Swords Drawn, the Dean Arrives

The newcomer had chicken skin and crane hair, her gray-white hair coiled atop her head. She wore a white robe and was of medium build, but the black eyes fixed on Qian Mu now gleamed with vicious light.

Such a massive conflict breaking out right at the entrance to the freshman dormitories instantly drew a crowd of onlookers. Many freshmen who had just finished class, along with some older students, could not help but stop.

"You're his teacher? His homeroom teacher?" Qian Mu was not intimidated in the slightest by the other woman's six soul rings.

The old woman ignored Qian Mu and instead checked Wang Dong's injuries. The moment she did, she was startled. Wang Dong's martial soul had been damaged, seemingly eroded nonstop by some foreign power.

"What a vicious little girl! How could you be so ruthless toward a fellow student?!"

Hearing that, Qian Mu irritably picked at her ear. "Hey, auntie, aren't you being a little too obvious about taking his side?"

"My name is Zhou Yi, homeroom teacher of Freshman Class One. Who is your homeroom teacher?!"

"Mu Jin, Teacher Mu." Qian Mu crossed her arms. She appeared calm on the surface, but killing intent was already surging within her. If not for her wariness of the old man sunning himself nearby, as the Herrscher of Erosion, she would have eroded this old woman as well and made her part of herself.

Zhou Yi sneered. "So you're that woman's student. She really did raise a fine specimen—a scourge who will bring disaster to the soul master world once she grows up!"

"Mm-hm, mm-hm, sure, sure. You're right about everything." To Zhou Yi's surprise, Qian Mu did not fall for her provocation at all.

"How presumptuous! Is this how you treat your elders? Come with me to the Discipline Office!!"

Zhou Yi roared and immediately reached for Qian Mu. She was confident that with the strength of a six-ring Soul Emperor, catching a little girl would be effortless.

Qian Mu lightly tapped the ground, black wings instantly spreading from her back as she flew into the air. "Hehe, you can't catch me."

Unfortunately, Zhou Yi's martial soul could not fly. She could only rage helplessly from the ground. "Little girl, this is Shrek Academy, not your home. You cannot do as you please here!!"

"So teachers are allowed to arrest people without bothering to learn the facts?"

Qian Fei stepped out from the entrance to the student dormitory, her expression calm.

Qian Mu beat her wings and came to her sister's side. "Fei'er? Why did you come down?"

Qian Fei's lips curved slightly. "I heard fighting downstairs and came to take a look. I didn't expect to witness such a laughable scene."

"Twin sisters?" Zhou Yi judged the relationship between the two girls from their appearances.

Qian Fei turned her head back toward Zhou Yi, disappointment in her gaze. As for disgust, she buried it deep in her eyes. This old woman reminded her of the person Demon Dragon Benares had used as her first meal after being reborn Ten Thousand Years ago.

"Homeroom teacher of Class One, do you have even the slightest bearing of a teacher right now?"

Zhou Yi suppressed her anger and spoke in a deep voice. "My teaching philosophy differs from your Teacher Mu's. It is fine if you do not understand, but my students will thank me in the future!!"

Qian Fei now truly felt that Lu Xueling's words had been right: you could never wake someone pretending to sleep, and you should never try to reason with someone obsessed, because aside from wasting your breath, it would only endlessly lower your intelligence and moral standards.

"Thank you? Thank you for trying to expel them on the first day of school?" Another cold laugh came from the other side as Mu Jin, Class Nine's homeroom teacher, also arrived.

Black and White Twin Snow greeted her first. "Teacher Mu, you're here."

Mu Jin found herself increasingly satisfied with these twin students. She immediately assured them, "Don't worry. With Teacher Mu here today, I won't let this old woman do anything to you sisters!!"

"Thank you, Teacher Mu."

Zhou Yi clenched her fists so tightly they were nearly bleeding. "Mu Jin, your students are disobedient, and you intend to shield them too?!"

Mu Jin snorted coldly and fired back without mercy. "I don't know who is shielding whom. All I see is a freshman teacher planning to bully the weak with her strength!!"

