Can a Scholar Be Called a Villain

Chapter 60: Sheng Yi’s escape

The Xue clan’s great ancestor hastily commanded its Manifestation transformation to pounce forwards, stopping Sheng Yi Fei, “Stop him! Do not let him escape!”

The great ancestors of the Wang clan and Xue clan advanced similarly, blocking off duke Sheng’s path to retreat.

They were far beyond just offending him, they had annihilated his family and destroyed his home.

It wasn’t hard to imagine the hatred Sheng Yi Fei had towards them in his heart, and how intense his resentment it would be.

Just thinking about it sent chills down their spines.

That was why they absolutely could not let Sheng Yi Fei go!

He was already at the second layer of the Sky Reaching realm, if he were to escape, he could gain the opportunity to conceal himself and painstakingly cultivate for a few years. After all, he was only a hundred years old now, even in another fifty years, he would still be in the peak of his prime.

And in the future, against old farts like them, he would definitely be more than capable of suppressing them.

He was destined to become a future bane to the four great clans, a threat to them all.

Since they had chosen to make a move, they had to end it properly!

The faces of the three great ancestors were pale, their bodies completely overwhelmed by the powerful attacks previously.

Each of them had lived for more than two centuries, and even with their cultivation at the Sky Reaching realm, it was hard for them to sustain such powerful and constant output of energy. They each took out their treasures, wanting to deal the final blow to Sheng Yi Fei.

Sheng Yi Fei had exhausted his spiritual powers during the bombardment of attacks by the three of them, and even despite his cultivation being at a layer higher than theirs, he couldn’t withstand their joint attacks with ease.

Climbing up from the ground, Sheng Yi Fei was faced with yet another series of attacks from the three great ancestors.

His face was pale, his blood essence depleted after receiving the attack from the great ancestor of the Liu clan.

He could only commandeer the ‘Three-legged Golden Toad’ yet again in an insufficient, last-ditch attempt to withstand their attacks.

Sheng Yi had already arrived at duke Sheng’s side by this time, hastily shouting, “Father!”

He had completely lost his cool.

His sense of superiority as a time-traveller was completely gone, no matter the preparations he had done since his rebirth, he couldn’t stop them.

Similar to his past, the duke’s manor was surrounded by enemies, and his servants and subordinates were getting slaughtered left and right.

Sheng Yi was full of hatred!

He hated his incapability, that he couldn’t grasp this opportunity to deal with the four great clans.

He hated the tyranny of the four great clans, hell-bent on holding them down.

He hated Murong Lin for tarnishing the duke with the dirty name of the Blood Spirits.

In short, as an expert of the Majestic realm in his past life, he could feel the instability of his heart and fluctuations from his heart demon.

Sheng Yi Fei couldn’t spare any time to think, and he faced the three attacks from the three great ancestors as he roared towards his son, “Leave first!”

He couldn’t even bother to ask about the strange explosion in his residence.

Even despite the warnings from his son about the greed and despicableness of the four great clans, he had never expected himself to be tarnished by the name of the Blood Spirits.

And such a swiftly prepared siege from the four great clans had left him with no time for preparation.

At this moment, the three great ancestors glanced at each other and split up. The great ancestors from the Xue clan and the Liu clan held Sheng Yi Fei back as the great ancestor of the Wang clan pounced towards Sheng Yi, who was standing on the sidelines.

Lightning flashed in the sky, resembling lightning pythons in its width as the ‘Thunderclap Eagle’ dipped from the skies, charging towards Sheng Yi.

Sheng Yi quickly turned his body, putting his two hands together as he circulated his spiritual power, preparing himself to resist this attack. His face was pale, filled with sweat that was dripping down to the ground.

Gritting his teeth, he activated a secret technique.

Strands of red blood escaped from the pores on his body as the blood vessels beneath his skin engorged instantaneously. In just the blink of an eye, he had transformed into a blood-filled human that resembled something from a nightmare.

His aura rose as well, from the peak of the origin realm to the fifth layer of the Manifestation realm.

His spiritual power fluctuated as he faced the thunderbolt head-on.

The attack of the Wang clan’s great ancestor enveloped the area around Sheng Yi, resembling a mist that couldn’t be dispersed as it bombarded Sheng Yi.

And by the time the thunderbolt had disappeared, Sheng Yi had changed from a blood-filled human to a burnt, black human.

He collapsed to the ground, his mouth slightly agape as smoke rose from his flesh.

Far away, Murong Lin was watching this scene unfold with a pair of binoculars. His mouth opened in shock, “He’s still not dead?”

That thunderbolt attack was something that even he would struggle to withstand, and Sheng Yi, who had used a secret technique to raise his strength temporarily could actually block it?

Ma Jian Chou and the rest that were at his side were busy cursing with dirtied faces.

The ‘Seismic Fruit’ that Sheng Yi had used to blow up his own residence had destroyed every building and enemy in a one-mile radius, causing a rain of dust and dirt to fall in the vicinity.

