Daily life of a teacher in the martial arts department

A pair of lifeless, dull eyes, a slightly hunched back, and a lower body that looked like it could collapse at the slightest touch.

He immediately felt relieved. What use would it be if such a weakling figure figured something out? Wouldn't he just shatter if he touched him?

That's fine too... Regardless of whether he noticed or not, kill him to prevent him from pretending not to notice and causing a life-altering event.

Come on, when you're less than three meters away from me, I'll suddenly attack and kill you.

The man with dead fish eyes showed no sign of vigilance and approached step by step... However, just as the man was about to step into the killing line, he suddenly stopped.

"Ah, aren't you that person, that person?" He tried his best to recall, making it seem as if his memory had deteriorated to that of an elderly person.

He suddenly felt nervous. He didn't know this man, but why did this man seem to know him?

"That day in the cafeteria with that guy...you really had it tough." The dead-eyed guy shrugged and said, "You know, your freckled friend actually got caught going to a love hotel. That's why he was yelling and screaming there. Then he inexplicably ran away, leaving you here clueless. I felt so embarrassed for you. It was really pitiful..."

"So that's what it was about..."

He sighed inwardly. He had indeed been standing there in the cafeteria, but not out of embarrassment. He was searching for a coping mechanism within his body... and managed to find one with very low compatibility to get by.

"But it's precisely because that guy goes to love hotels all the time that I was able to devour his roommate's body. I have to thank him for that. Humans are creatures controlled by base desires... that's the only thing I'm truly satisfied with."

"But what's wrong with this man? He's way too familiar with me. I don't even know him, how can he say all this to me?"

He thought to himself, and then spat out his disgust.

"Do you enjoy discussing other people's mistakes? Just as 'Father' said, humans are this kind of creature..."

"Let's end his life."

Thinking this, he forced a stiff smile. "Is that so..."

At the same time, he took a step forward and moved closer to this weakling with dead fish eyes.

"Ah, Mu Nandong said that you can't communicate and that we can just kill you. I actually have some doubts."

The dead fish eyes suddenly opened his mouth, saying inexplicable things, but his body remained loose and weak, without the slightest tension.

"But as expected, the words of professionals are not something laymen can question. What's with this murderous intent? It's truly terrifying..."

"By the way, why did I suddenly run into you here? Is it Nocturne? Ah, did Nocturne-sensei guess something? But I think it's just a coincidence..."

Ying Qin Guan has always been detached from the main storyline and has no idea what's going on, but...

"By the way... I can see extremely clearly, really. Nobody is better at fighting in the dark than me."

Although he didn't know what the dead-eyed guy was saying, there was one thing he was absolutely certain of!

He's been exposed!

Without a word, his body tensed abruptly, his inner energy surged, and that violent power was about to be unleashed through the technique.

His fist was clenched... but he didn't throw it.

Because...that man cast his gaze upon me.

In an instant, everything changed.

The bamboo forest disappeared, replaced by a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood.

Corpses piled up like mountains, and blood flowed like rivers.

A blood-soaked figure stood in front of him.

His hair was disheveled, and his entire body was covered in blood; he was a blood-soaked figure, even his hair was dyed red, and his eyes were bloodshot.

He held a nicked sword in his left hand and a broken knife in his right, his back ramrod straight, as if he had never bent down in his entire life.

Suddenly, that bloodied figure looked up and gazed at them.

The moment our eyes met, it was as if the world had turned upside down.

Chapter Twenty-Five: The Butcher

"No wounds?"

"No."

"No, no, no, check again. How can there be no wounds at all? Is this the river? No, it's not the river."

Are you questioning my expertise?

"I wouldn't dare..."

Jiu Yi, Mu Nandong, and several other teachers stood in the bamboo forest, looking at the corpse kneeling on the ground.

It's quite a strange story. While they were still checking the student list, Nocturne strolled over with a drink from the Flower Shop, saying, "Teacher Ying found the deceased and said he was coming to find someone, but it seems you all don't know yet. He must be lost. The woman is helping him deliver a message." This scared the teachers half to death, thinking another student had died. But when they came over and took a closer look, they saw that there was still some black mist around him... The one who died was Gu Xinmo.

It's worth noting that... the way the Gu Heart Demon died was very strange.

He slid to his knees, leaned back, and incredibly maintained his balance, without falling backward or to the left, his head tilted back to the sky... his eyes tightly closed.

Then, without much else to say, Mu Nandong, who is a professional whenever there is no fight, went to examine the body and finally concluded that the body had no wounds.

"So, the cause of death is unknown?" Jiu Yi followed Mu Nandong's lead and said, "What kind of new magic is it? Why don't you take it back and have it autopsied?"

Mu Nandong didn't answer, but instead pried open the other person's eyelids and examined them carefully. He stood up and said, "No need. The dead should be respected; let them rest in peace."

"Hey, what are you saying... We don't even know the cause of death, and you're talking about 'peace in the earth'... Don't go!"

Mu Nandong strode out, and Jiu Yi was about to catch up when Yu Xietian suddenly stopped him, rubbing his hands together and smiling, "Dean, this money..."

"Money?!" Jiu Yi was extremely shocked. "You're like a policeman who arrives only after everything's over, and you have the nerve to ask for money?!"

"Ahem, you can't say that," Nephalem had to step in and speak up for fairness. "It's not like you have to put in the effort to get paid..."

Yu Xietian shook his head and said with a smile, "Dean, you can think of me as an ambulance or something. I came over, but the injured person I was supposed to save had already died. I didn't do anything. But even so, I still have to charge you because I went out of my way to help."

