9: Chapter 9: Eating the Principal's Office Building Out of Business, The Third Evolution!

Xia Youchu arrived at Cloud City No. 1 High School, where she was enrolled.

As the former star of the school and a stunning beauty with exceptional talent, her appearance immediately attracted a lot of attention.

But even more, it drew whispers and strange looks.

"Look, it's Xia Youchu!"

"Does she still have the face to come to school? I heard her life-bound War Beast is just a Gecko?"

"Really? Doesn't that mean she's finished?"

"What a pity, she used to be the pride of our school..."

"Shh, keep it down, she's looking over here!"

Xia Youchu turned a deaf ear to the surrounding gossip and headed straight for the Academic Affairs Office.

However, just as she finished filling out the withdrawal application form, an annoying figure appeared before her.

It was none other than Xia Lingfeng, with his face still slightly bruised and a venomous look in his eyes.

He was followed by a few lackeys and a middle-aged man wearing gold-rimmed glasses who looked like a school official.

"Yo, isn't this our Cloud City No. 1 High School's proud daughter of heaven, student Xia Youchu?"

Xia Lingfeng spoke in a sarcastic, Yin and Yang tone, "What's the matter, you have time to come to school today? Don't you need to stay home and properly nurture your precious life-bound War Beast?"

His lackeys burst into laughter.

The Golden Hou cub was also brought along. Although it had used hair-growth potion, it still had patches of baldness. Seeing Xia Youchu, it shrank its neck in fear and let out a whimper.

Seeing this, Xia Lingfeng became even more furious.

Xia Youchu's eyes were cold: "Good dogs don't block the road."

"You!"

Xia Lingfeng's face darkened, but remembering yesterday's lesson, he didn't dare to make a move. Instead, he said to the middle-aged man beside him, "Director Wang, this student Xia Youchu seems to want to withdraw from school?"

"That won't do. With the college entrance exam coming up, if she withdraws now, won't that lower our school's advancement rate?"

Director Wang pushed up his glasses, putting on a professional air: "Student Xia Youchu, I have a general understanding of your situation. According to school regulations, during the critical period of the third year of high school, withdrawal is not allowed in principle."

"Furthermore, your student records and the issuance of your graduation certificate all require the completion of a final academic assessment. If you just leave like this, I'm afraid you won't even be able to get your high school diploma."

The threatening tone in his words was obvious.

Without a high school diploma, in this world, many things would be restricted; even delivering food requires at least a high school education.

Xia Lingfeng looked at Xia Youchu triumphantly.

Let's see how you act arrogant now!

He had bribed this Director Wang specifically to trap Xia Youchu, leaving her without even a shred of dignity!

Xia Youchu looked at the two of them singing in harmony and found it incredibly ridiculous.

High school diploma?

To her, that piece of paper was meaningless.

Xia Youchu's future did not lie on that piece of paper.

"Move aside."

Her voice had no ripples, "I don't want the diploma; you can keep it and use it as toilet paper."

She couldn't be bothered to tangle with these sleazy people and turned to leave.

"Stop!"

Director Wang's face darkened, "Xia Youchu, what kind of attitude is that? Insulting a teacher, showing contempt for school rules! I'm going to block your paperwork today! Without my signature, even if you leave, I'll record a major demerit on your file! Let's see which university would dare to accept you!"

Xia Lingfeng fanned the flames from the side: "Director Wang, why waste words with her? For a student like this who has no respect for her elders and is self-destructing, just expel her!"

The surrounding students gathered more and more, pointing and whispering.

Xia Youchu frowned slightly.

She wasn't afraid of trouble, but being pestered by such petty people was like getting mud on the soles of her shoes—disgusting.

Just as they were deadlocked, and Xia Youchu was considering whether to use her fists to clear a path.

Ling Tian stirred inside the cloth bag at her waist.

He looked through the gap and saw the situation outside clearly.

"Damn it, morons."

