Chapter 369: Chapter 367: The Melody of Darkness Begins!
Shocking! A male teacher on campus actually did this to an unconscious female student in the wild, with the assistance of animals...!
...Le Yuxin gently hooked Ming Yueyan’s collar and softly placed her on the back of a ferocious jackal.
The ferocious jackal was over a meter long, just enough for Ming Yueyan to lie down. It grumbled, clearly displeased with its job as a makeshift cushion, especially since it wasn’t the strong red-haired upright ape but a weak, delicate-skinned upright ape lying on it—"I’m meant for the strong!"
You must know that their obedience to the red-haired person was not just due to their master’s task, but more importantly, because the red-haired person had the power to subdue them. As a naturally bred fighting species, they possessed a precise method of judging the strength of other creatures, and their master had also said that if the red-haired person were ordinary, they would find a chance to devour him.
However, the red-haired person was not only strong but also chased away other strong upright apes one by one, which is why their tails wagged so happily.
The two leopard cats, seeing this, made ’huff huff’ sounds, mocking it for being the ride of a weakling. One even tapped the jackal’s head with its paw; the jackal wanted to bite back but couldn’t move since it had a weak upright ape on its back, so it could only retract its head and endure peacefully.
The leopard cats surrounded the jackal, tails swaying, making grinding and ’huff’ noises, occasionally bumping the jackal’s head, with meanings akin to ’Haha, you fool’, ’Come hit me if you dare’, ’Hey, I hit you’, ’Can’t do anything about it, can you?’
Le Yuxin couldn’t understand the animals’ open and covert battles; instead, he found their playful antics rather endearing. He gazed at the unconscious Ming Yueyan, lost in thought.
Without needing to ask, Le Yuxin knew who her sword sheath was and was aware of their cheating method—the lack of tail-wagging begging from the jackal and leopard cats was proof she wasn’t Feng Lv’s master.
Thus, Ming Yueyan’s sword sheath must be ’that sword sheath’ who hadn’t appeared yet and hadn’t collaborated with Le Yuxin, and indeed deserved not to cooperate.
If Le Yuxin guessed correctly, the ’Ming Yueyan’ currently taking the exam in the test room was actually ’that sword sheath’ in disguise.
Though he didn’t know how similar the original and counterfeit were, it was at least convincing enough to fool the invigilator and Yan Tong, which was frightening—Ming Yueyan and ’that sword sheath’ either naturally looked alike, making impersonation easy, or ’that sword sheath’ possessed special disguise skills to become anyone.
If it were the latter, even if ’that sword sheath’ weren’t strong, the risk was immense. In fact, among the numerous sword sheaths, Le Yuxin feared neither the crazed-face Niruo nor the Instant Annihilator ’Yin’ the most, but Cai Nu.
In the sword-seeking contest, some sword sheaths openly appeared like Qin Le Yin, Mie Tang Ya, Niruo, etc., while others never showed up like ’Yin’, ’Feng Lv’, ’that sword sheath’. Cai Nu originally stayed hidden, but when she acted, even covering her face seemed unnecessary, and she wasn’t forgettable at a glance; rather, she seemed like a model worthy of appearing on the cover of Youth Daily—whether in appearance or attire, Cai Nu strongly hit everyone’s xp system.
If not for his xp system being thoroughly penetrated by the Qing Lan virus, coupled with the Ice Blood Physique naturally suppressing perverse impulses, Le Yuxin would definitely have wanted to challenge Cai Nu in a battle of three hundred rounds.
Yet such a striking beauty had no news in the Imperial Academy, suggesting she either stayed hidden or had another daily skin.
Enemies like her, able to change skins, were nearly all masters of stealth, and Le Yuxin feared such adversaries the most, for Yin Yin Yin was once one of them.
Yin Yin Yin’s easiest ’deliver the order to the door’ incident involved disguising as a woman in a wig, sneaking into a mansion, and assassinating the master when he went to the toilet—as one squatted and exerted effort halfway through defecation, a beautiful woman burst in, the lights went out, and the blade struck—what could one do? What could one do with the excrement?
Shining Martial Artists were strong in offense and weak in defense; dying from a bullet had become the most popular dead end among Peak of Perfection realm martial pillars for decades. Sword sheaths with built-in identity-changing systems naturally aroused Le Yuxin’s apprehension.
Others weren’t afraid because they hadn’t witnessed someone drowning in their excrement with a look of utter despair just before dying.
Cai Nu was manageable; at least her combat persona was probably fixed, but ’that sword sheath’ could impersonate others, posing too significant a threat...
Perhaps it’s best to have them exit the stage?
Le Yuxin looked at Ming Yueyan, a cold glint flashing in his eyes before quickly subsiding.
In the sword-seeking contest, sword masters had the protection of sword holders, and sword sheaths couldn’t kill sword masters—at least not openly, or any reckless sword sheath could eradicate sword masters single-handedly.
Not to mention, Cha Huan’s ability to perform targeted transmissions throughout the academy, that hidden sword holder was certainly formidable too; a sword sheath might go mad and kill one sword master, but the sword holder would definitely emerge.
If the sword holder couldn’t restrain mutual killing, how was the sword-seeking contest different from the past two years of male heirs dropping dead in royal succession battles?
