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Chapter 93: Failing to become a one-man army, the protagonist loses fame and fortune altogether.

“Wait a second…”

Qin Yu was stunned on the spot.

Weren’t these people his mother’s good friends, so why were they about to attack?

“Gentlemen, there must be some misunderstanding… we bear no grudges… don’t you know my mother?” Qin Yu asked in a hurry.

Hearing that, the middle-aged man misunderstood and cursed, “Damn you… on the verge of death yet you still dare threaten us with your mother?”

“Why are you all dazing around? Do it!”

After speaking, the man ordered his companions.

Boom!

In an instant, the seven people behind him erupted with uniform Divine Transformation Realm power.

“This is bad.”

Seeing the scene, Li Shen cried out that things were going wrong.

He quickly blasted a palm strike forward, its force swirling with astral energy, while shouting to the crowd behind him, “Run… get back to Heavenly Martial Academy!”

“Run for it!”

In a flash, everyone turned and fled in panic.

At this point even an idiot could see that the enemies had come for revenge.

Bang!

The moment they turned, a loud bang sounded behind them and Li Shen was sent flying backward.

As he flew, the force shedding from his body carved a trench several meters wide in the ground, and the shockwave hurled the others off their feet.

“Aaaah…”

Miserable screams burst out.

“It’s over, Elder Li was knocked away.”

“I told you we shouldn’t have come out to train, but you all insisted that fortune favors the bold!”

“This is all Qin Yu’s fault; he offended these people… damn, why is he running at the very front?”

Everyone was on the verge of tears.

The training trip had been planned by Qin Yu, the enemies were here for him, yet Qin Yu ran faster than anyone else.

He had clearly treated them as bait.

Even Lin Yueyao gnashed her teeth in anger, “Qin Yu, why are you running so fast… didn’t you say you’d protect us?”

“I…”

Hearing the girl’s voice, Qin Yu’s face flushed red; yet he did not slow down in the slightest.

After all, promises and dignity were worth nothing in the face of life and death.

He still could not understand why the attackers wanted to kill him.

It couldn’t really be someone his mother had offended, could it?

Qin Yu knew his mother well; given her warm and hospitable nature she should not have offended people like this!

Could someone please tell him what was going on?

“Ah… help me…”

At that moment, the disciple at the very back had his head smashed by a single palm before his cry for help faded.

Against a Divine Transformation Realm expert, the group had absolutely no power to resist.

Boom…

Just as they were about to be overtaken, several powerful mystic techniques flew in from ahead.

Some took the form of fist-force, others of sword shadows, all slamming into the pursuers at lightning speed to buy the runners time.

“Look, it’s the Grand Preceptor!”

The surviving disciples looked up and saw Wuyue streak overhead, charging at the seven or eight Divine Transformation Realm experts.

“Great, we’re saved!”

“Get inside the barrier, the Elders are waiting for us!”

No one dared say another word and they rushed into the barrier.

Yet of the dozen disciples who had set out together, only six remained; half had been wiped out in mere moments.

Not long after.

Wuyue reappeared carrying the barely breathing Li Shen.

“Elder Li?”

The crowd hurried over, handing him healing pills.

“Many thanks, Grand Preceptor, for saving us.”

Ignoring his fear, Li Shen spoke with lingering shock, “Had you not acted today, we would surely… surely have perished.”

Hearing this, everyone’s expression turned grave.

“If you want to thank someone, thank Ning Bei!”

“After learning that you were going out to train, Ning Bei told us to prepare an ambush in advance, just in case.”

“We never imagined that, even with preparations, we would still lose so many disciples…”

“Those people are the very force that tried to take our academy some time ago,” Wuyue said calmly. “They have grown smarter, no longer attacking head-on but lying in ambush around us… from now on we truly must not go out training again.”

“Grand Preceptor, I…”

Li Shen’s face became complicated and he blamed himself, “It was my foolishness; knowing the training was dangerous, I still consented to Qin Yu… please punish me, Grand Preceptor.”

Swish, swish, swish…

The very next moment, everyone turned to look at Qin Yu.

“…”

Qin Yu suddenly felt dry-mouthed and restless, as if sitting on pins and needles.

He felt as though he were being treated as the chief culprit.

Before he could speak to ease the tension, the disciples who had endured enough exploded in anger and cursed him.

“Qin Yu, you’re a beast!”

“You promised to protect us if danger arose, that’s why we joined the team… yet you ran faster than anyone!”

“They were here to kill you, weren’t you the one who said you would bear your own consequences? Look at how many fellow students you got killed!”

“I…”

Qin Yu was scolded till his head spun; he wanted to refute them but could not form the words.

After all, he really had run the fastest.

But could they really blame him for that?

In such a moment, who wouldn’t have run for their life?

Not daring to answer the crowd, he whispered a flimsy excuse to the girl, “Yueyao, I ran in front because they wanted to kill me… I was trying to draw their fire for you.”

“Qin Yu, do you take me for a fool?”

Fully clear-headed now, Lin Yueyao rebuked him sharply, “You call running at the front drawing fire? How shameless can you be?”

“That’s not…?”

Hearing the girl speak so loudly, Qin Yu panicked.

The next second the crowd erupted in rage, “You troublemaker, you actually dare claim that running ahead was to draw fire?”

“Grand Preceptor, please punish Qin Yu and give the dead disciples justice!”

“And please reward Senior Brother Ning; if he hadn’t planned ahead, Elder Li and all of us would have been killed by Qin Yu today.”

“…”

Qin Yu truly could not keep up appearances.

He had painstakingly plotted to make a name for himself and secure his place in the academy, so why had it failed in such a way?

Failure alone was bearable.

What he could not accept was that Ning Bei had clearly done nothing, yet he again reaped both fame and fortune.

He simply could not understand!

Was this world revolving around Ning Bei or what?

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh…

Before Wuyue could make up his mind.

Several powerful auras arrived uninvited at that moment.

“Not good, it’s them again.”

The Elders immediately treated it as a great enemy’s arrival and pulled all the disciples to the rear.

Wuyue’s aged eyes narrowed; he slowly rose into the air and faced the figures outside the barrier, “You have disturbed our academy time and again; are you truly not afraid that one day you will play with fire and burn yourselves?”

“Haha.”

The group of experts burst into hearty laughter and said, “If you really had that strength, would you still be cowering inside the academy instead of coming out?”

“Enough.”

The leading man raised his hand to silence the laughter and locked eyes with Wuyue, “We are not here to quarrel; we are here to offer you an opportunity.”

Wuyue frowned but said nothing.

The man’s gaze swept downward and finally settled on Qin Yu; pointing at him he said, “Hand that boy over and henceforth Divine Will Sect and Heavenly Martial Academy will leave each other alone; how about it?”

Qin Yu: “???”

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