"Fang Yuan actually didn't come to class today. Look, his seat has been empty the whole time."
"How can his guts be so big! This morning is the academy elder's class, and he actually dares not to come."
"Not good, Lord Elder looks displeased, it seems Fang Yuan is going to be out of luck. Hehehe."
In the academy, the youths discussed quietly. Some gazes continuously swept towards Fang Yuan's empty seat, as well as the academy elder's increasingly darkening face.
Ever since Fang Yuan started robbing and extorting, he had stood on the opposing side of everyone. Seeing him out of luck was something all the students loved to hear and see.
The academy elder's face was ashen. While explaining the knack for warming and nourishing the aperture, he secretly swept his gaze over Fang Yuan's seat.
He sneered in his heart: "Fang Yuan oh Fang Yuan. Yesterday I was still worrying about not being able to catch any fault of yours. Today you proactively delivered yourself to my door. Ultimately a fifteen-year-old youth, I still overestimated you."
His unsightly expression at this moment was mostly feigned. His purpose was to take this opportunity to launch an attack, punish Fang Yuan, and suppress his increasingly unbridled arrogance.
It was undeniable that as time passed, Fang Yuan's imposing momentum grew stronger and stronger, suppressing the other students to the point of being out of breath.
One family dominating was not the scene the academy elder hoped to see; what he hoped for was a scene where a hundred flowers bloomed and a hundred schools of thought contended.
"Someone come." The academy elder bent his fingers and gently knocked on the lecture desk.
"Lord, your subordinate is here." The two guards outside the door immediately pushed it open and entered.
The academy elder publicly let out a cold snort: "This Fang Yuan is too outrageous, to actually be lazy to this extent, blatantly skipping class right under my nose. You guys go to the dormitory and bring him here to me."
"Yes, Lord." The guards turned and left.
Seeing the guards disappear outside the door, a burst of clamor instantly erupted in the academy.
Countless students whispered to each other.
"Fang Yuan is really out of luck this time." Someone's eyes lit up.
"Hehe, there'll be a good show to watch later." Someone laughed taking pleasure in others' misfortune.
"Brother, you are too arrogant. You are challenging Lord Elder's authority. No matter what punishment you receive, you brought it upon yourself." Gu Yue Fang Zheng looked at the seat, also sighing in his heart.
Bang bang bang!
With a stern and cold expression on his face, the academy elder continuously slapped the lecture desk three times with his hand: "All be quiet, no making noise in the academy!"
His aura at this moment was like a volcano about to erupt, inspiring fear by the sight of it.
Instantly, the academy was so quiet that a dropping needle could be heard.
The students fearfully closed their mouths, successively sitting up straight with proper posture.
It was just that this was their surface appearance; their inner attention had long been drawn away by this matter.
The class continued, but the youths all appeared somewhat absent-minded.
Some students with seats near the window also occasionally looked outside.
Time passed by, and after a good while, a burst of footsteps suddenly came from the doorway.
In an instant, many students' ears twitched, and dozens of pairs of eyes abruptly bloomed with bright radiance.
"He's here…" The academy elder also heard the footsteps, and he couldn't help but narrow his eyes.
He had already thought of how to deal with Fang Yuan. Just punish him by making him stand squarely outside the door for three hours.
Although the punishment was not heavy, it was a loss of face.
During and after class, as students went out and came in, continuously walking about, they would see Fang Yuan undergoing the standing punishment.
In this way, Fang Yuan's terrifying image would be shattered. When the students realized that Fang Yuan was nothing more than this, the deterrence he brought them would greatly drop, and a surge of courage would be added to their hearts, stimulating their will to fight.
What was even more brilliant was that the punishment on Fang Yuan originated from the academy. Invisibly, it would make the students hold the academy in even greater reverence.
Only with reverence would there be compliance.
Therefore, do not look down on this method as simple; it actually held profound significance behind the scenes.
The footsteps drew closer and closer, and finally, the incomer stopped outside the door.
Thump thump thump.
A burst of knocking sounded.
"Hehe, I'll open the door!" The student sitting closest to the door volunteered, stood up, walked out of his seat, and opened the door.
The academy involuntarily quieted down, countless pairs of eyes staring at the door panel.
Creak.
The door was gently pulled open by a gap in that student's hand.
Sunlight shot in through the gap, but the body of the student opening the door abruptly trembled fiercely at this moment!
