Since the symposium has been held, only one person has been beaten to death on the stage, and there has never been any case of anyone being assassinated.
The magical power that caused the young man's death obviously came from behind the scenes, which meant that he was assassinated. This scene was undoubtedly a slap in the face of Jixia Academy!
Jiang Ning was the one who responded the fastest.
Because the other party was very serious about attacking, the beam of light coming from the back of the young man's head, after piercing his eyebrows, continued to move towards Jiang Ning's face with undiminished power.
Obviously he wanted to kill him too!
Fortunately, Jiang Ning reacted quickly and turned his head to avoid, driven by his fighting instinct. Otherwise, he would be like the nameless young man, lying on the ground like a corpse.
"Looking for death!" Jiang Ning stood up suddenly, exerted force on his feet, and jumped up out of thin air, preparing to capture the murderer in the crowd.
He wanted to see who wanted to kill him!
Just when Jiang Ning's feet left the ground, green light flashed on the ground, and then, finger-thick vines emerged from the green light like chains, wrapping around his legs.
The appearance of the vines was so sudden and so fast that Jiang Ning was shocked. Before he could resist, he felt an unmatched force coming from the vines, pulling him back to where he was.
"There are actually accomplices!" Jiang Ning activated his spiritual energy, but the vines could not be shaken. He could only watch the murderer disappear into the crowd.
"Donkey grass!" Jiang Ning was furious and cursed in incompetence.
I never expected that the other party actually had an accomplice, and judging from his strength and methods, he should be a master of formations with advanced cultivation.
Formation master...that's not right!
Jiang Ning immediately turned to look at the lecture platform and found that the eight old weirdos on the platform were all sitting there, motionless.
Especially Zuo Xinlan and He Feng, they were from Jixia Academy, how could they just watch the murderer escape and let it go?
"Do your own thing and don't worry about anything else." A familiar voice sounded in Jiang Ning's ears.
It's Mr. Xun.
What did he mean by saying this to himself? Could it be that... Jiang Ning looked at his feet, and sure enough, the green vines were fading away from his feet like ice and snow melting.
It was really Mr. Xun who stopped me!
He is an Earth Formation Master, one of the most accomplished people in Jiuzhou Continent. Jiang Ning really couldn't get out of his attack.
But why did he stop himself from catching the murderer!
Jiang Ning couldn't understand.
Zuo Xinlan and He Feng's reactions were also very strange.
The murderer's speed is indeed very fast, which can be said to be surprising, but where is this place?
It’s Jixia Academy!
As long as she gives the order, even if the other party spreads its wings, it will leave a few feathers.
But in fact, the murderer escaped unharmed!
Jixia Academy did not take any action at all, and it even felt like they deliberately let the murderer go.
Why?
Everyone's eyes fell on Zuo Xinlan.
They wanted to know why Zuo Xinlan, the deputy palace master of Jixia Academy and a semi-immortal figure, reacted like this.
Even old weirdos like Nangong Ming and Peng Shang also looked curious.
They were sitting upright, simply because they didn't want to meddle in other people's business. Of course, they also had the feeling that they were just watching the fun and not taking it too seriously.
However, a surprising scene happened.
Regarding the assassination of the young man by the cultivators outside the venue, Zuo Xinlan seemed not to have seen it. Her face was expressionless, making it difficult for people to see her emotions and anger, let alone guess what she was thinking.
"The competition continues." Seeing everyone looking at her, Zuo Xinlan said in a deep voice.
"What, let's continue the competition? Did I hear it right?"
"Oh my god, why continue? Why doesn't the Master Zuo catch the murderer?"
"Who killed him? Why not investigate?"
Zuo Xinlan's attitude was like a huge boulder smashed into a calm lake, instantly causing thousands of waves.
These people have also participated in the battle of enlightenment on stage. If they are assassinated on stage and Jixia Academy has such an attitude, no one will dare to participate in any symposium in the future!
“If you don’t accept it, we don’t accept it!”
"That is, Jixia Academy condoned the murderer. We have reason to suspect that this person's death was caused by your own people from Jixia Academy!"
"And that Jiang so-and-so on the stage, it must be Jixia Academy who is colluding with him. Just now I felt that Jixia Academy was protecting him, but I didn't expect it to be so despicable and shameless!"
For a time, everyone tied Jiang Ning and Jixia Academy together.
It is believed that Jixia Xuegong acted in order to alleviate Jiang Ning's troubles.
Jiang Ning frowned.
He ignored what outsiders said, but was thinking about Zuo Xinlan's attitude.
Jixia Academy is a pure land in the hearts of Jiuzhou cultivators. To a certain extent, it is even more transcendent than the five major courtyards.
As the palace master, Zuo Xinlan should safeguard the reputation of Jixia Academy, find out the murderer, and deal with it impartially, instead of pushing the academy into the abyss with this attitude.
So, why on earth did she do this?
Jiang Ning looked around. There were so many people attending the symposium. Looking around, there were so many people that it was impossible to tell who was with whom.
"Zuo Xinlan is the person in charge of Jixia Academy's symposium this time. To a certain extent, her actions represent the entire Jixia Academy and make the entire Jixia Academy not dare to offend.
The only forces Mr. Xun has to stop me are... the Five Courts and Four Sects!"
Jiang Ning did not listen to Mr. Xun's words and was still looking for the murderer and the person behind him.
The other party kept causing trouble for him, and even wanted to kill himself here. If it were someone else who knew the other party's identity, he might be able to bear it, but Jiang Ning couldn't bear it.
It doesn’t matter if you belong to the Five Courts and Four Sects, if you dare to provoke me, I will fight you!
Jiang Ning turned around and stared at Cao Zhi fiercely!
As long as the approximate identities are the five courtyards and four sects, the rest will be easily solved.
If it were the other four sects of the four courtyards, Jixia Academy would not be at a disadvantage, so the only possibility is that the murderer came from the upper courtyard of Jixia Academy - Bailu Taoist Academy!
The only person present was Cao Zhi, an inner disciple of Bailu Taoist Academy.
After reasoning up to this point, everything is already clear.
The murderer of the young man must have something to do with Cao Zhi. It is even possible that the young man who died, plus the dark and muscular man and the sickly scholar just now, were sent by Cao Zhi.
The reason why he was killed was to silence him!
Admittedly, Jiang Ning's guesses were all correct.
The murderer was Cao Zhi's protector, a strong man in the late Yang Shen realm. Only with such strength could he penetrate the guard formation with one finger and kill the people inside.
Cao Zhi was frightened by Jiang Ning's eyes, but he immediately calmed down and nodded to Jiang Ning with a slightly flattering smile.
If he hadn't been convinced that he was the mastermind behind the scenes, he might have been deceived.
"Cao Zhi, get up here!" Jiang Ning was not the kind of person who wouldn't hit a smiling person, so he ignored his face and scolded him directly.
In public, anyone who was scolded like this would be embarrassed, let alone an inner disciple of Bailu Taoist Academy.
No matter how thick-skinned Cao Zhi is, he can't stand it anymore.
"Brother Jiang, what do you mean? I have provoked you somewhere. Although you have amazing talents and unparalleled strength, there is no need to be so arrogant, right?"