The student’s cultivation going berserk was something that had already happened and cannot be changed.
No matter how much you try to argue otherwise, no matter how glib your tongue is, it is all futile.
Elder Shang Chen knew that no one would believe him no matter how hard he tried to explain the incident with the Teacher Qualification Examination. Even if he were to produce the papers, others would just accuse him of falsifying the papers as well. As such, he decided to bring this entire matter out of the way for now.
"This..."
Zhang Xuan didn't know how to respond to his words.
"Hmph, are you trying to deny the incident? Baiyu laoshi, go and invite Zhao Yanfeng from Lu Xun laoshi's classroom!" Elder Shang Chen said.
Zhou Baiyu was the teacher on duty whereas Zhao Yanfeng was the student whose cultivation was driven berserk by Zhang Xuan previously.
"How did this student... end up in Lu Xun laoshi's class?"
Upon hearing Shang Chen's arrangement, everyone looked at him in puzzlement, even Zhang Xuan was carrying a face of bewilderment.
Based on the memories of his previous self, ever since that fellow’s cultivation went berserk, he had never been to his class. As his previous self was too ashamed to look into the matter, he didn't know that he had gone to Lu Xun laoshi's class.
Besides, who was Lu Xun laoshi?
Hongtian Academy's number one star teacher! Even Elder Mo had said that there was a high possibility of him becoming an Associate Master Teacher in the future. There were countless students who wished to come under his tutelage, so why would he pick someone whose cultivation had once went berserk as his student?
"Upon going berserk, Zhao Yanfeng's fundamentals are damaged and originally, he had intended to withdraw from the academy. However, he was noticed by Lu Xun laoshi and eventually, he was accepted as his student. After a few months of guidance and nursing, not only is the damage he sustained from going berserk gone, his cultivation has also reached Fighter 1-dan Juxi realm pinnacle, ready to break through at any moment!"
Elder Shang Chen said.
"Accepted as Lu Xun laoshi's student? His luck is way too good!"
"To be able to remove the damage he sustained from going berserk within a short period of time, even inducing a rise in his cultivation level, Lu Xun laoshi is indeed incredible!"
……
Upon hearing Elder Shang's words, the crowd was astonished.
Going berserk created great damage to a cultivator, and it was very easy for one’s fundamentals to be wrecked in the midst of it. Cultivation was just like building a house, if the fundamentals weren't in place, it was difficult for the building to rise up high.
To be able to treat the damage a student sustained from his cultivation going berserk so quickly and even pull him up to Juxi realm pinnacle, this Lu Xun laoshi was indeed as formidable as the rumors put him out to be!
Not too long later, the teacher on duty, Baiyu laoshi, returned with a student behind him.
Around sixteen to seventeen year old, he had a slim build, but spirited eyes.
This was the unlucky student who was taught by his previous self... Zhao Yanfeng!
"Elder Shang!"
Walking straight up to Elder Shang upon entering the room, he was bewildered to see so many people in here.
"Un, Zhao Yanfeng. Do you recognise this person?" Elder Shang pointed at Zhang Xuan.
Zhao Yanfeng turned around and noticed Zhang Xuan. His calm face immediately became agitated. Unknowingly, he clenched his fist tightly, as though trying to suppress the rage in his heart.
"He is my previous teacher, Zhang Xuan!"
These words seemed to have been squeezed out through gritted teeth.
Through his actions, it was clear to see that he still held great resentment against Zhang Xuan.
However, that was to be expected. When a student learns from a teacher, he places his trust in him unconditionally. That was equal to entrusting his fate as a cultivator into his hands. If the teacher didn't take responsibility for him, that would be equal to ruining his student's entire future!
His previous self caused the other party's cultivation to go berserk, nearly destroying his future as a cultivator. This made Zhao Yanfeng extremely hostile against him. If it wasn't for his position as a teacher, he might have already made a move on him!
"I've heard that he had once caused you to go berserk. Is that true?"
Seeing Zhao Yanfeng behaving in such a manner, delight surged through Elder Shang's mind as he continued to question him.
"That's true! If not for Lu Xun laoshi saving me, I might already be a cripple!" Zhang Yanfeng said.
