Before the words even finished echoing.
The masked figure's body suddenly erupted with black light.
Wang Mingyuan exerted spiritual energy at his ankles, instantly shattering the restraints.
In a flash, the ground where he had been standing was instantly corroded into a three-meter-wide deep pit, black smoke rising from the edges.
"Running away? Teacher Wang, after teaching for so many years, you must be quite good at educating students?"
The masked figure slowly stood up, his black robe billowing without any wind: "Come on, teach me how to be a good student?"
The next second.
Wang Mingyuan's pupils contracted sharply as he whipped his head around to look in Su Zhan's direction.
He sensed it.
"BOOM!!!"
An ear-splitting explosive sound.
Su Zhan's figure was sent flying backward like a broken kite.
The white spiritual light around him shattered like fragile glass, his body crashing through two walls before finally slamming hard into an electronics store hundreds of meters away.
Display case glass exploded violently, countless electronic device fragments scattering everywhere.
In the dust and smoke.
A more burly black-robed figure slowly retracted his fist.
The same pale mask, the same eerie attire.
Only the crack patterns on the mask were different.
He looked down at his own fist, emitting a dull chuckle: "Genius? Heh... still needs to grow up first."
Su Zhan lay in the rubble, his vision flickering black.
He could feel at least three broken ribs, his right arm twisted unnaturally, his mouth full of blood.
Well then, just got the Stream Realm experience card and already got smashed by a single punch.
He hadn't seen how the opponent attacked at all.
That punch was faster than the limits of dynamic visual capture.
This indicated.
The attacker's strength was clearly on the same level as Wang Mingyuan's.
Not someone he could challenge.
"Su Zhan!"
Wang Mingyuan's voice lost its calmness, fluctuating for the first time.
"Don't rush, Teacher Wang."
The original masked figure blocked the path with a sinister smile: "Our lesson isn't finished yet..."
"BOOM——!!!"
The burly masked figure's heavy fist smashed hard against the protective barrier, the entire light screen shaking violently.
Spiderweb-like cracks instantly covered the protective barrier's surface.
On the verge of complete collapse.
At the critical moment.
Wang Mingyuan diverted a strand of mental energy to remotely reinforce it.
The cracks on the protective barrier healed at a visible rate, barely blocking this fatal blow.
"Ahhh! It's going to break! It's going to break!"
"Help! Awakener sir, save us!"
"I don't want to die! I don't want to die!"
"It's all your fault! Insisting on hiding here waiting to die!"
"They're coming! Those monsters are coming!"
The survivors completely descended into panic, cries, curses, and prayers mixing together.
Some collapsed to the ground, some frantically pounded against the light barrier, and some even began snatching defensive items from others.
"Quiet! Everyone stay calm!"
Wang Mingyuan shouted sharply.
But in that moment of distraction.
The original masked figure seized the opportunity, his bone scythe swinging down toward Wang Mingyuan's head.
Wang Mingyuan hastily dodged.
But got his shoulder grazed.
Blood instantly stained his clothes red.
He had to focus entirely on dealing with the immediate attack, no longer able to spare attention for the distant protective barrier.
"BANG——!!!"
Another earth-shaking loud noise.
This time, no miracle occurred.
The burly masked figure's heavy fist completely shattered the crumbling protective barrier, white spiritual light scattering and dissolving like snowflakes.
"No!!!"
Wang Mingyuan's furious roar echoed through the ruins.
But it was too late.
The unprotected survivors were completely exposed to danger.
All the Scythe Mist Mantises lurking in the shadows now raised their heads.
The first one pounced on the nearest old woman, scythe forelimbs easily piercing through her chest.
Followed by the second, the third...
Hundreds upon thousands of monsters surged from all directions, like a bloody feast officially beginning.
Some tried to escape but were surrounded by more monsters.
Some picked up random objects to resist but were like mantises trying to stop a chariot.
Blood soon stained the ground red.
Wang Mingyuan's eyes nearly burst with rage, but he couldn't break free.
The masked figure's attacks grew increasingly fierce.
He could only watch this massacre unfold, his ears filled with the rising and falling screams...
Su Zhan lay in the rubble, struggling to open his eyes.
Blood continuously flowed from the wound on his forehead, blurring his vision.
He struggled to get up but couldn't.
Who knew how many bones were broken.
The burly masked figure was walking toward him step by step, unhurried, as if toying with prey, letting the prey gradually feel death's approach.
Each step felt like stepping on Su Zhan's heart.
The shadow of death had never felt so real before.
Move! Move now!
Su Zhan screamed wildly in his heart, but his body felt leaden.
Broken ribs pierced his lungs, each breath bringing tearing pain.
His left hand clawed uselessly at the ground, unable to even grab a suitable piece of rubble.
The masked figure stopped before him, looking down condescendingly.
Through blood-stained vision, Su Zhan saw the other slowly raising his fist.
Time seemed to stretch.
Su Zhan suddenly remembered many things: remembering the pain on awakening day, remembering the first class at Vermilion Bird Academy, remembering his teammates' expressions when they said "Use what we've learned to protect our mountains and rivers unharmed"...
He swore, if there was a next life.
He would definitely not knowingly head toward danger.
Even if the person asking him to do so was the one who saved his life, the person who treated him best in this world.
The last second before the fist fell.
Su Zhan closed his eyes.
"BANG——!"
An ear-splitting explosive sound erupted by his ears, but the expected severe pain didn't come.
Su Zhan's eyes snapped open to see Wang Mingyuan, who had somehow broken through the encirclement, blocking in front of him.
The teacher's right hand firmly held back the burly masked figure's fist, while his left hand swung backward, a spiritual energy barrier instantly enveloping Su Zhan.
"Go!"
Wang Mingyuan shouted lowly without looking back, his voice unprecedentedly grave.
The two masked figures closed in from left and right.
The original tall thin one sinisterly swung his bone scythe: "Teacher Wang planning to fight two at once? Really..."
Before he finished speaking, Wang Mingyuan suddenly launched a violent attack!
His right hand formed into a claw.
Five spiritual energy threads like venomous snakes wrapped around the burly masked figure's arm.
Simultaneously his left leg swept out like a whip.
The resulting gust directly lifted floor tiles three inches up.
The tall thin masked figure hastily raised his bone scythe to block, but was kicked back over ten meters along with his weapon.
"Run!"
Wang Mingyuan shouted sharply again: "Go to a safe place!"
Su Zhan struggled to get up, seeing his teacher's back already soaked with blood.
Aberration power was already circulating through his body.
Gradually repairing the shattered bones.
Now he had plenty of physical strength, so recovery was very fast.
Wang Mingyuan fought one against two, his movements so fast they almost left afterimages.
The clashes triggered violent spiritual energy oscillations.
The mall's remaining support columns collapsed one after another.
"Why aren't you leaving yet?! This is an order!"
Wang Mingyuan's voice remained clear amid the intense battle.
The next second.
He erupted with astonishing spiritual energy fluctuations.
His glasses shattered, revealing those white-glowing eyes.
The two masked figures were forced back several steps, their black robes torn with several rips by the raging spiritual energy.
Su Zhan was complaining internally.
It wasn't that he didn't want to leave, but he was waiting for his bones to reconnect and heal.
But there was no time to worry about that now.
Using this spiritual pressure as cover, he dragged his injured body staggering into the distance.
Earth-shattering collapse sounds came from all directions.
The entire mall finally completely collapsed.
In the last moment before dust obscured vision.
Su Zhan looked back to see Wang Mingyuan, white spiritual energy burning like flames around his body...