The sphere of light on the Wang Family's continent continued to shine, but there was something moving in the sky that blocked the light from time to time. The movement was extremely slow, and every once in a while, a region of the continent would be covered in darkness. This was the night of the Wang Family's continent.
The Culinary God sat alone at a stone table, staring at the sky. He did not drink any wine or tea; he just sat there.
Lu Yin walked over. "Senior, what are you thinking about?"
The Culinary God's tone was bleak. "I watched and guarded for a lifetime, but in the end, I couldn't hold on."
"Senior, you've already done your best."
The Culinary God looked at Lu Yin. "I'm sorry. I invited you to the academy, but not only did I expose your identity, but I also put you in this situation."
Lu Yin was amused. "Senior doesn't seem like a sentimental person. There will always be gains and losses. Since I can't change the situation, I might as well go with the flow."
The Culinary God sighed. "If possible, I really don't want the academy to belong to the Four Way Scales, but it seems like this is the best outcome. The academy can't be saved, so it's better to use the time the Four Way Scales can rope in the students and let them obtain more resources. That way, their future path of cultivation will be smoother. As for who they serve, that's up to them. They'll have to go to the backline and fight for humanity."
Lu Yin asked, "With Senior's strength, it might not be impossible to protect the academy. Did a Progenitor take action?"
The Culinary God did not answer. Instead, he said, "Tell Kui Luo to stop attacking the academy. Otherwise, the Four Way Scales will deal with him instead of us. The Four Way Scales couldn't do anything to him before, but that might not be the case in the future. Some people will eventually come out, and the universe will eventually change."
The Culinary God paused for a moment, seemingly exhausted. "Go back and rest."
Lu Yin could not help Yi Xian Academy. The Lu family had been exiled, and the Four Way Scales had gradually taken control of the Astral Tree Domain. They would eliminate all unstable factors. This time, it was Yi Xian Academy, and next time, it might be the Seed Garden, the Sword Stele, the Liu family, and so on. The most helpless thing was that even though they knew this would happen, they could not resist.
The only thing Yi Xian Academy could do was fight for the best interests of its students. There was one thing that the Culinary God did not mention, but Lu Yin could guess: to protect the Mountain Sea.
The Four Way Scales didn't know that the Mountain and Sea Realm had a master, but Yi Xian Academy did. They wanted to conceal this secret as much as possible.
Lu Yin had not thought about it in detail before, but now that he thought about it, the only reason why Yi Xian Academy wanted to keep this a secret was because the person who inherited the Mountain Sea Realm would not be able to protect himself. In other words, that person had not reached the Progenitor realm, and he might not even have reached the Half-Progenitor realm. Otherwise, Yi Xian Academy would not have needed to protect the Mountain Sea Realm.
The Four Way Scales could not wait to target Yi Xian Academy. The reason why the Wang Family was so friendly was probably because of the Mountains and Seas.
One wanted to seize it, while the other wanted to protect it, resulting in the current situation.
Based on the current situation, Yi Xian Academy would not be able to hide it for long. Once the fact that the Mountain and Sea had a master was exposed, the Four Directions Scale would definitely shake. At that time, the person who inherited the Mountain and Sea would definitely be found.
Lu Yin was curious as to who had inherited the Mountain Sea.
That was one of the Nine Mountains and Eight Seas. Once one became an Ancestor, they would be considered a supreme expert. Was this person a friend or a foe?
Even though Yi Xian Academy was close to the Lu family, that did not mean that the person who inherited the Mountains and Seas would also be close to the Lu family. Yi Xian Academy was protecting the future of the Nine Mountains and Eight Seas, not a single person or power.
Lu Yin was very certain about this. "Senior, since we can't change anything, then let's do as you said.
I have a way to let the students gain even more benefits. Can you contact Fairy Miao? "
Lu Yin asked, his lips curling up in a pleased smile. Since the Wang Family wanted to express their goodwill and generously gift them with resources, then the academy would not stand on ceremony.
The next day, the group arrived at the Three Aces Despair as promised. Lu Yin and the Food God exchanged glances as they looked at the three flower petals. Not far away, Wang Miaomiao had a strange expression on her face. She looked at Wang Yan, and then at Half-Ancestor Chai.
"Everyone, have you all adjusted your mentality?" Wang Yan smiled. He had been praised the day before by Wang Xun, who had come from the back of the battlefield, who had said that he had done well. Wang Xun was already aware of how excited the students from Yi Xian Academy were.
"Ready!" many of the students shouted excitedly.
The little fatty excitedly raised his hand. "Yes, yes, we're ready."
Wang Xun's praise made Wang Yan even more enthusiastic, and he even found the little fatty more pleasing to the eye. "That's good. Enter the Three Aces Despair according to your cultivation. I hope that all of you will be able to obtain the right to be nurtured and obtain good battle records and techniques. My Wang Family has high hopes for all of you. Work hard, little fatty."
The little fatty was very excited.
As soon as Wang Yan finished speaking, the group of students did not rush into the Three Aces Despair as he had expected. Some of them rushed out and found a particular despair, such as Bai Nan, Nong Siniang, Liu Que, Bai Weiwei, Xia Shenguang, and the others. They were either elites from the Four Sides Scale or had great family backgrounds. The students who had been selected by the dean did not rush out. Instead, they gathered in groups of five and mumbled to themselves as they discussed.
The Wang Family was at a loss. What were they doing?
Wang Yan did not understand. This shouldn't be the case. Even the Wang Family's disciples were impatient the first time they entered the Three Aces Despair, as they were afraid that the right to be nurtured and other resources would be snatched away by others. How could these students be so calm?
