Notting Academy Search! Grandmaster Put On Airs, Di Yao Tore Off the Facade with One Sentence!

The next morning.

At the gates of Notting Academy.

When Spirit Hall's Law Enforcement Team stopped outside, the gatekeeper's face went pale.

Di Yao did not present a calling card.

Nor did he wait for the dean to come out and receive him.

He directly displayed the Pope Palace's Temporary Enforcement Token.

"Open the gates."

The gatekeeper's legs went weak, and he hurriedly opened them.

The academy quickly descended into chaos.

Students gathered at a distance along the corridors and by the edge of the field, craning their necks.

They could not understand why Spirit Hall had suddenly brought people into the academy.

Walking beside Di Yao, Hu Liena asked quietly, "You really aren't going to see the dean first?"

"I am," Di Yao said.

He looked up at the main building.

"But this isn't a visit."

"It's a notice."

The dean of Notting Academy soon arrived.

His forehead was drenched in sweat, and he wiped it as he walked.

"Lord Di Yao, Miss Hu Liena, esteemed enforcement officers."

"May I ask why Spirit Hall has suddenly come to visit...?"

Di Yao cut him off.

"To investigate a case."

The dean's face turned white.

"A... a case? What case?"

"The case of resource losses at the Fasnuo Branch Hall."

Di Yao's tone was calm.

"From this moment on, every warehouse, archive room, and Account Ledger in Notting Academy related to the temporary transfer of Spirit Hall resources will be sealed."

The dean's legs nearly gave out.

"Lord Di Yao, could there be some misunderstanding here?"

Di Yao looked at him.

"Whether there is a misunderstanding will be clear once we investigate."

The dean still wanted to speak.

A deep, restrained voice came from behind him.

"Does Spirit Hall no longer need to show any respect to academies when handling matters?"

Everyone turned around.

Yu Xiaogang walked out.

He wore a plain long robe, his expression stiff and his bearing as rigid as ever.

He was not strong.

His Soul Power was not even high.

Yet standing there, he still carried himself with the air of a theoretical scholar.

As if the Law Enforcement Team before him was not investigating a case.

But offending knowledge itself.

Hu Liena looked at him, her brows knitting slightly.

So this was Yu Xiaogang?

He really did not look like a greedy villain.

But Di Yao had said it before.

People could put on an act.

Accounts could not.

Yu Xiaogang's gaze fell on Di Yao.

He had long known that a child was coming.

But when he saw him in person, his heart still sank.

He was too young.

So young that one instinctively looked down on him.

Yet Di Yao's eyes were nothing like a child's.

Cold.

Steady.

Without a trace of superfluous emotion.

Yu Xiaogang spoke. "You're Di Yao?"

"And you're Yu Xiaogang?" Di Yao replied.

Yu Xiaogang frowned.

He found that form of address deeply unpleasant.

Most people in the academy called him Grandmaster.

Even some of Spirit Hall's old hands gave him a measure of courtesy.

But Di Yao did not.

Yu Xiaogang said heavily, "I am Yu Xiaogang, a theoretical instructor at Notting Academy."

Di Yao nodded.

"Perfect."

"Your residence, archive room, and private storeroom will all be searched."

The dean's expression changed drastically.

The surrounding students also erupted.

"Search Grandmaster's room?"

"On what grounds?"

"Grandmaster lives so modestly. How could he possibly have a problem?"

"Spirit Hall is being way too overbearing!"

Yu Xiaogang's face darkened at once.

"Di Yao."

"I don't know what rumors you've heard."

"But theoretical research should not be crudely interfered with by power."

Di Yao looked at him.

"You borrowed Spirit Hall resources."

"I'm investigating where those resources went."

"This has nothing to do with the dignity of theory."

Yu Xiaogang's tone grew harsher.

"I borrowed those materials for the advancement of the Soul Master world."

"Research on low-grade martial souls, training commoner Soul Masters—someone has to do these things."

"If every theoretical exploration must be questioned like this by you people, how can the Soul Master world continue to develop?"

His words were steady.

And impeccably high-sounding.

Quite a few students around them nodded repeatedly as they listened.

Even the dean seemed to have grabbed onto a lifeline and hurriedly said, "That's right, Lord Di Yao. Grandmaster has been conducting theoretical research all these years. Everyone in the academy knows it."

Di Yao did not argue.

He merely asked, "Where are the results?"

Yu Xiaogang paused.

Di Yao continued, "Five years of resource transfers."

"Awakening crystal fragments, low-grade potions, Soul Beast Catalogs, Mimicry Cultivation Materials."

"You said it was for research."

"Where are the research reports?"

"Where are the sample records?"

"Where are the returned results?"

"Where are Spirit Hall's review opinions?"

Yu Xiaogang's expression turned ugly.

"Theoretical research is not Accounting Department arithmetic."

Di Yao said blandly, "Scholars speak through results."

