Conflict

The speaker was also a youth with long hair and upturned triangular eyes, casting a gloomy look at Li Qingxun.

Listening to those words, Zhang Yangzi merely glanced at Li Qingxun with a trace of helplessness on his face.

"Who knows? Maybe he just has good luck, or perhaps his potential is relatively high."

"I don't know how he managed to join Class Zero; maybe he is just like that Tang Wulin in my class, possessing divine strength from birth."

Zhang Yangzi gave a cold snort as he spoke. He and Li Qingxun had no conflict to begin with, and the two were even complete strangers.

Yet Li Qingxun's sudden joining inherently carried a sense of friction and disjointedness for this group of students.

Coupled with the fact that cliques had already mostly formed, these youths naturally harbored a sort of malice toward Li Qingxun.

Moreover, because they were youths, this malice was almost completely unmasked.

Hearing this, that gloomy youth stepped forward.

His entire figure blocked Li Qingxun's path, his gaze sweeping up and down over the handsome youth.

"Everyone who manages to join Class Zero is a genius—whether it's Tang Wulin or Gu Yue."

"Even Xie Xie included, I find myself somewhat convinced, since their strength is very high."

"As for a newcomer like you, however, I'm genuinely curious." The youth sized him up as he spoke.

Meeting the scrutiny in the youth's eyes, Li Qingxun abruptly halted the steps he had been about to take forward.

His previously calm gaze turned icy as he looked at the youth. "What kind of thing are you? Whether I join Class Zero or not, or whether I'm worthy of being in Class Zero, what business is it of yours?"

"Are you qualified to care whether I'm in Class Zero? You couldn't get in yourself, so you're deliberately coming over to disgust people, aren't you?"

Li Qingxun's voice was very cold, catching them off guard with his sudden outburst.

Neither Zhang Yangzi, Wang Jinxi, nor this gloomy youth—

along with the other Class Two students who had gathered around—expected his expression to change so fast.

One second he was calm, and the next he was turning hostile and firing back directly.

Yet upon hearing Li Qingxun's words, most of them wore somewhat peculiar expressions.

Quite a few Class Two students secretly glanced at the gloomy youth.

A trace of awkwardness also lingered on the faces of Wang Jinxi and Zhang Yangzi; only the gloomy youth had his fists clenched tight.

His gaze stared fixedly at Li Qingxun as two soul rings emerged around his body.

An emerald-green little snake condensed in his hand while his eyes stared unblinkingly at Li Qingxun.

Meeting Li Qingxun's black pupils, his voice also began to turn exceptionally cold. "Say that again if you have the guts! I could have joined Class Zero in the first place!"

"It's just that my parents arranged a different path for my development, which is why I didn't enter Class Zero. What do you know?!"

The gloomy youth let out a cold snort as he spoke. Hearing his words,

Li Qingxun sized him up with his gaze, roughly guessing that his identity was Wei Xiaofeng.

Because the opponent did not want to be bound by the academy or join the advanced class, he had not entered Class Zero.

Judging by his behavior, however, he must have found out that Class Zero could enter the Spirit Ascension Platform and regretted it.

Yet it was obvious his talent was not enough for the school to grant him a second chance.

Thus, he had lost his qualification to join Class Zero and could only remain to study in Class Two.

Thinking of this, a trace of mockery flashed in Li Qingxun's eyes. Having lost the desire to speak with the other party, he turned and prepared to walk around him.

Feeling Li Qingxun's dismissive attitude, Wei Xiaofeng could no longer hold back.

The pent-up frustration of this past period, along with the grievance of being ignored by the academy leadership, had long since filled him with immense dissatisfaction.

He couldn't get into Class Zero, yet this handsome punk had joined it instead—how could that possibly satisfy him?

His hand abruptly grabbed toward Li Qingxun. Seeing the hand lunging at him, the corner of the youth's mouth curved slightly.

An ultimate chilling force condensed within the palm of Li Qingxun's hand.

At the same time, his palm collided directly with Wei Xiaofeng's.

As their palms struck each other, the ultimate chill froze that emerald-green little snake in an instant.

Before Wei Xiaofeng could react at all, Li Qingxun threw a fierce punch straight through his abdomen.

Terrifying power, coupled with the ultimate chill brought by the Heavenly Snow Woman, sent Wei Xiaofeng stumbling back two steps from that single punch.

He collapsed straight to the ground, his entire body arching slightly as his hands clutched desperately at his belly.

He opened his mouth and spewed a mouthful of fresh blood.

This terrifying scene happened too fast. The two-ringed Wei Xiaofeng went up against the youth before him,

and even with the advantage of a sneak attack, he was knocked flat on the ground by the youth in a single clash.

Moreover, he sustained not-inconsiderable injuries.

This sight shocked quite a few of the surrounding students.

Seeing Wei Xiaofeng fall, Zhang Yangzi and Wang Jinxi experienced a change in expression as well.

Zhang Yangzi already harbored some dissatisfaction toward Li Qingxun—or rather, intense dissatisfaction—and his temperament could hardly be called good.

Seeing Wei Xiaofeng injured at this moment, he charged straight forward with his massive wings unfurled behind him.

Countless black feathered arrows launched without pause from the dark wings, piercing directly toward Li Qingxun.

Seeing his brother make a move, Wang Jinxi paused for a single second.

His palm transformed into a dragon claw in an instant, and then his whole body surged straight ahead.

Watching the two charge at him in an instant, Li Qingxun merely swept a detached glance their way.

A flicker of disdain flashed through the youth's black pupils, and then he raised his hand.

A massive ice shield condensed within his palm. Countless feathered arrows slammed into the ice shield right after, yet failed to leave behind even a trace of a scratch.

Li Qingxun lifted his palm toward the sky. His two yellow soul rings dropped down as his first soul ring suddenly lit up.

Behind him, the exquisitely beautiful figure of the Heavenly Snow Woman appeared.

The colossal martial soul phantom stood behind Li Qingxun. As Li Qingxun raised his hand, the Heavenly Snow Woman's martial soul raised her palm as well.

Formidable ice and snow power augmented the Heavenly Snow Woman, pushing her innate Ultimate Ice attribute to an even higher level.

As she pushed out with a palm, beneath a terrifying palm shadow, a palm print condensed from frigid ice emerged and slammed fiercely toward Wang Jinxi and Zhang Yangzi.

This palm strike came fast and fierce; if it truly landed, the two of them would definitely be unable to block it.

Yet just as Zhang Yangzi gritted his teeth and prepared to endure the blow head-on, a figure stepped forward abruptly.

His arm lifted, and his palm had already transformed into a golden dragon claw.

As the Golden Dragon Claw struck fiercely against the ice palm print, his entire body was blasted flying four or five meters away.

The youth crashed heavily onto the ground, but the ice palm shattered along with it.

Watching his palm print shatter, Li Qingxun tilted his head slightly and looked at Tang Wulin, who was clutching his left arm. Tang Wulin's Golden Dragon Claw was already covered in frost.

His hand was trembling slightly at that moment, spasming from intense pain.

Seeing this, Li Qingxun frowned.

He had not expected these people to come and disturb him one after another, but before he could speak, Wang Jinxi had already rushed up.

The two did not launch an immediate attack on Li Qingxun again, having now realized his difference.

Therefore, after exchanging a glance, the two embraced each other without the slightest hesitation.