For the first time, Li Tianlan truly witnessed the speed of Tribulation—the strongest a.s.sa.s.sin in Zhongzhou State.

Being the only one with the Dual Wind Veins for hundreds of years, Tribulation took an unprecedented path on Martial Arts that enabled him to enter the Invincible Realm directly from the Qi-controlling Realm. With the Shadow Formula, he was a super a.s.sa.s.sin designed especially for breaking the balance. In the night, he took Li Tianlan to advance and retreat, and his every move was filled with a sense of rapidity, through which people could sense the utmost violence.

The clouds and wind moved rapidly. Tribulation, too, moved so fast that he left no trace behind.

Li Tianlan was pulled back by Tribulation. In a trance, he even felt suffocated and unable to breathe.

That was not the deterrence brought by absolute force, but the oppressive feeling caused by extreme speed. This feeling was clear and obvious, making people nervous inwardly almost instinctively.

Some things in front of Li Tianlan seemed to have completely disappeared.

The woods.

The darkness.

Even Tribulation had turned into a shadow of nothingness and vanished, leaving no trace.

Only the fierce wind in his world was howling crazily. He seemed to stand where he was and never move, but the fierce wind constantly roared past his ears, suppressing his perception.

Li Tianlan was more conscious than ever, but his perception was blurred. He could not tell whether he was advancing or retreating, or how time elapsed.

The wild wind was blowing hard in the woods, making the branches and leaves fall rapidly. A windstorm seemed to whirl upward from the woods, and it thrust forward like a knife. All obstacles were swept up into the sky in the windstorm and then smashed to pieces.

A beam of bright light flashed before Li Tianlan’s eyes, then it became dark again.

The world was silent.

The wind suddenly stopped howling.

Li Tianlan abruptly came to his senses from a deep trance and found himself standing outside the dormitory door.

“Martial uncle…”

Li Tianlan had already had speculation about all this, so he did not feel puzzled. He just yelled instinctively.

“I’m fine.”

Tribulation’s voice seemed a little weak, and it became less hoa.r.s.e and deep. “Let’s call it a night. Get more sleep and we’ll continue to practice tomorrow.”

“Hmm,” replied Li Tianlan. However, he couldn’t help but ask curiously, “Martial uncle, has anyone been spying on us just now?”

Li Tianlan possessed the three most precious const.i.tutions in the Dark World. Although he began to practice his Martial Arts again, his perception didn’t degenerate. His acuity of everything around him was much greater than it supposed to be now.

But even so, he failed to detect anything unusual just now.

This only showed that the man in the dark had a much higher realm than he could imagine now. “Is he an Invincible Realm expert or someone who is much more powerful than that?” he thought.

“Two men.”

Tribulation said insipidly after a short silence. “However, they meant us no harm. At least they had no intention of harming us in the Sky Academy. But you can’t stay there any longer. You’d better find a deserted training ground and continue to practice the Buddhist Incantation of Nine Words next time.”

Li Tianlan nodded in agreement to the shadow, because Tribulation had vanished without leaving a trace.

He entered the door by swiping his card. He then looked at his watch, only to found that it was nearly five o’clock in the morning.

He hesitated and finally went into the bedroom.

A delicate fragrance floated in the bedroom, stirring his inner desire.

w.a.n.g Yuetong kicked off the quilt once again. Without any covering, her tender and charming body seemed to glow in the darkness. Although it was vague, the visual impact was huge.

To sleep in the nude.

This was not w.a.n.g Yuetong’s habit but Li Tianlan’s requirement.

No matter in the face of Qin Weibai or w.a.n.g Yuetong, Li Tianlan seemed to have the dominance over the two G.o.ddesses on the bed which would make them feel wronged yet enjoy. Now he was living with w.a.n.g Yuetong above board. Every night after going to bed, he would strip the little princess naked immediately. He would hold her—a little white sheep, in his arms. The feeling was unspeakably good.

The little princess was not used to it at first and even wanted to resist, but after Li Tianlan ripped apart two sets of her expensive, s.e.xy silk underwear, she resigned to it.

