Volume 2: Jade Promise Chapter 212 A Lifetime Stain
Liu Ruiqi's family background is similar to Lu Tianji and the others. They are all loyal descendants of the Changyuan Leng family. He has been struggling in the capital since he was a child. He has always been able to see that Tang Zheng is actually quite absent-minded towards him.
However, when he said that he would be the one to tell the story of Li Xiaoren, a meaningful light flashed in Tang Zheng's eyes.
It wasn't to comfort the seniors, and that forced smile wasn't the right time to deal with him. That kind of distant politeness towards a senior general...
"Li Xiaoren...it's a bit long to talk about him. Do you want to go eat first? We'll talk about it when you come back?" Liu Ruiqi asked.
"No need." Tang Zheng didn't have much appetite. Even if he wanted to eat, he wanted to go back to Tianxia Minglu and eat the food made by Xiao Daji.
"Then I'll just say it directly." Liu Ruiqi's eyes drifted to the window. "Unlike most of the instructors in the Aristocratic Academy, Li Xiaoren has basically never been on the battlefield except for routine tasks. So, at the beginning, he actually preferred a civilian position. However, because the Yisu Academy is located in a border town, the instructors in the academy are in short supply. He was a mid-level four-star at the time, which was considered to be relatively strong in the Yisu Academy. Under Leng Buchen's adjustment, he was temporarily transferred to an instructor."
Tang Zheng nodded. Looking at how Li Xiaoren dressed most of the time and how meticulously he took care of himself, he could tell that he must be from a scholarly family.
Liu Ruiqi went on to say, "He was an instructor at the academy, and he did a pretty good job... To be honest, a serious person can do anything well, until someone appeared among his students. I still remember his name - Gao Changfeng."
"Anyone whose name can be remembered by General Liu must be extraordinary." Tang Zheng said.
"Haha...hahaha." Liu Ruiqi glanced at Tang Zheng, "Indeed, he is extraordinary!"
Liu Ruiqi did not continue talking about Li Xiaoren, but instead talked about Gao Changfeng.
However, Tang Zheng did not interrupt, because he knew that Gao Changfeng was not only related to Li Xiaoren, but also had a very close relationship with him.
Gao Changfeng was admitted to Yisu Academy in the second year after Li Xiaoren became an instructor. He was already well-known in Feishi City before the academy examination. After entering the examination, he was far ahead of other candidates in terms of knowledge and strength.
During the interview stage, he debated with many teachers and explained the long-term wars on the border and the coordination between the front and the rear in more depth than some instructors knew. His youthful enthusiasm touched almost every instructor present, including Li Xiaoren, who had just been transferred to an instructor position.
When it came to the written test, he scored full marks with an amazing performance of composing a poem in seven steps, which was almost like a performance. As a result, two girls were so discouraged that they gave up the test on the spot. The whole Yisu Academy was talking about him.
In the final actual combat assessment, his performance was even more shocking...
The practical assessment that year was relatively simple and crude. It was a hunting assessment. The prey in the back mountain was one-star, two-star, and three-star, and was scored at different levels. Winning could be based on quantity or quality, and the total score of the prey brought back would be used as the basis for ranking.
That year, two clan-level geniuses fought in the same field and returned early with a large number of prey. Originally, the instructors thought that Gao Changfeng would not perform well in the final battle, but who knew that at the last moment before the end of the assessment, he came back...
He brought back the most prey!
Because he conquered eleven two-star peak or even three-star prey, but did not kill them. Instead, he brought their entire tribe back alive.
He displayed all of his prey in front of the instructors in a grand manner, leaving all of them dumbfounded.
Li Xiaoren's love for talent was ignited at that time. He insisted on coaching Gao Changfeng personally, and for this, he offended a group of instructors of the same period.
"Later, Gao Changfeng was killed by the demon tribe?" Tang Zheng didn't think there was anything wrong when he heard this.
It was just a teacher favoring top students. To him, it was a very ordinary story.
If that were all, there would be nothing worth impressing Liu Ruiqi, right?
Liu Ruiqi shook his head, signaling Tang Zheng to stay calm and continue listening to him: "In order to cooperate with Gao Changfeng's horoscope, Li Xiaoren forced himself to give up the martial arts he had chosen before and switched to axe training. He put a lot of effort into practicing, researching, and teaching Gao Changfeng. Under his guidance, Gao Changfeng's strength has also improved by leaps and bounds."
"Yeah." Tang Zheng stopped interrupting.
"You should know Li Xiaoren's temper. Once he makes up his mind no one can change it! So, at that time, he believed that Gao Changfeng would have a bright future, so he helped him get a lot of resources..."
Liu Ruiqi glanced at Tang Zheng and saw that he didn't seem to be interested at all when he heard that Li Xiaoren was going to help Gao Changfeng get a lot of resources.
Most students who do not have a strong background enter the aristocratic academy just for the resources that are available in the academy.
But Tang Zheng didn't seem to be interested in any of this.
Liu Ruiqi paused for a moment before continuing, “Not long after, Gao Changfeng stepped into the Star-Seeking Tower, and all fourteen floors of the tower lit up, shocking the entire capital at the time… After he came back, Li Xiaoren continued to develop a star-attracting plan for him. Two months after he came back, he broke through to three stars in one fell swoop.”
