I flew on a sword at the magic academy

"Why didn't you take me with you when you went ghost hunting, Master?" Kalman looked at Shi Daohan with a resentful expression.

Shi Daohan took a big bite of fried rice, then flicked his finger on the forehead, saying, "What would you do there? Just cause trouble?"

Kalman clutched his head, grimacing, and complained angrily, "But Fiona and Locke went with you too! Why am I considered an accomplice? At least I know the Golden Light Spell and Fire Manipulation, so I can protect myself without any problem. Aren't I much better than them?"

"Fiona and Locke were chosen by Headmaster Donaldson himself. If you have any objections, go and argue with him."

Shi Daohan grinned and then added, "And if we're really going to be serious, you're not as good as Fiona."

"Why?" Kalman's face was full of dissatisfaction.

"Why? Because of her..." Shi Daohan almost let slip that Fiona was a herbalist from the Ancient Cicada Clan, but luckily he reacted quickly.

Shi Daohan pinched his cheek and scolded him sternly, "Why are you asking so many questions? Don't pry into other people's business. Finish your meal and go up the mountain to offer incense to the ancestral master!"

Kalman pursed his lips and said, "By the way, Master, now that you're back, shall we continue with today's cultivation class?"

"Cultivation class..." Shi Daohan pondered for a moment, stroking his chin, and said, "We'll see. I didn't sleep a wink last night, so I need to get some rest today."

"But Master, didn't you say that cultivators don't need to sleep?" Kalman asked.

"You talk too much. After you finish eating, hurry up and go up the mountain to offer incense." Shi Daohan tapped him on the head.

After breakfast, she first took Fiona back to her dormitory, and then wandered alone to the front of Lord Donaldson's mansion.

As soon as I entered the gate, I saw Shen Tianyu and Dean Donaldson talking animatedly about something in the hall.

"Ahem, did I disturb you?" Shi Daohan coughed lightly and stepped in.

"Oh, you've come at the right time. Shen Tianyu is planning to establish an exorcism department in the name of our academy, mainly to help people outside the academy solve paranormal events. I think it's a great idea. What do you think?" Dean Donaldson was all smiles, clearly impressed by Shen Tianyu's words.

"An exorcism agency? That sounds pretty good." Shi Daohan said without hesitation. Helping people catch ghosts and exorcise evil spirits is a good way to make money. Even if Shen Tianyu hadn't brought it up today, she would have set one up sooner or later.

"Don't worry, I've always believed in sharing the profits. I've already decided on the members: you and me, that witch, plus Fiona and Locke, that's five of us in total."

Shen Tianyu handed over a list for Shi Daohan to review.

Whether or not Shi Daohan joined this so-called Exorcism Division was of no concern to her, but Shen Tianyu's decision to bring Fiona and Locke into the group made her wary.

"I can accept that you want to take advantage of Fiona's abilities as an Ancient Cicada Clan alchemist by recruiting her, but what about Locke? What makes him so sickly and frail that you'd want to win him over?"

Shi Daohan used his divine sense to transmit his voice, tentatively asking the question.

"Nothing special, I just think this child is quite well-behaved and worth nurturing," Shen Tianyu said.

Shi Daohan narrowed his eyes, staring at Shen Tianyu with suspicion, and said, "Is a well-behaved personality something to be cultivated? I remember that Donghua Mountain has always been very strict in recruiting disciples. When did you become so casual?"

Shen Tianyu didn't answer her question. Instead, a playful smile appeared on her lips as she countered, "You seem to care a lot about Locke. Is there some secret he's hiding?"

Hearing him say such things, Shi Daohan was basically certain that Shen Tianyu had also discovered the strange power parasitizing Locke's body.

Shi Daohan said coldly, "I advise you not to get involved with him."

Shen Tianyu smiled. His features were very handsome, and his smile was also very pleasant, making people feel like they were bathed in a spring breeze. However, Shi Daohan had an urge to beat him up.

"Aren't you also after him?"

"I'm different, I'm saving him."

"Well, what a coincidence. I also wanted to save him. What? Are only you people of Mount Shu allowed to save people from suffering? Aren't we, the people of Mount Donghua, also disciples of our ancestor?"

