Sun Mo stood up and walked a few steps forward, blocking the front of the door leading to the medical treatment chamber. He also pulled Qin Yaoguang and Lu Zhiruo behind him.

  Although the combat strength of these people was enough to kill Sun Mo 100 times, his eyes still contained a hint of prestige and tyranny.

  From Sun Mo’s point of view, Ji Shiwen was the headmaster of the Skyraise Academy and was also a saint. Therefore, even if Luo Yueman became retarded, it was impossible for him to go against Ji Shiwen. Since that was the case, now that Luo Yueman came here in such a fierce manner, his target would surely be Sun Mo. “Yaoguang, Zhiruo. Later, if a fight breaks out, you guys should flee immediately!”

  Sun Mo instructed in a low voice.

  Ji Shiwen’s countenance was first filled with doubt. After that, his expression grew heavy.

  Luo Yueman led a group over and just when he wanted to speak, he saw Sun Mo with a blade in his hand, guarding the corridor like Mt. Tai and exuding a heroic aura. This caused their hearts to involuntarily shudder.

  “Eh!”

  The momentum of the great teachers involuntarily turned sluggish.

  After all, they truly didn’t wish to offend Sun Mo.

  “Mn?”

  Sun Mo was sensitive enough to sense these changes, so he couldn’t help but be astonished. Could it be that they were here to find trouble with Ji Shiwen?

  “Teacher Sun, this is an internal affair of our school. Please step aside!”

  Luo Yueman spoke in a heavy voice.

  “What the hell?”

  Sun Mo was hesitating, but Ji Shiwen calmly patted the dust off his shoulders and looked at Luo Yueman. “What do you all want to do?”

  “Ji…stop acting. You are the Dawn Sovereign!”

  Luo Yueman had initially wanted to shout Ji Shiwen’s name, but the might exuding from a saint caused him to be unable to shout that name out.

  “What? The headmaster is the Dawn Sovereign?”

  “Old Luo, what madness has seized you?”

  “Damn, did you make a mistake?”

  The high star-ranking great teachers who followed Luo Yueman were all stunned.

  Just last night, Luo Yueman had summoned the upper echelons of the school and started an urgent meeting, saying that their school’s inner departments had been infiltrated by the Dark Dawn, and there was a hegemon hiding in their ranks.

  Everyone had precisely come with Luo Yueman to question Ji Shiwen and take the chance to suppress him. They wanted him to stop taking matters into his own hands and give up the idea of supporting Sun Mo.

  In the end, now that Luo Yueman actually exposed such a thing, everyone was frightened silly.

  Dawn Sovereign?

  It was already frightening enough if he was a dark saint. Yet, he was even more terrifying than the three dark saints? He was none other than the mysterious Dawn Sovereign?

  (Do you know that this is the evilest organization that has existed for several thousand years, one with enough power to contend against the Saint Gate?)

  Sun Mo looked at Ji Shiwen and felt that shit had hit the fan.

  “There must be a mistake, right?”

  Someone spoke.

  Luo Yueman was currently thinking about how to convince everyone, yet Ji Shiwen actually spoke out to admit it.

  “There’s no mistake. I’m the Dawn Sovereign!”

  Huala

  Everyone directly shivered as though a cold gust of wind had just blown at their faces. After that, more than half of the people here subconsciously retreated.

  It was too terrifying!

  The terror of the Dawn Sovereign was something everyone was familiar with. If this fellow went crazy and started killing, who would be able to stop him?

  “Eh!”

  Luo Yueman was a little stumped. (You admitted it so quickly that I couldn’t even react. I don’t know how to ‘parry’ this attack.)

  Seeing the expressions of these people, Ji Shiwen twitched his lips and revealed a look of contempt. However, when his gaze landed on Sun Mo, he revealed a gratified smile.

  “Good guts!”

  Ji Shiwen praised.

  Sun Mo didn’t retreat and stood his ground.

  “Saint, this…”

  Sun Mo suddenly felt like he had just heard the greatest joke in his life. The headmaster of the number one academy in the Nine Provinces was actually the BIG BOSS of the greatest terrorist group?

