Chapter 6: Popular Darling

"Thirty or forty people, and you couldn't stop two people fighting?" The head teacher's scolding came from inside the classroom, "What time is it, and you still have the heart to watch the fun?"

"Today is the second day of the sixth lunar month! Before the fifth, you have to form your teams and go to Dog Village to face the demons directly."

"On the fifteenth of this month, you have to participate in the City Defense Battle!"

"Still don't know how to get nervous? You are no longer ordinary people protected by others; you are going to protect others!"

"You are truly the worst batch of students I have ever taught!"

The classroom was silent, while in the hallway, Lu Ran and Kou Yingquan stood far apart, both standing properly.

After a short silence, the classroom door was pushed open with a "thud."

Li Yanzhu walked out angrily, and when she saw the two standing for punishment, her anger surged: "Don't stand here and be an eyesore!

Get out and go home, and bring your parents here!"

Lu Ran: "..."

Kou Yingquan: "..."

Li Yanzhu's stern shout echoed in the hallway: "When you were making a move just now, wasn't it that no one could stop you? Now that you're not moving?"

Not just Class 4 of the second year, the entire third floor was silent.

"Kou Yingquan!"

"Here!" Kou Yingquan stood straight immediately.

"Get out!" Li Yanzhu was crisp and neat.

Kou Yingquan: "..."

Under the head teacher's stern gaze, Kou Yingquan moved his feet unwillingly and went home to ask for his parents.

Li Yanzhu shouted again: "Lu Ran!"

Lu Ran opened his mouth weakly: "Teacher."

Li Yanzhu was so angry that she couldn't help it: "Teacher what! I don't have a student like you!"

Lu Ran took a step forward and said in a low voice: "Teacher, I know I was wrong. My mother is out of town, in the capital, and my father..."

"My family only has me."

Speaking of out of town, Lu Ran's Wuliehe Province was actually adjacent to the capital.

It only took a little over an hour to take the high-speed rail from Yuyucheng to the capital.

If the head teacher was determined to find his parents, Lu Ran had no choice.

Li Yanzhu looked at Lu Ran, who was lowering his head and admitting his mistake, feeling both angry and distressed: "Why did you fight?"

Lu Ran pursed his lips: "As soon as I entered the classroom, Kou Yingquan locked my throat and said I was a little lamb.

He also told me to beg for mercy and baa for him."

Li Yanzhu frowned; in fact, she already knew why the two fought.

There was a short silence in the class just now, which was when she was finding people to understand the specific situation.

It was indeed Kou Yingquan who kept looking for trouble this morning, perhaps because his mindset became unbalanced after becoming a believer of the third-tier god, Prisoner Demon.

Teachers had seen too many such examples.

Li Yanzhu said in a deep voice: "If you have any problems, come to me to solve them.

The school strictly forbids private fighting, but you're amazing; you started making trouble on the second day of becoming a believer, aren't you afraid of the school making an example of you?

Do you have any idea how many students are expelled every year after god-worship?"

"I was wrong." Lu Ran continued to admit his mistake.

"Do you really know you were wrong?" Li Yanzhu asked.

Hearing the teacher's tone, Lu Ran was suddenly full of energy!

Is there a chance for this?

He nodded immediately, his mouth like a machine gun: "I guarantee, I will definitely find the teacher next time, and I will never be impulsive again.

Teacher, you are clear-sighted, fair and just, and have keen insight...

You must be able to give a fair judgment; you are truly a blue-sky official!"

Li Yanzhu was so annoyed by Lu Ran's chanting that her brain hurt, and she immediately made a judgment: "Fine, you are suspended for three days and write a 3,000-word self-reflection."

"Ah..." Lu Ran's face turned bitter.

Suspended for three days?

By then, the students would have formed their teams, just waiting for the fifth to come to school, and everyone would go straight to Dog Village.

By the time I return to school with the self-reflection, the day lily would have wilted!

"Teacher, I really know I was wrong; that Kou Yingquan said I was colluding with the Demon Clan and slandered me!"

Lu Ran's voice got lower and lower, putting on a pitiful appearance: "I'm just too strong-willed.

But there's no way, if I don't stand up for myself, no one will stand up for me.

Teacher, you know, I lost my father since I was a child..."

"Good for you, Lu Ran, you dare to use the Sound of Compassion on me?" Li Yanzhu was truly amused by anger.

She kicked Lu Ran's butt: "Get out to the playground, stand in the sun, and stand for punishment!"

"Received." Lu Ran turned and left.

Neither expelled, nor suspended, nor parents called; what's wrong with standing for a while?

Being able to stick the stool leg into Kou Yingquan's cheap mouth was worth it!

Midsummer in June, the sun was truly poisonous.

But Lu Ran didn't look for a shady place; only if the punishment was sufficient would the head teacher possibly show mercy again.

Lu Ran naturally wouldn't just stand there, and soon, he entered a cultivation state, absorbing the divine power between heaven and earth.

Divine power levels are divided into: Mist, Stream, River, Estuary, Sea, and other realms.

Within each major realm, there are 5 small segments.

