158: Chapter 158 The Four Keys Return to Their Place

The inverted Fourth High School pressed down from the sky.

A layer of blue light screen separated the two schools.

The people on the playground could see the classrooms above.

The students above could also see the people below.

They were sitting very neatly.

Their hands were placed on the desks.

Their eyes were empty.

They did not look like students.

They looked more like rows of arranged puppets.

On the podium.

The woman who looked exactly like Liu Cuilan picked up a piece of chalk and wrote a line on the blackboard.

[First Lesson: Who is Jiang Feng's mother.]

Li Yan's face darkened on the spot.

"This crappy school actually dares to start a class?"

Zhang Changlin lowered his voice: "Don't be impulsive."

Li Yan glared: "They've started the class on someone's mother's head, and you're telling me not to charge?"

Xiao Zhenjiang looked at the sky, his voice very heavy.

"Wait for Jiang Feng."

Everyone looked toward the bottom of the pit.

Jiang Feng stood there.

Gray T-shirt.

Slippers.

Three earth keys were slowly rotating in his hand.

He didn't act immediately.

This instead made Zero Seven more nervous.

She would rather Jiang Feng throw a punch right now.

This kind of silence was the most terrifying.

In the sky.

The fake Liu Cuilan turned around.

Her voice spread throughout Dongjiang City.

"Students, today we will discuss a very simple question."

"Between the grace of birth and the grace of upbringing, which is more important?"

In the classroom, those students spoke simultaneously.

"The source is more important."

The voices were uniform.

Without the slightest fluctuation.

The fake Liu Cuilan nodded.

"Jiang Feng was born from First Blue Star's Variable Project."

"His Dao Fruit, earth keys, and talents were all bestowed by the source."

"The Lower Realm's Liu Cuilan is merely a temporary caretaker."

"Now that the caretaking period is over, they should naturally be returned."

A dead silence fell over the playground.

These words were too disgusting.

Eighteen years of mother-son affection.

Was reduced to a mere deposit by her in just a few sentences.

Shen Qingni gripped the Ice Sword in her hand, the back of her hand feeling cold.

She once thought that talent determined destiny.

Now she knew that the cruelest thing wasn't controlling talent.

It was that even "whose child you are" could be rewritten by others.

Li Yan gritted his teeth: "Bullshit!"

The fake Liu Cuilan looked down.

"Vulgar."

Li Yan laughed out of anger.

"So what if I'm vulgar?"

"At least I know that whoever raises the child is the mother!"

The fake Liu Cuilan ignored him.

She looked at Jiang Feng.

"Pangu No. 1, you may answer the question."

The words on the blackboard changed.

[Question 1: Do you acknowledge Liu Cuilan as your mother, or First Blue Star as your mother?]

Zero Seven's expression changed.

"Mr. Jiang, don't answer!"

Jiang Feng looked at her.

Zero Seven said urgently: "This is a classroom rule."

"Once you answer, it can use your words to exploit you."

Li Yan cursed: "This even comes with a forced exam?"

Zero Seven nodded.

"First Blue Star's schools aren't for teaching people."

"They are for remolding people."

"It asks questions not for answers."

"But to define identity."

Jiang Feng understood.

To put it bluntly.

This wasn't an exam.

This was a setup.

In the sky.

Mirror Jiang Feng sat in the last row.

He spun a half-piece of blue stone in his hand and looked down with a smile.

"What, don't dare to answer?"

Jiang Feng glanced at him.

"You're attending class too?"

Mirror Jiang Feng's smile froze.

Jiang Feng continued: "Sitting in the last row, you really look like a poor student."

Li Yan almost couldn't hold it in.

"Pfft."

Mirror Jiang Feng's face turned colder.

On the podium, the fake Liu Cuilan tapped the blackboard.

"No idle chatter in class."

A beam of blue light descended from the sky, pressing directly onto Li Yan.

Just as Li Yan was about to punch, the blue light stopped in mid-air.

Jiang Feng raised his hand and lightly swiped with his index finger.

The blue light was severed.

Like a cut thread.

A System prompt popped up.

