Chapter 58: How Did He Do It?

When the other party had just called out the gold note, he was also alarmed, but there was still some pretense in it. Now it was sheer terror, feeling a chill rushing straight down from his forehead, as if about to freeze him into an ice man.

It was not surprising that his name was called out, after all, he was a repeat offender, wanted by the authorities, and it was possible that someone who paid attention might have detected him.

But... the Charm Sound Art he practiced—even Old Two didn't know about it, and he himself dared not tell anyone—how could the other party know it so clearly?

This was a secret manual he had obtained through a stroke of luck, hidden deep in his heart, confident that no second person in the world knew about it. The other party calling it out in one breath sent a shock so strong it nearly scared him to death.

There were many types of secret manuals: physical, martial techniques, cultivation methods... However, these were easy to find. Within the kingdom, the most precious were probably these mental secret arts!

Charm Sound Art, an extremely low-level mental secret art, but no matter how low-level, it was a trump card for mental attacks. Once executed, even a stronger person, caught off guard, would fall for it. Once, he had been captured by a martial artist of the seventh rank, and it was precisely by relying on this trump card, speaking honeyed words, that he made the other spare his life.

Just now, he had deliberately begged for mercy, actually planning to use this method to numb the other party!

Never in his dreams did he expect that the other party was not numbed at all, but seemed omniscient, knowing everything about him. In front of this person, it was as if his disguise had been stripped away, his whole body naked, without any cover. How could he not feel panicked?

Earlier it was fear, now it was terror.

"Never mind how I know. Not only do I know these things, but I also know all about your vital points in cultivation! I can spare your life, but from today on, if I find out you continue to deceive people and do evil, just wait to die!"

Without further ado, Zhang Xuan kicked him.

Crack!

With a sound like an egg breaking, the swindler Yang Mo felt a roar in his dantian, and the power he had cultivated over the years flowed away like water.

With his strength gone, even if he wanted to deceive people, he probably wouldn't dare.

"My cultivation..."

Feeling his power vanish, Yang Mo was filled with hatred but dared not say a word.

The other party was too terrifying, no longer human but a monster.

A monster had broken his dantian and废了他的修为, how could he dare to resist?

"Get lost!"

Having obtained the benefits and dealt with the swindler, Zhang Xuan strode toward the academy.

A mere swindler wasn't worth killing.

Returning to his residence, it was already about one in the morning.

However, Zhang Xuan felt no drowsiness.

There were too many things happening tonight, one after another. If not for the Heaven's Path Library, that cheating artifact, he really didn't know how to cope.

"I looked at over a dozen martial arts cultivation methods for the sixth rank at Master Lu Chen's place. Let's see if I can organize them first!"

Earlier, he had only cultivated the Heaven's Path Golden Body and hadn't carefully examined the sixth-rank methods. Now that he had time, he could study them in detail.

Soon, the correct cultivation methods from the dozen or so manuals were extracted. But after a glance, Zhang Xuan's head ached.

"These don't connect at all... If I cultivate according to this, I'll definitely suffer qi deviation and be refined to death!"

Shaking his head, Zhang Xuan felt helpless.

Although there were over a dozen manuals, the flaws were too many. Even extracting the correct parts couldn't form a complete method; instead, it was full of loopholes and completely uncultivatable.

"Forget it, I'll find a way to read more books first!"

Knowing it was unusable, Zhang Xuan wasn't anxious. He recultivated the first three levels of the methods organized in the library, ensuring they perfectly merged with his internal cultivation, then slowly fell asleep.

...

Zhang Xuan didn't know that while he was shopping at the market, within the academy, Elder Shang Chen's courtyard was about to explode.

"Grandfather, you must stand up for me!"

Shang Bin was weeping and wailing, crying as if the sky were falling.

As the grandson of a dignified elder, born with a silver spoon, and with decent talent, he had always been respected. Today, he had suffered all the setbacks he had never experienced in his life. It was a wonder he hadn't gone mad on the spot.

He went to cause trouble, but a madman rushed out and beat him into a pig's head. In the evening, he went to eat, only to see his goddess eating and drinking with that guy, laughing and chatting... The framing didn't work, and he made a fool of himself, but that was fine. The key was...

"Grandfather, didn't you say this Exploding Sky Lion was very obedient? I told it to teach that waste Zhang Xuan a lesson, why didn't it move, and instead beat me up..."

The more he thought about it, the angrier he got. Shang Bin felt his heart was full of tears.

This Exploding Sky Lion in front of him ate his family's food, drank his family's drink, and at the critical moment, not only was it disobedient, but it even helped an outsider beat him up... Thinking about it, he felt like he was going crazy.

"It's usually very obedient..." Shang Chen was a bit embarrassed. He looked at the Exploding Sky Lion with a strange expression.

He was just an ordinary beast tamer, not very high in rank. Even if he could subdue wild beasts, it was on equal terms, not like treating a servant!

Because of this, the Exploding Sky Lion had its own ideas about what it wanted to do, and it didn't have to follow his lead or guess his thoughts.

But... no matter what, the two had a contractual relationship. He told it to protect his grandson, so why... did it listen to someone else and beat up Shang Bin?

"Roar!"

Seeing the other party look at it, the Exploding Sky Lion looked proud, its head held high, completely indifferent.

Seeing its expression, Shang Bin felt another ten thousand points of damage to his heart.

When it saw Zhang Xuan, it licked the man's hand with its tongue, looking respectful like a lapdog. Now it was as proud as a king... Damn it, is he your master, or is my grandfather?

"Ahem, I'll talk to the Exploding Sky Lion later!" Seeing his beast pet's attitude, clearly refusing to cooperate, Elder Shang Chen's face reddened, and he waved his hand.

"Grandfather, this time you must teach that Zhang Xuan a good lesson. Better yet, revoke his teaching qualification and expel him from the academy!"

Knowing that his grandfather and the Exploding Sky Lion were only on equal terms and couldn't discipline it, Shang Bin didn't dwell on the issue and gritted his teeth.

A waste who scored zero in the teacher qualification exam had made him lose so much face, left him bruised and nearly dead. Such hatred couldn't be washed away even by the waters of a river!

"Don't worry, I'll handle this. But this Zhang Xuan must have stepped in dog shit to recruit five students. Without a proper excuse, even I would have trouble firing a registered teacher!"

Elder Shang Chen said.

Zhang Xuan was a teacher registered with the Continental Teacher's Guild, a formal teaching profession. Even if he was an academy elder and director of the academic affairs office, as long as the other party didn't commit a major mistake, he had no right to fire him.

Shaking his head, a look of confusion appeared in his eyes.

A guy who scored zero in the teacher qualification exam—everyone thought he would never recruit any students. Never in their dreams did they expect that not only did he recruit students, but he recruited five, including some who ranked in the top hundred!

If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would have found it unbelievable.

Even... after seeing the summary from the academic affairs office, he still found it hard to believe.

This guy... how did he do it?

It completely defied common sense, didn't it?