When Yue Yang, Ye Kong and company reached the Blackstone Square, they saw a man with an extraordinarily tall figure clad in black armour waiting.
This person had fierce-looking facial features, with many terrible scars traversing across his face, making his entire person look as if he was a demon. At first, Ye Kong did not believe that a teacher would really kill a student, but upon seeing this black armoured man’s ferocious demeanour, he could not help but be somewhat suspicious. Maybe this guy would really kill somebody who had defied orders. The black armoured guy had a pair of eagle eyes, which were so acute it as if they were able to penetrate through the hearts of humans. Let alone ordinary warriors, even when Yue Yang looked eye to eye with him once, he felt a shiver in his heart. He had such a frightening aura of death and expression in his eyes. Yue Yang had seen this gaze on two people before. One was the Elder Yue Hai who had fought the battlefield killing countless people and was notorious even in the Demon Abyss; the other was the one who had the title of ‘Thousand Withering Bones’, Feng Kuang.
(Shiro: Imperial Guard Commander Feng Kuang appeared at chapter 112)
If he had never killed and beheaded tens of thousands of people, it was probably impossible to accumulate this much murderous aura. It seems that this eagle-eyed man in front of him was also a military officer who caused much blood to spill on the yellow sands of the battlefield, narrowly managing to escape death himself.
That sort of murderous intent was entirely different from that accumulated by an ordinary warrior who merely hunted beasts.
If this black armoured guy’s murderous aura was a sharp blade for killing people, then the ordinary warrior’s murderous spirit was at most a fruit knife, it was practically impossible to compare the two on the same footing.
The students in the Death Class had rapidly gathered. They were different from Yue Yang and company who had just joined, these people had almost immediately lined up in two columns neatly upon arrival. Amongst the students, there was a very small number was guys, there were only six of them. Most of them were girls and there were about twenty plus of them in total. What surprised Yue Yang was that there was also five small children.
There were both male and female kids, and the oldest amongst them looked not more than ten years old.
But they were all exceptionally solemn and serious, their little heads raised up, their backs straight like ramrods, and their little legs stretched taut, all with the appearance of qualified warriors.
“The five of you allocate yourselves into a small group and stand at the back.” The black armoured eagle eyed guy with a potent murderous aura used his slightly hoarse and extremely magnetic voice to shout at Yue Yang. After waiting for Yue Yang and company to arrange themselves properly, he used his eagle eyes to sweep across his surrounding. Then he coldly spoke. “Our soldiers ran into an ambush at the Dragon’s Intestines Path. Even though they had achieved victory after a bloody battle, there were three hundred people in total who were poisoned. They were bitten by a special type of Demon Worm, and there is a shortage of a type of main medicine at the clinic, hence they are unable to give proper medical treatment. Now, we must proceed into the Demon Abyss to collect and gather a type of especially efficacious medicinal herb to treat the soldiers who were poisoned… In ten seconds, those who want to withdraw, can get lost to enjoy your fine lives. Those brave warriors who are not afraid of death, follow me.”
“……” In Fatty Hai’s heart, he actually wanted to withdraw. A large group of students gathering medicinal herbs in the Demon Abyss – wasn’t that equivalent to seeking death? But seeing that Yue Yang did not say anything and even the few kids in front of him had determined looks on their faces, he found it too embarrassing to say that he did not want to go.
“……” Ye Kong and the Li Clan Brothers were on the other hand, extremely excited.
Previously when they fought back the Demon Army in the Demon Abyss, they were unable to contribute any effort towards the fights. It was all solely done by Yue Yang. He, alone, killed the Demon General, and saved everybody.
This made them feel very ashamed of themselves.
They might not have the qualifications and strength needed to fight against the Demon Army in the Demon Abyss, but to gather medicinal herbs to save people, there should not be a problem.
As for Yue Yang, there was more surprises. The Academy often brought their students out to gain experience. This was quite normal. However, ordinary academies including Shang Jing Academy only went to the various districts within Soaring Dragon Continent, for example places like Wild Horse Plains, Snow Bear Icefield, Wind Wolf Canyon, White Shark Gulf or Goshawk Cliff, to gain practical experience. At the most, they would only visit the First and Sec