Chapter 537: I've Decided, Kill Di Feng! (1)
House of Hundred.
Shortly after, some other people arrived.
These were the people from the Discipline Hall.
Old Huang had personally come as well. He ignored everyone and beckoned at Su Yu. When Su Yu saw that, he hurriedly ran over.
At the corner of the hall.
Old Huang looked at Su Yu solemnly and said, "It's the anniversary day. If you insist on letting Wu Jia fight today and end up escalating things, it won't benefit anyone. Do you understand me?"
"I understand."
"Then why..."
Su Yu softly said, "This is my final attempt. I want to see if Great Xia King is enough to give them pause. This is the anniversary day. And we are going to be challenging the ranking normally. If they are willing to play dirty and drop ranks to block my senior sister even today, it could only mean that they don't care about anything anymore. There is no longer anything to salvage."
Su Yu paused slightly before continuing, "If that's the case...I will stop holding back."
If that was the case, it was time for him to eliminate them thoroughly. And that was accomplished through killing.
This was the anniversary day and Great Xia King himself might show up. If those people were willing to play dirty even on this day, it was clear that those people no longer cared about keeping up the pretense.
They only cared about their rivalry with the multiple character faction.
In that case, Su Yu would fully consider these people as his enemies. If hostility was inevitable, he might as well go all out.
Old Huang sighed, "There is no need to go that far."
Su Yu calmly said, "Like I said, we are going to challenge the ranking normally. If my senior sister loses, she can only blame herself for lacking the ability. If she wins, she deserves her position. If they drop ranks to stop her, it shows that they no longer have any misgivings. In that case, I shall go all out as well."
Su Yu looked at Old Huang and smiled, "Elder Huang, I don't want this to happen either. I am only here today to take a look at the single character faction's actual position. The result of my senior sister's challenge does not matter. Not even my martial uncle's position as head manager matters. I only want to see if the hostility between us has really reached the point of no return."
"At worst, I'll just switch to a different academy. I doubt we will fail to find a new academy to join. If the Nine Heavens Cultural Research Academy is useless, we can simply join a war academy. If not, we can also join Great Ming."
Su Yu said, "I did my research about Great Ming. They are hungry for talent. And the single character faction isn't too powerful there. Of course, they're not weak too. But the situation there is less complicated and the internal conflict there is less intense. The multiple character faction still exists there. They are quite poor, but that's fine since they can only blame themselves for their inability to earn money. From what I know, they are not being suppressed over there..."
Old Huang blanked out.
He felt terrible to see things come to this. He asked, "Are you...planning to join Great Ming?"
Su Yu seemed melancholic and hesitant. After a long while, he nodded, "I am considering that. The suppression on us is too heavy in Great Xia. The Xia Family and Principal Wan might look like they are on our side, but...I can feel that they are using us as bait. I can feel that very clearly."
He exhaled deeply and said, "Teacher Liu couldn't bear to leave the Great Xia Cultural Research Academy. My grandteacher couldn't bear to abandon what the fifth principal built. But I don't care about all that! I'll be blunt and say that if the Zhu Family of Great Ming cares about talent at all, they would not allow someone like me to be suppressed repeatedly."
Su Yu looked up and met Old Huang's eyes, "Therefore, if I can't get a satisfactory answer today, I will leave the capital and head south. I will enter Great Ming to seek survival and protection."
"..."
Old Huang's expression changed. He gazed at Su Yu for a very long time.
Su Yu wanted to leave! He was actually thinking of leaving!
"Su Yu...why...there is no need..."
He had personally witnessed Su Yu's growth. But today, Su Yu was saying that he was leaving. He did not want to stay in Great Xia anymore.
Su Yu's eyes turned slightly red as he softly said, "I don't want to leave. My father is in Great Xia. My teacher, my martial uncle, my grandteacher, my friends, and my senior sister are all here...But perhaps...it is time for me to leave."
A bleak smile took form on Su Yu's face as he said, "I feel restricted here. I can't fully make use of my talents in Great Xia. This pond is too deep. There are too many Mountainseas and Sunmoons. We have plenty of geniuses and experts. I have done my best and given everything I could just to gain the support of some people. But...that support is nowhere to be seen."
Su Yu grinned, "You, Senior Nie, Teacher Zhao, Xia Huyou, and some other people are all good people. You are all supportive of me. I know that a lot of people are friendly toward me. But I still want to leave. Because...none of you are the decision-makers."
"..."
Old Huang's emotions turned complicated. "Are you serious? Your Source Soul Research Center has just been founded. Are you really leaving now? You have just produced your first research result and built your own research team. Are you leaving all that behind?"
