Chapter 38 : Chapter 38
Chapter 38: You Will Definitely Regret This!!
As the lackey spoke, he pointed toward the school gate.
Sure enough, Li Mu was walking out while rolling his neck.
Lin Yuya and the others followed behind him, their expressions anxious.
And the moment they saw Xiao Lingtong being dragged by the hair in front of the black car, all of them frowned deeply.
When the Young Master saw Li Mu come out, he let go of Xiao Lingtong.
Xiao Lingtong pressed hard on the hair that had been yanked up a few times, but the humiliation he felt could not be suppressed at all.
Li Mu stopped a short distance from the black car.
He tilted his head and looked inside.
"You were looking for me?"
The lackey frowned deeply.
He pointed to the spot where Xiao Lingtong had just been standing and barked, "Stand here and speak!"
Li Mu turned his gaze toward him in confusion.
"You are... what breed of hound exactly?"
That Hound flew into a rage on the spot!
He followed the Young Master around, and the name Hound was one he had personally asked the Young Master to call him.
It was all to please the Young Master and show his loyalty.
But outsiders absolutely were not allowed to say those two words.
That was his sore spot.
A vicious look flashed in his eyes as he strode toward Li Mu.
The moment he reached him, he raised his hand and slapped at Li Mu's face.
Li Mu smiled.
He smiled with excitement.
A wicked, feverish kind of excitement!!
The instant Hound made his move, a terrifying heat wave erupted from Li Mu's body. His aura exploded like a volcano.
Then Li Mu swung a slap straight at Hound.
Hound did not even see how the slap came over.
He only felt something smash hard into his face.
Then the right side of his face went numb, his vision went black, and his whole body was already flying sideways through the air.
He regained consciousness in midair.
All he felt was that the bones in his face had been shattered!
It seemed like all the teeth on the right side of his mouth had been knocked loose as well.
He hit the ground hard.
When he tried to get up, the world spun around him.
When they saw this, everyone from Blackwater High School was so shocked that they straightened up on the spot.
Meanwhile, Lin Yuya and the others who had gone to the infirmary earlier silently observed a moment of mourning for Hound.
Really now, you could have provoked anyone.
But you just had to provoke him!
His pent-up fire was so intense that he was practically about to lose his mind!!
"Tsk, tsk, tsk. As expected of the champion of the Abyss First Battle."
"You've got quite a temper."
The rear door of the black car opened.
The tall Young Master of Saint Dragon Martial Academy stepped out.
Leaning against the car door, he lit himself a cigarette with a snap.
He leisurely took a puff, then looked at Li Mu with amused interest.
Xiao Lingtong quietly moved to Li Mu's side.
In a low voice, he explained, "His name is Zhao Yi. He's the son of the principal of Saint Dragon Martial Academy. People call him the Saint Dragon Crown Prince."
The son of the number one high school in the Eastern District.
To students like them, he really did count as a privileged young master.
Xiao Lingtong was afraid Li Mu did not know who the other party was.
He was worried Li Mu might truly offend him beyond repair.
"Not bad! At least you've got some sense."
Zhao Yi pointed at Xiao Lingtong with the fingers holding his cigarette.
Then he turned to Li Mu.
"Li Mu, I originally came to pick you up for a meal."
"But look at this. Isn't it ugly now?"
"So I'll just be direct."
"I use a spear too."
"Come to Saint Dragon Martial Academy and be my personal Sparring Partner."
As he spoke, Zhao Yi flicked his ash off to the side.
"Not interested."
Li Mu rejected him directly before Zhao Yi could even finish.
"Don't be in such a hurry to refuse."
"I know you won the championship in the First Battle, so you're feeling a little puffed up. That's normal."
"But you'll realize very soon..."
"This is the peak of your life."
"The gap between your potential and everyone else's will only keep getting bigger."
"So taking yourself too seriously is a rather pathetic thing."
Zhao Yi spoke in a grave, earnest tone.
"Mm, that makes a little sense, but I'm still not interested."
Li Mu nodded first, then shook his head again.
"Tsk... then there's nothing I can do."
Zhao Yi raised his head and glanced at the sign of Blackwater High School as though troubled.
"I know what you want. You want to be the head of a chicken rather than the tail of a phoenix."
"This bottom-ranked school treats you like treasure."
"And you're fantasizing about bringing this broken school back from the dead through your own strength."
"You enjoy that sense of achievement from being indispensable."
"But there's one thing I can guarantee you."
"If you don't plan to be my dog..."
"Then Blackwater High School's resource ranking won't even make the top ten in the Eastern District."
By the end, Zhao Yi had obviously run out of patience.
He directly demanded that Li Mu become his dog.
He had completely torn off the mask and begun openly threatening him.
"Oh? You have that kind of ability?"
Li Mu was instantly interested.
Li Mu had won the championship, raising Blackwater High School's average score by a significant margin all by himself.
Together with the points earned by the other students who had participated in the Abyss First Battle, Blackwater High School's resource ranking entering the top ten of the Eastern District was not a problem.
And Li Mu was the champion, which came with a special bonus.
According to the unspoken rules, when the Department of Resources ranked schools, if a school had top talents such as S-Grade or A-Grade aptitude holders, the champion or runner-up of the Elite Arena, or the champion or runner-up of the Abyss First Battle, then the school would usually be moved up one tier depending on the circumstances.
