Chapter 97

"Senior, why bother with these children?"

Xue Xingchuan looked at Jin Yulv, his face expressionless, and said.

This sentence took everyone by surprise, and the entrance of the National Teaching Academy instantly fell silent.

Everyone could see that although Xue Xingchuan's face was expressionless and he seemed cold, the word "senior" was said calmly and without hesitation—those who knew Jin Yulv's background would not find it strange. Among the thirty-eight divine generals of the continent, the most senior one, Fei Dian, could not talk about seniority with him. Xue Xingchuan, a famous general of the Great Zhou, calling him "senior" was only natural. However, the young people at the entrance of the National Teaching Academy did not know this, so they were very shocked.

Jin Yulv smiled and said, "Someone wanted to rush in, so I had to stop them."

Xue Xingchuan turned around and looked at the young men from the capital, who were covered in blood, and frowned slightly, saying, "You were a bit too harsh."

Jin Yulv shook his head and said, "I used to be a soldier, responsible for defending the land. If the demons dared to cross the border, I would drive them back with all my might. Now I am the gatekeeper of the National Teaching Academy, and I have the responsibility to guard the gate. If someone wants to rush into the National Teaching Academy, I will drive them back, no matter the consequences."

Xue Xingchuan was silent, knowing the weight of these words.

At this moment, a young deputy general walked up to him and whispered a few words.

Xue Xingchuan raised his eyebrows slightly and said, "This matter has become too big, it doesn't look good."

Jin Yulv pointed to the crowd, which was starting to show signs of unrest again, and occasionally heard foul language, and said, "What can we do? They have been making a commotion outside the academy for a long time. If the court doesn't come to maintain order, should we be prevented from maintaining order?"

Xue Xingchuan's frown deepened. Today, the National Teaching Academy had one incident after another, especially this one, which was completely a mess. If it weren't for the palace's message to control the situation and avoid a bad influence, he wouldn't have come.

The young deputy general said, "Sir, let's just watch from the side. If someone violates the law, we can deal with them later."

Xue Xingchuan was very pleased with this suggestion, thinking that it was indeed a good idea.

Without hesitation, he walked towards a nearby tavern on Baihua Lane, clearly preparing to be a spectator. Hong Yunlin looked around somewhat bewildered and followed him. The imperial guards lined up at the entrance of the National Teaching Academy, clearly indicating that they would not take sides, but also that no one should go too far.

Xue Xingchuan was very satisfied with this situation, but the two groups of people inside and outside the National Teaching Academy were very dissatisfied.

Those who came to cause trouble felt that many of their people had been severely injured, and Xue Xingchuan and the imperial guards did not arrest the culprits or even inquire about it, which was completely unreasonable. Tang Sanshiu, on the other hand, felt that those people were still making a commotion in front of the academy, and the authorities did not intervene, which was also unreasonable.

In any case, nothing made sense.

Xue Xingchuan felt that it was even more unreasonable that he was forced to come and handle this matter, so he didn't want to argue anymore. With the imperial guards here, no one would dare to rush into the National Teaching Academy, and the people inside the academy wouldn't continue to hurt others and lose face in front of him. He just needed to give an account.

The only places that needed an account from someone of his status were the two palaces: the Imperial Palace and the Li Palace.

However, he didn't expect that the three young men in the National Teaching Academy might give him some face, but they cared more about giving themselves an account.

Seeing the imperial guards just standing solemnly in front of the National Teaching Academy, the people causing trouble guessed that as long as they didn't rush into the academy, the court wouldn't care. Some of the bolder ones soon started cursing again.

Inside the academy gate, it was much clearer to hear the insults, such as "country bumpkin" and "toad." Listening to those people unreasonably insist that the marriage contract was fake, Chen Changsheng's mood became heavy, and Tang Sanshiu's face turned cold, his hand gripping the sword hilt tighter and tighter.

"Are you deaf? Can't you hear such a loud noise?"

Tang Sanshiu shouted at the young deputy general of the imperial guards.

The young deputy general turned around, looked at him expressionlessly, and said, "I heard it clearly, so what?"

Tang Sanshiu said, "Since you heard them cursing, aren't you going to stop them?"

The young deputy general was silent for a moment, as if thinking seriously, then said, "Why should I stop them?"

