Divine Emperor of Heavenly Destiny

And just like that, everyone except Luo Wendun vanished with Lu Chao.

Luo Wendun, who was left behind, looked back at Senior Sister Sky Cliff. A moment later, she crumpled to the ground.

The other Sky Cliff Academy students rushed over, crying out, ”Senior Sister, are you alright?”

”The Fake Lu Chao is clearly only at the Innate Third Layer, so why is he so terrifying? Utterly terrifying,” a Sky Cliff Academy student said, his voice trembling.

At that moment, Luo Wendun casually strolled over...

The crowd of Sky Cliff students watched him with extreme wariness, but Luo Wendun spoke nonchalantly, ”Senior Sister Sky Cliff, if you think Brother Lu’s proposal isn’t half-bad, just let me know... Take your time to consider it.”

Luo Wendun, of course, wasn’t afraid. In this forest, even if he couldn’t win a fight, he could certainly escape.

The fact that Lu Chao dared to leave him here meant he had absolute confidence in him.

One breath, two breaths...

Senior Sister Sky Cliff staggered to her feet. The first words out of her mouth were, ”There’s no need to consider. I agree.”

The group of Sky Cliff Academy students stared at their Senior Sister in disbelief.

Luo Wendun was a little surprised. ”Shouldn’t you hate Brother Lu’s guts? How could you agree so readily?”

As a member of the Chaotic Hundred Countries, Luo Wendun knew full well the despair and hatred felt by a Small Kingdom that had been crushed.

In response, Senior Sister Sky Cliff bit her lip lightly and slowly raised her head.

”Hate is one thing, but his strength is undeniable.”

”Given the chance for Sky Cliff Academy to avoid being bullied and to join the Outer Courtyard, I am of course willing to cooperate with you.”

Did she hate him?

Of course, Senior Sister Sky Cliff had hated him before this.

She had even joined the crowd in mocking him just yesterday. But now, having been utterly crushed and beaten into submission, her perspective had changed. She had even wanted to sneer and say that Fan Jinhua was the one leading the troops back then, that he was just a fraud in a mask trying to scare people.

But she never got the chance to say a word. Thirty Sky Cliff Academy students had been taken down in an instant.

Luo Wendun nodded, then pointed toward the mountain path. ”In that case, you should all hurry up the path to stop the other academy teams. Tell them about the ones blocking the way and convince them to join forces for a charge.”

”Oh, and don’t mention that Brother Lu is the one leading this. It might backfire.”

Just as Lu Chao had said, time was short, and more and more teams were rushing over.

They now needed an academy with enough clout to stop these people and unite the teams coming up from behind.

And Sky Cliff Academy’s influence was not insignificant...

But they absolutely could not say Lu Chao was leading. Otherwise, many of the academies from the small kingdoms wouldn’t accept it.

Those who hadn’t been crushed by him would naturally not submit to him.

Senior Sister Sky Cliff understood immediately. If Luo Wendun had said all this at the beginning, she certainly wouldn’t have accepted it and would have still thrown a few sarcastic remarks at Lu Chao. But now, she was utterly compliant.

...

While the people from Sky Cliff Academy began to take action, stopping one team after another on the mountain path...

At the finish line of the first trial, seven people were standing.

One of them was none other than Vice Dean Li Wumian of Celestial King Academy, and the others seemed to subtly treat him as their leader.

Just then, an old man with a Furious Lion embroidered on his clothes asked in a low voice, ”Vice Dean Li, shouldn’t we intervene? After all, this is truly unfair to the academies from the small kingdoms.”

Upon hearing this, Li Wumian just let out a cold sneer...

”What’s there to intervene in? They haven’t broken any of the first trial’s rules.”

”Besides, isn’t it more or less these same twenty academies blocking the path that would end up competing for the spots anyway? By doing this, they’re actually saving us a lot of trouble. I’ve always been against the three-trial rule for the placement battles.”

