"Impressive!"
All of the kids were shocked by Yang Zhai. They were unable to believe it.
"Wow, I didn't know that someone could learn the technique perfectly in three days."
"He even broke the rock and his dust ball also did not decrease in size"
"This is new to me. Could someone with 59 percent essence water be so talented?"
"And who told you that a person's talent depends on the limit of their essence water? Are you a fool or something?"
"Anyway, he definitely performed better than Ci An and Hong Mi. Do you think that he will be the leader of this class?"
"Don't know, after all, Ci An's father is an elder as well. So, I think it is a little difficult.'
When Ci An and Hong Mi heard the crowd, they looked at Yang Zhai with anger. A person with 59 percent essence water performed better than them. How could they accept it?
This was the reality. Some people could not accept others' success. Especially when you get the taste of the riches of this world. How could they tolerate it, if Yang Zhai steals their position from under their noses?
There were only two choices, whether a person accepts their fate or goes against it. Accepting a fate was easier than going against it, and Yang Zhai's previous life was proof of it. He had to die in order to be free.
" I am impressed. Tell me, who taught you so well?" Elder Wang was truly impressed by Yang Zhai's performance,
"Nobody, I only learned the technique three days ago from you, elder." Yang Zhai said.
"Huh, nobody! Well, even if someone does teach you, you need to do it yourself after all. Whatever, I am astonished that you learned it all by yourself. Anyway, as you have performed better than everyone, according to the rules, you will be the new leader of this class." Elder Wang was shocked to learn that Yang Zhai didn't get someone's help and learned to use the technique so skillfully by himself.
"All of you, from now on, you will all listen to what he says, except for the decisions that can harm the Clan or require you to kill yourself." Elder Wang said to everyone present.
"Elder, I have an objection." Ci An raised her hand and objected to elder Wang's decision.
"What is it?" Elder Wang narrowed his eyes. There was someone who had an objection against the Clan rules? Elder Wang became serious after he heard Ci An.
"Can you please reconsider your decision? After all, he only has 59 percent essence water, not even 60 percent. I think he is not worthy. After all, it doesn't mean that he is better than us if he mastered a Rank 1 technique. I have 80 percent essence water, and Hong Mi has 79 percent, I suggest that you should please reconsider your decision and choose one of us. " Ci An came forward and said. She didn't want a person with 59 percent essence water to be her leader. Would it not be humiliating to her to obey him? And especially when she thought of how Yang Zhai had performed better than her, she couldn't accept that.
"Elder, I think so as well, please reconsider your decision. And I think that Yang Zhai must have cheated. How can he practice more than us with his essence water limit? And I don't think that he had many essence stones to recover his essence water and practice more. " Hong Mi also came forward and argued. He also did not want Yang Zhai to become the leader.
"You two, there are rules for certain purposes. Are you two trying to go against the Clan regulations?" Elder Wang said seriously. He could not believe these two. They actually wanted him to reconsider his decision, were they for real?
When Yang Zhai saw the situation, he stayed quiet. He was not worried that he would not become the leader. If the rules were so easy to break, wouldn't everyone disagree with the rules and the decisions made by the Clan, which were not beneficial to them?
Rules were made according to the powerful people's morals, not to be opposed but to be followed. If they thought something was good, then it was. If they thought that something was not good, then it was not. Powerful people created the rules and also manipulated them. How could they like someone opposing their authority and their morals? If a powerful person did agree to change the rule, then it was for their authority's safety or because their morals also didn't like a rule.
And Yang Zhai also knew the purpose of creating a class leader. It was only to make the kids become more submissive. It was only to make them adapt to accepting the orders. Kids develop according to the environment they are brought up in. And the elder only said that the kids were not obligated to follow the order of killing themselves, but he never said that the leader could not order them to risk their lives, it was to make them be ready and willing to risk their lives for the Clan.
And what would happen if someone opposed the clan's rules on the first day? Would they not get used to opposing the rules they did not like? How could the Clan accept this?
And then there was the pride of a person in power. Would Elder Wang's pride allow him to say that his decision was wrong?
Yang Zhai knew all this. He knew that there was no way that he would not become the leader. Yang Zhai had also created a sect in his previous life. He knew all these tricks of powerful people manipulating a person and making the lower class accept the clan's decisions subconsciously. And then he was from the earth. Earth was expert in these social tricks more than the cultivation world, everywhere on the earth, in every field. These were Yang Zhai's thoughts right now.
"No, Elder, that's not what I am…" Ci An was about to explain herself when she heard Elder Wang and thought that Elder might have comprehended wrongly what she meant, but her sentence was cut short by Elder Wang's voice
"Silent, I have said what I needed to say. Yang Zhai is the leader and that is final. Even if he cheated, he still learned the technique and used it more skillfully than you two. A leader needs to be prepared for the unexpected by all the means necessary. But, you two didn't, and you say that my decision is wrong." When Elder Wang said this seriously, Ci An and Hong Mi lowered their heads. They knew that they couldn't say more than this, or they might offend the elder.
"Are there any more objections?" Elder Wang asked. But nobody said anything.
"If not, then this is final, Yang Zhai will be your new leader. And Yang Zhai, do you want to say something?"
"No elder, thank you." Yang Zhai answered politely.
"Very well then." Elder Wang said and turned around, he was about to leave when he heard Yang Zhai's voice.
"You two, bow and slap each other one time." Yang Zhai turned to look at Ci An and Hong Mi.
When the elder heard this, he stopped to see what Yang Zhai was doing.
"Ah,"
"Ah,"
Ci An and Hong Mi were dumbstruck by what Yang Zhai said.
"What do you mean by that?" Hong Mi asked.
"Simple, as the leader, I have to discipline you. You have tried to violate the rules, so I need to punish you. After all, the second elder had already told you that the Bai Clan survived until now because of following the rules, but you tried to violate them by objecting to the Clan's rule. When I had already become the leader according to the clan rules, you still objected to it. So, I need to teach you and make an example for the other kids to not do the same. Now, bow and slap each other with full force." Yang Zhai said casually. He was establishing his authority over the kids properly. For his plans, he had to make them more submissive and not let them oppose him. Thus, he had to punish them. And he knew that some of the kids would be unwilling to listen to his order; thus he told them to bow while elder Wang was still here, as he could be of help to him in establishing his authority.
"Interesting" Elder Wang thought when he heard Yang Zhai, he was intrigued.
"Who do you think you are? Do you know who you are talking to?" Ci An could not believe that Yang Zhai would ask her to bow in front of everyone.
"Don't know and don't want to know either. Are you bowing or not?"
"My father is an elder, are you aware of what he is capable of?" Ci An said seriously.
"Elder, if you don't mind, can you please tell them that I am the leader of this class? This means, I am the representative and I represent this class. And as I am the representative, I have the right to mold the class as I see fit, which could be more beneficial for the Clan."
"Thus, according to the Clan rules, this class is to follow my instructions even more than the elders except for the Clan leader and the academy leader. They are obligated to follow my commands over everyone else's orders except for the clan leader and academy leader. Can you please tell them? I don't think they will believe me" Yang Zhai turned around and asked Elder Wang.
When Ci An and Hong Mi heard this, their eyes widened.
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