"Ah!!!" He froze for a moment, suddenly let out a cry of alarm, and subconsciously took a large step back.
His body crashed into the desk, instantly losing his balance, and both he and the desk tumbled onto the ground.
His face turned completely pale, full of shock and fear, his four limbs trembling and devoid of strength. Falling on the ground, he scrambled frantically trying to get up, but planted downward again.
"What's going on?!" For a time, everyone 's hearts leaped, and they frowned deeply.
Countless inquiring gazes, their curiosity piqued, shot towards the door panel.
The door was slowly pushed open by the person outside.
The academy elder also subconsciously stopped his lecture.
The first thing to catch the eye was a hand propping up the door.
The left hand of a youth.
A bloody left hand.
A bloody hand!
Seeing this bloody hand, quite a few female students covered their lips, letting out irrepressible gasps of alarm.
The door was slowly, completely pushed open.
Bright sunlight shone in, the light glaring, and everyone couldn't help but narrow their eyelids.
The incandescent sunlight became the background, a pitch-black silhouette outlining a thin youth, presenting itself in everyone's field of vision.
For some reason, a strong sense of impending doom suddenly welled up in the academy elder's heart.
"It's Fang Yuan!" Unknown who it was, let out a loud shout full of shock.
Everyone subsequently adapted to the sunlight and saw the incomer clearly.
Only to see Fang Yuan thoroughly bathed in blood, standing with his head held high at the doorway, seemingly having just experienced a fierce battle.
His left hand that pushed the door slowly withdrew, while his right hand was grasping hair, dragging a person.
This person's left arm had been cleanly severed from the root. Motionless, he had already passed out. Leaving the wound at his left shoulder to gurgle out fresh blood.
"It's one of the guards who went to find Fang Yuan!" Someone recognized this person's identity.
"Just what exactly is going on here?" Someone went crazy.
"He killed someone again, this time he killed a guard!" Someone pointed at Fang Yuan, screaming in panic. It seemed as if the louder they yelled, the more they could vent the panic and fear in their hearts.
For a time, the academy was in a complete uproar.
At this moment, many students forgot about discipline, so shocked that they involuntarily stood up from their seats. Using gazes full of shock and panic, they stared tightly at Fang Yuan at the doorway.
In their imagination, Fang Yuan should have been escorted over with two guards pressing him from the left and right.
But the fact placed before their eyes was—Fang Yuan thoroughly bathed in blood, his expression cold and cruel, exactly like an evil spirit arriving at the door. One of the two guards had disappeared, and the other was completely motionless, blood slowly flowing out from his body, quickly accumulating into a pool of bright red blood at the doorway.
A dense smell of blood instantly permeated throughout the academy.
The academy elder was stunned; he had never expected it to be this kind of scene!
After the shock, came surging fury.
These two guards were both martial artists of foreign surnames; if they died, they died, the academy elder did not care.
But the key was their identity. They were the academy's guards, representing the majesty of the academy, representing the face of him, the academy elder.
This Fang Yuan is simply daring to the extreme; killing Gao Wan was one thing, but now he actually dares to kill even the academy's guards!
No, this is more than daring to the extreme, this is simply naked provocation, provoking the authority of the clan academy.
The academy elder's hair bristled with anger as he pointed at Fang Yuan and shouted loudly: "Fang Yuan! What is the meaning of this? You must explain this clearly to me, and you'd better give me a reason to spare you. Otherwise, based solely on your indiscriminate killing of guards, you will be thrown into the dungeon, awaiting the execution of clan law!"
All the students kept quiet out of fear.
Even the window lattices were trembling, the academy elder's roaring voice echoing throughout the entire hall.
Only Fang Yuan's expression was calm, his eyes deep and secluded, exactly like normal, unable to discern a single trace of fluctuation.
His gaze sweeping around, Fang Yuan loosened his right hand, and with a plop, the guard's head smashed into the pool of blood on the ground, splashing up a spray of blood droplets that stained the hem of Fang Yuan's trousers.
He cupped his hands in a salute to the academy elder, and his tranquil voice rang out in the silent academy: "Lord Academy Elder, this junior indeed has a matter to report."
"Speak." The academy elder crossed his hands behind his back, looking up at Fang Yuan, his gaze like ice.
Also sneering in his heart: "Fang Yuan, you make mistake after mistake, and the mistakes get bigger and bigger. I really want to see how you explain this!"