Chapter 1334 ‘Hand of Darkness’, World’s Secret!
Of course, it was impossible for Sun Mo to leave just because of one word from this person. However, just when he wanted to ask further, a dark great teacher suddenly appeared close to the Daybreak Starlord’s ears and said something. After that, this Starlord’s countenance turned extremely grim.
By the time he raised his head again and looked toward the group from the Skyraise Academy, his gaze was filled with killing intent.
“I’m sorry, there’s a change in the situation. All of you must die now!”
The Daybreak Starlord finished the soy milk in his hands. “If you don’t put up a struggle, you can die an easier death!”
“Arrogant!”
The Skyraise Academy’s leader flew into rage.
“What on earth happened?”
Xianyu Wei was confused.
“Sun Mo, I’ve always admired you and treated you as a close friend. So this time around, I’ll help you out!”
As the Daybreak Starlord spoke, he tossed a piece of rock that was the size of a walnut to Sun Mo. “This is a secret treasure that we from the Dark Dawn use to search for our companions. It’s similar to your spirit qi radar. With it, you’ll be able to find our main force. They should be surrounding the Central Province Academy’s great teacher group and killing them!”
“Why?”
Sun Mo was perplexed.
“Someone will explain it to you!”
After the Daybreak Starlord said that, he appeared before the Skyraise Academy’s leader in a flash and launched a heavy punch.
Boom!
Spirit pressure gushed out.
“Teacher, what should we do?”
Helian Beifang didn’t know what to do.
By right, dark great teachers were bad people and thus they should be helping the Skyraise Academy. However, the Daybreak Starlord didn’t seem to be a completely bad person either.
“Could this be an excuse to make us leave and then they’d prepare to take us down individually?”
Xianyu Wei guessed.
“You’re underestimating a Starlord’s character!”
Li Ziqi was speechless. These people were very arrogant and didn’t care to use such schemes.
“Let’s go!”
Sun Mo was worried about Lu Zhiruo and was planning on heading to look for the Central Province Academy’s great teacher group first.
The secret treasure given by the Daybreak Starlord was a good thing. After it was channeled with spirit qi, a pointer would be condensed inside, and no matter where Sun Mo headed, it would continue to point in one direction.
Using it, Sun Mo found An Xinhui’s group an hour later.
Right now, they were blocked by two groups of people in a side hall.
“Be careful not to be discovered!”
The moment Li Ziqi finished saying this, an arrow came down and struck her spirit rune armor, erupting a ball of bright sparks.
“What accuracy!”
Helian Beifang was surprised and immediately went on guard with his blade. Meanwhile, Jiang Leng had darted out, but soon his surprised gasp rang out.
“Junior Martial Sister?” Jiang Leng called out. “Teacher, it’s Junior Martial Sister Baiwu!”
Li Ziqi’s group was both a little surprised and happy.
Ying Baiwu followed Jiang Leng over, and with a plop, dropped to her knees in front of Sun Mo.
“Teacher, I’m sorry. Eldest Martial Sister, I didn’t know that it was you!”
The iron-headed young girl had grown into a charming lady. Her black leather armor brought out her toned figure.
“Senior Martial Sister, you’ve joined the Dark Dawn?”
The moment Xianyu Wei asked this, Li Ziqi glared at her. (Are you stupid? Her father is the Dark Dawn’s biggest boss. Is this considered joining?)
(It is Baiwu’s home!)
“Get up!”
Sun Mo helped Ying Baiwu up and heaved a sigh of relief when he saw that she was looking quite good. Then, he recalled An Xinhui and the others, “The people from the Central Province Academy are in front?”
“Senior Martial Sister Zhiruo will be fine, but Mistress…”
Ying Baiwu was hesitant to speak.
Sun Mo wanted to go over but was pulled back by Ying Baiwu.
“Teacher Sun, don’t go over. This world is a lot more dangerous than what you see it as. My father, Uncle Sun, and Uncle Su are all fighting hard for the future of the Nine Provinces!”
Ying Baiwu knelt again and tried hard to persuade Sun Mo.
“You guys wait here!”
Sun Mo swung off Ying Baiwu’s hand and darted out at rapid speed.
Li Ziqi wanted to follow after him but was stopped by Tantai Yutang and Helian Beifang.
“Listen to Teacher. Don’t go and create trouble!”
The sickly guy was suddenly very firm.
Li Ziqi gave him a punch in anger and then looked toward Ying Baiwu. “What happened to you back then?”
“After An Zaiyi woke up, saints kept on disappearing. My father knew that he wouldn’t be able to hide anymore and thus planned on placing some bets on Teacher. However, he found my existence!”
Ying Baiwu explained simply, “He then quickly contacted Uncle Sun to have me moved!”
“So your disappearance is actually you being saved?”
Xianyu Wei was very angry. “Then why didn’t you write a letter to Teacher to explain this? Do you know how many years Teacher stayed in the Darkness Continent to look for you?”
Ying Baiwu cried, “I can’t. Otherwise, I’d expose everyone’s traces!” “Who is the Uncle Sun you were referring to??”
Li Ziqi was puzzled. It sounded like this man was a major character on the same level as the Dawn Sovereign. Was there such a person in the Nine Provinces?
“Not everyone who has been exiled to the Darkness Continent would die. Sometimes, they’d live and reproduce there, forming tribes. After a while, some of them established a dark famous school to teach the next generation principles as well as the necessary information to survive.”
Ying Baiwu introduced, “Uncle Sun is the current headmaster of the dark famous school!”
“He sounds very amazing!” Tantai Yutang wanted to meet this person, but what Ying Baiwu said next caused him to be stunned.
“He is also Teacher’s father!”
(What?)
