"It's Fang Yuan."
"Hmph, every time I see his dead dysfunctional state, I feel so pissed off."
"What's he doing at the middle of the gate entrance?"
"Don't worry about him, he's probably waiting for someone."
The young teens paid no attention to him. Just as they were about to walk over, Fang Yuan strode across and blocked them. "I'm plundering. Everyone must surrender a piece of primeval stone before they can leave."
The young teens were instantly shocked and angry.
"Fang Yuan, your head must have overheated and gone confused. You would actually stand at the gates of the academy and blackmail us?!"
"Scram, you're just a petty C grade, how dare you block my way. If you don't scram, I will send you flying with my…Urghh!"
Fang Yuan suddenly lashed out.
His right palm furiously cut forward. His movement was quick and precise, his slice of his palm hitting the left side of someone's neck.
This unlucky teenager was totally not expecting Fang Yuan to suddenly attack him. While he was still cursing at Fang Yuan, he suddenly suffered a heavy blow. His two eyes instantly rolled up and he fainted on the spot.
"Fuck! You actually dared to strike?!" The crowd jumped, and the young teens subconsciously retreated backwards.
"Gu Yue Bei Ju fainted, what do we do?" Some of them were terrified and scared, shouting around in horror.
"What else can be done?! There's so many of us, and Fang Yuan is alone. We should all rush at him together and beat him up." Some people were shouting, their rage erupting.
"That's right, he sure doesn't know his place! How he dares to provoke us by himself. He's definitely digging his own grave with his over-ambitiousness! Everyone get on him together!!"
Yet before they could do anything, Fang Yuan had already struck. He strode a few steps forward, rushing into the group of teenagers.
He slashed his palm and the edge of his hand cut onto a youth's neck. The young man rolled his eyes upward and fell.
"Ahh —!" Another teen yelled loudly, swinging his fist at Fang Yuan, sweeping through the air. Fang Yuan lowered his body and dodged, then he lifted his leg and kicked the boy's crotch area.
AHH OWWwwww—!
The youngster's loud roar was originally sonorous and indignant, but after he took the blow his voice instantly rose higher and became sharp and shrill, filled with a kind of misery and pain.
Thump.
He covered his crotch with his two hands, his knees giving way as he dropped to the ground. He rolled around on the floor screaming loudly, the pain so great his entire body was covered in cold sweat.
Fang Yuan swung his two fists around like a tiger that had entered a flock of sheep!
With a thousand years of battle experience, Fang Yuan knew these youngsters were nothing more than soft, inexperienced rookies. They had only just begun their cultivation, and with his physical strength slightly enhanced by the White Boar Gu in recent days, how could they possibly stand a chance against him?
In the blink of an eye, Fang Yuan put down the entire group of young students. If they had not fainted, then they would be lying on the ground, the pain making them drained and their bodies hurting all over.
"What's going on here?!" Gu Yue Mo Bei arrived and exclaimed. He saw that Fang Yuan stood at the entrance of the academy gates, and there were five to six students on the floor around him.
"This Fang Yuan, h-he wants to extort our primeval stones!" One of them lying on the floor shouted angrily while clutching his belly.
"Wow, still full of energy huh." Fang Yuan's expression was flat as he kicked fiercely at the abdomen of the boy who just yelled.
Oww!
The youngster immediately cried out in pain, his body curling up like a shrimp. Fear emerged from his face, his tears streaming down as he dared not to speak again.
As they saw this scene, the students that came over all felt Fang Yuan's fierce savageness and cruelty, their hearts throbbing.
"Alright, all of you be good and hand out a piece of primeval stone. Then I'll let you go, or else, these people on the ground here will be your fate." Fang Yuan made a big step forward, his tone callous.
"Fuck your mother, you worthless bastard! She must regret the day she brought a pathetic worm like you into this world. A pitiful C-grade scum like you thinks you could even touch me? It's laughable!" Gu Yue Mo Bei flew into a rage, swinging his fists as he rushed toward Fang Yuan before they knew it.
Fang Yuan raised his eyebrows at the insult.
With a slight turn of his ankle, Fang Yuan swerved gently sideways and let Mo Bei's fist fly past. Then he stretched out his left hand, lifting the index and middle finger toward the center of Mo Bei's clavicle, accurately jabbing at the area below the throat.
Mo Bei immediately blacked out, falling onto the ground with a thump, fainting on the spot.
Hiss…
As they saw what just happened, the young students that planned to rush forward quickly stopped, each of them releasing a mouthful of cold air.
