263: Chapter 263 Principal, I've Actually Been Possessed!

As the president of Imperial Capital Martial Arts University, President Xia Yun understood Captain Shen Xiuan extremely well.

The child had awakened the Asura War Soul, and the thing he had to avoid most was being impetuous and irritable.

Therefore, in his daily life, the school subjected him to extremely rigorous temperament training.

In President Xia Yun's impression, Captain Shen Xiuan was deep and reserved, never showing his joy or anger on his face; even if someone insulted his ancestors for eighteen generations to his face, he could probably calculate the date of their death without a change in expression.

But now...

However, President Xia Yun did not dwell on this matter too much; after all, it was a conflict between young people, so he would let them resolve it themselves.

"Alright, since Student Captain Shen Xiuan has already 'warmly' welcomed everyone, the banquet tonight shall officially begin!"

President Xia Yun waved his hand, and an invisible gust of wind swept through, instantly restoring the messy hall to its original state.

"Tomorrow morning at eight o'clock, at the Imperial Capital National Martial Arts Stadium, the Hundred Schools League opening ceremony will officially begin!"

"Children, get some sleep early tonight. Tomorrow... the entire Great Xia will be watching you!"

The banquet concluded in an atmosphere that was extremely strange, yet filled with the desire to fight.

...

Half an hour later, inside the extended business car.

Principal Pang Ban sat in the passenger seat, looking at the back row through the rearview mirror.

Lu Xingye, who was sitting in the back row, was holding a can of iced cola he had swiped from the banquet, using it to miserably ice his black eye that Principal Pang Ban had punched out.

He was almost curled up in the shadows, watching the night view of the Imperial Capital speeding past the window, while abstractly whispering crazily:

"Heh... the night wind of this Imperial Capital is indeed filled with the scent of fate..."

"Hidden within this darkness, my Black Flame Dragon... is roaring in pain within this steel jungle..."

Principal Pang Ban's mouth twitched twice, and he directly chose to ignore this severely chuunibyou-afflicted patient, then turned his gaze to Jiang You, who was leaning against the other car window and staring blankly at the night view.

"Jiang You, you did a great job tonight."

Principal Pang Ban spoke up suddenly, his tone extremely complex, even carrying a hint of the world-weariness of "you've finally grown up":

"Although your process... was indeed a bit abstract, one could even say extremely perverted. But regardless, you truly displayed the mighty prestige of our Magic City Martial Arts University tonight!"

"I understand you. You were intentionally using that arrogant, almost domineering villain persona to provoke everyone and attract the hatred of all the top geniuses in Great Xia, right?"

"By doing this, you put yourself in a desperate situation to temper your invincible Dao heart in the face of adversity, and at the same time, you maximized the traffic for our Magic City Martial Arts University in tomorrow's national broadcast!"

"Killing two birds with one stone! Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant!"

Jiang You: "..."

Listening to this passionate, top-tier "reading comprehension" from Old Man Pang, Jiang You's dead-fish eyes stared blankly at the neon lights outside the car window; not only was he completely unmoved, but he also wanted to spit out a mouthful of blood on the spot.

What the hell kind of tempering the Dao heart!

What the hell kind of maximizing traffic!

Principal, if I told you I just wanted to quietly gnaw on a roasted pork knuckle at the time, would you believe me?

Jiang You let out a heart-wrenching wail in his heart.

He was really a bit panicked now.

Before, in the hotel room, he still felt that the "substitute-playing cheat" was pretty good—as long as he closed his eyes, he could just leave the rest to the big shot to handle.

But everything he experienced at Zhaixing Tower tonight completely shattered his simple dream of being a salted fish!

"What kind of peerless pervert was this old monster possessing me when he was alive!"

"Fighting is one thing, but he just had to force himself on innocent women!"

"Forcing himself on women is one thing, but he also loves to recite those cheesy, nine-point-nine-yuan-with-free-shipping domineering CEO lines!"

"If I let this old pervert stay in my body any longer, I, Jiang You, will never be able to hold my head up in human society for the rest of my life!"

Thinking of this, Jiang You swallowed a mouthful of saliva and cast a conflicted glance at Principal Pang Ban in the passenger seat.

"Principal Pang Ban is, after all, a dignified Tier 5 Grandmaster, a titan of the Great Xia education world; having lived for decades, his connections must be very extensive."

"The old man... should know some celestial masters from Longhu Mountain or old Taoist priests from Maoshan, those kinds of high-level experts in the mystic arts, right?"

Jiang You was calculating frantically in his heart:

"How about... I just take advantage of the fact that there are no outsiders in the car now and come clean to the principal?"

"Just tell him I've been possessed by an ancient remnant soul who likes reading domineering CEO novels, and beg him to spend some public funds to hire a few powerful Taoist priests to perform a ritual for me and exorcise the evil?"

"Buying some black dog blood and sticky rice for me to take a bath with would also work!"

The more Jiang You thought about it, the more feasible this plan seemed. He took a deep breath and was just about to speak: "Um... Principal, actually I..."

"What's wrong?" Principal Pang Ban turned his head, his old eyes behind his sunglasses full of kindness and encouragement. "If you have any difficulties, just tell me! As long as it helps you get good results in tomorrow's competition, the school will absolutely support you with everything it has!"

Looking at Principal Pang Ban's old face, which was written all over with "hoping for his success" and "extremely unreliable".

In Jiang You's mind, the scene from last night suddenly flashed back uncontrollably.

This "virtuous and artistic" old principal, covered in spiderwebs, had been lying under his bed in an extremely lewd manner, eavesdropping, and even ended up being pointed at by Lu Xingye and called an "old lecher"...

The words that had just reached Jiang You's lips were forcibly swallowed back.

Forget it...

Jiang You closed his eyes in despair.

"If this old man could pull off the heaven-defying stunt of crawling under a male student's bed last night, his mental state is probably even more twisted than the old monster inside me!"

"If I really told him I'd been possessed, given his personality of doing anything for the school's results, he might not find a Taoist priest to exorcise me, but instead, to 'preserve' me as a 'top combat power,' he might personally read domineering CEO novels to me every night to stabilize the emotions of that old ancestor inside me!"

"N-nothing."

Jiang You forced a weak smile that looked worse than crying and slumped onto the seat like a salted fish:

"Principal, I just wanted to ask... in the competition venue tomorrow, is there any place that is relatively secluded, air-conditioned, and has excellent soundproofing?"

Principal Pang Ban: "?"

"I want to find a good feng shui spot..." Jiang You stared at the car ceiling with lifeless eyes, "to take a peaceful nap."

Principal Pang Ban: ...

Half an hour later, the extended business car pulled smoothly into the underground garage of the Qianlong Hotel.

Principal Pang Ban, with a dark face, grabbed Jiang You and Lu Xingye by the back of their collars, one in each hand, as if escorting two extremely dangerous pieces of non-combustible garbage, and dragged these two "problem children" all the way into the hotel's top-floor conference room.

At this moment, the spacious conference room was brightly lit.

The twenty main members of the Magic City Martial Arts University delegation, along with the four substitute members including Su Nuonuo and Mo Wu, had already assembled in full.

However, the atmosphere in the conference room still carried a hint of the post-traumatic stress from last night's "massive Shura field."