That evening, Qin Qi returned to the dormitory.
"Boss Qin Qi, I've made your bed."
"Boss Qin Qi, would you like a late-night snack?"
"Boss Qin Qi, would you like me to warm your bed for you?"
"Huh? What the hell was that last one? Get the hell away from me!"
Qin Qi looked at Wang Sheng, who approached him with a fawning smile and offered to warm his bed. He immediately spoke with disdain.
"Those who show kindness without reason are either up to no good or plotting a theft. What are you all after? Planning to wait until I fall asleep and clobber me from behind?"
Qin Qi looked at his fellow students in Dorm Seven. Sitting on his bed, he asked them.
"We wouldn't dare, we wouldn't dare."
"Hm? You wouldn't dare?"
"No, no, I mean, we weren't thinking anything like that."
"You defeated Sister Xiao Wu, so now you're the boss of Dorm Seven."
"It's only right that we do things for our boss."
Wang Sheng paused, then looked at Qin Qi, hesitation showing in his eyes.
"I know what you're going to say. As the boss, I get to enjoy certain privileges, but at the same time..."
"If Formal Students bully you, I have to stand up for you, right?"
Qin Qi knew the rules for being the boss of Dorm Seven. The boss enjoyed preferential treatment, but if the Work-Study Students were bullied,
then the boss had to step forward and protect them.
"Mm."
Wang Sheng nodded. That was exactly what he meant, but he was afraid Qin Qi would refuse if he said it outright.
"Don't worry. As long as I'm still studying at this academy, those Formal Students won't dare bully the Work-Study Students."
Qin Qi patted Wang Sheng on the shoulder. Every student at the academy had seen how strong he was.
As long as he was still studying at the academy, those Formal Students wouldn't dare bully the Work-Study Students.
"Then thank you, Boss Qin Qi."
Wang Sheng and the others looked thrilled, then promptly began another round of fawning over Qin Qi.
After sending Wang Sheng and the others away, Qin Qi lay down on his bed, ready to enter the Study Space.
"No! I refuse to accept this! Let's fight again!"
Xiao Wu had watched the whole scene from the side, and she just couldn't take it anymore. She sprang up and confronted Qin Qi.
"I was careless before. Let's have another go."
Xiao Wu gritted her teeth as she looked at Qin Qi. During their earlier spar, he had taken her down in a single move.
But she felt she had simply been careless. In a proper fight,
her Soft Technique definitely wouldn't lose!
"Xiao Wu, it's late. Don't make a fuss. Go to bed early—you've got classes tomorrow."
Qin Qi rolled over, not even bothering to get up. What was the point of fighting now? Even if he won, he wouldn't get anything out of it.
Why waste his time when he could be studying instead?
"No! Get up and fight me again!"
Xiao Wu rushed over and reached out to pull Qin Qi up, but at that very moment, she heard a hissing sound.
She turned around and saw that the Qi Poison Datura Snake had somehow slithered behind her.
It was reared up, staring at her as if it would attack if she so much as moved.
"All right, the fight's over. You lost again."
Qin Qi sat up with a smile and patted Xiao Wu on the shoulder.
"You—you ambushed me again!"
Xiao Wu looked at Qin Qi and stamped her foot angrily, but she didn't deny that she'd lost.
If the Datura Snake hadn't deliberately hissed just now, she wouldn't have noticed it at all.
"That's not an ambush. It's an attack from your blind spot."
"You can say you were careless the first time you lost, but what about the second time? Was it a coincidence?"
"If there's a third time, what excuse will you come up with then?"
Qin Qi looked at Xiao Wu and continued.
"You—I can't argue with you! I'm not talking to you anymore!"
Xiao Wu turned away in a huff and went back to her bed. She burrowed straight into the covers and wrapped herself up like a ball.
Qin Qi paid Xiao Wu no more attention. He glanced at Tang San's empty bed and thought of Tang Hao.
Surely that guy wouldn't ambush me over something like this. He can't be that shameless, can he? Qin Qi thought. Actually, if it's Tang Hao, he might really be that shameless. Whatever.
Forget it. There's no point worrying when he hasn't even shown up. I can't exactly hide from him anyway. I'd be better off getting some rest.
If Tang Hao dares come, then we'll trade one for one. We can both die, for all I care!
Qin Qi could now use Dan Shi twice, and with his disguise as a little kid, if Tang Hao dared get close,
there was a chance he could take him down with him.
Once he'd made up his mind, Qin Qi lay back down and entered the Study Space, ready to start grinding!
Xiao Wu stayed in bed, sulking under the covers for a long while, but eventually she calmed down.
She thought back over the earlier fight, then suddenly realized something.
"One successful sneak attack is luck. Two successful sneak attacks are underhanded. But the third... wouldn't that prove it's genuine skill?"
Xiao Wu recalled the fights she'd heard about during this time. Qin Qi had defeated Wang Sheng in one move.
He'd done the same to Liu Long, and to the students from other schools. Even Tang San had been defeated in one move.
You could say Qin Qi had pulled it off once or twice by being sneaky and underhanded, but if he succeeded every time,
wasn't that a kind of skill too?
Meanwhile, in the Grandmaster's room.
"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!"
"Tang San is so useless! Even with my guidance, he still lost to that kid!"
"I was careless. I misjudged him!"
"Tang San is no material for greatness. He can't understand my teachings at all!"
Yu Xiaogang was furious. He felt that Tang San, who had lost to Qin Qi, was a complete failure!
It wasn't that there was anything wrong with his teachings. Tang San was simply too useless!
"I saw the Clear Sky Hammer at the time and thought this kid was that person's son, but now it seems I was wrong!"
"In that case, if I want to fulfill my ambitions, I'll have to find another student with real potential!"
After venting his anger, Yu Xiaogang gradually calmed down. He no longer wanted to waste time on Tang San.
He needed to find a more talented student. Only then could he fulfill his ambitions!
"Bang!"
Just as Yu Xiaogang was thinking about what to do next, his door suddenly swung open.
A burly figure in a black, disheveled cloak appeared in the doorway.
"You!"
The Grandmaster tried to speak, but in the next instant, an incomparably powerful Soul Power pressure crashed down on him, leaving him unable to utter a word.
"Grandmaster, it's been a long time."
Tang Hao looked at the Grandmaster in the room and spoke.
Just as Qin Qi had guessed, Tang Hao had watched the match. He really was shameless enough.
But he hadn't chosen to go after Qin Qi. In his eyes, Qin Qi was just a child.
He didn't think Qin Qi was particularly impressive, nor did he think Tang San was particularly weak. He just felt Tang San had been careless.
And where had that carelessness come from? After thinking it over, Tang Hao decided the blame lay with Yu Xiaogang.
He felt that if Tang San hadn't spent so much time and energy looking after Yu Xiaogang lately, his cultivation would definitely have improved more.
He would have performed better in the fight too. So in the end, Yu Xiaogang was the problem!