4: Chapter 4 Soul Deprivation! Who will be expelled is still uncertain!

The boundary wall was completely sealed, cutting off all paths of retreat.

Liu Zixuan panicked completely, his voice coming through the void, laced with exasperation:

"Lin Feng! Don't push me too far!"

"My uncle is Director Sun Defu from the Academic Affairs Office! If you dare touch my dependents, believe it or not, the school will expel you directly!"

If this batch of Gnolls were all wiped out here, he would have nothing to show for the final exam in three months.

There was simply no time to raise new ones.

Lin Feng picked his ear, his expression calm: "Director Sun Defu? Who does he think he is?"

Before the words even faded, the slaughter within the Divine Domain continued.

Over a hundred Taotie Offspring were like heartless harvesting machines.

Every pounce claimed a life.

In just a few minutes, over a hundred of the Gnoll army had fallen, and even four of the most elite heavy-armored guards had been torn to pieces.

"Damn it! I'm going to fight you to the death!"

Liu Zixuan's eyes turned blood-red, and he immediately issued a frenzied divine oracle.

On the wasteland, the Gnoll priest received the order, grabbed a fellow tribesman beside him, and pressed a withered palm onto the other's head.

Visibly, the Gnoll rapidly shriveled up, all its life essence converging onto the tip of the priest's bone staff, which lit up with a blinding red glow.

Just at this moment.

A Taotie Offspring leaped out from the purple mist, lunging straight at the priest.

"Die!" Liu Zixuan roared.

The priest swung the staff, and a violent red beam of light slammed out like a waterfall, striking the Taotie Offspring in mid-air.

Boom!

The immense impact slammed it hard into the ground, creating a large crater.

The Taotie Offspring was covered in blood, lying motionless at the bottom of the crater.

Seeing this, Liu Zixuan laughed triumphantly:

"Haha! Lin Feng, I thought these monsters of yours were immortal! Open the boundary wall immediately; as long as you stop, I'll compensate you with a Primary Procreation Stone! If we really fight to mutual destruction, it won't do anyone any good!"

Given Liu Zixuan's character, letting him go would only invite even crazier retaliation in the future.

Lin Feng ignored his proposal and frowned slightly.

"System, is the Taotie Offspring severely damaged?"

"Replying to Host: The Taotie Offspring is not dead, merely in a state of severe injury. It can self-heal by consuming enough flesh and blood. (Note: The fatal weakness of the Taotie clan lies only in the eyes under their armpits; conventional physical attacks cannot kill them.)"

Hearing this, Lin Feng's suspended heart settled down.

Breeding these hundred-plus Taotie Offspring was not easy; he would feel the loss if even one died.

At the bottom of the crater, the blood-soaked Taotie Offspring shook its head, stood up again, and merged back into the miasma.

The previous attack was already the strongest strike the Gnoll priest could unleash by overdrawing its life force.

If even such an attack couldn't instantly kill a clone with 1% of the original's attributes, this battle no longer had any suspense.

However, Lin Feng did not want to see the Taotie Offspring get injured again.

"All units, lock onto the enemy spellcasting unit, use Soul Devour!"

The divine oracle descended.

If they couldn't be eliminated quickly physically, then he would drain their souls directly!

In the purple mist, over a hundred Taotie Offspring stopped simultaneously, opened their blood-filled maws, and aimed at the priest protected in the center.

An invisible suction force erupted suddenly.

The old priest was struck as if by a heavy blow, violently dropping the staff, clutching its head with both hands, and letting out a shrill scream.

The surrounding Gnolls were stunned, having no idea what had happened.

"Is the pulling force of one Taotie Offspring's Soul Devour insufficient..."

Lin Feng stared at the scene below.

The priest itself had relatively high mental power and not-low magic resistance.

But quantitative change was enough to cause a qualitative shift.

Over a hundred Soul Devour forces stacked together, instantly tearing apart the priest's mental defenses like dry wood.

Wisps of milky-white soul matter were forcibly ripped out from the priest's seven orifices and flew into the mouths of the surrounding Taotie Offspring.

Losing the support of its soul, the old priest's body collapsed to the ground like mud.

"My priest!!"

Liu Zixuan let out a pig-like wail.

This was a Tier 1 spellcasting unit he had spent most of his family's savings to pile up; it was his trump card for getting into a top-tier institution!

And just like that, it was gone!

With the core dead, the Gnoll formation completely collapsed, turning into headless flies running around in chaos.

In less than an hour, the army of five hundred was eaten until not even a bone was left.

"Lin Feng! You just wait! This isn't over!"

Liu Zixuan left behind a loser's whine, forcibly cut off the plane connection, and his consciousness scurried back to reality in defeat.

Lin Feng scoffed.

There would definitely be trouble knocking on his door tomorrow, but he didn't care at all.

Having mastered a heaven-defying species like the Taotie, he was now absolutely the top apprentice in Xinghai City.

Once exposed, major factions would scramble to recruit him.

The well-fed mother beast snorted and lay down on the hilltop, falling into a deep sleep.

Having absorbed massive amounts of energy, it needed time to digest.

Crossing from Tier 4 to Tier 5 was a major hurdle, requiring even more high-level rations.

...

The next morning.

City No.1 High School, teacher's office.

As expected, the homeroom teacher, Teacher Wang Tao, called Lin Feng over early in the morning.

"Lin Feng, Director Sun Defu reported this morning that you maliciously slaughtered all of Liu Zixuan's dependents last night. Is that true?"

Teacher Wang Tao looked at the student before him with complex eyes: "Liu Zixuan is usually arrogant and domineering; if he is deliberately smearing you, just tell me, and I will protect you with all my might."

Teacher Wang Tao was truly a good teacher who paid out of his own pocket to support students and was willing to stand up against power.

Lin Feng felt a slight warmth in his heart and answered truthfully: "I did kill them all. But he was the one who forcibly tore the boundary wall to invade first, so I acted in legitimate self-defense."

"Forcible invasion?"

Teacher Wang Tao frowned deeply: "I knew that brat would play the villain first!"

"Wait..."

Teacher Wang Tao suddenly realized: "You really annihilated Liu Zixuan's Tier 1 army?"

He clearly remembered that Lin Feng's Divine Domain was a wasteland.

Even if he had managed to produce Tier 0 creatures using a Procreation Stone last night, what could he possibly use to fight Tier 1 Gnolls?

Just as Lin Feng was about to explain, the office door was rudely pushed open.

A middle-aged man with a potbelly and a face full of flab walked in.

"Lin Feng is here, right? Disrespecting elders, slaughtering a classmate's dependents, the circumstances are egregious! According to school rules, expel him immediately and kick him out of the school!"

The person who arrived was none other than the Academic Affairs Director, Director Sun Defu.

Teacher Wang Tao stepped forward, blocking Lin Feng: "Director Sun Defu, I have clarified the matter; it was Liu Zixuan who invaded first!"

"Teacher Wang Tao, who do you think you are, daring to tell me how to do my job?" Director Sun Defu glared, full of official authority.

If it were any other ordinary teacher, they would have retreated long ago.

But Teacher Wang Tao did not yield at all: "Since Director Sun Defu feels there is a dispute, let's go directly to the principal's office to settle this. Do you dare to go?"

"Let's go then!" Director Sun Defu looked mocking.

He had a very close relationship with the principal.

Even if it was really Liu Zixuan who started it, so what?

Would the principal really offend a major family in Xinghai City for the sake of a poor student with no background who lived off distributed supplies?