Blowing Up the Latrine

"Kurama, can you stand this? Can you let this insult slide?"

No matter how good Wang Xiao's temper was, he could no longer endure it.

He was only a hundred meters away from completing two hundred laps, yet someone had slammed him to the ground with Soul Pressure, leaving him unable even to straighten his back.

Being so close to the finish line yet unable to reach it felt even worse than having a beautiful wife right in front of him and being unable to touch her.

Kurama's voice rang out within his sea of consciousness.

"Save it, brat. It's not that I don't want to help you. If you forcibly undergo complete Tailed Beast transformation..."

"You'll disappear, brat."

Wang Xiao froze. Kurama had indeed said that he could currently only withstand one tail, but he had thought opening a few more tails would at most leave him severely injured. He had never expected the consequence to be death.

"Brat, if you die, this old man will have a terrible headache. So I can't help you this time." Kurama shook his head.

The two of them were bound together. Neither could survive alone.

If Wang Xiao died, Kurama would die as well. Although Tailed Beasts did not truly vanish by nature, it would still take three years for his chakra to recover.

That was why Kurama could not currently display his full strength. He was still recovering his chakra.

"Is there really no other way?" Wang Xiao gritted his teeth. Being humiliated without being able to fight back filled him with unbearable helplessness.

Wang Dong'er was even angrier than he was. Having been pampered since childhood, when had she ever suffered such humiliation?

"Old Demon Woman Zhou, just you wait until I return to the Clear Sky Sect. I'll have First Dad and Second Dad come down the mountain and beat you to death!"

She swore in her heart, carving this grudge into her memory.

If it had merely been some minor squabbling, she could have endured it. But this old demon woman had gone too far. She had actually resorted to such underhanded tactics just to win.

It was not just her. The freshmen also felt that Zhou Yi's methods were despicable, but they only dared to be angry in silence.

With Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's help, Huo Yuhao struggled to finish a hundred laps and reach the finish line. There, he saw Wang Xiao and Wang Dong'er pinned in place, blood trickling from the corners of their mouths as they looked somewhat bedraggled.

He sympathized with what they had suffered, but alarm bells rang in his mind. Sure enough, he could not oppose a teacher head-on. Some things would pass if he simply endured them.

As time slowly ticked away, a triumphant smile appeared on Zhou Yi's lips. Only five more minutes remained.

She looked down on the two of them even more. They could not even cover a mere hundred meters, unable to take a single step forward. They lacked the spirit to struggle.

What utter trash. Yet they still dared to challenge her authority.

During the final minute of the countdown, a white figure suddenly streaked across the sky.

The person paused for a moment, seemingly noticing the situation in the plaza below, then descended.

"What happened here?" Yan Shaozhe, dressed in a white uniform with his hands behind his back, landed steadily in the middle of the crowd.

Zhou Yi's expression changed slightly. Her eyes darted away, and she did not dare meet his gaze.

"Dean Yan, Teacher Zhou is making things difficult for Old Wang and Wang Dong'er."

Someone shouted from within the crowd.

Then everyone began talking over one another, recounting the entire incident.

The freshmen had already been dissatisfied with Zhou Yi. Now that the dean was backing them up, they naturally no longer feared Old Demon Woman Zhou.

"Outrageous!"

Yan Shaozhe flew into a rage. "Teacher Zhou, you are a dignified Soul Emperor of high standing. How can you make things difficult for two children? Put away your Eight-Sided Exquisite at once!"

Zhou Yi knew she had lost this time. No matter how unwilling she was, she could only withdraw her Martial Soul.

Wang Xiao's body suddenly relaxed. The Soul Pressure bearing down on him was finally gone.

He grabbed Wang Dong'er and unleashed the Body Flicker Technique repeatedly, rushing toward the finish line.

With only half a minute left on the countdown, they completed their two hundred laps without incident.

"Teacher Zhou, we have completed the two hundred laps. You lost. I hope you will honor your promise." Wang Xiao's face was expressionless.

Wang Dong'er chimed in from the side, "Old demon woman, don't tell me you're planning to go back on your word again?"

Zhou Yi's expression was ugly. With Yan Shaozhe here, even if she wanted to, she could not act on impulse.

She pushed up her glasses and forcibly regained her composed posture. "As a Shrek teacher, I, Zhou Yi, will not go back on my word with two children. I agree to let Wang Xiao leave Class One. I will personally handle the matter afterward."

Wang Xiao had a fire bottled up inside him. She had not mentioned a single word about injuring them. That was the advantage of status.

"And me. I want to leave Class One too." Wang Dong'er raised her hand. The only person she knew at the academy was that bastard Wang, so naturally she did not want to be separated from him.

Then she looked toward Huo Yuhao, frantically signaling with her eyes that it would be best if all three of them changed classes together.

"I..." Huo Yuhao hesitated.