Shi Daohan gritted his teeth, feeling an urge to trample him underfoot and give him a good beating.

"Believe it or not, I only need to say one word and he'll ignore you." Shi Daohan raised an eyebrow.

"Of course I believe him. I could tell when we were at the Latafia Hotel that he trusts you and listens to you. If you tell him to ignore me, he definitely won't."

Shen Tianyu nodded directly, but then added, "But do you believe I can make him obey my every word?"

Upon hearing this, Shi Daohan's expression turned cold. He stood up abruptly and slammed his hand heavily on the table, causing the ground to tremble. The table shattered into pieces on the spot.

"You, surnamed Shen, dare to threaten me?!" she shouted coldly, no longer caring about using divine sense to transmit her voice, and blurted it out directly.

She knew perfectly well what Shen Tianyu meant by making Locke obey her every word—it was nothing more than turning Locke into a puppet, a walking corpse!

She never expected that Shen Tianyu, the chief disciple of the prestigious Donghua Mountain sect and hailed as the reincarnation of Emperor Donghua, would say such a thing.

"I'm not threatening you. I'm just telling you that if I wanted to, I would have many means and methods to achieve my goals. That's all," Shen Tianyu said with a smile on her face, transmitting her thoughts through divine sense.

On the other side, Dean Donaldson looked at Shi Daohan with astonishment as she suddenly stood up and then slammed her hand on the table, shattering it.

Shen Tianyu and Shi Daohan communicated through their spiritual senses, so Dean Donaldson had no idea what was happening and was looking at Shi Daohan with suspicion.

"Shi Daohan, what's wrong with you...?"

"It's nothing! This rascal is glaring at me!" Shi Daohan snorted coldly, sat back down, took off the wine gourd hanging from his waist, and gulped down several mouthfuls of strong liquor.

"Hehe, she's just being drunk," Shen Tianyu explained to Dean Donaldson with a smile.

Dean Donaldson nodded slightly, but still looked at Shi Daohan with some concern and said, "Student Shi Daohan, it's better to drink less alcohol in the future. Drinking too much is bad for your health."

Shi Daohan pouted and said, "My health is excellent; I could live to be a thousand or eight hundred years old without any problem!"

Donaldson simply laughed off her words and didn't take them too seriously. After all, who can live for over a thousand years?

"How's your decision?" Shen Tianyu asked Shi Daohan.

Shi Daohan gave a displeased sneer and said, "You've already put it so bluntly, what else can I say?"

"Then I hope we can have a pleasant collaboration in the days to come."

Shi Daohan didn't even glance at him, put away the wine gourd, and turned to leave.

She was feeling somewhat depressed, and at the same time, she was also holding back a lot of anger.

Just as Shen Tianyu said, even if Shi Daohan prevented Locke from contacting him, he had plenty of ways to achieve his goal.

All Shi Daohan can do now is try his best to steer things in a positive direction.

"Oh well, whatever, I've done my best anyway."

Shi Daohan comforted herself, not wanting to put so much pressure and psychological burden on herself.

On that very day, with the support of Dean Donaldson, Shen Tianyu officially established the Exorcism Division in the name of Horagaka Academy.

After consulting with Shi Daohan, Fiona and Locke officially became the first members of the Exorcism Division.

Jing Xinyu initially refused, but after learning that Locke and Fiona were already members of the Exorcism Division, she readily chose to join.

However, she strongly opposed the name "Exorcist Division" and kept insisting on changing it.

"You straight man surnamed Shen, what do you mean by naming yourself 'Exorcist Division'? This is a personal attack on me! Change this lousy name right now!"

Jing Xinyu ran to Shen Tianyu's Luohua Mountain, shouting that she wanted to change the name of the Exorcism Division.

"Don't you know that changing generals at the last minute is a big no-no? Since the name has already been decided, there's no reason to change it again. Stay if you can, leave if you can't. I won't force you to stay." Shen Tianyu's attitude was very firm.

Jing Xinyu, now enraged, said, "You surnamed Shen, I'm telling you right now, you'd better change that lousy name whether you like it or not, or believe me, I'll raze this lousy mountain to the ground!"

