180: Please, Principal Lu, do me a favor.

"I lost!" Gao Aozhi said, unwilling to accept it.

The expressions of the Ashen Army members remained unchanged, their eyes complex as they looked at Lu Yuan.

Gao Aozhi was their Vice Commander, having broken through to the Six-star Transcendent Realm at the age of only thirty-five.

Yet, he hadn't lasted ten moves in Lu Yuan's hands.

Lu Yuan looked much younger than Gao Aozhi!

Applause erupted, and the students were incredibly excited.

"Principal is awesome!"

"Principal is awesome!!"

"Kill me or cut me as you please, but before that, allow me to make a small request," Gao Aozhi said.

Watching Gao Aozhi, who had been beaten into submission, Lu Yuan gestured for him to go ahead.

"Would Your Excellency be willing to spar with me?"

Gao Aozhi looked left and right, finally selecting a young man wearing a school uniform.

Ren Mingjie, who had just broken through to the Law Realm: "???"

"Me?" Ren Mingjie was surprised.

"That's right, I want to know if all Practitioners of the new era are this strong," Gao Aozhi said.

"Are you sick? How can I, a Law Realm, fight you, a Transcendent Realm? Isn't this just asking to be abused!"

Ren Mingjie was speechless.

What a joke, he probably wouldn't last fifty moves in Gao Aozhi's hands.

If it were close combat, even two moves would be a problem!

Gao Aozhi finally felt a bit more balanced, thinking that only Lu Yuan before him was strong, and not all Practitioners of the new era were this powerful.

Just as Lu Yuan had thought, the reason Gao Aozhi chose the coffee shop was to capture him alive and then negotiate with The Authorities.

After all, Gao Aozhi and the Ashen Army were all experts in close combat.

The interior space of the coffee shop was cramped, and using Spirit Skills would easily harm themselves.

"Are you willing to submit to Huaxia?" Lu Yuan asked straight to the point.

"We are willing, but we have two requirements!"

Gao Aozhi looked with heartache at the battle saber that had followed him for many years, now shattered by Lu Yuan's Spirit Skill.

"Speak."

"First, we will not reveal what we know. Second, we are unwilling to become enemies with the Great Shun Dynasty," Gao Aozhi stated his bottom line.

"That is understandable."

Lu Yuan readily agreed.

To put it nicely, this was called abandoning darkness for light; to put it harshly, it was called treason.

If Gao Aozhi had spilled everything he knew all at once from the beginning,

it would have actually made Lu Yuan look down on him!

"Can you represent The Authorities?" Gao Aozhi asked.

Lu Yuan shook his head.

"I cannot represent them, but if The Authorities do not agree, I will go to prison with you, and we will face the execution ground together!"

Lu Yuan's answer surprised Gao Aozhi, and he couldn't help but look at the young man before him with higher regard.

"Stay at Pengcheng University. Teach the students close combat, and from now on, you will be instructors at Pengcheng University," Lu Yuan proposed.

Since these Ashen Army soldiers were unwilling to be enemies with the Great Shun Dynasty and were tired of a life of fighting and killing,

they might as well become instructors. The salary for an instructor at Pengcheng University was very high, and there were various benefits and welfare.

The salary started at an annual million, and benefits included, but were not limited to, providing demon crystals and monster cores for cultivation, Spirit Weapons, Spirit Skills, and so on.

Lu Yuan's words made Gao Aozhi swallow hard.

Especially upon hearing that cultivation resources would be provided, this was a privilege only enjoyed by royalty and relatives in ancient times!

"P-Pay respects to the Principal!" Gao Aozhi knelt on one knee.

"Pay respects to the Principal!"

The sixty Ashen Army soldiers said in unison.

"No need to kneel, from now on we are colleagues," Lu Yuan patted Gao Aozhi on the shoulder.

"You haven't killed anyone, have you? I mean modern people."

"No, we..."

Gao Aozhi quickly shut his mouth, realizing he had almost fallen into Lu Yuan's trap again.

"As long as you haven't, that's fine. I will arrange to register identification for you," Lu Yuan said, exchanging a glance with Lao Qiyuan.

Both of them were very excited!

Over sixty Pinnacle experts in close combat had just become instructors at Pengcheng University.

This meant that in the future, they wouldn't need to cooperate with Zhenbang Martial Arts Hall and pay them exorbitant fees!

"If it really comes to it, I'll step down," Lao Qiyuan said.

He found that Lu Yuan was a hundred, a thousand times better at being a principal than he was!

