After all, from the moment that Fan Zhuo had revealed Fan Jin’s real identity, the reasoning he had used to accuse Fan Jin of murdering Fan Qi as he coveted the Headmaster’s position had already been overturned!
Added to that, Fan Jin’s sharp and precise explanation of the events had made all the others seen that even if Fan Jin wanted to kill Fan Qi, he would not have planned it so poorly to allow himself to be so easily caught at it!
They had been father and son and Fan Jin had always had a close relationship with Fan Qi, which further proved that Fan Jin did not have a good reason to kill Fan Qi.
Ning Rui on the other hand…..
Ning Xin’s prior fate was common knowledge and everyone had even greatly praised Ning Rui having righteously punished even his own daughter in the name of justice. But now it only seems that Ning Rui had had no other choice at that moment!
The dagger stares that everyone was throwing upon him made Ning Rui sweat profusely. Gongcheng Lei who was standing beside him had turned deathly pale as he looked anxiously at Fan Jin, thinking how much Fan JIn still remembered of that day’s events, and whether Fan Jin remembered that he had colluded with Ning Rui…..
Ning Rui realised that with the way things stood at that moment, no matter how much he twisted the facts, he would not be able to dispute his involvement in the matter anymore!
At Fan Jin’s side, was Fan Zhuo. As long as Fan Zhuo was there and continued to bear witness and affirm Fan Jin’s identity, any argument that he put up further would only make him be seen as a clown.
Ning Rui’s fists were clenched tightly, unable to accept the fact that his life would soon be finished here. He had been just a step away from concluding the whole issue and he had only needed to bring the disciples of the Zephyr Academy to the Heaven’s End Cliff. Gu Ying would not have bothered him after that and he would have been able to continue his position as the Headmaster of the Zephyr Academy. Even if all the Zephyr Academy’s disciples and teachers were lost in the expedition, he could have easily promoted the disciples from the branch division up and in a few years, he would have been able to make the Zephyr Academy regain its status as one of the top academies throughout the land! He could have been the much envied Headmaster of a prestigious Zephyr Academy!
The status and position he had longed for his entire life had been right before his eyes and was almost within his grasp. But all that had been dashed by two young kids in their teens and upset all his plans, crushing his dreams!
How could Ning Rui not hate them!?
But now, they was no way he could turn things around anymore, but only…..
Ning Rui’s turned and fixed his venomous eyes onto the thoughtful Gu Ying at the side, a vicious malice came into his eyes and they suddenly flashed brightly.
[So what if Fan Jin has been cleared of his crime? So what if his own evil intentions had been exposed before everybody?]
[All these people in the Zephyr Academy had not long more to live anyway. When they reach the Heaven’s End Cliff, they will all die there anyway. And nobody will know a thing about the events that occurred here today!]
“Gu Ying, do you still want these people to go down the Heaven’s End Cliff?” Ning Rui asked in a low voice, whispering to Gu Ying beside him.
Gu Ying had been trying to ascertain if Jun Xie was in the horse carriage when he suddenly heard Ning Rui’s words. He frowned slightly and ask: “What? Are you going to back out?”
Ning Rui laughed instead and said: “I’m not going back on my word, but there are people here trying to disrupt our plans and since you had intended to get rid of all three members of the Fan Family all along, and the two we had initially missed out have now presented themselves before us. Aren’t they being very thoughtful to save us a lot of time looking for them?”
Gu Ying raised an eyebrow and simply replied: “If you wish for them to be dead, I can just kill them anyway.”
He had no interest in Fan Zhuo and Fan Jin at that moment. The only thing he wanted to know was where the one who had repeatedly outsmarted him, Jun Xie was!
Having gotten Gu Ying to agree, Ning Rui was finally able to feel a little more relieved. His expression no longer showed fear. As long as all these people were dead, then, nobody would ever find out about all his insidious deeds, and he would be able to still be the Headmaster he had always dreamed of!
