Murong Xue saw the associate dean stop at the edge of the cliff and she tried to figure out what they were talking about through her spiritual sense.

"This is where you need to complete the mission," said the associate dean flatly.

Lin Nan looked down the unfathomable cliff and he was unable to see anything in the darkness under the cliff. All he felt was an icy chill that came at him. Lin Nan's eyes grew cold as he realized that the associate dean was actually asking them to die. Lin Nan reached out to pull Wu Xiaomei and the others close to him, standing together. He asked, "Mr. Dean, what our mission is under the cliff?"

"Ha-ha! The mission is to sacrifice your lives." The associate dean smirked and it enabled his creepy face to be more natural once his viciousness was shown.

Lin Nan and the others grabbed their weapons at once and they answered coldly, "Sorry, we can't accept a mission like this." Meanwhile, they realized how terrible the situation was and that they fell into the associate dean's trap. More importantly, the place where they were now was in the middle of nowhere and nobody was around to witness if they all died.

They had suspected the mission, but the one who asked them was the associate dean, and Longyu College had a good reputation. They had thought that the associate dean asked them to handle the mission because he wanted to help train them, but it did not seem to be the truth now. Although Lin Nan did not know what was under the cliff, he knew there would be extremely dangerous things. He had observed the associate dean before and noticed that he just remained where he was, unwilling to come closer to the cliff.

They had no idea what would cost their lives under the cliff, but they knew there must be something ghastly and vicious.

The chill they felt turned their blood to ice.

The associate dean asked, "Do you think you can go back alive after you come here?"

"What do you want?" Lin Nan stood before the others and gathered his spiritual power while Zhao Qi and the others took out their weapons.

The associate dean let out a few cold laughs and said, "Don't bother. None of you can beat me, who is at the ninth stage of purple-level. Just do yourself a favor and jump off the cliff now." The associate dean was dismissive of their spiritual power. In his eyes, Lin Nan and the others were all in their final death throes.

Lin Nan questioned in a cold voice, "Do you think you can get away with what you did to us? People would spit on you."

"Ha-ha! You are so naive. Who would find out once you all died here?" answered the associate dean. He thought to himself, "I will come to rule the world soon after. What's so good about a peaceful world? The world should be filled with joys of killing."

The associate dean's face was twisted and his smile was creepy, both of which showed that he was a hopeless psycho.

Lin Nan and the others thought of Mu Tian now. They wondered if they could ever see him again.

When Mu Tian told them that something was wrong with the associate dean yesterday, they did not consider his words seriously and now they regretted it. It was not because death frightened them but because they wanted to follow Mu Tian.

At the same time, Murong Xue hiding up in the tree changed her face when she found out what happened, and she was biding her time. She was unable to defeat the associate dean since he was stronger than her, so it was better for her to catch him off-guard. When the associate dean laughed out loud, Murong Xue gathered all her spiritual power and lunged at him.

"Phoenix Fury!"

Murong Xue used her most powerful move as the first strike, and everything depended on it.

The associate dean sensed it and abruptly turned back, only to see the horrible spiritual power coming at him. His eyes widened. The last thing Murong Xue saw before the associate dean was devoured by the attack was his horrified look.

Seeing the associate dean getting hit, Murong Xue felt relieved. As long as he was hit, he would be severely wounded even if he survived it, which would make it easier for them to beat him.

"Mu Tian!"

"Why are you...?"

Lin Nan and the others barely said a word. A feeling of warmth was rising in their hearts and their eyes became wet. Everything was expressed in silence.

But it was not the time to chat with friends. Murong Xue stayed focused as she knew there was a great gap between someone at the ninth stage of purple-level and someone at the beginning stage of purple-level, her eyes fixed on the place where the explosion brought by the attack happened.

When the smoke of the explosion cleared slowly, they saw the associate dean's broken body lying on the ground and all breathed a sigh of relief.

However, the broken body rose up the next moment. When Murong Xue and the others saw his face, they all retched.

It was very disgusting.

Half the associate dean's face was blasted and the black flesh was exposed, of which white worms were swimming out. The waves of squirming gave Murong Xue and the others goosebumps.

"Quack! Quack!" The associate dean's laughter was creepy.

