My martial spirit leads me to Earth; I begin by submitting my skills to the Douluo Continent.

Chapter 63 People's Hearts Are Scattered

"I quit! I'm dropping out of school!!!"

The sound was like a spark that ignited a prairie fire.

next second.

"I'm dropping out!! I'm not putting up with this anymore!!"

"Who wants your lousy porridge! Even if we have to beg, we'll follow Boss Su!!"

"We are human beings! Not dogs!!"

"Drop out of school!!!"

Splash—

Dozens of work-study students, whether they were burly older men or newly enrolled little girls, all tore off their school badges.

Dozens of school badges were smashed to the ground.

That was the roar of the youths as they shattered their shackles and rebuilt their backbone!

Upstairs balcony.

The principal looked down at the group of rebellious students.

He smiled.

It was a laugh born of extreme anger, even tinged with schadenfreude and a sense of relief.

"Hahaha—hahaha!"

The principal pointed downstairs, laughing so hard he almost cried.

"Great! Excellent!!"

"Get out! All of you, get out!!"

The principal was leaning on the railing, his face contorted in a ferocious grimace.

"Threaten me? You dare to challenge me?"

"Go take a look at the city gate! There are tons of peasants like you kneeling and begging me for a chance to study!"

"You're just there to make up the numbers for the Empire's subsidies. Does it matter if that number is yours or someone else's? You all think too highly of yourselves!"

"Su Yun, is this your confidence? Are you going to beg for food with a bunch of burdens?"

"Dignity? Integrity? Those are luxuries only the wealthy can afford to talk about. As for you?"

"Your current behavior is not called having backbone, it's called cutting off your own path to survival."

"Get out of Notting College's gates! You won't even be hired to do manual labor! Don't come kneeling at the door begging me to take you in, because my doors are never open to stray dogs!"

The principal's maniacal laughter echoed across the square.

In his view, this was an absolutely fantastic thing.

With those work-study students who only knew how to eat but didn't pay, Notting College was rid of a huge burden.

however.

His laughter hadn't even finished when it landed.

A somewhat forlorn figure slowly walked out from the ranks of teachers.

That's Teacher Li.

The old teacher, who had taught diligently at Notting College for twenty years, was now frighteningly calm.

He walked to the steps and slowly took off the badge on his chest that represented his status as a senior teacher.

He bent down, placed the badge on the stone steps, and then bowed deeply to the principal on the balcony.

"Teacher Li? What are you doing? You want to join these peasants in their nonsense too?!"

The principal was stunned, his brows furrowing deeply.

Teacher Li straightened up, looked up at the principal who once filled him with awe but now seemed incredibly insignificant, and said softly, "Principal, for the past twenty years, I have always believed that I am teaching and nurturing students, cultivating pillars for the Soul Master world."

"Until today, when I met Mr. Su Yun and witnessed his miraculous ability to turn the rotten into the miraculous—"

Teacher Li turned her head and looked at Su Yun's back with fervent eyes, her voice trembling slightly.

"Only now do I realize that all the so-called theories and orthodoxy I taught were rubbish. They were misleading and harmful teachings."

"I've been wrong for half my life, and I don't want to keep making mistakes. I want to follow Mr. Su Yun and pursue the true truth."

After saying that, Teacher Li didn't look at the principal again and turned to walk towards Su Yun's group.

"You—you're insane?!"

The principal, enraged, pointed at Teacher Li's retreating figure and yelled, "Fine! Get out! All of you, get out! You traitorous old hag! I've known for a long time that you're a good-for-nothing who just eats up the land! Your departure will make room for a younger teacher!!"

however.

His cursing hadn't even subsided.

On the other side of the crowd, the noble boy who had been calling Su Yun "Ancestor" the loudest suddenly walked up to the steps.

Under the principal's questioning gaze, the boy gave him a standard aristocratic bow.

"Dear Headmaster."

"Since you just said you want to clean up the environment, you should remove all the trash—"

The boy looked up, his smile bright and composed.

"Then it shouldn't make a difference if I'm one more, right? Please do me the trouble and fire me too."

"Wh-what?"

The principal's eyelids twitched suddenly, and an ominous premonition welled up in his heart.

Before he could react...

"Splash—"

The dozens of noble students who were originally standing to the side seemed to have received some kind of signal and stepped forward one after another!

Although they didn't harbor the same deep resentment as the work-study students, they all looked at the principal upstairs with a mocking expression, as if he were a washed-up clown.

"And me!"

A chubby little boy raised his hand and shouted, "Principal, since I'm dropping out anyway, could you please refund the gold soul coins my dad just sponsored this semester?"

"And me!"

Another elegantly dressed girl retorted, "Now that Boss Su is gone, what's the point of this lousy school? Following Boss Su meant a bright future, but following you means what? Just eating your empty promises?"

"I'm dropping out of school too!!"

Another nobleman spoke up, this time with a hint of coldness in his tone.

"I'll go back and tell my father right away that Notting Academy has fallen into decline, its management is incompetent and corrupt, and he must withdraw his investment immediately! He must also notify the Chamber of Commerce to stop supplying the academy with all materials!"

boom!

These words were like heavy bombs, exploding directly in the principal's mind.

The gloating smile that had been on his face when he saw the work-study student dropping out of school instantly froze on his face.

Panic.

This time, he was truly panicked.

Who are these people?

These people are the lifeblood of the academy!

They're big spenders!

But what if all these little money-makers run away too?

The principal's pupils dilated instantly, and he seemed to hear the sound of countless gold soul coins flying away in his mind.

Without the enormous sponsorship fees that their families obediently provide every year —

Without those fees collected under various pretexts, such as equipment depreciation fees and elite education surcharges —

Gone were the heavy envelopes that parents would slip into his pocket during holidays, hoping he would take better care of their own children—

How will he maintain his dignity at the high-end banquets in the city lord's mansion?!

How will he support his sweetheart?!

As for whether the college can still operate, and whether the teachers will be able to receive their salaries next month?

Hmm—these little things aren't important.

"What are you doing?!"

The principal gripped the railing tightly with both hands, leaning forward, his back instantly soaked with cold sweat.

His voice was no longer arrogant, but filled with pleading.

"Don't be ridiculous! This is no joke!"

"Your parents sent you here hoping you would succeed! How can you live up to the expectations your families have placed in you?!"

"Quick! Go back to class! Don't let that charlatan Su Yun fool you! He's a fraud!!"