Chapter 179 - 110: Chen Fugui: Money Can Make the Devil Turn the Millstone, I Paid King Yama!

Chapter 179: Chapter 110: Chen Fugui: Money Can Make the Devil Turn the Millstone, I Paid King Yama!

"Old Chen! Old Chen!"

Li Youquan looked at Chen Fugui, who was now covered by a white cloth, and immediately threw himself onto the body, crying his heart out.

In fact, it wasn’t just him. Many teachers from First High School wore expressions of profound grief.

After all, during his time at First High School, Chen Fugui was renowned for his generosity and loyalty. He had little concept of money and would always treat everyone to a good meal during the holidays. Furthermore, he never put on airs. As a result, almost everyone in the school—from Principal Meng Chuanping down to the security guards at the gate—had a great relationship with him. Seeing such a beloved friend die right before their eyes naturally left everyone feeling terrible.

Among them, Lu Chen, whose life Chen Fugui had sacrificed his own to save, felt the deepest sorrow.

Although Lu Chen was the one who ultimately killed Hao Fu, if Chen Fugui hadn’t helped stall the man for three crucial seconds, the Outer Path One Sword wouldn’t have inflicted much damage—even if it managed to break through Hao Fu’s Protective Pill Qi. Let alone following up with a relentless barrage of attacks that suppressed Hao Fu without giving him a chance to fight back.

So, in a sense, Chen Fugui deserved at least half the credit for Lu Chen’s victory. It was a result bought with his very life.

And Chen Fugui had used his actions to fulfill the promise he made to his students before setting out.

If danger arose, the first to die would absolutely not be his students, but him, their teacher.

"Lu..."

Mu Xiaoye looked at the silent Lu Chen, knowing perfectly well how heavy his heart was. She wanted to comfort him but didn’t know what to say. After all, she wasn’t Chen Fugui’s student. Yet, because she frequently visited Lu Chen’s class, she also shared a fairly good relationship with the man.

The feeling of watching someone familiar vanish right before your eyes was truly hard to easily let go of.

Besides Chen Fugui’s body, many other corpses were laid out across the athletic field.

Take Mr. Luo Yang, for instance, who had previously been stationed at the Qilin Statue to guard the array core. Although Mr. Luo Yang usually maintained a cold, impartial exterior, the students all knew he was warm-hearted underneath. As long as they didn’t do anything too outrageous, he generally turned a blind eye to their minor infractions.

In this Black Lotus attack, out of the thirteen First High School teachers present, including Chen Fugui and Luo Yang, a full four had fallen. As for the visiting teachers from Second High School and Third High School who had come for the exchange program—excluding the Black Lotus Sect Missionaries hiding among them—three had also perished in the assault.

Among the total of seven fallen teachers from the various schools, five had been sneak-attacked to death by the Black Lotus Special Envoys hiding in plain sight. Of the remaining two, one was besieged and killed by Black Lotus Cultists while covering the students’ retreat, and the other was struck dead by a single palm strike from Hao Fu when he tried to capture Bian Shouyi.

While First High School suffered heavy casualties, the Black Lotus Sect had paid an equally massive price.

Out of their twelve Missionaries, excluding the undercover Shen Feiyang, the remaining eleven had all fallen, without a single survivor. As for the higher-ranking Vice Altar Master and Altar Master, they had also been slain to the last man. Vice Altar Master Hao Fu died at the hands of Lu Chen. Si Snake, the Altar Master of the Black Lotus Sect’s Luocheng Branch, was killed by Li Nanshan.

Under normal circumstances, although Si Snake’s Power was slightly inferior to City Lord Li Nanshan’s, it wouldn’t have been easy for Li Nanshan to force him to stay as long as he didn’t fight to the bitter end.

However, things took a turn for the worse for him with the appearance of the Broken Sword Taoist, Nangong Broken Sword.

As a veteran Sword Cultivator of the Shangqing Daoist Palace, Nangong Broken Sword possessed top-tier Power within the Golden Core Stage. Even in a one-on-one fight, all Si Snake could do was try to escape from him. Not to mention a situation where Nangong Broken Sword and Li Nanshan had joined forces.

Therefore, after Nangong Broken Sword and Jiang Dongliu arrived in Luocheng, they spent barely any time disposing of Si Snake before hurrying directly to Luocheng First High School.

So, calculating carefully, the only person from the Black Lotus Sect who had managed to escape was Protector Thousand Poison Taoist.

As for Rat, who had been called in as outside help—although he wasn’t dead yet, he might as well be. Right now, he was facing a thousand-mile pursuit by a veteran Sword Cultivator.

Escape?

If he were allowed to escape, the Broken Sword Taoist wouldn’t have made so many Black Lotus Cultists tremble in fear at the mere mention of his name.

Looking at the big picture, after this battle, the branch that the Black Lotus Sect had painstakingly built in Luocheng was left in ruins. Aside from a few minor fry, the only person of note remaining seemed to be Shen Feiyang, the former Missionary of the Luocheng Branch.

In the crowd, Shen Feiyang looked at the people grieving over the deaths of their friends and family. His own feelings were equally complicated.

However, his complexity wasn’t due to losing any friends in this battle. As a total loner, let alone in First High School, he didn’t even have friends back in his original Third High School.

Thus, the true reason for his complicated feelings actually stemmed from his left arm.

That’s right. His arm—which had originally been severed by the Black Lotus Sect’s No. 4 Missionary, Chen Zhengjie—had somehow grown back.

Shen Feiyang speculated that this might have something to do with the mysterious Female Ghost residing within his body. Originally, he had been on the verge of being besieged to death by Chen Zhengjie and the surrounding Black Lotus Cultists. But at the very last moment, he had suddenly lost consciousness.