Even despite being far away from the battlefield, they were pelted by the dust and rain that made their appearances unsightly.

And with a sweep of one’s gaze, the entire one-mile radius of the duke’s residence had been reduced to dust and rubble.

There were quite a number of corpses scattered on the ground, and even more people struggling to crawl up from the debris.

The great ancestor of the Wang clan that controlled the ‘Thunderclap Eagle’ attacked yet again, his face becoming solemn after a failed attack.

And seeing this, Sheng Yi Fei, who was being held back by the two other great ancestors gritted his teeth and circulated his spiritual power.

A golden light shone from his body as the golden strips on the ‘Three-legged Golden Toad’ glowed, instantly illuminating the surroundings and blurring their silhouettes.

Sheng Yi Fei leapt into the sky with the ‘Three-legged Golden Toad’, seemingly escaping the encirclement.

After reaching a certain height in the air, the ‘Three-legged Golden Toad’ waved its legs in mid-air, jumping on thin air as it leapt even higher.

The two ancestors didn’t have time to prepare any defensive measures before the ‘Three-legged Golden Toad’ slammed back into the ground.

At the same time, the light from the golden stripes on its body dimmed as blood seeped out.

“Descent of the Golden Toad!”

This was one of the ultimate techniques in the 《Eclipse Golden Toad Body》cultivation method, but his current cultivation wasn’t high enough to properly unleash this move.

He paid the price with his legs.

“Kacha.”

This move had sent the two ancestors flying, giving him the opportunity to reach Sheng Yi’s side.

With a wave of his arm, he pushed back the attack of the Wang clan’s ancestor.

“Pu!” A mouthful of blood spewed out of his mouth onto the ground before him, scorching the soil beneath.

Sheng Yi frantically supported his father’s body, trying to inject his spiritual power into him as he spoke anxiously, “Father, you’ll be fine, I’m going to take you away now! Let’s go!”

Sheng Yi Fei used all of his strength to look at the blood on the ground that had come out of his mouth, and then at the three great ancestors that surrounded them. With a bitter smile, he spoke, “There won’t be a chance.”

Sheng Yi’s tears trickled down his cheeks as he wailed, “No! You will be fine!”

Sheng Yi Fei didn’t respond, he simply caressed Sheng Yi’s head before circulating his spiritual power, thrusting it into Sheng Yi’s chest and sending him flying a few hundred meters away.

And then, he immediately turned towards the three great ancestors.

He wanted to buy some time for his son.

Gritting his teeth, he roared, “Yi’er! Leave now! Your father will buy you some time!”

Sheng Yi landed on the ground with a dazed expression, as the attack was only meant to send him away, he wasn’t injured in the slightest.

Touching his chest, he quickly felt a hard item and lowered his head. It was his father’s bag of holding.

Looking back up, he could see his blood-drenched father desperately fighting against the three great ancestors. The shockwaves from their fight were even pushing around the few Manifestation realm experts in their vicinity.

Sheng Yi knew that this wasn’t the time to run headfirst towards his own death.

He slowly stood up and turned around, running towards the river that cut through the capital.

However, the people that were climbing out of the rubble wouldn’t just let him go just like that. More than a dozen people surrounded him almost instantly, staring at him with vicious eyes.

While the losses weren’t significant for the four great clans this time, the pillars of strength that supported the clans were the mid-range experts in the Origin realm. Those were the experts that had suffered because of the Sesmic Fruit earlier, which only further incited their fury towards him.

Sheng Yi sprinted with a calm expression, he could still use the secret technique three more times.

At this moment, a human silhouette appeared before him with a flicker, then charged towards the people chasing after him.

Sheng Yi suddenly remembered his name in a daze.

Acui.¹

The person he had recruited last.

Acui shouted towards Sheng Yi with his back facing him, “Young master, you must avenge us!”

His body instantly exploded without warning, dying the sky and the soil with his blood.

However, his blood was purple.

Feeling the shockwaves coming from behind his back, Sheng Yi gritted his teeth to prevent the miserable whimper at the back of his throat from escaping his mouth.

To stop the pursuers from attacking Sheng Yi, Acui had injected himself with poison and drugs and withstood an unspeakable burning agony to assimilate it with his blood.

And then, he self-destructed to stop these people with his drug–filled, poison-filled blood.

With the blood corroding their bodies, the dozens of people crashed into the ground. They screamed as they bled, and they died as they lost consciousness.

With this opportunity, Sheng Yi leapt into the river and disappeared into the water.

He left a miserable roar as he jumped:

“I, Sheng Yi, swear! This debt of blood will be paid with blood!”

1. Excerpt from ch 10 in case you forgot who he was: A servant of a tea shop at the city’s entrance, Acui, a future drug expert that had become the greatest r*pist in the capital ten years later.

Translator’s note

2 fatherless protagonists, lol

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