Inside the bamboo building, the commotion gradually subsided.
Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong awkwardly poked their heads out.
Lu Xiao looked at the two of them and calmly said, “Clean up a bit, I’ll take you for a walk around Notting Academy.”
After the farce just now, both little girls were exceptionally well-behaved, gently nodding in response.
A moment later, the three of them finished tidying up and walked out of the bamboo building together.
In the early morning Notting Academy, the thin mist had not yet dispersed.
Lu Xiao walked with a calm and leisurely pace, moving forward slowly with a tall, straight, and steady posture.
Xiao Wu closely followed by his side with light steps, her gaze frequently falling on his profile.
Only Ning Rongrong lagged half a step behind, glancing sideways frequently along the way and curiously sizing up the scenery of this Elementary academy.
Having grown up in the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect since childhood, she was well accustomed to magnificent mansions and exquisitely carved beams and painted pillars.
Yet the Notting Academy before her eyes, though simple and crude with green brick-paved paths and bamboo-and-wood buildings, felt exceptionally novel to her.
Ning Rongrong was dazzled by the sights, murmuring softly, “So an Elementary academy looks like this… It’s completely different from inside the Sect.”
The morning light fell on Lu Xiao’s profile, adding a touch of youthful warmth.
The guilt in her heart had not yet dissipated, and she apologized, “Lu Xiao, I’m really sorry about today’s matter, making you get scolded by Bone Grandpa and causing my dad to misunderstand you.”
Lu Xiao smiled faintly: “It was just an accident; there’s no need to keep dwelling on it.”
Seeing that Lu Xiao truly wasn’t angry, the heavy stone in Ning Rongrong’s heart finally dropped completely, and her eyebrows and eyes were once again dyed with a light, cheerful smile.
She quickened her pace forward, walking side by side with Lu Xiao, constantly looking around and asking questions along the way.
“Is that open space ahead where you usually Cultivate?”
“Are the students of Notting Academy all this hardworking?”
“Are you really going to Heaven Dou Royal Academy in two years?”
She chattered endlessly, completely devoid of the haughtiness of a Sect’s little princess, filled instead with curiosity about new things.
Lu Xiao patiently answered them one by one.
After all, he had stayed in Notting Academy for six years and was extremely familiar with everything here.
Suddenly, a wave of commotion came over.
Lu Xiao looked toward the source of the sound and saw two groups of people deadlocked in confrontation not far away.
One side consisted of working-study students in plain clothing and with lean figures.
Opposite them was a team composed of more than twenty senior students.
The leader wore the uniform of the Notting Elementary Soul Master Academy, with a tall and upright figure, except for some unknown reason, his face was bruised and battered all over!
“Wang Sheng, it’s still not too late for you to regret this.
Hand that kid over!”
Wang Sheng didn’t yield an inch, saying in a deep voice, “Boss Xiao, what Tang San did in this matter wasn’t right!
But I cannot hand him over.”
As the leader of the working-study students, Wang Sheng knew very well that once Tang San was handed over, the unity of the working-study students would completely collapse, leaving them with no foothold in the academy in the future.
Xiao Chenyu laughed out of extreme anger, “This Tang San is simply acting like a complete and utter villain!”
He raised his hand and fiercely pointed at his bruised and battered cheek, “Just yesterday, because of a piece of broken stone, that guy ambushed me under the cover of night, striking with vicious and tricky methods, targeting vital areas like my face and waist!”
The more Xiao Chenyu spoke, the angrier he became, “Daring to do it but not daring to admit it, playing dirty tricks and launching sneak attacks behind people’s backs!
If this kind of hiding, cowardly, and hypocritical behavior isn’t being a villain, what is it?”
Xiao Chenyu swept a cold gaze across the entire crowd, looked again at the solemn-faced Wang Sheng, and pressed harshly, “Wang Sheng, I’ll ask you one last time, are you handing him over or not?”
“If you protect such an insidious villain today, you are making an enemy of all us senior students!
From now on, you working-study students shouldn’t even think about cultivating peacefully in Notting Academy!”
Wang Sheng clenched his teeth tightly, his fists balled up, and his expression grew increasingly ugly, yet he still stubbornly blocked the front, refusing to yield even a fraction.
On the outer fringe of the crowd, Ning Rongrong watched in a slight daze, softly pulling on Lu Xiao’s sleeve with a face full of confusion: “Lu Xiao, who is Tang San?