Tang Sanshiu's expression grew colder, and he said, "If I say something about your sister, is that okay?"

Hearing this, the imperial guards were furious and looked at him. As long as the divine general was resting in the tavern, if their leader gave the order, they would rush over and beat this insolent youth to the ground.

The young deputy general, strangely, did not get angry but said seriously, "Are you sure you want to do that?"

Tang Sanshiu, recalling the girl's rough behavior when she was young, shivered and forced himself to calm down, saying, "I was just saying, why take it so seriously?"

"You don't dare to do it, and you don't dare to say it. Now you're being cursed by a thousand people and you don't dare to respond. You're really a coward."

The young deputy general looked at him mockingly and said, "Go back to Wenshui and cry to the old man."

Tang Sanshiu was furious and pointed at the crowd outside the gate, saying, "One person cursing a thousand people, do you think I'm stupid?"

The young deputy general said seriously, "Then I have no other way. Their mouths are theirs, but the sound reaches the academy. Who can control that?"

Chen Changsheng felt there was something wrong with their conversation, walked up, and asked in a low voice, "Do you know each other?"

"Let's deal with these people first, then I'll tell you," Tang Sanshiu said.

Some people looked at Chen Changsheng and found him quite ordinary, just as described. Tang Sanshiu, on the other hand, was dressed splendidly and had a handsome face, so he was probably not the one. Whispers began, and soon they confirmed that he was Chen Changsheng. The insults and curses grew louder, as if they could tear the sky of the capital.

Tang Sanshiu's face grew darker, and he secretly made a gesture with his left hand.

The broken gate from the morning was now placed at the back. Xuanyuan Po had left at some point and, following Tang Sanshiu's instructions, walked a long distance along the wall to the west, climbed over using a ladder, and squeezed into the crowd from the other end of Baihua Lane.

Although the crowd was dense, no one could withstand the strength of this young demon. In the time it took to speak, he had already reached about twenty paces from the gate. Surrounded by angry young people, no one noticed his presence.

He held a stone in his hand.

When he saw the gesture Tang Sanshiu made, he knew it was time, but he hesitated. It wasn't until he saw Tang Sanshiu's extremely cold gaze and thought about what would happen in the National Teaching Academy if he didn't comply that he finally made up his mind.

He raised the stone and threw it towards the gate of the National Teaching Academy, shouting, "Smash this bastard!"

The crowd, filled with insults, fell silent for a brief moment. Everyone heard the words clearly and saw the stone flying towards the gate of the National Teaching Academy, even the trajectory of the stone. Some were ready to cheer, while others turned pale.

Was the situation really going to escalate?

Thud.

With a dull sound, the stone landed heavily on the stone steps in front of the National Teaching Academy, shattered into several pieces, and then bounced and fell again.

At that moment, the stone was only a few inches from Chen Changsheng's feet. The fragments did not hit his legs, which could only be attributed to his good luck.

Tang Sanshiu thought, not without admiration, that the demon race truly had superior control over strength, able to throw so accurately.

Xuanyuan Po, in the crowd, was somewhat fearful, thinking that he had used too much strength.

In any case, the stone had landed.

The situation at the gate of the National Teaching Academy instantly turned from a verbal battle to a physical one.

"Actually using ranged weapons!"

Tang Sanshiu, furious, picked up a stone from the ground and threw it at the crowd.

A sharp whistling sound was followed by a cry of pain.

A man in scholar's robes clutched his forehead and fell backward, blood gushing from his fingers.

Immediately, Tang Sanshiu's second stone arrived, and with a thud, a man from the capital lost several teeth, his mouth full of blood.

The crowd outside the gate finally came to their senses, shouting for a doctor in panic. Some were angry and shouted for retaliation, while others rushed to the imperial guards, pointing at their injured companions and demanding that the guards arrest the culprits. The scene was chaotic.

Finally, some people started to retaliate, picking up whatever they could find and throwing it at the gate of the National Teaching Academy.

The scene turned into a melee, and the imperial guards, lined up outside the academy, naturally couldn't intervene.

