Blocking the Door in the Middle of the Night! The First Face-to-Face Clash with the Thunder Law Prodigy!

Ten minutes later.

A dense flurry of footsteps sounded outside Dorm Room 302.

The commotion outside was enormous.

It woke the students in the other dorm rooms on the floor.

The students came out of their rooms one after another.

They looked down the hallway.

"Whoa, it's so late. Why are there so many people outside?"

"Isn't that Lin Yun, the top genius in the Genius Class?"

"Lin Yun? What's he doing here? And who are all those people behind him?"

"I know them. They're all Lin Yun's lackeys. Some are from the Genius Class, and some are from the Elite Class."

"Good grief, that's quite a crowd!"

"Who ticked Lin Yun off? He actually brought all these people here this late at night!"

"Isn't it Room 302?"

"You mean that good-for-nothing Martialist, Ye Xiao's room?"

"Must be."

"..."

The commotion in the hallway was so loud

that it woke Ye Xiao and Fatty Wang, too.

"Knock, knock, knock!"

Just then,

their dorm room door was pounded on urgently and violently.

"Wang Hou! Get your ass out here!"

"Quit playing dead! If you don't come out, I'll tear this door down!"

The one shouting was Zhao Lei, one of Lin Yun's lackeys.

Before Fatty Wang could go open the door,

the next second,

Zhao Lei blasted it open with a punch!

"Bang—!"

The door slammed against the wall with a loud crash.

The noise was deafening, and the entire hallway rang with it.

The whole floor shook.

The hallway erupted into commotion.

Heads poked out through doorways, bleary-eyed as they looked outside.

Someone cursed, "What's with all the noise in the middle of the night?" But when they saw the people in the hallway, the rest of the curse died in their throat.

More than a dozen people stood in the hallway.

They weren't ordinary students.

They were boys from the Genius Class and the Elite Class.

They were all dressed in training uniforms, their expressions hostile.

Some carried weapons, while spiritual energy surged around others. They looked like a pack of wolves standing at the entrance to a sheep pen.

Lin Yun stood at the back, leaning against the hallway wall with his hands in his pockets and a smile on his lips.

He didn't say a word.

He didn't need to.

Just standing there was enough to silence the entire floor.

There wasn't a sound in the dorm room.

There wasn't a sound in the hallway, either.

Everyone held their breath, waiting to see how this would end.

"Wang Hou! Are you fucking deaf? I told you to open the door, and you didn't. I tried to give you some respect, but you didn't want it?"

"Then don't blame us for coming in ourselves!"

Zhao Lei stepped onto the door he'd knocked down,

and the crowd behind him surged into the room, packing Dorm Room 302 until there was no room to move.

Ye Xiao was sitting at his desk, reading the Law-Breaking Fist Su Muyun had lent him.

Without even looking up, he asked, "What do you want?"

Zhao Lei grinned.

He remembered that afternoon in the cafeteria, when he and Sun Hao had clashed with Ye Xiao.

That incident had humiliated both him and Sun Hao.

They'd had to clean the entire cafeteria.

All the students had stared at them strangely.

But now,

the tables had turned!

This time, their boss Lin Yun had come along.

With someone powerful backing them, they could stand tall!

"What do we want?"

"Obviously, we're here to deal with Wang Hou!"

"That fat bastard dared to insult our boss all over the School Forum. He's asking to get himself killed!"

"Ye Xiao, this has nothing to do with you. We're here to get revenge on Wang Hou."

"Just keep reading your book!"

Zhao Lei spoke with overwhelming force, his words dripping with hostility.

He claimed it had nothing to do with Ye Xiao.

But he was already treating Wang Hou like Ye Xiao's lackey.

So humiliating Wang Hou in front of Ye Xiao was the same as slapping Ye Xiao in the face.

"Wang Hou, get your ass over here!"

"Kneel down and apologize to our boss! Got it?"

He pointed at Wang Hou, who was standing beside Ye Xiao.

Wang Hou's gaze was firm. He wasn't afraid in the slightest.

"I'm not kneeling!"

Zhao Lei's expression changed.

He hadn't expected this coward from the Ordinary Class to have such a backbone.

He clearly remembered that before,

this fatso had been timid and weak-willed, afraid of trouble.

Why was he suddenly acting so tough?

He turned to look at Lin Yun.

Lin Yun was still leaning against the wall, wearing the same smile.

He said nothing, only nodded.

Zhao Lei understood.

He turned to the dozen or so people behind him and said, "Brothers, if he won't kneel, then we'll make him."

"Yeah!"

The dozen or so men took a step forward.

The air in the hallway felt as if it had been sucked away.

No one dared to speak. No one dared to move.

Everyone knew what would happen next: a student from the Ordinary Class would be pinned to the ground by more than a dozen people from the Genius and Elite Classes, forced to kneel and slapped around. No one would do anything. No one would dare.

Because that was the rule:

The strong were always right, and the weak deserved to get beaten!

Wang Hou was obviously nervous, and his body trembled a little. This was the first time he'd ever faced a situation like this.

But he didn't run. He just stood there, like a nail driven into the ground.

Zhao Lei raised his hand. "Get him—"

"Wait."

The voice wasn't loud, but everyone heard it.

Ye Xiao slowly closed the Law-Breaking Fist, then set it on the bookshelf. He rose to his feet and rolled his wrists.

Everyone's eyes followed Ye Xiao's every move.

"What happened? Why did you come after Wang Hou?" Ye Xiao asked calmly.

Zhao Lei was furious.

"Because that fat bastard insulted our boss, Lin Yun, over a thousand times on the School Forum!"

"If you don't believe me, look it up right now. We have witnesses and proof!"

Ye Xiao calmly looked at Fatty Wang.

"Fatty, is that true?"

Fatty Wang immediately replied, "Brother Xiao, it was because Lin Yun insulted you first."

The people on the other side paused.

Ye Xiao asked again, "Oh? What did Lin Yun say about me?"

Fatty Wang hesitated.

Ye Xiao said, "Don't worry about me. Just repeat exactly what Lin Yun said."

Fatty Wang took out his phone and found Lin Yun's original post.

[Floor 17]: Ye Xiao is trash! Martialist is a trash profession, too!

Then he read it aloud.

"Ye Xiao is trash! Martialist is a trash profession, too!"

His voice wasn't loud, but everyone heard him.

Lin Yun, standing in the hallway with his hands in his pockets, heard it, too.

The smile on his face slowly disappeared.

After Ye Xiao heard it,

it was his turn to smile.

"Oh, I get it. Lin Yun insulted me first, then Wang Hou stood up for me, and now you've come here to get revenge on him. Is that how this works?"

Ye Xiao spoke lightly, but his words stabbed everyone to the core.

Zhao Lei's mouth twitched. His mind raced as he tried to come up with an excuse, but he was at a loss for words.

Just as the two sides faced off in silence,

a voice came from the hallway outside.

Lin Yun didn't move.

He was still leaning against the wall, still wearing that smile.

But his expression had changed. He no longer looked like he was watching a show. Now he looked like a hunter who'd spotted his prey.

"Ye Xiao," he called, as if speaking to an old acquaintance. "Are you sure you want to get involved?"

Ye Xiao looked at him. "He's my friend. My only friend."

Lin Yun laughed. "Your friend? You call a good-for-nothing from the Ordinary Class your friend?"

He straightened up and slowly walked over.

He took each step slowly, but with every step, the air in the room grew heavier.

"That's right. You're trash, and he's trash, too."

"Trash are meant to stick together!"