More and more students were gathering to watch. Naturally, Mu Jin could not truly fight Zhou Yi; she still had her reason. As long as Zhou Yi responded, Mu Jin would immediately say, "Let's go to the Discipline Office together."

But what Mu Jin had not expected was...

"Mu Jin, strength reigns supreme in the soul master world, and the same applies at Shrek! Today, I will take this ungrateful little girl to the Discipline Office and punish her severely!!"

The aura of a high-level Soul Emperor erupted in full force. Zhou Yi seemed to have little concern for the freshmen around them, since they were not from her class anyway.

Beneath the large tree, the White Hair old man enjoying the shade shook his head almost imperceptibly. His gaze gradually shifted toward one of Shrek Academy's central buildings.

"Zhou Yi, you..." Mu Jin truly had not expected this madwoman to dare make a move in full view of everyone.

Strength reigns supreme... was that it?

Crimson light began to flow within Qian Mu's pupils, while a blue glow flickered in and out of sight at her chest.

There was no doubt that Zhou Yi had made it onto the Herrscher of Erosion's kill list.

Qian Fei was no exception. A trace of brilliant gold gradually dyed her deep-blue eyes as well.

"Stop!!"

Just as the situation reached its most volatile point, a tall figure descended rapidly from the sky with his hands clasped behind his back, a faint anger on his face.

"Dean Yan!!" The two homeroom teachers were stunned, then immediately bowed respectfully.

The newcomer had short black-blue hair. Though his eyes were black, a trace of white light constantly flowed within their depths. His pale-blue robe fluttered in the wind, and the instant his toes touched the ground, a golden ripple spread beneath his shoes.

"The dean?" Black and White Twin Snow, who had been forcibly made to bow, slightly raised their heads to glance at him.

Qian Mu finally withdrew the dark-blue glow from her eyes, and the light at her chest gradually calmed as well.

The Herrscher's senses told her that this person had been summoned by the old man behind them.

Yan Shaozhe's peripheral vision swept toward the White Hair old man resting in the shade. A trace of apology flashed past his eyes before he looked around at the still-bewildered freshmen and calmly said, "All of you, disperse. Go collect hush money from the academy's Subsidy Office. What happened today stays buried in your stomachs."

The other freshmen nodded in agreement and promptly ran off.

Zhou Yi finally came back to her senses. Carrying the still-unconscious Wang Dong, she stepped forward and began to accuse them. "Now that Dean Yan is here, there is no need to go to the Discipline Office. Please judge this matter personally!"

"My student was beaten into this state by Class Nine's class monitor, and even his martial soul was damaged. Please punish that white-haired little girl severely!"

Mu Jin pointed at Zhou Yi and snapped, "Zhou Yi, you old woman, stop spouting nonsense and twisting right and wrong. I haven't even accused you of overstepping your bounds and trying to seize my student!!"

Yan Shaozhe remained silent. Rather than answering either of them directly, he took Wang Dong and began treating his injuries.

"Mm... what is this..." Yan Shaozhe's expression changed slightly. He naturally discovered the erosive power on Wang Dong's martial soul, but he had not expected that even as a level ninety-five Super Douluo, he could not easily erase it.

A powerful Light Element surged forth. Yan Shaozhe lightly pressed a palm against Wang Dong's forehead, and only then did that dark-blue aura gradually withdraw from Wang Dong's body.

"Ugh..." Wang Dong still did not wake immediately. His external injuries seemed rather serious as well.

No one could make out Yan Shaozhe's gaze, but he eventually turned it toward Mu Jin. "Mu Jin, which student in your class did this?"

"I did." Qian Mu admitted it without hesitation.

Zhou Yi's expression immediately became smug again. "That's right, Dean Yan. Please punish her severely!!"

"Zhou Yi." Yan Shaozhe suddenly spoke.

She froze briefly before quickly responding, "Uh... here!!"

Disappointment filled Dean Yan's eyes as he announced, "This month... no, for half a year, your teaching salary and cultivation resources will be deducted!!"

"Fine... huh???"