"Stay here, all of you."

Jiantianxin, who was about to reach the Pre-Saint level, was unable to launch a second wave of attack after using the Mysterious Iron Skill Saint Sword Dao. Just as the spiritual energy wave was about to explode, a green array covered the nine-headed giant python with a black cloud hanging over the sky, and the green-silver spear rained down on the body of the Nine-Soul Dragon Python.

Sitting on the sky array, a middle-aged man in a green robe mocked, "Nine-Soul Dragon Python, you have just entered the Zijin Pre-Level at best. You are merely a peak Red Gold level spirit beast. You are far from being a Sacred Beast!"

As Aray looked toward the middle-aged man's face, it turned out to be Vice Dean Meng Lande, Silver Moon!

"Quickly, run! I can only hold him for a while. Shall we meet at the academy later?"

Despite the massive scale of the array, it failed to trap the ninth head of the dragon. "Go to hell!" A green light beam shot towards Ye Na who was running at the back, shattering the space along the way and turning the surrounding ground into pieces.

Juxi, greatly alarmed, hurried back to Ye Na's front.

"Watch out, Sister Na!"

The Nine-Soul Dragon Python revealed a ferocious face, then looked in horror as an elderly man in a white dragon robe, radiating a divine aura, stood in front of Ye Na. To his surprise, it was Juxi?

"Divine Emperor? Haven't the level of Divine Beings long been extinct since ancient times?"

The old man's face was hidden behind a white cloak. Powered by the deadly Divine Lord energy, his fist intercepted the destructive light beam along with Aray's fist, abruptly halting its path.

Everyone present, including Ye Yun, was left speechless and astonished.

"Spirit Technique, Great Emperor's Explosive Flame Fist!"

Before they could react, Juxi, engulfed in purple flames, continued relentlessly towards the Nine-Soul Dragon Python's connected neck roots.

As the distance between the fist and the dragon was a yard away, a massive purple beam pierced through the void, covering the giant python and severing seven of its heads, causing a raging pain and anger in the Nine-Soul Dragon Python.

"You bastard, I'll fight you to the death!"

Completely exhausted, Juxi closed his eyes and collapsed into Ye Na's arms, allowing the dragon to unleash its remaining strength and land its attacks on him.

Boom!

The Nine-Soul Dragon Python suddenly fell just inches away from Ye Na. This terrified her, but the ever-graceful Ye Yun stepped on the dragon's head and praised, "Truly worthy of the inheritor chosen by the Divine Lord, your explosive power is remarkable."

Struggling to stand, Juxi touched the blood at the corner of his mouth and said with bitterness, "Well, the price is damn high. Cough, cough!"

As he spoke, he coughed up blood, and Ye Yun's smug expression turned into concern.

"Hurry! Ye Na, lay Juxi flat for me to examine."

After injecting spiritual energy into Juxi's body and exploring for a few seconds, Ye Yun sighed and said sternly, "He has depleted his spiritual and soul energies too much. Let's return to the academy first and focus on his recovery."

After instructing Ye Na, who was anxiously worried about Juxi, Ye Yun stood up and addressed Jiantianxin, the class leader, "This training mission is over. Return to the academy for further orders on the next training mission."

"White Dragon Emperor."

A familiar yet unfamiliar voice echoed in his mind as the ethereal world, covered in endless snow, materialized under Juxi's feet.

An inhabited, desolate planet?

Accustomed to such answers, he repeated in his mind, 'What exactly are they? Those lifeless humans and bizarre cities.'

"The answer is often found on the wrong side!" A distant yet captivating voice echoed from all directions in the pitch-black world.

"Well, because this is not only your world, but also a continent many years in the future, Juxi... Oh, perhaps calling you the Watcher would be more fitting."

"The Watcher... I don't know who that is, I'm called Juxi as it was named by my grandfather, the old world has nothing to do with me!"

Memories of past lives flooded Juxi's mind, stirring up waves after waves like the sea, "And the temple that can save my future... is it true?"

"..."

The prolonged silence from the other side indicated that there would be no further answers.

"Then you can at least tell me a way to unravel all of this, right?" Juxi, with a face full of sorrow, spread out his hands and looked at the non-existent sky, asking, "Is there really none?"

"Time will reveal the truth to you, just like the Goddess of the Future, Elvia, has no comment." The girl's enchanting yet chilly words plunged Juxi into the abyss of despair. "But!"

Is there still hope?

The mystery in Juxi's heart had truly troubled him for too long, and he eagerly listened to the girl's next clue: "The Goddess of the Future is calling you back as it is your true intention, I cannot disclose more."

"My own true intention?"

Just as the girl's final instructions fell, the world began to collapse until...!

"Juxi!!!"

Was that Yena's voice? Opening his eyelids, Juxi vaguely saw Yena's delicate face, already smeared by little hands like a flower pig. Fearing another commotion, Juxi quickly opened his eyes and grinned at her.

"Juxi is awake!"

Yena exclaimed in delight, waking everyone up, then she pounced on Juxi and scolded, "You jerk, for a moment I thought you were going to be unconscious for three months again, it's been two days already."

"Alright, alright, Naji! Don't curse me, see, I am fine, right?"