"Great!" Upon hearing his confirmation, Elder Shang didn't continue posing questions to him. Instead, he turned to look at Elder Mo and Huang Yu with a savage expression, "Associate Master Teacher Huang, Elder Mo, you should have heard the conversation! Let's not touch on the matter of the Teacher Qualification Examination first. I believe that one day, the truth of the incident will come to light! Instead, let's touch on the matter of him causing the cultivation of his student to go berserk. The victim is here, and if you all have any doubts, you all can continue to question him! Despite being a teacher, he harmed his own student. Just this by itself forms the basis for his teaching license to be revoked!"
"Errr..."
Huang Yu and Elder Mo looked at one another with brows tightly knitted together.
What the other party said was true. The responsibility of a teacher was to clarify doubts and lead his students down the right path. Causing a student's cultivation to go berserk was one of the greatest taboo a teacher could commit. Even if they wanted to help Zhang laoshi, there was nothing that they could do.
"Zhang laoshi, what else do you have to say for yourself? If you feel indignant, you can argue your way out. However, you will have to get past this Zhao Yanfeng first!"
Seeing the two of them remaining silent, Elder Shang Chen finally felt as though he had returned the humiliation Zhang Xuan had caused him back to him. He turned around to look at him mockingly.
So what if you were powerful? So what if you have won the Enlightenment Will Trial?
As long as this weakness stays with you, you will lose your teaching license. Without that amulet to protect you, I will be able to do as I please with you.
Even if I were to kill you, no one will say anything!
Elder Shang Chen had brought the victim over, and the victim had already ascertained it to be true. The eyes of the crowd gathered onto Zhang Xuan to see how he would respond.
Just when everyone thought that he would try to explain the situation and the reasons behind the incident, the young man simply shrugged and said, "Indignant? What do I have to feel indignant about? It is true that I caused his cultivation to go berserk!"
"I knew that you would try to argue your way out. However, Zhao Yanfeng will recount the incident back then clearly... Ah?" Elder Shang Chen thought that the other party would try to defend himself, so he was prepared to refute him. However, before he could finish his words, he suddenly came to a realisation and looked at Zhang Xuan in disbelief. "You... You admit to it?"
This... To think that you would admit to it so readily!
Could it be that he had prepared something beneath his sleeves?
He was already frightened of the other party at this point. After getting slapped in his face consecutively, there was already a trauma at the back of his mind.
"Of course I would admit to it. After all, why would I not admit to something that I have done?"
Zhang Xuan nodded his head.
Causing a student's cultivation to go berserk was a doing of his previous self, it was impossible for him to argue his way out of it. Rather than wasting time arguing about it here, he might as well just come out clean.
"This..."
The crowd was stunned.
His admittance meant that all that was said were facts. If so, the Teacher Guild would be able to establish this case and strip him of his teaching license.
Besides, driving a student's cultivation berserk wasn't something to be proud about. To speak of it so brazenly... Where did your self-confidence come from?
"It is good that you have admitted to it! Associate Master Teacher Huang, Elder Mo, the both of you should have heard it. As a teacher, not only does he feel no remorse over causing a student to go berserk, he even talks about it so brazenly. Such a person is unworthy of being a teacher..."
Shang Chen roared, but before he could finish his words, Zhang Xuan stepped forward and waved his hand, "Enough, how big of an issue is this for you to keep babbling on about it! You are already advanced in age, and yet you still get excited over minor affairs so easily. Aren't you worried that your heart might be unable to take it, causing you to die just like this?"
"You..."
Elder Shang Chen staggered.
You are the one who gets excited easily, your whole damn family gets excited easily!
"Zhao Yanfeng, you have been studying under Lu Xun laoshi? You should have improved considerably. Come, show me your punching routine!"
Can't be bothered with the furious Elder Shang, Zhang Xuan turned his gaze towards the young man.
"Show his punching routine?"
Upon hearing Zhang Xuan's words, everyone became stunned.
Everyone is concerned about you causing the student's cultivation to go berserk, and yet here you are, trying to get him to execute a punching routine. What are you trying to do?
A peculiar expression appeared on Elder Shang Chen's face.