Moreover, Le Yuxin strongly suspected that the Holy Sword’s radiant mark given to sword masters might save their lives, like a protective shield against fatal attacks or even akin to a resurrection cross—is this possible... In sum, attacking sword masters due to overly strong sword sheaths always resulted in losses.
Of course, since the confrontation was inevitable, Le Yuxin had no reason to simply let Ming Yueyan go.
Killing a sword master was off-limits, meaning as long as she remained alive, anything else Le Yuxin did was permissible, right?
Just as he entertained those thoughts of ’you know what I mean’, a melodious flute sound suddenly emanated from near the Nightmare teaching building.
Logically, in such an open space, the flute sound should at most spread over a small area and quickly be weakened by the forest, covered by the breeze. However, the flute sound only grew louder, with a faint force like wind and thunder. Even though Le Yuxin was separated by an entire teaching building from the source of the sound, he could hear lossless sound quality at VIP level!
Le Yuxin jumped down and sat beside the fierce coyote, patting Ming Yueyan’s head.
"If you keep pretending to sleep, I’ll let ’tzu tzu tzu’ lick you a bit."
The just-awoken Ming Yueyan obediently sat up and looked down at the fierce coyote: "It’s called tzu tzu tzu? What a strange name."
"No, I don’t know what it’s called either, but if you see a strange dog, what would you say to catch its attention?"
Ming Yueyan was slightly taken aback, then smiled faintly: "Tzu tzu tzu?"
"It seems you’re not nervous." Le Yuxin glanced at her: "Falling into the hands of a young male teacher leading a beast squad, aren’t you afraid?"
"According to the rules, you can’t hurt me."
"Wrong, it’s not that I can’t hurt you, it’s that I can’t kill you." Le Yuxin’s mouth slightly curved up: "Besides killing you, as long as the Sword Holder doesn’t discover, I can do anything, like locking you in a basement, smearing honey on you, leaving you so hungry you can only lick yourself..."
Initially, Le Yuxin just wanted to scare her a bit, but unexpectedly Ming Yueyan’s eyes lit up: "Teacher Qin, you’ve read ’Collection of Celebrities’?!"
"Of course... I’ve never read it!!!"
"Impossible, what you described is exactly from the episode in ’Collection of Celebrities’ about Lingering Cicada, with keywords about basements, honey, and licking oneself, surely you’ve read it!"
"Actually, it’s Niruo who read it, he told me about it when we were chatting just now." Le Yuxin lied without even blinking.
"Alright, then which article does Niruo like the most in ’Collection of Celebrities’? Does he think it’s good?" Ming Yueyan excitedly clenched her fists: "I ask myself, my writing is better than other books, other books just dive right into the subject, not talking about the plot at all, but there’s no helping it, books with plots are not loved by everyone now, so I had to find another way, directly creating a short but profound story using real-life character images, balancing between plot and romance..."
Le Yuxin listened in a daze: "’Collection of Celebrities’ was written by you?"
"Yes, I wrote it!" Ming Yueyan flushed: "Actually, I’ve been writing a new book recently, one Chapter features you, Teacher Qin, do you want to take a look when you have time..."
"Hey, I’m kidnapping you, can you show some respect?" Le Yuxin didn’t mind Le Yin becoming either the protagonist or a main character, after all, in Xuanzhu County, Le Yin was already like a public figure for such literary roles.
But while kidnapping the Sword Master, they unexpectedly kidnapped the author of a beloved work, such a bizarre coincidence, it’s just like National Day and Mid-Autumn overlapping, clearly two good things, but overlapping at the wrong time, like feeling robbed of a holiday.
"Sorry, but using my plot to scare me is really interesting." Ming Yueyan rubbed her eyes, smiling: "You don’t have to scare me, I’ll cooperate with you, because what you want to know, I want to know too."
Le Yuxin was startled, it seemed Ming Yueyan knew what he was thinking, nodded: "Yes, I don’t know what my sword sheath’s name is, whether male or female, old or young, every time she meets me, she looks different."
"You want to take me hostage, to see my sword sheath, right? I can’t resist anyway, I will cooperate."
Le Yuxin couldn’t help saying: "But aren’t you betraying your sword sheath this way?"
"Then what should I do? Fight you, Teacher Qin?" Ming Yueyan asked back: "Or say some harsh words to provoke you? We lost this time, my escape route was poorly chosen, we deserved to lose this round. Losing once is okay, just win the next time."
Although Ming Yueyan’s words were reasonable and positive, Le Yuxin felt something was off in his heart.
At this moment, the flute sound grew louder, Ming Yueyan asked: "Why is someone playing music at this time?"
"It’s a way to disseminate answers." Le Yuxin said: "People outside found the answers and want to tell the examinees inside the test room. Sound is the best medium. What you’re hearing is just music, but for examinees who know the code, they’re hearing answer after answer."
"The third phase of the Eye of Omniscience exam has begun..."
Before Le Yuxin’s words were finished, suddenly a shrill sound pierced the sky, fiercely suppressing the flute sound outside!
He opened his mouth wide and looked up, finding a small figure on the rooftop of the Nightmare teaching building wielding a suona, arrogantly overlooking all, a face full of wicked joy!
Lingering Cicada, offering a tune of yin music to all the aspirants!