Chapter 36 Underhanded Tactic (2/2)

“How is this possible?” Xu Hong’s expression abruptly changed. He face was steely-green as he stared at the trembling Qi Yue that had fallen into the lake.

By the side, Liu Xi’s small mouth was wide open while disbelief filled her attractive face.

The other B class students were silently trembling, their faces white as sheet.

Of course, it was not just them. Even Chu Tianyang, Su Youwei and the other A class students had faces overflowing with shock. It was obvious that this outcome had surpassed everyone’s expectations.

The surroundings of the Jade Spirit Waterfall was complete silence, as if everyone had just seen a ghost.

While a blanket of silence covered the crowd, a figure flew out from the Jade Spirit Waterfall, his foot pushing off the surface of the water before confidently landing by the lake side. Tall and straight, who else could it be but Zhou Yuan.

He looked at the ugly to the max expressions on Xu Hong, Liu Xi and the rest as he said in a flat voice, “The victor is already clear. What else do you have to say?”

Some students fished out Qi Yue from the lake, only to find that his face was deathly pale while his eyes were full of fear. His shivering appearance was extremely miserable.

This baffled everyone. They were clearly unable to understand how he became like this.

“This is… Spirit injury?” Xu Hong’s expression immediately changed when he saw Qi Yue’s appearance.

When Liu Xi heard this, she immediately pointed at Zhou Yuan and shrieked, “Despicable! You cheated!”

The many students also looked towards Zhou Yuan in doubt.

“Cheated?” Zhou Yuan sneered and pointed towards Qi Yue’s head where the remains of a rune was gradually fading, “If I am not wrong, that is the grade 1 Genesis Rune, Spirit Needle Rune, right?”

“If he did not attack me with a Spirit needle earlier, he would not have fallen into such a state.”

The moment these words were said, an uproar exploded from the crowd as their gazes turned towards Qi Yue’s forehead. Sure enough, they found the fading remains of a rune and those proficient in Genesis Runes immediately identified it.

“Qi Yue is clearly stronger than prince Zhou Yuan. To think that he still made use of such despicable tactics!” Numerous students muttered while the gazes that looked at Qi Yue now had an additional trace of despise.

Liu Xi’s face turned steely-green when she sensed these gazes, while fire practically spit from her eyes. However, she could not say even a single word in rebuttal because the truth was already more than clear. If Qi Yue had not done anything fishy, what was this Spirit Needle Rune for?

If she tried to explain, it was likely that even she would be drowned in the crowd’s spittle.

As they heard the voices from the crowd, the many B class students looked to each other with ugly expressions. The respect from before was no longer present in their gazes when they looked towards Qi Yue, instead, there was now blame.

After all, Qi Yue had lost the bet, causing their B class to lose 3 hours of Jade Spirit Waterfall training time. In other words, all they had left was a single hour…

This was a tremendous blow to their B class.

Someone could not help but mutter, “Challenging others without absolute confidence. Great job, there’s now practically nothing left to lose.”

Liu Xi immediately swept her furious gaze over, but was unable to find who had spoken and could only grind her teeth in anger.

“Hehe, class master Xu, our A class kindly accepts your B class’ 3 hours of Jade Spirit Waterfall training time.” Chu Tianyang heartily laughed at this moment. It felt really awesome to look at Xu Hong’s steely-green face.

Never in his wildest dreams would Xu Hong have ever expected that causing trouble for the A class would instead result in such a huge loss for the B class.

Rage churned in Xu Hong’s stomach, but he not act out on his anger. He could only show a forced smile as he looked at Chu Tianyang and Zhou Yuan and said, “Don’t celebrate too early. The class ranking exam is fast approaching and as long as our B class takes first place again, whatever you’ve taken away now will have to be spit out twice fold!”

After saying this, he flung his sleeves, turned around and left.

Liu Xi and the other B class students could only weakly follow. Their figures were an extremely sorry sight.

As the left, thunderous cheers exploded from the A class as they surged forward, wishing they could throw Zhou Yuan up into the air.

Zhou Yuan hurriedly put a stop to their crazed happiness and smiled towards the surrounding students from the other classes as he said, “Of the 3 hours our A class has won, 1 hour will be split amongst the other three classes. Take it as thanks for cheering us on today.”

The moment these words were said, the students of the other three classes were taken aback. Soon after, ashamed looks were revealed on their faces. The truth was that their three classes had been a little akin to those who threw stones at someone who was already down. Who could have expected that not only would Zhou Yuan not bear a grudge, he would even give them an hour of his winnings. This act of requiting goodness for evil made them feel both shame and admiration.

“Then we’ll have to thank your highness!” Numerous students cupped their fists towards Zhou Yuan with gratitude on their faces.

Praise involuntarily flitted across Chu Tianyang’s eyes when he saw this. This move of Zhou Yuan’s was just too beautiful and had practically bought over the will of the students. From this day onwards, Zhou Yuan’s popularity would likely surpass Qi Yue’s.

Moreover, after receiving such benefits from Zhou Yuan, no one would agree to whatever trickery the B class tried in future.

The expressions of Qin Xiao and the other two class masters were complicated. Their hearts shivered as they glanced at Zhou Yuan. It was at this very moment that they finally realised that this prince of theirs was not simple at all. Looks like they definitely could not offend him in future...

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