Punching routine?
We are in the midst of investigating the matter of you driving your student's cultivation berserk, can you not change the topic?
"Cough cough, Master Zhang, I think it would be better for you to explain the details behind him going berserk. Perhaps... your teachings may not be wrong, and... it is due to some other reasons?"
Huang Yu couldn't help, but to remind him of it.
There were many possible reasons behind a person's cultivation going berserk. It could be due to the misguidance of the teacher, or the student comprehending the teachings of his teacher inaccurately and cultivating through the wrong method. If it was the latter, the teacher was still partly responsible for the incident, but it wouldn't come down to a punishment as harsh as stripping him of his teaching license.
"This teacher here, back then, I cultivated based on the method Zhang laoshi imparted me without changing a single bit of it. In the end, my cultivation still went berserk. After which, when I consulted Lu Xun laoshi about it, he said that the cultivation method is wrong and that one's cultivation would definitely go berserk if one were to cultivate according to it!"
Aware of her thoughts, Zhao Yanfeng said.
He still carried deep hatred towards Zhang Xuan. Knowing that this was an opportunity to strip him of his teaching license, there was no way he would allow it to slip by him.
"Master Zhang..." Upon hearing the victim say such words, there were no other possibilities that Huang Yu was able to come up with to absolve him from blame. As such, she could only look towards him helplessly.
"Try executing a punching routine. Let me see if you have improved!" Ignoring the persuasion of the other party, Zhang Xuan continued to gaze at the young man.
"Do as Zhang laoshi says, try executing a punching routine first!" Upon his insistence, even though Huang Yu was perplexed over what he was trying to do, she still turned around to instruct Zhao Yanfeng so.
"Yes!" He might not know of Huang Yu's identity, but judging from how respectful Elder Shang Chen treated her, Zhao Yanfeng dared not disobey her instructions. Nodding his head, he walked to the center of the hall.
Huhu!
The wind whistled along with his forceful fists.
That fellow might be young, but the control over his strength was not bad and he was adept in his battle technique as well. He could be considered a good bud.
"Not bad, looks like Lu Xun laoshi has really rid him of the damage he sustained when he went berserk!"
"It is truly not bad for him to possess this level of strength at such an age!"
……
Most of those who were in the room were experts on cultivation. Upon seeing Zhao Yanfeng's punches, they nodded their head in approval.
Elder Shang Chen secretly sneaked a glance towards Zhang Xuan. Since Zhang Xuan was the one who instructed Zhao Yanfeng to execute his punching routine, he thought that he would be carefully analysing his punching routine, so as to come up with an excuse for himself. Yet, this fellow had closed his eyes, and a tranquil expression appeared on his face.
"What is he up to?"
Question marks appeared on Elder Shang Chen's head.
It couldn't be that this fellow knew that he would be unable to find any evidence or excuse to absolve himself of blame and go insane!
"Is this enough?"
Very quickly, the punching routine came to an end. Upon seeing that the Zhang laoshi that he hated had his eyes closed, not even looking at his punching routine, Zhao Yanfeng was on the verge of erupting from the accumulated rage as he spat out these words through gritted teeth.
"Un!" Zhang Xuan opened his eyes.
"Alright, let's stop wasting time. Since you have already admitted to causing Zhao Yanfeng's cultivation to go berserk with your guidance, and he himself can testify for it, then why don't you just confess to your crime! This way, we can skip on a lot of trouble..."
Afraid that the situation would go awry the longer this was dragged on for, he said.
"Calm down!" Zhang Xuan interrupted his word. Sweeping the surroundings with his gaze, he said, "Since all of you are interested in listening to my explanation, then I will explain the incident to you all!"
Everyone's attention jolted and focused on him, curious to hear what he would say.
Even Zhao Yanfeng couldn't resist turning his gaze over.
"Actually... I intentionally drove his cultivation berserk!" Zhang Xuan's voice echoed in the room.
"Ah?"
"Intentionally?"
Everyone stood dumbfounded in their spot.
What kind of joke was this?
There's no way to go back once you say such words. You will surely be stripped of your teaching license like this!
