Among the onlookers, some whispered.
"If the Dean of the Four Symbols Academy wasn't absent, and the other three branch deans could only manage their respective branches."
"Even if they were given ten times the courage, the Nalan brothers wouldn't dare to act recklessly."
"There's no choice, who told them their uncle was the Dean of the Azure Dragon Branch? Coupled with the Nalan family's name, we can only watch them be arrogant."
"By the way, will that Xin Ci really come to save Su Bai Wei?"
"I'm not sure. If Su Bai Wei is his woman, he should come to save her."
Su Bai Wei, on the verge of death, was already despairing, as she didn't believe Xin Ci would come to save her.
Nalan Wuxia, on the plaza, had a sinister expression.
Looking at his empty right arm, he felt an unbearable hatred and humiliation.
The injuries left by Xin Ci and that mysterious woman a year ago still ached.
If Nalan Wuxia hadn't lost an arm, he would undoubtedly be the number one on the Heavenly Rankings.
This deep-seated hatred, Nalan Wuxia would never forget.
And he swore to take revenge on everyone around Xin Ci.
The moment he learned that Xin Ci had returned to the Four Symbols Academy,
He immediately captured Su Bai Wei to threaten Xin Ci.
"Brother, will that trash Xin Ci really come to save this woman?" Nalan Wuchang asked.
However, Nalan Wuxia, in a fit of rage, smashed a stone pillar, his face contorted.
"If he doesn't come, we'll kill Su Bai Wei on the spot, and then go directly to the Vermilion Bird Branch to capture him!"
The onlookers were startled by Nalan Wuxia's sudden action.
Then someone shouted, "Look over there, it's Xin Ci! He really came!"
Everyone immediately looked in that direction and saw Xin Ci appearing at the front of the plaza.
After confirming it was Xin Ci, Nalan Wuxia clenched his fists, staring at him intently, wishing he could tear him apart on the spot.
"Xin Ci, you finally decided to come!"
Then Nalan Wuxia snapped his fingers, and over twenty disciples ranked in the top one hundred on the Heavenly Rankings suddenly appeared on the plaza.
These individuals were all at the late Earth Realm. He didn't believe he couldn't handle Xin Ci.
At the same time, he drew his long sword and placed it at Su Bai Wei's fair neck, shouting, "Xin Ci, your woman's life is in my hands. If you don't want her to get hurt, cut off your own arms in front of me!"
Nalan Wuxia wanted to repay Xin Ci the pain of losing an arm, doubly.
Xin Ci felt speechless and looked at Nalan Wuxia as if he were an idiot.
You can threaten me, but can you stop spreading rumors about me?
When did Su Bai Wei become my woman?
So Xin Ci merely glanced at Nalan Wuxia, ignored his threat,
Silently pulled at his sleeve, and slowly walked onto the plaza.
Su Bai Wei, her consciousness blurred, forced her eyes open and watched Xin Ci approach step by step.
A strange emotion arose within her. Why would he come to save her?
Could it be that Xin Ci really had feelings for her…
But in the next second, Xin Ci's words pulled her back from her fantasy to reality.
"Nalan Wuxia, I have no connection with her. If you want to threaten me using Su Bai Wei, you must be dreaming."
Upon hearing this, Su Bai Wei, for some reason, felt a trace of disappointment and lowered her head in despair.
But the long sword at her neck moved closer.
"Heh, I don't believe you'd actually go through with it. Everyone, attack! Whoever chops off Xin Ci's arm, I'll give them a high-grade spirit artifact."
Hearing "high-grade spirit artifact," the over twenty Heavenly Rankings experts immediately became as energetic as if they had been injected with chicken blood.
They each unleashed their martial arts skills and attacked Xin Ci.
The onlookers sighed one after another.
"Alas, Xin Ci is probably going to meet his end here."
"Indeed, over twenty Heavenly Rankings experts. Even the number one on the Heavenly Rankings might not be able to withstand it."
"Speaking of which, Nalan Wuxia is quite generous to offer high-grade spirit artifacts as a reward so casually."
"And let alone the Heavenly Rankings experts, even I couldn't resist the temptation of a high-grade spirit artifact and wanted to go up and deal with Xin Ci."
However, facing various dazzling and colorful attacks,
Xin Ci calmly waved his hand in front of him.
A wave of raging crimson flames suddenly appeared, engulfing all sorts of martial arts and the over twenty Heavenly Rankings experts.
After the heatwave,
Only over twenty scorched black corpses, their clothes, eyebrows, and hair burned to ashes, remained on the plaza like humanoid charcoal.
The temperature of the entire plaza dropped and rose sharply, and the air was filled with a scorching heat.
Among the onlookers, many weak cultivators felt their spiritual power evaporating.
Their faces immediately changed in shock.
This crimson flame was so terrifying that it could even burn away spiritual power.
What was even more frightening was that over twenty Heavenly Rankings experts were defeated in an instant.
Xin Ci's strength was too terrifying.
If Xin Ci hadn't wanted to avoid killing people at the Four Symbols Academy and had slightly controlled the power of the Undying Phoenix Flame,
These people would have been burned to ashes.
Nalan Wuchang was so shocked by Xin Ci's display of strength that his legs felt numb.
How could this brat's strength have improved so terrifyingly in just one year?
Nalan Wuxia also felt a deep sense of apprehension.
Clearly, when he was at Fengyang Mountain, Xin Ci was just a weak ant he could toy with at will.
Now, he felt a great threat from him.
What he couldn't understand even more was that Su Bai Wei's life was in his hands, yet Xin Ci attacked without regard for her life.
Then Nalan Wuxia remembered the mysterious girl who appeared at Fengyang Mountain.
Could that person be Xin Ci's woman?
So he turned to look at Su Bai Wei, who was tied to the pillar, and angrily cursed, "Useless!"
With that, he moved his long sword to cut open Su Bai Wei's fair neck.
With a boom.
The ground beneath the pillar suddenly cracked, and ten cross-shaped chains instantly burst forth from the earth.
They formed a cage of chains around Su Bai Wei, shaking Nalan Wuxia, sword and all, dozens of steps back.
"Xin Ci!"
Realizing he had been tricked, Nalan Wuxia glared at Xin Ci with bloodshot eyes.
It turned out that this brat had long ago burrowed the cross-shaped chains underground, deliberately talking to stall for time, waiting for the chains to reach the pillar.
Then he unleashed the fifth style of judgment, the Cage Style, to protect Su Bai Wei.
Nalan Wuxia, enraged, clenched his fist in front of him.
The Five Elements Giant Hand was immediately unleashed, and two massive stone palms rose from the ground, attempting to crush Xin Ci in one fell swoop.
But Xin Ci was no longer the person he was a year ago. Back then, he had no power to resist this move at Fengyang Mountain.
But now, after his physical body had been tempered by two nirvanas, he simply disdained it.
He stomped on the ground,
Like a bowstring released, he charged forward, directly shattering the stone palms.
Without giving Nalan Wuxia a chance to be stunned, he reached him and grabbed for his head.
As a result, a golden light suddenly emanated from Nalan Wuxia's body, instantly sending him flying backward.
Xin Ci, flying backward, quickly steadied himself in mid-air,
Rolled and landed on the ground, supporting himself with one hand, his gaze fixed upwards.
"Little beast, dare to be arrogant in the Azure Dragon Branch!"