his throat.
As an S-class anomaly wielder, Cao Yi possessed a highly unusual ability. His shadow could attack another person’s shadow, and the damage would be inflicted directly on that person’s body.
But at that very moment-
Boom!
Thunder suddenly rolled across the sky.
Every anomaly wielder present sensed something and looked up.
Dark clouds had blanketed the entire sky above the city.
A scarlet dragon phantom seemed to be swimming through the clouds, breathing lightning and commanding cloud and rain!
Within moments, a torrential downpour began.
“Something’s wrong… This rain is suppressing my anomalous aura!”
An A-class anomaly wielder from the Cao family suddenly cried out. As the rain drenched him, the blue corpse-fur on his hands rapidly receded. His anomalous entity could no longer exert its power!
“My anomalous entity is being affected too! How is this possible?”
“Something’s wrong with the rain!”
“What kind of rain is this?”
Everyone cried out in shock. Their anomalous entities seemed to have been sealed in an instant, leaving their powers completely inaccessible.
“This is… the power of the Water God’s Authority!” Sun Xingsheng exclaimed, disbelief written across his face.
“But Rain only obtained the Water God’s Authority a few days ago! She’s just an S-class anomaly. There’s no way she could unleash divine authority this powerful!”
Even Sun Xingsheng, a mighty S-class anomaly wielder, was affected. The suppression had reduced him almost to an ordinary man.
It made no sense!
The Water God’s Authority contained rule-level power, but how much of it could be unleashed depended on its wielder.
Rain had possessed it for too little time, and her own strength remained limited. She should not have been this powerful!
In fact, every major faction had been in such a hurry precisely because they wanted to seize this narrow window. If they gave Rain time to grow, no one would be capable of challenging her in the future.
But now… Rain’s strength had surpassed all their expectations.
“She’s SS-class!”
Yin Rumei spoke at the perfect moment, her expression graver than ever.
Her declaration left everyone even more stunned.
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