Several streaks of light descended onto the ice plains outside South Sea Academy. Before coming out, Wang Qi had thought the academy higher-ups would stop him and demand that he "put the greater good first." After all, a teacher dragging students out for a brawl sounded wrong no matter how one looked at it. Yet being allowed to leave the city so smoothly felt even stranger.
Only after reaching the academy grounds did Wang Qi understand why no one had come to stop him.
The land around the academy, which had been as smooth as a mirror just days ago, was now pitted and scarred, covered in traces left by spell duels. Wang Qi stood there for a long while before managing to squeeze out, "So the teacher-student relationship at this school is really that tense..."
"It is a Demon Race tradition. Teachers have the right to administer corporal punishment, and there are plenty of Demon Race students who refuse to accept it." The Void Refining cultivator from Burning Gold Valley who had previously helped Wang Qi out was standing beside him. He lowered his voice. "In truth, this has already become a huge problem."
"Ah..." Wang Qi shook his head. "Sorry, Teacher Huo. Even your class got washed away because of this."
This cultivator was named Huo Tongqing. His class happened to be scheduled after Wang Qi's. Every time Wang Qi finished teaching, Huo Tongqing's class came next. But Wang Qi had dismissed his first class early, and afterwards he had always left immediately after grading the four arithmetic-operation problems, without dragging his feet. Thus, the two had never met. Wang Qi had only learned Huo Tongqing's name from the timetable.
If Ao Liu had not caused trouble and delayed Wang Qi, the two would not have met this