As Li Wumian spoke, some of the other six furrowed their brows slightly, while others wore indifferent expressions.

These seven were, of course, the vice deans of the Seven Great Inner Courtyards, and they were the ones presiding over the first trial.

At this, the vice dean of Tiger Flame Academy chuckled. ”I support Brother Li. The academies from the Small Kingdoms are useless anyway.”

Li Wumian gave a low chuckle. ”It seems Brother Zhong understands me best...”

Since the vice deans of the two strongest academies, Dragon Flame and Tiger Flame, had both spoken this way, the others naturally voiced no further objections.

Moreover, they all knew that the Yard Commander of the Order Enforcement Team was Marquis Longyin.

If Marquis Longyin objected, he would naturally report it to the higher-ups. If the higher-ups felt this was improper, they would issue an order. Since no order had come down, they would just let it be.

It all came back to the same point: the twenty academies blocking the path had not broken any rules.

...

In the sky, Marquis Longyin stood on the back of a Flying Bird Demon Beast, his eyes narrowed as he gazed down at the forest.

An Order Enforcement Team Member stepped forward and asked, ”Sir, are we not going to intervene?”

Marquis Longyin slowly retracted his gaze and chuckled softly. ”No. I find this quite interesting. Look, the people from Sky Cliff Academy have already started holding back the ones behind them. Things are about to get exciting.”

From above, they could see the movements of the Sky Cliff Academy students on the mountain path...

The Order Enforcement Team Member, however, frowned and said, ”It’s probably useless, right? Even if all the academies from the small kingdoms band together, they won’t be able to break through those twenty academies. Besides, I don’t believe all the small academies can successfully unite for a charge.”

To this, Marquis Longyin laughed again. ”But what if there’s a Military Genius among these Small Institutes?”

The Order Enforcement Team Members were stunned. If there was a Military Genius, that would be a different matter entirely. It would escalate into a massive charge, a battle of a thousand against a thousand. But if that happened... the entire first trial would descend into chaos.

”Chaos is good. All they know how to do is band together to bully the Small Institutes. They never stop to think that the Hundred Countries should be united.”

”My Brother Wang told them long ago that they must give the Small Institutes a chance, but it’s still the same old crap.”

”This will serve as a good lesson for certain people.”

At Marquis Longyin’s words, the Order Enforcement Team Members were once again stunned.

’Why does it sound like the Marquis thinks the Small Institutes can actually pull this off? It’s as if he’s certain of their victory.’

The team members didn’t know...

...that at this moment, Marquis Longyin was recalling Yin Ye’s words: The Fake Lu Chao was a Military Genius.

’Not much weaker than Fan Changcun... Now, let’s see if there’s any exaggeration in Yin Ye’s claim,’ Marquis Longyin thought to himself. However, the forest on the mountain hadn’t been trimmed in a long time and was dense and overgrown.

From his position in the air, Marquis Longyin couldn’t see how Lu Chao was moving.

...

In the forest, Lu Chao repeated his previous tactic...

He directly crushed the students from the four remaining academies in the forest. Afterward, just like Sky Cliff Academy, they naturally agreed to cooperate. They too went to the mountain path to stop the Small Institute teams coming from behind.

They told the Small Institutes about the tyrannical actions of Wind Wolf Academy and the others.

Including Sky Cliff Academy, these five academies were all ranked in the top thirty. They were considered strong among the academies of the Hundred Countries.

Their words carried weight and were easily believed.

However...

Nearly half of the Small Institutes refused to listen. They neither wanted nor dared to resist the academies of the Seven Great Flame Countries. They had never expected to win one of the twenty Outer Courtyard spots to begin with; they were just there to be part of the spectacle.

They refused to cooperate.

Faced with this spineless behavior, the students from Sky Cliff Academy and the others were furious but didn’t know what to do.

After some thought, the leaders of the five academies had no choice but to seek Lu Chao’s guidance...