The Infirmary!
Dean Hans looked at the infirmary teacher.
“Teacher Wang, I’ll leave these two children in your care.”
Teacher Wang smiled.
“It’s my job.”
But when he looked at Qi Dao, a surprised expression appeared on his face.
“It’s you again?
What happened this time?”
Qi Dao smiled despite his slightly pale complexion.
“Teacher Wang, I didn’t expect we’d be seeing each other again so soon.”
Dean Hans and Director Su listened to their exchange with curious expressions.
“Teacher Wang, you two know each other?”
Teacher Wang shook his head with a smile.
“Of course.
This little fellow was just here yesterday with Xiao Chenyu.”
“It’s normal for children to have a spar from time to time.
And Qi Dao showed plenty of restraint.
He only gave Xiao Chenyu some superficial injuries.”
“Huh?
Isn’t that Xiao Haijie?”
Teacher Wang suddenly noticed Xiao Haijie and exclaimed in surprise.
As the eldest son of the city lord, Xiao Haijie was quite talented.
He had been a well-known figure at the academy ever since his first year, so practically every teacher knew him.
“What happened to him?”
“Those injuries don’t look light!”
“Wait…”
Teacher Wang suddenly paused and looked at Qi Dao in astonishment.
“Don’t tell me you caused those injuries?”
“Just how high is your innate soul power?
I remember Xiao Haijie had already absorbed his first soul ring last semester.”
Hearing this, Xiao Haijie looked extremely unwilling.
Enduring the pain, he said, “He only won by luck…”
Before he could finish, Director Su sharply interrupted him.
“Shut up!”
“This isn’t your place to speak!”
“A rank 13 Soul Master lost to a half-rank Soul Warrior, and you still have the nerve to say he only won by luck?”
Xiao Haijie’s face immediately flushed red.
He knew that once word of this got out, he would be nailed to the pillar of shame.
“Half a rank!”
Teacher Wang exclaimed in shock.
He looked at Qi Dao in disbelief.
He had assumed that Qi Dao would have at least seven or eight ranks of soul power and, combined with his swordsmanship, would have had a chance of defeating Xiao Haijie.
He had never imagined that Qi Dao’s soul power was only half a rank!
Thinking about this, Teacher Wang’s gaze toward Qi Dao gained a hint of pity and regret.
But half a rank of innate soul power…
That talent was simply too poor.
Just reaching rank 10 would probably require eight or nine years of painstaking cultivation.
Dean Hans said, “All right, Teacher Wang.
Treat the two children first.”
Teacher Wang nodded, then released his martial soul.
He was a rank 22 Auxiliary System Soul Grandmaster, and his martial soul was a blue flower.
As he released his martial soul, two soul rings immediately rose from beneath his feet.
One white and one yellow!
After releasing his martial soul, Teacher Wang muttered an incantation and used his first soul skill on Xiao Haijie.
His first soul skill could heal injuries, while his second could restore soul power.
Of course, neither effect was particularly powerful.
Otherwise, he wouldn’t be working as a teacher at Nuoding Academy.
A blue light shot out from the flower and entered Xiao Haijie’s body.
Immediately afterward, he used his second soul skill on Qi Dao.
In an instant, although Qi Dao’s mind still felt exhausted, his complexion improved somewhat.
The injuries on Xiao Haijie’s body also recovered to some extent.
But now that his pain had eased, he had already forgotten the lesson.
He cast a gloomy glance at Qi Dao from the corner of his eye, though he didn’t dare show his hostility in front of the director and dean.
He secretly swore that sooner or later, he would find Qi Dao and wash away today’s humiliation.
Teacher Wang said, “All right.
I’ve stopped Xiao Haijie’s bleeding, but his injuries are fairly serious, so he’ll need to rest for several days.”
“As for Qi Dao, he’s only suffering from excessive physical and soul power exhaustion.
Give him a good meal tonight and let him rest for a day or two.
He’ll be back to his energetic self.”
Only then did Dean Hans and Director Su relax.
But immediately afterward, the two looked toward Xiao Haijie with stern expressions.
“Now that your injuries have been treated, it’s time we talked about you bullying a lower-year student.”
Xiao Haijie’s expression changed slightly.
“Dean, Director Su, you both saw what happened.
I’m the victim here!”
Dean Hans’s expression turned cold.
“That isn’t an excuse.”
“All I know is that if Qi Dao had been an ordinary first-year student, he would be the one lying here injured now.”
“I’ll definitely tell your father about this and let him know exactly how his son has been bullying weaker students at the academy.”
Xiao Haijie’s expression changed drastically.
This was exactly what he feared most.
His father didn’t particularly care whether he bullied weaker people.
What his father cared about was his own reputation.
If his father learned that he had been defeated by a good-for-nothing with half a rank of innate soul power, his standing in his father’s eyes would undoubtedly plummet.
“Dean, you can’t do this!”
“You only know how to regret it now?”
“Too late!”
Dean Hans gave him a faint glance, his tone firm and leaving no room for negotiation.
After saying that, he turned toward Qi Dao, his expression immediately becoming much warmer.
If your parents knew that you defeated a stronger opponent today despite your disadvantage, they’d certainly be proud of you.”
“Although you only possess half a rank of innate soul power, I believe that as long as you cultivate diligently, one day you’ll become a powerful soul master renowned throughout the world.”
Qi Dao respectfully replied, “Thank you for the praise, Dean.
I’ll continue working hard.”
Looking at the polite Qi Dao, Dean Hans became even more satisfied.
He couldn’t help sighing inwardly.
‘Xiaogang, Xiaogang… you’re truly confused!’
‘A genius is still a genius even without your recognition.
Rather than desperately searching for a talented disciple, it would be far more astonishing to carve a piece of rough stone into a priceless jade.’
As the dean of the academy, he was naturally no fool.
After Yu Xiaogang left yesterday, he had thought the matter over.
Yu Xiaogang had refused to accept Qi Dao as his disciple.
How could it possibly have been because he was too absorbed in academic research?
It was obviously because he looked down on Qi Dao’s half-rank of innate soul power.
But Yu Xiaogang seemed to have forgotten one thing.
He himself also possessed only half a rank of innate soul power!
He was also the one who constantly preached the saying:
“There are no useless martial souls, only useless soul masters.”
Looking at the polite child before him, Dean Hans inexplicably developed a premonition.
Sooner or later, Xiaogang would regret not accepting Qi Dao as his disciple.
He sighed before continuing.
“All right, Qi Dao.
You need to rest now.
Go back to your dormitory and get some sleep.”
“Then, Dean and Director Su, I’ll be going first.”
Qi Dao nodded slightly to the two of them before returning to his dormitory.
As soon as he entered, the other students immediately surrounded him.
“Boss, are you all right?”
“Yeah!
I heard you even defeated sixth-year student Xiao Haijie.
That’s incredible!”
Xiao Chenyu and the others weren’t among them.
They were still in the director’s office.
Qi Dao casually answered a few questions before sending everyone away.
He then sat down on his bed and began recalling the sword strike he had unleashed when facing Xiao Haijie.
That sword strike had been extraordinary.
Qi Dao clearly remembered entering an extremely strange state.
His essence, energy, and spirit had become perfectly unified, as though they had been twisted together into a single rope.
He called that state the Sword Heart State.
While in the Sword Heart State, his strength, speed, and reaction speed had all undergone a qualitative leap.
His body was like an old, beat-up car that had suddenly been fitted with a top-tier engine.
Although this placed an enormous burden on his body, it allowed him to unleash combat power several times greater than his normal level for a short period of time.
End of Chapter