Chapter 661 - 656: Charge In

Chapter 661: Chapter 656: Charge In

"You’re just like Tang Lin—arrogant and looking down on everyone," Ning Jiang said lightly.

"How dare you spout such nonsense."

Tang Fei’s brows shot up. A searing heat wave erupted from his body. He opened his mouth and spat out a Fire Dragon. The creature was immense, nearly a thousand feet long and wreathed in crimson flames.

"The Flame Dragon True Technique. The greatest pillar of support for the Tang Family, one of the Eight Great Noble Families!"

Liu Tong’s gaze sharpened as he identified the technique.

The Flame Dragon True Technique was the Tang Family’s most essential Cultivation Technique. In the entire family, no more than ten people were qualified to practice it. Legend had it that when cultivated to its apex, a single strike could turn a vast land into molten magma and obliterate a King, leaving not even bones behind.

The Tang Family’s ancestor had relied on this very Flame Dragon True Technique to build a magnificent reputation across the Human Race’s Ninety-nine Provinces, even becoming a great figure ranked on the Celestial List.

Although the Flame Dragon True Technique Tang Fei unleashed was a far cry from the world-sundering might of the Tang Family’s ancestor, it had captured some of its essence. The Flame Dragon was shockingly lifelike, its body roiling with crimson flames. A single palm-sized cluster of that fire could incinerate an ordinary Earth Martial Realm expert.

"With a strike like this, Tang Fei has a good chance of becoming one of the Preparatory Core Disciples this year."

Liu Tong nodded.

The Creation Academy was divided into the Outer Courtyard and the Inner Courtyard. Ninety-nine percent of its students were Outer Disciples, and only a tiny fraction could enter the Inner Courtyard to become Core Disciples.

For instance, Tang Lin of the Crimson Flame King Body and Ye Chenyu, the Double Pupil, were both Core Disciples of the Inner Courtyard.

Between the Inner Court Disciples and Outer Disciples was the rank of Preparatory Core Disciple. Tang Fei’s strength had actually been enough to pass the assessment to become an Outer Disciple, but he had been too proud and disdained the title.

Now, Tang Fei’s strength had improved significantly. While there might still be a gap between him and the Core Disciples, becoming a Preparatory Core Disciple was essentially guaranteed.

Even the rank of Preparatory Core Disciple placed one above ninety percent of the geniuses in the Human Race.

Liu Tong didn’t believe Ning Jiang could block this display of the Power of Flame Dragon. If he could, it would mean Ning Jiang possessed at least the strength of a Core Disciple.

In a place as mighty as the Creation Academy, which teemed with countless prodigies, there were still only a dozen or so Core Disciples. He refused to believe that someone from a minor region like the Six Eastern Provinces could possess such strength.

"Don’t embarrass yourself by showing off such pathetic strength."

In the face of this attack, Ning Jiang simply extended a hand.

Fury contorted Tang Fei’s face. He was about to berate Ning Jiang for his arrogance, but before he could speak, he felt a terrifying suction emanating from Ning Jiang’s palm.

"A mere parlor trick!"

Tang Fei snorted and directed the Flame Dragon to swallow Ning Jiang whole. With the Power of Flame Dragon, he could instantly burn Ning Jiang to ashes.

But to his astonishment, just as his Flame Dragon reached Ning Jiang, a black hole suddenly materialized in the void and swallowed it. Then, that immense Devouring Power latched onto his own body.

WHOOSH!

His body shot uncontrollably toward Ning Jiang. No matter how he struggled, it was futile in the face of that tyrannical Devouring Power.

He felt like a mosquito caught in a hurricane.

In the blink of an eye, he was pulled before Ning Jiang. With a simple motion, Ning Jiang’s fingers closed around his neck, grabbing him as easily as one would a chick.

"How is that possible?"

Liu Tong was flabbergasted. Given Tang Fei’s strength, not even a Core Disciple from the Inner Courtyard could have subdued him so easily. And from start to finish, all Ning Jiang had done was reach out with his hand.

