Lou Mu Yan’s fierceness and madness not only stunned the surrounding Sword Masters but also completely angered the besieging Fire Ant Colony.
Watching this petite human female pierce and kill their companions to the ground one by one, under the shrill command of a few Tier 5 Fire Ants, all the Fire Ants that were besieging the others turned around. With little crimson eyes, they also crawled in her direction with madness.
Standing on Lou Mu Yan’s shoulder, Mo Yan was always ready to release the pressure of a King-Class Demonic Beast, using his innate talent to suppress them. But he didn’t want to expose it in front of all these people unless it was the last resort, otherwise it’d be detrimental to Lou Mu Yan.
“What’re you all doing looking stunned?” Ye Qing Han finally broke through to Lou Mu Yan’s side and stood side by side with her in a protective stance.
Looking at the Fire Ants attacking frantically, he furrowed his brows and ordered the Ye Clan pupils: “All Ye Clan pupils are to immediately kill these Fire Ants. Offenders shall be dealt with according to the Clan Disciplines!”
“Obeying the Young Lord’s command!” The Ye Clan’s people who were dumbfounded by Lou Mu Yan’s behaviour heard Ye Qing Han’s roar and came back to their senses. They took up their Magic Treasures and leapt towards the periphery of the battle ring to slaughter the Fire Ants.
The Fire Ants had only one target right now, and that was the female in white who was manoeuvring around within the battle ring, so they completely ignored the humans who came up to attack from behind.
Following the shrill of the Tier 5 Fire Ants, the Fire Ants rushed forward desperately as if they didn’t want their lives, just wanting to tear Lou Mu Yan into pieces.
Lou Mu Bai and his party broke through close to Lou Mu Yan’s location around the same time as Ye Qing Han arriving beside her. But right now, the other Fire Ants didn’t care about them and only wanted to maniacally bite Lou Mu Yan to death. Meanwhile they also freed themselves and surrounded Lou Mu Yan to kill the swarm of Fire Ants.
When the Ling Clan saw this, their expressions also changed. Ling Fei Hao and Ling Fei Li directed their Clan’s pupils to join the battle ring to help.
Shi Feng’s gaze kept falling on the porcelain bottle in Lou Mu Yan’s hand. Seeing that the Fire Ant Colony had gone crazy, he made a hand gesture to the Shi Clan’s people, tapped his toes, and flew into the battle ring, “Shi Clan’s pupils, come and support quickly!”
“Yes Young Lord!”
Not far away, Mu Yi looked at the battle ahead with an indistinct expression. After thinking deeply for a bit, he spit out one word to the pupils of his Clan, “Kill!”
After saying this, he flashed into the battle ring, then numerous sword auras scattered from him, falling right into the Fire Ant Colony one after the other.
The people from the several other Clans didn’t hesitate either upon seeing three distinguished clans had already acted. Lou Mu Yan also helped them by attracting the Fire Ant Colony, so it was only natural to go help them at this time.
Lou Mu Yan exploded with the strength of a Sword King with only the cultivation base of a Sword Spirit which impressed many elite pupils. Her prodigal behaviour of taking pills also made them wring their wrists in pity but also excitement.
As a result, many people had their minds focused on befriending her. After all, for being able to take out so many high-level pills that replenish Elemental Energy, the Alchemist behind her definitely wasn’t low in Grade.
Many pupils of the Xin Clan and Xue Clan were also a little excited when they saw that the others had joined the battle to help, but the two young ladies who were in charge were both silent. They could only you look at me and me look at you, unsure of whether they should or shouldn’t help out.
“Xue Ling, you’re not going to help?” Xin Ying Xuan folded her arms, and her expression was terribly grim. Seeing Ye Qing Han desperately guarding that bitch beside her, she just wanted to go and tear her up.
Xue Ling sneered, “Naturally we’ll go.” Could they not go up in this situation? It wasn’t like she was a fool.
Having always been admired by countless outstanding men, for the first time, she felt that the elegant and extremely beautiful woman within the battle ring was an extreme eyesore.
At this time, that woman was like an exceedingly brilliant gem, suppressing her, a woman favoured by the Heavens. Insidiousness flashed past her heart.
“Go, but don’t do your best. Just put on an act and save our combat power first.” Xue Ling’s scheming was far deeper than Xin Ying Xuan’s. On the surface, she wouldn’t display any hostility to Lou Mu Yan, so based on the current situation, she had to put on an act and join the battle ring.
