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The so-called public opinion is iron, and accumulation of rumors can consume bones.
Although the students in the classroom did not come to scold him, provoke him, slap his face, despise him, or look down on him,
Zhou Bai still subconsciously felt the stares piercing through him as he walked into the classroom after skipping classes for two weeks, making him feel uneasy.
"Brother Zhou, you're coming to class?" Jing Xiu said in surprise when he saw Zhou Bai walking over, "Come, come, sit next to me."
Seeing Jing Xiu making room for him, Zhou Bai felt a little embarrassed, "I'm not here to attend the class, just… just, Jing Xiu, can I borrow your notes? I want to see where you guys have gotten."
"Ah?" Before Jing Xiu could speak, Xia Li, who was sitting in front of him, turned around.
Ever since she had knocked on Zhou Bai's door for several days in a row only to be treated as invisible by Zhou Bai, Xia Li had been increasingly unhappy with him.
Especially when she remembered her parents fighting on the front lines to win time and resources for people like Zhou Bai to cultivate, it made her even angrier looking at him.
She glared at Zhou Bai, "Aren't you the one who skips classes? Why are you asking Jing Xiu for notes?"
Zhou Bai, "What's it to you? I'm talking to Jing Xiu."
Xia Li quickly turned to Jing Xiu, "Jing Xiu, don't lend this guy your notes. That way, he'll have to come to class."
Jing Xiu looked at Xia Li, then at Zhou Bai, and found himself in a dilemma.
At this moment, a figure walked up to Zhou Bai, a burly man standing two meters tall, his physique more reminiscent of a gangster than a student.
Zhou Bai's mind flashed with the man's name: 'Du Bing, ranked 8th in the entrance exam, muscle man.'
Du Bing's indifferent gaze swept over Zhou Bai's body as he said slowly, "Zhou Bai, you have brought shame to the entire 503rd class."
It was now the 503rd year of Heaven, so naturally, the 503rd class referred to Zhou Bai's cohort.
Hearing Du Bing's words, Zhou Bai looked helpless, knowing the other party was right.
This cohort had one truant; others could easily say that the 503rd class was no good, that the first-place student skipped classes, lamenting that each generation was worse than the last… things like that.
There was nothing Zhou Bai could do about it, he couldn't just come to class because of those things.
So he looked at Du Bing, shook his head, and said, "Classmate Du Bing, actually I…"
Not giving Zhou Bai a chance to speak further, Du Bing looked at him seriously, "Classmate Zhou Bai, even though you have shamed the entire 503rd class, I will not give up on you.
I, Du Bing, hate to see my classmates left behind and becoming the laughing stock of everyone. So, no matter how far behind you are, how weak or incompetent, I, Du Bing, will never abandon you."
Seeing Du Bing's enthusiastic face and his attempt to hug him, Zhou Bai quickly stepped back a few steps, feeling embarrassed, "Don't do that…"
Du Bing, "Classmate Zhou Bai, don't be afraid, hold my hand, let's travel the path of cultivation together…"
Zhou Bai immediately shook off Du Bing's hand, "Don't hold me! I came to find Jing Xiu, this has nothing to do with you!!"
Watching Du Bing's disappointed figure leaving, Zhou Bai turned back to Jing Xiu and said, "Jing Xiu, I just wanted to borrow your notes, but if it's inconvenient for you, then forget it…"
Jing Xiu looked down in embarrassment, "Brother Zhou, I think I better not lend you my notes, you should come to class, following my notes for self-study is too risky, if I lend you the notes, it's harming you."
Xia Li burst out laughing, her small figure jumped onto the desk and she hugged Jing Xiu's face, "Jing Xiu, well done! Don't lend this guy anything!" After saying this, she even made a face at Zhou Bai, "You better leave, this place doesn't welcome you if you're not coming to class."
Jing Xiu looked at Zhou Bai awkwardly, unsure of what to do.
Zhou Bai sighed, turning to look at his other classmates, and while no one said anything, he knew it would be even more impossible to borrow notes from them.
Just as he was about to leave the classroom, Qian Wangsun waved at him from not far away.
Zhou Bai surprisingly walked over, Qian Wangsun handed him his notes with a smile, "Here, my notes, you can borrow them."
Zhou Bai's eyes lit up, "You…"
Qian Wangsun laughed, shaking his golden hair, "An investment, if you make a comeback, I profit."
Zhou Bai looked at Qian Wangsun gratefully, "Thanks." But after flipping through the notes slightly, his face turned cold.
He saw that the notes had pitifully little content, and there seemed to be omissions everywhere, a heap of scribbles he couldn't even decipher, a sense of perfunctory was overwhelming, a stark contrast to Jing Xiu's meticulous notes.
On the contrary, the various vivid nude drawings impressed Zhou Bai.
"Trash."
Zhou Bai threw the notebook back to Qian Wangsun, and walked out of the classroom.
Qian Wangsun said, "Hey, hey, it's good stuff, all my study insights! Don't you want it? You don't have to repay me in the future, just treat me to a meal…"
Disappointed, Zhou Bai left the classroom, thinking to himself, "Do I really have to attend class? I don't even know where they are now… Oh well, losing face is losing face, losing laziness is losing laziness, safety on the path of cultivation is the priority."
As he was thinking this and walking in the teaching building, pondering when he should attend class, a voice called out.
"Zhou Bai, I heard you haven't been to class for a while?"
Zhou Bai looked up to see Zuo Dao standing in a corner, watching him.
"Damn, you have the nerve to mention it," Zhou Bai quickly said, "It's class time now, and you're not in class either?"
Zuo Dao pouted, "Teacher Xing Jun took a leave of absence today, I don't have class."
Saying this, he slowly walked up to Zhou Bai, his cold gaze fixed on Zhou Bai, he said unemotionally, "The one who surpassed me and became the top in the entrance exam shouldn't be a loser."
Zhou Bai looked helpless, thinking, here was another person coming to despise him.
'Damn it, one by one coming to teach me, if you dare I will lay down and beat you all.'
Zuo Dao took something out from his pocket and threw it in front of Zhou Bai, "This is my insight on how I raised my Dao transformation rate from 0 to 1% before entering school. Take it and study it well."
He walked up to Zhou Bai, poked him in the chest with his finger, and said coldly, "If you don't understand anything, come to the dorm and ask me tonight, I'll tutor you.
The one who defeated me can't be trash, in a month and a half, I want to defeat the strongest you, a victory with no blemish. Did you hear me?"
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