Just after taking office, he had solved many problems for Pengcheng University, making him really want to retire.

"I think that works," Vice Principal Zhan Shou-zheng agreed.

Lu Yuan curled his lip, looking like he didn't care who held the position.

Once the Principal Experience Voucher expired, he definitely wouldn't redeem it again.

"Principal, how should we teach the students?" Gao Aozhi was troubled.

His Sword Technique was about to break through to Transcendent Saint Attainment, and he had killed people and ferocious beasts.

But he had never taught anyone!

Lu Yuan knew that Gao Aozhi was facing the same problem he had.

When he realized the importance of close combat, he had once asked the Gold Calamity Devouring Army's Army Devourer to teach him Sword Technique.

The Army Devourer refused.

First, it didn't dare to teach Lu Yuan; second, its Sword Technique was honed through actual combat.

"Simple, as long as you don't kill the students, do whatever you want," Lu Yuan said.

Gao Aozhi: "???"

That's so wild.

He immediately walked to the opposite side of a student.

"Attack me," Gao Aozhi said bluntly.

Not long after, that student was beaten until their skin was torn and flesh mangled, wailing in pain.

A support Practitioner instructor saw this and used a Spirit Skill, and the student's injuries healed visibly to the naked eye.

"Teach just like that!" Lu Yuan stood behind Lao Qiyuan, his voice hoarse and aged.

Lao Qiyuan: "..."

Feeling the students' resentful gazes, Lao Qiyuan didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

"Alright, I'll take the blame."

"Are you Minister Mu?" Mu Yaoling looked at Mu Zhihong uncertainly.

"Long time no see, Princess."

Mu Zhihong nodded, acknowledging his identity.

"You really are Minister Mu!" Mu Yaoling was shocked.

It was just that Mu Zhihong looked too young; he was actually only over seventy.

In her memory, the forty-year-old Mu Zhihong looked like a centenarian!

To Mu Yaoling, this Left Minister of the Ministry of War was a respectable person.

In the imperial court, the evaluation of Mu Zhihong was that his loyalty was not to the Great Shun Dynasty, but to the common people.

"Live well, Princess, let us all live well," Mu Zhihong said.

Mu Yaoling nodded solemnly, bowed, and said goodbye to Mu Zhihong.

"Principal Chu is here," Vice Principal Zhan Shou-zheng lowered his voice.

Principal Chu?

Lu Yuan was stunned for a moment, then realized.

None of the principals of the Five Great Top Academies were surnamed Chu; he guessed that Chu Wushe must have taken the position of principal of Imperial Capital University.

Chu Wushe appeared on the playground with a livid expression, with Vice Principal Chen Yaozong standing behind him.

"Lu Yuan, you..." Chu Wushe was extremely exhausted.

What kind of bullshit principal of Imperial Capital University; it was completely different from what he had imagined!

Chu Wushe had thought that being a principal would be a very cool thing, only to find that Imperial Capital University was severely lacking in funds!

He had to deal with all kinds of messy documents every day, making his head feel like it was about to explode.

"Congratulations, Principal Chu." Lu Yuan's smile was rich.

Chu Wushe's mouth twitched.

"You set me up!" Chu Wushe said.

"I set you up?"

Lu Yuan pretended not to understand.

"I asked my father for money in the capacity of the principal of Imperial Capital University, and my father told me to get lost," Chu Wushe said in a low voice.

Lu Yuan: "..."

Chu Wushe took a deep breath.

It was clearly Lu Yuan who had set him up, yet now he had to come and beg Lu Yuan.

This was the most terrifying part!

"What does Principal Chu want with me?"

Lu Yuan asked under everyone's gaze.

"Ahem." Chu Wushe pretended to cough.

"Borrow... ahem!"

"Principal Lu, lend me some money for turnover; I will pay you back in half a year at the latest," Chu Wushe's voice was pitifully small.

He had never lowered his head in his life.

When he made mistakes as a child and was beaten until his skin was torn and flesh mangled by his father, he still refused to say the three words "I was wrong."

Yet now, he was begging someone, and the person he was begging was his arch-nemesis Lu Yuan, whom he desperately wanted to defeat.

"Principal Chu's attitude is not very good; you aren't even willing to say 'please'," Lu Yuan was not very satisfied.

Chu Wushe took a deep breath.

"Please, Principal Lu, lend me some money," Chu Wushe said.

Watching Chu Wushe, who was begging him, Lu Yuan had a playful smile, and many thoughts appeared in his mind...