Picking a Fight

The Sun Moon Royal Academy cafeteria. The moment Jin Tianming entered, his strikingly handsome appearance immediately drew the attention of the students eating inside.

Many students quickly noticed that Jin Tianming seemed too young.

He looked only ten or eleven.

"Who's that kid?"

"He looks pretty arrogant."

"Is he even twelve? Isn't twelve the minimum age for enrollment?" Many new students were deeply puzzled. He looked one or two years younger than them.

"Huh?" Some older students heard the new students beside them and turned to look at them, asking in confusion, "Isn't he one of you new students?"

"No."

Many new students shook their heads. They had never seen such a handsome boy in their classes.

With the physique of a Dragon Soul, Jin Tianming naturally heard the new students' discussion clearly. However, he paid it no mind and calmly walked toward the serving area.

Seeing the mountain of rice piled in Jin Tianming's bowl, the cafeteria auntie was somewhat stunned. "Student, are you sure you can finish all that? Food mustn't be wasted."

"I can." Jin Tianming took out the meal card Lin Jiayi had given him and placed it before the cafeteria auntie. Then he added, "Give me one serving of every dish."

The cafeteria auntie had wanted to say something else, but the moment she saw the meal card Jin Tianming had taken out, she immediately fell silent. She had seen Director Lin's meal card before.

She could not help muttering inwardly, Could this student be some big family's child again, coming to the academy just to pad his credentials?

"Thank you." Once the food had been served, Jin Tianming thanked her and turned to find a seat.

Quite a few students in the cafeteria had been watching Jin Tianming. The moment he turned around, they all fell silent.

Was this guy a pig?

With that mountain of rice and all those rich meat dishes, could one person really finish it all?

Jin Tianming sat down and began eating with his head lowered. By the time he finished this meal, that fish should have arrived.

Some older students disliked Jin Tianming's manner, especially the arrogant look on his face, which made them particularly unhappy. They exchanged glances, understood one another's intentions, and five of them rose to walk toward Jin Tianming.

The moment some new students saw them, they immediately lowered their heads. They knew who these people were: members of the royal family.

Though they were only fringe members of the royal family, they were still not people that nobodies like them could provoke. Unless one had some major force backing them, they could only endure being bullied by them.

Jin Tianming naturally sensed the group approaching, but he ignored them and continued eating.

"Hey, kid, what's your name?" The leader sat across from Jin Tianming and asked with a smile. He looked so friendly, but in the eyes of some older students, his smile was that of a smiling tiger.

Jin Tianming still ignored him.

"Kid, my boss is talking to you!" A burly student beside the man, his face full of flesh, widened his eyes and glared viciously at Jin Tianming, who was ignoring his boss and eating with his head lowered.

Seeing that Jin Tianming had shown no reaction whatsoever to his boss's words, the student's anger was instantly ignited and burned fiercely.

Jin Tianming raised his head and glanced at the student whose muscles were as big as his own first soul ring. Then he looked at the smiling tiger seated across from him. Taking a bite of meat, he said, "May I ask if you upperclassmen are so bored that you've come looking for trouble with me?"

"This guy isn't stupid!" The leader narrowed his eyes slightly. After hearing Jin Tianming's words, he slowly turned his gaze to his lackeys, pointed at Jin Tianming with one finger, and said in a low voice, "Look at him. This kid is quite interesting!"

Then an undisguised look of contempt appeared on his face. He turned back to Jin Tianming and warned him in a condescending tone, "Kid, let me remind you: once you come to Sun Moon Royal Academy, you'd better keep a low profile.

There are many people in this world whom you can't afford to provoke. If you accidentally offend someone you shouldn't, the consequences will be quite serious! Especially in a situation like this... Hmph!"

After saying that, he sneered and crossed his arms, signaling for the burly student beside him to make a move.

But before the burly student could act, Jin Tianming was already on his feet. He swiftly reached out, pressed down on the leader's head, and shoved hard. The leader's face instantly came into intimate contact with the food on the table.

"Boss!"

"Boss!"

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The other four students saw what had happened to their boss and immediately released their soul rings. All of them were two-ringed Soul Grandmasters, and their soul rings were normally configured.

Jin Tianming tilted his head at the sight, pressing even harder on their boss's head. "Is this your backing?"

Were four Soul Grandmasters the backing of the guy whose head he had pinned to the table?

Jin Tianming grabbed the leader and saw his face covered in food. After one glance, he disgustedly tossed him toward the four others. Then he pulled two tissues from the table and wiped his hands before golden scales began to cover his body.

Two soul rings appeared beneath his feet.

Everyone present, including those five, was stunned on the spot.

That kid, who looked even younger than them, was also a Soul Grandmaster—and his second soul ring was a thousand-year soul ring.

"This..."

Seeing the soul rings beneath the boy's feet and the scales covering his body, the leader began to panic.

He knew he had kicked an iron plate today. A Dragon Martial Soul and such cultivation were absolutely not something a nobody like him could afford to provoke.

Since ancient times, the world had followed a rather interesting rule: the strong preyed on the weak. The strong bullied the weak, but when the strong encountered someone even stronger, they surrendered faster than the weak.

"Put your Martial Souls away!" The leader roared at his four lackeys, then immediately dropped to his knees before Jin Tianming. "Big Brother, my brothers and I have some problems with our brains. We absolutely did not mean to offend you."

Damn it. With the cultivation and soul ring configuration of the boy before him, the force behind him was definitely stronger than his own family. His family was merely a small clan with a trace of royal blood. Once the family's interests were involved, those elders would never protect him—not even his heartless father.

Hearing this, Jin Tianming withdrew his soul rings and Martial Soul, then smiled. "It seems that little press I gave your head earlier cured your brain?"

"Yes!" The student hurriedly agreed. The four lackeys who had put away their Martial Souls also collectively knelt down and echoed their boss.

Seeing this scene, some students in the cafeteria suddenly found the food in their hands tasteless. So this was the law of the jungle their teachers had spoken of?

Those students who had been bullied by the five of them watched with glee, thinking, So these guys have a day like this too!

The way they looked at Jin Tianming was filled with admiration and envy. To possess such cultivation at such a young age, he definitely had an immensely powerful force behind him.

Hearing their answer, Jin Tianming suddenly found it boring. He had thought these five were brainless fools, but it turned out they did have brains.

So they do know how to back down.

He looked toward a pillar in the cafeteria and smiled. "Hall Master Jing, the show is over. Are you still going to keep watching?"