Lin Nan and the others stayed alert and stood before Murong Xue to shield her.

"Mu Tian, go. Quick," whispered Lin Nan.

Lin Nan felt a strong sense of foreboding that the associate dean became more forbidding than before. Instead of the purple-level halo, the associate dean was engulfed in the blanket of black smoke. He doubted if the associate dean was a human being now.

Zhao Qi and the others all agreed with what Lin Nan said, standing before Mu Tian to cover him. They planned to use their bodies to buy some time to let Mu Tian escape.

Murong Xue pushed them out of the way and gathered all her spiritual power. After the first move, her spiritual power was not as strong as before, but it was better than the first time that she had used it and passed out. Anyway, she would never abandon her partners.

Lin Nan implored, "Mu Tian! Calm down and leave. Quick! We're begging you."

"Quack! Quack! You made me very angry now. No one can get away." Thick black smoke rose from the associate dean and the cloud of the smoke grew bigger and bigger, which enveloped him at last.

"Cut the crap. I'd rather die with my partners than run away and live alone."

Lin Nan and the others heard Mu Tian's vague cold voice and it stirred a feeling of passion in them.

"Okay, let's do it together." They stopped asking Mu Tian to go, standing together side by side.

"Phoenix Soaring!" Murong Xue was the first one to make a move.

"White Tiger Roaring!"

"Ice and Snow!"

"..."

All of them put in all of their efforts and attacked the associate dean continuously and desperately.

However, all of their attacks seemed to have missed the target, only making great noises.

"Quack! Quack!"

"Scr*w you, you little b*st*rds!"

The thick black smoke had a horrible smell and enveloped Murong Xue and the others, covering everything else around them.

Murong Xue realized where this was going and cried, "Lin Nan! Zhao Qi!"

"We are here!"

Murong Xue followed the sound of the voice.

"Mu Tian!"

Murong Xue shouted, "Grab my hand!"

"Quack! Quack! Go under the cliff and feed my master now!"

The black smoke with strong power pushed Murong Xue and the others toward the edge of the cliff.

Murong Xue almost exhausted her spiritual power, so she was unable to resist the push. She kept retreating while she grabbed Lin Nan and the others tightly. "Hang on. Don't let go!" Murong Xue said.

"Okay!" answered Lin Nan.

Having been partners for a long time, they knew each other well now.

Mu Tian had the Space and it was their fighting chance. Everything would be fine as long as they entered the Space the moment they fell off the cliff.

However, the black smoke seemed to be poisonous and they gradually felt stiff and numb. Murong Xue was no exception. The powerful smoke gave them the last push and they all flew into the air at once, falling rapidly to the bottom of the cliff.

"Quack! Quack!"

The associate dean's creepy laughter echoed above the cliff.

"Stay awake! Buck up. Hold on tight!" Murong Xue could feel that her whole body became stiff and she was becoming unconscious.

Lin Nan and the others were loosening their grip.

Murong Xue made up her mind at once and they all entered the Space at once. She had wanted to wait until they hit the bottom of the cliff so that she would find out what there would be. Now they were still falling, so they would fall to the ground in the Space.

Lin Nan and the others could not make it to the bottom of the cliff, so Murong Xue decided to enter the Space now for safety.

Standing up on the edge of the cliff, the associate dean stopped laughing when he saw them disappear, "Eh?"

He rubbed his black empty eyes, "So strange!"

But the associate dean did not overthink it. His broken face was repaired now and he became the easygoing man in the college again after changing back into a white robe.

The moment Murong Xue entered the Space, she passed out.

It was the same with Lin Nan and the others. All of them dropped to the ground.

Xiaobai jumped up, "Hey, wake up!"

Xiaobai saw that their bodies became solidly black at a very rapid speed. Murong Xue was the most important person to Xiaobai, so it took care of her first. It touched several nerves of hers, but the black skin was still expanding at the same speed. Xiaobai entered the Nine-stage Pagoda to find the detoxification pills and it poured the pills into Murong Xue's mouth.

"Don't sleep! Wake up now!" Xiaobai's voice was trembling.

The detoxification pills did not work. Murong Xue's whole body became black now and the black gas around her had a creepy shimmering light.

It was finished now.

Xiaobai slumped on the ground with a desperate look.