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Chapter 731: “Eighth Slap (12)”
Ning Rui’s expression had suddenly changed. But Fan Jin and Fan Zhuo did not give him much of a reaction and only continued to stare at the venomous looking man.
“You’re right! All that you have said are true! So what if I made Gu Ying kill Fan Qi? I’ve been feeling aggrieved all this years. Based on what had that old dolt decided to hand the Zephyr Academy to that moron Fan Qi? Besides having been accepted as his disciple earlier than I did, in what way am I incomparable to him?” Ning Rui had suddenly decided to give up on defending his own actions and was generously admitting that he was the one who plotted to have Fan Qi killed.
He had initially wanted to hide that fact to firstly retain the teachers in the main division of the Zephyr Academy to allow the academy to have adequate teachers when they attract more new students here. But now, Fan Jin’s words had pushed him into an irrecoverable situation and the teachers had lost all confidence in him. With the exception of Gongcheng Lei who had been in cahoots with him, not a single one of the others must remain!
Secondly, he had needed to use his appointment as the Acting Headmaster of the Zephyr Academy to lead all the disciples to the Heaven’s End Cliff. However, all his planned avenues were not impossible, but for one. Even if all the disciples were to resist him now and refuse to go to the Heaven’s End Cliff, they would still have to see if Gu Ying would agree to that decision!
Gu Ying’s power, was something that Ning Rui had tasted himself and knew it only too well. The companions who were to travel together with Gu Ying on this trip would be arriving shortly, and once they get here, he wasn’t afraid that all the disciples would not submit to them!
With that in mind, Ning Rui did not need to keep up with his pretense.
Ning Rui’s sudden admission of guilt had astounded those teachers who had still been on the fence. They would never even dream that the amiable and gentle mannered Vice Headmaster in their hearts was in reality such a venomous minded person!
Who in the Zephyr Academy didn’t know that the Headmaster and the Vice Headmaster were close as brothers. But even with the decades of being fellow disciples and decades of camaraderie, Ning Rui had still not held back when killing Fan Qi, and he had even wanted to get rid of Fan Qi’s two sons as well!
His cruel viciousness caused all of them there to shiver involuntarily.
“So what if I was the one who killed him? With just the two of you, what can you do to me?” Ning Rui said with jeering look.
Fan Jin’s mouth curled up slightly in a cold smile while Fan Zhuo’s face had already lost all traces of his smile. His eyes were now slightly narrowed, as a bright glint of murderous rage stewed and brewed.
“Does that mean that you had intentionally meant to lead all the teachers and disciples of the academy to the Heaven’s End Cliff?” Fan Jin asked suddenly.
Everyone was still feeling shocked from the fact that Ning Rui had really killed Fan Qi and upon hearing Fan Jin’s words, they all suddenly turned to stare at Ning Rui and gasped in wide eyed shock.
[Heaven’s End Cliff!]
[That was a place that had sent countless heroes to the grave!]
The exuberant youths all thrived on tales of valor and strange occurrences and they had all heard something about the Heaven’s End Cliff, and they knew of the kinds of dangers that filled that place.
This expedition had been suddenly announced by Ning Rui, to bring the disciples to a place to conduct a training trial. That had surprised all of them as that had been contrary to the rules of the academy. But as Ning Rui called the shots in th
e Zephyr Academy at that time, the disciples had not dared to voice out their complaints and only complied to the sudden extra training thinking it shouldn’t be too dangerous.
Many of them had assumed that a trial training would definitely be easier than the Spirit Beasts Forest.
Never did they expect, that it would be the dangerous and terrifying Heaven’s End Cliff! !
Needless to think that the inexperienced youths would survive, even famous powerful exponents when they went to the Heaven’s End Cliff, had succumbed to that place! Ning Rui must have gone mad!
[He was really going to send them to the Heaven’s End Cliff!]
Ning Rui was stunned for a moment. He had not expected Fan Jin to have regained his consciousness but he had even managed to discover that they were going to go to the Heaven’s End Cliff, and Ning Rui sneered.
