Chapter 125: This Is Too Much!

Outside the Lingxu, before the live stream.

Everyone watching this scene was stunned into speechlessness.

"Holy shit! Holy shit! Holy shit!"

No matter who it was, they couldn't find a third word to say! It was just too damn shocking! Although the world within the Lingxu was more extreme than the outside, such a miraculous phenomenon had never occurred before.

Just as everyone was staring intently at the screen, the feed suddenly cut out!

"Holy shit! Holy shit! Holy shit!"

Everyone began to curse wildly.

"What the hell! Cutting the connection at the critical moment, just like playing a game with this damn system!"

"What happened? Hasn't the Lingxu live stream never been interrupted before?"

"Damn it! I finally got to witness a celestial phenomenon with my own eyes, and it just cuts off? That's too inhumane!"

"I'm just curious, is Xiang Nan dead or not?"

Inside the Lingxu.

Xiang Nan kept his eyes tightly shut, holding his breath and focusing his mind, absorbing the waves of spiritual power crashing into him.

Just as Yi Wenhao and Sun Yuankai led their team around to the front of the tent, a sudden gale erupted. Multicolored, ribbon-like flowing clouds rushed toward Xiang Nan, forming a vortex that whipped up the air and enveloped him at its center.

Seeing this, Yi Wenhao and the others were completely bewildered and dared not take another step forward. Weiya and Heihu, perhaps lacking common sense, actually stepped forward to investigate.

At that moment—

"BOOM!"

The high-speed, swirling multicolored clouds suddenly exploded, sending out layers of multicolored air waves. Wherever the air waves passed, everything was destroyed, leaving not a blade of grass behind. The entire tent was torn into countless fragments and scattered in all directions.

Weiya and Heihu, who were approaching, were instantly blasted into mists of blood by the air waves, leaving no bones behind. The students led by Yi Wenhao, realizing the situation was dire, had fortunately retreated a step earlier. Even so, they were battered and bruised, their internal organs suffering severe trauma. The blood mist from Weiya and Heihu splattered across their faces.

Terrified, the severely injured students immediately triggered their rescue signals. Faced with such a monstrously powerful phenomenon, no one dared to take any more risks.

As for Xiang Nan, wrapped in those multicolored clouds, they assumed he was as good as dead. He had likely been swallowed by the phenomenon.

Not far away, Su Yao and the others by the lake, seeing the sudden anomaly and the shadowy figures lurking around the tent, rushed over regardless of their own safety.

"Oh no! Someone is attacking Xiao Nan, and he's still in the tent!"

"Brother Xiang Nan, you must be alright, we're coming to save you!"

"Brother Nan, hold on! I'm coming!"

In her anxiety, Meng Qingwan channeled all her spiritual power. Flying from behind her was the spiritual artifact her master had bestowed upon her: seven small demonic-breaking arrows. Previously, she hadn't been able to wield them due to insufficient spiritual power, but after recent help from Xiang Nan, her cultivation had surged. In her desperate rage, she managed to activate the artifact.

The seven small arrows shot out instantly, heading straight for the figures around the tent. Because of the explosive force of the multicolored clouds, Yi Wenhao and his group had all been blasted to the ground, heavily injured. Before they could recover, the arrows arrived, hovering in mid-air less than a centimeter from their eyebrows.

The students from the Supreme Spirit Martial Academy were already powerless to resist; if the arrows had advanced even an inch, they would have been dead. Fortunately, the owner of the arrows was not a ruthless person and stopped them at the critical moment.

After the tent was shattered, Xiang Nan, still at the center of the cloud vortex, felt his internal spiritual power surging like a tidal wave, his limbs and bones still absorbing more energy. A moment later, the spiritual essence within the clouds was fully absorbed by Xiang Nan, and the dazzling colors quickly faded until they vanished completely.

Xiang Nan took a deep breath and calmly opened his eyes. In that instant, his gaze seemed to hold a starry sea, deep and unfathomable. Looking around, the scene had been completely transformed. The tent was gone, and within a twenty-meter radius of where he sat, not a blade of grass remained. He knew the powerful force he had just unleashed must have caused another celestial phenomenon. After the previous two instances of ancestral atavism, Xiang Nan had become numb to the occurrence of such events.

