Chapter 277 Golden Cage
Chapter 277 Golden Cage
"Wait...wait...oh my god."
As Ban Su parried the attack from the border academy, he turned to the side, only to be struck by a sword from a cultivator from the "Flowing Cloud Academy."
Ban Su was almost slashed.
Originally, Liuyun Academy and Lingqing Academy were supposed to work together to deal with Jingxu.
Now the roles are completely reversed.
"Liuyun Academy" helped Jingxu turn the tables and kill them.
Ban Su only then realized that something was amiss, and he looked at the cultivators.
The cultivators from "Liuyun Academy" reacted very quickly.
They moved among the three academies, and after turning against them, they directly stabbed Ling Qing, a cultivator who had fought alongside them, making it virtually impossible to defend against.
In just a few breaths, the cultivators around Ban Su had been slashed several times, some dead and some wounded.
As Ban Su retreated, he gave Jiang He a resentful look:
"Feilian, what do you mean by this? I ask you, does your Liuyun Academy have any sense of contractual obligation? At least have some morals! You agreed to cooperate with Ling Qing, but you turned around and betrayed us..."
Jiang He, still in the cage, looked at the innocent Ban Su without saying a word, while the four sides were engaged in a fierce battle.
Within moments, several more people from Lingqing Academy collapsed.
It was one thing for "Liuyun Academy" to betray them temporarily, but as the fighting went on, they discovered that the methods used by these academies were becoming increasingly similar.
A late-stage Golden Core cultivator from Lingqing Academy was killed by Shangguan Linghu and Ye Qing working together. He had high HP and died slowly, easily sensing the venom in his wounds. Before dying, he used all his remaining strength to utter his last words:
"The sword is poisoned!"
After he finished speaking, his breathing gradually weakened. However, since he was poisoned, his death was inevitably gruesome, and to outsiders it looked as if he had died with his eyes wide open in anger.
Upon hearing this, Ban Su glared fiercely at Jiang He:
"Flying Scythe! I never expected your Flowing Cloud Academy to be so treacherous! Have you lost your conscience? You're even poisonous! You bastards, you'll be punished!"
Ban Su received a good education from a young age and was the kind of well-behaved child who would follow the expected path of taking exams and becoming an official. He had a limited vocabulary of swear words and it took him a long time to come up with this sentence.
He knew that his team had been outmaneuvered by Ling Qing, but he was really frustrated. They had a sure-win situation, but now Ling Qing was being forced into a series of defeats.
Jiang He didn't respond; for her, the problem was the cage.
Kong Ji, as the commander of Lingqing Academy, is a Nascent Soul stage cultivator. This cage is close to materializing spiritual energy, making it very difficult to break through.
Kong Ji, having released the cage, turned his head to look at Jiang He. His eyes were like black holes, terrifyingly still.
Although Kongji is a Buddhist practitioner, he possesses an aura of omniscience, judging from his appearance alone.
The empty head was superior; even without any hair, it possessed a profound depth compared to the bone structure of other cultivators.
Unlike the previous impression of Buddha's compassion, his serene eyebrows and eyes were very faint, which made him appear calm and restrained.
Jiang He and Kong Ji exchanged a glance before she looked away. She looked down at her feet, where the cage shone with golden light, and her feet felt a burning heat.
Kongji's right hand hung naturally at his side, while the prayer beads in his left hand slowly turned.
"You are not the Flying Scythe."
The empty words were not a question but an affirmative statement, he said after uttering a single sentence.
Ban Su looked at Jiang He in great shock and disbelief:
"Who else could she be but Fei Lian?"
After Kong Ji finished his observation, Ban Su's gaze towards the cultivators of Liuyun Academy became strange. If the flying sickle wasn't the flying sickle, then were the cultivators of Liuyun Academy still from Liuyun Academy?
Ban Su wasn't the only one with this doubt; the other members of Lingqing Academy who were fighting also began to have suspicions about the person in front of them.
