Chapter 305
Ignorant and Uninformed?
What truly broke the guard of these students from Canghui Academy was that these young men looked much younger than them, yet their strength surpassed theirs!
Ye Zhi Qiu suppressed the turmoil in his heart. His oily face looked somewhat stiff and even twitched slightly as he tried his best to control himself.
He took a deep breath, trying to make his voice sound steady, but the pressure that came from the advantage of his soul power level, yet seemed to lack confidence due to the opponent's talent, was like an invisible tide, trying to stabilize his own crumbling morale while testing the opponent's strength.
"stop."
His voice wasn't loud, but it carried an undeniable force, clearly drowning out the remaining noise in the restaurant and the heavy breathing of his own students.
He raised his hand and waved to the five students behind him who looked like wilted eggplants, the gesture carrying an undeniable command.
"All of you, step back."
The students of Canghui felt as if they had been granted a pardon. Their tense bodies instantly deflated, and their faces were filled with resentment, humiliation, and deep fear.
Their clenched fists loosened weakly, the dim white and yellow spirit rings beneath their feet quickly went out, and the phantom of their martial spirits also dissipated.
With their heads down, they staggered back behind Ye Zhi Qiu, no longer daring to look directly at the three figures opposite them.
Their pitiful pride had been completely crushed, leaving only the word "monster" echoing wildly in their minds.
Ye Zhi Qiu's gaze swept back and forth between Dai Mu Bai, Tang San, and Ma Hong Jun, like a searchlight.
Dai Mubai's cultivation as a three-ring Soul Master, especially that thousand-year Soul Ring symbolizing absolute talent and potential, pierced his understanding like a red-hot steel needle.
The two teenagers beside them, though only Great Soul Masters, exuded a calm yet ferocious aura, and their equally pure hundred-year-old soul rings all demonstrated their terrifying strength far beyond their age.
His mind was in turmoil: A genius among geniuses!
Especially that blond boy in the center, judging from his bone structure, he's definitely no more than seventeen years old!
A seventeen-year-old Soul Master?!
This is simply a monster he has never seen in his coaching career, or even in the stories he has ever heard of!
The elites that Cang Hui was so proud of were not even worthy of carrying the shoes of these three!
What's even more terrifying is that behind them... Ye Zhi Qiu dared not think too deeply, but his years of experience in the world of Soul Masters told him that those who could cultivate such monsters were either hidden sects with terrifyingly deep foundations or those with extraordinary backgrounds!
Neither of them are people that a border academy like Canghui can easily provoke.
This is a huge problem!
"I am Ye Zhiqi, the director of the Foreign Affairs Department of Canghui College."
Ye Zhi Qiu took a step forward and stood in front of Dai Mubai and the other two, deliberately closing the distance a little, trying to make up for the disadvantage in strength by using the invisible pressure brought by his status and age.
He straightened his back, the silver patterns on his moon-white robe shimmering in the faint light of his soul power, striving to maintain the last shred of dignity of a "senior academy teacher".
His sharp gaze swept over the three of them, finally settling on Dai Mubai, and he asked in a deep voice:
"May I ask which sect you belong to?"
He deliberately emphasized the word "sect," hoping that the other party would give him a name that he had heard of and that carried enough weight to allow him to back down.
Dai Mubai's signature disdainful smile returned, and the golden light in his evil eyes carried undisguised contempt. Just as he was about to speak, a more smug voice, filled with boastfulness and lewdness, cut him off.
"We are from Shrek Academy!"
Ma Hong's loud voice echoed throughout the restaurant. He had a round belly sticking out, as if the name Shrek was some kind of great medal.
As he spoke, his small eyes once again precisely scanned Ye Zhi Qiu's shoulder, and like sticky tentacles, they clung tightly to the only female student of Cang Hui Academy.
The girl felt extremely uncomfortable under his naked and aggressive gaze. Her face turned from pale to flushed with shame and indignation, and she subconsciously shrank back behind her companion.
Ma Hongjun, however, seemed to be admiring the scenery, his Adam's apple bobbing up and down in unison as he swallowed with a clear "gulp." His lewd, drooling expression was more insulting than any verbal provocation, causing the anger that Canghui and the others had just suppressed to flare up again. "Shrek Academy?"
Ye Zhi Qiu was clearly taken aback, his brows furrowed, and his eyes revealed deep thought and confusion.
He quickly searched his mind for the names of all the well-known advanced soul master academies and sect-affiliated academies within the Heaven Dou Empire, and even went through the rumors of some hidden forces, but he had no recollection of this "Shrek".
The name even sounds a bit odd, not like a proper place.
He repeated it subconsciously, his tone carrying undisguised suspicion and a hint of barely perceptible disdain.
"It seems... I've never heard of it?"
These words were like igniting the final fuse!
"Humph!"
Dai Mubai let out a heavy, cold snort, like a muffled thunderclap.
He crossed his arms, chin held high, his eerie golden eyes looking down at Ye Zhi Qiu as if he were looking at an ant chattering before a dragon. His voice was cold and mocking, each word like a poisoned ice pick, stabbing viciously at the face of Ye Zhi Qiu and the entire Canghui Academy.
"That's because you're ignorant!"
Ye Zhi Qiu felt somewhat helpless listening to Ma Hong Jun's still lewd provocations and the undisguised contempt in the eyes of Dai Mu Bai, Tang San, and the others.
Looking at these three ridiculously young but incredibly strong teenagers, a deep sense of powerlessness gripped his heart like a cold vine.
He boasted that the students trained by Canghui Academy were already the best in the border region, and this trip to Xingdou was specifically to help the most talented female student in the team obtain her third spirit ring—something he could be proud of.
But these monsters in front of me...
Like a series of resounding slaps, they shattered his preconceived notions.
At such a young age... with such terrifying soul power... how did they cultivate it?
Ye Zhi Qiu's thoughts churned, a bittersweet feeling tinged with an indescribable shock.
He had to admit that the other party did indeed have the right to look down on Canghui Academy.
This talent is nothing short of monstrous!
However, reason is reason, and reality is reality.
If he, the team leader and the dignified director of the Foreign Affairs Department, were to cower in the face of these three brats, the reputation of Canghui Academy would be utterly trampled into the mud, and the Academy would become a laughingstock in Xingluo Town and even the entire Soul Master world!
The students won't do it; as a Soul King, he has to regain some face no matter what!
"You kids don't know any better, so don't talk nonsense in the future."
Ye Zhi Qiu deliberately slowed his voice, adopting the tone of an elder admonishing a junior, attempting to regain the upper hand in terms of momentum. The huge black tortoise shell behind him swirled with black light, and the pressure from the five soul rings heavily enveloped Dai Mu Bai and the other two.
"Call out your college's teachers."
That was his real purpose: to have a conversation with the unfathomable teacher was better than being humiliated by a few juniors.
"You old bastard, you think you can see our teacher?" (End of Chapter)