’Doesn’t this mean I completely misjudged him? Is Ning Jiang’s strength comparable to an Inner Court Disciple’s? And one of the very top disciples, at that?’

’No, Tang Fei must have been careless. It was a prepared strike against an unprepared opponent; that’s why he was defeated so quickly,’ Liu Tong reasoned internally.

"Who in the world are you?"

Tang Fei stared at Ning Jiang in terror. He could feel that Ning Jiang’s hand had a death grip on his life. With a single thought from Ning Jiang, his body and soul would be annihilated.

He knew perfectly well that his capture wasn’t due to carelessness. It was purely because Ning Jiang’s strength vastly surpassed his own!

This filled him with terror. ’With this kind of power, what is Ning Jiang’s origin?’

"When Tang Lin returned from the Six Eastern Provinces, did he never tell you that he couldn’t even take a single palm strike from me? It seems the matter was so humiliating that he was too embarrassed to mention it," Ning Jiang said with a cold laugh.

"The Six Eastern Provinces? Don’t tell me you’re *that* Ning Jiang!"

Shock filled Tang Fei’s eyes. As Tang Lin’s own brother, he was deeply trusted by him and had heard Tang Lin vaguely mention encountering an expert in the Six Eastern Provinces.

But at the time, Tang Lin had told him that he and Ning Jiang had fought a bitter battle, ultimately losing by a narrow margin. That was a far cry from Ning Jiang’s claim that he couldn’t even withstand a single palm strike.

Now, in Ning Jiang’s grasp, he realized that Ning Jiang was probably telling the truth. Such power indeed far surpassed that of his older brother, Tang Lin!

At last, he understood why Ning Jiang had said, "Even Tang Lin wouldn’t dare to speak to me this way." It wasn’t arrogance; Ning Jiang truly had the right to say so.

"Brat, let him go! To attack and injure someone right in front of me... are you looking down on me?" Liu Tong snapped.

"Attack and injure? Wasn’t he the one who attacked me first? Are you saying I should just stand here and take it, but not fight back?" Facing the interrogation of a Supreme Celestial Rank powerhouse, Ning Jiang’s gaze was sharp, meeting the challenge head-on.

"Such a sharp tongue. I can’t be bothered to waste my breath on you. I’ll subdue you first, then we can talk."

A look of impatience crossed Liu Tong’s face. His aura surged, pressing down on Ning Jiang like a sword, making one’s skin prickle with a stinging pain.

He wasn’t just at the Supreme Celestial Rank; he was far more powerful than an ordinary expert of that Realm.

Suddenly, Ning Jiang let out a sigh.

Liu Tong thought Ning Jiang was afraid and said coldly, "It’s too late for this. Begging for mercy won’t do you any good now."

But there wasn’t the slightest trace of fear in Ning Jiang’s eyes, only a cold indifference. "Back then, Chenyu insisted on staying with me in the East Sea. If I hadn’t persuaded her, why would she have ever come to the Creation Academy? Yet I never thought that when I came to visit today, just to see her, I would be met with such deliberate obstruction. If that’s how it’s going to be, then I have no choice but to fight my way into the Creation Academy. Otherwise, this indignation will not be settled!"

His final sentence was laced with a soaring killing intent, as sharp and resonant as a sword piercing the heavens.

From the very beginning, Ning Jiang hadn’t been aggressive in the slightest. When they said a distinguished guest was visiting and the gates were closed to others, he didn’t try to force his way in. He only asked them to inform Ye Chenyu, and he would wait outside.

Yet even this simple request was met with deliberate obstruction.

If not for him, how could the Creation Academy have possibly kept Ye Chenyu? Even a saint has a temper, and on the matter of Ye Chenyu, the Creation Academy still owed him a favor!

Since the Creation Academy was being so unjust, he had no choice but to use the most forceful method—to fight his way in to see Ye Chenyu!