"Explain what the hell is happening here right now!" The academy head repeated his words and he is quite angry due to what happened.
"Academy Head, it is just like what I said. We are having a match, me against everyone and on the way, we wagered our spirit stones" Xi Yun said and repeated his explanation to the academy head.
"You expect me to believe that this is just a simple match? A simple match where almost 30 of you are injured and have broken bones?" The academy head said in a high-pitched tone.
"Well, it's unavoidable really. Injuries are always present in battles so it is truly hard to avoid injuring someone when you are fighting with all you can." Xi Yun said to the angry academy head, more and more lines are forming in the forehead of the academy head.
"Stop lying to me! You intentionally injured them, didn't you? Stop lying now and I might try to lower your punishments!" The academy head said to Xi Yun and he is fuming from anger.
The students are injured and it will be a blow to his reputation when others heard of this. Since he became the academy head, most of the students that he held behave very well in comparison to the older generations but now with this incident surely he will be in a tough spot.
"I'm not lying academy head, we are just having a battle where injuries are unavoidable. Besides, I believe that we didn't do something wrong base on the academy rules though?" Xi Yun said and when the academy head heard it he frowned even more.
"Are intentionally injuring your fellow classmates not enough of a reason to punish you?" The academy head said.
"But I didn't injure them intentionally! The academy rules said it themselves that injuries are unavoidable when it comes to battle so no one should be blamed unless the injury is done with the intention to kill" Xi Yun said while playing with the rules of the academy.
The academy, of course, forbids killing but it never says that you can't injure your opponents so he isn't the one that is in the losing position here.
At this point, it doesn't matter whether he injured them intentionally or not since even the academy rules are not saying anything that forbids injuring someone.
"How can you say that you didn't injure them intentionally? The academy might not punish you but I the academy head is still a clan elder and I can punish you personally!" The academy head said to Xi Yun which didn't even get any reaction from him.
"How can you even say that I injured them intentionally?" Xi Yun threw back the question at him causing the wrinkles on the academy head's face to become even more wrinkly.
The both of them threw back questions at each other and they soon reach a conclusion.
"Promise me that you will not injure someone again when you fought them," The academy head said while looking at Xi Yun with a bitter expression.
They got into a squabble where the academy head is finding loopholes in Xi Yun's word that he can use to him but in the end, Xi Yun's answer is just going in circles and they won't reach a consensus if it continues.
"That is a thing that is hard to promise but I will try," Xi Yun said to the academy head and the academy head frowned when he heard his answer.
'Try? So that means you are going to injure some of them again?' The academy head thought but in the end, it is hard to crack Xi Yun.
First of all, he didn't do something wrong and in actuality, his actions are even supported by the academy but due to the nature of the injuries of the student they can't praise him and it will even bring some problems to them.
The way Xi Yun used the rule is also very clever, he used it not as a means to justify himself but to protect himself. So in the end the academy head realized that Xi Yun is just finding loopholes in the rules and are using it against them.
As the academy head, he can't just change the rules since these rules are created by the founder himself so replacing these rules means disrespecting the founder and it will not be tolerated by the clan.
It can be changed though as long as he can provide a very good example and Xi Yun's case might be a good example but it just happened once and it will not be in the spotlight even more.
The academy head can make a noise out of it and try to do something to make countermeasures against this but in the end, noise is but a noise. No one will pay attention to it and it will be buried under greater noises.
"Is it really just a normal battle?" The academy head asked again one more time.
"Yes, I already told you that many times already" Xi Yun replied to the repetitive question of the academy head.
"I'm not asking you, I am asking your classmates." The academy head said and Xi Yun zipped his mouth.
With the academy head's questioning, although they felt aggrieved at what happened and they also wanted Xi Yun to be punished but in the end, even the academy head can't even punish him so what can they do?
They have no choice but to side with Xi Yun since even the academy head can't make trouble for him so what can they even do. Though they are hesitant with that choice, with Xi Yun looking at them with his deep black eyes that seem to devour them, they didn't dare to doubt their choice anymore.
"Yes it is but a normal battle where injuries are unavoidable academy head"
"We also willingly bet our spirit stones so you don't need to trouble ourself academy head."
One by one the students expressed their side on the issue and the academy head has no choice but to let go of the issue and think of a way to deal with the mess that will soon follow.
He has to report this in the meeting between the clan head and the clan elders and think of a plan to fix this mess if he wanted to keep his position as the academy head firmly, especially now that he is entrusted to take care of Xun Peng.
"Alright make sure to avoid troubles from now on." The academy head said to everyone but in reality, he is trying to say this to Xi Yun.
"You can leave now." The academy head added and soon all the students including Xi Yun left.
'Xi Yun, you might be a genius but it's your mistake that you provoke this many people with your talent. In the future, these people will surpass you with their talents and when that time comes are you prepared for people coming at you to take revenge like this?' The academy head thought to himself while he is looking at the back of Xi Yun.
'Not only that, you even, made an enemy out of Xun Peng who will become a Tier 5 spirit cultivator for sure in the future and when that time comes, it will spell your death whenever he wished it' The academy head thought again.
Although he wanted to truly punish Xi Yun, he doesn't mean any harm. Xi Yun is still his student and he has to be impartial among all his students, he can't make Xi Yun's path harder than it already is because it is against his beliefs.
"I have to cook up a scheme to make Xi Yun a good boy in order for him not to fall into the wrong path" The academy head whispered under his breath and he felt bad about it.
Scheming to his own student is something that he will never be proud of but in the end, he has to make sure that he will fall on the right path and be integrated into the clan's rule.
The way the academy head sees it, Xi Yun is becoming more and more distant from the clan and if he doesn't help him be integrated into the right path he for sure will be falling into the demonic path.
A path that is so treacherous and is hated not just by the righteous people but also those who are demonic people. They hated it because being in the demonic path means that they have to be cruel not just among others but also among themselves.
The academy head sighed when he thought of it, a rebellious fallen genius, he has to fix a rebellious fallen genius of the clan in order for him to be on the right path.
"Still, even if you are a fallen genius, you are still amazing to defeat all of your classmates not just physically but also physiologically ." The academy head thought when he heard that Xi Yun fought all of them alone.