Nonetheless, that was nothing serious to her.

What she couldn’t bear most was that he would strip her naked every night and they would sleep under the same quilt with a long pillow that she had chosen deliberately, but he would do nothing.

Such behavior was worse than that of a beast. The little princess was not going to accept any explanation from him, whether it was that he had no time or anything else.

So for days, she looked at him with increasing hidden bitterness and melancholy.

Li Tianlan smiled and lowered his head to kiss w.a.n.g Yuetong’s face. After that, he got up and sat down on the bed. Instead of resting, he began to meditate.

Any Martial Art, no matter how eccentric and unconventional, in the final a.n.a.lysis, focused on nothing more than realm and unique skill. Now, Li Tianlan didn’t have two hours to practice his unique skills as before, so he didn’t want to waste any time. Therefore, he took meditation as a rest.

He had to reach the Peak of the Fire-flaming Realm from the Qi-controlling Realm, which meant, to surmount three Pseudo Invincible Realms in a row, and to study the Buddhist Incantation of Nine Words thoroughly, within three years. These were the goals he set for himself.

Once these goals were achieved, he wouldn’t have many qualified opponents under the Invincible Realm, even if he didn’t enter the Thunder-shocking Realm. That meant he would then be formally qualified to gamble in the general trend of Zhongzhou State.

Time was pressing and he had to fight for it.

The gloom on the horizon grew brighter.

Although Li Tianlan was highly concentrated, he still sensed that someone kissed him in the face. He opened his eyes and saw w.a.n.g Yuetong’s delicate face. She chuckled and said, “Morning, senior brother. Why were you back so early today?”

“I didn’t gain much from practicing, so I just stopped wasting time and came back to meditate.”

Li Tianlan shook his head casually. He touched w.a.n.g Yuetong’s hair, and instead of telling her what he had encountered in the woods not long ago, he just asked calmly, “Are we going to have Snipe Lesson today?”

With a nod, w.a.n.g Yuetong picked up her underwear, put it on, and giggled. “Set your heart at rest, senior brother. It’s one of my father’s younger male cousin who is in charge of this lesson, and even if you were to fail, he would not deduct your credit. You’re really stupid. It’s easy to use guns. I’ll teach you some other time.”

Li Tianlan laughed bitterly and nodded. The only thing he failed to learn since childhood was to use guns. There were a lot of guns in the border campsite, but bullets were extremely precious. No matter how hard his grandpa tried to make him stand out, he was unwilling to cultivate his marksmans.h.i.+p with precious bullets. As for blank sh.e.l.ls, they were even fewer than live ammunition. Li Tianlan had never seen a blank sh.e.l.l since childhood.

The Firearms Control Lesson he had attended yesterday was relatively simple because it was the first lesson. Instructor w.a.n.g Shaojie had taught the students some theories about guns. For the vast majority of students, they were cliches. The key points came after the theories. Li Tianlan had the pistol and a.s.sault rifle practice. However, his grades were in a complete mess. Not only did he fail, but he was the only one among the fifty students who failed the lesson.

Instructor w.a.n.g Shaojie was the confidant of Gu Yunxia, but he did not deliberately make trouble for Li Tianlan. He just deducted Li Tianlan a credit, and the latter was willing to accept the punishment.

w.a.n.g Yuetong pa.s.sed the Firearms Control Lesson as the first place and got eight credits as a reward. It seemed like a fair lesson, and the instructor didn’t take a stand.

Undoubtedly, Li Tianlan liked this kind of environment best.

He got up from the bed, stretched himself, and suddenly asked, “Has the headmaster come back yet?”

Zhuang Huayang had not been back since he went to Youzhou a few days ago. Although there was no bad news against Zhuang Huayang from Youzhou, Li Tianlan always felt uneasy if Zhuang Huayang did not return to the Sky Academy.

After all, he killed Gu Changjiang.

If this incident implicated Zhuang Huayang, it was definitely not the situation that Li Tianlan wanted to see.

