Ye Changfeng rubbed his forehead in frustration as he watched Ma Ziqian repeatedly attack and fail, saying to Li Zimu and the others, "All four of you go at once! Remember to cooperate with each other! The Triangular Thunder Krait is your first lesson in entering the field!"
Li Zimu and Xi Keyao immediately joined the battle, facing off against the two Triangular Thunder Kraits together.
Xiang Beifei sat on a stone nearby and asked, "It's impossible to get over this hurdle with the Triangular Thunder Krait, right?"
Since he was unable to intervene, he could only sit by and watch.
Ye Changfeng gave him a glance.
"Not everyone can kill a Triangular Thunder Krait in one hit like you do!" Ye Changfeng said irritably, "For Qi-Controlling period students, the Triangular Thunder Krait is the most representative desolate beast. It's at the pinnacle of the later stages of Qi-Controlling, the ultimate assessment. On the 'Field Wilderness Practice Course,' you can only earn practical credits for my class and pass the course evaluation by learning to kill it!"
Xiang Beifei asked in surprise, "Was this a rule before? When did it start?"
Ye Changfeng remained silent for a while before saying distantly, "Since you started it."
"In previous years, the school didn't include killing the Triangular Thunder Krait in the curriculum. But because of you, all of us teachers who teach the Field Wilderness courses had a meeting and thought that this beast was quite targeted. If everyone could kill it, the quality of our graduates from Liangzhou University would improve by a notch, so we decided to add the Triangular Thunder Krait to the list of desolate beasts that must be killed by students in the later stages of Qi-Controlling."
Because of him, Liangzhou University had revised the curriculum?
Wouldn't the other students hate him to death?
How could ordinary graduates kill such a beast without stepping into the Meridian Opening phase?
Xiang Beifei felt like he had been tricked, and showed his disdain.
"You don't seem very pleased?" Ye Changfeng said, with a hint of a smile on his lips.
"What do you think, Teacher?" Xiang Beifei retorted.
"I think it's a good idea."
Ye Changfeng felt pleasantly relieved, slightly cheered up by the chance to get back at Xiang Beifei, whose talent had been suffocating him for quite some time. How could he not be pleased?
"Now everyone knows I've hunted a Triangular Thunder Krait. Couldn't you have chosen a different desolate beast for discussion during the meeting? Perhaps have them hunt a Fire Snake instead, to clear my name a bit!" Xiang Beifei couldn't help but say.
"Oh, you're talking about the Fire Snake? Well, you killed that one, so it's also become one of the necessary beasts to kill this year," Ye Changfeng said nonchalantly.
He had single-handedly made the examination harder for all students at Liangzhou University!
Now, probably all the students had deep grievances against him.
"It looks like I'm going to be resented to death," Xiang Beifei sighed.
If only he had a 'Resentment System'; at the end of every term during the assessments, wouldn't the collected resentment make a racket?
"What are you afraid of? They don't dare to mess with you, anyway," Ye Changfeng said calmly, "Besides, learning to kill the Triangular Thunder Krait will improve their judgment and analytical abilities, which is good for them. If they can't even do that and keep complaining about this and that, how can they expect to go further on the path of martial arts?"
Students at the Martial Arts College were trained to be pioneers; each student had to undergo trials in the Field Wilderness before graduation. If they couldn't even handle a Triangular Thunder Krait, how could they face other powerful desolate beasts?
Ye Changfeng snorted, "They have time to resent you; they'd be better off spending that time improving themselves! Elder Luo is right; the students have become too complacent over the years. Now it's time to be strict with them."
Xiang Beifei thought Ye Changfeng had a point; in a world rampant with desolate beasts, learning extra skills was never a bad thing, but—
"Even four SR-level late Qi-Controlling Awakeners can't defeat it, is such an assessment really appropriate?" Xiang Beifei watched the four of them scramble.
Long Guocheng and the other three students were struggling against the two Triangular Thunder Kraits, and for quite some time, they couldn't gain the upper hand. The Triangular Thunder Kraits stood without evading, just taking hits and then shooting lightning, exhausting the four students.
The Triangular Thunder Krait's Scale Armor was too tough; even for an SR Awakener, it was useless. Qi-Controlling martial artists who wanted to kill it had no means except for the eyes, but the desolate beasts weren't foolish—they protected their weak spots very well.
"So, the assessment isn't for students to fight the Triangular Thunder Krait one-on-one, but to learn to cooperate. Eventually, you'll need to guide them..." Ye Changfeng said.
Xiang Beifei gave Ye Changfeng a look of disdain.
"Alright, just kidding. If you have the time, you can guide them; if not, we'll handle it," Ye Changfeng said helplessly, shaking his head, then continued, "In the 'Field Wilderness Practice Course,' students just need to organize a team, gang up, and if they can kill a Triangular Thunder Krait, they pass. The number of participants isn't limited, ten or even fifty people can join. This is also to lower their requirements."
At this point, even Ye Changfeng himself found it strange.
Xiang Beifei alone could kill a Triangular Thunder Krait while other students had to lower their standards and work together to fight it. Comparing the two situations, it felt like those students were many levels below Xiang Beifei.
But there was no choice; Xiang Beifei's talent was truly unusual, different from the rest. If resolute individual defeat was required for graduation, then perhaps this year's senior students would have to delay their graduation—or even forgo it.