131: Lu Chen is injured, considering the future.

As the Sword Qi swept across the ground, the moss on the bluestone slabs suddenly grew wildly into Seal Script, each character twisting and writhing.

The chasing students suddenly froze, and the scrolls in their hands shot out ink lines that entangled the two's ankles.

Suddenly, a blast of flame struck from afar.

"Stop playing tricks!" Accompanied by Ignis's voice, the flame demon greatsword sliced through the curtain of rain.

Ignis charged forward, riding a Xiezhi manifested from flames.

Today, she was rarely wearing the academy uniform, her skirt reaching her thighs and revealing her skin covered in flame demon runes.

The hot-tempered girl looked at the group and said crossly, "Leave these nerds to me!"

Lu Chen pressed down on her wrist and said:

"Don't use fire! You'll burn them all to death in an instant; they're just being influenced by some spiritual energy."

But Lu Chen's warning was too late. The moment the flames touched the ink, the entire tree-lined avenue suddenly turned into a Movable Type Printing plate, with countless lead characters bulging from the asphalt road surface.

Morning Dew's Holy Light swept over the 'Water' radical of 'Shuowen Jiezi', and a heavy downpour immediately began within a hundred-meter radius.

"Use this!" Shelley's voice came from the top floor of the library.

The Arctic Princess controlled the ice Phoenix to dive down, its tail feathers scattering thousands of ice crystals.

Each ice crystal was engraved with Fanqie phonetic notation from 'Guangyun', precisely freezing the rampaging lead characters.

Sun Feifei immediately threw out the five elements flags; the moment the wood flag was inserted into the ground, it catalyzed a peach forest of suppression runes.

Ning Xiwei finally appeared, the book of the dead floating in the center of the ink tide. "By the souls of the ancients, suppress the chaos of this world!"

Seventy-two phantoms stepped out from the pages; they were actually the heroic spirits of great calligraphy masters from past generations.

Wang Xizhi's remnant soul brandished his brush and wrote the character 'Quiet', and the rampaging ink lines immediately became as gentle as a stream.

Lu Chen took the opportunity to bite his fingertip and drew a Hetu formation in the Void Realm. "Trace back to the source, reveal!"

A surveillance image of the dissection room emerged within the blood formation—those walking corpses were moving toward the third basement level of the library, and the 'Huangdi Neijing' on their skin had turned into the Alchemy chapter of 'Baopuzi'.

Ancient texts, regardless of the era, as long as they possessed the power of civilization themselves,

Were all being influenced by the residual power sent down by the Heavenly Dao.

"Work's done! Little Skeleton."

Ignis shouldered her greatsword and ran to Lu Chen's side, smiling pleasingly to curry favor.

---

In the afternoon.

Inside an academy office.

"So this is the Heavenly Dao's secondary pollution of civilization carriers?" Sun Feifei pushed up her glasses, which reflected the anomalies within the ancient book restoration room.

Pine Smoke Ink was writing automatically on Xuan Paper, each character devouring the paper fibers.

Ignis toyed with a captured Wolf-hair Brush, her flame demon power burning the tip to ashes. "If you ask me, we should just burn all the ancient books..."

Before she could finish, the bronze marriage contract Lu Chen was toying with fell to the ground.

When Ning Xiwei reached out to pick it up, the characters on the marriage contract suddenly crawled onto her wrist.

"Don't move!" Lu Chen squeezed her wrist, and the tianwen sword accidentally cut his fingertip.

A drop of blood mixed with gold powder fell onto the marriage contract, and the phantom of the woman from the bronze coffin actually emerged.

There was also the lingering voice of a woman.

"Afang is here, all evils disperse!"

The ink pollution receded at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Shelley looked out the window. "Everyone, look at the playground!"

Everyone looked over and saw an ink tide swallowing the academy's barrier.

Morning Dew unfolded her holy codex and said softly, "Our academy has the most texts; they are all ancient texts from Huaxia, some even from the distant Upper Ancient era 100,000 years ago. This seems to be... the Ink Pond recorded in 'Hainei Shizhou Ji'!"

Lu Chen had already smiled helplessly.

Fine!

