Lesson

"Courting death!"

The icy intent exploded like thunder!

Outside, Tang Wulin's originally gentle, clear eyes turned into millennia-old ice in an instant!

The aura around him underwent a sudden, drastic change!

He was no longer the quiet, shy freshman. He was like a primordial beast awakened from slumber, baring its fangs!

An invisible, suffocatingly cold pressure flooded the entire cramped dormitory like tangible ice water!

The temperature seemed to drop by more than ten degrees!

Yun Xiao, who had been sorting through his belongings with his head lowered, suddenly shuddered. He instinctively looked up, and when he met Bai Lin's utterly emotionless eyes—filled with nothing but endless coldness and indifference—every hair on his body stood on end. It was as though he had been targeted by the most terrifying venomous snake. His face went deathly pale, and the item in his hand fell to the floor with a clatter.

Zhou Changxi also felt that chilling, heart-pounding coldness, as if an icy hand had clutched his heart!

But relying on his large stature and strength-type martial soul, he forcibly suppressed his instinctive unease. Instead, an offended anger appeared on his face.

He abruptly rose to his feet, his burly body blocking nearly half the passageway. Trying to overpower the other with his presence, he shouted fiercely despite his inward weakness:

"What are you looking at?"

"Didn't you hear me tell you to clean?"

"You looking for a beating?"

As he shouted, he suddenly released his martial soul to bolster his courage!

"Roar!"

A low roar rang out, and a white soul ring rose from beneath his feet!

His body instantly swelled, the muscles in his arms bulging with power!

The Mighty Divine Ape martial soul!

Yet in Hei Lin's eyes, the power and soul ring that would have been enough to intimidate ordinary freshmen were as laughable as ants baring their fangs at a dragon.

Hei Lin did not even use his martial soul.

He merely raised his right hand with casual ease.

There was no glow of soul power, no earth-shattering display.

That hand still bore a child's softness, yet it moved as swiftly as lightning tearing through space!

His five fingers spread, seemingly ignoring the distance, and clamped down with perfect precision—like iron pincers—on Zhou Changxi's unbelievably thick neck after his martial soul transformation!

Zhou Changxi's furious roar came to an abrupt stop!

His eyes widened in terror as he felt an irresistible, overwhelming force instantly seize his throat!

The strength he had been so proud of was as fragile as paper beneath that slender hand!

Even his martial soul transformation's defenses were completely useless!

The next moment!

Hei Lin simply flicked his arm backward, seemingly at random!

"Boom—!"

Zhou Changxi's massive body, weighing over a hundred jin, was swung through the air like a tattered sack without the slightest ability to resist!

He slammed viciously into the dormitory's tightly shut wooden door!

"Crack!"

"Bang!"

The sturdy wooden door burst apart as though it had been struck by a battering ram, sending splinters flying everywhere!

Zhou Changxi's body did not slow, carrying tremendous momentum as it smashed straight through the wooden railing in the corridor. Screaming miserably, he fell from the second floor and crashed heavily onto the grass below with a dull boom!

Everything had happened far too quickly!

From the moment Hei Lin raised his hand to the moment Zhou Changxi flew out the window, only an instant had passed!

Inside the dormitory, all that remained were splinters and dust drifting through the air, the shattered doorframe, and...

A deathly silence!

Yun Xiao had long since collapsed limply onto the floor, his teeth chattering. His eyes were filled with utter terror as he looked at Hei Lin, as if he were seeing a demonic god crawling out of hell!

Just then, a handsome, slender youth in an Eastsea Academy uniform appeared at the ruined dormitory entrance, carrying a small, exquisite backpack. His face bore the proud, aloof air of someone who kept strangers at a distance.

He looked at Hei Lin, who stood in the doorway with his back to him, then glanced at the mess outside and the faint groans drifting up from below. His brows furrowed impatiently, and he spoke in an icy, arrogant voice with the tone of a command:

"Move."

"Don't block the way."

Those five words were like a ladle of hot oil poured over dying embers!

Hei Lin slowly turned around, like a rusted machine.

When his cold, indifferent eyes—like an abyss that devoured all light—met Xie Xie's proud, impatient gaze—

Boom!

A far more terrifying, purer pressure of an apex predator erupted like a dormant volcano finally bursting forth!

It was as though an invisible domain had instantly unfolded!

Violent and cold, carrying an absolute will that could crush souls, it enveloped the entire Dormitory 205 without reservation!

The air seemed to freeze into steel!

"Argh!"

Yun Xiao, who had only just managed to brace himself against the table and try to stand, was struck by that pressure as though an invisible mountain had crashed down upon his head!

His legs gave out, and he collapsed heavily to the floor once more. His body curled into a ball as he trembled violently, finding it difficult even to breathe!

As for Xie Xie at the doorway, who had been so arrogant just moments earlier, the disdain on his face instantly froze and shattered!

In its place came extreme shock and incomprehensible terror!

The light vanished from his beautiful eyes in an instant, leaving behind only boundless fear!

He felt as though he had been thrown into the gaping maw of a prehistoric beast!

That icy gaze was like a tangible blade, scraping across his skin inch by inch and freezing his blood!

An irresistible urge to submit, born from his instinct to survive, along with a premonition of death, surged over him like ice water poured over his head and drowned him in an instant!

"Thud!"

Xie Xie's legs went weak beyond his control. Just like Yun Xiao, he collapsed in a miserable heap onto the cold floor at the doorway, covered in wood splinters!

His proud head was pinned down by that invisible force, leaving him without even the strength to raise it!

He could only stare in utter terror at that demon-god-like figure from the corner of his eye.

Hei Lin stood above them, his cold gaze sweeping across the two trembling figures on the floor.

His voice was not loud, yet it was like the frigid wind of the netherworld sweeping across ice. Every word carried a soul-freezing chill and unquestionable absolute authority:

"From now on..."

"There can only be one voice in this dormitory."

"Do you understand?"

That icy declaration was like the tolling of a funeral bell beside their ears!

Yun Xiao and Xie Xie felt as though their hearts had been clenched tight, and the overwhelming fear nearly suffocated them!

They nodded frantically, like pounding garlic, muffled sounds of agreement escaping their throats. They feared that even the slightest delay would send them down Zhou Changxi's path!

Hei Lin's gaze lingered on them for a moment. The indifference in his eyes made it seem as though he were looking at two corpses about to be discarded.

He slowly added, his voice carrying a calmness that chilled them to the bone:

"If you..."

"Continue courting death..."

"I wouldn't mind..."

"Sending you on your way."

The word "death" was like a tangible ice spike, stabbing viciously into Yun Xiao and Xie Xie's souls!

They felt an icy aura of death instantly envelop their bodies, as though even their blood had frozen solid!

The immense fear made them shake like sieves. Other than nodding desperately, they did not dare make a single sound!