"Haha!" Elder Shang Chen didn't expect that the fellow before him, after making so many mysterious and baffling actions, would actually confess to it so brazenly, even phrasing his words in such a manner. His eyes radiated with excitement, "It is good that you have confessed to it! As a teacher, to intentionally guide a student erroneously and putting him in danger, you have truly transgressed beyond what a teacher should ever do! If he isn't stripped of his teaching license, it will be hard to appease the furious masses! Associate Master Teacher Huang, Elder Mo, there should be no problems this time right!"
"...' Huang Yu stared at Zhang Xuan helplessly. His admittance left her without a single means to help him.
Just as she was about to speak, she saw Zhao Yanfeng clenching his fist tightly and gritting his teeth. He glared at Zhang Xuan with undisguised hatred reflecting in his eyes as he said, "I wonder how I offended Zhang laoshi, for you to find the need to push me off the cliff?"
I am your student, but you intentionally guided me erroneously, causing my cultivation to go berserk. What kind of resentment do you hold against me?
Everyone else seemed to have thought of the same point and one by one, their gazes turned towards Zhang Xuan.
Clan head Wang Hong was also starting to contemplate whether having his daughter and son to come under the tutelage of this teacher was a correct choice.
So what if his theories were profound and he was proficient in teaching others?
What if he suddenly threw a temper and intentionally taught them erroneously? If so, the lives of his children would be doomed.
A Fighter 1-dan going berserk could still be saved. However, the more advanced one's cultivation was, the harder it would be to save them when their cultivation went berserk.
Ignoring the gazes of the crowd, Zhang Xuan placed his hands behind his back and the gaze of one who was unable to comprehend the world reflected in his eyes. Sighing, he lamented, "Sigh! Looks like you have yet to understand!"
"Understand?"
A dark line appeared across Zhao Yanfeng's face. If it wasn't for his weak strength, he would have dashed forward to bash him. "Understand what?"
You intentionally drove my cultivation berserk and you still expect me to understand? Understand what? Understand death?
"Do none of you really comprehend?"
Zhang Xuan looked at Huang Yu, Elder Mo and the rest of the crowd.
"Comprehend?"
The one sentence left the two of them dumbfounded.
You intentionally guided someone erroneously, what did you expect us to comprehend from that?
Comprehend... How you played your student to his death?
"Alright, since none of you can tell, then allow me to explain!" Zhang Xuan shook his head. Sweeping the faces of the crowd, he said, "I wonder if any of you have heard of the physique known as 【Innate Sealed Meridians】?"
"Innate Sealed Meridians?" Huang Yu frowned. Then, recalling something, she said, "I have heard of it. This isn't an innate body type, but a type of disability! Those who possess this type of physique have many points of constrictions along his meridians. As though a river blocked by silt and mud, zhenqi is unable to flow through them easily. Even if one is able to cultivate, there would be a limit to their achievements. Fighter 1-dan would normally be their upper limit, and Fighter 2-dan is an impossible goal for them!"
Hearing this explanation, the crowd nodded their heads.
Innate Sealed Meridians might be a rare physical condition, but there were cases of it. As teachers and leaders of powerful factions, most of them have heard of such a physique.
"Zhang laoshi spoke of Innate Sealed Meridians, can it be..."
Mo Xiang laoshi suddenly thought of something and he turned to look at Zhang Xuan with widened eyes.
"Indeed, Zhao Yanfeng possesses this kind of physique!" Zhang Xuan nodded his head.
"Me? I possess Innate Sealed Meridians?" Zhao Yanfeng was unable to believe it. "That is impossible... I have never felt shackled when I cultivate, so how can I be afflicted with Innate Sealed Meridians?"
"Never felt shackled?" Zhang Xuan looked over with a meaningful smile on his face. "Then, let me ask you, before you cultivation went berserk, did you feel short of breath when you cultivated in the past? Every time you gather spiritual energy, did you feel as though your entire body was being severed apart?"
"You... How did you know?"
Initially, Zhao Yanfeng did not pay any heed to Zhang Xuan's words, thinking that he was just spouting nonsense. However, upon hearing the latter part of his words, his eyes narrowed and his body froze.
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