The Heavenly Dao really knows how to cause trouble for me to buy itself some time!

"Would you all be willing to join me in a crazy act?"

Without waiting for the girls' answer, Lu Chen leaped into the ink tide.

The tianwen sword danced in the trajectory of the 'Lanting Xu', each strike bringing forth brilliant golden inscriptions:

Brush moves like dragons and snakes, startling wind and rain,

Ink stains the universe, disrupting Yin and Yang.

Let the blue blade serve as an iron brush,

To rewrite the very first page of heaven and earth!

The ink waves melted like snow upon meeting the sword light, revealing a bronze floor below covered in Cuneiform.

Ning Xiwei's book of the dead automatically flipped to a new page.

She watched these scenes reflected like ink wash paintings, feeling as if she had seen them somewhere before!

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration appeared in her eyes, and she cried out:

"This is... the ruins of ancient Tianyong City?"

Ignis flared with Battle Intent and said:

"I don't care what city it is, let's fight first!"

The fire Dragon cleaved by the flame demon sword was instead absorbed by the bronze floor, which fed back a red beam of light with ten times the energy.

Shelley immediately built an ice wall, and Morning Dew's Holy Light followed closely to reinforce the defense.

"Use this!" Sun Feifei threw out Five Emperor Coins, which formed King Wen's Eight Trigrams in the air.

Lu Chen understood and flicked the copper coins with his sword tip toward the eight directions, putting the power he had learned from devouring the texts into immediate practice!

"Qian-Heaven Kun-Earth, Xun-Wind Zhen-Thunder — Open!" Lu Chen shouted loudly.

The bronze floor flipped over in response, revealing a vast star map below.

The ink tide suddenly changed direction, writing out the chapters of 'Ganshi Xingjing' within the star map.

Old Wu's voice came from afar at this moment, "Everyone, don't let the ink pollute the star map!"

The Nightwatcher rushed over, holding a bronze lamp that contained his magic power.

---

Three hours later, Lu Chen lay on the infirmary bed with a bitter smile.

The aroma of grilled squid wafted in from outside the window, mixed with the sound of Ignis bargaining with the stall owner.

Morning Dew was using Holy Light to repair the crack on his chest, saying softly:

"Little Skele... Brother Chen's ribs... why are they no longer white bone?"

"Hmm, there are signs of Divine Bone, though I don't know why."

The door was suddenly burst open, and Ning Xiwei stumbled in holding a pile of ancient books. "I found it! The 'Afang' recorded in the bronze marriage contract was the Book Keeper of ancient Tianyong City."

She flipped open 'Shiyi Ji' and pointed to an illustration: a woman from a bronze coffin was teaching the early people to read, with a bone-white Great Protector standing behind her.

Shelley leaned against the doorframe holding an iced milk tea. "The Dean has announced that to celebrate resolving the crisis, an academy celebration will be held starting tomorrow."

She flicked her finger to condense an ice crystal invitation. "Our newly formed Undead Magic Research Association has been assigned to run a ghost house."

Ignis rushed in chewing on grilled squid and mumbled:

"Feifei and I's Cultivation Technology Club is going to host a flying sword experience pavilion!"

She walked over and took Lu Chen's medical record. "The casualty will be responsible for watching the stall at the Ancient Book Restoration Club."

Morning Dew weakly raised her hand: "That... I can represent the Holy Mother Church to run a Holy Light-themed tea house... and incidentally, I want to recruit some... nuns for my sect!"

Lu Chen looked at the noisy girls, and the bronze marriage contract in his hand grew slightly warm.

Ning Xiwei also looked at Lu Chen with a hint of jealousy.

The current Little Skeleton was just too popular.

Lu Chen looked out at the darkening sky, vaguely seeing a blood-colored vertical pupil flash and vanish within the clouds.

The current Lu Chen was already about to enter the King rank.

Now, he intended to use this period of time.

To rapidly increase his strength.

Thereby facing an even greater challenge.

It wasn't that time waited for no one.

But he knew very well that the Heavenly Dao was already coveting this world.

The Heavenly Eye had returned.

It would inevitably make the Heavenly Dao come for him even more fiercely.

And for this world!