  “Luo Yueman, since you already knew of my identity, why are you still so impulsive?”

  Ji Shiwen shook his head. “Given your standard, you still want to dream about becoming the Skyraise Academy’s headmaster? You will only lead it into decline!”

  “You have always looked down on me!” Luo Yueman roared loudly, “Before I become the headmaster, how will you know that I cannot do it well?”

  “If you could, my teacher would have given the headmaster position to you!” Ji Shiwen spoke in contempt. “That’s because you are his personal student. He was biased!” Luo Yueman rebutted.

  “And you were his junior martial brother!”

  Ji Shiwen waved his hands and interrupted Luo Yueman. “Enough, let’s talk less nonsense. What do you guys plan to do?”.

  Everyone actually didn’t know how to react at this moment.

  “It must be An Zaiyi who told you my identity, right?”

  Ji Shiwen’s identity was only known to a selected few. So, since the other party dared to say this publicly, they would definitely be 100% confident, or they would have offended a saint for nothing.

  Besides, given Ji Shiwen’s personality, he disdained to lie. Also, he had even found his daughter today, so it was truly a joyous day worthy of celebration for him.

  The only thing that was a pity was that he didn’t manage to get Sun Mo to become the headmaster earlier.

  When Luo Yueman heard this, his heart thumped but his expression didn’t change. “Why? You want to kill me for revenge?”

  “Haha!”

  Ji Shiwen couldn’t help but break into laughter. “Luo Yueman, this is why I look down on you. When you do things, you don’t know how to plan a good beginning and a good ending. You don’t have the tyranny that oughts to belong to secondary saints!”

  “You…”

  Luo Yueman was so angry that his body was trembling

  “Also, you don’t even know you are being exploited!”

  As Ji Shiwen spoke, he walked forward.

  As a result, some people retreated, not daring to face Ji Shiwen. But the others with a great sense of righteousness didn’t even flinch. When facing dark great teachers, even if the other party was a major boss, they felt no fear.

  “Let’s go, we can fight outside!”

  Ji Shiwen turned his head and cast a deep glance at the medical treatment room.

  (Ai, I wish I could look at Baiwu a little longer.)

  After that, his gaze turned to Sun Mo.

  He didn’t instruct Sun Mo verbally to take good care of his daughter because once he exposed his relationship with Ying Baiwu, it would only bring huge trouble to her. “Go!”

  Luo Yueman shouted loudly, “What are you guys afraid of? This place is the Skyraise Academy. He can’t afford to act impudently here!”

  “Teacher, what should we do?”

  When Lu Zhiruo saw this group of people leaving, she hurriedly tugged Sun Mo’s arm.

  “H…he’s actually the Dawn Sovereign?”

  Qin Yaoguang was dumbstruck. (I’ve always thought that the Dawn Sovereign is a major character in disguise, hiding in the Saint Gate.)

  “Ignore them.”

  Sun Mo actually wanted to watch a fight between saints; it would surely be very fascinating. However, he endured the urge for the sake of Ying Baiwu. “You guys shouldn’t run around recklessly!”

  Right now, Sun Mo had to be very alert. He was only able to become the vice headmaster of the Skyraise Academy because of Ji Shiwen’s support, and now that Ji Shiwen had lost his authority, Sun Mo’s status in this school was just that of an exchange teacher. No one here would treat him as part of their family.

  Not long later, spirit qi fluctuations drifted in from outside. Clearly, both parties had begun to fight. “Teacher!”

  Qin Yaoguang looked at Sun Mo with pleading in her eyes. She wanted to go and watch the show.

  “Too dangerous!”

  Sun Mo rejected.

  “I will watch from afar and will absolutely not go near them!”

  Qin Yaoguang also pulled the papaya girl over. “Don’t you want to watch how a saint fights? We can record it for Teacher.”

  Lu Zhiruo naturally wanted to go, but she didn’t want to disobey Sun Mo’s words.