“So what if I did?”
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What Ning Rui said made the entire Zephyr Academy suddenly fall completely silent. Every single person there had their eyes turned and focused on Ning Rui.
Asking this horde of youths to go to the Heaven’s End Cliff would be as good as sending them to their deaths!
Did Ning Rui lose his mind?
“You have truly lost your conscience! It was not enough that you killed the Headmaster, now you are sending all the disciples and teachers in the Zephyr Academy into the lion’s den! Are you intending to kill every single person in the academy before you will be satisfied! ?” Fan Jin fumed vehemently.
Ning Rui was unaffected and he replied: “You don’t have to make it sound so bad. It is said that the fittest survive. I am sending them to the Heaven’s End Cliff to train them up. If they come back from that place alive, they will definitely rise to great heights in the future. As for those that are unable to hold up under the test…..” Ning Rui swept his eyes over the horrified eyes of the youths, giving them all a venomous stare.
If today’s events has not occurred, if his plot of having murdered Fan Qi would not have been discovered, he might still have felt a certain sense of guilt. But now, he couldn’t wait to see all the people here to be completely exterminated immediately!
“If they succumb to it, they will only have themselves to blame for their lack of skills.” Ning Rui said and laughed inhumanly.
At that moment, not just Fan Jin and Fan Zhuo were filled with rage, even the disciples of the Zephyr Academy could not stand to watch idly by! !
Ning Rui was obviously did not even view them as human. By sending all of them to the Heaven’s End Cliff, not just the disciples, but even the teachers would die in that place.
“Ning Rui! Do not take things too far! You murdered the Headmaster, tried to kill the Headmaster’s son, and even wanted to send the entire Zephyr Academy to its death! You are really too vicious! A person like you, is not fit to remain within the Zephyr Academy and no one will continue to listen to you. Making us go to the Heaven’s End Cliff? You should just give up on it now!” Several teachers of the Zephyr Academy’s teachers could no longer contain themselves and they jumped out in defence of the Zephyr Academy. They had had their own misgivings about the training trial before this and upon hearing Ning Rui’s unremorseful rely, they all wished they could leap over and skin Ning Rui alive at that very moment!
Ning Rui laughed at all of them.
“To go or not, will not be up to you.” He then turned to Gu Ying standing beside him and said: “Young Master Gu, this bunch of people are being insufferably pig headed and are creating an obstruction to the grand plan. Can I request that Young Master Gu lend a hand to teach them a thing or two for them to learn their place.”
Gu Ying raised an eyebrow and a sinister mirth came into his eyes as he swept his gaze over the teachers who spoke up earlier.
A sudden chill shot through the teachers. The youth Gu Ying’s identity was shrouded in mystery. He had just been admitted into the Zephyr Academy not too long ago and had already caused quite a big stir. A number of disciples in the Zephyr Academy had died under his hands and according to what Fan Jin said earlier, even the Headmaster Fan Qi seemed to have been one of the victims as well!
Fan Qi was no weakling but he had been killed with a single move! If it had really been Gu Ying’s doing, Gu Ying must be holding rather terrifying power!
“I am sorry to say that all of you must go to the Heaven’s End Cliff.” Gu Ying said to the teachers, flashing them a brilliant smile. And before the few of them were able to react, his body had turned into a flash of purple light, streaking through the mass of people!
The several teachers’ hearts constricted and they were just about to put up their defences when in the next second, they suddenly felt a searing pain on their necks and a bright red spray of warm blood surged and shot out from their necks!
Three of the teachers were taken down by Gu Ying in a flash. Gu Ying’s speed had been so fast that the disciples had not even been able to catch a glimpse his shadow when he moved!
Blood sprayed into the air, and droplets fell like rain covering a large area, staining the uniforms of the youths in a gruesome scarlet shade.
“EEEEEEEEEK!” Ear piercing screeches suddenly erupted from with the mass of people.