Gently caressing Yena's lovely twin ponytails, Juxi and Yena shared a smile, then embraced each other tightly.

The dormitory room in the academy was peaceful as ever under the setting sun, a scene so warm that even Jiantianxin and Chiyori were moved by it.

Yeyun, seemingly perpetually asleep as usual, showed no intention of getting up from the rocking chair.

It was Juxi's first careful inspection of the academy dormitory room, which was well-equipped with everything each person having a separate bedroom and living room.

The walls of the room were adorned with elegant yet simple orange-striped wallpaper.

On the left side of the living room, there was a spiritual power source display screen.

To the right, a glass-walled area of a few square meters served as the bathing area.

Nin and Wanchang, as usual, took out the Zhuge Divine Crossbow and carefully cleaned it in the bathroom. It was said that the water source in the academy was suitable for both bathing and cleansing the weapon spirits due to being nourished by spiritual energy.

Meanwhile, the senior was rolling up his sleeves and watching the news from the continent in the living room, occasionally chuckling like a smitten fool.

"I swear, that romantic young man, Romanca, is he the one you keep thinking about all the time?"

Jiantianxin's flirtatiousness was quite overwhelming, and Lanxin, disgustingly, grabbed Jiantianxin's hair and stepped on their thigh, cursing, "You want to die...!"

The door suddenly burst open and shattered into pieces, and the person dressed as a guard stumbled in, scaring Yeyun almost falling off the rocking chair to the ground.

"Found you, sir! The city is under massive attack by spirit beasts, including a high-level spirit beast we have never seen before, and it can even speak!"

"What?!"

The people present were all shocked. Ye Yun immediately laid hands on his dormitory and went to the city gate of the academy to take a look. Juxi and the others followed closely behind, and Jian Tianxin also rushed up despite his messy hair.

From the lookout tower, one could overlook the entire city. Fires were burning all over the southern half of the city, with ruins and broken walls everywhere. Silver moon looked towards the city gate, and there was a nine-headed giant python, the sovereign of the Eralcurl Wetland in the Forest of Confusion a few days ago— the Nine-Soul Dragon Python!

Wasn't it dead?

Juxi was somewhat at a loss for the current situation. Although a few days ago he was in a daze, he vividly remembered witnessing the death of the Nine-Soul Dragon Python with his own eyes.

Now, this Nine-Soul Dragon Python, with all nine heads intact, was jumping around shouting: "Bring out your damn sect master, or today I, the emperor, will blood-wash your Fengling Pavilion!"

To show his seriousness, the enraged Nine-Soul Dragon Python released a poisonous mist threatening to slaughter the entire city, saying: "Bring out the sect master and those few brats, or do the lives of tens of thousands of people mean nothing to you!"

The poisonous gas from the Nine-Soul Dragon Python seemed to be ready to strike. As the whole western coast was shrouded in a thick mist, Ye Yun, with his back to everyone, called out, "Jian Tianxin!"

"Here, teacher. Any instructions?"

A silver mist surrounded Ye Yun, completely concealing him in silver armor. Juxi was greatly astonished to see the complete form of the boundary spirit armor that only a Red Gold expert could release, something he had only read about in books.

However, with the assistance of the silver armor, Ye Yun was more than capable of holding off the Nine-Soul Dragon Python, even in its peak state, for half an hour.

"Go to the top of the academy and summon the sect master. Let that old man come back quickly to save the day. Meanwhile, evacuate the residents from the city to the shelters in the academy," Ye Yun instructed.

"What about you, teacher?" Yena, with concern, looked at Ye Yun covered in silver mechanical armor and asked.

"Teacher will delay the demon... Jade Spirit Armor!" With a roar, Ye Yun summoned a winged celestial horse, landing steadily on it in mid-air.

The storm brewing within Ye Yun launched a fierce attack on the Nine-Soul Dragon Python.

"Sovereign Spear!" Ye Yun's radiance enveloped the entire city, and as he soared through the sky, he laughed heartily, "Let me see what skills you have, you beast!"

"How dare you insult this emperor? Your day of reckoning will come next year!"

Behind the Nine-Soul Dragon Python, a pair of wings conjured from spiritual energy materialized. The poisonous mist that was about to spread formed into a toxic dragon tornado, aiming directly at the shining silver knight in the sky.

"Silver Mercury Spear!"

Countless silver spears rained down densely on the army of spirit beasts, decimating tens of thousands of them with the silver blades, leaving only a few to flee for their lives.

The cries and escape of the spirit beasts enraged the Nine-Soul Dragon Python.

Seeing the spirit beasts were now in disarray, the Nine-Soul Dragon Python emitted a strange light. A black cloud engulfed the entire land of Molec City, causing everyone to tremble, but as long as the silver warrior remained, no one would harm the people of the western coast!

"Mercurial Poison Spear."

Ye Yun raised the Sovereign Spear, and a black energy enveloped the tip of the silver spear in his hand. The domineering energy pierced through the clouds, and the black energy pillar pierced through the body of the Nine-Soul Dragon Python, just as the shouts from the shelter of the academy's people rang out.

"Hehehe! With this level of strength, this emperor is a little disappointed." The body of the Nine-Soul Dragon Python, which had been pierced through, rapidly returned to its original state.