  “Forget it, you guys can go!” Sun Mo felt that Ji Shiwen probably wouldn’t harm the students of the school. Alright… even if he was ruthless and cold-blooded, he wouldn’t injure Qin Yaoguang and his other students. After all, he had a close relationship with Ying Baiwu.

  “Hehe, Teacher is the best!” Qin Yaoguang dashed toward Sun Mo and kissed him on the cheek. After that, she dragged Lu Zhiruo along as she sped off into the distance.

  Bang!

  A great teacher coughed up blood and got blasted away.

  “Let’s save time and attack together!”

  Even while fighting against many great teachers, Ji Shiwen had one of his hands behind his back. It was like he was looking at ants.

  Seeing his gaze, everyone was terrified and their expressions were extremely gloomy.

  They had always felt pride and respect for Ji Shiwen’s strength. After all, he was their headmaster and they belonged to the same camp. But now that their relationship was broken, they realized how fearsome of an enemy Ji Shiwen was.

  “Headmaster, why?”

  Many great teachers felt sad.

  They were Ji Shiwen’s worshippers and had no way to accept his true identity now that it was exposed. “The great teacher world is too stuck in the old ways, and some of the views of the Saint Gate should have long since been tossed into the rubbish bin. Therefore, I wish to reconstruct a system for great teachers according to my ideas!”

  Ji Shiwen answered.

  “Everyone, don’t panic. Let’s rush together. As long as we kill him, the Dark Dawn will be finished. A glorious future shall arise in the great teacher world!”

  Luo Yueman encouraged.

  “That’s right, we have so many people on our side. What are we afraid of?” “We can exhaust him to death!”

  “F*** him!”

  The great teachers shouted in unison to encourage themselves.

  Ji Shiwen saw many people were actually acting tough on the outside but being cowardly within. Evidently, they were afraid that they might be sacrificed, and this caused him to shake his head in disappointment. “An Zaiyi, if you want to kill me, just do it yourself!”

  “Ji Shiwen, you are simply too arrogant!” Luo Yueman raged and lunged over. “Kill him for the sake of the great teacher world’s future!”

  Boom! Boom! Boom!

  Spirit qi erupted as ultimate skills clashed.

  Although Ji Shiwen was surrounded, he was still handling them easily.

  “I didn’t expect that our headmaster is actually the head of our organization. Should we help out?”

  “Since he didn’t say anything, we best continue to hide our identities!”

  Some dark great teachers were hidden in the spectating crowd, and all of them were dumbfounded after knowing Ji Shiwen’s real identity.

  At this moment, so many people were ganging up on Ji Shiwen but weren’t able to capture him even after ten minutes. Hence, their morale declined rapidly as they started to feel despair. They were the very definition of the saying ‘The fighting spirit aroused by the ‘first roll of drums’ is depleted by the second and exhausted by the third.’

  They knew that Ji Shiwen was sparing them for old times’ sake. Otherwise, this place would have been littered with their corpses.

  Bang!

  In the end, Luo Yueman fell backward and spat out blood that dyed his clothes red.

  After that, Ji Shiwen cast a glance at him and no longer wasted words. He vanished in the blink of an eye from everyone’s vision.

  Bang!

  The angry Luo Yueman then slammed a fist onto the ground. The disdain shown by Ji Shiwen made him feel worse than dying.

  After Ji Shiwen left by the West Gate, not more than 20 miles later, he halted because he saw an old man standing on the path dotted with greenery. “You are finally willing to come out?”

  Ji Shiwen didn’t think about fleeing. He had originally planned to wait for An Zaiyi to show up so he could expose An Zaiyi’s plot to everyone. Sadly, this fellow was like an old tortoise and clearly wanted to hide in the shadows to gain the greatest benefits. Having no other choice, Ji Shiwen could only leave to force An Zaiyi to show himself.

  “Isn’t it good to die calmly? Why must you struggle and make things so troublesome?”

  An Zaiyi sighed. “How about leaving yourself with some dignity?”.

  “Can dignity be eaten as food? For the sake of the Nine Provinces’ future, even if I have to live like a dog, I wouldn’t care less.”

