Chapter 49: Shock

Upon hearing Jianchen’s words, the several students standing behind him, except for Tietan, all showed a look of surprise on their faces. The way they looked at Jianchen was filled with indescribable strangeness, and even more people suspected that they had heard wrong. In their view, if you were to hand over the magic cores, why would you care about the size of the teacher’s desk? This was just looking for trouble.

"Who is that person? He really doesn’t know when to stop. He actually asked the teacher to change the desk…."

"What an idiot, daring to say that Teacher Steve’s desk is too small in front of so many people. Even more incredibly, he actually dared to ask Teacher Steve to change the desk. Oh my God, he actually dared to comment on the size of Teacher Steve’s desk. Doesn’t he know that Teacher Steve is the strictest teacher in our Kagas Academy?"

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Many people began to point and whisper about Jianchen, looking at him as if he were an idiot.

The face of the elderly man responsible for the review slightly changed, his brows furrowed, and he stared at Jianchen with a somewhat fierce gaze. He snorted coldly and sternly said, "What’s your name? How dare you comment on our teacher’s desk? This desk was prepared long ago. It’s not something you can just ask to be changed."

Jianchen’s words not only angered the teacher responsible for the review but also made the other teachers who were responsible for the evaluation frown. Their gazes were filled with displeasure. Jianchen’s words were a complete lack of respect for them as teachers.

None of them would have thought that Jianchen’s request to change the desk was because this desk was simply not large enough to hold all the magic cores in his spatial belt.

Of course, there were a few exceptions. A few teachers remained very calm, with a faint smile on their faces. These few were the ones who had seen Jianchen and Tietan hunt a group of blue wolves in the second area.

At this moment, a very pretty girl standing behind them stared at Jianchen with her bright eyes, her brows furrowed in thought. She muttered softly, "Strange, why does his figure seem familiar? Have I seen him somewhere before?" The girl’s brows were tightly furrowed as she struggled to recall. Suddenly, her eyes lit up, and a familiar figure appeared in her mind. The next moment, her eyes showed a mix of surprise and joy, and she exclaimed, "Changyang Xiangtian, he is Changyang Xiangtian!"

The girl’s voice was not concealed at all, and many people heard it. However, upon hearing the name Changyang Xiangtian, the faces of the surrounding students changed, and those who had been cursing Changyang Xiangtian for his recklessness also closed their mouths.

Changyang Xiangtian’s name was very well-known in Kagas Academy, almost to the point where everyone knew it. Although this was the case, only a small number of people had actually seen Changyang Xiangtian’s true appearance. Most of them were new students. At this moment, although Jianchen had cleaned the mud off his face, there were still some spots left, and his clothes were tattered, making him look like a beggar. If it weren’t for someone who was very familiar with him, it would be almost impossible to recognize him. This was why no one had recognized him even after he had been in the queue for so long.

When the elderly man responsible for the review heard the name Changyang Xiangtian, his face also showed a slight surprise. He couldn’t help but take a good look at Jianchen. Clearly, even this teacher was not unfamiliar with the name Changyang Xiangtian. Despite this, Jianchen still did not have enough authority to make the teacher change the desk. The elderly man’s mouth opened slightly, and just as he was about to say something, the vice-principal Bai En, sitting at the head of the table, suddenly said, "Someone, go and bring a larger desk immediately!" The vice-principal’s face was smiling, and he did not show any displeasure at Jianchen’s words. His gaze towards Jianchen even contained a hint of anticipation, as if he had already guessed the reason why Jianchen wanted to change the desk.

The vice-principal Bai En, although he looked only in his thirties or forties, had a very high prestige in Kagas Academy, second only to the principal. When he spoke, the teachers immediately fell silent. Except for a few teachers, the rest were all puzzled by the vice-principal’s decision to listen to a student and replace the prepared desk with a larger one. After all, the desk used by the teacher responsible for the review was sufficient for the registration of magic cores, and there was no need to replace it with a larger one.

Soon, a desk over three meters long and two meters wide was brought in, replacing the original desk used by the teacher responsible for the review.

"Changyang Xiangtian, are you satisfied now?" The teacher responsible for the review, sitting at the larger desk, did not treat Jianchen very kindly. Clearly, Jianchen’s request to change the desk had left a very bad impression on this teacher, who looked to be in his fifties.

