The Path of the Martial Arts BOSS
Chapter 135 - 130: After the Battle

Chapter 135: Chapter 130: After the Battle

The place where the students of Mountain River Academy gathered was still engaged in fierce combat.

Three of the critically injured students from Mountain River Academy had two die from the sudden assault, and the remaining one also seemed not far from death.

"Senior Brother Lin, Lu Yi has disappeared..." Suddenly, one of the students noticed something unusual on the small hill, the Philosophy student Lu Yi who had been watching them had disappeared without a trace, and shouted instantly.

"Gone..." Lin Chenfeng remembered that it had been a while since he saw Lu Yi shooting arrows, wondering what exactly had happened on that hillside.

After a brief moment of thought, Lin Chenfeng made a decisive decision, saying, "Junior brothers, counterattack."

Regardless of what had happened on Lu Yi’s side, it had come to the point where Mountain River Academy had no choice but to fight back. Continuing to be restrained, the entire army might be wiped out.

"Form the ’Dragon Formation.’"

Following Lin Chenfeng’s order, many students who still had the strength for battle gathered their "Vast Righteous Qi" together with their companions, and a faint white mist reappeared over everyone’s head, within which a pure white cloud dragon faintly visible was dancing and soaring.

The Confucian ’Dragon Formation,’ derived from the beautiful vision of "everyone being like a dragon," was a method where everyone combined their strength, forming a dragon, and the power of the dragon could then be controlled by everyone.

Lin Chenfeng took the position of the dragon’s head, directing everyone’s attacks, "Junior brothers, follow my command and attack that giant Mechanical Man together."

"Yes," everyone responded in unison.

The pure white cloud dragon, gathering everyone’s "Vast Righteous Qi," released a silent roar. Although silent, the strong True Qi generated by the roar caused the surrounding trees to shake, and some smaller trees were even directly snapped by the solid gust. Enemies who had wanted to take advantage of the situation were also deterred by this gust and dared not approach.

The cloud dragon flicked its tail, carrying everyone’s True Qi, and charged toward the clumsily moving giant Mechanical Man.

"Boom—"

A loud noise occurred, and the combined force of everyone’s Vast Qi cloud dragon managed to knock the giant Mechanical Man off its feet, sending it flying ten feet away.

On the Mechanical Man, the chest area where it collided with the dragon’s head was also struck, creating numerous cracks and caving in. After all, being hastily assembled from ordinary trees in the mountains, it was large but not solid, so being destroyed by this collective attack was expected.

From those fine cracks, fresh, crimson blood gradually seeped out. Mo Family’s Mechanical Man, if the operator was not at the Divine Origin Realm, could not be manipulated remotely with spiritual power.

And this giant Mechanical Man could not possibly be controlled by puppetry using threads; someone had to be hiding inside it, acting like an Iron Man. As the chest of the Mechanical Man caved in, the Iron Man hidden at this position naturally could not escape a crushing fate.

With one collective powerful move executed, everyone from Mountain River Academy exerted all their strength, and afterwards, all were somewhat weakened, with only two or three individuals of profound power still having some strength left. Among them, Lin Chenfeng retained the most strength and now could take this opportunity to chase and attack those people from Daqian.

Lin Chenfeng and the others squeezed out the True Qi left in their bodies, controlled the Vast Qi Dragon, and charged into the enemy group approaching under the protection of the giant Mechanical Man.

Again, there was a loud noise, and the enemies directly in front of them were all shattered to their core by the "Vast Righteous Qi" contained in that strike, dying instantly on the spot. The remaining people panicked and fled, their courage shattered by the attack.

From Daqian’s side, Qing Yu alone had killed seven or eight people, and could be called the unsung hero of the Mountain River Academy side. Meanwhile, the military and the Six Gates had taken their people to the Academy at the summit to look for the hidden Emperor Martial Arts.

Although Lu Yi had used his bow and arrow as a threat in the recent skirmish in the dense forest, Lin Chenfeng and other proficient students had also made their kills.

The roles of hunter and prey were always easy to reverse. In just a moment, the hunter suddenly became the prey, suffering heavy casualties and forced to flee in disarray.

Seeing the enemy retreat, Lin Chenfeng breathed a sigh of relief, then stumbled and quickly steadied himself with two steps to avoid falling. "Junior brothers, if you still have strength, let’s gather the bodies of our fallen brothers first," he said. "After the struggle in the Literary Arena ends, we will take care of their remains."

Hearing this, although the others said they still had strength, they struggled to gather the bodies of students who had died in the battle.

After a while, Zeng Yue finished counting the bodies and reported to Lin Chenfeng, "Senior Brother Lin, the bodies of the junior brothers have been gathered. In this battle, seven junior brothers unfortunately passed away, and two junior brothers are seriously injured. And..."

"And what?" Lin Chenfeng asked.

"The whereabouts of the junior brother called Meng De are unknown," Zeng Yue said.

"Junior Brother Meng De..." Lin Chenfeng murmured. He remembered the junior brother who had brought him Zhang Fengqian’s body, and who had also been the first to locate Lu Yi. This junior brother should not have been the kind to flee in the face of battle.

"Senior Brother," Feng Jiu suddenly interjected, "Junior Brother Meng De led one of the attackers away during the battle."

"Is that so..." Lin Chenfeng felt somewhat relieved, at least his junior brother hadn’t fled from the battle.

To tell the truth, as the leader of this struggle for positions in the Literary Arena, Lin Chenfeng also knew some matters related to the Haqi River, which could isolate the Small Secret Realm from the outside world aside from the deaths of both the Academy’s head and the lecturers; there was only one other possibility, a lecturer capable of controlling the Haqi River had betrayed.

He didn’t disclose this matter to stabilize everyone’s spirits, but he had lost some confidence in the "Vast Righteous Qi." If a lecturer who had deeply cultivated the "Vast Righteous Qi" for decades could betray, then couldn’t a student in the Secret Realm also betray?

With this thought, Lin Chenfeng couldn’t help but feel somewhat wary of the other students. However, the current situation made him feel a bit guilty for worrying unnecessarily, as betrayal was just an isolated case, after all, one must not generalize.

Unbeknownst to the relieved Lin Chenfeng, a certain "unsung hero" had already eliminated the traitor. Now, not even a trace remained.

And now, this "unsung hero" was at a hidden high spot, observing the scene below with his superior eyesight.

"It seems the losses are still within an acceptable range..." Qing Yu counted the remaining students, slightly surprised in his thoughts.

Having nine people alive was quite good. Even if those two seriously injured students were only alive, they could still be used as cannon fodder if necessary, which was very good. And these nine who had survived the battle must have gained some experience in dealing with the enemy, possessing the strength to fight the remaining enemies from Daqian.

"This time Daqian really played a bad game, thinking the battle was almost certain to win, but it turned into an unexpected and disastrous defeat."

As he closed his eyes and mediated cross-legged, like the others below, Qing Yu silently recuperated, preparing for the battle at the summit.