Seeing Chu Chengzhou nod, Xiao Chentian felt a wave of disgust.
In terms of official status in the Heaven Dou Empire, Dean Su Nan was indeed inferior to his uncle, the City Lord.
After all, his uncle the City Lord was a hereditary Baron of the Heaven Dou Empire, and the entire Nuoding City was the fiefdom of the Xiao family, enjoying the rights of taxation and military power, whereas Dean Su Nan was only an honorary Baron, unable to pass on his title.
Originally, with Dean Su Nan’s strength, he could have enjoyed the title of Viscount by joining the Heaven Dou Empire, but his situation was different; he only served as the Dean of Nuoding Academy.
When war broke out, he did not need to unconditionally obey the orders of the Heaven Dou Empire to participate in the war, which was why he only held the title of Baron.
However, in terms of strength, Dean Su Nan, who was at the Rank of Spirit Ancestor with four rings, was above his uncle the City Lord, who was at the Rank of Spirit Elder with three rings.
Moreover, Su Nan had served as the Dean of Nuoding Academy for over twenty years.
Although Nuoding City was just a small place, many Spirit Masters had walked out of it over the years.
Even if it wasn’t a master-disciple relationship, whenever these Spirit Masters enrolled in the academy and needed to hunt Spirit Beasts to obtain their first spirit ring during graduation season, the Dean had always brought teachers to help.
The favors accumulated over the years were not simple.
If Chu Chengzhou was truly the grandson of the Dean, his nephew, the City Lord, really couldn’t afford to provoke him.
“Wrong, that’s wrong.
The Dean and Teacher Li don’t have children, so how could they have a grandson?
Besides, you don’t even share the same surname as the Dean.
Kid, are you trying to scam me?”
Xiao Chentian said with an unkind expression.
Facing Xiao Chentian’s questioning, the working student on the side was just about to speak up to testify, when he saw several academy teachers coming up the stairs.
Leading them was Dean Su Nan, along with Li Wan, the homeroom teacher of the sixth-grade graduating class.
“Little Chengzhou, what’s going on here?”
Li Wan asked her precious grandson with a smile.
Of course, in this situation, she could mostly guess what had happened; it was nothing more than some noble children and second-generation heirs in the academy having a conflict with the working students.
It was just that her precious grandson hadn’t gotten into any trouble, so she didn’t point it out.
“Grandma, it’s nothing, we were just about to eat!”
Glancing at Xiao Chentian on the side who was acting like ‘you can’t see me’ and just focusing on eating with his head down, Chu Chengzhou didn’t intend to tattle.
As long as bringing up his elders could scare others, that was enough; unless it couldn’t, there was no need to tattle.
Besides, tattling didn’t seem to be of much use.
Before being truly bullied, if it was just some minor bickering, his grandparents, who were the academy Dean and a teacher, couldn’t just pick up Xiao Chentian and beat him up.
“Mm, Little Chengzhou, remember to get along well with your classmates.
If you don’t have enough living expenses, just ask your grandparents.”
Gently stroking Chu Chengzhou’s little head, Li Wan didn’t forget to give a reminder.
“Got it~!”
The second-floor cafeteria was said to be a special kitchen, but it wasn’t actually too expensive.
A hearty meal for over ten people only cost one silver coin plus thirty-some Copper Coins.
The conversion between gold coins, silver coins, and Copper Coins on the Douluo Continent was naturally not the error-ridden 1:10:100 from the original work, but rather one gold coin equals one hundred silver coins, which equals ten thousand Copper Coins.
After all, a working student could earn 10 Copper Coins just by cleaning every day.
Nuoding Academy couldn’t possibly be rich enough that ten days of cleaning could earn a normal family of three several months’ worth of living expenses, right?
After lunch, returning to Dorm Seven and having a nice nap, Chu Chengzhou headed to the library in the teaching building, preparing to self-study some knowledge about Spirit Beasts.
With the memories of his past life, plus the enlightenment education his grandmother had given him before, even though the characters of the Douluo Continent were different from his modern society in his past life, Chu Chengzhou could still read the books.
Even if the knowledge of Spirit Beasts in the Late Stage wasn’t of much use, it could still broaden his horizons and help him plan what type and species of Spirit Beast he needed to hunt for each spirit ring in the future.
“I am a pickled fish, sour, trashy, and redundant~, I am a braised chicken, yellow, dull, and trashy.”
Humming a little tune, Chu Chengzhou walked towards the library with his short legs.
“Meditation Details”, “How to Correctly Attach a spirit ring, “How a Spirit Master is Formed”, “Detailed Explanation of Spirit, “The Fengling Douluo Fell in Love with Me”.
In the library, in front of the bookshelf, Chu Chengzhou was looking for books recording information on common Spirit Beasts of the continent.
The previous few books were normal enough, but what the heck was “The Fengling Douluo Fell in Love with Me”?
Curling his lips, Chu Chengzhou didn’t pay attention to it; his gaze just swept over it, without any intention of looking through it.
What kind of good novel could a mere native of Douluo write?
It was most likely a low-quality YY story, and nine times out of ten, it was written by some trashy female author.
Soon, Chu Chengzhou saw a book titled “Spirit Beast Illustrated Handbook”.
“You’re the one!”
Just by looking at the name, he knew that the information recorded inside should be about all kinds of Spirit Beasts.
Immediately, Chu Chengzhou stood on tiptoe and pulled the book out from the bookshelf.
However, perhaps because he was too short, when he pulled out the Spirit Beast Illustrated Handbook”, another book fell off the shelf.
‘Uh~, is this martial soul ten core competitiveness written by Yu Xiaogang?’
Picking up the book to take a look, Chu Chengzhou saw the large characters on the cover and the author’s name.
“Ptui~, what kind of trash is this!”
Sneering disdainfully, Chu Chengzhou intended to put it back.
This book could be said to be the most famous book on the Douluo Continent.
Chu Chengzhou had read it before, but what Yu Xiaogang wrote was either complete nonsense or known to everyone as useless conclusions; it was totally useless.
“Kid, you haven’t even flipped through it yet, what right do you have to slander this book?”
Suddenly, a voice filled with displeasure came from behind him.
Turning his head to look, Chu Chengzhou saw a slightly thin middle-aged man with a crew cut that looked like a convict’s, and a decadent expression on his face, staring at him with displeasure.
‘Yu Xiaogang?’
The moment he saw the decadent middle-aged man, Chu Chengzhou recognized who it was.
He had never seen Yu Xiaogang before, but his image was almost the same as in the anime from his past life.
Moreover, in Nuoding Academy, there was only one person as decadent as this, and that was Yu Xiaogang.
“I’ve already read this book before!”
Glancing at Yu Xiaogang, Chu Chengzhou said indifferently, and then put the book back on the shelf.
“Then what right do you have to slander this book?”
Although he didn’t know what ‘trash’ meant, Yu Xiaogang could hear that the child in front of him was very disdainful of his masterpiece.
“Eh~, you’re really a weird person.
It’s my freedom not to like this book.
Can you force me to like it?”
“Hmph~, even if you don’t like it, you can’t slander it!”
Yu Xiaogang snorted coldly, feeling a bit annoyed in his heart.
Indeed, it was other people’s freedom if they didn’t like his work, and he didn’t mean to force others to like it, but why did a little brat like you have the right to slander the hard work of this Grandmaster?
If you little brat can’t give me a reason today, this Grandmaster won’t be done with you!
The Spirit Hall was powerful.
Back then, this Grandmaster couldn’t resist Qian Xunji, but surely he couldn’t deal with a little brat like you today?
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