Did he really secretly hit someone?”
Lu Xiao’s gaze was calm as he calmly said: “You’ll know once you watch!”
Seeing that Wang Sheng was impervious to reason, the anger deep within Xiao Chenyu’s heart completely exploded.
He sneered, his tone extremely mocking and scathing, and cursed loudly: “When all is said and done, he’s just a good student taught by that expelled trash!”
“Yu Xiaogang!
Claiming to be some kind of invincible theoretical Master!
During his tenure, he hasn’t taught a single student.
I think he’s just trash seeking fame and praise!”
“He himself is a trash Martial Soul, without the slightest bit of solid ability, and only knows how to spew empty grand principles!
The disciples he teaches are all despicable villains who pull sneak attacks behind people’s backs and dare not take responsibility for what they do!”
Amidst the watching crowd, a thin figure suddenly trembled.
Tang San, who had been hiding in the back of the crowd and had not shown his face, had pupils pitch-black and filled with killing intent.
His right hand tapped onto the Twenty Four Moonlit Bridges at his waist!
With a slight movement of his mind, three pitch-black bone-piercing nails, as thin as a pinky finger, quietly landed between his fingertips.
The bone-piercing nails were polished smooth throughout, their bodies quenched with a freezing poison, specifically designed to break the Physical Body and pierce through tendons and bones!
Once they entered the body, they could tear the Meridians and severely damage the internal organs, making them extremely dangerous.
“What kind of bullshit Master, he’s simply misleading people’s children!
Accomplishing nothing his entire life, the students he teaches are also completely insidious and cunning generations!
Like master, like disciple, truly a homologous lineage of cowardice and despicableness!”
The more Xiao Chenyu cursed, the uglier his words became, spitting everywhere with a ferocious expression.
You already have a way to die!
At this moment, Tang San was filled with an icy killing intent.
Towards Xiao Chenyu, who had repeatedly humiliated his revered teacher, he had already developed the intent to kill.
Without the slightest hesitation, Tang San abruptly exerted force with his fingertips and lightly shook his wrist!
Swish!
Swish!
Swish!
Three fierce sounds of breaking through the air suddenly exploded, short and piercing, so fast that they were hard for the naked eye to discern!
Three pitch-black cold gleams transformed into three afterimages, heading straight for the vital areas of Xiao Chenyu’s body in a triangular formation!
One nail locked onto the heart and lungs, one nail pierced the throat, and one nail broke the Dantian!
Every move was fatal, every strike a definitive kill!
Tang San’s move was extremely covert; across the entire scene, only Lu Xiao captured the movement.
Xiao Chenyu’s pupils abruptly contracted, and the fear of death instantly swept over his entire body.
He had no way to dodge and was unable to block it!
He could only watch helplessly as the three life-claiming cold gleams rapidly approached, and the dense shadow of death completely enveloped him.
“No—!”
All the watching students in the audience were scared out of their wits by the sudden attack, everyone’s bodies stiffened, their breathing stopped abruptly, and their faces were filled with disbelief.
Wang Sheng’s face in the working-study student team turned pale white, and he subconsciously wanted to step forward to stop it, but it was already too late.
It’s over!
Xiao Chenyu’s father was the lord of Notting City after all; once he died, they working-study students definitely wouldn’t survive either!
“Sigh!”
At the critical moment, a sigh rang out.
At the same time, three pebbles flew out, their force not great yet precisely landing on top of the three high-speed flying bone-piercing nails.
Clang!
Clang!
Clang!
Three crisp metal vibrating sounds rang out one after another.
The three bone-piercing nails that had originally been unstoppable and heading straight for the vital areas instantly had their trajectories deflected by the shock.
The three black lights grazed past the skin of Xiao Chenyu’s neck, chest, and Dantian, embedding themselves deeply into the bluestone slab ground behind him.
The hard bluestone ground instantly cracked with fine spiderweb patterns, the bone-piercing nails sinking three points into the stone and firmly embedding themselves in the ground.
Xiao Chenyu’s whole body went soft, collapsing to the ground, his legs trembling violently out of control, the clothes on his back completely soaked through with cold sweat, and his complexion as pale as paper.
Just a fraction away, and it would have been three nails taking his life, perishing right on the spot!