High School of Demon Hunting

Chapter 646: Chapter 315 Black Tiger and Shilezhi_1

Zheng Qing took a punch to the face.

The punch was heavy, heavy enough to send the young wizard flying.

But the true power behind the punch was light. When the fist hit his face, it was painful but not bone-crackingly so. It only left the burning sensation of a swollen face.

Even so, the young grant student was dumbfounded by the sudden punch.

As he was gingerly getting up from the ground, the other members of the Absolution Hunting Team were already rushing over. Xin Fat Man scrambling forward with surprising agility, helping Zheng Qing up.

”Why did you hit me?!”

The young grant student rubbed his face, glancing at Zhang Ji Xin with a hint of anger and confusion. The others turned away purposefully, avoiding his questioning gaze.

”Why? You don’t know why?!” Zhang Ji Xin’s face turned purple with rage, his retort thunderous. His fists clenched audibly and it seemed he was barely restraining himself from landing another punch on Zheng Qing.

Zheng Qing instinctively took a step back, his voice growing weaker.

”I actually didn’t know that those demons were after me,” he figured that everyone was blaming him for leading the demons to their group, nearly causing the hunting team to collapse, so he couldn’t help but try to defend himself,” As soon as I found out, I immediately lured them away...”

”Idiotic.” Blue Bird, who was standing on the outskirts of the group, suddenly interjected, cutting off the grant student’s explanation.

His face was somewhat pale and somewhat transparent, likely due to the aftereffects of the ’Karmic Reincarnation Technique’. The purple mink Diao’er was perched on his shoulder, its head hanging listlessly. Seeing Zheng Qing, it didn’t even bother to wag its tail, completely unlike its usual active and cheeky self.

Zheng Qing caught a glimpse of them out of the corner of his eye and quickly looked away.

Strictly speaking, he had already been responsible for Blue Bird and Diao’er’s death once before, thus he couldn’t help but feel guilty when facing them again. Hearing Blue Bird’s words, he began to consider whether he had to genuflect to express his sincerity in apologizing.

”Is that why you got punched?!” Zhang Ji Xin shouted, his eyes bulging with rage, even more displeased than before: ”We’re part of a hunting team, every one of us has to be prepared to be gored or eaten by demons!”

”What if you did lead a group of demons to us? What then?!”

You would all have been devoured without a trace left behind, Zheng Qing silently retorted in his heart, but with a serious look on his face, he nodded in agreement with the red-faced male wizard’s words.

”Of course, avoiding being devoured is always the best option.” Xin Fat Man added with a chuckle, patting Zheng Qing’s shoulder and suggesting, ”So where do you think your biggest mistake lies... your biggest mistake on the hunting ground today?”

Zheng Qing pondered deeply and finally had a spark of insight.

’When I used the ’Triple State of Slumbering’, should I have not cast the final ’Sleep Without Wisdom’?” He looked at Zhang Ji Xin with questioning eyes and tentatively answered, ”Actually, I only wanted to put you guys to sleep for a while, but by the time I realized, I had already uttered the three incantations...”

He was discussing the incident where he had knocked down his own team members with the spells ’Sleep Without Hearing’, ’Sleep Without Perception’, and ’Sleep Without Wisdom’ after the Absolution and Tail-Snake hunting teams were under siege by a horde of demons.

However, he seemed to have underestimated the shock this incident would have given Zhang Ji Xin.

”Don’t stop me! I want to leave him incapacitated!” Upon hearing Zheng Qing’s answer, Zhang Ji Xin thundered with rage, hopping mad. If it wasn’t for Xin Fat Man barring his way, Zheng Qing believed he would be nursing another swelling on his face.

”Alright, alright... stop picking on him.” Xiao Xiao suddenly interjected, interrupting Zhang Ji Xin’s rant, speaking in a very flat tone: ”As an introverted man, he couldn’t even bear the thought of being a hero. You shouldn’t expect him to admit his mistakes out loud.”

”Perhaps what you think of as mistakes, are not mistakes in his eyes.”

”And it seems that after that black cat appeared, it likely took away a lot of...things. It’s conceivable that he ’lost his mind’ a bit.”

The three sentences choked Zheng Qing.

If it wasn’t for the delicate situation at the moment, he would have already rushed up with his dumpling-sized fist and hammered a few punches on this professor’s head.

Fortunately, Xiao Xiao’s words seemed to be somewhat effective with Elder Zhang Da. Although he was still caressing his fist and huffing with anger, he finally stopped threatening and no longer struggled to rush up and beat up Zheng Qing.

Once he regained his, senses, Zheng Qing immediately ignored the many ’mistake’ descriptors in Xiao Xiao’s speech just now and instead asked, ”Black cat? That tiger demon? Do you know what’s going on? What did it take? When I asked Old Yao, he was vague and circumspect, not clear at all...”

”Tiger demon?” Xiao Xiao adjusted his glasses, sounding somewhat surprised: ”That black cat? Who told you it was a demon? It was in front of a thousand spectators when it ran out from you...”

”Ran out from me?!”

Zheng Qing repeated the statement, staring dumbfounded at the serious-looking Xiao Xiao. He then turned to look at the others, trying to discern any playful meaning in their eyes.

But everyone looked at him seriously, nodding to confirm it. No one looked like they were joking.

”You guys are saying, the black tiger came out of me?” Zheng Qing felt his thoughts were messy and his logic was becoming increasingly confused: ”But, I’m a male... Can males give birth too?”

The other young wizards looked at each other dumbfounded.

Xin Fat Man was the first to react, laughing uproariously. Then Zhang Ji Xin; facing Zheng Qing’s self-analysis, he was at a loss for words, finally putting away his fight gloves with a resentful expression, muttering something like ’I won’t argue with a fool’.

”Coming out of you doesn’t necessarily mean you ’give birth’ to it.” Xiao Xiao said with an emotionless expression, patiently explaining: ”Besides natural childbirth, there are many other ’separation’ methods and forms.”

”For example, separating a small part of the soul to create a ’Soul Box’, that’s a witch demon’s favorite thing to do; Or cutting away one’s inner demons, to overcome the three corpse-worm calamity, that is a method many old-school ascetics use to avoid disasters... Even the shadow that Su Daxu took from you not long ago can also be considered as a type of ’separation’.”

”If I’m not mistaken, that big black cat should be related to the shadow that escaped from your body in the lab, and the projection in your heart. Since it’s an inter-dimensional existence, it probably didn’t want to lodge in you anymore... Didn’t you realize that after the black tiger appeared, your ’IQ’ decreased quite a bit?”

”As for how much your shadow took with it and how much it left behind, that’s something you need to investigate yourself ... I’m not you, So I don’t know the details.”

Facing this logical analysis, Zheng Qing was tongue-tied, speechless.

Finally, he could only contradict Xiao Xiao’s conclusion.

”The greatest problem with your explanation is its conclusion.” Zheng Qing brandished his Merlin Medal, waving it in front of everyone: ”I’m a grant student, understand? One of the brightest of Jiuyou Academy. What do you mean by IQ decrease? Perhaps you’re the one who lost your mind!”

Xiao Xiao adjusted his glasses, made no reply, just emitted a doubtful snorted from his nose.