Everyone exchanged glances.
This piece of news was so surprising that everyone didn’t know how they should react.
“What was happening?”
Li Ziqi could only ask this.
“Back then, Uncle Sun came to the Darkness Continent to train himself and discovered the truth to this world. He then set his lifelong goal to be the release of the people from the Nine Provinces!”
Ying Baiwu said, “Do you guys know? He was also the successor that An Zaiyi had chosen. He could have become a high and mighty shepherd, possessing almost endless life, but he gave up on that.”
“Shepherd?”
Tantai Yutang scratched his head hard. (Why are there so many new terms? I’m feeling confused.)
“Isn’t it unsuitable for you to be addressing Teacher’s father as uncle?”
Xianyu Wei spotted a blind spot.
“Uncle told me to address him as such!”
Ying Baiwu thought to herself, (Is this the right time to think about this problem? The world is going to end!)
“Forget it, let’s not think about these things. I believe that Teacher will be able to take care of everything well!”
Tantai Yutang gave up on thinking.
Sun Mo ran crazily. Suddenly, he stopped in his tracks when he saw a group of black-clothed men surrounding An Zaiyi and An Xinhui.
As for the other teachers and students, all of them were dead with the exception of Gu Xiuxun, Jin Mujie, and Lu Zhiruo.
Sun Mo saw Liu Mubai and Fang Wuji, two great teachers with the beautiful reputation of being the twin jade annulus of Jinling when Sun Mo was still an intern teacher. However, they were both dead now.
This made Sun Mo feel very angry.
“Wuuuuu, Xuanyuan Po, you’re such a bad
guy!”
Lu Zhiruo cried sadly.
“Senior Martial Sister, don’t cry!”
Xuanyuan Po held onto her, feeling troubled.
“I’m going to kill you! You’re a bad guy! Those are all Teacher’s colleagues and students!”
The papaya girl was so angry that she tried to grab Xuanyuan Po.
The combat addict didn’t wish to harm Lu Zhiruo, but the latter left a number of bloody scratches on his face. He was about to try to persuade her further when his body suddenly stiffened up and he turned his head. When he saw Sun Mo, he immediately lowered his head.
“Teacher!”
“Let go of her!”
Sun Mo bellowed.
Xuanyuan Po subconsciously let go.
“Teacher!”
Lu Zhiruo immediately dashed up to Sun Mo to complain to him, “These… These people are all bad. They killed everyone!” “Little Momo!”
An Xinhui called out in her heart.
“Sun… You’ve finally come!”
Gu Xiuxun and Jin Mujie were also covered in wounds. If it wasn’t because An Xinhui had been helping them, it’d have been over for the two of them as well.
“Headmaster An, given how strong you are, it doesn’t make sense that you aren’t able to protect the great teachers and students from your school, right?”
Sun Mo mocked and then looked toward the two major characters on the other side. “Dawn Sovereign, don’t you think that you’ve gone overboard by doing this? I thought of you as a good person!”
As for the other person, it was the dark famous school’s headmaster. However, Sun Mo didn’t wish to pay him any heed at the moment.
“Sometimes, good people have their difficulties too!”
Ji Shiwen sighed, “The people from the Central Province Academy must die.”
“Why?”
Sun Mo asked.
“It’s because An Zaiyi is the shepherd, and all the teachers and students in the Central Province Academy have the possibility of becoming the next generation shepherd.”
Headmaster Sun looked toward him with a cold tone. “And you’re the one with the highest likelihood!”
“Hey, hey, this is your son. Can you not be so fierce? We can talk things out slowly!”
Ji Shiwen tried to mediate the situation.
“What did you say?”
Sun Mo’s brows were furrowed so tightly together that they could clamp a nest of crabs to death.
“This Headmaster Sun was the personal disciple that I had the highest hopes for, a junior that I valued even more than my own son. At the same time, he’s also your father!”
An Zaiyi spoke up and looked straight at Sun Chuanming. “Unfortunately, he made me extremely disappointed!”
“My father?”
Sun Mo was stunned.
“You don’t need to have any emotional burden. I didn’t assume the responsibility of a father anyway, so you don’t have to accept
me!”
Sun Chuanming’s voice sounded very cold.
“What the f*ck are you guys talking about?”
Sun Mo bellowed.
“That’s right, there’s no need to mention such trivial family matters. We’re better off talking about that ‘hand of darkness[1]’ that’s controlling the Nine Provinces!”
Ji Shiwen looked toward An Zaiyi. “The two successors you like the most are both present. Aren’t you going to say anything?”
“You guys won’t be able to win. You don’t know how powerful ‘God’ is!”
An Zaiyi’s tone was very calm like an emotionless robot. “Everything you have is given by God. Without God, you guys are just insignificant aboriginals that can’t even compare to ants! You should be thankful!”
“Grandfather!”
An Xinhui looked puzzled upon hearing this. Moreover, seeing her grandfather in this state made her feel very strange and scared.
“Who’d understand if you said it like this?” Ji Shiwen teased, “Why don’t I explain it for
you?”
An Zaiyi didn’t stop him. Since he had made this great hunting plan, he didn’t plan on letting them leave alive. Therefore, it was fine even if they were to find out about the inside story.
“Sun Mo, the entire Nine Provinces is just a sheep pen and we, the great teachers, are just the food for the God that An Zaiyi mentioned!”
Ji Shiwen’s words didn’t sound horrifying, but when one gave it more careful thought, it’d give one the chills.
“All humans are food?”
Lu Zhiruo was surprised.
“Not all humans, only great teachers as well as people who can cultivate!”
Ji Shiwen explained.
[1] Referring to there being someone in the shadows controlling things behind the scenes.