My starting summon is a small skeleton

Quancheng No.3 Middle School, exclusive training grounds for the key class.

A training session was underway.

The opponents were a red-haired orangutan on one side and a Goblin Warrior on the other.

The battle between the red-haired orangutan and the Goblin Warrior was intense.

As the owner of the Goblin Warrior, Lin Jianying watched his Goblin fight and sighed a sigh of relief in his heart.

He'd had a hard time recently.

He was under tremendous pressure.

This pressure was primarily financial.

In reality, Lin Jianying had been selected for the key class not because his Goblin was of exceptional quality, but purely because his family had some assets.

His parents were Professional Summoners who had lost contact a few years ago, but they had left him a heritage.

He relied on this heritage to enhance his Goblin to this level.

Initially, that amount of money would have been enough to support him until the high school league.

However, due to his grandmother's sudden illness and hospitalization, he had diverted all the funds meant for cultivating his Goblin to her medical treatments, and even that wasn't enough.

This resulted in a cutoff in the funds used for cultivating his Goblin. Moreover, due to taking care of his grandmother, the training was interrupted for several days, causing disruptions in the Goblin's development and making it fall behind his teammates' pace.

For this reason, Ye Qingxue had specifically spoken to him, clearly stating that if he couldn't keep up, he would be kicked off the current first-line team.

This had put great pressure on Lin Jianying.

Fortunately, he had eventually managed to overcome it.

Now, the Goblin had not only caught up with his teammates but had even surpassed them to some degree.

Indeed, while Lin Jianying was sighing in relief, the battle on the training grounds had already concluded.

The Goblin Warrior had narrowly defeated the red-haired orangutan.

"Not bad, kid! I didn't expect you to catch up and even get ahead of me," a classmate who had battled against him said, giving Lin Jianying a punch, genuinely happy for him.

Being teammates and classmates, he knew the difficulties Lin Jianying had faced recently and was truly glad to see him keep up.

However, at that moment, Ye Qingxue, the teacher who had been watching the match, furrowed her brow.

"Lin Jianying, come to my office!"

After saying that, Ye Qingxue turned and left.

Lin Jianying, suddenly called out, was puzzled, wondering what Ye Qingxue wanted, and felt a bit panicky, but he dared not delay and immediately took his Goblin to Ye Qingxue's office.

As he pushed open the door of Ye Qingxue's office and saw her cold face, Lin Jianying's heart sank.

At that moment, Ye Qingxue had already come up to Lin Jianying's Goblin and was scrutinizing it intently.

Finally, she directed her gaze at Lin Jianying's face.

"Your Goblin has shown significant progress lately, and during the recent battle, the tactical structuring was also adjusted. The adjustments were slight, barely noticeable unless paying close attention."

As Ye Qingxue spoke, her expression grew colder, causing Lin Jianying to tremble uncontrollably, too scared to speak.

But his silence didn't mean there wasn't an issue.

"There are many Cultivation Masters of this level, but not many in Quan City. Even if there were, you couldn't afford them with your current financial capacity. So, I'm very curious as to who would help you for free?

I remember you live in the same neighborhood as Lu Wu; it wasn't him who helped you, was it?"

"Yes!"

Lin Jianying nodded stiffly.

As he nodded, Ye Qingxue's expression was close to freezing.

Regarding Lu Wu, from the beginning Ye Qingxue considered him nothing more than a nobody, one she didn't esteem, never having taken Lu Wu seriously.

Even during the Quancheng Cup, when the friction between Team 233 and Ye Qingxue escalated, despite her anger, Ye Qingxue still hadn't had a high regard for Lu Wuyi.

As proud as she was, unless Lu Wuyi could defeat the student she had trained, she would never hold him in high esteem.

And could Lu Wuyi defeat the student she had trained?

That was clearly impossible!

Even if Lu Wuyi might have had a Cultivation Master supporting him, it was still absolutely impossible!

She, Ye Qingxue, was confident in herself!

But what transpired later slapped her hard across the face, Lu Wuyi defeated her student, even though it was just her most ordinary student, it was enough to shock her.

Yet before she could recover from the shock, information about Lu Wuyi's identity as a Cultivation Master was exposed.

As soon as this identity was revealed, for Ye Qingxue, it was like a slap in the face.

That slap still stung to this day!

Now whenever she heard the name Lu Wuyi, she couldn't help but grit her teeth.

In this situation, when she discovered that Lin Jianying's goblin had been trained by Lu Wuyi, her fury was instantly ignited.

What was Lu Wuyi doing?

Was he sympathizing with Lin Jianying's plight and giving him a helping hand?

What a joke!

Ye Qingxue did not believe Lu Wuyi was that virtuous!

Initially, all she did was fire Lu Wuyi, and he meticulously plotted to humiliate her, how could such a petty person be so good?

In Ye Qingxue's eyes, such actions by Lu Wuyi were nothing but a slap in her face.

How could she, Ye Qingxue, tolerate that?

"Since when does my student, Ye Qingxue's student, need to be taught by him, Lu Wuyi!

Fine, since he wishes to teach, I might as well let him!"

"From now on, you are no longer a member of the key class, nor are you my student anymore!

He wants to teach you? Go on, go find him!

And while you're at it, tell him that I will reclaim the humiliation he gave me in the high school league!"

In her fury, Ye Qingxue did not give Lin Jianying any chance to explain, and she summarily expelled him from the key class!

On Lin Jianying's side,

Suddenly being expelled from the key class, he was entirely bewildered and immediately turned pale with panic; he was even about to kneel before Ye Qingxue, begging her not to expel him.

Ye Qingxue might have thought that being expelled from the key class, he could still go to Lu Wuyi and participate in the high school league.

But Lin Jianying knew.

That was impossible; leaving the key class meant all his hopes were dashed.

He wouldn't go to Lu Wuyi; he didn't dare, he had no face to!

His betrayal had already exhausted all his courage, making him regret it to this day, making him unable to face Lu Wuyi ever since.

How could he possibly have the courage to see Lu Wuyi again, to tell him he wanted to go back?

So, he absolutely could not leave the key class.

But Ye Qingxue was furious, no matter what he said or how he begged, it was useless!

Ultimately, Ye Qingxue still expelled him from the key class.

And Lin Jianying hadn't yet recovered from the shock of being kicked out of the key class, and just as he left the school, another blow came: news from the hospital that his grandmother's condition had worsened, and she was close to death!

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This chapter is a bit shorter, partly because I'm a bit stuck with the writing and partly because I've been busy. I'll try to make the next chapter longer!