Confrontation and Intimidation

Another night of cultivation passed.

At daybreak, Jiang Fan finished washing up.

Su Qingwan called him from the living room to come eat breakfast.

"Not eating!"

Jiang Fan grabbed two large steamed buns, clamped one in his mouth and held the other in his hand, then hurriedly ran outside.

"This child, always so careless!"

Su Qingwan chided from behind him.

If Jiang Fan remembered correctly, Li Dongsheng's class should be the first period that morning.

He could not ask Li Dongsheng about his expulsion during class, so he had to intercept Li Dongsheng before it began.

Between the office building and the teaching building was a long enclosed corridor.

Jiang Fan waited there for a little over ten minutes before he saw Li Dongsheng strolling over at an unhurried pace.

Jiang Fan stepped forward and smiled.

"Teacher Li!"

The moment Li Dongsheng saw Jiang Fan, his face darkened.

"Jiang Fan! You still dared to come to school?"

"Didn't Lei Ming tell you that you've already been expelled?"

The smile remained on Jiang Fan's face.

"I know. Lei Ming told me. But I want to know why I was expelled!"

Li Dongsheng sneered.

"Why?"

"You skipped school for two days, and you still ask why you were expelled?"

Jiang Fan replied calmly.

"First, I had Lei Ming ask you for leave!"

"Second, even if you didn't approve it and treated it as truancy, at most I should receive a warning or disciplinary action. Since when did it warrant expulsion?"

Li Dongsheng's face turned grim. Just as he was about to speak, Jiang Fan cut him off.

"Teacher Li, don't tell me you've forgotten the school rules?"

"If you can't remember, go look up Article 256 on page 28 of the Jiangcheng Third High School rulebook and see what it says."

He had once respected Li Dongsheng quite a bit, but ever since learning that the man had set his sights on his gene serum, all goodwill had vanished.

Gene serum!

At that thought, a flash of insight struck Jiang Fan.

Could it be... because I refused to sell him the gene serum, he decided to make things difficult for me?

"Hmph! Don't think that just because you're good at academics, you can run wild! You dare talk back to me?"

"In this world, martial strength is ultimately revered above all. Beneath Martial Artists, all are ants!"

"No matter how good you are at academics, you're still trash incapable of awakening!"

"When the time comes, you'll still have to serve Martial Artists!"

As he spoke, Li Dongsheng's tone suddenly turned sinister.

"Expelling you is already going easy on you!"

"If you keep pestering me and offend a Big Figure, it won't be as simple as expulsion!"

Jiang Fan's heart stirred.

Sure enough, it was because of this!

Li Dongsheng had used that very excuse to demand his gene serum back then, and now he had brought it up again. Jiang Fan's guess was almost certainly right—it was because of the gene serum!

Was he reminding him to know his place? Using a Big Figure to threaten him?

But would a Big Figure really fight over one tiny bottle of gene serum belonging to a student?

It seemed his homeroom teacher had not grown much of a brain!

"Heh!"

Jiang Fan sneered outright.

By now, the commotion from their argument had drawn quite a few passing students.

Seeing that Jiang Fan was as stubborn as a stone in a latrine—both smelly and hard—Li Dongsheng swept his gaze over the surrounding students before settling on a tall, burly figure.

"Li Meng!"

"Jiang Fan is no longer a student of our Third High School. Drag him out and throw him off campus!"

"If he resists, treat it as an outsider trespassing onto school grounds. I'll count it as an act of bravery on your part!"

Li Meng's eyes immediately lit up. He approached with a savage grin.

"Jiang Fan!"

"Heh heh, you heard him. Let's go!"

As he spoke, he clamped Jiang Fan's arm tightly with a hand like an iron pincer.

Jiang Fan frowned and gave a slight shake. A tremendous force jolted Li Meng into a stagger, sending him retreating unconsciously more than two meters away.

"Oh? You've got some moves!"

After his surprise faded, Li Meng charged forward again.

In their class, Jiang Fan was famous for being neither accomplished in academics nor martial arts. His blood vitality had repeatedly tested at 0.8, leaving him consistently in the lower-middle ranks, and he had not even awakened.