At the 1st and 3rd segments of each major realm, believers can learn a unique divine technique.

Lu Ran was a rookie at the Mist Realm, 1st segment, and learned the divine technique, Sound of Compassion, which, after some experimentation just now, had quite good effects.

If he wanted to add another unique skill, Lu Ran had to reach the Mist Realm, 3rd segment.

Having said that...

Lu Ran's face was strange, suddenly realizing a problem: Master Xian Yang created the divine technique, Sound of Compassion, to avoid disputes.

It was definitely not used like he just did, begging for mercy while hitting people!

It wasn't that Lu Ran couldn't operate like this, the problem was that believers need to pray to their own god every time they perform a divine technique.

In other words, you can't hide it from your own god's eyes.

As a Xian Yang believer, you are always going against Xian Yang, using this technique to fight, which is ultimately not very appropriate.

Wait!

Isn't Master Xian Yang generous and tolerant?

Then no matter how I toss and turn, he won't blame me too much, right?

Good guy,

isn't this stuck on a BUG~

"No harm."

Suddenly, a low voice echoed in Lu Ran's mind.

Lu Ran was startled, Xian Yang had manifested?

You have to know, if a believer wants to communicate with a god, they must pray and kneel devoutly before their sculpture.

Even so, the god might not necessarily appear!

But the god Lu Ran worshipped...

"You don't blame me?" Lu Ran looked up at the sky and asked in a low voice.

The low voice echoed again: "The crying of a young cub can attract the care and protection of parents and clansmen."

The sudden topic made Lu Ran confused.

"The whimpering of weak creatures can also attract the covetousness of hunters."

"That's the logic." Lu Ran nodded thoughtfully.

"Sound of Compassion can expand the kindness in the hearts of creatures, making them feel compassion. It can also make creatures rise with the intent to kill and abuse the weak."

"Ah?" Lu Ran was shocked.

Why is the knowledge I learned different from what you taught?

Lu Ran was very sure that the Sound of Compassion only had one effect: begging for mercy.

How could it be that when it came to Master Xian Yang, this divine technique could also change its nature and become a taunt and hate-pulling skill?

What shocked Lu Ran even more was that Master Xian Yang not only didn't discipline his believer and order Lu Ran to be tolerant and avoid disputes.

Instead, it added fuel to the fire, encouraging Lu Ran to fight?

Otherwise, Xian Yang had no reason to tell Lu Ran about the second effect of the divine technique, Sound of Compassion.

Something's wrong!

Very, very wrong!

Since Lu Ran entered the Xian Yang sect, the image, behavior, words, and other aspects of this god were all vastly different from the Xian Yang recognized by the world.

Yet Lu Ran had confirmed that this god was Xian Yang without a doubt by performing the unique divine technique, which...

"Do you want to learn?"

Lu Ran hesitated for a moment and nodded heavily: "I want to!"

"Requires Mist Realm, 2nd segment."

"Good, I will definitely cultivate diligently." Lu Ran nodded again, "It's just, Master Xian Yang, why didn't you teach this technique to other believers?"

Otherwise, it was impossible for Lu Ran to have never even heard of it.

However, Lu Ran waited for a long time but didn't hear Xian Yang's transmission again.

"Again." Lu Ran was a bit helpless, but didn't dare to ask more, fearing that he would make the god angry and bring down punishment.

He could only bury his doubts in the bottom of his heart.

No matter what, Master Xian Yang's grace of rebirth, blessings, and teachings to him were all real.

Thinking of this, Lu Ran felt much more comforted and continued to cultivate divine power.

Until the end-of-class bell rang, the school became noisy again.

"Lu Ran." Not long after the bell rang, a voice came from afar.

Lu Ran looked up and saw a teenager striding into the playground: Deng Yutang.

"Class is over." Lu Ran raised his head slightly and greeted him.

"You smashed my stool, and I stood for a whole class." Deng Yutang said with a smile.

Lu Ran felt a bit embarrassed: "Thanks just now."

Deng Yutang came to Lu Ran: "In the future, let's be together?"

"Ah?" Lu Ran stiffened, looking at the heroic teenager in front of him.

Deng Yutang was handsome and imposing, with eyes that were bright and piercing, looking directly into Lu Ran's eyes at this moment.

"Class is over." Lu Ran looked apologetic, "But I... I still like girls."

Deng Yutang:???

Lu Ran's expression was serious: "Don't be sad, you're really good, it's just that we aren't suitable."

"What kind of mess is this, I like girls too!" Deng Yutang said angrily, "I'm talking about forming a team!"

"This?" Lu Ran was even more confused.

He would rather believe that Deng Yutang liked men than guess that the other party came to form a team.

Lu Ran had many reasons to suspect that his god had problems, but others didn't know!

He was very confused: "I'm a Xian Yang believer, are you sure?"

"So what if you're a Xian Yang believer?" Deng Yutang snorted disdainfully, "That Kou Yingquan is still a Prisoner Demon believer, so what?

Wasn't he beaten by you until he vomited millet porridge?"

Hearing this, Lu Ran almost couldn't hold it in.

Vomiting millet porridge is okay?