“No, he hasn’t.”

w.a.n.g Yuetong whispered, “I called my Second Uncle yesterday, and he said that the President had held another meeting of the Decision Making Committee for the matters about the Sky Academy yesterday. Some personnel changes may take place in the academy. He warned you to be more cautious. My dad was invited to the meeting of the Decision Making Committee, but he was too lazy to go, so he turned it down.”

Li Tianlan grinned. He didn’t expect that it was w.a.n.g Xiaoyao who warned him to be cautious of the changes of personnel in the Sky Academy.

That was quite interesting.

He was probably a nonent.i.ty in w.a.n.g Tianzong’s eyes.

In w.a.n.g Xiaoyao’s eyes, however, he was his true rival in love.

In this respect, w.a.n.g Xiaoyao had more reason to hate him than anyone else in the w.a.n.g family of Beihai. This warning was not necessarily kind.

“Well, let’s have breakfast first.”

Li Tianlan said casually as he got out of bed.

Whatever the implications of the supposed changes in the Sky Academy, he was not going to think much about it. These were not things he could now think about at all, and even if he had an idea, it would not matter.

The cell phone rang suddenly.

Li Tianlan was a little surprised after looking at the phone number. It turned out that the caller was Dongcheng Qiuchi, who hadn’t contacted him since he came back to Huating.

He slightly narrowed his eyes, put her through, and called her Sister Qiuchi with a smile.

At the same time.

Zhuang Huayang, the head of the Sky Academy, appeared on the other side of the river in front of the academy.

A young man and a young woman followed him in silence.

The man was tall and strong, like a giant G.o.d, full of pressure.

The woman looked extremely beautiful, but every move of hers exuded an obvious aura of danger, making her evil and cold.

The first disciple of Jade Pool, Giant G.o.d Xu Chu!

The nominal disciple of Jade Pool, Bai Youming!

At the same time.

Transfers from Kunlun City also appeared on the desks of the headmaster’s office, the vice headmaster’s office, the teaching affair office, and the Political Department of the Sky Academy respectively.

Ye Fengcheng, the director of the Political Department of the Sky Academy, was appointed as the director of Huating Special Operations Bureau and enjoyed the governor level treatment.

Tribulation, the deputy director of the teaching of the Sky Academy, as well as the leader of members teaching the a.s.sa.s.sination Lesson, served as the chief of Political Department and still took the previous post.

Bai Youming, the deputy commander of the second scout brigade of the Thunderbolt Battalion—a part of the Border Praetorian Corps, was transferred to the Sky Academy to serve as the leader of members teaching the Actual Combat Lesson.

Of all the personnel transfers, the last personnel appointment was unexpected. It also showed that Kunlun City still refused to give up its evil intention toward the Sky Academy.

Liu Xiuyuan, the minister of an information organization named the Curtain in Huating, joined the Sky Academy and served as the deputy director of the teaching of the Sky Academy.

At the same time.

As the world’s largest country, Zhongzhou State issued a statement to the entire Dark World.

June 15th.

It was the date of the fighting between Master of Samsara Palace and Governor of Kunlun City. Zhongzhou State would fully respect the views of the two parties concerned, but it also suggested that peace should be valued and that they should take care not to overdo it.

On June 15th, the Sky Academy would open to the public. At that time, the academy also welcomed the super forces to send representatives here to watch the fighting, and the Zhongzhou government would dispatch special personnel to pick them up.

To dispatch special personnel to pick them up.

This sentence alone clearly expressed Zhongzhou State’s euphemistic yet strong att.i.tude.

Nonetheless, different people had different interpretations of it when hearing the news that Zhongzhou State welcomed representatives of various dark forces to come to the Sky Academy to watch the battle.

People who did not know the situation of Zhongzhou State instinctively thought that Gu Xingyun—the G.o.d of War in Zhongzhou State and also someone who ranked the fourth on the Divine List, was already a winner in this battle. Moreover, they thought that he would use the defeat or even the killing of Master of Samsara Palace to increase the influence of Zhongzhou Special Warfare System in the Dark World.

But only those who truly understood the delicate situation in Zhongzhou State knew the fact.

They knew the fact that the so-called life-and-death battle seemed to have become a joke after Zhongzhou State had released the news.