Chapter 49

Chapter 49: Killing You with One Finger!

 

Ye Tianming wasn’t very surprised, because he knew that the Xiao family would certainly not let him return to Guanxuan Academy so easily. He just hadn’t expected them to wait for him at the academy.

The black-robed man sized up Ye Tianming and was about to speak when suddenly, Ye Tianming lunged at him like a fierce tiger pouncing on its prey. Behind Ye Tianming, a three-hundred-zhang Earth Avatar instantly materialized!

An overwhelming pressure from the Earth swept through the area, violently crashing toward the black-robed man.

The black-robed man narrowed his eyes, a flash of shock crossing his gaze. “Merely at the Great Tribulation Realm, yet able to condense a three-hundred-zhang Avatar…”

Before he could finish speaking, his sword was already unsheathed.

A hundred-zhang sword light rose from the ground, violently colliding with Ye Tianming’s terrifying Avatar.

Boom!

The moment the Avatar and the sword light made contact, a deafening explosion erupted. The ground beneath them instantly shattered, dust rising tens of zhang high, and the powerful shockwave instantly leveled ancient trees within a hundred zhang radius.

Ye Tianming was forced back by the residual power of those two terrifying forces. He retreated more than a dozen zhang before stopping, and when he did, he felt his body go numb. At the same time, he could clearly sense that the Avatar behind him had become somewhat more ethereal.

Ye Tianming slowly raised his head to look at the distant black-robed man, his expression solemn. This person was much stronger than Xiao Lin.

In the distance, the black-robed man smiled, “I must say, you truly surprise me. At the Great Tribulation Realm, you can already condense an Avatar. It seems they guessed correctly—you’re indeed not so simple.”

As he finished speaking, his body suddenly became ethereal.

Ye Tianming’s pupils contracted sharply, and the hair all over his body stood on end. The moment the other’s body became ethereal, a sword had already reached his face. This sword strike wasn’t just fast—it had directly shortened the spatial distance between them!

In this moment, Ye Tianming truly felt the breath of death.

However, he wasn’t about to surrender without a fight. He stomped his right foot forcefully, and countless earth veins surged up from the ground!

Boom boom boom!

A series of explosions continuously erupted as golden earth vein energy repeatedly shattered against the sword light. Yet Ye Tianming was still forced back dozens of zhang by the sword’s momentum.

The gap in their realms was simply too great!

The black-robed man didn’t continue his attack. He slowly looked up at Ye Tianming in the distance, somewhat surprised. “You can actually manipulate earth veins to such an extent…”

Ye Tianming looked down at his own body and saw that more than ten sword marks had appeared, with blood slowly seeping out.

At this moment, the black-robed man smiled again: “It seems that besides the Guanxuan Academy of Central Divine Continent, you have other forces behind you.”

Ye Tianming took out a medicinal pill and swallowed it. His gaze remained fixed on his opponent while beneath his feet, the earth was violently writhing, countless earth veins gathering power and ready to strike.

The black-robed man glanced at the ground beneath Ye Tianming’s feet, then smiled confidently, “Whatever trump cards you have left, feel free to use them all.”

Ye Tianming looked up at the academy on the mountaintop. The black-robed man suddenly said, “Don’t bother looking up there. Song Shi and that useless teacher of yours who also passed the Guanxuan Path won’t come to save you.”

Ye Tianming said, “Your Xiao family is truly capable, daring to openly attack an academy principal.”

The black-robed man laughed, “You know nothing about my Xiao family’s true power. No, I should say, you know nothing about this world.”

As he spoke, he slowly walked toward Ye Tianming, calm and composed. “You think that with some fortuitous encounter, you can oppose my Xiao family? If you truly believe that, then you are truly pitiful. You lower-class people will never understand what true foundation means, what a true family clan is!”

As he spoke, a terrifying sword momentum swept over like a flash flood, heading straight for Ye Tianming.

Where the powerful sword momentum passed, even space itself began to distort.

Ye Tianming felt as if a mountain was crashing down upon him, the powerful pressure from the sword momentum making it impossible for him to breathe.

And behind this sword momentum was a sword light as shocking as thunder!

Ye Tianming focused his mind, and countless earth veins surged up from the ground. His Avatar instantly expanded to five hundred zhang. At the same time, innumerable earth veins rose up and merged into the Avatar. The Avatar, wrapped in endless earth vein power, threw a powerful punch toward the black-robed man.

As the giant fist fell, the world trembled as if struck by an iron hammer. At the same time, the terrifying power contained in the two fists instantly broke through the black-robed man’s sword momentum. The sword light extinguished with it, and then the black-robed man was sent flying backward.

As he was thrown back, the black-robed man continuously spat blood, his physical body cracking inch by inch, an extremely terrifying sight.

