Daily life of a teacher in the martial arts department

As the lightning subsided, a tall man with black and white dreadlocks slowly emerged. At his feet lay a pool of indistinct flesh and blood, much of it charred black and emitting a nauseating stench.

One-hit kill... utterly dead.

This is the fate of those who are considered outsiders... In this world, no city will tolerate the existence of outsiders. Except for the Chaotic Province, but even in the Chaotic Province, the existence of outsiders is not legal; it's just that no one actively intervenes.

Darius slowly emerged from within, his clothes stained with blood and streaked with bits of flesh, making him look gruesome and terrifying.

He calmly turned his head and looked at Ju Qiuming.

"In the future, if you encounter something like this, just step aside. The City of Truth doesn't need outside students to show off like this... Why are you closing your eyes?"

At this moment, the law enforcement team members who rushed over arrived. Fu Feihan had also settled the mother and daughter and walked over in a few steps.

And they all noticed that Ju Qiuming had his eyes closed.

Normally, closing one's eyes wouldn't matter at all. But just now, they executed a rebellious ghost...

It's hard not to overthink this.

"Some blood got into my eyes." Ju Qiuming's voice was calm and unhurried. "I feel terrible, so I'm keeping them closed. Is there a problem?"

"Oh..?" Darius took two steps forward and stood in front of Ju Qiuming. The brass knuckles at his waist clashed together, producing a chilling metallic clang.

He coldly commanded, "Open your eyes."

"Why?" Ju Qiuming asked calmly, neither humble nor arrogant. "I got something in my eye and it's uncomfortable right now. Could it be that you just encountered a different race and think I am one too? There are far too many different races in the world. I'm afraid you won't be able to catch them all."

"I told you!" Darius suddenly attacked, his hand reaching directly for Ju Qiuming's neck. If he succeeded, Ju Qiuming's life would be entirely in his hands. "Open your eyes!"

Although Ju Qiuming was prepared, he had his eyes closed, and Darius was stronger than him. In his haste, he couldn't react in time and was about to be grabbed when a force came from behind and pulled him away.

It's Fu Feihan!

"What the hell is going on?!" Fu Feihan didn't realize the seriousness of the situation. In his opinion, Darius was simply incomprehensible. He said indignantly, "Is this how you people in the City of Truth do things? Killing people like this in the street, with blood and flesh splattering all over the place with such force, what's wrong with closing your eyes if it gets in them? If I close my eyes now, am I also an alien?!"

Darius remained expressionless as he lunged forward. Fu Feihan hadn't expected his opponent to make a move. However, he was incredibly intelligent and reacted swiftly. He instinctively opened his mouth and inhaled, releasing a beam of divine light that shot straight towards Darius.

"A mere trick!" Darius shuddered slightly, dispersing the divine light, and reached out to grab the two. "Open your eyes! Otherwise, I will doubt your identity and arrest you!"

—If it is confirmed that you are of a different race, you can kill you on the spot. But if it is just a suspicion, you can only arrest you. Otherwise, if I suspect you are of a different race, I will just kill you and there will be no evidence against you. Is that acceptable?

Darius's teammates, who were already prepared, rushed forward upon hearing this.

Darius reached out and grabbed the two of them. He was already tall, but now his face was frighteningly dark, making the scene even more oppressive.

Just as Fu Feihan and Ju Qiuming were about to be caught, the back of their collars were grabbed and pulled back, freeing them from Da Liu's grasp.

"What happened... Why did I come here and see this scene? What happened?"

Chapter Forty-Three: Challenge

What kind of cultivation should a peerless master have?

This includes, but is not limited to, powerful offensive capabilities, mobility sufficient to outmaneuver armies of the cold weapon era, and a physique capable of withstanding the impact of firearms head-on. In other words, it's about tolerance for error; balanced development is achieved under these three fundamental premises. For example... the hearing to detect disturbances several streets away, and the eyesight to spot one's students at a glance.

When Ying Qin Guan arrived at the scene, he naturally didn't know what had happened before, but he certainly couldn't just stand by and watch.

"What? What happened?" Ying Qin Guan pulled the two back and saw the mangled corpse. Based on his rich experience in killing, which he didn't know whether to call it that, it should be a human corpse.

