I Can't Be Bothered to Reason with You-You're Not Worth Hearing!

Judging from the aura that had leaked out earlier, Jiang Qingzhu's realm should have surpassed his by quite a bit.

She was probably at Second-Tier Level Four.

On top of that, she had that supposedly S-Grade Breathing Technique, A-Grade Martial Arts Talent, and numerous martial skills... that was an outrageously stacked build among the Second-Tier.

With such a setup, Jiang Qingzhu had earned quite a reputation at Linhai First High School, and even throughout Linhai City.

She was hailed as the most talented young martial artist Linhai First High School had seen in nearly twenty years.

Even among all the Martial Arts High Schools in Ying Province, the girl's strength placed her in the first echelon.

"Do you really intend to attack me? I suggest you weigh things again."

Before the wooden table, Jiang Qingzhu's delicate brows furrowed slightly. A faint icy-blue gleam quietly surfaced in her clear eyes.

Watching Ye Li's eyes turn into Golden Eyes, she suppressed the faint unease rising within her heart and calmly advised him,

"The gap between the First-Tier and Second-Tier is greater than you imagine.

"If a martial artist is defeated head-on while brimming with youthful vigor, the sense of frustration born in their heart may even affect their future breakthroughs."

As she spoke, a trace of chill appeared on the girl's cool face, and her aura began to spill outward.

"For the sake of your own state of mind, leave this room now. I can pretend you never said any of that."

With that, she no longer restrained her aura. The full pressure of a mid-Second-Tier martial artist erupted within the room without reservation.

Whoosh!

The documents on the wooden table were swept into the air by the fierce gust, while the clock on the wall swayed without stop!

"..."

The golden light in Ye Li's eyes grew increasingly blazing, while his own steadily rising aura gave his answer from the side.

"You're Second-Tier as well..."

Feeling the surging aura from him, one far surpassing the First-Tier, a flicker of surprise surfaced in Jiang Qingzhu's eyes.

According to the information she had received, unless the guidance teacher had deliberately lied two days ago, Ye Li should have only been at the First-Tier Peak in Martial Arts Level.

At most, he should have been one of those people with few rivals at the same tier—still no threat to a Second-Tier martial artist.

But now, it seemed...

"Even First-Tier Peak wasn't your true strength."

Jiang Qingzhu shook her head lightly, but her expression grew colder still. "Since you have such strength, why do you still bully those far weaker than you?"

"Doesn't it shame you to use strength to bully the weak?"

There was clearly genuine anger in her voice now, carrying a hint of accusation.

In Jiang Qingzhu's eyes, Ye Li was using Second-Tier strength to oppress team members who were far weaker than him.

This kind of bullying behavior was precisely what she hated most.

If she had initially wanted to warn him because of the many rumors surrounding him at school,

then now, Jiang Qingzhu herself had developed the urge to "teach Ye Li a lesson"!

She said, "There are always people beyond people, and heavens beyond heavens. One day, behavior like yours will also be—"

"What are you babbling on about?"

Facing Jiang Qingzhu's string of remarks, Ye Li cut her off directly. "You had me come here just so I could sit and listen to you preach grand principles?"

"Then I'm sorry."

He rose to his feet, his gaze icy as he looked at Jiang Qingzhu.

"I can't be bothered to reason with you. You're not worth hearing!"

[Verbally humiliated Linhai First High School's genius girl Jiang Qingzhu. Malice Points +200!]

Hm?

The Malice Points reward for humiliating Jiang Qingzhu was actually this high?

"..."

Hearing that, Jiang Qingzhu's hands slowly clenched into fists, obvious fury welling up in her eyes. "I understand now. It seems you truly need to be taught a lesson."

"Since you're determined to suffer a setback at my hands, let's change locations. Five minutes from now, I'll be waiting at the Training Ground—"

Crash!

Before she could finish, the wooden table before her was flipped up by the boy and hurled straight at her!

"Why make a special trip to the Training Ground? If you want to teach me a lesson, you can do it right here!" Ye Li's expression remained calm.

Bang!

At the critical moment, Jiang Qingzhu's expression did not change as she thrust out a palm. The heavy wooden table instantly exploded in midair.

Wood chips filled the air, while shattered pieces of wood continuously rained down on the floor.

Just then,

a figure stepped out of the flying debris before the dust had even dispersed, charging straight toward her!

Jiang Qingzhu looked up and met a pair of cold golden eyes. The fear and tension she had seen in past opponents' eyes could not be found in those vast golden pupils at all.

Yet she was not flustered. In her view, taking down Ye Li would take only a few minutes!

Jiang Qingzhu shifted her feet and retreated. At the same time, icy-blue light gradually brightened in her clear eyes, and her voice was as cold as a winter spring.

"To break through to the Second-Tier at your age, your talent truly is not bad."

"But unfortunately, you cannot defeat me."

As she spoke, Jiang Qingzhu's eyes completely transformed into a crystalline icy blue, strange and wondrous.

"Huff—"

She exhaled a breath of white mist. The instant it spread, the temperature of the entire room plummeted. The air within several meters rang continuously with teeth-grating sounds of freezing.

A-Grade Martial Arts Talent, Ice Maiden Proxy!

In an instant, a thin layer of ice began forming on the walls, and a freezing aura spread swiftly through the room.

The entire office seemed to have fallen into a world of ice and snow. The temperature plunged sharply, dropping below freezing in the blink of an eye!

The bitter cold did not stop there. Instead, it continued dropping at a terrifying speed.

Within the white mist filling the room, Ye Li's charging figure suddenly slowed. His movements became extraordinarily sluggish, as though every joint in his body had frozen solid.

He struggled forward, each step incomparably heavy.

At this moment, Ye Li seemed to be trapped within an enormous ice cellar, unable to break free from this bizarre restraint.

"It's over."

Light flickered in Jiang Qingzhu's eyes as she stepped forward. In the blink of an eye, she arrived before Ye Li and struck out with her palm without hesitation.

Bang!

The instant her pale hand landed on Ye Li's body, his figure abruptly became somewhat translucent, and great clouds of white vapor surged from him.

With a muffled sound, most of the terrifying force in her palm strike was instantly neutralized!

It was clearly a palm capable of knocking a Second-Tier Martial Artist out of combat, yet he received it without changing expression.

"Over my ass!"

Borrowing the residual force of her strike, Ye Li sneered. His body spun at high speed, then he whipped out a clean, decisive kick that smashed brutally into Jiang Qingzhu's waist and abdomen!

Bang!!

A strange sensation had just risen in Jiang Qingzhu's heart, as though the full-force punch she had thrown had struck a soft, fluffy mass of cotton, leaving her with nowhere to exert her strength.

But before she could figure out where that strange feeling came from, an incomparably powerful force surged from her waist and abdomen like mountains toppling and seas overturning!

In an instant, she felt as though she had been struck by a speeding truck. Swept up by the tremendous force, her entire body flew heavily backward.

Boom!

A conspicuous crater was smashed into the office wall, with spiderweb-like cracks spreading outward around it.

Jiang Qingzhu struggled to push herself up from the floor, gritting her teeth as she looked toward the figure opposite her.

When she saw the continuously rising white vapor around Ye Li and his translucent body, her pupils contracted slightly. She said in disbelief,

"The Heavenly Dipper Void-Treading Technique?"