  Ji Shiwen stored up strength, preparing to fight to the death.

  “It’s useless, you cannot win!”

  The old headmaster stared at Ji Shiwen with sympathy like how he was looking at a pitiful bug.

  Chapter 1305 Wandering the World, Adventuring in the Darkness Continent!

  “Why are there no more commotions? Did they stop fighting?

  Sun Mo stood near the window but sadly, their distance was too far away and he wasn’t able to see the battle situation.

  “Teacher, the saint ran away.”

  Lu Zhiruo’s hurried footsteps rang out in the corridor. Clearly, she came to update Sun Mo. But an instant later, she suddenly screamed in shock.

  “Ah, who are you? Release me!”

  Hearing this, Sun Mo started. He then rushed to the corridor and saw a man grabbing Lu Zhiruo’s neck with one of his hands, subduing her.

  “Scram!”

  Sun Mo activated the Starflash Pearl and appeared beside the guy. He then threw a heavy punch toward the guy’s head.

  Bang!

  The man received this punch, and the powerful impact caused him to stumble backward. Swish! Swish! Swish!

  Sun Mo slashed out numerous times with his blade and seized Lu Zhiruo back.

  “It has been ten years since we last met, you are even more powerful now!”

  The man surveyed Sun Mo.

  “It’s you?”

  Lu Zhiruo recognized this fellow. His name was Lu Feng and he had once kidnapped her in a great teacher examination ten years ago.

  However, Sun Mo ignored Lu Feng. He carried the papaya girl with one hand and teleported back to the medical treatment room, worried that something might happen to Ying Baiwu. Sadly, he still arrived too late.

  There was no one on the sickbed, only a lingering warmth was left.

  “F***!”

  Sun Mo was badly enraged. He rushed out again, but Lu Feng was already nowhere to be seen.

  “Scram out for me!”

  Sun Mo roared in anger.

  “If you want to see your student, come to the Darkness Continent and find me!”

  Lu Feng was very proud. After completing the mission his teacher assigned him, he actually wanted to have a go at Sun Mo. But the exchange of blows from earlier made him understand that he wasn’t Sun Mo’s opponent.

  “I’m going to kill all of you!”

  Sun Mo was angry at himself and felt a sense of self-reproach.

  He was already very careful, but how did he still fall into a trap?

  “T…teacher, I’m sorry!”

  Lu Zhiruo sobbed. If it wasn’t for her teacher making a move to save her, he wouldn’t have left the medical treatment room, and the other party wouldn’t have had a chance to succeed.

  “This has nothing to do with you.”

  Sun Mo slammed a punch into the wall.

  Rumble!

  The wall collapsed as clouds of dirt and dust flew around.

  At the outskirts, Ji Shiwen lost. “You have lived for so many years and should be content. Now, just be at peace and allow me to harvest you!”

  An Zaiyi surveyed Ji Shiwen.

  “Haha, you must be dreaming!”

  After Ji Shiwen finished speaking, he chose to self-explode.

  “It’s useless to commit suicide. Mn?”

  An Zaiyi’s expression drastically changed because the self-explosion was fake. Ji Shiwen had used the moment of distraction to escape instead.

  “That damnable fellow actually played me?”

  No matter what, Ji Shiwen was the Dawn Sovereign. Moreover, after pursuing the world’s secrets for so many years, he had learned some tricks.

  Ever since he became a saint, he treated every day as the last day of his life. This was especially so after he knew An Zaiyi had awakened. He knew he didn’t have much time left.

  The confrontation this time around was also an experiment.

  Although Ji Shiwen fled, the great teachers of the Skyraise Academy didn’t try to capture him and ‘cleanse’ the school. Firstly, it was because they couldn’t defeat him. Secondly, snatching the headmaster position was the most important thing for them.

  Because of it, all factions of power started to eye each other, except for Sun Mo.

  Although he was a vice headmaster, he had no foundation here. Hence, he was completely disregarded.

  Fortunately, Sun Mo didn’t care for the seat of the headmaster.