Su Yu sank into a short silence before saying, "I have yet to decide. Today will decide what I do. When I first founded the Source Soul Research Center, I did it because I intended to stay here long term. However, after releasing the acupoint fusion method, I still did not receive what things I deserved. At that time, I realized that some people want more than what I had imagined."
He was talking about Wan Tiansheng and the Xia Family. They wanted more. The acupoint fusion method alone was not enough for them to bet on him. But Su Yu was unwilling to give more. Merit points, glory, and honor are pointless for him.
Those were not the things he wanted. He only wanted the guarantee of the Xia Family and Wan Tiansheng.
He didn't know what agreement his grandteacher, Liu Wenyan, and the others had reached with the Xia Family and Wan Tiansheng. But he knew that the agreement was not something he wanted.
In the past, the thought of leaving for Great Ming would occasionally appear in his mind. On this day, that desire to leave had reached a very strong level. The Xia Family was filled with good people, including the Great Xia King. Wan Tiansheng was decent, and he did not hate this principal.
In fact, there weren’t many people in Great Xia he truly loathed. Even someone like Liu Hong was only viewed as a slightly annoying person instead of someone he loathed.
But the people of Great Xia kept refusing to put their bet on him. They kept telling him to wait. To wait for the future before they resolve everything once and for all. He did not want to wait. He was afraid that he wouldn't even live that long. Eventually, his trust in Great Xia collapsed.
At this point, he was better off leaving this place for a clean start. Perhaps he could still stay hopeful about the future of Great Xia with some distance between him and Great Xia.
Looking at Old Huang, he clenched his teeth and said, "Teacher, I hope you can keep this a secret. I will go on a long journey in the near future."
Old Huang stayed silent.
After a long while, he nodded.
He would keep it a secret.
Su Yu looked in the direction of the Heart Cultivating Pavilion. Had the principal heard him? Did the principal really not care? He had taken out his cultural arts and other cultivation methods. Were the cultural arts and acupoint fusion method not enough?
It was Great Xia's anniversary today!
And Great Xia King would return!
If the single character faction dared to play dirty even on this day, should they even stay hopeful that these people would change their ways?
Should he even remain in a Great Xia like this? What could he even get from such a Great Xia?
Perhaps the journey to the Starfall Mountain would be a new start for him.
In fact...he had already been contacted by someone from Great Ming. But he needed time, more guarantees, and a confirmation before he could make up his mind.
Great Ming was too unfamiliar to him.
Who would be willing to abandon their home and go to a foreign land? He naturally didn't want to do so. He really wanted to stay.
His loved ones and friends were all the people of Great Xia. But his loved ones had all gone to the battlefield. His friends were helpless. His faction was being suppressed while he was already thinking of leaving.
His martial uncle and grandteacher sounded really tough when they were talking, but they would not leave. And the upper echelons of Great Xia were also sure that those two wouldn't be willing to leave.
But that was not the case for Su Yu. This was the perfect opportunity for him to leave. When Invincibles and Sunmoons were still viewing him with disregard, he could freely leave. He would go to a brand new world, seeking a fresh start.
He would simply return when he finally rose to a position of power. He was not interested in staying and being suppressed endlessly, constantly worrying that he would be stabbed in the back.
Old Huang was saddened, reluctant, and disappointed. He was feeling multiple emotions at the same time. A genius, a freak, an exceptional freak, was saying that he wanted to leave. This genius would rather depart his home and go to a foreign place than stay in Great Xia.
Old Huang looked in Heart Cultivating Pavilion's direction.
Were they really giving up on Su Yu just like this? Could they really do this? Was the acupoint fusion method not enough to change the minds of these people? Were people like Old Huang simply incapable of understanding what those people were thinking, or were those people simply too cold-blooded?
At that thought, the words of persuasion he wanted to say died in his throat. He didn't want to say anything. He couldn't bring himself to say anything. What had Su Yu obtained from the Great Xia Cultural Research Academy?
Opportunities to enter the grottos.
Anything else?
But every single student could enter the academy grottos. That wasn't even a special benefit for Su Yu alone. Anyone with enough total earned merit and merit points would be able to enter the grottos. Thus, one could say that Su Yu had given a lot but received nothing in return.
If all he wanted was to enter some grottos, he didn't even need to join the Great Xia Cultural Research Academy. He could join any other academy for the same benefits.
He was someone brought into the academy by Bai Feng and Liu Wenyan. But both of them were no longer in the academy. Hong Tan couldn't really replace Bai Feng and Liu Wenyan as the level of familiarity between him and Su Yu wasn't high enough.
Old Huang could clearly feel the disappointment and despair in Su Yu.