Chapter 321: You're Hired

"Alright, done!" Zhang Xuan clapped his hands cheerfully.

Seeing his relaxed demeanor, everyone felt dizzy and wanted to vomit blood.

This was too unconventional.

The Teacher's Guild had clear rules forbidding corporal punishment of students, and if he directly beat someone into a pig's head, once investigated, no one could bear the responsibility.

"Teacher Liu, you..." Mo Hongyi was also speechless, almost fainting: "Teachers cannot beat students!"

This guy was too much. Even if he didn't understand the rules for assessing master teachers, he had taught classes before, right? He had taught students... How could someone assessing for a two-star master teacher not know such basic rules?

A teacher should win people over with virtue. If corporal punishment of students was discovered, he might lose his teaching qualification.

"Beating students? Who said I beat students?" Zhang Xuan widened his eyes and looked at the boy in front: "Did I hit you?"

"No! The teacher is kind to me, he saved me, didn't hit me!" The boy quickly kowtowed and shouted with a lisping mouth.

"..."

Everyone was exasperated.

Brother, can you be any more arrogant?

He was treating everyone as blind!

We saw you beat him with our own eyes, and not only do you deny it, but you also threaten the student to keep quiet. This is utterly vicious and insane!

We've seen speechless teachers, but never one so speechless.

"Hmph!"

Dean Xie waved his arm, his face ashen.

As a dean and a one-star master teacher, to have a teacher beating a student right before his eyes and even threatening the student—this was too disrespectful!

"Teacher Liu, corporal punishment of students violates the duty of a teacher. I will report today's matter to the Guild, and you will await the Guild's judgment! Moreover, our Tianwu Academy will not hire someone with such a bad attitude and no professional ethics. Please leave immediately!"

With that, he waved his hand.

"Judgment? No professional ethics?"

Zhang Xuan was taken aback, looking at Dean Xie: "Is this your judgment?"

"Correct!" Dean Xie snorted.

"Alright!" Zhang Xuan shook his head: "With such poor eyesight, are you really a one-star master teacher? To be honest, I want to ask... are you blind?"

"Pfft!"

"This guy directly called Dean Xie blind?"

"Damn, beating a student, insulting a one-star master teacher—has this guy gone mad?"

...

The other teachers' eyes were nearly popping out.

This was the dean of Tianwu Kingdom, a peak Grandmaster-level super-strong expert, whose strength could rank in the top ten of the kingdom, and a one-star master teacher. Calling him blind...

Holy crap!

Just now we thought you were arrogant, but now we know you're crazy!

Otherwise, why would you apply to be a teacher at his school, beat a student in public, and then insult a master teacher?

A master teacher cannot be insulted. This single charge could make you utterly doomed!

Mo Hongyi on the side also twitched his mouth.

However, he knew that this guy, though eccentric and careless in speech, had absolute strength and would never speak without reason.

He couldn't help but look carefully, and upon seeing, he was stunned: "This..."

While he was dazed, Dean Xie was already fuming.

His beard bristled with anger, his hair and beard standing on end, as if he might explode at any moment.

"Teacher Liu, do you know you are insulting a master teacher?" Dean Xie suppressed his rage, his teeth grinding audibly.

If not for his status, he would have already beaten this reckless fool into a pig's head.

"Insulting a master teacher? Me?" Zhang Xuan looked at him with pity: "Someone is insulting the title of master teacher, but it's not me—it's you!"

"You..." Just as he was about to burst with aura and teach this blabbermouth a lesson, Zhang Xuan clasped his hands behind his back, walked to the boy, and spoke in a calm voice.

"The Blood Calamity Spider is a special strange beast, only the size of a human's pinky tip. It feeds on the blood of living beings, lives in dark environments, prefers nighttime activity, and contains deadly venom."

Everyone thought he was about to say something important, but instead he mentioned an irrelevant strange beast. They were all puzzled.

Even Dean Xie frowned and paused, wanting to see what trick this guy was playing.

"The venom of this spider, when a martial artist is poisoned, won't kill them in the short term, but it will numb the nerves, causing personality changes—irritability, restlessness, and a desire to fight... Because only through combat can the toxin in the body be alleviated and calm restored!"

Zhang Xuan's voice continued.

"There is such a thing?"

"Such a strange poison exists in the world?"

Hearing the effects of the Blood Calamity Spider's venom, a guess vaguely surfaced in everyone's minds, but they dared not confirm it, and all eyes turned to the young man before them.

"That's right, this male student is poisoned with this venom, and it's already very severe! That's why he often fights with others, restless and irritable, unable to control himself. Have you noticed that when he performed his martial techniques just now, although his moves were precise, there was a hint of redness in his eyes. For normal cultivators, even after many battles, it's impossible for their spirit to be affected to the point of changing the color of their eyes."

