Chapter 5 - 05 - Iris

King’s appearance was becoming more and more different from Mark’s. After breaking through continuously, King had grown a little taller, his face had become more mature, and his muscles had become more toned.

"What the hell are you two looking at? Do you have eye boogers?"

The way Eden and Emily looked at him as if they were looking at some strange creature made King extremely annoyed. If they kept staring, each of them would get another slap.

"No, no. I just want to invite you to join the Cultivation Academy as a member, not as a student."

What King had just done was so absurd that even Eden and the cultivators nearby broke out in cold sweat.

Not to mention King’s ridiculously unreasonable slash, the fact that he directly absorbed all the dark qi from the corrupted cultivator was completely impossible.

Everyone knew that dark qi from monsters could be absorbed, but dark qi from corrupted humans or cultivators could not because it was far too dangerous. The madness of the dark qi released by corrupted people was much more terrifying.

"Cultivation Academy? What kind of place is that?"

Hearing the name of a strange academy that did not exist in his old world immediately made King interested.

He really wanted to go take a look and see what was different between that academy and the academy in his mind.

As soon as he asked this question, everyone who heard it looked at him as if they were looking at an alien.

In this world, who didn’t know about the Cultivation Academy? Even kindergarten children knew about it, let alone adults.

It was the greatest force established ten years ago, gathering humanity’s strongest cultivators to protect humanity and train the next generation of cultivators.

Things had been very chaotic before. Cultivation aptitude testing devices did not exist, so everyone desperately absorbed dark qi. Those who were lucky broke through, while those who were unlucky turned into monsters.

Later, the Cultivation Academy successfully developed a device to test cultivation aptitude, which greatly reduced the number of people who died unexpectedly.

"You really don’t know?"

Emily asked in confusion. Eden was curious too, but he didn’t dare ask anything recklessly and could only listen, hoping that King wouldn’t lose his temper and hit him.

"Do you take me for an idiot? If I already knew, why would I ask you?"

Two questions, two slaps. Emily’s face was already swollen from being slapped so many times. She cried bitterly but only dared to stay silent, not daring to argue.

This wasn’t Mark, the one she hated. It was clearly a monster that had taken over a teenager’s body.

Only an idiot wouldn’t realize by now that there was something seriously wrong with King, because King didn’t even bother hiding it.

Seeing that Emily’s mouth was already swollen from being slapped, Eden figured she probably couldn’t say anything anyway. So he could only helplessly sigh.

"Let me explain to you..."

While they were talking, the conversation had also been transmitted to the Cultivation Academy. The earpiece Eden always wore wasn’t just for listening, it could also transmit sound.

"Let me go. I want to see whether he’s a human or a monster."

A cold female voice that wasn’t unpleasant to hear nevertheless sent chills down people’s spines.

From the darkness, an exquisitely beautiful woman’s face appeared, like a fairy descending to the mortal world. Her eyes were as bright red as a phoenix, her golden hair shone like sunlight, and her exquisite bright red dress was completely at odds with her ice-cold voice.

At her waist hung a bright red sword. It had originally been an ordinary sword, but after following her in slaughtering monsters for ten years, it had also reached rank VI.

She was Iris, the strongest human of the current era. She was the first cultivator to reach rank VI and was also humanity’s only rank VI cultivator at present. Her current level was rank VI, 1-star.

The sword at her waist flew out and hovered in front of her. She stepped onto it and shot away at a speed no slower than a fighter jet.

"Aren’t you going to stop her?"

"Who can stop her? Besides, letting her go won’t cause any problems. After all, ’the strongest cultivator of the current era’ isn’t a title given just for fun."

...

After hearing Eden’s introduction, King became even more interested in this Cultivation Academy. Even though there were definitely many people stronger than him inside, he didn’t care.

Right at this moment, Iris suddenly flew over. The flying sword came to a sudden stop, creating a gust of wind strong enough to almost blow Emily away. If Eden hadn’t quickly grabbed her, she would have been blown away already.

"You’re King?"

Iris ignored the others and immediately asked. The two of them seemed to have something in common in that they were both arrogant, but their ways of thinking were a little different.

"Yes."

King had barely answered, without even having time to blink, when Iris grabbed him by the collar and flew straight into the sky with him.

The strong wind whipped against King’s face, making it twist into an ugly shape. How dare a mere character in a novel act so arrogantly? This was absolutely unacceptable.

"Bastard! Let me go!"

"Sure."

King had just shouted, but he didn’t expect Iris to actually do it. The two of them were currently about three thousand meters above the ground, yet Iris didn’t even frown when she let go.

This feeling of free fall left King stunned. He was indeed very strong now, but not long ago he had still been an ordinary person, so there was no way he could immediately adapt to falling from the sky.

Looking straight down, the fear that had just appeared in King quickly disappeared. Falling from this height at this speed absolutely couldn’t break his legs, let alone kill him.

"Bastard! The next time I see you, I’ll stomp you into the ground."

King turned around and shouted straight into the sky. He didn’t know whether Iris could hear him or not, but he still shouted with great enthusiasm.

It was just that Iris, who had been right in front of him a moment ago, had disappeared without him noticing, giving him a very bad feeling.

Suddenly, her face came out of nowhere and moved right up against his face. Her jump scare successfully startled King.