Chapter 271: Seeking Truth Through Death!
Beneath the dim sky.
A tense atmosphere filled the training grounds.
Li Canghai's voice was like a sword rending the air.
It tore apart the silence all around.
"Hurry! Summon your Puppet Armor!"
His tone was low and hoarse.
It radiated an invisible pressure.
Like a wild beast about to erupt at any moment.
The middle-aged Instructor trembled from head to toe, his face ashen.
His heart was filled with terror. "You—are you trying to rebel?"
He trembled, and into his mind surfaced all the things Li Canghai had said.
For a time, he actually wavered slightly.
Li Canghai's eye sockets gradually moistened.
Tears slid down his cheeks.
His voice trembled, mixed with endless grief and fury.
"Where did I, Li Canghai, go wrong? You all look down on me, think I'm a fraud, a piece of trash…!"
Every word struck like a heavy hammer against the grievance in his heart, moving all who heard.
"Who ever looked up to me? Who cried out for my clan's injustice? Who redressed my Ancestor's wrongs?!"
Li Canghai held his head high, his voice resounding with power, almost ringing across the entire training grounds.
The surrounding students all turned to look, faint pity and shock rising in their hearts.
The longsword pressed tight against the middle-aged Instructor's neck.
It made him feel that despairing oppression.
His heart struggled violently.
In the end, beneath Li Canghai's resolute and agonized gaze, he could not help but summon his own Six-Winged Puppet Armor.
With a thunderous boom.
The massive Puppet Armor surfaced from midair.
The surrounding atmosphere instantly grew even more tense.
Li Canghai seized the middle-aged Instructor.
Without hesitation, he stepped into the cockpit, and the demon-blood mist erupted in an instant.
The terrifying power left everyone dumbfounded.
In that brief moment, his fury and sorrow intertwined into an unstoppable force.
"Chase! Catch him!"
The clamor at his ears seemed to challenge his resolve.
But in Li Canghai's heart, an unyielding flame ignited, lifting the curtain on his destiny.
…
And at this moment, Li Canghai was piloting the Six-Winged Puppet Armor, flying out of Yun City!
That towering city, like a lone pearl, gradually vanished behind him.
The azure sky set off his burning resolve.
He sped toward the Chaotian Eighty-Seventh Puppet Armor Academy established in the Ancient Great Zhou Kingdom!
He would make everyone in the Academy know of his family's Ancestor!
In this moment, a flame ignited in Li Canghai's heart — the accumulation and longing of countless lonely nights.
Huff… huff…
Li Canghai sat within the cockpit.
His chest heaved violently.
It was as if even his soul resonated with this speed.
The longsword, cold and sharp, rested against the middle-aged Instructor's neck, giving him an inexplicable sense of security.
At the same time, it made him feel an invisible pressure.
Driven by the demon blood, the Six-Winged Puppet Armor suddenly accelerated.
It broke through layer upon layer of clouds, slicing apart the tranquility of the sky.
The wind howled past, like a war horn on the battlefield, spurring him onward.
The entire Six-Winged Puppet Armor flew at extreme speed.
Like a wild beast breaking free of its reins, it startled the clouds all around, leaving countless whirlpools and ripples in its wake.
The few Puppet Armors accompanying him could not catch up at all.
As if awed by his powerful resolve and speed, they fell far behind.
Li Canghai understood in his heart that the Chaotian Eighty-Seventh Puppet Armor Academy was only a few thousand li ahead.
At the flight speed of this top-grade Third Order Puppet Armor, half a day at most would suffice.
His heart was full of hope, as if a turning point in fate was about to arrive.
But just when Li Canghai thought hope was about to descend.
Suddenly!
The sky ahead abruptly darkened.
As if dark clouds were gathering.
Blocking his line of sight.
Suddenly, a piercing alarm sounded at his ear, slicing through his thoughts.
"Weng—!"
The Puppet Armor's control console suddenly lit up.
Intense red light and alarm sounds thundered deafeningly.
"Alert!"
"Puppet under attack!"
"Enemy strength is formidable, driver please respond with caution!"
A warning flash blinked before him.
The panicked voice was like a ferocious demonic shadow, gripping his heart.
"What?"
Hearing the sound, Li Canghai's mind shook, his pupils contracting sharply.
Terror and unease intertwined.
As if a torrent of fate had suddenly surged toward him.
Immediately after, a terrifying pressure descended like a ghost.
In an instant, it locked onto the Six-Winged Puppet Armor!
That oppressive feeling was like a massive boulder falling, heavily crashing onto Li Canghai's heart.
It shattered the courage deep in his chest in an instant.
"Puppet Armor ahead! Stop!"
A resounding shout exploded in the air.
Like thunder crashing across the heavens.
In an instant, it drowned out the wind and the urgent alarms until nothing remained.
"Stop advancing immediately! Lower your altitude!"
The voice carried majesty and irresistible force.
It made Li Canghai's mind tremble, as if bound by invisible chains.
His pupils suddenly widened, a strong terror surging in his heart.
"Otherwise, kill without mercy!"
"A cultivator!"
He cried out inwardly, panic spreading.
Cold sweat seeped from his forehead, his heartbeat like a drum.
He had thought it was merely Academy Puppet Armor Cultivators in pursuit. He never imagined a cultivator would intervene!
That invisible pressure grew ever stronger.
Li Canghai clearly felt his own body trembling slightly under this force.
It seemed even breathing had become difficult.
Countless thoughts flashed through his mind.
He understood that if he continued to flee, he would certainly die.
But if he landed now, everything would turn to bubbles.
All his effort and resolve would come to nothing in this instant.
What was he supposed to do?
His thoughts surged like a tide, flooding his mind in an instant.
As the Academy Master, though Li Canghai had never piloted a Third Order Puppet Armor, he knew its performance like the back of his hand.
He knew clearly that this Third Order Puppet Armor had no modular Dharma Artifact capable of resisting pressure.
Once locked onto by the pressure released by a high-ranking cultivator, it would inevitably pierce through the armor and kill him!
But did he have a choice?
Various thoughts flickered rapidly through his mind.
Yet in the end.
A flame of resolve blazed fiercely in his heart.
He was not willing to give up just like that.
"Damn it!" Li Canghai cursed inwardly, a look of absolute determination flashing in his eyes.
He forced the middle-aged Instructor to stomp hard on the Puppet Armor's brake pedal.
The Six-Winged Puppet Armor instantly became like a massive meteor, hurtling madly toward Yun City!
Crash into Yun City!
The thought flashed by.
A mad resolve ignited in Li Canghai's heart.
He understood. Since no one was willing to take his thoughts and demands seriously.
Then he would use his own life, and the lives of everyone in that city, to awaken those lofty big shots and make them investigate the root of this matter!
He knew.
The lives of Yun City's people were enough to make the Chaotian Sect, which had controlled the Chaotian Realm for five hundred years, launch a thorough investigation.
And this mad Third Order Puppet Armor with its purpose already set.
Even a Nascent Soul Ancestor could not stop it!
Li Canghai understood in his heart.
As long as he died, this Puppet Armor would surely crash into Yun City like a meteor, rousing the attention and shock of countless people.
Everything seemed to freeze in an instant.
A fearless flame rose in Li Canghai's heart.
As if in this moment, he had become a king commanding his own destiny.
He gripped the longsword tightly, his gaze resolute, charging without the slightest retreat toward that endless darkness and despair!