Li Meng, on the other hand, had awakened long ago. His family had recently bought him a Level One gene serum. As soon as his blood vitality reached infinitely close to 1, he could use it. By then, becoming a Martial Artist would be as easy as taking something from his pocket.

Yet this piece of trash with blood vitality of 0.8 had actually managed to knock him away.

It had to be luck!

Noticing the surrounding spectators pointing and whispering, Li Meng's expression sank.

You made me lose face in front of so many people. This time, I'll teach you a proper lesson!

With that thought, he suddenly exerted force through his feet, clenched his hand into a fist, and punched straight at Jiang Fan's face.

Jiang Fan merely cast him an indifferent glance and did not move.

After countless battles in that space, Li Meng's speed now looked like children playing house in Jiang Fan's eyes.

"That's Jiang Fan, right? Did he get scared stupid?"

"You'd be scared too. Li Meng already has strength close to that of a Martial Artist. One punch from him and he'll be bedridden for at least half a month!"

"Jiang Fan's finished this time!"

"..."

The people around them cast sympathetic looks toward Jiang Fan.

As they spoke, Li Meng's attack had already arrived.

The fist wind cut through the air, actually producing faint bursts of sound.

Some of the more timid girls quickly covered their eyes, unwilling to witness the bloody scene.

A pig-slaughtering scream rang out. Li Meng instantly flew into the corridor wall, blood spilling from his mouth at the same time!

This dramatic reversal instantly made everyone present widen their eyes.

Especially the girls who had just covered their eyes—when they peeked through the gaps in their fingers and saw that Li Meng was the one severely injured, their mouths fell open in shock.

"You!"

Li Meng wanted to say something, but in the next instant he slumped weakly to the ground.

After ordering Li Meng to act, Li Dongsheng had already walked some distance away. Hearing the scream behind him now, he sensed something was wrong.

When he turned around and saw Li Meng lying on the ground, he was greatly shocked.

At the same time, he darted in front of Jiang Fan.

"Jiang Fan, you're lawless!"

As he angrily rebuked him, he raised a hand to seize Jiang Fan.

But in the blink of an eye, he discovered that Jiang Fan had firmly caught his hand.

Under Jiang Fan's emotionless gaze, the hairs all over Li Dongsheng's body stood on end for no reason.

He was also a Level One Martial Artist. Though he had not reached Level Two, with blood vitality of 5.5, he was far beyond trash like Jiang Fan with blood vitality of 0.8.

Yet for some unknown reason, facing Jiang Fan now filled him with a trace of fear.

"Jiang Fan, how dare you!"

He sensed that Jiang Fan was different, but he still forced himself to sound stern and fierce.

Jiang Fan flung his hand away, making Li Dongsheng stagger.

Once he steadied himself, Li Dongsheng's face was so dark it seemed ready to drip water.

"Jiang Fan!"

"You assaulted a teacher. The evidence is conclusive!"

"Now that the school has expelled you, what else do you have to say?"

Jiang Fan stared at him for a long while, until Li Dongsheng felt his whole body crawl, then suddenly smiled.

"Oh?"

"Expelled, is that it?"

"Fine! I hope you won't regret it!"

This was school. He could not kill the two of them.

The anger in his heart had also subsided considerably after teaching Li Meng a lesson and intimidating Li Dongsheng.

Expulsion? He was not afraid in the slightest!

With blood vitality of 5.7, any high school in Jiang City would treat him like a prized treasure.

When the day came that he revealed his brilliance, he truly wanted to see the ugly faces of people like Li Dongsheng!

Li Dongsheng watched Jiang Fan's figure recede, his expression shifting uncertainly as he stood where he was.

His instincts told him that Jiang Fan had changed!

But he forcibly shook the chaotic thoughts from his mind and hurried toward the classroom.

After taking only two steps, he stopped again. Turning to look at Li Meng, who lay on the ground like a dead pig, irritation flashed across his face.

"You people, carry him to the infirmary!"

Jiang Fan left the school gates.

As he walked, he pondered which school he should go to, when a figure suddenly blocked his path.

"You're Jiang Fan, right?"

"I want to discuss something with you!"