As Kong Yin spoke, the people around them turned their gaze upon Su Qiong and her companions.
"Fuck, with First Grade cultivation, what else can they do?" A wave of discussion began to rise among the crowd.
Someone couldn’t help but glance at Fan Zhan among Su Qiong’s team, and their expression immediately soured.
"Damn it, carried into Zhongnan Academy on a stretcher, is simply a disgrace among the new recruits. If the elders in the academy were to find out, who knows how they would scoff!" Someone immediately muttered under their breath.
"Motherfucker, isn’t that right, such a big ass, if it was my face that got injured, just a little hurt and still lying on a stretcher. If it were me, even if I had to crawl, I’d crawl there myself!
Such an embarrassment, might as well roll back where they came from early!" Another person ridiculed.
Fan Zhan’s face flushed red, and he bit his lips until they bled.
"Fan Zhan, don’t mind them!" Su Qiong quickly came over to comfort him.
"Brother Zhan, stay calm, don’t stoop to their level!" Zuo Zhengqing, Zhou Siyu, and a few others also came over to advise.
Jiang Wen stood on the sideline without speaking, just glancing faintly at Su Qiong and her people, only First Grade cultivation after all.
Having such trash in the team was quite a headache, lowering the overall strength, the kind that dragged behind, no one really wanted them.
Tao Yang stood aside, also silent. In his eyes, this was a hot potato. If left unattended, after all, they were from the Secular World, outsiders would inevitably mock them!
To take care of them? They’d become a burden in the team, absolutely useless.
So, he did not speak up, leaving this thorny issue to Chao Liang to handle!
Seeing Chao Liang take a deep breath and speak indifferently, "Although their strength is very weak, they have refused my kindness before.
But now, their hope, the legendary and mysterious boss, is likely already gone at Shennong Peak.
Being from the same Secular World, we cannot stand by idly. We should unite."
With that, he turned to Su Qiong and her team, saying, "With your abilities, you’ll struggle to stand on your own in the academy. I’ll give you one last chance. Are you still going to be stubborn?"
Upon hearing his words, although people were not pleased, Chao Liang had made his stance clear, and it wasn’t easy for the others to say anything.
"The boss has a heart as vast as the sea, able to forgive and repay enmity with kindness. Are you still hesitating?" Kong Yin stood to the side and said coldly.
Su Qiong and her comrades hesitated. They too were aware of their current predicament; with Ling Fan’s fate unknown, they were caught between a rock and a hard place.
If they rejected this guy again, they would completely offend him, and they feared future days would be even harder.
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"What are your thoughts?" Such a big matter, Su Qiong could not decide by herself, perhaps the others wished to join the team.
Previously, when Ling Fan was fine, they might have been united, but now, with circumstances changed, it wasn’t easy to say if their hearts could still hold together!
"Sister Su Qiong, we’ll follow your lead. I believe the boss will definitely come back!" Fan Zhan spoke up.
"Right, we’re listening to you, Sister Su Qiong, you decide!
Still, in my heart, I also want to wait for the boss to return!" Zuo Zhengqing, Jiang Shi, also spoke up.
Zhou Siyu also stood by Su Qiong’s side, "Sister Qiong, I believe Young Master Ling is blessed by heaven and won’t meet with mishap so easily!"
Comforted in her heart, Su Qiong saw that these few hadn’t changed, "That’s what I’m thinking too!"
She then looked towards Chao Liang, her gaze firm, "You’ve seen their stance. For now, we’re not planning to join any other teams. Ling Fan will definitely be back before tomorrow!"
Su Qiong’s words resonated with force, causing the nearby crowd to be stunned.
In their wildest dreams, they didn’t expect that these pieces of trash, in such a perilous and unpredictable environment, would refuse Chao Liang’s goodwill?
"Fuck, still fantasizing about your boss? Have you lost your minds? Didn’t you hear Elder Liang say just now that guy might have died in the storm of thunderclouds on Shennong Peak?" Kong Yin shouted coldly.