If he's not a cultivator from Liuyun Academy, then which academy could he be from?
They had barely finished expressing their doubts when the world channel released the elimination message ten minutes earlier.
[World Channel:]
"48 players from Liuyun Academy have been eliminated, leaving 95 players on the field."
Upon receiving the news, the Lingqing Academy members were immediately thrown into disarray. 48 people from Liuyun Academy had been eliminated. If they remembered correctly, Feilian's team also had 48 people.
and so……
The cultivators in front of me, who were dressed as members of the Flowing Cloud Academy, were actually not from the Flowing Cloud Academy.
Jiang He did not remove her disguise even after the message appeared on the world channel.
She could sense that the cage was gradually tightening.
Kong Ji stared intently at Jiang He without uttering a word, the Buddhist prayer beads in his hand spinning faster and faster.
The golden cage kept shrinking, and Jiang He quickly felt the pressure on her body. She promptly put on several shields.
Unfortunately, the cage contracted faster than she could deploy her shield, and the earthen shield protecting her body kept shattering.
Until the damage from the cage could no longer be mitigated.
As the golden cage tightened, it gradually touched Jiang He's body, causing a burning sensation on her skin.
The pain was intense as the school uniform was torn under the cage. Jiang He raised her sword several times, trying to cut the cage, but to no avail.
Long Aotian broke free from the melee and slashed at the cage with his sword.
The cage was attacked from both inside and outside to varying degrees, trembled for a moment, and then stood firmly on the ground.
Long Aotian stopped wielding his sword and slashing at the cage. He moved quickly and was behind Kong Ji in the blink of an eye.
In a flash of lightning, the black-green sword slashed towards Kong Ji's wrist with lightning speed.
Kong Ji simply stood there without moving an inch, but when the black cyan sword slashed down, Kong Ji's body suddenly moved half an inch, thus dodging Long Aotian's attack.
The cage pressed down on Jiang He's body, leaving several long bloody marks on her skin, which were far more severe than the sword wound Shangguan Ling suffered at the lake.
The cage was embedded deep into the flesh, so deep that the bone was visible.
The golden pillar of light in the cage was fastened to the bones, and as the flesh was torn open, it continued to shrink.
This is the killing move...
Kong Ji wanted to kill her!
Jiang He raised her eyelids, the skin that was bound by the metal was ripped open. She gritted her teeth, using her bones to brace against the metal pillar, cold sweat pouring down her face.
Kongji knew that the mastermind behind today's events was likely this cultivator impersonating Feilian. He had a vague premonition that nothing would end until Jiang He was killed.
Kong Ji was filled with murderous intent. The Golden Cage was his usual method of killing, as long as the cultivator was covered by the Golden Cage.
Without exception.
They all died in the cage.
Time passed slowly, and the prayer beads in Kong Ji's hand continued to spin rapidly. The cage was tightening, but Jiang He remained standing there.
Empty and silent, eyes half-closed.
This was already well past the time he had estimated for killing a Golden Core cultivator.
Jiang He gasped for breath, as if trying to inhale all the air into her abdomen.
Shangguan Linghu glanced at Jiang He with concern, noticing her pale lips. She silently gripped her sword, killing one person after another.
The staff in Jiang He's hand was overflowing with spiritual energy and rich in lightning element.
Despite the fracture, she raised her staff.
The stored lightning energy burst forth instantly.
Starting from the head of the staff, a bolt of lightning, three fingers thick, appeared out of thin air.
Long Aotian's lightning spiritual energy was extremely aggressive, and Jiang He's lightning was similar, like a sharpened sword, full of sharpness.
Everyone's eyes lit up, as if the somewhat dim mountain forest, which had been dark due to the overcast sky, had become much brighter.
The lightning summoned by Jiang He through the Lightning Summoning Technique gradually connected with Long Aotian's sword.
In an instant, the lightning bolt and Long Aotian's sword light attacked Kong Ji together!
Two different bolts of lightning intertwined, each carrying a sharp and fierce force.
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