As soon as the crowd started picking up stones, Tang Sanshiu had already taken Chen Changsheng away from the gate, climbed up the wall using a ladder, and signaled Chen Changsheng to pass him stones from below. The wall was lined with plum trees and a shallow layer of stones, providing plenty of ammunition.

The situation outside the National Teaching Academy was completely different. Baihua Lane was always kept very clean, and it was not easy to find stones on the stone-paved ground. Trying to pry up the stone slabs would be quicker if they just went home and got a kitchen knife.

Some people, seeing the broken gate of the National Teaching Academy, noticed the broken stones and some usable wood and tried to get some ammunition for their companions, but Jin Yulv was still sitting in his chair, preventing anyone from entering.

With a clear goal and preparation, the melee was clearly one-sided.

Tang Sanshiu, standing on the wall, threw a stone, and someone fell.

Groans and cries of pain echoed continuously as dozens of people were hit by stones.

He had been holding back for a long time, from the morning when the Tianhai family's carriage broke the gate to the city-wide cursing of the National Teaching Academy. Now he finally found a way to vent, and he didn't hold back at all. The stones, imbued with his true essence, whistled through the air, and the area below the wall was filled with cries of pain.

Some people, standing a bit further away, thought they were safe and cursed loudly, only to be hit by a stone from the wall, smashing their foreheads and knocking them down.

What was Tang Sanshiu thinking when he used his true essence to throw the stones?

"Feels great."

He stood on the wall, shouting in satisfaction, and with each throw, someone fell. It was truly effortless.

A genius on the Qingyun List using true essence against ordinary people—wasn't that bullying?

He had already reached the upper realm of the Sitting Illumination stage, making him a peak strength among the young generation. The stones he threw, even without using true essence, were as powerful as arrows. How could the people in the alley withstand it?

The curses and insults outside the National Teaching Academy had long been replaced by cries of pain, and the shouts had turned into wails.

In front of the wall, people ran and dodged, blood flowed, and dust rose.

It was truly a scene of enemies being crushed in a moment.

"Enough, enough."

The young deputy general, seeing the suffering of the people, finally felt some compassion and turned to shout at Tang Sanshiu on the wall.

To be honest, Tang Sanshiu was extremely unprofessional. Instead of standing elsewhere, he stood on the wall above the imperial guards. The crowd, despite picking up some stones, hesitated to throw them back, fearing they might hit the guards.

Tang Sanshiu, without stopping, asked, "What's enough?"

The young deputy general, helpless, said, "You've already hit so many people, isn't that enough?"

"You said earlier that their mouths were theirs, and the sound just reached the academy, so you couldn't do anything... Now these stones are mine, and my hands are mine. They just happened to fly outside the academy. What's the difference? Besides, they threw the first stone."

As he said this, Tang Sanshiu scanned the crowd, confirming that Xuanyuan Po had already slipped away in the chaos, and continued to throw stones.

The dust and cries continued in the alley, and people supported each other as they retreated, the scene extremely tragic, like a defeated army.

The crowd had scattered like birds and beasts, but Tang Sanshiu was still not satisfied. He narrowed his eyes, holding a stone shard, and aimed at the last person trailing behind—remembering clearly that this person had directly called Chen Changsheng a parasite, only to be hit on the head by a stone. How could that be enough?

Due to the marriage contract, the city of the capital had shown collective hostility towards the National Teaching Academy and Chen Changsheng.

Tang Sanshiu vented all the hostility and frustration with these stones.

Chen Changsheng did nothing, just kept passing stones from below the wall. Normally, he might have thought this was nonsense, a waste of time and life, but today he was very happy, not even noticing that his clothes had been torn by the plum branches.

Life had many ways to be lived, or played.

Maybe it had no meaning, but it was really interesting.

And it was so easy to feel happy.

(At the end of these two sentences, everyone knows, it will remind you of something. After I wrote it, I was ready to delete it or change it because it was the story of "Jiangye," the principle of the academy, and I didn't want to influence too much. But then I thought, since I love the academy, I agree with its principles. If I think it's right, why not write more? In fact, some readers said this chapter felt like the scene in "Jiangye" where I fought alone in Chang'an. Yes, I like that tone. Bowing, thank you to the girls in the group for the photos, and thank you to the readers who turned red because of the photos. Please continue to support and vote, and I'll keep looking at the photos...)

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