Chapter 2104: Chapter 2059: Elder Cao
"No wonder you dared to talk back to me. So you’ve got a bit of strength after all." Xu Ming said coldly.
Wang Youdong and the others were all startled when they heard this!
So that means Chen Yang is at least at the Gathering Spirit Realm?
"What does talking back to you have to do with strength?" Chen Yang’s face was expressionless as he slowly withdrew his palm.
"Hmph, hand over the inner core, and we’ll pretend nothing happened today. Otherwise, if this blows up, it’ll do neither of us any good." Xu Ming knew he was in the wrong and didn’t want to drag this out.
He just wanted to take the Canghuo Wolf’s inner core and then leave.
As for Chen Yang and Nangong Zheng, there’d be plenty of time to deal with them later.
But his little scheme was doomed to fail.
If Chen Yang were the type to hand over the Canghuo Wolf’s inner core, why would he have wasted so many words just now?
"You’re dreaming. Not only are we not giving you this inner core, we’re going to report you to Elder Cao!" Nangong Zheng shouted angrily.
"You’re seeking death!!" Xu Ming was furious beyond control, Spiritual Energy surging wildly through his body as he once again had the urge to make a move.
Chen Yang’s brows furrowed, a faint anger also burning in his heart.
Xu Ming, who was at mid-to-late Gathering Spirit, was nothing in his eyes.
With a casual strike, he could seriously injure Xu Ming!
But this was the academy!
The academy had its own rules!
And it was his very first day at the academy; if he seriously injured Xu Ming, who knew what kind of trouble it might bring?
This was also why he had held back his strength just now and hadn’t directly crippled Xu Ming.
Yet now, Xu Ming still wanted to make a move!
Then he couldn’t be blamed.
Chen Yang’s eyes narrowed slightly. As soon as Xu Ming moved, he would respond with thunderous methods—showing no mercy.
But whether Xu Ming was lucky or something else, who knew.
Just as he was about to make a move, Elder Cao suddenly arrived.
"Who is making a racket in the Registration Hall?"
Elder Cao strode into the Registration Hall and saw two groups facing off with drawn swords.
Elder Cao was slightly stunned. How had this new student ended up in a confrontation with Xu Ming?
What was going on?
"Elder Cao, why have you come back? Wasn’t I in charge of the hall today?" Xu Ming, seeing Elder Cao return, immediately put on a different face, walking up with a beaming smile.
Elder Cao sensed that something had happened and looked displeased. "I came back to get something. What are you all doing, so tense and ready to fight?"
"Elder Cao, you came back at just the right time. These two new students, relying on a bit of strength, refuse to obey my discipline and even wanted to fight me." Seeing that Elder Cao had noticed this, Xu Ming immediately complained first.
At the same time, he shot Wang Youdong and the others a look.
Wang Youdong and the others understood at once and quickly chimed in from the side.
"That’s right, that’s right, these two are way too arrogant. Senior Brother Xu Ming was just about to teach them a lesson."
Wang Youdong’s group all pointed their fingers at Chen Yang and Nangong Zheng.
Elder Cao grew angry as soon as he heard this.
Arrogant on the very first day—how was that acceptable?
Did the academy have no rules?
"Is that so?" Elder Cao’s eyes swept over them sharply, landing directly on Chen Yang and Nangong Zheng.
"Elder Cao, things are nothing like what he said." Nangong Zheng was also full of anger, but he still maintained his manners, giving a slight bow as he spoke.
"Not like that? Then how is it?" Elder Cao asked.
Seeing that Elder Cao was willing to listen to their side, Nangong Zheng immediately held nothing back and recounted everything that had happened today.
"We actually didn’t know about this at first. It was a senior brother in the academy who told us." Nangong Zheng earnestly laid out everything.
Including how Wang Youdong and the others had bribed him yesterday.
After listening, the anger on Elder Cao’s face rose to a new level.
"Elder Cao, don’t listen to their nonsense. They’re blatantly distorting the truth. Nothing like that ever happened." Xu Ming grew anxious and stammered out a panicked explanation.
But Chen Yang had already taken out the Canghuo Wolf’s inner core.
"Xu Ming, you were just asking me for the inner core, and now you won’t admit it? If you hadn’t sent us to find an inner core, where do you think this one came from?" Chen Yang stared at Xu Ming and said coldly.
"How should I know where you got that? You’re framing me!" Xu Ming refused to admit anything.
"Enough, shut your mouth!"
Elder Cao barked at Xu Ming!
He was an elder, after all. Having been in the academy for so many years, how could he not know that some senior students relied on their seniority to bully newcomers?
From just this much, he could tell what had happened.
Rebuked, Xu Ming immediately shut up obediently.
"Is this inner core really obtained from you two killing a Canghuo Wolf?" After scolding Xu Ming, Elder Cao’s tone softened slightly as he looked at Chen Yang and Nangong Zheng.
The Canghuo Wolf was a demon beast at least at mid Gathering Spirit.
Without strong strength, it was impossible to kill one.
Could it be that these two newcomers were quite powerful?
That was what Elder Cao was thinking.
Chen Yang also heard the implication in Elder Cao’s words, but he had no intention of revealing his true cultivation.
After all, he was new here and didn’t know what kind of person Elder Cao was. If he could avoid exposing himself, he naturally would.
"Elder, this inner core was indeed obtained from us killing a Canghuo Wolf, though there was quite a bit of luck involved..." Chen Yang did not deny killing the Canghuo Wolf, but he emphasized the specific circumstances at the time.
He shifted most of the credit for killing the Canghuo Wolf onto luck.
He made it sound like they had just taken advantage of a bargain.
In reality, although that Canghuo Wolf had been heavily wounded at the time, it was definitely not something just anyone could walk up and take advantage of.
It was only because Chen Yang had infused his own strength into that one sword strike that he had managed a killing blow.
It was just that Nangong Zheng’s Realm was too low to see it.
So after hearing Chen Yang’s account, Nangong Zheng kept nodding. "That’s exactly how it happened."
Elder Cao had originally held some expectations for Chen Yang and Nangong Zheng.
But once he heard that hunting the Canghuo Wolf had mainly been luck, that look of expectation quickly faded.
"So that’s how it is. Then you two really are quite lucky; otherwise, you definitely wouldn’t be a match for a Canghuo Wolf." Elder Cao nodded.
"Elder Cao, don’t believe them. I really didn’t send them to hunt a Canghuo Wolf, they’re making things up!" Seeing that Elder Cao was inclined to believe Chen Yang and the others, Xu Ming panicked.
He hurried to explain.
But could Elder Cao really not grasp what had actually happened?
Two brand-new students would risk their lives just to frame him?
What nonsense was that?
"Shut up! Do you think I don’t know what’s going on? If you hadn’t really given them the mission, would they risk their lives to go into the Ferocious Beast Forest?" Elder Cao scolded Xu Ming.
Xu Ming was left speechless by the rebuke...
"You two, hand the Canghuo Wolf’s inner core over to me. This time will count as you completing the mission, and in fact over-completing it. Each of you can additionally receive two hundred contribution points!"
As Elder Cao spoke, he took out two voucher-like slips of paper from his sleeve and handed them to Chen Yang and Nangong Zheng.
With these slips, they could go to the Contribution Hall and claim their contribution points!
This move from Elder Cao was something neither Chen Yang nor Nangong Zheng had expected!
A bit of a pleasant surprise!
