Chapter 172 The Chaotic Outer Courtyard.
After bidding farewell to Qian Gu Minghou, Wu Xuan returned directly to the wooden house assigned to him. It seemed that Xiao Xiao had been taken by Elder Xuan to cultivate some secret technique a few days ago. Putting everything else aside, Elder Xuan was quite responsible in teaching Xiao Xiao.
Looking at the clean and comfortable room, Wu Xuan felt a little out of place. To be honest, since entering the inner courtyard, besides closed-door cultivation, he had been carrying out surveillance missions, and occasionally going to Ma Xiaotao's room for some intimate moments. He hadn't actually been to this wooden house many times.
Thinking of this, Wu Xuan suddenly sat up. It seemed like he and Ma Xiaotao hadn't seen each other for almost three months. He had been busy completing his surveillance missions, and Ma Xiaotao had been busy taking over the work in the outer courtyard. Now that things were suddenly relaxed, he actually missed her a little.
Wu Xuan wasn't the kind of person who wouldn't take action; if he missed her, he would go find her immediately.
Outer Courtyard!
"Bang! Ah~!" A shrill scream suddenly rang out from the dean's office.
"Director Ma! You are the dean of students, how could you lay a hand on a fourth-year student?" A female teacher in a uniform stepped forward to stop him.
Ma Xiaotao strode forward in her high heels. The next moment, seven spirit rings—two yellow, two purple, and three black—in perfect proportions instantly rose, their terrifying power forcing the Soul Emperor-level female teacher to the ground.
Ma Xiaotao said coldly, "Teacher Qi, straighten your attitude. You are now a teacher at Shrek Academy, not a lackey of Earl Weiyuan of the Heavenly Soul Empire."
Ma Xiaotao's emotionless words instantly sent chills down Teacher Qi's spine.
"Now I am the Dean of Studies for the Outer Courtyard. I don't care about the old rules; now my words represent Shrek Academy. Earl Weiyuan doesn't know how to discipline his children, so I will discipline them for him. I already gave him a chance last time; if he knowingly violated the rules, then he can't blame me."
The boy lying on the ground screaming in pain felt a bad premonition. Then, chilling words slowly entered his ears.
"Zhao Lin, Class 2, Grade 4, for inciting outsiders to seriously injure a classmate without cause, is hereby given thirty strokes of the cane and expelled from school. Execution immediately." As soon as the words were spoken, Ma Xiaotao reached for the soul tool on her left wrist. A flash of red light, and a fiery red whip appeared in her hand.
"This...this is a level six soul tool?" Teacher Qi's expression changed drastically. He stepped in front of Ma Xiaotao, blocking her way, saying, "Director Ma, you can't hit him! Zhao Lin is only a level 31 Soul Master. One lash will kill him."
"Level 31?! How did he pass the fourth-grade promotion exam with this little strength?" Ma Xiaotao glared at Teacher Qi, her eyes blazing with fury.
"This...this..." Teacher Qi was speechless, unable to meet Ma Xiaotao's fiery gaze.
"Get out!" Enraged, Ma Xiaotao lashed out with the whip, sending Teacher Qi flying. She then proceeded to lash out at Zhao Lin, who lay on the ground.
A piercing scream instantly echoed throughout the entire teaching building.
The level-six soul tool with its special effects, wielded by Ma Xiaotao, a Soul Saint, was incredibly exhilarating; just a dozen lashes were enough to knock Zhao Lin unconscious. Even after he fainted, Ma Xiaotao showed no sign of stopping, continuing to deliver the full thirty lashes.
"Teacher Qi, considering this is your first offense, I'll forgive you this time. However, you can't stay in fourth grade; you'll have to become a teaching assistant in Class 5 of the first year." Ma Xiaotao put away her whip and glanced at Teacher Qi in the corner.
"Thank you, Director, thank you, Director," Teacher Qi said, clutching the wound on her back, tears welling in her eyes.
She regretted accepting the money from Earl Weiyuan. For those 30,000 gold soul coins, she had lost her position as a homeroom teacher. At Shrek Academy, a position represented cultivation resources and a high level of treatment. Being demoted to a teaching assistant meant a loss far exceeding 30,000 gold soul coins. She was now filled with deep regret.
However, the worst outcome didn't happen; she wasn't dismissed, which was a stroke of luck amidst misfortune.
"Dismissed. This is the transfer order, and this is the statement expelling Zhao Lin from school. Tell Earl Weiyuan that if he's not satisfied, he can come to Shrek Academy to see me anytime."
"Yes, yes, yes!" Teacher Qi took the two reports, using her soul power to lift the blood-covered Zhao Lin and quickly walked out of the dean's office.
Watching the two leave, Ma Xiaotao waved her hand, and phoenix flames roared out, instantly burning the bloodstains on the ground to ashes.
Ma Xiaotao leaned back in her office chair, wearily rubbing her temples. "These damned nobles of the Three Kingdoms, they've really stretched their reach so far! Now they even dare to bribe teachers from the outer academy!
It's outrageous!" Only after becoming the dean of the outer academy did she realize just how chaotic it was, especially during freshman enrollment. Looking at the large group of soul masters with recommendation letters but soul power levels below level fifteen, she really wanted to rush up to the city lords who wrote those letters and slap them hard, demanding to know what kind of trash they had recommended!
There were also students from noble families in some classes who looked down on geniuses from commoner backgrounds and would often gang up to bully them.
Then there were the teachers from the outer academies who secretly accepted bribes from the nobles, frequently doing things that favored noble students and threatening expulsion at the drop of a hat.
Dealing with these trivial matters was giving her a headache.
"Ugh! If this dean of students continues like this, I'll eventually break out in a fit of rage. I wonder when Wu Xuan will finish his seclusion. If this continues, I'm afraid even my 100,000-year-old head spirit bone won't be able to suppress my ever-growing evil fire."
"Knock knock!" A knock suddenly sounded at the door.
"Come in!" Ma Xiaotao looked at the documents in her hand without looking up.
"What is it? Speak. If you've encountered unfair treatment, I'll help you."
Seeing that the person hadn't spoken for a long time, Ma Xiaotao finally raised her pink eyes. This glance made Ma Xiaotao completely freeze in place.
Wu Xuan smiled slightly: "Director Ma, how has work been these past few months?"
Without a word, Ma Xiaotao leaped and crashed into Wu Xuan's arms.
Feeling the softness against his chest, Wu Xuan reached out and wrapped his arms around Ma Xiaotao's slender waist. After breaking through to level sixty, Wu Xuan's height had reached 1.8 meters. Standing in front of the 1.75-meter-tall Ma Xiaotao, the two looked perfectly matched.
Of course, the two didn't do anything inappropriate, not even a kiss; they naturally had to abide by the rules of the occasion.
After a long while, they slowly released their arms, but Ma Xiaotao's soft body pressed against Wu Xuan showed no sign of moving. "Wu Xuan, sometimes I really envy you. You can go into seclusion for two months in a single deep meditation session."
Wu Xuan stroked Ma Xiaotao's soft hair and smiled slightly. "Maybe that's just my talent!"
Ma Xiaotao, leaning against Wu Xuan, playfully nudged him. "I know you're more talented than me, and to delay you surpassing me, I also want to calm down and cultivate. But there are too many messy things in the outer courtyard; I'm too busy to concentrate."
That momentary soft touch stirred a strange thought in Wu Xuan.
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