"I- I- I- I—" The man only stuttered without answering and immediately bit something in his mouth. Suddenly, Ning felt something happen to the man.
His face deformed as it started melting. Ning immediately let go of his head and the man's body fell through to air until it hit the ground with a hard thud.
Ning went to the ground to check and saw that the man was fully dead. Even his nascent soul didn't survive whatever he bit.
"Was that a pill? Who made such a vicious pill?" Ning thought. He tried to look for the man's storage bags and whatnot, but everything was destroyed along with his body.
"That was a pill meant for him to kill himself when he falls into such a situation, isn't it?" Ning thought. "Just who can use Nascent realm cultivators as fodder and force them to have a pill in their mouth that kills them?"
Ning didn't wait until he figured out these answers.
He immediately flew back and appeared on top of the forest with the students.
"Everyone!" Ning's voice resonated throughout the forest. "Your exams are canceled. Please gather outside the forest at once," he said.
"Huh? Canceled?"
"Eh? Did I fail?"
The students started to get curious about it all and left the forest. When they finally saw Ning, they were shocked.
"Teacher, You were hiding your cultivation base all this time?" someone asked.
"Huh? Oh yeah," Ning said nonchalantly. This was not something he could care about right now. "Everyone stick together and follow me. We are going back to the academy," he said.
"Huh? What about the exam?" someone asked.
"Screw the exam," Ning said. "The academy is under attack from strong individuals, and I need to get you to someplace safe."
"Under attack?"
"Are we in trouble?"
"Who dares attack the Five Professions academy? Don't they know that they make the enemy of all four surrounding empires?"
"SHUT UP!" Ning shouted. "Follow me silently."
He turned around and started walking away. The students slowly followed behind him and walked towards their quarters. However, Ning didn't stop there.
Since the people were targeting the academy, or at the very least, the teachers, they were sure to come for the students as well.
'Do they really want to kill the people in the academy? That didn't seem like it. Those men's first instinct was to capture me, not kill me. It was only after they knew I was strong that they changed the approach. Which means, they likely haven't hurt anyone that didn't try to fight back.'
'Since almost all of the students are weak, it's unlikely any of them could put up a fight against these people. The teachers, however,' Ning frowned.
It would certainly become a problem if the teacher started fighting back. From what they could see, the teachers in the Academy weren't the strongest physically since they mostly spent their time just studying.
'Sigh, I hope they are alright,' Ning thought and walked along. He had his divine sense out but was being careful not to alert anyone that they were coming.
However, with so many students behind him, and the attackers themselves being in the Nascent Soul realm, it was going to be bad.
Ning immediately turned around and said to the students, "if you feel someone's divine sense passing through you, act like you didn't realize. Act dumb."
The students quickly nodded and Ning continued walking. He reigned in his divine sense to just a kilometer in front of him and continued walking towards the academy.
As they were walking up the stairs, Ning saw 2 people through his divine sense, but let it move as if he didn't notice them at all.
Suddenly, two different divine senses landed on him, but he didn't bat an eye. The students also didn't bat an eye at all.
He then noticed the two of them move towards him and suddenly drop in front of him.
Ning acted surprised when he saw the two of them. The students, however, were genuinely surprised when they saw the two of them.
'Nascent Soul 2nd Realm and 3rd Realm, huh?' he thought. He then looked at the two people and felt something weird when he saw the two of them have the same face.
"That's…" One of the students gasped as he was too shocked to finish his statement at all.
"Who are you?" Ning asked, trying to act scared.
"Hehe, thanks for acting like a dog and rounding up these sheep. We will take care of you from here," the man said.
Ning looked at the two of them and said, "Alright, don't hurt us."
"Hehe, come," the man said and gave them the way.
Ning looked behind and said, "Alright, students. Follow me slowly. You don't have to be scared." He then turned around and nervously looked at the two of them and started walking up the stairs.
The two of them had menacing smiles on their face as they watched Ning walk past them. However, Ning suddenly turned towards the two of them and punched one of them.
He hit that person's naval area so hard that his body was blown to bits with the Nascent Soul nowhere to be seen.
Ning then caught one of the flying pieces of the man's body and immediately shoved it onto the other man's mouth.
"No killing yourself so early, Ok?" he said as he pat on the man's face. The man tried to struggle, but suddenly 3 different auras appeared from around Ning as 3 beasts came out of him.
"Ah, here it is," Ning said as he finally sensed something from his pat. He quickly used his Qi to pull out the pill from the man's mouth and kept it into his storage space for now.
"Hmm, I still don't know if you have something on you that you can use," Ning said and suddenly grabbed the man's head.
Supreme Domination.
The man screamed as Ning's spirit overpowered his own to write his dominance over him.
"Finally, I can get my answers," Ning said with a smile.
"Who are you? And Why are you here?"