Teacher Xu’s face darkened. "Wang Yue, is what Chen Xing said true?"
Wang Yue said hurriedly, "Teacher Xu, he’s talking nonsense."
"Ha! We’ll know if it’s nonsense once we check your room. Wang Yue, do you dare?"
"Hmph, what’s there not to dare? You just want to see my room? Follow me." A fire raged in Wang Yue’s heart. The day’s events had left him disoriented and furious. As for what Chen Xing said about Li Yue, he wasn’t worried. ’Hmph, never mind that Li Yue isn’t in my room right now. Even if she were, so what?’
Xingxuan Academy didn’t forbid relationships between male and female students. As long as it was consensual, even if something did happen between them, the academy couldn’t do anything as long as they admitted they were a couple.
As a direct descendant of the Wang family, Wang Yue didn’t live in the public dormitories. He had applied for a private, individual room. However, all the male students’ dorms were in the same area, so the group quickly arrived in front of Wang Yue’s private room.
Wang Yue magnanimously opened the door and said coldly, "If you want to look, go on in. But if you break any of my things, you’ll pay for it."
"Hmph, then I’ll go in and inspect." Chen Xing snorted. He no longer looked like someone suffering from cultivation deviation in the slightest as he strode into the room.
The private suite had a living room at the front and a bedroom in the back. Before the group even entered the bedroom, they heard a low whimpering sound from within.
"What’s going on?" Teacher Xu’s expression changed, and he violently kicked the door open. Inside, four or five people were lying strewn about. Two men and three women. The men were Liu Tong and Ma Bing, completely naked and wrapped in a passionate embrace that was nauseating to behold. The women were Li Yue and another young girl, both bound and half-naked, their bodies exposed. Finally, there was even an ugly old woman, also tied up with her mouth taped shut.
Liu Tong, Ma Bing, Li Yue, and the young girl were all unconscious. Only the half-naked old woman was awake, her eyes wide with terror, making muffled sounds.
Seeing this, everyone froze instantly.
"Isn’t... isn’t that the madam from the Spring Wind Tower?"
A student from the back cried out in surprise. Then, as if realizing something, he quickly shut his mouth and said no more.
"GACK!" Many students immediately threw up. Chen Xing pointed at Wang Yue in fury and roared, "Wang Yue, you’re too cruel! You won’t even spare an old woman? Your tastes are too much! And aren’t Liu Tong and Ma Bing your friends? Why are they naked and hugging each other? Are you guys gay? You go for both men and women? This is disgusting!"
"BLECH!"
Many students turned pale. Hearing this, they bent over and started vomiting again, feeling as if they were heaving up their own bile.
"How is this possible? H-How are they here?" Wang Yue was completely stunned, his mind a chaotic mess. He mumbled, "No, I didn’t do this. Ye Xuan, it was you! Right, you must have framed me."
At this point, he was hysterical.
Teacher Xu’s face was grim. He quickly went to the old woman, snapped the ropes binding her, and ripped the tape from her mouth. He asked coldly, "Who are you, and why are you here?"
"Young Master Wang Yue, I... I..." The madam gasped for air. She instinctively moved toward Wang Yue, about to say something, when she suddenly saw his dark, murderous eyes. Quick-witted, she immediately changed her tune. "It was Ye Xuan! Yes, it was Ye Xuan from your academy! He came to the Spring Wind Tower today and asked this old woman to bring him a girl to try out. I never thought this man with the face of a human but the heart of a beast would trick us, bring us here, and tie us up! You must be teachers from Xingxuan Academy! You have to expel this person! He’s utterly depraved, a monster!"
The madam said with righteous indignation, her sagging chest jiggling continuously, an offense to the eyes.
Teacher Xu fought back the urge to vomit, frowned, and said coldly, "Get dressed before you say another word."
"Haha! Good! Well said!" Wang Yue’s ashen face suddenly lit up. "Ye Xuan, what else do you have to say? I was wondering why I couldn’t find anyone in your room. So you hid them in my dorm to frame me! Now the truth is out!"
He was laughing maniacally inside. ’Just when I thought all was lost, a silver lining appeared! Ye Xuan, you never expected to be hoisted by your own petard, did you? Haha, let’s see you talk your way out of this one! Old lady, you really get me, hahaha!’ If there weren’t so many people around, he would have rushed over and given her a big kiss.
Teacher Xu was taken aback. He asked gravely, "Is what you say true?"
The other students were also shocked. How did Ye Xuan get dragged into this? But they saw Ye Xuan standing off to the side, his expression unchanged, with even the faint hint of a smile playing on his lips.
The madam said angrily, "Of course it’s true! Would this old woman lie to you? And your Xingxuan Academy dares to call itself a prestigious institution? Is this the kind of student you produce? Hmph! I’m taking this matter to the City Lord’s Mansion!"
The madam seized the opportunity, trying to gain the upper hand. Otherwise, if people found out she’d dared to bring a girl into Xingxuan Academy, death by a thousand cuts would be too light a punishment.