The reason was to encourage schools to put more effort into cultivating these top-tier students.
So this time, Blackwater High School was expected to rise to around fifth to eighth place in the Eastern District's resource ranking.
It would directly enter the second tier.
"I don't, but my uncle does."
Zhao Yi said this with unmistakable smugness.
Li Mu slowly walked up to Zhao Yi.
Zhao Yi was completely unguarded. He did not believe Li Mu would dare touch him.
But Li Mu suddenly swung the back of his hand across Zhao Yi's face like lightning.
Then he shot out his hand and grabbed Zhao Yi by the hair.
He yanked Zhao Yi's face right in front of his own.
Zhao Yi was completely stunned by the slap!
He had never expected Li Mu to actually dare lay a hand on him.
And yet he could not even report it to the Law Enforcement Department. It was just a slap. There was practically nothing he could do to Li Mu over it, and if he made a report, people would laugh themselves to death!
Zhao Yi was so furious that he laughed instead, baring his teeth as he sneered, "Li Mu, you really have no idea who you are!"
"Have you gotten the wrong impression?"
"Just because you won the First Battle championship, you think you've reached a level where you can contend with me?"
"I truly pity you."
Li Mu smiled as well.
The hand gripping Zhao Yi's hair tightened further.
"It seems you've got the wrong idea too, Crown Prince."
"You think the education world belongs to your family?"
"You think I'll suffocate to death the moment I leave school?"
"You think I'll kneel and beg for mercy just because Blackwater High School can't make the top ten in resource ranking?"
"I really can't figure it out, Crown Prince."
"Why exactly should I be afraid of some insignificant second-generation official like you?"
"That official position of your family..."
"What!"
"Can!"
"It!"
"Do to me??"
Li Mu emphasized every word. As he spoke, he shook Zhao Yi's head back and forth by the hair, then slapped him across the face again with the back of his hand, knocking Zhao Yi back two steps until he crashed into his own car!
Zhao Yi was trembling all over with rage.
He suddenly understood what Li Mu meant.
His family controlled a top-tier academy and had strong connections in both the Ministry of Education and the Department of Resources.
As long as someone was a student, whether they belonged to Saint Dragon Martial Academy or not, they all acted like grandsons in front of him.
That was because they had to stay in school.
But Li Mu's meaning was clear. He could simply choose not to attend school at all.
With his real combat ability, he would have no problem even joining the Abyss-Suppressing Army.
He had no need whatsoever to look at the Saint Dragon Crown Prince's face.
Zhao Yi stared at Li Mu with an extremely vicious gaze and ground out through clenched teeth, "Fine! We'll see about that!!"
He truly did not dare fight Li Mu on the spot. In front of the champion of the Abyss First Battle, his strength was only enough to get beaten.
If things escalated any further today, it would do him no good at all.
Burning with rage, he climbed back into the rear seat of the car.
The black luxury sedan sped away in a cloud of dust.
As for Hound, who was still lying on the ground, they did not bother with him at all.
Everyone from Blackwater High School was shaken to the core!
Who exactly... was the villain here?
Why did it feel like Li Mu was even more arrogant than that Crown Prince?
But most of them were sighing instead.
Ah!~
Now this was what it meant to settle grudges cleanly and decisively!
A person like Li Mu could never have a heart demon, and there was no way he would ever get breast nodules from bottling things up!
He feared no one.
And he had no need to look at anyone's face.
So what if he was the Young Master of Saint Dragon Martial Academy?
If he dared spout nonsense in front of him, Li Mu would still grab him by the hair and curse him to his face.
And in truth, deep down, especially in Xiao Lingtong's heart, there was also a trace of gratitude.
Li Mu's actions today were absolutely meant to stand up for them.
Did Li Mu really need to grab Zhao Yi by the hair and offend him like that?
Wasn't it precisely because Zhao Yi had humiliated Xiao Lingtong that he did it?
Not only had Li Mu backed up his classmates, he had also drawn all of Zhao Yi's anger onto himself alone.
Zhao Yi definitely would not remember to target Xiao Lingtong anymore. The only person he would hate now was Li Mu.
Li Mu turned around.
When he saw Xiao Lingtong looking at him with reddened eyes, he stepped forward, draped an arm over Xiao Lingtong's shoulder, and walked through the school gate.
The other students followed closely behind.
Lin Yuya asked Li Mu worriedly, "What if Zhao Yi was telling the truth?"
"What if he really can affect our school's resource ranking?"
Li Mu spread his hands.
"That's something Principal Yin needs to worry about."
"Ah, let's just pray he can get through this crisis!"
Lin Yuya and the others felt as though lightning had just struck them from above.
Every one of them froze on the spot!
Looking at Li Mu's back, they truly got the feeling that this was the kind of carefree swagger that did not care whether anyone else lived or died.
Even Xiao Lingtong was so amused that he burst out laughing.
Whether Li Mu truly cared or not, without Li Mu, Blackwater High School's ranking would not have moved at all.
So what if it really was affected?
If there was one genuine downside, it was that if Blackwater High School failed to enter the top ten this time, then to outsiders, it would look like they had just gotten carried away congratulating themselves.
They would become a laughingstock.