After Wang Feng and Tang San came out, they headed straight for the dormitory building.
"Brother Feng, once we've settled in, let's go to the cafeteria together."
Tang San said this at the entrance to the dormitory building.
"Sure."
Wang Feng nodded, then watched as Tang San went up the stairs first.
The dormitory building had three floors, with seven dorms in all to house the students.
Dormitory Six was on the second floor. As Wang Feng walked up to the door, he heard several voices inside:
"Boss Xiao, the teacher in charge of our Dormitory Six just said it seems a work-study student has been assigned here?"
"A work-study student? Don't they only get to stay in that pigsty, Dorm Seven? Why assign one to our Dormitory Six?"
"Isn't that perfect? We could use someone to pour tea, fetch water, do laundry, and mop the floor. We'll have this work-study student do all that for free. Wouldn't that be great?"
"What if he refuses?"
"Refuses? He's a new work-study student. How dare he refuse? I'll beat him until he calls me Dad!"
"Boss Xiao, when I came in just now, I saw a really pretty little girl... Let's go play with her tomorrow, heh heh?"
All kinds of chattering filled the room.
Wang Feng frowned as he listened, then immediately raised his foot.
Bang!
He kicked the door open!
The half-steel door crashed loudly against the wall behind it.
In an instant, all the children inside froze.
There were several kids, ranging in age from seven or eight to eleven or twelve. Some were boys and some were girls, and they all wore rather luxurious robes. At a glance, they were clearly children from wealthy families.
Now they were all rooted to the spot, staring dumbfounded at Wang Feng in the doorway.
"I'm the work-study student. Who just said they'd beat me until I called them Dad?"
Wang Feng glanced around and said with a smile.
The children in the room immediately snapped out of it. Their stunned expressions turned angry in an instant.
This work-study student actually dared to act so arrogantly?
"Hey, kid, you're from the countryside, aren't you?"
A boy near the front, the tallest of them all, looked at Wang Feng. Though his face was angry, it held even more mockery and contempt. "Do you know the rules? Do you know whose territory Dormitory Six is? Do you know what grade I'm in?"
It was like a triple question aimed straight at the soul.
The boy was fairly handsome and looked about eleven or twelve.
Wang Feng could tell at a glance that this boy was probably the leader of Dormitory Six, the Boss Xiao the other children had been talking about!
The boy watched Wang Feng with an arrogant expression.
"Boss Xiao, don't waste your breath on him. He's just a lowly work-study student, and he even dared to kick the door in. He's got some nerve! Let me teach him a lesson!"
The boy stepped forward, his face twisted into a fierce scowl as he stared at Wang Feng.
"Liu Long, go easy on him."
Boss Xiao gave a couple of cold laughs and cautioned him, "Don't cripple him. We'll be relying on him to handle the dirty work around the dorm from now on."
"Don't worry, Boss Xiao. I know what I'm doing." The boy named Liu Long wore a smug smile.
The other children in the dorm also began to laugh mockingly.
They looked at Wang Feng as if they could already see the foolish work-study student knocked flat and begging for mercy on the floor!
"Kid, state your name. I, Liu Long, don't beat nameless nobodies!"
Liu Long's body gave a slight tremor, and yellow light flared. A staff nearly two meters long appeared in his hand.
This was his Martial Spirit.
"Damn, you sure talk a lot of crap." Wang Feng raised his middle finger in a taunting gesture.
Though the others didn't know what the gesture meant, it seemed to infuriate them instinctively.
Liu Long's expression changed. He sprang lightly off the ground, half-leaping as he swung his staff down at Wang Feng.
The long staff swept through the air, leaving a yellow streak. It was about to land on Wang Feng.
If it hit solidly, bruises would be unavoidable!
The children in the room laughed even harder at the sight.
Only Boss Xiao frowned slightly. Liu Long had gone too hard.
The work-study student was scared stiff!
What if something happened to him?
But the very next moment-
Wang Feng struck!
In the blink of an eye, his right hand shot out. Like an eagle's claw snatching up prey, all five fingers seized Liu Long's staff Martial Spirit!
Liu Long froze. His entire forward momentum stopped dead!
At the same time, Wang Feng's left foot shifted slightly.
Whoosh!
His foot flashed forward like an illusion and struck Liu Long squarely in the stomach!
"Ugh..."
Liu Long's face turned the color of pig liver. His body curled up like a cooked shrimp, and the intense pain immediately brought beads of cold sweat to his forehead.
Just then, Wang Feng released the staff with his right hand.
With a thud, Liu Long flew backward and hit the floor!
The battle ended in astonishingly little time!
In practically the blink of an eye, Liu Long had lost!
The children hadn't even figured out what had happened. Their vision blurred, and Liu Long came flying toward them.
"With strength like that, you think you can make me pour tea and fetch water for you?"
Wang Feng looked at the children in the room and couldn't help laughing. "Sorry, if I don't beat you until you call me Dad in a moment, then I'm not Wang Feng!"
At those words, the children's expressions changed drastically!
Suddenly-
A figure darted out from behind the children!
He leapt high like a mighty eagle taking flight, his knees slightly bent and his limbs spread out in claw-like shapes as he lunged straight at Wang Feng!
He was incredibly fast!
Much faster than Liu Long had been just now!
"It's Ling Feng! His Martial Spirit is the Shadow Crow! Around here, he's the strongest after Boss Xiao!"
A pretty girl with a few freckles on her face cried out.
Ling Feng moved incredibly fast, almost as soon as Wang Feng had spoken.
By the time Wang Feng finished, Ling Feng was already close to him!
Wang Feng sneered and turned his body slightly. He met Ling Feng's claws with his right shoulder, making no attempt to dodge, and let Ling Feng seize him.
Then he turned, using the force of the incoming attack. Drawing on the method of borrowing an opponent's strength to strike back, which he had grasped while hammering with the forging technique, he quietly dissipated that force. He shifted it from his right shoulder to his left, used his waist as the axis, and launched a lightning-fast punch at Ling Feng's chest!
Thud!
Wang Feng was even faster than Ling Feng, who had the Shadow Crow, a Beast Martial Soul known for its speed!
The punch landed directly on Ling Feng's chest!
Thud!
Like Liu Long before him, Ling Feng flew backward in the same posture and crashed to the floor.
In an instant-
Dormitory Six fell silent!
The children stared at this work-study student in shock!
They never would have expected the two strongest fighters in Dormitory Six to be defeated just like that.
That easily?
Even Boss Xiao, who had a Spirit Ring, couldn't do it that effortlessly!
Wang Feng slowly walked in through the doorway.
Then he hooked his right foot around the door and slammed it shut with a thump!
The sound seemed to slam into the hearts of all the children in the room.
Their hearts gave a thump!
Every child swallowed nervously.
All of them took a step back, except for Boss Xiao!
"Kid, don't get too cocky!"
Just then, Boss Xiao, the most composed of them, stood up and looked at Wang Feng coldly:
"I'm a real Spirit Master! A Spirit Master with a Spirit Ring! Are you sure you really want to make an enemy of me, Xiao Chenyu?"