159: Chapter 159 What kind of monster dares to disturb my peaceful cultivation!

"Meditation School?" Principal Pang Ban heard this nonsense that Director Wang had forced out to smooth things over, and his beard was so angry it was practically flying off his face.

He extended a trembling finger, pointing at Xiang Batian, who was drooling while sleeping on the carpet, and then at Lu Xingye, who had kicked off a shoe in his scramble for a spot on the sofa, and laughed in extreme anger:

"What a 'Meditation School'!"

"Director Wang, do you take me for a senile old man?"

"What kind of meditation involves sleeping with your mouth open and drooling? What kind of meditation requires fighting over a sofa?"

"This is clearly just…"

Principal Pang Ban took a deep breath, unable to suppress the primordial power within him any longer, and with a shout that originated from his dantian and was strong enough to shatter glass, he roared:

"What are you all doing!!!"

"Everyone, stand up!!!!"

This shout contained the power of a Tier 5 Grandmaster.

The sound waves echoed through the hall, making the window frames rattle and even causing dust to fall from the ceiling in sheets.

"Holy crap! Enemy attack!"

Lu Xingye, who had been sleeping soundly, jolted—a reflexive bodily reaction. He shot up from the sofa, and before he had even opened his eyes, his long blade had already "clanged" out of its sheath, and he swung a horizontal slash at the air:

"What kind of monster! Dare to disturb my cultivation!"

Beside him, Xiang Batian was so startled that his muscles tensed up, and he sprang up from the floor like a frightened gorilla, assuming a defensive stance.

As for Hao Yun and Gou Fugui, these two reacted the fastest but were also the biggest cowards; they immediately shrank behind the sofa, with only their heads peeking out, trembling.

Even the elegant girls' group was terrified out of their wits by this shout; Bai Lan was so startled she practically bristled, zooming up to the rafters and hanging upside down to look down.

It wasn't until everyone rubbed their sleepy eyes and saw Principal Pang Ban at the door, his face as black as the bottom of a pot and radiating an icy chill, that the entire Class F hall instantly became as quiet as a graveyard.

"Pr... Principal?"

Lu Xingye's hand holding the blade froze in mid-air. The words he had originally intended to use to greet the other party were stuck in his throat, and he couldn't swallow them or spit them out.

He awkwardly twitched the corner of his mouth, trying to use an inscrutable sheath-returning move to cover up his panic:

"Ahem... So it's the Principal here for an inspection."

"I was conducting a deep-level consciousness drill. That slash just now was an invisible blade to cut through bottlenecks, intended to sever illusions and point directly to the true heart."

As he spoke, he gestured at the air with a straight face, trying to make the explanation sound more reasonable.

However, the slightly trembling scabbard and the fine beads of sweat seeping from his forehead betrayed his inner panic.

"Drill my ass!"

Principal Pang Ban strode in, his leather shoes making a "clack-clack" sound on the floor that sounded like a death knell. He looked around at this group of students who had no decorum and scolded them with a pained heart:

"Is this your special training?"

"Is this your so-called 'giving it your all'?"

"There is only one week left until the Hundred Schools League selection! Instead of thinking about how to improve your strength, you are here gathering to sleep?"

"Are you worthy of the school's cultivation? Are you worthy of Teacher Shen Qing, who was injured for your sake?"

Facing the Principal's soul-searching interrogation, everyone in Class F lowered their heads in shame. Only Gou Fugui, as the public relations representative of Class F, rolled his eyes and felt he had to salvage the situation.

He pushed up his glasses, cautiously crawled out from behind the sofa, and said with an apologetic smile:

"Principal, you've misunderstood."

"We really aren't slacking off."

"This is an immersive meditation practice method personally formulated by our captain... that is, student Jiang You."

"Your captain?" Principal Pang Ban frowned, "Where is that kid Jiang You?"

Gou Fugui pointed to the second floor: "Captain Jiang just finished unleashing his ultimate move, and he went up... uh, to go into seclusion to recover."

"Seclusion?" Principal Pang Ban sneered: "I think he went back to take a nap, right?"

"Don't I know what kind of character that kid has? Lazy is lazy; meditation practice, my foot?"

"I think you all have been corrupted by him!"