Ling Tian's impression of Xia Lingfeng and that Director Wang was extremely poor.

Delaying him from finding food was obstructing his evolution, making them his mortal enemies!

He sensed his surroundings.

This school looked quite big.

There were many buildings too.

Especially that most imposing office building in the distance... The energy reaction seemed a bit denser than elsewhere?

Although it couldn't compare to a Yuan Stone, even a mosquito's leg is meat!

He quietly used his claws to tear a small hole in the bottom of the cloth bag, slid out silently, and vanished in an instant.

The argument in the Academic Affairs Office continued.

Director Wang used bureaucratic jargon, while Xia Lingfeng mocked and ridiculed.

Xia Youchu was expressionless, while the surrounding students watched the spectacle, eager for more drama.

"Xia Youchu, if you don't apologize to me and Director Wang today, this won't be over!" Xia Lingfeng clamored.

Xia Youchu had completely lost patience and prepared to leave directly.

Wasting even a second with such people was a sign of disrespect to herself.

However, just at this moment.

Rumble—!!!

A dull, loud noise came from deep within the campus!

Immediately following, a roar like a landslide or earthquake erupted!

The ground even shook slightly!

Everyone was startled by the sudden loud noise and turned to look.

They saw in the distance, that most imposing Principal's Office Building, which symbolized the center of the school's power...

Was slowly sinking in an extremely bizarre way!

Dust rose into the sky!

Accompanied by the screeching sound of bricks cracking and metal twisting!

"That... that's the Principal's Office Building?!" A student screamed.

"It collapsed! The building collapsed!!"

The scene instantly fell into chaos!

The official authority on Director Wang's face was instantly replaced by terror; his face turned pale, and his lips trembled: "The, the principal... the principal is still inside holding a meeting!!"

He no longer cared about making things difficult for Xia Youchu and scrambled toward the direction of the office building.

Xia Lingfeng was also dumbfounded, looking at the dust rising into the sky, his mind blank.

What the hell is this?

How did the building collapse when it was perfectly fine?

Xia Youchu was also slightly stunned, looking at the collapsed office building, a flash of doubt in her eyes.

But immediately after, she seemed to sense something and looked down at the cloth bag at her waist.

At the bottom of the bag, a small hole had appeared at some point.

Inside, it was empty.

That Gecko was gone again.

An absurd, yet seemingly the only logical thought, flashed through her mind like lightning.

Could it be...

She suddenly looked up at the office building that had now become a ruin.

The corners of her mouth curled up slightly, uncontrollably.

"It seems..."

"That silly Gecko of hers actually has some tricks up its sleeve?"

Meanwhile, deep in the ruins formed by the collapse of the Principal's Office Building.

In an inconspicuous corner.

Ling Tian patted his belly, which had once again bulged, with satisfaction.

[Devoured granite Foundation, obtained Evolution Points +3]

[Devoured steel reinforcement load-bearing pillar, obtained Evolution Points +5]

[Devoured exotic metal, obtained Evolution Points +10]

Evolution points were shooting up!

Although the gain per instance wasn't much, the sheer volume made up for it!

Especially the few main load-bearing pillars and the Foundation; they seemed to be mixed with some special metals, providing quite substantial evolution points.

This time, he started gnawing directly from the Foundation, specifically picking places with strong energy reactions to bite into.

Thus, while the people in this building were still jockeying for position over advancement rates, job titles, and power, the building under their feet was being quietly dismantled from its Foundation by a Gecko.

When the last critical load-bearing pillar was melted and devoured by Ling Tian using Atomic Fission Breath, the balance of the entire building was completely broken.

It collapsed with a roar!

"Hiccup~"

Ling Tian let out a burp; his evolution points had finally made a Breakthrough past the 2000 mark, and he was in a very pleasant mood.

[Evolution Points: 2015/2000]

He could undergo the next evolution again!

"Evolve!"

He said without hesitation.