The Geared Immortal

Chapter 197 - Mistaken Identity Part 35

An Academy Life: 7

/*unedited*/

"That is enough Teacher Feng!" the beautiful woman said while showing a stern and serious look at Cong Feng.

"Teacher Ouyang, please don't block me. This student should be taught harshly. He dared kill our students, he must be punished." Cong Feng shouted.

"That's right teacher, we should kill that bastard." Shouted Bushan Deng with gritted teeth.

He had suffered great humiliation from Shin Jiao's hands so he didn't want to miss the opportunity to kill his opponent with borrowed hands.

"Are you two done? Do you know the rules in the academy right? We have to investigate first before anything else." The woman named teacher Ouyang said as she waved her hand.

Shin Jiao on the other hand just watches the show in front of him. He didn't want to waste his saliva to these people. If the woman wanted to shield him, then so be it. But if they wanted to use their superiority to bully him, then he would act on his own and fight back.

Suddenly from the corner of his eyes, he saw something changing from the two corpses on the ground. Using his spiritual sense, Shin Jiao saw the two students who masked themselves as humans slowly change into their real beast-man form. A smirk suddenly appears on his face as his attention was drawn back to the people arguing.

"We can clearly see that he killed his seniors, what is there to investigate Teacher Ouyang?" Cong Feng asked with anger in his eyes.

He wanted to attack Shin Jiao as he has already felt his pride being insulted. He attacked him more than once but still unable to catch a mere gold core realm cultivator. So to preserve his pride, he needed to beat that brat up whether he is guilty or not.

"Miss Ouyang…" Shin Jiao suddenly said.

"I think the school should check their students before accepting them…" he added.

His words suddenly caught the group arguing off guard. They never expected that Shin Jiao would say such things. But before they can reach, Shin Jiao pointed his finger towards the two corpses.

"I guess beast-men are being accepted and trained in this academy too right?" Shin Jiao said with a smile.

It is known that the beast clan is desperate to learn the tactics of the humans. Although they are numerous than humans, they would still lose any fight when humans use tactics and formations. So, many of the beast-men would infiltrate human schools and learn their secrets. But for the prestigious academy to be infiltrated by beast-men is a shame that they can never remove. It would be tarnished to their reputation as an academy that teaches war tactics.

"How dare you say…" Cong Feng suddenly shouted but stopped as he saw Shin Jiao pointing at the two corpses.

"This… how can this be? This is not possible! How can we not know that there are beast-men who have infiltrated the school?" Cong Feng muttered.

Even the woman called teacher Ouyang frown at the two figures slowly changing back to being beast-men.

"Ask those two as I think they are collaborating with this ambush." Shin Jiao said.

"You…" Guxian Deng said while pointing at Shin Jiao.

Right now he too was perplexed at the situation. Those two are his buddies since he started in the academy. He wanted to get his revenge for Shin Jiao killing his two underlings.

"If I'm not mistaken those are your fellow classmates and followers right, student Guxian Deng." Teacher Ouyang said with suspicion in her eyes.

"Teacher… No this is a misunderstanding… I…" Guxian Deng shouted as he tried to explain himself.

But suddenly his body froze as he found himself unable to move anymore. The woman called teacher Ouyang has locked him in place with her spiritual aura.

"You too follow me." She said while pointing at Bushan Deng.

She has already found the two brothers a little suspicious of the exchange before. She can clearly see that the two have made this attack on a new student. She is not a fool and is considered a very intelligent prodigy. So from what she observed, the four students wanted to ambush the new student. If he is weak then that new student would have fallen to the hands of his four assailants.

But what she didn't expect is to discover two spies from the beast clan.

"We need to inform the academy principal about this." She thought as she slowly walks away with the two students in tow.

She didn't even bother to look at Shin Jiao who just stood there. Her mind is focused on how she can solve this mystery on how the beast clan was able to infiltrate the academy without being found out.

But Cong Feng stood on the ground and look at Shin Jiao with his poisonous eyes. He wanted to wait for the beautiful teacher Ouyang to leave before he would make his move.

"Teacher Feng are you not coming with me?" teacher Ouyang said coldly.

"Umm…" Cong Feng was stunned and didn't have a choice but to follow her.

Thought his heart and footsteps are heavy as he really wanted to destroy Shin Jiao, but now he remembers that the student has not made any offense and that if he tried to attack him, then he would be the one to suffer the consequences. So, he reluctantly followed behind teacher Ouyang.

As the four figures walk away from that place, Shin Jiao felt a little relaxed.

"Damn it. This will give me more trouble. I need to find a way to learn what I can from this academy and leave this place soon." Shin Jiao thought.

…

The next day…

The sun is already high up in the sky when Shin Jiao opens his eyes and stopped meditating. He has absorbed more than 20 spiritual stones to further enhance his cultivation but he truly found it a little too hard. The amount he absorbs is like a drop of water in a wide lake.

"I guess I just have to push through with this for now… I can only persevere until I can fill another sphere in my mind dantian. That way I can gauge my cultivation improvement." Shin Jiao thought.

"Today my goal is to learn some martial technique… since the classrooms have no regular teachers, then I must go to the library." Shin Jiao thought as he walks out of his room after cleaning himself up.

He has noticed that, after cultivating to the gold core realm, he rare crave for food as it is not necessary anymore. As his Qi absorption increases, his need for food decreases. Though eating would still be beneficial, only if he eats those beasts in the forest.

He then walks to the nearest library and found that it was not a simple library. The place is huge and the collection of martial techniques is wide, from fist techniques, weapons techniques, and Qi and mental techniques.

When he saw the collection he felt really ecstatic. He knows that with this he can absorb enough knowledge to learn how to advance his cultivation at the same time strengthen his fighting prowess.

So with that, he began to spend his time in the library.

A couple of days have passed and Shin Jiao has already stayed in the academy for about a week. And his days are spent in the library reading books and learning a martial variety of martial techniques. Unknown to him, the elder in charge of the library became fascinated with his reading speed. The elder also saw that Shin Jiao is not merely reading but also absorbing the things written in the books. He especially noticed that Shin Jiao's hands would move unconsciously according to what he is reading.

When the sun has already set, Shin Jiao was about to leave the library when a beautiful woman approached him.

"Student Shin Jiao… wait!" the beautiful woman called out.

When Shin Jiao turns his head he saw the beautiful teacher he had met when he was ambushed a few days ago.

"Teacher Ouyang… how may I help you?" Shin Jiao greeted with a light bow.

"Oh, you remember my name. Well, I am Loulou Ouyang. I teach in Formation and alchemy classes." Loulou Ouyang said as she introduced herself to Shin Jiao.

"I wanted to find you for a couple of days as the Principal of the academy wanted to ask you something… Would it be alright for you to follow me in his office?" she added.

When Shin Jiao heard what she said, he felt a little concerned but didn't worry too much. He can already guess what they needed from him.

"No worries, teacher Ouyang. I'll follow, lead the way." Shin Jiao said politely.

The two went straight to the Academy's principal's office. On the way, Shin Jiao can feel a cold gaze behind him. So he extended his absolute sense so as not to alarm the person looking at him.

"That teacher… is he really bent on taking his frustrations on me?" Shin Jiao thought as he can see the figure of Cong Feng from a corner.

But he didn't mind him as he knows that in this academy it would be hard for him to do something to the teacher without any consequence. But if he really pushes him to the limit, then Shin Jiao would not face him head-on, but instead assassinating him in the dark would be his best option.

While thinking, Shin Jiao found himself in front of a tall brown door made of sturdy wood.

He is now standing in front of the Academy Principal's office, the most powerful cultivator in the academy and the head of all the teachers.