Just as Principal Pang Ban was preparing to fly into a rage and teach this group of ignorant students a lesson, his gaze inadvertently swept across the center of the hall, the area directly illuminated by sunlight.

There, a pile of fine powder was scattered on the floor.

And directly above the powder, on the originally dim ceiling, there appeared a cylindrical hole about half a meter in diameter, with edges so neatly cut it was outrageous!

The sunlight was pouring down from this hole without obstruction, forming a beam of light.

"Hmm?"

Principal Pang Ban's words came to an abrupt halt.

As a Tier 5 Grandmaster, his perception was incredibly keen.

He had been too angry to notice earlier, but now that he calmed down and looked, he actually felt a... terrifying aura that had not yet dissipated at the edge of that hole!

That was...

Principal Pang Ban's pupils shrank slightly.

He strode to the beam of light, looked up, and data streams began to shimmer in his eyes once again.

Supernatural Ability—[Deconstruction of All Things]!

In his vision, the concrete structure at the edge of the hole hadn't been smashed open by violence, but rather... instantly annihilated!

Furthermore, at the break point, there remained a faint blue energy fluctuation that made even his soul feel a slight stinging sensation.

This energy level... it was even purer than what he had felt outside just now!

"This... who did this?" Principal Pang Ban's voice became somewhat dry, even carrying a trace of undisguised shock.

He pointed at the transparent hole above his head and turned to look at Lu Xingye and the others:

"Don't tell me it collapsed due to lack of maintenance!"

Hearing the Principal ask about this, the originally dispirited Class F crowd instantly perked up.

Lu Xingye stopped pretending to be asleep, straightened his back, and a look of composure appeared on his face:

"Principal, you truly have sharp eyes!"

"That's right! This is the result of our captain, student Jiang You, testing the waters just now!"

"Testing the waters?" Principal Pang Ban's eye twitched.

Poking a hole through the roof is called testing the waters?

Gou Fugui also hurriedly crowded over, describing it vividly:

"That's right, Principal! At that time, Brother Jiang was just sitting on the sofa, saying his eyes hurt a little."

"Then he opened his eyes! Boom! Two blue beams shot out!"

"That scene... tsk tsk tsk, if we hadn't run fast, we'd probably be cooked by now."

Xiang Batian added from the side:

"That's right! It was like a laser, 'whoosh' it went up. The sound wasn't loud, but the force was super fierce! I was several meters away and felt my hair roots tingling, like I was about to be scorched!"

Listening to the students' chattering descriptions, Principal Pang Ban fell completely silent.

His Brain was spinning rapidly, piecing all the clues together.

Jiang You... The kid who could make the Tier 5 Great Demon Bai Lan subservient in the Mist Swamp.

The kid who was kicked hundreds of meters away and was completely unharmed.

Now, he had stared a hole through a special concrete roof with one look, and there was still this kind of terrifying spiritual power fluctuation remaining...

"Has this kid Jiang You successfully awakened a Supernatural Ability?"

"Blue beam... annihilating everything..." Principal Pang Ban stared at the mirror-smooth cut, muttering to himself.

His brows were locked tightly together, as if he were frantically searching for something deep within the vast ocean of his memory banks.

Suddenly, a flash of lightning streaked across his mind!

Principal Pang Ban's pupils violently contracted to the size of pinpoints, and his old face, which usually remained unmoved even if Mount Tai collapsed before him, now showed a look of undisguised shock!

"Wait!" Principal Pang Ban turned around abruptly, grabbed Gou Fugui by the shoulder, his tone urgently terrifying:

"Student Fugui! Think back carefully!"

"When Jiang You opened his eyes, was there a scene in the depths of his pupils similar to... stars being born and dying?"

"Or was it that kind of profound darkness that seemed capable of sucking in a soul?"

Gou Fugui was startled by the Principal's man-eating appearance and stuttered as he recalled:

"Ah? Y-yes! That's right!"

"Brother Jiang's eyes were super scary at the time! It wasn't ordinary blue; it was like... like an abyss that wanted to suck a person's soul in!"

"Although it was only for a split second, I think I really saw starlight spinning in his eyes!"

"And at that moment, I felt like I had no secrets in front of Jiang You; I even suspected that this guy could see my bank card password!"