Chapter 39: Punishment and Grading!

"Both of you, bring Rode in, and all the freshmen come in as well."

Her voice was as gentle as water, flowing through everyone's hearts, as if even the summer heat disappeared with the sound.

Instructor Ruolin instructed two students to carry the collapsed Rode inside.

After checking Rode's injuries, Ruolin frowned slightly and glanced at Xiao Ze.

"You little rascal, you're quite ruthless when you strike!"

Her charming glance made the surrounding male students blush, but Xiao Ze remained calm, shrugging and saying, "I already held back. Compared to someone trying to kill Leilo here, I've been rather merciful."

The students around were all dumbfounded, but Xiao Ze wasn't exaggerating.

Previously, Rode had clearly aimed for Leilo's vital spots, showing murderous intent!

"Sigh~ Rode was blinded by anger and acted without restraint."

Ruolin sighed and placed her palm on Rode's chest.

Using water attribute Qi to calm his disrupted breath and treat his injuries.

Both water and wood attribute Qi have healing effects.

Mercenary groups, when allowed, often recruit personnel with corresponding attributes.

After all, it's much cheaper than healing potions!

Xiao Ze glanced at the male students beside him, all of them looking envious and jealous, as if receiving treatment from Ruolin was a great privilege.

Previously, Ruolin had given him a teasing glance, which could easily make ordinary men lose control.

But Xiao Ze could remain composed.

When he accepted the hundredfold reward from the Calamity Poison Body, he experienced destruction and revival countless times in an instant!

The pleasure of soul revival made him highly resistant to ordinary temptations and pleasures.

Now, unless he was mentally unstable, ordinary temptations and pleasures couldn't easily stir his emotions.

Besides the strength improvement, the hidden benefits of the system's feedback rewards were also immensely beneficial!

After a while, Ruolin stopped her treatment and stood up expressionlessly.

Rode suddenly opened his eyes, seeing Ruolin's face, with a hint of admiration and longing in his eyes.

Ignoring Rode, Ruolin looked at Xiao Ze, smiling slightly. "Little guy, how do you think I should deal with you?"

"Shouldn't you be giving me a reward instead?"

Xiao Ze pretended to be surprised, causing everyone to widen their eyes.

"Hehe, you're quite interesting, little guy. Tell me, why should I reward you so generously?"

Ruolin chuckled softly, then asked.

"I helped stop a fight between fellow students at Canaan Academy!"

Xiao Ze ignored the astonished gazes around him.

"This senior from Canaan Academy was ruthless and refused to show mercy, pretending it was just a friendly sparring session while actually going for lethal blows."

"If Canaan Academy students can freely fight and recruit newcomers, in the long run, I'm afraid no one would want to come to Canaan Academy."

"Hmph!" Rode retorted with a dark expression, "That's because this guy didn't play by the rules. I just gave him a lesson!"

"Oh~" Xiao Ze smirked, "Just a lesson? Did it require going for lethal blows?"

"And I even stopped you and gave you a chance!"

Rode paled, remembering Xiao Ze's previous kick.

His chest still burned with pain!

"Furthermore, your so-called rules are just bad rules!"

Ruolin, showing a hint of interest for the first time in this battle, was intrigued by Xiao Ze's question.

"You think you can override it?"

Rode persisted, stealing a glance at Ruolin after speaking.

Seeing Ruolin's calm expression, he breathed a sigh of relief.

After all, he was tugging on the tiger's tail by involving other instructors.

Ruolin despised such rules!

"Hehe, those are bad rules too!"

Ignoring Rode's fiery gaze, Xiao Ze continued, "Your so-called rules are meant to suppress the arrogance of minor local geniuses, to make them more obedient."

"But once they join Canaan Academy and see that everyone around them is at the same level or even better, maintaining arrogance is not confidence, it's just plain stupidity!"

"But there are few fools in this world!"

"Most people have self-awareness. Punishing the majority because of the mistakes of a few fools is just absurd!"

"Isn't that a bad rule?"

Xiao Ze's final question silenced the entire tent.

Those Canaan Academy students had experienced such things before. They couldn't resist and chose to join.

Now it seemed indeed like a bad rule!

And the freshmen who had tasted the bitter fruit of this rule were even more disgusted with it.

They were in complete agreement with what Xiao Ze said!

Ruolin, who had been calm before, suddenly smiled.

"You eloquent little guy, you've convinced me!"

Rode widened his eyes, turning to Ruolin.

"I was neutral about this rule, but you've successfully convinced me."

"From now on, at least among my students, such things won't happen!"

Ruolin glanced at the Canaan Academy students around her, her warning clear in her eyes.

They straightened up, no longer daring to laugh and joke.

They all expressed that they would never bully freshmen in the future.

"As for you, Rode... You made these freshmen stand outside for so long, so you'll stand outside for just as long as they did."

"One freshman standing for half an hour means you'll stand for five hours. Calculate how many hours you'll stand yourself!"

Rode opened his mouth, wanting to plead with Ruolin.

But Ruolin, usually gentle, showed a rare hint of anger in her eyes, making him bow his head in apology.

"Rode willingly accepts the punishment!"

With that, he glanced at Xiao Ze, then left the tent to accept his punishment.

The freshmen looked at each other, a hint of joy in their eyes.

Ruolin then addressed them, "Although I've banned this, don't cause trouble for me!"

"The fact that this can become an unwritten rule at Canaan Academy shows how difficult you freshmen are to discipline!"

Ruolin sat down behind the table, taking out parchment and ink with a smile.

"Dear students, you're all students of Canaan Academy now. The academy needs to assess your potential, so we need to know your exact strength."

"Potential values are divided into F-level for those under twenty years old and at the eighth stage of Qi refining. With each stage of strength increase, the rating goes up by one level!"

"Up to the highest level, S-level, which is a five-star fighter!"

"Understood? Now, one by one, report your strengths in order!"

The freshmen, after the previous incident, became much more obedient.

They lined up one by one to report their strengths to Ruolin.

Xiao Ze felt a bit troubled.

(End of Chapter)