Stepping on the Demoness to become the strongest-Chapter 268 - 66: Then the School Exploded

Qi Changping was rushed to emergency care, and the news quickly spread amongst the entire faculty and student body.

Rescuing him wasn’t much of an issue, just a concussion from being hit by a brick fragment. Now, with Runescript, there wasn’t even a need for cranial surgery. The hematoma could be directly extracted to treat the injury.

The issue lay in how to deal with the perpetrator, Xie Ruoxi.

Blowing up the archive room, along with precious hard drives containing Taoist texts, and incidentally sending the chief instructor to the hospital—wasn’t this worthy of severe punishment, like a serious demerit?

Li Weiguo developed a headache after receiving the accident report.

There were no rules against casting spells in the archive room. Normally, everyone would quickly memorize the full text in the archive room and then find somewhere else to practice at leisure... Who would think of casting spells right there?

Even if there were such eccentrics, Taoist techniques aren’t like arithmetic problems that you can simply apply as soon as you understand them, are they?

Yet they had encountered the oddball Xie Ruoxi, who thought to "just try it" in the archive room, and upon "trying," successfully performed the spell with extremely potent force — her talent could almost be considered top-notch among spellcasters.

That said, if one were to fully assess the damages, they couldn’t be considered extremely severe. The archive room could be rebuilt, the hard drives had secret disaster recovery backups, and Qi Changping didn’t suffer any serious lasting injuries. If an explosion could yield a talent like Xie Ruoxi, Li Weiguo wouldn’t mind a few more blasts... Of course, he couldn’t say that publicly.

Still, he had to follow procedures and punish her to some extent, otherwise, it would be bad if she turned into another Yan Yu.

As Li Weiguo was contemplating, he heard Yan Yu knock on the door:

"Is Grandpa Li in?"

"Come in."

Yan Yu pushed the door open and placed an A4 paper on Li Weiguo’s desk.

"What is this?" Li Weiguo asked, raising an eyebrow.

"A self-criticism letter," Yan Yu replied. "Handwritten by Xie Ruoxi."

Li Weiguo: ......

He picked up the self-criticism letter and read it through, feeling utterly unimpressed.

The writing was like that of a primary school student... But considering Xie Ruoxi had only recently graduated from high school, it was no wonder she wasn’t the bookish type and wrote such a letter.

Thinking that she was just an ignorant young girl, Li Weiguo didn’t get angry. Instead, he casually placed the letter aside and asked Yan Yu:

"What’s the deal with this Xie Ruoxi?"

"Got a screw loose," Yan Yu succinctly put it. "But her talent is outstanding, very outstanding."

"Hmm." Li Weiguo pondered for a moment, then asked again, "Can you handle her?"

"Of course," Yan Yu promptly replied with a serious tone. "I am the captain of the Zhenhai Team. I bear some responsibility for this incident as well, so please punish me accordingly."

"Mm." Li Weiguo kept a straight face, but he was somewhat surprised inside.

Yan Yu’s gesture was clear: he was determined to protect Xie Ruoxi.

Although Li Weiguo had no intention of punishing her severely, since Yan Yu was willing to guard Xie Ruoxi, he could well give him that favor.

"Alright," Li Weiguo said nonchalantly. "I’ll consider it. You can leave now."

Without another word, Yan Yu turned and left.

Outside the principal’s office, Xie Ruoxi immediately rushed up, asking anxiously:

"What did he say?"

"Wait for the notice," Yan Yu replied, mimicking Li Weiguo’s indifferent manner.

Instantly, Xie Ruoxi’s tears started falling again.

Although she disliked the cultivator training, the improvement in her living conditions was undeniable. If she were expelled from the school, the Zhenhai Team probably wouldn’t keep her either. Then, she’d have no choice but to leave the villa for a rental apartment...

"Wuwuwu!" She clung to Yan Yu, crying her heart out. "I was wrong! I truly realize my mistake, I didn’t do it on purpose! I didn’t expect it to be so powerful..."

In the principal’s office, as Li Weiguo re-read her self-criticism letter and listened to the powerful sobs outside, he let go of his worry.

It was just a timid and fearful young girl; she probably wouldn’t turn into someone as unruly as Yan Yu.

While Li Weiguo secretly relaxed on his end, outside, Yan Yu was being tormented by her wailing, which was so loud and strong that he couldn’t resist clamping her lips shut with a pinch to silence her.

"Shut up!" he growled, dragging Xie Ruoxi to the nearby staircase entrance, brandishing his fist threateningly, "Come over here... and no more crying! Cry again and I’ll slap you!"

Xie Ruoxi resignedly closed her mouth, though tears continued to pitter-patter down, her heart filled with fear of a fall in social status, regret, and irritation, wishing she could run home and cry under her blankets until dawn.

Yan Yu pulled her back to the team’s training grounds, saying:

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"Show me that Thunder Method of yours."

"Oh." Xie Ruoxi was still immersed in her sorrow, her voice choked as she asked, "Should I direct it at you, or..."

"Of course you aim at the target!" Yan Yu lectured her, "Your spell already blew up the archives room! Can’t you use your brain for once?"

Strangely enough, hearing Yan Yu mercilessly scolding her, Xie Ruoxi felt an odd sense of security.

What she feared most was Yan Yu simply saying, "You can go now, don’t come looking for me anymore," then turning away without a hint of pity... If that happened, Magic Girl Ruoxi would instantly become a river of sorrow, ready to flood Jinling Prefecture with her tears.