The pupils of the Xue Clan also knew that their Young Miss had a beautiful and kind face but did things very insidiously—a classic ‘snakes and scorpions beauty1’. Although they didn’t agree with her orders inwardly, but they didn’t dare disobey, so they all followed her into the battle ring to help while not using all their energy.
“Young Miss, everyone else all went to help, it’s not good to just stand here like this is it?” An Elder beside Xin Ying Xuan couldn’t help but furrow his brows and say.
He knew that Xin Ying Xuan was highly arrogant and loved the Young Lord of the Ye Clan so deeply that she couldn’t help herself, but how could she be controlled by her emotions at this time? If the people from the other Clans and Yan’zhou Kingdom resolved the Fire Ants and only the Xin Clan watched on the sidelines, then it’ll inevitably arouse disgust against them.
Xin Ying Xuan wasn’t an idiot either. She concealed the killing intent in her eyes and nodded to everyone in the Xin Clan: “Go, just act it out like the Xue Clan.”
“Yes!” Hearing that Xin Ying Xuan hadn’t lost her reason because of Ye Qing Han’s situation yet, the rest all felt a sense of relief.
From their perspective, Ye Qing Han’s actions to protect Lou Mu Yan was only normal. After all, Lou Mu Yan was trapped in the battle ring by the Fire Ants because she went to save his younger sister. But no one dared say anything in fear of angering their temperamental Eldest Young Miss.
The targeted attacks of the Fire Ant Colony saved the other people a lot of trouble. They only needed to kill them one by one from the back, and they rarely encountered any counterattacks. When their Elemental Energy was almost exhausted, they would take turns to replenish and rest. After all, they weren’t as prodigal as Lou Mu Yan, and they didn’t have that many pills on them to squander either—this was precisely the disparity between them.
“Mo Yan, can you detect whether the Sword Monarch powerhouses of the Ten Distinguished Clans have found the Queen Fire Ant or not?” Lou Mu Yan dealt with the Fire Ant Colony that had gone completely insane as she asked Mo Yan telepathically.
To continue like this simply wasn’t a good idea. The amount of Fire Ants in the colony was simply enormous. Even if there wasn’t a shortage of Spiritual Energy Replenishing Pills in her interspatial ring, but if this sort of exhaustive battle didn’t end soon, even she wouldn’t be able to support herself for long, not to mention those that didn’t have that many pills.
Mo Yan looked deeply into the distance, released a part of his Demonic Sense, then replied after a while: “Hold on for another quarter of an hour, the battle over there will be over soon.”
Lou Mu Yan pressed her lips together, then took out a few bottles of pills and threw them to Ye Qing Han and the others one by one: “As soon as you exhaust your Elemental Energy, take it. Don’t save it, the battle should be over in another quarter of an hour at most.”
Ye Qing Han and the several people took the pill bottles. Although they were surprised by how she judged that the battle was about to end, but they had an inexplicable sense of trust towards her.
She told them not to save it, so they weren’t quarrelsome either. They poured the pills in their hands into their mouths one after the other, copying Lou Mu Yan. A stream of pure and vast Elemental Energy instantly replenished their dan’tian. The Sword Auras they waved was even stronger and powerful as well.
The behaviours of the several people also attracted the attention of the other elite pupils and they all displayed envious looks towards them.
“It turns out that behaving like a prodigal is so refreshing, no wonder Lou Mu Yan’s so fond of this path.” Yun Jin poured a bottle of Spiritual Energy Replenishing Pills into his mouth and felt the Elemental Energy in his body completely fill in a short amount of time. He couldn’t help but sigh with complex feelings.
Xiao Zi Ang looked at the several people, who all copied Lou Mu Yan in squandering, as if his flesh hurt. He couldn’t resist holding his forehead. Finally, he gritted his teeth and poured the entire bottle of pills into his mouth.
His eyes lit up immediately as continuous streams of Elemental Energy replenished his dan’tian, and he instantly felt that he had the explosive power to fight again.
Seeing the envious, jealous, and hateful gazes cast on them from many of the surrounding people, he swallowed his saliva, but the excitement in his heart was simply beyond words. As it turns out, this sort of luxurious squandering really was refreshing!
1there’s a description in Chinese that translates to having ‘a heart of a snake and scorpion’ (蛇蝎心肠), which means they’re as ‘venomous’ as snakes and scorpions. A vicious person. Same here.