Seeing the situation, Flender's expression tightened. He suddenly accelerated and caught Yu Tianheng, who was falling like a kite with its string cut.
Upon catching him and hearing Yu Tianheng's painful groans, Flender frowned and glanced down.
Damn… Yu Tianheng's dragon-transformed arm was grotesquely deformed. The blue-purple dragon scales were shattered, and the flesh was a bloody mess.
His entire arm hung limply, with not a single bone left intact.
Beyond that, Flender could sense that Yu Tianheng's internal organs had taken a severe hit. Among the blood he coughed up, there were even fragments of internal organs.
"This is bad. This is really bad!"
"This is a huge mess now!"
Holding Yu Tianheng by the collar, Flender descended from mid-air, his face full of anxiety as he muttered to himself.
"Seriously, what were you thinking, picking a fight with Qi Lin for no reason? You were asking for a beating!"
"You're just a Rank 39 Soul Elder. Where'd you even get the courage to lay hands on Qi Lin?"
Though Qi Lin was a support-type Soul Master, could he be compared to other support-types?
After scolding Yu Tianheng, Flender walked over to Qi Lin.
"Qi Lin, you really went too far this time. Yu Tianheng is a member of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. Hurting him this badly? Knowing their temper, they won't let this go easily."
Qi Lin shrugged casually. "He struck first. You want me to just let him?"
"Dean, no need to worry about me. Nothing will happen."
Flender said speechlessly, "Sometimes I really don't know whether you're overly optimistic or if you've got something else up your sleeve."
"And you don't need to call me 'Dean' anymore. Shrek Academy is now fully merged into Heaven Dou Imperial Academy."
While the two talked, the rest of the Shrek group came running from the distance.
Shao Xin quickly used a soul skill to produce a healing candy and fed it to Yu Tianheng.
These days, he'd truly become the team's utility guy.
As Yu Tianheng swallowed the candy, his painful groans noticeably subsided.
In the crowd, Ma Hongjun saw Yu Tianheng's miserable state and couldn't help but recall when he was beaten senseless by Qi Lin. His body trembled with fear, and he didn't even dare look at Qi Lin.
He'd badmouthed Qi Lin plenty behind his back lately and was feeling awfully guilty now.
Yu Xiaogang, seeing the situation, had a strange look in his eyes.
A moment later, he stepped forward under everyone's gaze.
"Qi Lin, we're all in the same academy now. Look what you've done to Tianheng!"
Seeing Yu Xiaogang jump out again, Qi Lin glanced at him indifferently. "Are you blind? Didn't you see he attacked me first?"
Yu Xiaogang snorted and glanced at Dugu Yan beside Qi Lin.
"Didn't you betray him first?"
"Qi Lin, do you even realize you're straying further from the right path?"
"Poaching others' people, injuring your comrades, and even when you knew my training methods were flawed, you did nothing."
"Because of your inaction, Mubai's arm meridians burst! Even other students suffered varying degrees of damage due to my flawed training method."
"If you still have any conscience, you should apologize to Tianheng, to Mubai, and to the others. Then share the correct training method equally with everyone."
Yu Xiaogang declared righteously.
(Note: In the original story, Yu Xiaogang wouldn't act so unreasonable. But this is a fanfic that aims to "abuse the master of three abuses," so we're exaggerating his flaws. It only feels satisfying to beat them up when even readers are fed up with them.)
Once Yu Xiaogang finished, everyone looked at him with strange expressions.
Seriously? The reason Dai Mubai and the others were injured was because of his training plan…
Now he's just blaming Qi Lin outright?
Tang San's eyes flashed with a glimmer.
If Qi Lin really could pass on a correct soul power training method as the teacher said, that would be incredible.
Flender's pupils shrank suddenly as he stared at his old friend in disbelief.
His previous feeling had been spot-on!
Qi Lin was about to completely break away from them.
Dugu Yan was furious, ready to stand up for Qi Lin, but he suddenly raised a hand to stop her. Then he smiled as he looked at Yu Xiaogang.
"Are you done talking?"
As he spoke, Dugu Yan noticed that although Qi Lin was smiling, the warmth from his usual smile was gone.
Instead, it was cold… mocking.
But Yu Xiaogang didn't seem to notice. He continued speaking righteously, "That's about it."
Then, as if remembering something, he added, "Qi Lin, as long as you admit your mistakes and correct them, I can ensure the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan won't cause you any trouble."
"I still have some influence there."
As he said that, Yu Xiaogang clasped his hands behind his back, a hint of pride on his stiff face.
Qi Lin swept his gaze over the Shrek group and finally fixed it on Yu Xiaogang as he slowly stepped forward.
Just as Yu Xiaogang thought Qi Lin was about to apologize to everyone—
Qi Lin's expression suddenly darkened. With his left hand, he grabbed Yu Xiaogang by the collar, and with his right hand—
SLAP! SLAP! SLAP! SLAP! SLAP!
He delivered a brutal string of slaps right across Yu Xiaogang's greasy face.
Left hand slap, right hand slap, and then switching back—his hand speed was so fast it left afterimages.
Qi Lin moved so suddenly that by the time the others reacted, he had already slapped Yu Xiaogang seven or eight times.
"Qi Lin, what are you doing?! Let go of Xiaogang!" Flender shouted in shock.
Tang San also roared angrily, "Qi Lin, if you've got a problem, come at me! Let go of Teacher!"
But Qi Lin ignored them. He slapped Yu Xiaogang a few more times before tossing him aside like garbage.
Looking at the half-dead Yu Xiaogang, whose face was swollen like a pig's head, Qi Lin let out a long breath.
Refreshed!
He'd been sick of Yu Xiaogang for a long time. That felt good!
Right then and there, Qi Lin's mindset began to change.
No wonder so many transmigrators in the Douluo fanfics go out of their way to abuse Yu Xiaogang.
Turns out… he really deserves it!
To Qi Lin, Yu Xiaogang was like a buzzing fly—always in his face.
Though he hadn't caused any real harm, he was thoroughly disgusting.
So no, Qi Lin didn't plan to kill him.
But he certainly wouldn't let him off easy.
For someone like Yu Xiaogang, death wasn't the scariest thing.
What he truly feared was losing all dignity—becoming a disgraced, reviled laughingstock for all time!