The students who had rushed out were also stunned, and they all turned back to look.
"This way, I said this way. Raise your hand higher."
"Legs, Old Liu, lower your legs. Don't obstruct the killing intent."
"Alright, I'll take it."
"Our side is fine too."
"Our side is fine."
"Alright, let's take it."
A moment later, the gathered students assumed strange poses and took out their sourceboxes at the same time. In an instant, the killing intent from the sourceboxes overlapped and constantly changed.
Half-Ancestor Chai was shocked. "Stop!" He took a step forward, but at the same time, the Food God blocked him. "Stop."
Half-Ancestor Chai stared at the Food God. "What are you all trying to do?
Are you trying to get the students to commit suicide? "
The other members of the Wang Family also thought the same. It would have been fine if they had casually taken out their sourceboxes, but now, the students had all taken out their sourceboxes at the same time. There were a total of twenty-five students, which meant that there were twenty-five sourceboxes at the same time. Even if these sourceboxes were all Discerning Elementary, who knew what would happen when their killing intent overlapped?
Wang Yan's hands and feet went cold. It was over. Yi Xian Academy wanted to take him down with them. His family was trying to find a way to attract these students, and he had already learned the reason from Half-Ancestor Wang Xun the day before. Yi Xian Academy wanted to control the students so that they could control Yi Xian Academy. After all, many matters within Yi Xian Academy were decided by the students, but there was another important reason.
Wang Yan rejoiced that he had done a good enough job to attract the students.
However, he had not expected Yi Xian Academy to be so ruthless. They would rather have the students die than allow them to be used by the Wang Family. This was troublesome, and they were too ruthless. Had he gone too far yesterday?
The first thing that came to his mind was the cruelty of his family.
Their punishment.
"Don't worry. We can't wait to protect these children. How could we bear to let them die?" the Culinary God said slowly as he looked back.
Half-Ancestor Chai and the other cultivators from the Wang Family, as well as the students who had rushed out, all looked over. They saw five groups of students, and each group had five sourceboxes overlapped with each other to form a sourcebox array — a channeling diagram.
That's right, this was Lu Yin's plan. He had used the sourceboxes' killing intent to set up a channeling diagram that would allow the students to be like fish in water in the Three Overs Despair. According to the power of the sourceboxes' killing intent, these five sets of channeling diagrams would be enough to make even a peak Enlighter powerhouse feel helpless, and they would be able to rampage through the Three Overs Despair.
Lu Yin wanted these students to enter the Three Overs Despair and plunder all of the resources there.
"What are you waiting for? Go!" Lu Yin barked.
The five groups of students excitedly charged towards the Three Overs Despair.
The rest of the students were stunned. There was such a thing?
Lu Yin glanced at the rest of the students. "We don't have that many sourceboxes, so we can only make them work harder and search for resources. When the time comes, we'll split the spoils."
"Thank you, Mr. Hao Yu."
"Thank you, sir." The rest of the students sighed in relief, as they had thought that Lu Yin had given up on them.
Wang Xiaofan stared blankly at the groups of students rushing past him. What was going on?
The Wang Family had never prohibited their disciples from bringing external items into the Three Overs Despair. Obtaining a good external item was already an opportunity, and entering the Three Overs Despair was also an opportunity that did not need to be taken away. However, they had never imagined that something like this would happen.
How could Limiteers, Explorers, and Hunters enter the Three Overs Despair using a sourcebox array?
Even an Enlighter would not be able to do so, but this was exactly what had happened.
Wang Yan did not know whether he should stop them or not.
Before Wang Yan could move, the Wang Family Elder who had been guarding the Three Overs Despair all this time stepped forward and blocked the first group of students who had excitedly tried to enter.
Liu Que stepped forward and stood in front of the Wang Family Elder. This Wang Family Elder's cultivation was not very high, and he had undergone two Origin Tribulations. However, he was still not someone that Liu Que could deal with.
"What is the Wang Family doing?
Are you not allowing the students to enter? "
Mr. Tang questioned.
The Wang Family Elder's face darkened. "They can't go in like this."
The Culinary God looked over. "I have some understanding of the Wang Family's Three Overs Despair, and there doesn't seem to be any rule that forbids cultivators from entering through a sourcebox array."
Wang Yan was speechless, as there was no such rule, as it was impossible for such a rule to appear. However, now that it had appeared, he did not know what to do. He could only look at Half-Ancestor Chai, as his status as the acting family head was far inferior to that of a Half-Ancestor Consecrator.
Half-Ancestor Chai was placed in a difficult position. The Wang Family wanted to show goodwill to Yi Xian Academy's students, and they were willing to pay a certain amount of resources. However, that did not mean that they would be willing to pay a large amount. If these students entered through a sourcebox array, who knew how many resources they would receive?
Since Yi Xian Academy was confident that they could set up a sourcebox array for these students, it meant that the sourcebox array would be able to resolve the difficulties within.
"Senior Culinary God, the Three Overs Despair is meant to provide the cultivators with an opportunity to cultivate. If the students enter through a sourcebox array, they will not be able to achieve the desired results. This is not in line with the original intent of this training exercise." Half-Ancestor Chai hesitated.
The Culinary God did not care. "The students have different goals for this training exercise. You see, the majority of the students need to train, but those who use a sourcebox array do not. What they need to do is observe the sourcebox array. They have their own goals for this training exercise, so there's no need for you to worry about that. In any case, whether or not you allow them to enter is a simple decision."