In the eyes of these youngsters, Fang Yuan's attacks were suddenly too profound to be understood. They did not pay attention to basic martial arts, but in reality it was vaguely mentioned during class. The human body had many vulnerable parts, and several parts that Fang Yuan had struck were one of those vulnerable places. When these parts were struck, it would easily make a person faint on the spot, and a heavy blow would induce a life-threatening crisis.
However Fang Yuan had proper restraint when he attacked.
Those that he had tackled down were either knocked out or suffering in immense pain, losing the ability for combat in a short amount of time. There was no one who was really seriously injured.
"Are you going to give me your stones or not?" Fang Yuan did a step forward, forcing the other youths. They looked at each other for a moment, then half of them gritted their teeth while the other half roared angrily, all of them swarming towards Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan dodged about while striking at the same time. His cultivation base was lowly, but his realm was still there; his heart was cool as ice, his movements quick and precise.
Thump, thump…
After a few breaths, bodies fell down onto the ground again.
"It's too vicious! Too terrible!"
"They're not going to die, are they?"
There were still a few young girls left behind; they did not rush forward. Their eyes were open wide, and after seeing what had happened so far their bodies trembled more and more.
Fang Yuan swept his gaze to them, and their faces turned pale as they quickly waved their hands and retreated. "No, don't come over. We'll surrender, we'll surrender the stones!"
After Fang Yuan received a few pieces of primeval stones, he let them go. They stumbled out of the academy gateway, while in succession several students came over.
To leave the academy, this gateway was the only route. With Fang Yuan blocking this path, he would be able to block out all the students.
"Damn, what's going on?!" The new wave of students stared in amazement.
"Isn't that Gu Yue Mo Bei?" Gu Yue Chi Cheng stared at the unconscious Mo Bei on the floor, his eyes wide and his mouth agape.
When Fang Yuan opened his mouth and spoke, the youngsters were instantly angered and they attacked him, then they fell.
...
The violent matter of Fang Yuan blocking the gateway and openly extorting his classmates had long attracted attention since the beginning. But mortal guards had no right to punish the students, so they could only go first to the academy elder and report.
When the academy elder heard the news, he did not immediately command for them to stop it. Instead he went up the pavilion and observed from afar.
"Looks like this child has fighting talent." The longer the academy elder watched the more interested he felt.
"Pity, his talent is only C grade; in the end he just lacks one step of a grade." The academy elder heaved a sigh.
...
Very quickly the last group of students arrived. There were only five people, and among them was Fang Yuan's twin younger brother.
"Gu Yue Fang Yuan, how could you be like this?! You are too bold, to actually beat up your classmates at the gates and take away their primeval stones!" Gu Yue Fang Zheng was wide-eyed as he looked at the scene. He could not believe what he was seeing before him.
But, he heard Fang Yuan mockingly say, "Every one of you, a piece of primeval stone."
"What?" Fang Zheng opened his mouth wide with surprise, "Even I need to pay up?"
"Of course, but you can choose not to." Fang Yuan's tone was very gentle. "Then you will end up just like them," he said and pointed at those fallen on the ground. Some of them had fainted, and some of them were moaning in pain.
"Even his own younger brother isn't spared!"
"This Fang Yuan is crazy, he's too vicious…"
"We cannot defeat him, a wise man does not fight when the odds are against him."
"That's right, we'll just pass up the primeval stone first. It's just one piece anyway, when we go back and report to the teachers, he'll be getting it!"
With the lesson drawn from their classmate's mistakes, the remaining youngsters obediently accepted Fang Yuan's blackmail with gazes of defiance.
"Hold up." Just as they were about to leave, Fang Yuan shouted at them to halt.
"Fang Yuan, are you actually going to go back on your word?" The youths started to become nervous.
Fang Yuan faced the teenagers on the ground, gently sighing. "Do you guys really think that I would squat down and search through their bodies one by one?"
"We'll just help you this once."
Under Fang Yuan's despotic aura, they could only lower their heads and search through each of the young teen's money pouches on the ground, taking out a piece of primeval stone from each bag. Then they brought it together and passed it to Fang Yuan.
The entire class had a total of fifty-seven people. By extorting a piece of primeval stone from every single one of them, Fang Yuan held fifty-six pieces.
He originally had four pieces. Adding the number of primeval stones from his own allowance and reward, the total number of primeval stones he had in his possession amounted up to seventy-three pieces.
Fang Yuan pocketed his money pouch that had suddenly expanded greatly into his bosom and strutted away, leaving behind a floor full of teenagers, lying like corpses on the ground.