A Farmer's Journey To Immortality - Chapter 597: Student-teacher Reunion P1

Chapter 597: Student-teacher Reunion P1

The shadows that had surrounded Zinnia’s martial school began to take form as hundreds of figures stepped into the open.

In every direction, the rooftops, streets, and alleyways around the school were filled with martial artists. Their numbers stretched beyond what Zinnia had ever imagined.

There were more than three hundred of them.

Over a hundred of them were Argent Body martial artists, their silvery Qi glowing faintly under the moonlight. The rest were all late-stage Bronze Body martial artists, their bronze-colored Qi pulsing like waves of molten metal.

As they channelled their Qi to the fullest, the surrounding zone was filled with pressure that made the roof tiles tremble.

The streets around the school turned chaotic. Residents woke up and ran out of their houses in panic. Shouts and cries echoed through the neighborhood. Shopkeepers hurriedly slammed down their shutters, locking themselves inside.

Even the city guards who usually patrolled the area were nowhere to be seen. It was as if they had been placed on house arrest by the city lord himself.

It was clear now—this siege was not a sudden move. It had been planned long before the Grand Martial Hall’s forces revealed themselves tonight.

Aksai looked at the formation below him with calm eyes. His expression didn’t change, not even a little. The faint silver glow of the Argent Body artists and the bronze shine of the others reflected in his pupils, but his gaze stayed cold and unreadable.

The warriors below started to draw their weapons—blades, axes, spears, and chains glinting in the moonlight. Some smirked, others grinned with twisted excitement. Killing intent filled the air like a storm waiting to break. They were ready to tear through anyone who stood in their way.

Zinnia, standing beside Aksai, felt her stomach tighten. Her knees almost weakened at the sight. She had faced danger before, but never had she seen so many powerful opponents gathered in one place. The silvery glow of the Argent artists made her skin crawl, and the oppressive Qi made it hard to breathe.

Her hands trembled for a second, but then her thoughts went to her fallen disciples—their pale faces, the blood-stained courtyard, the bodies Aksai had taken away. Even a huge number of injured looked like they were better off dead. If Aksai hadn’t used his druidic powers to heal them, most of them might not have survived the night.

Remembering the state of everything that she had built crumbling before her eyes, the fear in Zinnia’s eyes slowly turned to anger. Her breathing grew heavier. The sorrow in her heart twisted into rage.

“You bastards!” she shouted, her voice sharp and full of hate. “Even if I die today, I will never let you—”

Before she could finish, a calm voice stopped her.

“Zinnia.”

Aksai’s tone was steady, quiet, but something about it made her freeze.

He turned his head slightly toward her. His expression was calm, but there was a coldness in his voice that made her heart skip a beat.

“Keep quiet,” he said. “Let me deal with this.”

His words were soft, but they carried a tone that made it impossible to argue.

Zinnia’s lips parted, but no sound came out. For a moment, she thought she heard something beneath his calm tone—a deep, predatory coldness, like a devil about to wake from the depths of the hellish abyss.

The hundreds of martial artists stared up at Aksai on the rooftop, unaware that they were no longer the hunters. The Spirit farmer’s gaze swept across them slowly, the corner of his mouth lifting ever so slightly. In that quiet moment, under the moonlight, even the night wind seemed to stop moving.

Swoosh. Swoosh. Swoosh.

Just then, three figures stepped out from the mass of martial artists at the back of the siege. Their auras became more prominent than the rest as their Qi surged, distorting the moonlight.

In the next instant, they vanished.

A breath later, they reappeared fifty meters away from Aksai, standing on a nearby rooftop. Their bodies flickered with deep silver light—the mark of the late-stage Argent Body Realm. One could say that they were only a step away from becoming Aurous artists. Each of them had simply jumped instead of using their Qi-based movement techniques, covering that distance in a blink.

The night breeze brushed past, carrying with it the faint scent of metal and dust. For a long moment, no one spoke. The three newcomers simply looked at Aksai, their expressions caught between disbelief and shock.

Jin Jolan, Wen Wei, and Lin Lan—names once respected in their respective schools, now bound under the banner of the Grand Martial Hall.

Their eyes widened slightly when they finally took in the man before them. Aksai stood calmly, hands behind his back, his face illuminated by the pale moonlight. He looked exactly the same as he had decades ago—back before the Tree Devils’ invasion, before the fall of Serenity Peak.

His skin was smooth, his features sharp and unaged, his posture straight and full of quiet confidence. The years that had passed since that tragedy seemed to have left no mark on him at all.

Jin Jolan was the first to recover from the shock, though a faint crease appeared between his brows. His silver Qi shimmered around his legs like waves of air. Known once as “Whirlwind Jin,” he had been the one to teach Aksai the Qi Flow Arts back then.

Wen Wei stood beside him, tall and broad-shouldered even in his old age. The passage of time had bent his back slightly, but his aura was steady and dangerous. He had taught Aksai the Sword Qi Arts back when Aksai lived as a mysterious young master in Serenity Peak.

Wen’s weathered face showed disbelief, but there was also caution—he could sense the depth of Aksai’s current power, and it unsettled him.

Lin Lan stood a little behind the two men. Once a woman of grace and poise, her short, white hair gleamed faintly under the moonlight. Her skin was wrinkled and her eyes tired, but her aura remained sharp.

She used to teach Aksai the White Golden Palm Arts.

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AN: Wen Wei, Lin Lan, and Jin Jolan were introduced in Chapter 73.

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