Zhang Xuan looked around.

"Redness... there really was just now, but I thought it was caused by his excitement!"

"Yes, I saw it too, and I thought it was a peculiarity of his martial technique. Could it be... a deadly poison?"

"How is that possible? If he were poisoned, how could we not have noticed at all?"

...

Recalling the scene when the young man had performed his martial technique, everyone was stunned.

There was indeed something off about this guy's eyes, but some martial techniques could also change one's eye color, so they hadn't thought in that direction.

Besides, who could know that there existed a poison in the world that could affect a person's spirit, making them irritable and prone to fighting?

"I wasn't beating him just now; I was using a special method to force this venom out of his body. If you don't believe me, look at the blood he just shed on the ground!"

Zhang Xuan pointed casually.

Following the direction of his finger, everyone indeed saw the blood that had flowed from the boy when Teacher Liu had beaten him.

The blood had now turned black, coagulated on the ground like a gelatinous substance, and the rock it touched had formed pits, as if corroded by something, extremely eerie.

"It's a deadly poison..."

Dean Xie's face turned pale.

Normal blood dripping on the ground wouldn't coagulate so quickly, let alone corrode rock into pits.

Only blood containing a deadly poison would cause such a phenomenon.

That is to say...

The boy was indeed poisoned with a deadly venom! And just now, Teacher Liu wasn't beating him, but... expelling the poison!

"The Blood Calamity Spider's venom kills within three months. His current state suggests he's only been poisoned for a little over a month, so it's not yet dangerous. That's why he can suppress it with his own ability, remaining undetected."

Zhang Xuan looked at Dean Xie: "Even so, the Tianwu Academy, the kingdom's highest institution, let a student be poisoned with a deadly venom without knowing! I kindly treated him, yet you falsely accused me of beating a student and threatened to report me to the guild... As a dignified dean and a one-star master teacher, you couldn't even see this. Tell me, if that's not blindness, what is?"

"I..."

Dean Xie's face turned pale.

He hadn't noticed such obvious poisoned blood and had even rebuked the other party, making his face flush red. He wanted to explain but couldn't.

"Teacher Liu, please calm down. Poisons involve the profession of poison masters, and many people change color at the mention of them. It's normal not to know!"

Seeing the awkward atmosphere, Mo Hongyi stepped forward.

He was right. Matters involving poisons had many records sealed by the Poison Hall, and many people were not well-informed.

Teachers, who pride themselves on righteousness, rarely dabble in such lowly arts, so naturally they only have a superficial understanding.

Having just known that Zhang Xuan wouldn't act without reason, seeing the poison in the boy's vomited blood, he was also very shocked.

Just by observing the martial technique, he knew what kind of deadly poison the boy had, and casually helped resolve it... This showed that Zhang Xuan had definitely reached the master level in the use of poisons.

Three-star calligrapher, two-star beast tamer, and alchemy skills surpassing even a four-star alchemist... How many more unknown abilities did this guy have?

Previously, he had always thought that the other party was only better than him in master teacher and alchemy, and might not match him in other professions. Now he realized that the other party definitely had many more professions he hadn't revealed.

"Even if you didn't know about the deadly poison, just now this student already said I was saving him, yet you still doubted me. Is this the observational ability of a one-star master teacher?"

Not knowing what Mo Hongyi was thinking, Zhang Xuan continued.

"..."

Not mentioning this was fine, but once he did, everyone was speechless.

That student did say you were saving him, but you had just beaten him and had that attitude; everyone thought you were threatening him, forcing him to answer that way.

Who would have thought... he was speaking sincerely.

"It was my failure to observe properly. I am unworthy of the title of one-star master teacher..."

After being questioned repeatedly, Dean Xie's face turned pale, and he seemed to have aged ten years.

He had thought that recruiting a teacher and giving him an assessment would be simple; he never expected so many things to happen, and he himself hadn't noticed.

"Alright, no need to be dejected. Study hard from now on, and when encountering things, don't jump to conclusions!" Zhang Xuan waved his hand.

Everyone staggered again.

This was the dean of Tianwu Academy, yet he was being lectured like a student by a mere teacher...

Speechless, everyone was also secretly shocked.

This Teacher Liu had seen a deadly poison that even the dean hadn't noticed, and casually solved the problems of two students. His insight and skill were so high that if they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, they would never have believed it.

In an instant, everyone looked at this young teacher with profound admiration.

Just as everyone's attention was focused on him, wanting to know how he had detected the boy's poisoning, they saw this Teacher Liu, all his aura of a master gone, turning into a student eager for results, scratching his head and looking over: "Um... with this, can I be accepted?"

"Accepted, of course you can be accepted!" Dean Xie's vision darkened, and he nodded repeatedly.

If someone with your abilities can't be accepted, then I might as well quit as dean...