"Teacher Ying!" Fu Feihan exclaimed with delight upon seeing people arrive. "That guy suspects Qiu Ming is an alien... That corpse is from an alien race, a rebellious ghost, and he was beaten to death. I guess something splashed into Qiu Ming's eyes, and when Qiu Ming closed his eyes, he suspected that Qiu Ming was also a rebellious ghost, and that he closed his eyes because his eyes turned red. He's trying to arrest us. What's going on? Just because he just encountered one rebellious ghost, does he see everyone as a rebellious ghost?"

Fu Feihan, with his sharp mind, analyzed Darius's reasons for his actions in just a few words.

Ying Qin Guan turned his head and saw that Ju Qiuming's eyes were indeed closed.

"What? I thought it was something serious..." Ying Qin Guan paused, then said, "You people are always thinking about this and that. You just caught one rebellious ghost, and now you think the whole world is full of rebellious ghosts. Really..."

As he said this, he turned slightly and looked at Ju Qiuming, who had his eyes closed.

【“..”】

Ying Qin Guan narrowed his eyes slightly.

Why can't someone like Ju Qiuming open his eyes for such a reason?

Only Fu Feihan, who has a very close relationship with him, would probably believe such a thing.

Although Ying Qin Guan was not a smart man, he was a figure standing at the pinnacle of martial arts, and he could see the will of a martial artist at a glance.

Like that madman Chu, with his fighting spirit, let alone a little bit of something splashing into his eyes, as long as the battlefield requires it, he can keep his eyes open without changing his expression and let steel needles pierce his eyeballs. And a person like Ju Qiuming, he is just as ruthless and black-hearted as the madman Chu. A person who can throw such a punch... cannot be ruthless only to others.

Can't you really open your eyes?

Or is it...?

Ying Qin Guan recalled the various rumors he had heard about the rebellious ghost on Qixi Festival.

Ni Gui is cold-hearted by nature and has little emotional fluctuation... Isn't this exactly Ju Qiuming?

"Qiu Ming, are you really unable to open your eyes?" Ying Qin Guan said casually, "Although I also want to beat this guy with outrageous taste right now under the pretext of protecting his own, they seem to be law enforcement officers right now. You... really can't open both your eyes?"

Fu Feihan had a very poor innate impression of Darius; everything the other did seemed to him to have ulterior motives. But Ying Qin Guan's words were somewhat different; he felt they made sense, and immediately said, "Yes, Qiu Ming, are you really unable to open your eyes?"

".."

In fact, Darius and Ying Qinguan's suspicions were correct.

Ju Qiuming is definitely a traitor, and just now, he really did have a bloodshot eye.

If it were an ordinary rebellious ghost here, it would surely be doomed.

But Ju Qiuming is different. He is the most rebellious of all the rebellious ghosts, or perhaps the most successfully evolved of all the rebellious ghosts. He is cold-hearted, indifferent, and aloof by nature. This indifference comes from the heart, not from the protective coloring of Mu Nandong. He is born to disregard everything and is not interested in anything, which also causes his emotions to pass by extremely quickly.

"It's not that I can't open my eyes at all." Ju Qiuming said, and actually opened his eyes. There were obvious blood vessels in them, but they were nowhere near as red as Ni Gui's. "Something just splashed into my eyes, and it hurts a lot... Is it okay now?"

Yes, an ordinary rebellious ghost would never be able to suppress its red eyes. But Ju Qiuming... he is indeed too powerful, or rather, too cold-blooded.

Even when a member of his own kind died in front of him in such a way, he was forced to empathize and was able to adjust his mindset at such a terrifying speed, reaching a state of complete calm, and his eyes eventually recovered.

"Is it okay now?"

Ju Qiuming asked in a low voice, as if keeping his eyes open was a difficult task for him.

Ying Qin Guan turned his head and looked over; Darius and the others were speechless.

Humans have conducted the most research on two types of alien races: the Rebellious Demons and the Demi-humans, because these two races are the closest to humans and most similar to them. In other words, they are the two most dangerous alien races. Among them, research on the Rebellious Demons shows that... it is impossible for any Rebellious Demon to recover from its red-eyed state so quickly.

Although it's not as absolute as the laws of nature, and is affected by the actual state of the rebellious spirit, it's truly impossible to go any further today.

As Fu Feihan said, because he had just encountered a rebellious ghost, he suspected that the person next to him was also a rebellious ghost. What a coincidence! Even more coincidentally, this rebellious ghost broke the lower limit of the red-eye's duration. In other words, it set a record. These two low-probability events overlapped... If it were an ordinary person, they would be arrested, but these three were envoys from another country, the most outstanding students and teachers of the Seven Luminaries Imperial Academy.