[Touched First Blue Star classroom rule.]

[Plunderable.]

[Execute Pangu Plunder?]

Jiang Feng said: "Execute."

The blue light shattered into points of light and fell into his palm.

[Plundered classroom rule fragment.]

[Obtained all attributes: 5 Ji.]

[Current basic six-dimensional attributes: 120 Ji.]

The corner of Zero Seven's mouth twitched.

You can even gain attributes by attending class?

Others take notes in class.

He dismantles rules in class.

This learning method is truly something else.

The fake Liu Cuilan's expression finally changed.

"You dare steal classroom authority?"

Jiang Feng said indifferently: "You open for business, I pay some tuition to listen to the lecture. It's very reasonable."

Li Yan gave a thumbs up.

"When a cultured man robs, he really speaks differently."

In the direction of Tianshu Dragon Garden.

Liu Cuilan's projection was still active.

She stood in the bedroom, looking at the face in the sky that was identical to hers, her expression very unpleasant.

Jiang Jianguo stood beside her, already gripping the ruyi heaven-breaking staff.

Longnu lay by the window, her eyes glowing with golden light.

"Grandma, can I bite her?"

Liu Cuilan was silent for two seconds.

"Don't bite yet."

Longnu was stunned.

Liu Cuilan stared at the fake Liu Cuilan.

"I'll scold her a bit first."

On the playground, Li Yan's spirit was lifted.

"Auntie is about to use her ultimate."

The fake Liu Cuilan looked at Liu Cuilan.

"Mortal, you are not qualified to participate in the classroom."

Liu Cuilan sneered.

"You're wearing my face, talking nonsense up there, and you say I'm not qualified?"

The fake Liu Cuilan's voice was steady.

"You are merely the nurturer."

Liu Cuilan asked: "When Jiang Feng had a fever in the middle of the night as a child, where were you?"

The fake Liu Cuilan did not answer.

Liu Cuilan asked again: "When he was bullied in primary school and I went to find the teacher with a broom, where were you?"

The fake Liu Cuilan's eyes turned cold.

Liu Cuilan continued: "When he awakened at B-level and didn't say a word when he came home for fear of disappointing us..."

"It was I who fried an egg for him."

"Where were you then?"

The classroom in the sky suddenly went silent.

For the first time, there was a slight ripple in the empty eyes of those students.

The stone piece in Mirror Jiang Feng's hand also paused for a moment.

Liu Cuilan pointed at the fake Liu Cuilan.

"You say the source?"

"I don't understand that."

"I only know that when my son comes home, he calls me 'Mom'."

"If you call him, does he answer?"

As these words fell.

Jiang Feng looked up at the fake Liu Cuilan.

"Did you hear that?"

The fake Liu Cuilan did not speak.

Jiang Feng said: "She's asking you."

The fake Liu Cuilan's face began to distort.

The words on the blackboard changed frantically.

[Mortal interfering with the classroom.]

[Forced silence.]

[Deprivation of speaking rights.]

A blue chain rushed toward the Tianshu Dragon Garden projection.

Its target was Liu Cuilan's mouth.

Jiang Feng's eyes turned cold.

He took a step forward.

No tearing through space.

No activating a dharma form.

He just raised his hand and grabbed the chain.

"When my mom speaks..."

"Is it your place to forbid her?"

He closed his fingers.

The blue chain exploded.

Above the classroom, an entire row of windows shattered simultaneously.

The System prompt popped up again.

[Plundered classroom silence rule.]

[Obtained all attributes: 5 Ji.]

[Current basic six-dimensional attributes: 125 Ji.]

The fake Liu Cuilan retreated half a step.

Mirror Jiang Feng stood up.

"Enough."

The fourth earth key in his hand lit up.

The entire inverted school began to press down.

The playground of Blue Star's Fourth High School cracked inch by inch.

Xiao Zhenjiang raised his hand.

"Everyone, fall back!"

The military professionals quickly retreated.

Shen Qingni did not retreat.

She gripped her Ice Sword and stared at the classroom in the sky.

Jiang Feng glanced at her.