  “It’s a pity. From now on, the Skyraise Academy is going to decline!”.

  When they sat on a carriage and were preparing to leave, Qin Yaoguang stared at the majestic school gate and sigh.

  The glory brought by Ji Shiwen to this school also faded away along with his departure.

  Upon his return, Sun Mo didn’t delay and went to look for An Xinhui.

  “I’m preparing to make a trip to the Darkness Continent. Please help me take care of Ziqi, Zhiruo, and the others.”

  Upon hearing Sun Mo’s dire tone like he was making arrangements for things that might happen after his funeral, An Xinhui felt very panicky. “Let me go with you.”

  “No need, I don’t know how long this trip of mine would take.”

  Sun Mo bitterly smiled.

  “Is it for Baiwu?”

  Seeing Sun Mo nodding, she knew that if he couldn’t find Ying Baiwu, he probably wouldn’t return to the Nine Provinces, causing her to feel extremely sorrowful.

  Right now, the fame of the Central Province Academy was rising every day. Her fiance’s fame was known throughout the world, and the grandpa she respected had also awakened…

  But why did she feel so sad despite everything being so positive? “Your current fame is like the sun in the sky. Maybe, you are even qualified to vie for a vice sect lord’s position in the Saint Gate. If you leave the great teacher world of the Nine Provinces now, it would be too much of a pity.”

  An Xinhui was worried.

  The Darkness Continent was truly too dangerous. When people headed there to adventure, they would do so in groups. But even so, the entire group would frequently face the danger of annihilation. By heading there alone, Sun Mo was simply courting death. “Enough, don’t persuade me anymore!”

  Sun Mo was determined to go. “If I cannot even protect my students, what do I have to be proud of even if I became a saint or the Saint Gate Sect Lord?”

  The moment Sun Mo thought of Ying Baiwu, the girl who worshiped him and worked so hard for his glory, he felt so much heartache.

  “Take good care of yourself, Xinhui.”

  Sun Mo then walked away after he finished speaking

  “Little Momo!”

  An Xinhui called out and hugged Sun Mo from behind, wanting to say ‘don’t leave me’. But when the words were on the tip of her tongue, she felt she didn’t have the right to hold him back.

  From the start, it had always been him helping her.

  “Don’t worry. Before I kill all those damnable fellows, nothing will happen to me!”

  Sun Mo patted An Xinhui’s hand. After that, he distanced himself from her arms and left without turning his head.

  Not bidding farewell to Gu Xiuxun or his students, he directly mounted Little Silver and flew toward the teleportation gate, entering the Darkness Continent.

  “Eldest Martial Sister, you should hurry up and persuade Teacher. I feel that he might do something reckless!”

  When Lu Zhiruo got Li Ziqi back to the Central Province Academy, it was already too late.

  After that, the two girls planned to look for Sun Mo, but they were confined by An Xinhui.

  The Darkness Continent was a vast and mysterious land with the shape of a pyramidthe higher one headed up, the smaller the area. Up until now, people had only found six levels of it.

  On this vast continent, the majority of places were virgin lands that no one had explored. It was filled with boundless possibilities and immense danger.

  Every year, some people who could no longer make a living on the Nine Provinces, or adventurers who wanted to strike it rich would go to the Darkness Continent for risky adventures. When they formed groups, they would always hire one or two great teachers with profound knowledge.

  It would be for the best if the great teachers were proficient in archaeology and botany.

  It was because the danger of the Darkness Continent didn’t only lie in its unknown geographical terrain. There were unknown animals, wild beasts, dangerous plants, and poisonous herbs, not to mention many laws of nature that contained a multitude of changes.

  For example, on the first level, the spirit qi fluctuations were very intense, and different areas had different spirit pressure that would range from high to low.

  Because cultivators had spirit qi in their bodies, there was a difference between the concentration of spirit qi in their bodies and the environment. Hence, if the spirit pressure exceeded the range a cultivator could bear, they would either be injured in light cases or die in serious cases.

  In places where spirit qi was either overly dense or sparse, cultivators wouldn’t be able to survive for long.