Shen Tianyu transformed into a long rainbow, descending from the mountaintop to the foot of the mountain in one step. His deep eyes stared directly at Jing Xinyu, and he said, "You dare to act wildly on my Luohua Mountain? You try and flatten it!"

Jing Xinyu: "You think I wouldn't dare?"

Shen Tianyu shook his head slightly and said calmly, "I think you have the guts, but not the ability."

This was already blatant provocation, and Jing Xinyu immediately lost her temper. A surge of demonic energy emanated from her body, quickly engulfing the area.

On this very day, an extremely spectacular and terrifying scene unfolded in the sky above Mount Luohua: endless celestial light and heavy demonic energy clashed, and two figures as fast as lightning crisscrossed the sky, fiercely attacking each other.

"Boom!"

Each of their attacks was like a thunderclap, the momentum and the shockwaves of the battle seemed to tear the sky in two.

In other words, they had set up an isolation array in advance to separate Luohua Mountain from Horagaka Academy, preventing the residual effects of the battle from reaching them. Otherwise, who knows how many students would have been shocked to death.

Standing atop the Santa Maria peak to the west of the college, Shi Daohan led Kalman to a cliff, gazing towards the direction of Luohua Mountain.

"Master, why did you bring me here?" Kalman asked, looking puzzled.

Shi Daohan smiled mysteriously: "I'll show you a great show of a war between immortals and demons."

After saying that, Shi Daohan stretched out a slender jade hand and gently brushed it in front of Kalman's eyes, coating them with a layer of purple light, allowing him to ignore the isolation array and clearly see everything that was happening on Luohua Mountain.

"That is..."

Before and after the eyes were coated with purple divine light, what they saw were two completely different worlds.

At that moment, in Kalman's eyes, he could see powerful columns of air shooting up into the sky from the earth, piercing through the heavens.

The sky seemed to be split in two, with endless celestial light on one side and vast demonic energy on the other. Various destructive divine rays crisscrossed the heavens and earth, cutting everything in its path in half and then annihilating it into ashes.

Two extremely intense and dazzling lights collided continuously, one blue and one red. Each collision was like a million volcanoes erupting at the same time, with terrifying ripples spreading in all directions, vast and boundless between heaven and earth.

Kalman had never seen anything like it before. He was so frightened that he backed away repeatedly and almost lost his footing and fell off the cliff.

"Master, Master... what is that?" Kalman was so shocked that he could not express it. He gasped repeatedly, his whole body trembling uncontrollably, and his clothes were soaked with cold sweat.

"Did you see that clearly? That's a battle between cultivators," Shi Daohan said calmly.

Kalman asked in surprise, "A cultivator? Someone like you, Master?"

Shi Daohan said, "Now that you are a cultivator, you will also be able to engage in such battles with others, just like one of them."

"Will I also be involved in battles like this in the future?"

Kalman was extremely shocked. He had previously only used his imagination to fantasize about cultivators riding the clouds, commanding wind and lightning, and moving mountains and filling seas, but he had never imagined what battles between cultivators would be like.

At this moment, the scenes unfolding before his eyes were far beyond his comprehension.

[The battles between the gods in the heavens must be nothing more than this, right?] Kalman swallowed hard, muttering to himself.

Seemingly sensing his thoughts, Shi Daohan said softly, "This is because they were worried about harming innocent people, so they didn't go all out."

If both sides go all out and reveal all their trump cards, not only will this small Horagaka Academy be reduced to rubble, but the entire area within a hundred miles will be leveled by the residual force of their battle.

Kalman was so shocked he was speechless.

This was still a battle where both sides were holding back. If they went all out, the entire area within a hundred miles would be razed to the ground. Kalman couldn't even imagine what kind of apocalyptic scene that would be.

"Open your eyes wide and watch this battle closely. You may face even more brutal life-or-death battles in the future." Shi Daohan pulled him in front of him, making him watch closely how cultivators fight.

Now that you've embarked on the path of cultivation, you'll undoubtedly face many battles in the future.

Shi Daohan will not treat Kalman like a hothouse flower; he wants him to know in advance what kind of battles he will face in the future.

"From each height you stand at, you see and encounter different people and things. The battle you are witnessing now is just a simple contest. What you will face in the future may be even more brutal life-or-death battles." (End of Chapter)