"Only swindlers use dignity to shield their accounts."

The moment those words fell, the academy square went utterly silent.

Quite a few students stood there with their mouths open.

That was far too ruthless.

It was practically rubbing Yu Xiaogang's face into the ground in public.

Yu Xiaogang's face turned Tie Qing.

"You!"

Di Yao turned and gave the order.

"Search."

The dean panicked.

"My lord, at least give the academy a proper explanation procedure..."

Deacon Zhou stepped forward, releasing the aura of a Soul Emperor.

The dean's voice caught in his throat at once.

The Law Enforcement Team immediately split up.

Two Spirit Kings led teams to the archive room.

Three Soul Ancestors headed for the warehouses.

The remaining personnel guarded every exit of the academy.

Hu Liena kept her eyes on Yu Xiaogang.

She noticed that beneath his surface anger, there was a trace of panic deep in his eyes.

That panic was well hidden.

But it could not escape her spiritual perception.

Before long, the first batch of items was carried out.

Three crates of copied Soul Beast Catalogs.

One crate of awakening crystal fragments.

Dozens of empty and partially used potion bottles.

As well as numerous testing tools bearing Spirit Hall serial numbers.

The dean's face turned green as he watched.

"How... how could these..."

Yu Xiaogang forcibly steadied himself.

"These are all normal research tools."

"Where are the registration records?" Di Yao asked.

Yu Xiaogang replied coldly, "The academy has its own internal records."

"Bring them out."

Yu Xiaogang fell silent.

Hu Liena sneered.

"There aren't any?"

The Law Enforcement Team continued searching.

Not long afterward, a Spirit King hurried over with an old file in his hand.

"My lord, we found an altered awakening record."

Di Yao took it.

The file was old.

But the signs of alteration were obvious.

The original record had been scraped away.

Only a few words remained.

Tang San.

Martial soul: Blue Silver Grass.

Innate Full Soul Power.

Di Yao narrowed his eyes.

He held the file up to the light.

A few incomplete characters could still vaguely be seen beneath the altered sections.

Abnormal.

Twin.

Severe Martial Soul fluctuations.

Hu Liena's expression changed.

"Twin Martial Souls?"

The dean was stunned as well.

"Tang San?"

"That work-study student from the academy?"

Yu Xiaogang could no longer remain calm.

He stepped forward.

"This is my disciple's privacy!"

Di Yao looked at him.

"Privacy?"

"Spirit Hall resources were used to research Tang San."

"Records suggesting Tang San possessed Twin Martial Souls were altered."

"You never filed a report with Spirit Hall."

"You even used Spirit Hall resources to cultivate him in private."

"And now you're talking to me about privacy?"

Yu Xiaogang's face alternated between green and white.

He said in a low voice, "Tang San is a rare genius."

"I know very well what kind of practices Spirit Hall has."

"What's wrong with protecting my own disciple?"

Di Yao replied calmly, "There's nothing wrong with using your own resources to protect him."

"But using Spirit Hall resources to protect him while altering records related to Spirit Hall..."

"That is embezzlement and concealment."

Yu Xiaogang gritted his teeth.

"You're too young. You don't understand that geniuses need protection."

Di Yao glanced at him.

"I'm six years old, with Innate Level Twenty Soul Power."

"You want to talk to me about talent?"

Yu Xiaogang's expression completely froze.

The surrounding students fell silent as well.

There was no refuting those words.

No matter how talented Tang San was, he only had Innate Full Soul Power.

Di Yao had Innate Level Twenty Soul Power.

The fact that he stood here was itself the strongest proof of talent.

Just then, a young boy's voice came from outside the door.

"You are not allowed to slander my teacher."

Everyone turned.

A blue-haired boy stepped out from behind the crowd.

He wore plain clothes, and his gaze was steady.

His right hand hung inside his sleeve, the cuff subtly tightening.

Tang San.

He glanced at Yu Xiaogang, then looked toward Di Yao.

His gaze was calm.

Yet beneath that calmness lay an extremely deep chill.

"My teacher has lived a life of poverty."

"Everything he has done was to prove that even useless Martial Souls have a future."

"What right does Spirit Hall have to humiliate him like this?"

Di Yao looked at Tang San's sleeve.

His gaze turned slightly cold.

"You finally came out."

Tang San halted.

Di Yao said blandly, "Tang San."

"Accept another Soul Power test."

Tang San's eyes instantly darkened.

Yu Xiaogang immediately said, "No!"

Di Yao looked at him.

"What are you so anxious about?"

Yu Xiaogang clenched his fists.

Tang San's fingers inside his sleeve also curled around a thin needle.

The air suddenly fell silent.

Hu Liena's eyes narrowed.

She sensed killing intent.

But Di Yao merely watched Tang San.

"You'd better not move."

Tang San said nothing.

But the cold glint within his sleeve was already poised to strike.