The first person to pop into his mind was Lu Yin, as only Lu Yin would cooperate with Xia Luo to ambush Xia Jiuyou while he was in Astral-10 and also had the ability to force Xia Jiuyou into an illusion.
Outside of Astral-10, the same moment Xia Jiuyou was injured, Xia Meng’s eyes went wide, and she moved out and tried to enter Astral-10.
However, there were invisible forces that isolated Astral-10, and there were also the academy’s mentors. The Sandmaster, the Rainmaster, the Starmaster, and Old Cai all appeared one by one.
Xia Meng’s body trembled as she looked at the people before her. “You’re looking to die! You actually dare to act against my Xia family?”
The Trialmaster raised his hand, and the Channeling Diagram appeared in front of the mentors.
It dispersed the power of Xia Meng’s attack, but she had a power level of more than 900,000. Even if the Trialmaster was able to disperse the attack a bit, it was not enough to stop the attack completely. All of the mentors worked together, only to still be injured by Xia Meng’s attack. “Out of my way!”
At this moment, a frantic laughter arose from within the academy. “You provoked the war! Hahahaha! You provoked the war, and you’ll suffer the consequences all by your own, hahahaha! Suffer the consequences…”
Xia Meng’s expression changed. This insane voice shot through her mind like a sharp blade and gave her a splitting headache. “Astral-10’s mad headmaster.”
The mentors looked at each other and then returned to Astral-10.
Xia Meng gritted her teeth and rushed towards Astral-10 once more. Down below, in the Rain Observatory, the crazy headmaster sensed something. He raised his head, once again completely mad.
“War, war—,” he shouted. He did not know what he was doing. He went from watching the rain from a platform, into space. The void changed in his passing, and space looked completely different, as though a different layer of the universe had been revealed.
An incomparable attack appeared in Xia Meng’s vision.
Xia Meng roared, “You old madman!”
She raised her hand, and there was a bang.
Fluctuations of invisible energy spread from Astral-10, sweeping out in all directions. At this moment, all of Erudite Flowzone trembled, and the tributary astral rivers were all pushed back.
All of the cultivators on the Wen family’s homeworld felt shocked when they sensed this terrifying power.
The Wen patriarch, Wen Zizai, dropped the broom he had been holding. The power he was sensing had completely erased his mood to sweep. He went pale and turned to look towards Astral-10. What had happened?
In the ruins of Astral-10, outside of the flames, Xiao Xuan and others all saw a strange sight.
They had first had a blade attack brush by them, and then they had seen the man who called himself Xia He attack Xia Luo. He had then gone still before starting to laugh maniacally, sounding just like the crazy headmaster. They had no idea where the attack had come from that had struck the crazed man, but then he had shouted out ‘Lu Yin.’
Lu Yin was a legend for the students of Astral-10. He was the reason that Astral-10 had managed to escape its period of decline and enter a time of prosperity. This place had once been known as the first of the ten branches of the Astral Combat Academy, and all of the student had joined Astral-10 because of Lu Yin.
Arbiter Lu Yin, are you here?
Xia Jiuyou was smashed into the flames by Lu Yin’s Vacuum Palm. He vomited up blood, feeling agony throughout his internal organs. However, he had also escaped the illusion, but then his vision went black once again. Night Advent had fallen.
Xia Jiuyou’s pupils shrank sharply, and he rushed forward, trying to escape Lu Yin’s spiritual force attack. Xia Jiuyou’s spiritual force could not compare to Lu Yin’s.
It was easy to escape Night Advent, and Xia Jiuyou leaped out of the flames. There was blood dripping from his mouth. He saw the students who were watching from a distance, and his eyes flashed with a fierce light as he raised a hand to grab for one of them.
He easily grabbed a girl by her neck. “Lu Yin, I’ll kill her if you attack again!”
“Who are you going to kill?” A familiar voice spoke from in front of Xia Jiuyou, and he looked at the girl, only to see that she had become his father, Xia Yi.
Xia Jiuyou’s scalp went numb. This was not good! He was in another illusion.
There was another bang, and a sharp pain erupted from his head. Lu Yin’s Vacuum Palm had landed square on Xia Jiuyou’s head and Xis Jiuyou’s feebly let go of his grip. His pupils dilated, and his vision blurred and started to grow dark. He could no longer tell the difference between reality and illusion.
The gap was too big. Xia Jiuyou was never even able to see Lu Yin, and he had been on the back foot throughout their entire exchange.