His willingness to scold me at least shows that I still hold some value for training in his eyes, doesn’t it?

Xie Ruoxi wiped her tears fiercely and looked at the target ahead on the training ground.

The target was made of refined steel with built-in force sensors and mounted on a movable rail below. It was meant for college cultivators to practice their Sword Control Technique. Teams like Zhenhai Team, which didn’t need a target because the captain would personally come out to spar with the members, were a rare few.

Xie Ruoxi stared at the target, holding her breath while concentrating, her True Yuan surging and gathering at her fingertips. Suddenly, she cast out a green orb tinged with streaks of red, which flew at the speed of lightning and instantly hit the steel target, blasting it to smithereens.

"Is that the Jade Pivot Thunder?" Yan Yu asked.

"Yes," Xie Ruoxi replied cautiously.

Yan Yu’s divine sense scanned the remnants of the target and soon came to a conclusion.

A single-target attack, pure output, not a wide explosion radius, even smaller than Zhou Hongyu’s Flame Spear, almost similar to the Flying Sword, but its power simply can’t be compared to that of a Flying Sword, extremely lethal, slower than Flying Sword but more hidden—The Flying Sword’s light is too bright, and Zhao Yuanzhen’s Yin Wind Sword even makes special effects sounds as it flies, which is unbearable.

"This Jade Pivot Thunder, it’s said to be specifically for solitary souls and wild ghosts," Xie Ruoxi carefully explained, "It’s designed to kill purely yin ghostly beings."

"Hmm," Yan Yu said with an authoritative tone, "Don’t tell Chen Lingyun. Try the Divine Sky Thunder now."

Xie Ruoxi did as instructed, once again channeling her True Yuan from her Dantian and aimed at another steel target, quickly tossing out an orb of light.

Yan Yu narrowed his eyes and saw that the Divine Sky Thunder was a white sphere of light, faster than the Jade Pivot Thunder but making a bigger commotion; it slammed into the target, pulverizing it just the same.

Scanning the remains of the target again, he noticed it hadn’t shattered as widely as the Jade Pivot Thunder, but the pieces were smaller, indicating its power was more restrained and concentrated.

"What’s the Divine Sky Thunder for?" Yan Yu asked.

"It’s for monsters," Xie Ruoxi answered, "The book says, the stronger the physical body, the less it can withstand the Divine Sky Thunder, it’ll what... cause vitality necrosis."

"Hmm..." Yan Yu pondered once more.

It was clear that although the Jade Pivot Thunder and Divine Sky Thunder were different types of Thunder Methods, the ancient supreme being who designed these spells had a clear intention: one targets the physical body, the other the soul.

If it were the tree demons and vine specters from the Wuyi Mountain Secret Realm, then the Divine Sky Thunder would be used against them; but if dealing with the ghosts from Shuanggui Mountain or Changping Secret Realm, the Jade Pivot Thunder should be used.

Too bad he was dealing with a pretty but useless person, who might not know how to eat even when the meal is ready and brought to her lips... In her previous life, this girl used Thunder Methods haphazardly, "tossing out skills in the order they appeared on her skill list," so much so that Yan Yu had never heard of the differences between the Jade Pivot Thunder and Divine Sky Thunder.

"Do you know how to use these two Thunder Methods?" Yan Yu asked sternly.

"Uh." Xie Ruoxi wanted to say "I think there’s not much difference, just toss them out," but seeing the captain looking fierce (imagined by her), she earnestly analyzed, "Use Divine Sky Thunder against monsters, Jade Pivot Thunder against ghosts."

"And what about killing people?" Yan Yu asked again.

"Hmm..." Xie Ruoxi racked her brains.

Humans have a physical body and a soul, so which Thunder Method should be used for killing? Eh, the body is on the outside, the soul is on the inside, so should it be...

"I will first use the Divine Sky Thunder to crush his body," Xie Ruoxi smartly said, "then the Jade Pivot Thunder to destroy his soul!"

Yan Yu: .........

"Is there a possibility," he strained to hold back the burgeoning repulsion for stupidity, and asked coolly, "that whether it’s Divine Sky Thunder or Jade Pivot Thunder, just one hit and the opponent is already blown to death by you?"

"Oh, right!" Xie Ruoxi had an epiphany, "So it doesn’t matter which Thunder Method I use?"

"Of course, it matters!" Yan Yu finally couldn’t contain himself and started knocking Xie Ruoxi’s head with his knuckles, "I said ’just one hit’! Don’t you understand what ’just one hit’ means? Do you think your opponent will just stand there and let you hit them with your Thunder Method? Where has your mind wandered off to?" Your journey continues at novelbuddy

"You’re going to knock my brain out!" Xie Ruoxi quickly covered her head, crying out in a pitiful tone.

"Divine Sky Thunder is faster, Jade Pivot Thunder is more discreet." Seeing her in such a delicate and pitiful state, Yan Yu once again suppressed his anger and continued to patiently explain, "For sneak attacks, use Jade Pivot Thunder, for direct kills, Divine Sky Thunder, got it?"

"Got it," Xie Ruoxi nodded and then naively asked, "So when should I sneak attack and when should I go for a direct kill?"

"That’s more complicated." Yan Yu was about to list 108 different battle situations where different strategies should be employed, then suddenly remembered the intellect of this pretty but useless girl... and lost all interest.

"So?" Xie Ruoxi was still waiting for his explanation.

"So just follow Chen Lingyun’s commands," Yan Yu said with a somber expression.