Chapter 337: You Have Been Admitted

"Alright, that's settled!" Zhang Xuan clapped his hands with a beaming smile.

Seeing his relaxed demeanor, everyone felt dizzy and was on the verge of spitting blood.

This was simply too unconventional.

The Teachers' Guild had explicit rules against corporal punishment, yet he had directly struck the student, bruising his face badly. If this were investigated, no one could shoulder the responsibility.

"Teacher Liu, you..." Mo Hongyi was speechless and almost passed out. "Teachers are not allowed to hit students!"

This guy was truly something else. It would be one thing if he didn't understand the rules for assessing master teachers, but he must have taught classes and students before. He was already a candidate for a two-star master teacher; how could he possibly not know such a basic rule?

Teachers were supposed to win people over with virtue. Corporal punishment of students, if discovered, could very likely lead to the cancellation of one's teaching qualifications.

"Beating a student? Who said I was beating a student?" Zhang Xuan's eyes widened as he looked at the young man in front of him. "Did I hit you?"

"No! Teacher's kindness to me is immense. He saved me; he didn't hit me!" The young man quickly kowtowed and shouted with his lisping mouth.

Everyone was driven mad.

"Brother, could you be any more outrageous?"

He was treating so many people as if they were blind!

They had personally witnessed him hitting the student. It would have been one thing if he merely denied it, but he had even threatened the student, telling him not to speak. He was simply heinous and insane!

They had encountered teachers who left them speechless before, but never one quite like this.

"Hmph!"

Dean Xie's face turned ashen as he flicked his arm.

As the dean and a one-star master teacher, he had just witnessed a teacher assault a student and then threaten him. This was a blatant disregard for him!

"Teacher Liu, inflicting corporal punishment on a student violates a teacher's fundamental duty. I will report today's events truthfully to the Guild, and you can await their judgment! Furthermore, our Tianwu Academy will not hire someone with such a poor attitude and lack of professional ethics. Please leave immediately!"

With that, he waved his hand.

"Judgment? Lack of professional ethics?"

Zhang Xuan was momentarily stunned. He looked at Dean Xie and asked, "Is that your judgment?"

"Indeed!" Dean Xie huffed.

"Alright," Zhang Xuan shook his head. "With your discernment, are you truly a one-star master teacher? Honestly, I just want to ask... Are you blind?"

"Pfft!"

"Did this guy just directly call Dean Xie blind?"

"Good heavens! Corporal punishment of a student, insulting a one-star master teacher—is this guy insane?"

The other teachers' eyes were practically bulging out of their sockets.

This was the Dean of Tianwu Kingdom, a Grandmaster-realm super expert whose strength alone could place him among the top ten in the kingdom. He was also a one-star master teacher. And Zhang Xuan had called him blind...

"Good heavens!"

Before, they had only thought he was arrogant; now they knew he was truly insane!

Otherwise, why would he apply to be a teacher at their academy, not only publicly hitting a student but also insulting a master teacher?

Master teachers were not to be insulted. This single charge alone could condemn him to eternal damnation and utterly ruin him!

Mo Hongyi, standing to the side, also felt his mouth twitch.

However, he knew that despite the man's eccentric personality and careless speech, he possessed absolute strength and would never make baseless remarks.

He couldn't help but look closely, and upon doing so, he involuntarily froze in place. "This..."

While he was still in a daze, Dean Xie was already fuming with rage.

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

"Teacher Liu, do you realize you are insulting a master teacher!" Dean Xie gritted his teeth, suppressing his fury.

If it weren't for his concern for his status, he might have already struck this presumptuous fellow, bruising and battering him.

"Insulting a master teacher? Me?" Zhang Xuan looked over with a pitying expression. "Someone is indeed insulting the title of master teacher, but it's not me—it's you!"

"You..." Dean Xie's aura burst forth. He was about to teach this rude fellow a lesson when he saw the man put his hands behind his back, walk up to the young man, and speak in a faint voice.

"The Blood Calamity Spider is a unique and strange savage beast. Its body is only the size of a human's pinky fingertip. It feeds on the blood of living creatures, lives in dark environments, and prefers to act at night. Its body contains potent venom."

They had thought he was about to say something important, but unexpectedly, he spoke of an irrelevant savage beast, leaving everyone puzzled.

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

"The venom of this spider, when it infects a martial artist, won't cause death in the short term. However, it will paralyze the nerves, causing personality changes, making one irritable, restless, and eager to fight others... This is because only through combat can the toxins in the body be relieved, bringing a sense of calm!"

Zhang Xuan's voice continued.

"Such a thing exists?"

"Is there such a strange poison in the world?"

Hearing about the effects of the Blood Calamity Spider's venom, a guess vaguely emerged in everyone's minds. However, they dared not confirm it, and all of them looked at the young man in front of them in unison.

"Indeed, this young man has been poisoned, and it's already very severe! That's why he often gets into fights, is restless, and difficult to control. Did you notice that when he performed his martial arts technique just now, although his moves were precise, there was a reddish tinge in his eyes? A normal cultivator, even after multiple battles, would not have their spirit affected to the point of changing their eye color."