Feeling the teacher’s prejudice, Jianchen couldn’t help but show a bitter smile. He didn’t expect that this matter would cause a teacher to have a prejudice against him. Although this was completely unexpected, Jianchen was not too concerned about it.

Then, Jianchen directly unfastened his spatial belt. Unlike other students who took out the magic cores one by one, he grabbed a handful of exactly ten magic cores from his spatial belt and gently placed them on the desk. These magic cores were all light white, slightly larger than an adult’s finger.

Seeing Jianchen take out ten magic cores at once, the elderly man responsible for the review, despite his initial displeasure, couldn’t help but nod in approval. However, just as the teacher thought these were all the magic cores Jianchen had, Jianchen’s hand went back into his spatial belt, and he took out another handful of ten magic cores.

Now, there were twenty magic cores on the desk. Seeing these twenty magic cores, the elderly man’s eyes lit up. He looked at Jianchen with surprise, thinking to himself, "This Changyang Xiangtian is indeed as famous as his name. Although his strength is not at the Saint level, he can defeat a Saint. He must have some real skills."

Jianchen continued to reach into his spatial belt and took out another handful of magic cores, placing them gently on the desk. The hard magic cores collided with the wooden desk, making a "thud, thud, thud" sound.

Seeing the ten more magic cores that Jianchen took out, the teacher’s face changed subtly, and his eyes showed a hint of shock. Now, Jianchen had taken out thirty magic cores, seven more than Muten. A student who was not yet at the Saint level could kill thirty first-level magic beasts in the forest in just three days. This achievement was so impressive that even the elderly man, who had seen many great things, felt a sense of shock and disbelief. Although these magic beasts had relatively low attack power, they were still not easy to kill for students whose strength was at most at the peak of the tenth level of Saint Power.

Jianchen’s thirty magic cores not only surprised the teacher responsible for the review but also left the other teachers and students in disbelief. Only a few teachers who knew Jianchen’s background and the vice-principal Bai En continued to smile. The students who were still in the queue were already stunned by the thirty magic cores Jianchen had taken out.

Jianchen did not pay attention to the surprised expressions of the surrounding teachers and students. Under everyone’s focused gaze, he once again reached into his spatial belt and took out another handful of magic cores, placing them gently on the desk. He did not stop there. In the stunned gazes of the teachers and students, he reached into his spatial belt again and took out another handful of magic cores...

As Jianchen continued to take out handfuls of magic cores from his spatial belt, the large desk was soon completely filled with magic cores. Although they were all first-level magic cores, their sizes varied due to the different sizes of the magic beasts. The smallest were only slightly larger than a thumb, while the largest were as big as a child’s fist.

At this moment, both the teachers and the students were stunned by the sheer number of magic cores Jianchen had taken out. A student who was clearly not yet at the Saint level had killed over a hundred first-level magic beasts in the forest in just three days. If this were said out loud, no one would believe it. Now, except for a few people, no one in the room believed that these magic cores were obtained by Jianchen himself. They all thought that these magic cores were collected from many other students, or perhaps even obtained through some underhanded means, and could not possibly have been obtained by Jianchen himself.

Looking at the nearly a hundred first-level magic cores that almost filled the desk, the elderly man responsible for the review took a deep breath. Although he had already concluded that Jianchen had obtained these magic cores through some dishonorable means, he could not help but admire Jianchen’s ability. As for the dishonorable means, the academy would not interfere, as the survival rules of the Tianyuan Continent were like this.

Seeing that Jianchen had taken out nearly a hundred first-level magic cores, the vice-principal Bai En, sitting at the head of the table, also showed a look of disbelief. He was very clear that there had been no incidents of students robbing magic cores in the second area. This meant that the magic cores in Jianchen’s hands were not obtained through robbery. In that case, there was only one explanation: Jianchen had obtained these nearly a hundred first-level magic cores by hunting magic beasts on his own.

After reaching this conclusion, even the vice-principal Bai En, with his calm demeanor, could not help but feel deeply shocked and puzzled. Could it be that Jianchen and Tietan had not consumed any of their own resources while hunting magic beasts? Could their Saint Power be infinite? How could they kill so many first-level magic beasts, which were stronger than themselves, in just three days?

The elderly man responsible for the review looked at Jianchen with a complex expression and then began to count the number of magic cores on the desk. He did not ask how Jianchen had obtained these magic cores, as he had already reached a definite conclusion in his mind.