He had already learned from his classmates that Zhou Yi had been transferred down from the higher grades. The students she taught had the highest advancement rate. A teacher like that surely had something special.

"I... I want to stay in Class One." Huo Yuhao avoided Wang Dong'er's gaze. He did not have her courage. He only wanted to improve his strength and avenge his mother.

"You! What are you talking about?" Wang Dong'er exploded in anger, feeling betrayed.

Zhou Yi gave Huo Yuhao a satisfied glance. Among this group of students, there were still those who had been won over by her charm.

She looked at Wang Dong'er and sneered. "I only promised to allow Wang Xiao to leave Class One. That does not include you. There is only one way to leave Class One: elimination and expulsion!"

"Then expel me! At worst, I just won't study here!" Wang Dong'er shouted angrily, refusing to yield.

"Enough."

Wang Xiao held her back and whispered into her ear, "We just won't be in the same class. It's not like we won't live together anymore. What's there to fuss over?"

After hearing that, Wang Dong'er calmed down considerably. If she were expelled, that would be far too embarrassing.

Zhou Yi could not be bothered with her. Her gaze swept over the crowd. "Tang Dao, Yun Xiaopiao, Cheng Ya—those of you who failed to complete one hundred laps can pack your things and get out. From now on, you are no longer Shrek students!"

After doing all that, she swayed her waist as she headed for the Academic Affairs Office to fulfill her promise.

The morning classes had ended, and everyone soon dispersed.

Noon

Yan Shaozhe specifically sought out Wang Xiao to discuss an important matter. They arrived at an open-air café and sat down.

"You brat really don't know how to behave."

He took out a stack of documents and placed them on the table. "The class Zhou Yi leads has the highest advancement rate in Shrek. Other people would fight tooth and nail to get in, but you look down on it completely."

"Advancement rate? It's probably only so high because she expels all the students." Wang Xiao was perfectly clear-headed.

"She injured students. Isn't the academy going to punish her?"

Yan Shaozhe said helplessly, "To the academy, this is only a minor matter. Zhou Yi only admitted that she had been overly harsh with you two during the assessment, which resulted in the students being injured."

The unspoken meaning was that their injuries were too minor to meet the standard for punishment.

Wang Xiao finally understood the phrase: the damage was low, but the humiliation was immense.

"Besides, her husband is the vice dean of the Soul Tool Department, a Rank 8 Soul Engineer. The academy has to show him some respect." Yan Shaozhe waved his hand, indicating that even he could do nothing about it.

Over the past few days, Wang Xiao had learned quite a bit and naturally understood the value of a Rank 8 Soul Engineer. In any faction, such a person would be treated as an honored guest.

He was not someone who accepted losses quietly. At worst, he would endure it for now and strike hard once the time was right.

"Doesn't she really want the Outstanding Teacher title? Then I won't let her have her way."

Yan Shaozhe was stunned. "Brat, you aren't planning to cause trouble during the Freshman Assessment, are you?"

"Don't worry about it. You're a dean with practically no sense of presence anyway." Wang Xiao was speechless.

"Oh, you little brat! You're getting more and more disrespectful!"

Yan Shaozhe blew his beard and glared. Wang Xiao was the only one who dared speak to him like that. Anyone else would have been beaten to death long ago.

"Old Yan, I have a request." Wang Xiao suddenly spoke.

Seeing a seriousness he had never shown before, Yan Shaozhe could not help frowning. "What is it? Let's hear it."

"I want to ask you to escort Tang Ya on a long journey." Wang Xiao did not feel at ease letting Tang Ya travel alone, so he planned to use up one of his chances to call for help.

"No problem. It will consume one chance."

After pondering for a moment, Yan Shaozhe said, "As the dean, I naturally cannot leave the academy easily. How about this? I'll ask Teacher Cai to make the trip."

Zhang Lexuan's figure appeared in Wang Xiao's mind. She was a mature beauty and also a Titled Douluo.

"Alright, I have matters to attend to, so I'll leave first. Tomorrow morning, I'll have Teacher Zhang come find you. Go back and prepare."

Yan Shaozhe rose and left. Naturally, he would not pry too deeply into the affairs of the younger generation.

Afternoon

Only after reading the documents did Wang Xiao learn that he had been assigned to Class Nine, the class taught by the female teacher Mu Jin.

Zhou Yi and Mu Jin were romantic rivals with longstanding grievances. It was obvious that she had deliberately assigned him to Class Nine.

Afternoon

After class, Huo Yuhao quickly found Wang Xiao to discuss setting up a grilled fish stall together.

He did not have a single coin to his name and felt too embarrassed to keep freeloading meals from Tang Ya, so he planned to support himself.

"Sure. You work on your grilled fish, and I'm planning to sell something too."

Wang Xiao had already decided what snacks to sell and planned to bring Wang Dong'er into the business.