"You’re full of shit!" Chen Xing suddenly exploded with rage. He rushed in front of the madam, pointed at her, and cursed, "You old hag, take a good look! When did I, Ye Xuan, ever go to the Spring Wind Tower to ask you for a girl today? You dare frame me? Believe it or not, I’ll wipe out your entire family!"
"It’s him!" The madam said angrily to Teacher Xu and the others, "This fat face! I’d recognize it even in death! Ye Xuan, you harmed this old woman! Just see if I don’t report you to the City Lord’s Mansion!"
The entire room fell silent.
Chen Xing suddenly had a moment of realization. "Oh, so you were talking about Ye Xuan! My mistake, haha! My name is Chen Xing, Third Young Master of the Chen family. As long as you weren’t talking about me, it’s all good, hahaha."
The madam was dumbfounded. ’Third Young Master of the Chen family?’ She trembled. The Chen family was also one of the three great families. If she framed one of their scions, would her fate be any better?
Fire practically shot out of Wang Yue’s eyes. He pointed at Ye Xuan and roared, "He’s Ye Xuan!"
Ye Xuan slowly walked out from the crowd and said calmly, "That’s right. I’m Ye Xuan. Old woman, you made a mistake just now."
"This..." The madam shuddered and said hurriedly, "Right, right, it’s you! This thin face! I’d recognize it even in death! You harmed this old woman, and I’m not done with you! It was him this afternoon!"
If the crowd still didn’t understand what was happening by now, they’d have to be idiots.
The fury in Teacher Xu’s eyes could have burned the whole house down. He said coldly, "Take them all back for harsh interrogation! They dare to pull these tricks in my Xingxuan Academy? If they aren’t sentenced to death by a thousand cuts for this, people will really think Xingxuan Academy is easy to bully."
As the dean of instruction, Teacher Xu had a commanding presence. The endless string of incidents today had pushed him past his limit. The powerful aura of a Xuanwu Realm Martial Artist instantly bore down on the old woman, radiating killing intent.
"Yes, sir!"
Several other teachers at the side shouted coldly and moved to grab the old woman.
This time, the madam was truly panicked. She hurriedly grabbed Wang Yue. "Young Master Wang Yue, save me!"
"Let go!" Wang Yue shoved her away in a panic, his face pale.
"Young Master Wang Yue, you have to save me!" The madam lunged for him again. She cried anxiously, "Young Master Wang Yue, you were the one who called me here! You can’t just leave me to die!"
"Then go to hell!" Wang Yue kicked her in the face, sending who knows how many of her teeth flying. He trembled as he said to the teacher, "Teacher Xu, I have nothing to do with her! I don’t know her!"
"Whether you have a relationship with her isn’t for you to decide. Take Wang Yue back as well. Anyone who breaks the rules of my Xingxuan Academy, no matter who they are, will not be let off lightly. Not even the three great families."
"Ah!"
Wang Yue collapsed to the ground.
Soon, the academy’s decision was announced. Wang Yue, Liu Tong, and Ma Bing had privately brought a woman from the Spring Wind Tower back to the dorms and slandered a fellow student. The evidence was conclusive. By unanimous decision of the academy, they were to be expelled and would never be readmitted.
Student Li Yue, for her participation in the slander, received a major demerit and was advised to withdraw.
Although she wasn’t expelled, Li Yue had no face to stay. She dejectedly accepted the withdrawal and left the academy the next day.
「The next morning.」
"Hahaha! Young Master Xuan, you should have seen Wang Yue’s face when he burst in last night. It was as black as the bottom of a pot!" Chen Xing was on his bed, laughing himself silly. He said excitedly, "He’s completely finished this time. After such a humiliating incident, when he goes back to the Wang family, the elders will skin him alive."
The bigger the family, the more they cherished their reputation. Back when the news of Ye Xuan’s dead martial spirit and crippled veins spread, every scion from the other prominent families in Blue Moon City had gloated. But Wang Yue’s incident was even more scandalous than Ye Xuan’s. The entire Wang family was probably in a frenzy dealing with this disgrace of a son.
Ye Xuan sneered. "Wang Yue brought this on himself. If he wanted to frame me, he should have first checked if he had the ability."
Chen Xing said excitedly, "That goes without saying! A loser like him dares to frame Young Master Xuan? He won’t even know what hit him. And that Li Yue... if the Li family finds out about this, I wonder if they’ll be so angry they beat her to death, hahaha."
Ye Xuan said leisurely, "Let’s not talk about them. How are you doing? After cultivating all night, you should be close to the Six Veins realm, right?"
Chen Xing leaped up from the bed, gave a thumbs-up, and said excitedly, "Young Master Xuan, you’re a miracle worker! After I took that Pill you gave me yesterday, at first I thought I was really having a cultivation deviation. But it turned out to be a blessing in disguise! To save face and stabilize my condition, Teacher Xu and the others took turns infusing me with Profound Qi all night. Hehe, I secretly used the Qi Condensation technique you taught me to absorb it all night. I’m already at the Peak of the Five Veins now. I estimate I’ll break through to the Six Veins realm in just a few days! Hahaha, I, Third Young Master Chen, am truly a genius."