Summit of the Old Gods

"Thirty to forty people, and you couldn't stop two from fighting?" the classroom resounded with the teacher's scolding voice, "What time is it, and you still have the mind to watch the excitement?"

"Today is the second day of the sixth lunar month! By the fifth, you must form teams and go directly to Evil Dog Village to confront the Evil Demon."

"On the fifteenth of this month, you will participate in the city defense battle!"

"Don't you feel the urgency yet? You are no longer ordinary people protected by others, you need to protect others!"

"Truly the worst class I have ever taught!"

Silence engulfed the classroom, while in the corridor, Lu Ran and Kou Yingquan stood properly far apart.

After a brief silence, the classroom door was pushed open with a "bang."

Li Yanzhu stormed out, and when she saw the two being punished, her anger surged, "You two, don't stand there and be an eyesore! Go home and bring your parents!"

Lu Ran: "..."

Kou Yingquan: "..."

Li Yanzhu's stern voice echoed in the hallway, "When you were fighting just now, wasn't there no one who could stop you? Now you can't move?"

Not only for class 2-4, but the entire third floor was dead quiet.

"Kou Yingquan!"

"Present!" Kou Yingquan immediately stood at attention.

"Scram!" Li Yanzhu was brisk and to the point.

Kou Yingquan: "..."

Under the strict gaze of the class teacher, Kou Yingquan reluctantly moved his feet and went home to bring his parents.

Li Yanzhu then called out, "Lu Ran!"

Lu Ran weakly responded, "Teacher."

Li Yanzhu, unable to suppress her frustration, exclaimed, "What teacher! I don't have a student like you!"

Lu Ran stepped forward, speaking softly, "Teacher, I know I was wrong. My mom is out of town, in Beijing, and my dad is... well, it's just me at home."

Though he said out of town, Lu Ran's Wu Lie River province bordered Beijing.

From Rain Alley City, it only took a little over an hour to get to Beijing by high-speed train.

If the class teacher was set on finding his parents, Lu Ran had no solution.

Li Yanzhu, looking at Lu Ran admitting his wrongdoing, was both angry and sympathetic, "Why did you fight?"

Lu Ran grimaced, "As soon as I entered the class, Kou Yingquan choked me and called me 'little sheep.' He even asked me to beg for mercy and bleat for him."

Li Yanzhu frowned deeply; actually, she already knew the cause of their fight.

The brief silence in the class earlier was her finding someone to learn about the situation.

This morning, indeed, Kou Yingquan had been continuously provoking, perhaps due to the psychological imbalance after becoming a Third-class God·Prisoner Demon Believer.

The teachers had seen too many such cases.

Li Yanzhu spoke sternly, "If there's an issue, come to me to resolve it. The school strictly prohibits private fighting, and look at you, causing trouble the day after becoming a Believer. Aren't you afraid of being taken as an example by the school? How many students get expelled every year after Worship God? Are you trying to standout?"

"Wrong.", Lu Ran continued to admit his faults.

"Do you really know your mistakes?" Li Yanzhu asked.

Hearing the tone of his teacher, Lu Ran suddenly perked up. Was there a chance for leniency?

He immediately nodded, speaking as if a machine gun, "I guarantee, next time I will definitely come to the teacher, I won't be impulsive again. Teacher, you are clear and righteous, piercing to the smallest detail... You can certainly make a fair judgment, you are indeed a fair judge!"

Li Yanzhu's head ached from Lu Ran's rapid speech, and she immediately made a judgment, "Alright, you are suspended from school for three days, write a three-thousand-word self-reflection."

"Ah..." Lu Ran's face turned sour.

Suspended for three days?

By that time, his classmates would likely have all formed their teams, just waiting for the fifth day to come to school, and then they would head straight to Evil Dog Village.

By the time I return to school with the self-reflection, everything would have cooled off!

"Teacher, I truly know my mistake, that Kou Yingquan accused me of colluding with the Evil Demon Clan, he slandered me!"

Lu Ran's voice grew smaller and smaller, adopting a pitiful appearance, "I'm just too stubborn. But I can't help it, if I'm not stubborn, no one will stand up for me. Teacher, you know, I lost my father when I was young..."

"Nice try, Lu Ran, trying to use the Voice of Compassion on me?" Li Yanzhu was amused and infuriated.

She kicked Lu Ran's butt, "Get out to the playground, stand in the sun, and be punished!"

"Roger that." Lu Ran turned and walked away.

Not expelled, not suspended, not having to bring a parent, what's standing for a while?

If it could shove a chair leg into Kou Yingquan's damn mouth... it would be worth it!

...

In the midsummer of June, the sun was indeed fiercely hot.

But Lu Ran did not seek a shady place, knowing only a sufficient punishment might possibly soften the teacher's heart again.

Lu Ran naturally wouldn't just stand idly; soon, he entered a state of cultivation, absorbing the Divine Power between heaven and earth.

Divine Power is classified into several realms: Mist, Creek, River, River, Sea, among others.

Within each major realm, there are five stages.

At the First and Third stages of each major realm, Believers can learn a unique Divine Technique.

At this moment, Lu Ran was a novice at Mist Realm·First Rank, studying the Divine Technique·Voice of Compassion, which, after a recent trial, proved quite effective.

To add another unique skill, Lu Ran would have to reach Mist Realm·Third Rank.

But on second thought...

Lu Ran's expression became strange, suddenly realizing a problem: Lord Immortal Goat created the Divine Technique·Voice of Compassion to avoid disputes. Not for it to be used as he did just now, pleading while fighting!

Not that Lu Ran couldn't operate like that, but each time Believers execute a Divine Technique, they need to pray to their deity.

Meaning, you can't fool the eyes of your own god.

As an Immortal Sheep Believer, always acting contrary to the Immortal Sheep, and using this technique to fight, was not quite appropriate after all.

Who knows if one day, Lord Immortal Goat might place blame.

Wait!