He looked ahead. Su Yao, Xu Jiya, Li Xiang, and Meng Qingwan were all rushing toward him, frantic with worry. Su Yao had even activated her half-cat ability, her long tail swaying behind her. Most notably, Meng Qingwan, usually gentle as water, now had a murderous glint in her eyes. Xiang Nan could feel her spiritual power surging.

"Xiao Nan, thank goodness! You're alright, you scared me to death!" Su Yao’s cat ears were standing tall, and she pounced on him with excitement.

Xiang Nan was caught off guard and hugged tightly, his head pressed into her chest and rubbed vigorously. That suffocating, fragrant sensation returned.

"Uh... I just wanted to ask..." Xiang Nan tried to say something, but the words were blocked in his throat.

"You have no idea how dangerous it was just now. Someone tried to ambush you, and there was that strange red cloud that exploded..." Su Yao kept rubbing his head while chattering away.

Xiang Nan could feel her urgency, but he really wanted to know what had happened. After a long while, Su Yao finally vented her anxiety and pulled his head away from her chest.

"Xiao Nan, Xiao Nan, were you blasted silly? Why aren't you saying anything? Do you still recognize me? I'm Su Yao, the 'Big Wildcat'—the nickname you gave me. Look at my fingers, what number is this?"

"Come on, are you acting in a movie? 'What number is this?' Even if the whole world went stupid, I wouldn't," Xiang Nan said with a smile. It wasn't that he didn't want to talk; it was just that he was being smothered!

Xiang Nan looked at Xu Jiya, Meng Qingwan, and Li Xiang, truly not knowing what to say. Should he tell them he had just undergone a fourth-tier ancestral atavism, and into a Xuan Bird at that? Nobody would believe him. Although everyone in this world underwent atavism, no one had ever jumped tiers, let alone skipped three tiers directly into the fourth-tier "Age of Dharma Decay."

Ever since he got the system, every event in his life had been incredible. But if he revealed this, it wouldn't just be a social media headline. He might end up being treated as a monster, taken to some large laboratory to be studied by scientists from all walks of life. Since the system had gifted him the ability to conceal his cultivation, it was better to keep things simple—playing the fool to bait the tiger was actually quite fun.

"What exactly happened just now?" Xiang Nan asked with an innocent look.

"A few students from the Supreme Spirit Martial Academy tried to ambush you. But for some reason, a phenomenon suddenly appeared in the sky, and the evening clouds turned into flowing ribbons that rushed into our camp, causing a powerful air blast. Those students were injured. The Lingxu rescue team has just carried them away," Meng Qingwan explained concisely.

"Brother Nan, this time I, Li Xiang, am completely convinced by you. With such a terrifying air blast, you don't even have a single scratch, and you look even more vibrant and dashing than before!" Li Xiang smacked his lips, still looking incredulous and envious.

"Has everyone noticed? There's such a thick smell of blood here, and it smells like... human blood!" Xu Jiya looked around, her brows tightly furrowed.

"When the two teams from the Supreme Spirit Martial Academy were carried away, they were each missing one support member. Could it be..." Meng Qingwan analyzed.

"Forget about them! Anyone who tries to mess with Xiao Nan deserves to die," Su Yao said dismissively. "Besides, it was the phenomenon that killed them, not Xiao Nan. Even if it was Xiao Nan, I'd support him. Mercy to the enemy is cruelty to oneself!"

"But why did they attack Xiang Nan in the first place?" Xu Jiya asked.

The group fell silent.

"I guess..." Su Yao pursed her lips in thought, "They must have been afraid our team would win the championship. Don't forget, their principal made a bet with Xiao Nan at the entrance."

Everyone nodded in agreement. No one expected that this ambush was actually just over a War Camel Beast. Furthermore, when Xiang Nan and his team had intercepted the beast, they hadn't even noticed who was hunting it. Regardless of who it was, if they wanted to rob it, they were going to get robbed back.