Surviving in high-level martial arts and stacking Hextech

Chapter 102 "Cause and Effect"

After a dizzying spin, Jiang Feng returned to the outer perimeter of the ruins.

As soon as he showed up, he sensed something was off.

Looking around again, Lin Lu wasn't there... Zhang Ruanruan wasn't there either.

Based on what had happened before, he roughly understood what had occurred.

I just can't quite figure it out.

With Ge Cheng, a martial artist at the upper stage of the Meridian Opening Realm, around, why were Lin Lu and the others able to escape?

Fang Ruo's body suddenly trembled amidst the crowd.

Another wave of humiliation washed over her. She bit her cold, beautiful lips tightly, thinking to herself, "Next time... could you please let me prepare before you come in? Don't suddenly shout like that."

"Oh," Jiang Feng replied coldly.

Actually, it's not surprising that Fang Ruo resisted. Her own realm was at the peak of the Qi and Blood Realm, almost reaching the Sitting Illumination Realm. However, this realm cultivates the power of the mind, focusing on meditation and concentration, without distractions.

Jiang Feng's sudden words in her mind gave her a fleeting illusion that a demon had possessed her.

Three minutes later, Fang Ruo managed to cut off the communication in her mind and confirm that the connection was over. Only then did the humiliation on her face barely fade away.

"So many things happened after they left..."

After digesting the intelligence, Jiang Feng was stunned. He never expected Lin Yuan to betray him, or that a grandmaster would intervene to save Lin Lu and take Zhang Ruanruan away.

He looked anxiously into the distance, but the principals had no time to pay attention to them.

At the very center of them, the Grandmaster-level city lord, Su Qingshan, was surrounded by the crowd and they were discussing something.

He was too far away to hear clearly, but he could vaguely see Xu Yuan's brows sometimes relaxed and sometimes furrowed.

Ten minutes later, the principals seemed to have reached some kind of tacit understanding and the discussion ended.

"Jiang Feng is back?"

After the discussion ended, Ge Cheng came over. Although he looked serious, he still managed a smile when he saw Jiang Feng.

He never hesitates to smile at geniuses, especially those from his own country.

Jiang Feng nodded respectfully in greeting.

Then, the ring on his hand glowed faintly, and one by one... corpses were placed steadily on the ground.

Seeing this, several high school principals, who were already prepared, silently stepped forward, thanked Jiang Feng, and then retrieved the remains of their respective high school students.

Then, the room fell into a deathly silence.

"Now that everyone's here, let's hurry back."

The one who broke the silence was Su Qingshan, the man behind Ge Cheng.

He slowly walked forward, his gaze lingering on Jiang Feng for a moment. Although he did not exert any pressure, Jiang Feng's heart still skipped a beat for no reason. Fortunately, he had anticipated this when he was exchanging ideas with Fang Ruoxin earlier and had used the power of the causal mist in advance.

This power can even conceal the perception of the Dao artifacts left behind by the Martial King, so there's no reason why a Grandmaster would discover the special nature of my body.

As expected, Su Qingshan withdrew his gaze.

However, before Jiang Feng could even catch his breath, a gentle voice suddenly rang in his mind.

It wasn't Fang Ruo, but Su Qingshan standing before me.

He seemed to not want others to hear this, so he chose to transmit his voice to Jiang Feng.

He only said one sentence: "Getting too involved is not a good thing for you."

A soft, lingering sound.

After saying that, he added, "I'm leaving."

This was not said specifically to Jiang Feng.

Upon hearing this, Katsuragi and everyone present bowed respectfully to him.

As soon as he finished speaking, a gentle breeze swept through the room.

He disappeared from the spot.

For a grandmaster, crossing the Dead Sea using their own physical body is far more convenient and faster than traveling by starship.

Jiang Feng, while pondering Su Qingshan's words, followed the others onto the starship.

The other party's meaning was easy to understand; it simply meant that he had used the causal fog too many times, resulting in his body being tainted with too much causal power.

Upon realizing this, he was horrified to discover that he had unknowingly used the power of cause and effect so many times!

Immediately afterwards, one idea after another sprouted uncontrollably in his mind like bamboo shoots after a spring rain.

If... if I hadn't relied on this mist to enter the Star Gazing Platform, would I have had no chance to compete with Lu Hengzhou for the Star Essence? Would things have turned into Lu Hengzhou fighting Lin Lu, allowing Lin Lu to seize the Star Essence?

Wouldn't Zhang Ruanruan also be unable to "arrive at the right moment," be forced to absorb the Star Essence, and then be taken away by that hostile Grandmaster?

No, no...

Things may have gone astray from the very beginning...

Earlier at the library, he didn't feel deceived by Lin Lu, but after learning about Lu Hengzhou and the others' experience in the herb garden from Fang Ruo, and considering Lin Lu's identity, he suddenly realized that his encounter with Lin Lu at the library might not be a coincidence.

Most likely, she used some means to find him.

If that's the case, then following this line of thought, if I hadn't used the power of cause and effect to resist the Martial King's rejection of my divine blood, I wouldn't have been able to enter the library. Would I still have encountered Lin Lu? Would she have learned of the existence of the Star Marrow? Would Luo Feng and Ding Xiuqi still be alive? Would Zhang Ruanruan still be alive?

Could it be that, through a series of unforeseen circumstances, I've ended up harming them?

Thinking of this, Jiang Feng almost stumbled and fell on the steps.

Yuan Guannan helped him steady from behind.

"Don't be too sad either."

Yuan Guannan was equally distressed and didn't know how to comfort others. After a long while, he could only leave out this dry sentence.

Jiang Feng regained some of his senses, but his expression remained complex, sometimes melancholy, sometimes certain, sometimes shocked, and sometimes bewildered.

"Don't overthink it." After boarding the starship, Xu Yuan patted him on the shoulder from behind. "Some things are beyond your control as a student."

His face, too, bore an unyielding, deep sorrow.

"I have something to tell you."

After he finished speaking, once the starship was started, Xu Yuan called all the remaining students and teachers of No. 13 Middle School into a room alone.

With a serious expression, he lowered his voice and said, "Listen up, everyone. After this starship takes the students from the other high schools back to No. 1 High School, it will then give a separate ride to the students from the three high schools in Lancheng."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Feng's expression hardened, and he finally suppressed his thoughts for the time being, beginning to listen carefully.

"Ultimately, the root of the problem lies in Lancheng, in our No. 13 Middle School. That Grandmaster can actually use the Soul Split Blood, a technique only the Fang family possesses." This means that there's a very high probability that the head of the Fang family in Lancheng has already...

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He stopped there, glancing at Fang Ruo, who had already figured everything out. Her face turned deathly pale, and even her fingertips trembled slightly.

Xu Yuan withdrew his gaze, looked up, and sighed deeply, his tone filled with self-reproach: "And then, it was also my dereliction of duty as the principal. I never imagined that Vice Principal Lin Yuan, who had worked alongside me for over twenty years and watched No. 13 Middle School grow step by step to where it is today, had secretly defected and joined the camp of the 'Sea of ​​Dark Matter' long ago."

The atmosphere in the room froze instantly after those words were spoken.

The crowd was speechless.

Yes, even the school's vice principal has become like this...

Will they win?