"You retreat too."

Shen Qingni shook her head.

"I want to see exactly how far my path can go."

Jiang Feng didn't try to persuade her further.

In the sky.

Mirror Jiang Feng walked to the window.

"Jiang Feng, you think you've won?"

"Every student here is a substitute raised by First Blue Star."

"As long as you refuse to return, they will go down one by one."

"To replace your friends."

"To replace your parents."

"To replace everyone on Blue Star."

On the playground, many people's faces changed.

This wasn't a duel.

This was a replacement.

The fake Liu Cuilan regained her footing, her voice cold and hard.

"Second question."

New words appeared on the blackboard.

[If only one mother can remain, whom do you choose?]

In Tianshu Dragon Garden.

Liu Cuilan's expression changed.

Not from fear of death.

But for fear of making things difficult for Jiang Feng.

She immediately shouted: "Xiao Feng, don't listen to her!"

"Mom is doing just fine!"

Jiang Jianguo also said in a deep voice: "Son, do as you see fit."

Longnu was jumping with anxiety.

"Master, let me go and swallow the school!"

Jiang Feng raised his hand.

"Don't anyone move."

He looked at the question.

Then he chuckled.

Zero Seven's heart skipped a beat.

He laughed again.

Someone was going to be unlucky.

Jiang Feng said: "The question is wrong."

The fake Liu Cuilan frowned.

"What?"

Jiang Feng looked up.

"Who told you I can only choose one?"

He raised his hand.

The three earth keys flew up, crashing directly into the light screen of the inverted school.

Mirror Jiang Feng's expression changed.

"Stop him!"

All the students in the classrooms stood up at once.

They opened their mouths and spat out blue lines.

Those blue lines connected into a net, blocking the three earth keys.

Jiang Feng soared into the sky.

His slippers stepped onto the light screen.

Crack.

The entire classroom rule cracked.

He reached out, passed directly through the blue net, and grabbed the fourth earth key in Mirror Jiang Feng's hand.

Mirror Jiang Feng held on tight.

"Aren't you afraid I'll destroy it?"

Jiang Feng looked at him.

"You can't bear to."

Mirror Jiang Feng's pupils constricted.

Jiang Feng continued: "You were also raised by the key."

"If the key is gone, you'll be the first to shatter."

Mirror Jiang Feng's face finally changed.

Jiang Feng's fingers tightened.

The fourth earth key was forcibly pulled out of the other's hand by him.

The System prompt exploded.

[blue star earth key fragments: 4/9.]

[Thirteenth Transition prerequisite progress increased.]

[Obtained an increase in all attributes: 20 Ji.]

[Current basic six-dimensional attributes: 145 Ji.]

Boom!

The inverted school shook violently.

All the students held their heads at once.

The fake Liu Cuilan screamed: "You stole the heart of the classroom!"

Jiang Feng looked at her.

"Wrong."

"From today on, Fourth High won't teach how to recognize a thief as one's mother."

"It will teach people how to flip the table."

After saying that, he pressed his hand down.

The four earth keys lit up simultaneously.

The classrooms of the inverted Fourth High School began to go dark one by one.

The blue light in the eyes of those hollow students also went out one by one.

Some looked up in a daze.

Some began to cry.

Some looked at their hands as if knowing for the first time that they were still alive.

Everyone on the playground fell silent.

This wasn't simply saving people.

This was reclaiming destiny.

Mirror Jiang Feng knelt by the window.

His chest cracked open.

It was empty inside.

He stared at Jiang Feng, but the corners of his mouth suddenly curled up.

"You think you saved them?"

"You've only made her wake up faster."

Jiang Feng asked: "Who?"

Mirror Jiang Feng raised his hand and pointed toward the deepest part of the inverted school.

There was a classroom without a doorplate.

Behind the window sat a person.

Cyan-Gold Dharma Robe.

White hair falling down.

Half a piece of blue chalk was stuck in her chest.

Xuanji.

She slowly raised her head.

Her eyes were half-empty.

A line of words appeared on the blackboard.

[Second Lesson: How to create an obedient Observer.]