Principal Li Tianming

Qin Siyang stared at the information on Li Tianming, too stunned to speak.

Principal Li had killed dozens of people?

He had killed dozens of people, and they had still appointed him principal?

Just how ruthless was his past, and how powerful were his backers?!

Qin Siyang suddenly felt that he might have spoken a little too loudly to the principal earlier, without showing the respect due to an educator.

"Forget it. I'd better stop coming here and go pick on an easy target like Wang Defa instead. The principal isn't someone to mess with."

He closed the video, marked [Tingting]'s message as unread, then deleted the downloaded video, planning to leave the office while Li Tianming was still out.

He would have to see less of Li Tianming from now on, too.

Just as he was about to stand up, the office door swung open. Li Tianming returned, his belly protruding and a thermos in his hand.

Seeing that Qin Siyang seemed about to rise from his seat, he smiled. "What, finished looking things up? Ready to leave?"

"Yes, that's right. Thank you for letting me use your computer, Principal. I found the information I wanted."

The principal walked over to Qin Siyang and looked at the clean desktop, along with the blinking Qiuqiu avatar in the bottom-right corner.

He hovered the mouse over it, revealing one unread message from [Tingting].

The principal frowned and glanced guiltily at Qin Siyang, who smiled. "Are you going to chat with someone? I'll leave now, then. Prying into someone else's private affairs isn't right."

"All right, off you go."

"Goodbye, Principal."

Qin Siyang left his seat, but before he reached the door, he heard Li Tianming's voice. "Since you've already seen it, don't leave just yet. Sit down and let's talk."

Qin Siyang froze for a moment. "I didn't read your chat history with anyone, Principal. What are you talking about?"

Li Tianming pulled out a nearby chair and patted its back. "[Tingting] sent me four or five new messages, but the blinking avatar only shows one unread message. That must be because you read them and then marked them as unread, right?"

Qin Siyang was secretly startled. Despite all his precautions, one slip had let Li Tianming catch him.

"Sit down. Let's have a chat."

Completely unlike the helpless-looking principal from earlier, Li Tianming now wore a composed, solemn expression, radiating authority.

Had Qin Siyang not known he was the principal, he might have assumed Li Tianming held an official position on par with Qian Wendao's.

But knowing full well that Li Tianming was dangerous, why would Qin Siyang go anywhere near him?

So what if he had been caught? This was Li Tianming's scandal. It had nothing to do with Qin Siyang.

Even though Li Tianming had told him not to leave, he still pulled open the office door and prepared to go.

At that moment, he realized that he had suddenly lost control of his body!

His feet seemed glued to the floor, unable to move an inch.

He looked down. His ragged trousers and battered shoes, which he had just washed clean, were covered in dirt. Like arms, the dirt clamped tightly around his legs and feet, making him panic.

"Come back and sit down, Qin."

Qin Siyang looked back. A multicolored mask had suddenly appeared on Li Tianming's face, identical to the one that had flashed across Roylena's face in the woods that night.

Li Tianming actually dared to use a Sequence skill on him?!

[Shaman] was an exceptionally powerful support Sequence, and its skill, [Earth Bind], was a means of restraining gods that countless God-Hunting Teams desperately needed.

Using a skill on a Sequence Ability User inside the Safe Zone was an extremely dangerous act of provocation.

If the Administration Bureau found out, they would definitely demand an explanation from Li Tianming!

Qin Siyang was about to warn him when Li Tianming spoke again. "Were you going to say you'd report me to the Administration Bureau for using a skill inside the Safe Zone? Go right ahead. My position can't be downgraded any further anyway. I've already hit rock bottom."

"I'm not asking for much. Since you've seen my chat history, you must have watched my video, too, and you must also have looked up my Sequence identity."

"So I believe there's no false front left for me to maintain around you. We can have an honest conversation."

"Why should I talk to you?"

"One moment."

With two pops, two palm-sized ravens suddenly appeared out of thin air and flew to the doorway, closing the office door.

Qin Siyang narrowed his eyes, already taking a defensive stance.

"Two skills! Your Sequence Level is two?"

"No. The [Lesser Beast-Spirit Summoning] I just used is a level-three skill."

At that moment, an Ancient Wooden Pillar covered in Totem Symbols suddenly rose from the office floor. Instantly, Qin Siyang felt strength flood through him.

"This [Primordial Totem] is the level-two skill."

Qin Siyang's eyes widened. "You're... a level-three Sequence Ability User?!"

On [Godslayer Camp], Qin Siyang had seen information about how Sequence Ability Users were ranked.

The vast majority of Sequence Ability Users were at Sequence Level one.

Those who reached level two usually had extensive combat experience or experience in public service.

Those from God-Hunting Teams were qualified, at level two, to serve as captains in most teams, leading their members in hunting gods.

Those from public service could, at level two, escape the lowest ranks and earn a promotion, setting one foot into the United Government's power structure.

Level-three Sequence Ability Users, however, were not mentioned on Godslayer Camp.

There were simply too few of them.

Advancing from Sequence Level one to Sequence Level two required only five Sequence Potions.

But advancing from Sequence Level two to Sequence Level three required thirty Sequence Potions!

One Sequence Potion cost ten Demon-Hunting Points, or the equivalent in United Government Merit Points. Qin Siyang did not know how Merit Points were earned, but he did know about Demon-Hunting Points.

That meant even if he earned double points by himself, he would still have to kill five gods. If he went with a team and received a smaller share of the God-Hunting Points, he would probably have to kill fifty to exchange them for a single potion.

Thirty Sequence Potions was undoubtedly an astronomical amount.

Of course, by working hard to hunt gods year after year, one could still hope to break through to Sequence Level three, as long as one survived.

But only five years had passed since the first Sequence Ability User had awakened.

Earning enough credit for thirty Sequence Potions in just five years was far too difficult.

And he remembered that Li Tianming had been transferred to [Ju'an School] as principal during the second semester of his first year of high school, nearly two years ago.

That meant he had taken only three years to advance from Sequence Awakening to a level-three Sequence Ability User!

The principal now smiling at Qin Siyang was no chosen one with a special Sequence like his.

He could only obtain Sequence Potions from the Administration Bureau through the usual process.

His advancement could only be described as rocket-fast!

Qin Siyang was dumbfounded.

Just who on earth was this potbellied, balding Li Tianming?!