Tang Zheng continued to nod.
Things have developed to this point, and there aren't any major problems, except that they are a bit too logical.
However, Liu Ruiqi's eyes soon darkened: "Then, in the winter of Gao Changfeng's graduation, the famous 'Sunshade War' took place. The demon chieftain Daduo led a coalition of more than 30 demon air forces to attack Tulun Pass at night... It just so happened that the place where Gao Changfeng and his classmates took their graduation exam was near Tulun Pass..."
"Dead?" Tang Zheng couldn't help but spit out these two words again.
However, Liu Ruiqi still shook his head: "Gao Changfeng changed sides at the last minute!"
Tang Zheng, who had slumped in his chair, sat up straight again.
"Why?" Tang Zheng asked.
"Just because of what Daduo said." Liu Ruiqi replied.
"What words could have such great magic power?"
"Oh, nothing special. There were not many survivors at the time, and no one can remember the exact words, but the gist of it was...boy, I like you and want to marry you."
"What the hell..." Tang Zheng was simply powerless to complain about this ridiculous development, "He believed such a low-level lie? He even changed sides at the last minute? Li Xiaoren has low emotional intelligence, he is worse than..."
Liu Ruiqi didn't wait for Tang Zheng to finish speaking before saying, "Daduo really married him."
Tang Zheng shut up immediately.
He just wanted to ask one question now, how stunningly beautiful is Gao Changfeng... Oh no, how handsome is he!
Daduo is a chief-level master, but she flirts with him, a three-star warrior, and throws herself into his arms?
Gao Changfeng's halo as the protagonist, is this caused by a 100,000-volt light bulb?
Even in a novel, if the protagonist has such a big halo, he will be scolded to death by readers!
"You can't understand it, right?" Liu Ruiqi understood Tang Zheng's reaction very well.
"Well, I lost..." Tang Zheng thought to himself, it's true that humans are born from human mothers, and monsters are born from monster mothers - both sides were fighting, and suddenly fell in love at first sight. What kind of brain circuit is this?
He has been a normal human being for two lifetimes, and he really can't keep up with this pace.
Even someone like him was stunned. It was hard to imagine what expression Li Xiaoren had at that time.
"Gao Changfeng's defection tore a long hole in the defense line of Tulun Pass. At that time, at least two chieftain-level masters drove straight in, causing the defense line of the Tianqin family to shrink across the board... The Battle of the Sun lasted for a full three and a half months, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths in the four large border cities behind Tulun Pass, namely Feishi City, Liguang City, Jiyuan City, and Fenggu City. The death toll of the Red Tassel Army was also over 10,000."
"Where is Gao Changfeng now? Did Instructor Li kill him?" Tang Zheng guessed Li Xiaoren's character. He knew that he had caused the trouble, so he would definitely clean it up himself.
However, Liu Ruiqi had already shaken his head for who knows how many times.
Seeing Tang Zheng's surprised look, Liu Ruiqi said , "It's not that Li Xiaoren didn't want to kill him. In order to end this bad relationship between master and disciple with his own hands, he even risked passing through Tulun Pass and went outside the border to try to kill Gao Changfeng."
"Didn't succeed?"
"I just said that Daduo married Gao Changfeng! And Daduo is the princess of the Demon King Palace of Muzburg, one of the twelve purple-gold Demon King Palaces under the command of the Great Demon God Emperor."
Although Tang Zheng had no idea about the configuration of the demon clan, but when he vaguely heard about Daduo's identity and strength, he knew that Li Xiaoren must have returned empty-handed.
In fact, it is understandable that if Li Xiaoren really killed Gao Changfeng, this incident would not leave a thorn in his heart.
"So Gao Changfeng is willing to hide under a woman's skirt for the rest of his life? Never see the sun?"
"If Gao Changfeng is really like that, then Li Xiaoren doesn't need to worry about him..." Liu Ruiqi closed his eyes slightly before speaking, "Gao Changfeng is already a genius among geniuses, and with Li Xiaoren's painstaking guidance, plus the subsequent transformation of the demon race's bloodline... His current strength is even above Li Xiaoren's."
"So, that Daduo really has good vision..." Tang Zheng completely believed in Gao Changfeng's aura of the protagonist, that kind of all-round mysterious power with no blind spots.
However, Li Xiaoren's strength has probably remained at the peak of four stars because of this knot in his heart.
Liu Ruiqi's voice was calm but complicated as he said, "Don't ask me why I know so much about Li Xiaoren. Because of Gao Changfeng's existence, all the older officers in the Changyuan Leng family know that there is an instructor in the Yisu Academy named Li Xiaoren!"
Tang Zheng really didn't know what to say.
Li Xiaoren has left his name in history, right? But this is definitely not the way he wants to leave his name in history.
An instructor who devoted himself to his students and gave almost everything, ended up leaving such a heavy stain in the history books!
"So, Instructor Li thinks that I will become the second Gao Changfeng?" After Tang Zheng heard everything, he finally understood. He was so innocent. In other words, in the whole thing where Li Xiaoren targeted him and disliked him in various ways, he was completely framed!
