Chapter 9

Dai Huabin, after releasing his martial soul, had a leap in both speed and strength; his movements were so swift that many could not even see his silhouette.

But obviously, his attack target was not one of those many people.

Tang Wulin slightly turned his body, narrowly dodging Dai Huabin's fierce lunge while the golden energy on his hand condensed into substance, turning into golden dragon scales, and he punched Dai Huabin's cheek.

He threw this punch without holding back; Dai Huabin attacked him with full force using his martial soul, obviously not considering what would happen if he couldn't block it; if so, don't blame him for also being ruthless.

However, something unexpected happened to Tang Wulin.

Although his fist clearly landed on Dai Huabin's face, the sensation in his hand felt like striking a bronze wall and iron wall.

Then, a sense of danger that made his scalp tingle came; Tang Wulin hastily jumped back, narrowly avoiding Dai Huabin's counterattack at the critical moment.

After dodging this strike, Tang Wulin instinctively looked up at Dai Huabin; just now he had been pressing and beating him, why did he suddenly become so fierce? Fortunately, the answer is not complicated.

It was seen that Dai Huabin's three soul rings actually had two lit up, even including his third soul ring's Thousand-Year Soul Technique.

The surrounding classmates couldn't help but exclaim; knowing that for freshmen, being a Soul Master is already quite formidable, let alone a Soul Elder, which is almost impossible.

Dai Huabin, whether in martial soul or level, is absolutely outstanding among the freshmen; yet he chose to use a Thousand-Year Soul Technique against Tang Wulin, who is nearly three years younger than him, which speaks for itself.

Obviously, he is determined to give Tang Wulin a lesson.

A huge sense of oppression continuously came from Dai Huabin; Tang Wulin took a deep breath, knowing that if he didn't go all out, he would surely lose badly.

Golden light surged, his whole body tensed; soon, Tang Wulin's right hand transformed into a brilliant golden dragon claw.

At the same time, Dai Huabin moved; with the boost of two soul skills, even Tang Wulin could not clearly see his specific movements, only seeing a blurry black shadow lunging toward him.

He instinctively swung the golden dragon claw at the black shadow, hoping to block the opponent's attack.

Dragon and tiger contending; seeing that the two were about to decide the outcome, a figure suddenly stepped between them.

"You guys have had enough, haven't you!"

Wang Yan held a long staff, five soul rings rhythmically moving beside him; with one staff each, he flung Tang Wulin and Dai Huabin away.

His usually gentle face was rarely filled with an angry expression.

He had just left the classroom with his front foot, and a fight broke out in the classroom with his back foot; if not for a quick-thinking student who deliberately called him back, judging by the momentum of the two just now, they would likely have caused casualties.

On the first day of school, his students already caused a casualty incident; other teachers may not say, but for him it is absolutely the first time.

Thinking of this, Wang Yan said unhappily to the two: "You two come with me to the office and explain the whole story!"

Having said that, he walked out of the classroom without looking back.

Tang Wulin got up from the ground, exchanged a glance with Dai Huabin not far away, and followed him up.

Wang Yan's office is not far from here; the few of them walked for about ten minutes and arrived.

After entering the office, Wang Yan sat down with a cold face, looking at the two.

"Which of you two will explain first?"

He needed an explanation. Tang Wulin was about to explain the situation, but Dai Huabin jumped up first and said: "Teacher, what right do you have to stop us? I remember the academy encourages students to practice privately, doesn't it?"

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A big question mark appeared above Tang Wulin's head.

Wang Yan obviously had his righteousness rising to his head; how dare Dai Huabin talk back to him like that.

Wang Yan also laughed angrily, he said: "Classmate Dai Huabin, you're from the White Tiger Duke's Mansion, right? I don't know how arrogant and overbearing you are inside the Duke's mansion, but since you're in the academy, you must follow the academy's rules; didn't you hear what I just said in class? Our academy does encourage students to practice, but we also have a dedicated Dou Hun Qu for students to settle their grudges under the protection of referees; if you find Tang Wulin displeasing, you can go to the Dou Hun Qu and compete under referee protection, rather than engaging in private fights without any adult supervision."

Dai Huabin let out a cold snort, showing contempt for Wang Yan's lecture.

"The current academy is truly decadent; students educated this way are only flowers in a greenhouse, having never experienced blood-and-tears setbacks, making it hard for them to become great."

"You…"

Wang Yan was left speechless with anger.

To be fair, he really has no way to deal with Dai Huabin right now.

Although he has some connection with Xuanzi, his low talent actually gives him no authority over major academy affairs; even as a mainly research scholar, he cannot even enter the Sea God Pavilion's library.

and Dai Huabin is the highest-talented young master of the White Tiger Duke's Mansion; at a young age he became a Soul Elder, being absolutely the top genius among this year's freshmen.

There is a gap in status between the two sides; moreover, Dai Huabin, after all his talk, still couldn't do anything to Tang Wulin, so it's naturally hard for him to punish this kid.

Of course, this is also because Wang Yan is a relatively reasonable teacher; if it were Zhou Yi sitting here instead, she might not care about the fight, but just because Dai Huabin talked back, she could make him drop out.

After taking a deep breath and forcibly suppressing his excitement, Wang Yan coldly said: "Enough, get out. This won't happen again; if I discover it again, even if you are the young master of the White Tiger Duke's family, don't think you can continue staying in the academy."

"Hmph."

Dai Huabin obviously didn't take Wang Yan seriously at all; he smirked disdainfully and walked out of the office.

Instantly, only two people remained in the room.

Wang Yan glared at Tang Wulin with a dark face.

"And you, do you also have some lofty talk like him that you want to tell me?"

Tang Wulin hurriedly shook his head and explained: "Teacher, it's like this……"

Then he told Wang Yan everything that had just happened in detail.

However, he handled the matter concerning Huo Yutong vaguely, since she might not want others to know; Tang Wulin changed his wording to "I feel Huo Yutong cares a lot about Dai Huabin."

After hearing his explanation, Wang Yan's expression finally eased.

According to Tang Wulin's account, he merely grabbed Dai Huabin to ask a question; Dai Huabin then verbally insulted his friend, and even after Tang Wulin demanded an apology, he actively struck out; the fault lies mainly with Dai Huabin, and Tang Wulin did nothing wrong.

This gave Wang Yan an unconscious good impression of Tang Wulin.

(End of chapter)