Tao Yang, who stood to one side, could hardly bear to watch anymore and couldn’t help but say, "You really don’t know what’s good for you. For Young Master Chao to make an exception and allow you to join the troop is already an act of immense generosity.
With your cultivation and abilities, I’m not trying to belittle you, but if you leave the main force, whether you can survive in the academy is a question in itself!"
"Heh, isn’t that the truth? I’ve seen ungrateful people, but never have I seen anyone as ungrateful as you.
Not to mention whether your boss had an accident or not, even if he could come back alive, could he possibly be more formidable than our Young Master Chao?
Even if your so-called boss came back, he would still have to lead you into Young Master Chao’s team!
Your current behavior is like digging your own grave. Really, your brains must be filled with water—no, with shit!" Jiang Wen snorted coldly, unable to restrain his mockery.
The onlookers began to get excited as well, joining in with their own cold sneers and hot jeers.
"Damn, these idiots, we wouldn’t even want to take them in; they really think too highly of themselves—what the hell!"
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"Exactly, strength of a weak dog, but the temperament as stiff as a tiger. They don’t know their own weight—this guy is so full of himself. The boss gives them a little face and they lose all sense of direction, huh!"
Listening to the crowd’s ridicule and laughter, Su Qiong and the others turned pale, struggling to hold back without snapping. In front of these people, they had no power to fight back whatsoever.
Sadness, humiliation, deep longing for strength—at the moment, aside from waiting for Ling Fan’s return, they could do nothing.
"Enough!"
Chao Liang’s muddled thoughts finally returned to him, and as he listened to the people around him jeering at Su Qiong and the others, his face grew dark as water.
He really couldn’t fathom why these people kept rejecting him time and time again.
It made him lose face completely, as if he were persistently courting someone who simply wasn’t interested.
"We’re the ones overestimating ourselves. After all, they’re the subordinates of that peerless genius. How could we be qualified to recruit them?
We probably don’t even have the qualification to carry our boss’s shoes in their eyes!" Chao Liang scoffed.
Zuo Zhengqing thought bitterly inside, "You’re damn right about that; someone like you truly isn’t worthy of carrying our boss’s shoes!"
"Hahaha, right, right, right, they’re the underlings of a peerless genius, and we’re all trash!
Fuck, today’s peerless geniuses are all so damn low-key, even their underlings are First Grade extraordinary talents!" Someone in the crowd couldn’t help but burst into laughter.
"Haha, ’extraordinary talents,’ what a wonderful use of words. Us, with Third Grade and Fourth Grade cultivation, standing in front of a First Grade, we’re not worthy of the title ’extraordinary talents,’" someone else chimed in, unable to resist joining in.
After saying this, it immediately provoked a round of uproarious laughter.
Hearing these words, Su Qiong and the others felt so humiliated they almost crushed their teeth.
"Alright, let’s start arranging the group practice, hoping that everyone can pass smoothly in tomorrow’s assessment!" Chao Liang instructed the crowd.
Immediately, Tao Yang and a few others began arranging groups, eight people to a group, and the last group had seven. They didn’t consider Su Qiong and the others at all.
Seeing that everyone else had quickly settled into groups, all except for them, Su Qiong and his group found themselves isolated in no time!
"Hey, why aren’t we included? Although we’re not in the same group as you, we’re all new recruits brought in for enrollment, entitled to the same treatment in the assessment. Why aren’t we allowed to practice?" Su Qiong mustered the courage to question.
They were already weak; if they didn’t practice on the Iron Chain Bridge today, there would be no hope for them in tomorrow’s assessment. The rights they needed to fight for had to be contended for.
Hearing this, everyone looked over with contemptuous faces.
Chao Liang frowned, already out of patience with these idiots, and snorted coldly, "Heh, you’re so amazing, do you still need practice?
You want to practice, huh? Wait then. It’s only after they finish their training that it will be your turn!"
"You..." Su Qiong clenched his teeth in anger.