  On the second level, cultivators would experience visual or auditory hallucinations.

  Once they stepped onto the second level, their mental states would start to be corroded and they would often hear strange voices in their ears and be besieged by illusions.

  Here, cultivators wouldn’t die, but they would go mad. Hence, adventurers on this level would occasionally run into madmen that roamed about incessantly.

  The problem in the third level was spirit poison.

  The spirit qi on this level contained unknown toxins, and once a cultivator absorbed the spirit qi into their bodies, upon reaching a certain limit, they would show signs of poisoning.

  Back then, the third level was a forbidden zone of death, and this condition lasted until a saint discovered that juice made from the roots of a herb named Shangqin Grass could detoxify the poison. Only then did humans have the qualifications to explore this level.

  But even then, the Saint Gate had issued a public announcement. Even if one continuously consumed the root juice, they had to leave the third level after a month and take a break.

  Luckily, as long as one left the third level, the toxins would automatically be expelled from one’s body roughly in a year. However, this was a blessing in disguise. Because of the spirit poison, the third level was sparsely populated by humans, which meant that many valuable herbs and ferocious beasts had yet to be taken.

  Therefore, many cultivators would give themselves a time limit of two years to prepare extensively. After that, they would do their best and acquire as many battle spoils as possible within a month.

  At this moment, in a mountain range filled with oddly-shaped rocks, there was a small team of five people. They were riding on rock beasts and rapidly moving forward.

  The rock beasts were extremely jagged and had sharp fangs, but strangely enough, they were herbivores and were very docile. Therefore, they were usually used as mounts to travel through mountains.

  “It has been more than twenty days, but we have only found a single heart of darkness. This time around, the plan will probably fail.”

  A young girl of 20 plus years old, who was clad in leather armor and armed with a curved blade, currently had a depressed look on her face.

  “Don’t be discouraged. We found two last year, so it would be enough as long as we find two more this year.”

  Chen Jian consoled her.

  “Finding two in ten days… Do you think it’s possible?”

  Zheng Hua sighed.

  “Otherwise, what? Give up?” Zhang Xiang angrily scolded, “If you want to give up, you guys can leave now!”

  “Zhang Xiang, what do you mean?” Zheng Hua was unhappy. “Even if we are to leave now, I’m qualified to take with me one heart of darkness!”

  “As expected, you have this intention from the start!”

  Zhang Xiang mocked.

  The so-called hearts of darkness were actually the hearts of thorn beasts.

  When this type of beast died, their heart would lose all blood and be petrified. It wasn’t a natural secret treasure and it only had a single effect-after wearing it as an accessory, it could mend and improve one’s mental state and perception. The law in the fourth level of the Darkness Continent was the law of reversal. It also meant that when cultivators entered this level, if they wanted to use their left hand, the thing that moved, in reality, would be their right hand. When they thought of stepping forth with their left foot, the one that stepped forth would surely be the right foot.

  Because of this law, this level was known as the ‘Reverse Image Continent’. In any case, everything here was in reverse.

  Ordinary experts had no way to get used to such a life of ‘reversal’, so they had to hunt thorn beasts to obtain their hearts of darkness. After wearing it as an accessory, their perception would be corrected to normal.

  Back to the story… This team of five wanted to head to the fifth level to live. So, they naturally had to obtain hearts of darkness to travel through the fourth level. But from the current situation, it seemed that they probably had to wait for one more year. “If it wasn’t for you making a mistake at that time and allowing that thorn beast to flee, we would only be lacking a single heart of darkness now.”

  Zheng Hua sneered.

  “That wasn’t my mistake!”

  Zhang Xiang turned red. “Alright, we are all friends that grew up together. Stop quarreling.”

  The tall and sturdy guy walking ahead of the group turned his head back to persuade them. His name was Lu Guojing, and he was the oldest and strongest among them. Hence, he took the position of team leader.

  The young girl also wanted to try persuading them, but her ears suddenly pricked as she heard the sounds of a thorn beast roaring. “Target discovered!”