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Chapter 733: “Eighth Slap (14)”
The devilish red shade burned into the eyes of the youths and the pungent stench of blood stung their noses. The bodies of the three teachers fell before their eyes while Gu Ying who had just killed them just stood nonchalantly at the side, a devilish smile playing across his lips.
As the spray of blood fell, Gu Ying stood close, letting the warm scarlet rain fall onto him. He stood there smiling, his smile filled with a sense of euphoria. His eyes did not show a single tinge of pity or sympathy, but was filled with the rush he relished that the senseless slaughter gave him!
“If anyone refuses to go, you will end up just like them.” Gu Ying said with his head tilted to the side and flashing a brilliant smile to all the astounded youths standing before him.
Gu Ying had a handsome and blindingly brilliant smile. But under the falling scarlet rain that smattered across his face, his smile took on a look that sent chills up their spines!
Ning Rui stood their laughing loudly, an unrestrained laugh, as he stared at the dumbfounded disciples, and he turned to the Fan brothers standing near the main gates.
“So what if you know the entire truth? Are you intending to avenge your father’s death? Ha ha….. A pity. With just the two of you, it is impossible. Not just impossible, but both of you will have to leave your lives behind here as well!” Ning Rui suddenly felt that his earlier worries and misgivings had been all uncalled for.
[With Gu Ying here, it doesn’t matter whether they knew the truth or not!]
[They are doomed to die here!]
[And people who are dead, will never be able to reveal this secret of his, to anyone at all!]
With Gu Ying’s horrifying display of cruelty and power, those youths who had wanted to resist were suddenly frightened. They stared with their eyes wide open in shock and the more timid ones had already broken into tears.
Over this period, Gu Ying had slaughtered quite a number of people in the Zephyr Academy and they all knew that. But they had not expected Gu Ying to be so impudent that he would even strike at the teachers! What shocked them more was that Gu Ying actually possessed such dominant power. Those three teachers were at least at the green spirit level and although they were not considered to be the finest fighters, but the fact that they had been taken down in a flash that took barely a second was not something the average person could achieve!
Gu Ying was obviously of a similar age as the other youths, but how could he possess such a terrifying personality and carried out killings in such a savage manner?
Gu Ying stared depreciatingly at the terrified youths before him and his eyes were tinged with a sliver of disappointment.
[Just like thi
s and you are all terrified?]
[How much more boring can this get?]
But soon, Gu Ying quickly shifted his attention onto Fan Zhuo and Fan Jin. Those two must die, but before they do, he had a few things he wanted to ask them.
“Fan Jin, if you can tell me where Jun Xie is right now, I will allow you a quick and painless death.” Gu Ying suddenly said, his feet stepping through the blood soaked ground, slowly walking towards Fan Jin and Fan Zhuo in approach. Fan Jin was taken away by Wen Xin Han and all of that had been part of Jun Xie’s plan. Now that Fan Jin had appeared in the Zephyr Academy, then he must have been Jun Xie before this, and so he must know where that wily little fox was hiding at that moment.
“That is a rather arrogant stance you are taking.” Fan Jin laughed coldly.
Gu Ying’s eyes narrowed. “You would rather do this the hard way? Or are you just wishing that I can send to reunite with your father quickly? If you do not tell me what I want to know, I will break all your limbs and before your own eyes, slowly break every single bone in your little brother’s body. If that’s what you want, you can just maintain your silence.”
Gu Ying’s tone, was getting to become more cruel
But his cruelty to Ning Rui, was something most joyous to hear!
Ning Rui wished fervently that Gu Ying would slowly torment the Fan brothers to their deaths, for them to fully savour the agonising and excruciating pain before they meet with their father.
And once the Fan brothers are dead, and the disciples of the Zephyr Academy here all lying at the bottom of the Heaven’s End Cliff, then no one will ever find out about all his insidious deeds here!
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Chapter 734: “Eighth Slap (15)”
“Oh? If you think you have what it takes, you are welcome to give it a try.” Fan Jin replied, not showing a sliver of fear but laughed out loud instead.
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