Shenxin was holding up a small blackboard on the side.

"That's exactly right!"

Jiu was at a loss and anxious, so he could only say, "I understand! Let me go first!"

He then quickly caught up with Mu Nandong.

After catching up, he noticed that Mu Nandong's expression was not good.

"There were too many people around, so there were some things I couldn't say," Mu Nandong said coldly. "The Imperial Academy might be in trouble this time."

"Huh?" Jiu Yi was taken aback. "How did things get so complicated?"

“The Gu Heart Demon was scared to death.” Mu Nandong’s words were startling. “There were no injuries, but I’m certain that he was scared to death.”

"Scared to death?" Jiu Yi had studied some medicine during his university years and said, "I remember it was... being subjected to a huge shock, releasing a large amount of hormones, causing high blood pressure, and resulting in bleeding in vital organs... being scared to death like that?"

Mu Nandong suddenly stopped and looked at Jiu Yi indifferently, saying, "Are you giving me a science lesson?"

Like a top-tier player being taught item builds by a Silver player, or an Olympic champion having their movements pointed out as incorrect by an amateur, this is a rhetorical question from a mobile library.

"No... I didn't mean that." Although he was the Dean of the Imperial Academy, Jiu Yi could only groan inwardly. "Please speak, please speak."

"What you're saying is a form of being scared to death, but you only half understand it and you're trying to explain it to me. Ha... How could a normal person be scared to death like that, especially since he's a martial arts student?" Mu Nandong narrowed his eyes and said, "The Gu Heart Demon was purely scared to death, not because of a physical problem."

"Purely...scared to death?"

"Yes, it has nothing to do with the body. To be more accurate, it was killed by the sheer terror of its own existence." Mu Nandong walked quickly, coldly stating, "A demonic creature is ultimately a demonic creature..."

He paused and said, “Evil spirits are different from alien races. Their existence is intolerable to heaven and earth. I once read that scholars in the Southern Qin wrote that righteousness can ward off evil spirits. This is misleading people. No matter how many books you read, it is useless against these things. But there are some things that are useful.”

Jiu is not a qualified flatterer like Nephalem, but fortunately, Mu Nandong is the type who can continue speaking without needing to flatter.

"For example, bloodlust, or... the intent to kill."

“Young people full of vigor and blood, butchers who have worked in slaughterhouses for decades... these are the people that evil spirits fear.”

Mu Nandong said, "Blood energy, yang energy, murderous intent... Whether demons and evil beings are willing to admit it or not, they are afraid of these things. Even if they consider themselves superior beings, at the top of all living beings, demons and evil are still demons and evil."

Jiu Yi suddenly had a thought, but he didn't show it.

Mu Nandong's expression was solemn as he continued speaking.

"However, while demons may fear these things, being scared to death is not something any butcher can do... This Gu Heart Demon is quite intelligent; it has clearly seen through our scheme. Therefore, it is directly controlling its body, intending to escape on its own..."

"Demons and evil spirits without intelligence are easily intimidated by bloodlust and killing intent. Because they don't have much intelligence, they act on instinct. To them, bloodlust and killing intent are like a high-temperature body; if they get too close, they will be burned. Although they won't be burned to death, they will feel very uncomfortable."

"But intelligent demons are difficult to intimidate by blood energy and killing intent. These things are inherently in a state of chaos, and only those without intelligence can sense them in the dark. Once they have intelligence, they naturally cannot perceive them clearly. In other words, the effect of blood energy and killing intent is greatly weakened."

Mu Nandong fell silent at this point.

Jiu Yi had already guessed what was going on, and his expression was somewhat complicated. He didn't say anything.

"But... now, that Gu Heart Demon was so frightened that it died, literally scared to death."

"If a hot-blooded young man is like a matchstick... then what level of bloodlust and killing intent would be needed to scare the Gu Heart Demon to death?"

Mu Nandong silently raised his head and looked west.

It was already dusk; the sun was rising in the east and setting in the west.

"Then I can only conclude... it was the person who scared it to death..."

"He is the Ten Great Strike and Ten Decisions, an unparalleled...human butcher."

Mu Nandong always used precise words; he didn't choose a word like 'Great General,' but instead said 'Butcher of Men.'

The title of "Grand General" is both a position and an affirmation of a person's ability to lead troops into battle, and it has many meanings. But "Butcher" is different; it only has one meaning.

'Many people were killed.'

"There is a person... there is such a person, lurking in the royal palace."

“He has killed countless people, he is a ghost wandering the battlefield, the most ruthless executioner... He encountered the Gu Heart Demon and was terrified to death.” Mu Nandong said in a low voice, “We don’t know who released the Gu Heart Demon into the Imperial Court, nor do we know who killed the Gu Heart Demon. They may be two different groups, or they may be the same group. But no matter who it is, this is not good news for you.”

"If such a butcher was just passing by the Imperial Palace, that would be one thing, but if he was lurking inside..."

"If he wanted to, then the empire's most elite next generation would be cut off directly."

"So I said, you're in big trouble... Wait, what's with that expression?" Mu Nandong narrowed his eyes, looking coldly at Jiu Yi, and said, "You shouldn't be so stupid as to not understand what I mean, but why can't I see much tension on your face..."

"Oh... I suddenly remembered I still have some official business to attend to. Goodbye!"

The dove also slipped away very quickly.

Mu Nandong was a sensible man. Seeing Jiu Yi's reaction, he had already guessed a lot, and even guessed that there might be a truth on Nocturne's side, but he was indifferent to it.

"It seems you all know what's going on..."