Arrest them?

just forget it.

Even if there is only a one in ten thousand chance that it is a rebellious demon, it has nothing to do with Darius.

"While we cannot completely rule out suspicion, given the current situation, I have nothing more to say."

Darius glanced at Ju Qiuming, then beckoned.

"Notify the logistics department to clean up... and then call it a day."

However, Ying Qin Guan had no intention of letting him off so easily.

"You... are Darius, right?" Ying Qin Guan stopped him and said casually, "I've heard so much about you since I was in Qiyao. Legend has it that you've mastered both magic and martial arts and call yourself a magic warrior. I came to the City of Truth this time specifically for you."

Having been in the Seven Luminaries Empire for over a year, Ying Qin Guan was no longer the simple, handsome guy he once was. He had learned a good two or three tenths of the skill of speaking to people in a human language and to ghosts in a ghost language. At this moment, he certainly wouldn't say something like "Eat shit, you bastard, go die!" and then go up and unleash a set of ten attacks without any energy.

Darius remained expressionless and asked, "What can I do for you?"

Ying Qin Guan put one hand on his hip and tilted his head slightly.

"Ah, I heard that on Fridays, professors from various colleges have a tradition of sparring together... Will you be there?"

This statement is tantamount to a naked declaration of war.

Martial artists are naturally combative, and few of them would refuse a challenge from another.

"So, you mean..." Darius narrowed his eyes, gave Ying Qin Guan a deep look, and then turned and left.

"I will go if I have time."

Chapter 44 My Life So Far

Darius left with his men. The logistics department of the City of Truth was quite efficient; another group of people in uniforms were already on their way to seal off and clean up the scene.

Ying Qin Guan withdrew his gaze, looked at his two students, and sighed, "You two are really unlucky to run into something like this on your trip."

"Hmm... I'm alright, or rather, I'm quite glad I'm here." Fu Feihan glanced back; the mother and daughter seemed unharmed. "But Qiu Ming is really unlucky, getting inexplicably entangled with that guy. What's going on..."

".."

Ju Qiuming remained silent.

Fu Feihan glanced at the corpse again, shook his head, and sighed, "It's truly a cruel twist of fate... such things..."

He probably realized that this guy had no idea he was a rebellious ghost before. Once his identity was exposed, he probably hadn't even realized it before he was inexplicably being hunted down. He had no choice but to run; everyone knows the human strategy against alien races—running was the only option. He didn't even have a chance to maneuver and immediately lost his life.

Fu Feihan, a man of deep emotions and strong empathy, was overcome with emotion and said, "If I were also of another race... wouldn't I have just died inexplicably like this? What would my life of the past twenty years have been then?"

Because of the existence of the Primordial Race and the Primordial Gene, humanity was forced to take this step. Although humanity has already begun analyzing the Primordial Gene, and the alien races have been trying to break free from the Primordial Race's control for thousands of years, even if we truly reach that point, the hatred accumulated over thousands of years will not disappear. Moreover, everyone is still far from reaching that point.

For thousands of years, alien races enslaved humanity. These thousands of years were not even recorded in official human history and were considered the "chaotic era" before the age of gods. Humanity then pursued and killed these alien races for nearly four thousand years. The depth of this hatred was truly unforgettable.

Ying Qin Guan lowered his gaze slightly and said softly, "No one knows what will happen next. No one knows whether an accident or tomorrow will come first. As the living, thinking about these things is meaningless; it will only plunge us into an endless abyss of regret. So..."

He paused, recalled for a moment, and pulled out that line of poetry from the corner of his memory.

I remember... it was during the Gu Xinmo period that Mu Nandong and Ye Qu recited poems together at night.

"You must be happy in life, and don't let the golden bottle face the moon."

Fu Feihan looked into the distance and suddenly laughed, "Teacher, that's a really irresponsible statement of yours... but I like it very much."

Ying Qin Guan smiled but remained silent.

He's not irresponsible... In fact, he doesn't need to be responsible to anyone right now.

The three left.

Fu Feihan walked at the front, head held high and striding confidently.

Ying Qin Guan walked in the middle, his back slightly hunched, his dead fish eyes giving the impression that 'this person will never take initiative in anything' and 'his lack of initiative is a tragedy'.