Zhang Xuan glanced around.

"A reddish tinge... it truly was there just now, but I just thought it was caused by his excitement!"

"Yes, I saw it too, and also thought it was a unique characteristic of his martial art. Could it be... a potent venom?"

"How is that possible? If he was poisoned, how did none of us notice?"

Recalling the scene of the young man performing his martial art just now, everyone was stunned.

The young man's gaze had indeed seemed a bit off, but some martial arts techniques could also alter one's gaze, so no one had considered this possibility.

Furthermore, who could have known that such a poison existed in the world, one that could affect a person's spirit, making them irritable and prone to fighting?

"Just now, I wasn't hitting him. Instead, I used a special method to force this venom out of his body. If you don't believe me, you can look at the blood he just shed on the ground!"

Zhang Xuan pointed casually.

Looking in the direction he pointed, everyone indeed saw the blood on the ground that had flowed out when Teacher Liu supposedly hit the boy.

The blood was now black, coagulated on the ground like a jelly-like substance, and the rocks it touched had developed pits, as if corroded by something. It was extremely strange.

"It's potent venom..."

Dean Xie's face turned pale.

Normal blood dripping on the ground couldn't coagulate so quickly, much less corrode rocks into pits.

Only blood containing potent venom would cause such a phenomenon.

Which meant...

The boy had indeed been poisoned! And Teacher Liu earlier was not hitting him but rather... expelling the poison!

"The Blood Calamity Spider's venom causes death within three months of infection. From his current state, he has probably been infected for just over a month, so it's not life-threatening. That's why he was able to suppress it with his own abilities, and it went undetected."

Zhang Xuan looked at Dean Xie. "Even so, Tianwu Academy, the kingdom's highest educational institution, allowed a student to be severely poisoned without knowing it! I kindly treated him, and you actually falsely accused me of beating a student and even threatened to report me to the Guild... A dignified dean and one-star master teacher couldn't even see this. May I ask... if that's not blindness, then what is it?"

"I..."

Dean Xie's face turned pale.

He hadn't noticed such obvious poisoned blood and had even scolded the other party. His face flushed. He wanted to explain, but he couldn't.

"Teacher Liu, please calm your anger," Mo Hongyi said. "Poison involves the Poison Master profession, and many people turn pale at the mention of it. It's quite normal not to know about it!"

Seeing the awkward atmosphere, Mo Hongyi stepped forward.

What he said was true. Many records concerning poison had been sealed by the Poison Hall, so many people were unclear about them.

Teachers, considering themselves to be righteous, rarely involved themselves with such lowly matters, so it was natural for them to only have a superficial understanding.

He had just known that Zhang Xuan would not make baseless remarks, and seeing the poisoned blood the boy had coughed up, he was utterly shocked.

Just by observing the martial arts technique, he knew what potent venom the boy had been infected with and casually helped resolve it. This indicated that Zhang Xuan had also definitely reached the Grandmaster realm in terms of poison usage.

A three-star calligrapher-painter, a two-star beast tamer, and even an alchemy technique superior to a four-star alchemist... How many more unknown abilities did this guy actually possess?

Previously, he had always felt that Zhang Xuan was only stronger than him in terms of being a master teacher and alchemy, and might not be superior in other professions. Now he realized... the other party definitely had many more professions that he hadn't even revealed.

"Even if you didn't know about the potent venom," Zhang Xuan continued, unaware of Mo Hongyi's thoughts. "The student just said that I was saving him. Yet you still questioned me? Is this the level of observation for a one-star master teacher?"

It was fine if he didn't mention this, but once he did, everyone was speechless.

The student had indeed said he was saving him, but Zhang Xuan had just hit him and displayed such an attitude that everyone thought he was threatening the student, scaring him into giving that answer.

Who would have thought... he was telling the truth.

"I failed to observe properly; I am unworthy of the title of a one-star master teacher..."

Being continuously questioned, Dean Xie's face turned pale, and he looked as if he had aged ten years.

He had originally thought it was just a simple process of hiring a teacher and assessing him. He never imagined that so many significant issues had occurred right under his nose without him noticing.

"Alright, there's no need to be disheartened," Zhang Xuan waved his hand. "Just study hard in the future and don't jump to conclusions when encountering matters!"

Everyone stumbled once more.

This was the Dean of Tianwu Academy, yet he was being lectured by a mere teacher as if he were a student...

With speechless expressions, everyone was secretly shocked.

This Teacher Liu had discerned the potent venom that even the dean hadn't noticed and effortlessly resolved the problems of two students. His discernment and methods were so profound that if they hadn't witnessed it themselves, it would be absolutely unbelievable.

In an instant, they all felt a profound admiration for this young teacher, like looking up at a towering mountain.

Just as everyone's gazes converged, wanting to know how he had discerned the boy's poisoning, they saw Teacher Liu, who had completely lost his air of a master, seemingly becoming a student anxiously awaiting results. He scratched his head and looked over, "Um... given all this, can I be admitted?"

"Admitted? Of course you can be admitted!" Dean Xie's vision swam, and he nodded repeatedly.

If someone with your ability isn't admitted, then I might as well not be dean anymore...