276: Chapter 276 A Heart-wrenching Love Story from Mount Shu!

"Not good! It's the Divine Phoenix Undying Fire! Retreat quickly!!!"

Yan Qinghuan felt that destructive high temperature, and his face turned deathly pale instantly. Even though he was blind, at this moment, his eye sockets stung from being scorched by the blinding firelight.

He frantically crushed the white jade chess piece in his hand, which was meant for life-saving, and a thick Xuanwu formation instantly enveloped him!

However, while he had reacted in time, the group of Shushan Dao-Wu Academy team members under his command simply couldn't dodge in time!

That was an attack fueled by the rage of an SSS-rank Supernatural Ability user!

"Ah!"

"Help!"

Under this terrifying high temperature capable of melting steel, the five elite members of Shushan Dao-Wu Academy didn't even have the chance to draw their weapons!

Only a series of dense, crisp "crack, crack" sounds were heard!

The [Absolute Defense Teleportation Jade Talismans] they carried on them instantly sensed the fatal danger and all shattered automatically in unison!

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Five beams of white light shot up into the sky one after another!

The team from Shushan Dao-Wu Academy, which had just been full of momentum and ready to activate "Hunting Mode" to sweep the secret realm, was reduced to a lone commander in less than three seconds by this sudden divine fire from the sky, scorched away with extreme cruelty!

As the golden flames filling the sky gradually dissipated, the surrounding towering trees had all turned into charred remains.

At the scene, only one person remained.

The captain of the Shushan Dao-Wu Academy first team, the blind genius Yan Qinghuan.

At this moment, where was the elegance he had just displayed, with his feather fan and silk kerchief, pointing out the landscape?

His spotless white robe had been burned into tatters, his face was covered in soot, and the iconic white silk blindfold covering his eyes was charred more than halfway, hanging off the bridge of his nose in an extremely disheveled manner.

Yan Qinghuan panted heavily, his whole body trembling uncontrollably.

His mentality had collapsed.

Completely collapsed!

The perfect opening tactic they had planned for a whole half-month, his pride-and-joy absolute advantage of sticking together!

Just because of two noobs who stepped on the teleportation array randomly, and a crazy woman who emerged from the formation for no reason...

In less than half an hour from the start, they were forcibly team-wiped by an absurdly large-scale damage attack?!

Were they just bunched up to be beaten?!

"Qin! Zhuo!!!"

Yan Qinghuan gritted his teeth, the veins on his forehead bulging like earthworms. He recognized the person who had arrived by her aura and let out a roar of extreme grief and indignation:

"What kind of madness are you suffering from, you crazy woman?! My Shushan Dao-Wu Academy has no grudges with your Imperial Capital Martial Arts University, so why did you strike such a lethal blow? What exactly is your meaning?!"

Qin Zhuo, having just released her ultimate move, stood in the center of the scorched earth and caught her breath slightly.

She looked closely, but where were the Gou Fugui with gold-rimmed glasses? Where were the people from Magic City Martial Arts University?

On the ground, there was only a blackened Yan Qinghuan, burned to look like a beggar, and the five lingering white beams of light in the air.

"Damn... hit the wrong person?"

Qin Zhuo, behind her mask, flashed a look of extremely rare embarrassment.

She had indeed been blinded by rage just now, following the spatial fluctuations to chase after them, thinking she had wiped out the base of Magic City Martial Arts University. She hadn't expected that she had accidentally wiped out the camp of Shushan Dao-Wu Academy instead!

This was truly a bit unreasonable on her part.

Qin Zhuo opened her mouth, originally wanting to find a random excuse to brush it off, or just apologize and call it a day.

However.

Hearing Yan Qinghuan's tone, which was mixed with anger, questioning, and even a hint of condescending reprimand.

Qin Zhuo's temper—already on edge from being wronged in the men's restroom last night and provoked by keyboard warriors in person today—was ignited with a "boom" like dry firewood doused in gasoline!

Apologize?

