Chapter 977: Wrath (1/2)

“Set myself against the Dao Academy?” The ball of rage in Lu Yun’s heart faded away and he looked blankly at the disciples in front of him, repeating these words to himself. He could tell from the Karmic Tree that dense ill will was spreading from them to cluster around him.

“That’s right, you’re making an enemy out of the Dao Academy!” A Golden Immortal of Grand Unity stepped forward, having recognized this fake Lu Chen. This was the one who’d wielded that stunning connate treasure in the stars! “To be enemies with the academy is to be enemies with the world of immortals! This seat doesn’t care who you are. You will be handed over to the academy after your arrest!”

Laughing arrogantly, he took the expression on Lu Yun’s face as the face of a country bumpkin intimidated by the reputation of the Dao Academy.

“Don’t any of you care why I’m fighting with him? Or why I’m pretending to be an academy disciple?” Coming back to his senses, Lu Yun’s expression grew ominously dark.

“There’s no need to know the reason. Fraudulently claiming to be a Dao Academy disciple is punishable by death! This is a crime of the highest order with no leniency possible!” The immortal advanced on Lu Yun, releasing a ponderous aura to lock the youth in place.

“Thirty years! It’s taken only thirty years for the Dao Academy to turn into this…” As Lu Yun looked upon the Golden Immortal of Grand Unity and the rest of the academy disciples around him, it felt like his heart was being ripped apart. In all these years, his academy taught not only combat arts and cultivation methods, but also the measure of humanity!

He’d always advocated that one had to learn morality and integrity first before delving into knowledge and skill. He didn’t want his academy to graduate lowlifes who weren’t worth the dirt they walked on.

But now he understood that everything he’d done was in vain. It was far from enough to require these disciples to learn history and be injected with ethics and a code of conduct. If the situation was allowed to continue like this, the academy would become a tumor feeding off the world of immortals sooner or later, preventing its further development.

The Golden Immortal of Grand Unity before him wasn’t a Lu Clan member, but an elder in the inner academy. A former expert in the Star Demon Sect, he now stood in front of Lu Yun and listened with some amusement.

“Thirty years? Indeed, it took only a scant thirty years for my Dao Academy to become the greatest heavyweight of the world of immortals! We are the leader of the multiverse and the shepherd of the immortal dao! Even the eight celestial lords and rulers of the ten lands would get on their knees before us, to say nothing of a mewling peerless immortal like you!” The immortal lifted his chin cockily.

A shadow appeared over the faces of the other immortals in the vicinity. Tyrannical!

Although the academy constantly disseminated new knowledge and all sorts of supplemental paths, treasures, and more, the first impression any of their disciples gave was that of tyrannical arrogance!

They respected nothing apart from fellow academy disciples, taking whatever they wanted of the world’s resources and treasures. Any hint of refusal was answered with bloodshed. Well, to be fair, not all academy disciples behaved like this. The small portion that did was enough to cause the entire world to wince in fear.

……

Smack!

A crisp sound reverberated in the air. It seemed to be… a face slap?

Pop!

Another sound echoed, to everyone’s utter amazement. The Golden Immortal of Grand Unity’s head had exploded from the slap!

Thud!

The headless corpse toppled over to the ground, leaving a glittering nascent spirit with a star the size of a fist over its head. It looked blearily at Lu Yun—the immortal had never imagined that one slap from a peerless immortal would break his head apart!

“How dare you!!”

“You’ll pay for this!” Academy experts that’d yet to reveal themselves abruptly materialized in the air, cutting down upon Lu Yun with countless rays of sword energy.