"I'm a Red Scarf believer." Deng Yutang reached out to Lu Ran, "Brother Lu, consider it?"

God: Red Scarf, ranked in the fifth row.

The god sculpture was the image of a man with a red scarf on his head and a bare upper body.

Most of the believers in his sect were fighting maniacs, naturally heroic and fierce.

"I will consider it carefully." Lu Ran was flattered and shook hands with the other party immediately.

As the two were communicating, many students had already arrived on the playground.

Among them was Chang Ying, who had told Lu Ran's fortune.

The girl came to the side of the two and smiled: "I heard you fought?"

Lu Ran looked at Chang Ying very speechlessly, while Deng Yutang asked Lu Ran to consider it carefully again, then said goodbye and left.

"I've already calculated it for you; it's a down-sign, how could you be so careless?" Chang Ying raised her elbow and rested it on Lu Ran's shoulder, leaning sideways.

Before becoming a believer, she could dance a mountain-opening axe with great vigor, naturally a person who was physically strong.

Such a girl leaning on him was the death of Lu Ran.

Lu Ran didn't want to say he couldn't handle it, so...

"Get off, hot." Lu Ran said with a look of disgust, shaking his shoulders.

"100 yuan, I'll calculate another fortune for you, guaranteed! How about it?" Chang Ying didn't get angry, but looked at Lu Ran with a smile.

"Stop bothering me."

"If you don't want it, don't want it, why are you fierce." Chang Ying looked down at Lu Ran and suddenly changed the topic, "I say, we are quite fated, let's form a team together in the future?"

"Ah?" Lu Ran looked confused, looking at the beautiful and wild girl.

"Really, I've already calculated it." Chang Ying nodded seriously, "It's a top-sign!"

Top-sign?

"Did you calculate it wrong?" Lu Ran looked suspicious, "I'm a Xian Yang believer."

"Eh~" Chang Ying waved her big hand, quite heroic, "I won't say you're a little lamb, and you don't scold me for being a gambler!

How about this deal?"

Lu Ran: "..."

Teacher Li, I blamed you wrongly.

I thought this was standing for punishment, but I didn't expect you to put me on the display cabinet and let me work here!

"Lu Ran."

"Lu Ran!" Several more classmates gathered around, recommending themselves.

Lu Ran naturally welcomed them politely, and his sense of achievement in his heart soared.

Until the end-of-class bell rang, the crowd dispersed, and Lu Ran also saw a familiar figure.

"You're quite popular?" Jiang Ruyi said with a smile.

Lu Ran shrugged: "I became famous in one battle, that's what it is."

Jiang Ruyi rolled her eyes at Lu Ran gently: "What the classmates must be thinking is the same; you can attract demons, your aptitude is rare in the world, and now you've shown such strong combat power.

Forming a team with you, in the future, guarding the city on the fifteenth, entering the Demon Lair, etc., you will likely achieve good results."

"It's really magical." Lu Ran sighed, "I worshipped Master Xian Yang, and I can still be so popular."

Jiang Ruyi: "Most classmates still have concerns and didn't come to find you.

If you worshipped another god, the playground would have been surrounded by people long ago."

"These people really don't understand anything." Lu Ran muttered, "I only prayed for a little Yan Zhi, you are the real goddess... Hmm.

You are the real thigh!"

"Smooth talker." Jiang Ruyi's face turned slightly red, and she turned and left.

Seeing that Lu Ran was fine and his mindset was normal, she didn't stay any longer.

"Right!" Lu Ran hurriedly said, "Let's form a team together?"

Jiang Ruyi stopped and looked at Lu Ran with a smile: "Why, does the big star want to be with me?"

"Who wouldn't want to hug a thigh... No, no, don't go yet!"

Lu Ran saw the girl was about to leave, so he immediately said: "I want to!

Jiang Ruyi, I want to be with you!"

The voice was so loud that Jiang Ruyi widened her eyes.

Never mind the students who hadn't left the playground, even the teaching building in the distance could probably hear this bold confession.

"Oh~~~"

"Lu Ran is really awesome, he's being suspended and punished, and he still dares to confess? He's really not afraid of being expelled by the school?"

"You don't understand! A real man just has to go hard against the wind!"

"Right! Lu Ran, I support you! This f*cking school, let's not go!"

"Goddess Jiang is mine, I want to kill this little lamb..."

"Brother, he just finished off a Prisoner Demon believer, as for you, a little shrimp like you, you'd better step back?"

Listening to the bursts of discussion, Jiang Ruyi's face was as red as fire.

She lowered her head and walked away quickly.

"Agree or not, give me a word." Lu Ran muttered, looking at the graceful figure of the girl walking away.

These long legs,

who wouldn't want to hug them?

I, Lu Ran, am also a man... Hmm, also a good student who wants to achieve excellent results!

Thank you to the alliance leader, Cang Yue Sheng, for the 100,000 reward for the character card Lu Ran; thank you for your support, boss!

Wish the boss to get rich every day, eat meat every meal, and have a new year every day!

The boss is generous; thanks for the support! Wishing the boss wealth every day, meat at every meal, and the joy of the New Year every single day!

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