This young lady has suffered so many grievances today, not even daring to show her face, so why should I have to take your crap as a blind man?!

Qin Zhuo suddenly raised her head, and in those beautiful eyes hidden behind sunglasses, untamable golden flames burned once again.

Not only did she not feel the slightest bit of guilt, but she also sneered in an extremely overbearing and unreasonable manner:

"What do you mean, 'what's going on'?!"

Qin Zhuo pointed at Yan Qinghuan's nose and retorted with full firepower:

"This is a Battle Royale! A preliminary round! Not the backyard of your Shushan Dao-Wu Academy!"

"Do the rules say I can't hit you people from Shushan Dao-Wu Academy? This young lady just doesn't like the looks of you guys today, and I just wanted to burn you—do you have a problem with that?!"

"You... you are simply unreasonable!!!"

Yan Qinghuan was so angered by Qin Zhuo's extremely hooligan-like and overbearing remarks that he almost coughed up blood. As a dignified formation master with high cultivation, when had he ever encountered such a shrew who turns the tables and blames the victim?!

"Good! A good Imperial Capital Martial Arts University! A good peerless Divine Phoenix!"

Yan Qinghuan ripped off the charred half of the white silk from his face, revealing those eyes that lacked focus but radiated a chilling killing intent. The last white jade chess piece in his hand was crushed to powder by him:

"Since you insist on seeking death, then even if I, Yan Qinghuan, have to risk my life today, I will let you know that the Dao of Formations of my Shushan Martial Academy is absolutely not something that a crazy woman like you can trample upon at will!"

"Innate Qimen, Eight Gates Transport! Kill for me!"

"You think I'm afraid of you?! Today, this young lady will burn your lousy formation disk to nothing!"

Qin Zhuo was not intimidated in the slightest, and the Divine Phoenix Undying Fire soared into the sky once again!

Rumble!!! Two top-tier team captains, blinded by rage and various "bizarre misunderstandings," launched an earth-shattering ultimate melee battle in this innocent primeval forest!

"Rumble!!!"

Several kilometers behind them, the deafening explosions and the pure golden firelight shooting into the sky illuminated half the sky of that primeval forest as if it were daylight.

At this moment, Gou Fugui and Xiang Batian, who had long since crawled and scrambled out of the core of the explosion, were hiding behind a towering mound, gasping for breath.

Both were covered in dust, and their Magic City Martial Arts University black-and-gold uniforms were stained with mud and grass clippings.

Gou Fugui adjusted his gold-rimmed glasses, which had slid to the bridge of his nose, and poked half his head out to look at the Shushan Dao-Wu Academy camp in the distance, which had completely turned into scorched earth, where one could even vaguely hear Yan Qinghuan's grieving and indignant roars.

At this moment, his eye sockets actually... turned red, very abruptly!

"Batian..."

Gou Fugui's voice was filled with a very heavy nasal tone. He took off his glasses, wiped a nonexistent tear from the corner of his eye with his extremely dirty cuff, and his tone was full of emotion:

"Did you see that? Did you hear that?"

"This is the stature of a top school in Great Xia! This is the golden, noble character of martial arts geniuses!"

Xiang Batian rubbed his head, looking completely bewildered:

"Fugui... what exactly are you moved by? Weren't they wiped out by that female bandit?"

"What the hell do you know!"

Gou Fugui sniffled, his merchant-like brain completing a hilariously ridiculous logical loop at this moment. He slapped his thigh in distress:

"You think that was a coincidence?! You think that teleportation array was placed there randomly?!"

Gou Fugui pointed at the sea of fire and began his self-convincing rant with great emotion:

"That was the brothers from Shushan Dao-Wu Academy, specifically leaving behind a lifeline to save weak contestants like us in this cruel secret realm!"

"What moves me even more is that not only did they lay out the escape formation for us, but at the critical moment when that female devil was chasing us down, they stood up without hesitation!"

"They used the lives of their entire team, at the tragic cost of being burned into white light, to forcibly hold back that terrifying SSS-rank female devil for us two!!!"