He only acted somewhat like a "student" in front of Head Teacher 040. Anyone who could get in here as a head teacher naturally met the standards in other respects. Though he could be indecisive at times, he could still read the situation.
At that moment, Zhao Lingxiao was absorbing contamination at a rate visible to the naked eye-this was precisely the consequence of ignoring Lin Yi's advice.
Someone like her was not someone he could easily save.
And as a head teacher, he knew full well what the consequences of doing this were.
If she could withstand this amount of contamination, she would certainly have a place on a supernatural pathway. If not, she would certainly have a place on a nonhuman supernatural pathway instead.
As for whether she would remain human afterward, or whether she even could, that was no longer something she could decide now.
By then, Zhao Lingxiao had become deeply engrossed in gazing into the Abyss. Her eyes were unfocused, with flickers of fire swaying in their depths like drifting sparks. At times, a trace of longing flashed through them; at others, they became devout and reverent...
And in her eyes, the endless Abyss and darkness were being embellished with strange colors, as though ink were being applied to them. What she saw was no longer a faint human silhouette, but a small room, a furnace, a thin figure holding a hammer, and a piece of iron glowing like a red-hot branding iron, accompanied by the ringing of blow after blow.
"Clang! Clang! Clang..."
At that moment, Lin Yi had no idea that the Layer had already warped and mutated, nor was he aware of the fleeting incident outside.
He was still diligently hacking at the vertebrae.
As he continued hacking, once he