"Professor Yang, were you also on that mountain just now? Why didn't you show up when we were in trouble?"
Cheng Xin'an looked at Yang Chengze with great caution, due to the incident with Zhu Pengfei from Yanzhou University, he had developed a significant guard against anyone from Yanzhou University.
Sun Heshun had found the withered forest barely twenty minutes ago, he must have entered after the riot at the summit, but if Yang Chengze was drawn there by the explosion, he obviously would have been there for more than ten minutes.
Yang Chengze looked impassively at Cheng Xin'an, then turned to Xiang Beifei and said, "We had just entered the withered forest shortly before, and later when we noticed the explosion on the mountain, we hurried over, then we saw someone attack Zhu Pengfei from behind! That person was you!"
Cheng Xin'an, watching the vehemently indignant Yang Chengze, glanced at his own system interface:
[Current behavior determination of Yang Chengze: Negative]
He possessed the Vast Righteous Qi System, allowing him to rapidly judge whether a person's actions were just. Yang Chengze's current attitude was aggressive, clearly coming to exact blame.
Cheng Xin'an asked, "How do you know we encountered Zhu Pengfei?"
Being someone who couldn't ignore injustices, Cheng Xin'an naturally stood by Xiang Beifei's side.
Yang Chengze said, "Chen Baiwen saw it, he has that ability!"
It was only then that everyone noticed Chen Baiwen among the students behind Yang Chengze. Chen Baiwen was an SSR known to all; despite his loss to Xiang Beifei at the fighting platform that day, his abilities left a deep impression on everyone, and basically every school's teacher could analyze what his system abilities were all about.
Xiang Beifei looked at the awkward Chen Baiwen and slightly furrowed his eyebrows.
Chen Baiwen's gaze shifted evasively, visibly lacking confidence, not daring to look directly at Xiang Beifei, and only said, "Professor, I didn't quite see everything, because there were a lot of disruptions in the shadows, I strictly didn't see him at all, and I couldn't see what happened afterwards."
Zhu Xinjue entered his own world and disappeared, with a powerful UR-level blockade, Chen Baiwen could not possibly know how Zhu Xinjue died.
In fact, Chen Baiwen couldn't see Xiang Beifei, either, because Xiang Beifei had hidden his tracks, but he could see the others, the shadows of other people on the mountain still existed. Yang Chengze wasn't a fool; with just a little deducing, he could tell who had just made a move against Zhu Pengfei.
However, Yang Chengze continued to press Xiang Beifei relentlessly, "Zhu Pengfei disappeared after he encountered you. You are all here, but he's not, you must give me an explanation today!"
He was desperately eager to find out the whereabouts of Zhu Pengfei, even more worried about Zhu Pengfei than the others!
Xiang Beifei thoughtfully scrutinized Yang Chengze's system interface.
[SR Rank, Subliminal Influence System]
[Realm: Middle stage of God Refining]
Yang Chengze's system belonged to a kind of mental system, possessing the ability to make others obey him. His way of growing stronger was unique, as long as his behaviors and remarks were acknowledged or carried out by others, influencing them, it would let him grow stronger.
[Su Hong, following your instruction, killed the Claw-tailed Monkey using the Iron Flying Hawk's venom, influence power +18]
[Chen Baiwen followed your advice, went on stage to fight Xiang Beifei, influence power +29]
Yang Chengze's system could be used to change a person, instilling his own behaviors and remarks into others. Thus, in his lectures, as long as he presented a theory—to the students, whether it was a commonly accepted one or his own—once the students believed it, it was as if he had influenced them, rapidly enhancing his system's value.
And precisely because he was an SR-rank professor, his words were nearly authoritative in the eyes of the students, who would easily act according to his words, essentially influencing the judgment of the students.
Xiang Beifei continued to check the logs of the opponent's system:
[Thirteen students who doubted Zhu Pengfei's identity were influenced by you, realizing that Zhu Pengfei is unrelated to Zhu Xinjue, influence power +568]
So that's how it was!
When Xiang Beifei saw this log entry, he suddenly understood why Yang Chengze was so concerned about Zhu Pengfei.
Indeed, Zhu Xinjue came back to life under a new identity, and it was impossible not to be suspected.
The SR students of the Jiuzhou Alliance could be counted each year, and a prestigious school would only recruit a dozen SRs a year, so the sudden emergence of a big-time SR student like "Zhu Pengfei" was bound to draw attention.
When Zhu Xinjue, under the identity of "Zhu Pengfei," reapplied for school, even with a complete makeover, it was just a change of identity. Zhu Xinjue's character and behavior, as well as his system abilities, couldn't be changed.
When Zhu Xinjue displayed his abilities among the freshmen, there would certainly be sophomores at Yanzhou University who were familiar with Zhu Xinjue and would question his identity, and that's when Yang Chengze's abilities were needed to deal with these questioning students.
Others might not know "Zhu Pengfei's" identity, but Yang Chengze knew it best!
Xiang Beifei, having seen Yang Chengze's system interface, roughly understood why Yang Chengze was looking for trouble with him.
Xiang Beifei asked, "Since you can see what others have done, then why didn't you see the conversation between the disguised desolate beasts and Zhu Pengfei? For instance, were you from Yanzhou University together with Zhu Pengfei from the beginning? Why is it only him left? Where are the others?"