At the school administration office, Zhang Bin's parents were filled with anger.

"My son's Divine Core is shattered and can never be rebuilt. Shouldn't the school give me an explanation?" Zhang Bin's father, Zhang Gang, demanded angrily.

Xu Mei, the director of education, explained from the side, "As far as we know, this invasion battle was initiated by your son Zhang Bin, and Zhang Bin has multiple records of bullying other students..."

Zhang Gang suddenly stood up, his demigod aura overwhelming.

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"What? Are you saying my son's Divine Core breaking is entirely his own fault? The school bears no responsibility? Do you teachers have no responsibility at all?"

Xu Mei was also a demigod, but her focus was on logistics and support, making her aura far less intimidating than Zhang Gang's.

"Mr. Zhang, that's not what I meant. Regarding the incident of Zhang Bin's Divine Core shattering, the school has decided to offer a bit of divinity as compensation. Although it can't make up for the loss, it is a gesture of goodwill from the school."

"Not enough!" Zhang Gang's anger subsided a little upon hearing about the divinity compensation, but he was still not satisfied.

A bit of divinity is equivalent to a billion divine power, or a trillion faith power, which is not a particularly valuable resource for a demigod focused on aggression like him.

Zhang Bin's mother, Du Rong, also said, "Besides the compensation of divinity, the student who shattered my son's Divine Core must also be punished! He must be expelled!"

Xu Mei frowned. Expulsion would mean lifting the school's protection over Han Wu, and at that point, Han Wu, who had no power or influence, would be at the mercy of this couple.

If this demand had been made before she noticed Han Wu cultivating elite lifeform self-detonating locusts, she would have expelled Han Wu without hesitation.

A powerless and talentless student was dispensable to the school.

But now, the video of Han Wu defeating Zhang Bin had spread throughout the entire grade.

Most teachers believed that Han Wu was a promising talent, and as long as the number of self-detonating locusts increased, his potential was not to be underestimated.

He could even break into the top twenty of the grade.

Faced with such an outstanding student, Xu Mei hesitated to impose punishment.

After all, from the entire incident, although Han Wu's actions were somewhat aggressive, he was not at fault.

After a few seconds of thought, Xu Mei replied firmly, "I'm sorry, I cannot agree to your request."

"What? You're actually protecting a bad student who broke a classmate's Divine Core? Is this the educational philosophy of your school?" Du Rong stood up angrily, pointing at Xu Mei's face and scolding.

Xu Mei's expression was serious, "Ms. Du, please do not confuse the facts. Han Wu has always been a well-behaved student, and we have plenty of evidence proving that your son Zhang Bin has bullied him multiple times."

"Don't tell me those useless things. I just want to know one thing: are you going to punish Han Wu or not?" Du Rong demanded angrily.

But she was not a demigod, and her aura had no effect on Xu Mei.

"Sorry, we can't do that." Xu Mei swiftly refused.

Du Rong could only turn to Zhang Gang, "Gang, say something. Zhang Bin is your son too. Can you bear to see your son being wronged and do nothing?"

Zhang Gang took a deep breath, "Director Xu, I can accept the school not severely punishing Han Wu, but as the victim, I must vent my anger! If you don't agree to this small request, then I won't have to care about the school's face anymore."

Zhang Gang's words were tactful, but the actual meaning was that if Xu Mei did not agree to his small request, he would disregard the school's warnings and take action against Han Wu directly.

With his status as a demigod, even if he killed Han Wu in reality, he would only need to pay a symbolic compensation.

Han Wu had no background, and even if he died, who would seek justice for him? The final result would be nothing.

But as the director of education, Xu Mei appreciated Han Wu, this rising talent, and she didn't want to see him killed.

"So what does Mr. Zhang intend to do?"

"It's simple. I'll send a thousand-man squad to invade his Divine Realm. Regardless of the outcome, we won't pursue the matter further," Zhang Gang said.

A thousand-man squad might not sound like much.

But don't forget, this thousand-man squad belonged to a demigod.

Its strength was far beyond that of a novice like Zhang Bin, who had just opened his Divine Realm.

Seeing Zhang Gang's firm attitude, Xu Mei knew he wouldn't back down.

"I will inform Han Wu, and whether he agrees or not will be up to him," Xu Mei could only say.

"I have limited time and will only wait for one day. If there's no result by tomorrow, I'll take action myself," Zhang Gang said, then left the office with his wife and son.

Xu Mei sighed deeply, "A demigod's thousand-man squad is equivalent to fifty thousand ordinary students' armies. Han Wu, can you withstand it?"

On the other side, Han Wu had ample land resources and food supply.

Under the condition that the environment could bear it, he repeatedly used his growth acceleration ability, causing the number of locusts in his Divine Realm to skyrocket.

In total, the number of locusts in the Divine Realm had reached an astonishing 4.812 billion.

Among them, 4.8 billion were ordinary locusts, 5.7 million were fire-enhanced ordinary locusts, 5.8 million were elite lifeform self-detonating locusts, and 500,000 were double-enhanced bursting pulp locusts.

In addition, there were nearly 10 billion locust eggs waiting to hatch in the Divine Realm.

If not for the consideration that the Divine Realm environment couldn't support the survival of 10 billion locusts, Han Wu would have catalyzed these eggs to maturity as well.

Just as Han Wu was preparing to perform another life sacrifice, a video call request popped up.

The note on it was from Director Xu Mei.

Considering Xu Mei was a school leader, Han Wu chose to answer.

The blue light screen displayed Xu Mei's image, and she relayed Zhang Bin's father Zhang Gang's request, stating that this was the maximum protection the school could offer him.

Han Wu knew in his heart that Xu Mei was telling the truth.

If the school truly didn't want to care about him, they could simply send an expulsion notice, without needing Zhang Gang to make a request under the guise of revenge.

But was a thousand-man army trained by a demigod so easy to deal with?

Even though Han Wu now had 500,000 bursting pulp locusts, he couldn't guarantee he could successfully resist.

But at this point, Han Wu had no choice but to accept.

Otherwise, what awaited him would be an assassination by a demigod.

"Thank you for your help, Director Xu. I will go to school tomorrow to face this challenge," Han Wu replied, ending the video call.

The current time was 11:30 PM in the real world.

It was time for the second life sacrifice.

Han Wu raised his hand, and the massive life sacrifice array appeared.

4.8 billion ordinary locusts, plus 5.7 million fire-enhanced locusts, transformed into life energy and poured into the array.

When the sacrifice ended, three products appeared before Han Wu.

Seeing the descriptions of the three products, Han Wu's eyes lit up.

"The treasures obtained from sacrificing 4.8 billion locusts are indeed impressive."

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