Next, several Blue Silver Emperor vines closed in around him,
With every tightening pull of the vines, the crisp snap of several ribs breaking could be heard.
All Lin Hui could hear was the crack, crack, crack of Tang San's bones.
Crack—
Tang San was squeezed so tightly by the vines that he could barely breathe. His face had turned purple, and with several broken ribs, blood and food churned together in his stomach.
"Pfft—"
Tang San could no longer hold back and spat out a mouthful of congealed blood.
Then, battered and bruised, his flesh a bloody mess, he collapsed to the ground.
This was... this was too brutal!
Seeing Tang San's pitiful state, the students he had injured earlier fell silent.
At that moment, Tang San's injuries alone were almost worse than theirs combined.
"Xiao San, Xiao San, how are you?" Yu Xiaogang hurriedly clambered onto the arena.
But Tang San was already a bloody mess, lying unconscious on the ground. If not for his faint breathing, he really would have looked like a corpse.
"You... Why were you so ruthless?" Yu Xiaogang demanded furiously, glaring at Lin Hui.
Lin Hui could only shrug helplessly.
"Teacher Yu, you saw how the match went. Before my final strike, Tang San was still standing. He hadn't fallen or surrendered. What was wrong with me continuing to attack?"
"That clearly follows the rules of our match!"
"Besides, Tang San treated his previous opponents the same way!"
Hearing this, Yu Xiaogang could only grit his teeth.
"You..."
The teachers, including Teacher Li Chun, had all seen how Tang San had fought before. Five students had been injured at his hands!
Now Tang San had been treated the same way. It was only the natural consequence of his actions!
So none of the teachers or students present thought Lin Hui had done anything wrong by injuring Tang San so badly.
"Getting hurt in a match is unavoidable. Besides, Lin Hui didn't mean to hurt him," Li Chun said.
Even so, a school doctor soon hurried over to treat Tang San. The school doctor had treated the other badly injured students earlier, too.
After briefly examining Tang San's injuries, the school doctor soon spoke in a reassuring tone.
"Student Tang San's injuries only look serious on the outside. Once I treat him with my Soul Skill, he should recover in about ten days to half a month. His life is in no danger, so please rest easy, Grandmaster."
But the pain Tang San had suffered when he was injured had been very real!
Of course, the school doctor couldn't say that right now. It would only make everyone worry more.
The school doctor was a healing-type Soul Elder. He quickly used his Martial Soul to treat Tang San's injuries.
Soon after, two boys brought over a stretcher, laid Tang San on it, and carried him away.
Then others poured onto the arena to clean it, mainly wiping away Tang San's blood.
Only after everything was taken care of did the teachers and students below erupt in cries of astonishment.
"I can't believe it! Lin Hui actually beat Tang San!"
"Yeah, I never expected Lin Hui to be this strong!"
"What did Tang San's First Soul Skill just do? It felt like it didn't do anything before it was useless!"
"Wasn't that the Soul Skill granted by the Soul Ring Grandmaster personally chose for Tang San?"
"I thought it would be powerful, but the moment he used it, its flaws were obvious! So much for the Grandmaster!"
"Looking at it this way, Grandmaster was probably wrong about the Martial Soul theory he discussed with Lin Hui in class, too!"
While the students chattered among themselves, a few teachers started gossiping as well.
The sixty-year-old teacher turned to Li Chun and asked,
"Teacher Li, I wanted to ask—did Student Lin Hui choose his First Soul Ring himself?"
Li Chun looked surprised for a moment.
"Yes. He's a very decisive child, and he got that First Soul Ring exactly according to his own ideas. Why do you ask?"
The sixty-year-old teacher sighed.
"They both have a First Soul Skill, but the difference between Tang San's and Lin Hui's is enormous!"
The sixty-year-old teacher leaned close to Li Chun and lowered his voice.
"And according to the Grandmaster, he was the one who helped choose Tang San's Soul Skill..."
But Yu Xiaogang, standing nearby, still heard him. His face had turned ashen!
How could this happen? He had planned to use Tang San's victory to wash away his earlier humiliation, but now things had ended up like this!
Yu Xiaogang was about ready to cry.
Only now did Li Chun fully take it in, recalling the many moments from their battle.
"Exactly. They both have Blue Silver Grass, so how could the gap between them be this huge? It's like the difference between heaven and earth!"
Yu Xiaogang felt another cruel stab to the heart!
The other teachers present were now looking at Yu Xiaogang strangely.
Yu Xiaogang could tell what their eyes seemed to say.
So there are no useless Martial Souls, only useless Soul Masters—and a useless teacher can only teach useless students, right?
He was always bragging in the office, but then this was what happened when his student stepped into the arena?
Countless voices churned in Yu Xiaogang's mind, clamoring and tearing him down.
Listening to those voices, Yu Xiaogang was on the verge of breaking down!
At the same time, he was furious!
A wave of pent-up anger surged from Yu Xiaogang's chest, and at last he couldn't suppress it anymore.
"Pfft—!"
A mouthful of blood sprayed from Yu Xiaogang's lips.
That was right—Yu Xiaogang had been so furious that he vomited blood!
"Grandmaster, are you all right?" Li Chun asked.
Yu Xiaogang wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth. "I... I'm fine... I probably haven't been getting enough rest. I'll go rest for a while..."
Yu Xiaogang left the sports field. Beside the school wall, he walked over to a tree, leaned against it, and pressed his face to its bark.
"Ugh..." Yu Xiaogang nearly burst into tears as he whimpered.
In a fit of rage, he clenched his fist and slammed it against the tree!
The answer came in an even louder yell.
"Good grief, that hurts!"
Over by the arena, amid everyone's astonished looks, Lin Hui also stepped down.
The Blue Silver Emperor he had summoned had four Soul Skills in total. Besides [Bind] and [Parasite], it also had [Thousand Blue Locking Domain] and [Blue Silver Overlord Spear].
"I can't believe Tang San couldn't take any more after I'd only used two Soul Skills!" Lin Hui was rather surprised. "The strength of the Blue Silver Emperor really exceeded my expectations."
After Lin Hui stepped down, Teacher Li Chun asked him curiously. After all, as his homeroom teacher, Li Chun cared a great deal about how he was doing.
"Xiao Hui, wasn't your Martial Soul an Iron Ball? How can you summon Blue Silver Grass, too?"
Several other teachers also turned to look at Lin Hui.
They were eager to know the answer to that question, too.