Just as he stopped, a sword made of earth energy suddenly emerged from the ground behind him, thrusting straight toward the back of his head.

However, just as the earth sword was about to pierce the black-robed man’s skull, a whooshing sound suddenly rang out. Then, a stone shot out with lightning speed and shattered the earth sword.

Ye Tianming slowly turned his head to look. Not far away, a young man was approaching. The man wore a magnificent robe and looked very young, only sixteen or seventeen years old, with an extraordinary bearing.

Seeing the newcomer, the black-robed man’s face immediately turned unpleasant. He said in a low voice, “Brother Bei.”

Xiao Bei!

One of the three most prodigious talents of the Xiao family’s younger generation, a true core figure among the Xiao family’s youth. He was admitted to the Guanxuan Realm’s Main Academy at the age of nine, and by thirteen, he had entered the Guanxuan Book’s Martial Rankings. He was one of the three most talented individuals in the Xiao family at present.

Xiao Bei ignored the black-robed man and slowly raised his head to look at Ye Tianming. Behind Ye Tianming, the Avatar still existed, and by now, it had grown to over one thousand two hundred zhang, majestic and imposing.

Xiao Bei stared at Ye Tianming. He didn’t speak, but merely took a step forward. As he stepped forward, a terrifying Avatar suddenly began to rapidly condense behind him, reaching three thousand zhang in the blink of an eye!

Three thousand zhang!

A Time Immortal!

The air was filled with terrifying temporal power.

A sixteen-year-old Time Immortal!

This was what a super genius from the Guanxuan Realm’s Main Academy looked like!

Inside the academy, two elderly men sat facing each other.

One was Song Shi, and across from him sat an elderly man who was the current Grand Elder of the Xiao family, Xiao Qun.

Between them was a chess board, with Xiao Qun playing black and Song Shi playing white.

Although they were sitting inside the academy, they could see everything happening outside with perfect clarity.

Xiao Qun placed a piece and then said, “Principal Song, if you don’t intervene soon, your academy will have one less student.”

Song Shi also placed a piece, “Is that so?”

Xiao Qun calmly said, “My Xiao family knows that behind that young man is not only you, Principal Song, but also another hidden force. But that’s not important. What’s important is that anyone who opposes my Xiao family will die, and the forces behind them will also die.”

Song Shi laughed, “One might think the Guanxuan Universe belongs to your Xiao family.”

Xiao Qun said calmly, “Although my Xiao family is only a second-tier family, in this Guanxuan Universe, we are not to be trifled with by any lowborn.”

Song Shi smiled, “Lowborn? If weakness makes one lowborn, then looking back a few generations, whose ancestors weren’t lowborn? Is your Xiao family any different?”

Xiao Qun looked at Song Shi, “After this session, the Central Divine Continent’s Guanxuan Academy will become a thing of the past.”

Song Shi laughed heartily, “Then let us wait and see.”

Xiao Qun said, “Yes, let us wait and see.”

At the foot of the mountain.

After Xiao Bei condensed his Avatar, a powerful temporal force permeated the air, and the pressure from his Avatar’s aura directly suppressed the pressure from Ye Tianming’s Avatar.

The gap in their realms was too great!

A full six realms apart!

Normally, with a six-realm difference, a Time Immortal Realm expert could easily erase a Great Tribulation Realm cultivator with a mere wave of the hand.

Ye Tianming’s solemn expression also carried excitement, because this was his first time facing a true genius in combat.

A three-thousand-zhang Avatar!

How magnificent was that?

Xiao Bei calmly looked at Ye Tianming, without a hint of shock or fluctuation in his eyes.

Ye Tianming was indeed prodigious, able to condense an Avatar at the Great Tribulation Realm that normally only those at the Immortal Realm could form. This was certainly abnormal, proving that Ye Tianming was undoubtedly extraordinary.

But to Xiao Bei, this meant nothing, because at the Guanxuan Realm’s Main Academy, he had seen far too many terrifying geniuses. Those prodigies were truly horrifying, and in comparison, this Ye Tianming before him wasn’t so outstanding.

Xiao Bei took a step forward. He pointed to the sky with his fingers, and behind him, the Avatar mimicked the same action, extending a finger toward the sky.

Boom!

Above the Avatar’s head, a huge vortex silently formed, followed by terrifying temporal forces pouring down from that vortex.

With the enhancement of those temporal forces, the Avatar’s aura instantly surged wildly!

Avatar Divine Technique!

Xiao Bei stared at Ye Tianming in the distance, his eyes full of disdain. “An ant dares to call himself ‘Tianming’ (Heavenly Mandate). In this world, there is only one Tianming, and that is my big brother Yang Jia!”

As he spoke, killing intent suddenly surged in his eyes. “Ant, today, I will kill you with one finger!”

With those words, the finger of the Avatar behind him suddenly pointed downward.