Riding Coattails All the Way

At that moment.

Light rippled across the sky screen's Douluo Continent section, and it refreshed once more.

(Douluo Continent section)

(Ninth: Yu Xiaogang)

(Martial Soul: Luo Sanpao)

(Affiliations: Shrek Academy, Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan)

(Soul Power Level: Level 29)

(Reasons for ranking: First, he proposed the ten core competencies of Martial Soul. They looked impressive, but were actually riddled with mistakes.)

(Second, he was purely lucky enough to take Tang San, who would one day attain the dual godhood of Asura God King and Sea God, as his disciple. In reality, he had not helped Tang San in the slightest.)

(Summary: He climbed the ranks entirely by riding others' coattails.)

"???????"

At that moment, the beings of the Douluo Continent had heads full of question marks.

Yu Xiaogang's Martial Soul Theory was still quite famous on the Douluo Continent,

Though there were also many people who didn't know Yu Xiaogang.

A moment later, everyone wore a questioning look.

What did riding others' coattails all the way mean?

Could someone make the rankings by riding coattails too?

And what did it mean that he hadn't helped Tang San in the slightest?

"Lies, lies, this is fucking slander!" Yu Xiaogang frowned, instantly pissed the fuck off.

What the fuck did they mean, all he could do was ride coattails?

This was fucking slander.

He had taught Tang San...

Uh,

Fuck.

Yu Xiaogang actually found that he fucking couldn't name a single useful thing he'd taught Tang San.

Impossible, impossible, this was absolutely impossible.

Right, the ten core competencies of Martial Soul! He'd taught Tang San the ten core competencies of Martial Soul.

"Xiao San, hurry up and prove that I've helped you a tremendous amount," Yu Xiaogang couldn't help saying as he looked at Tang San beside him.

"Uh, well..." Tang San was fucking stunned.

He looked at the sky screen's summary of the reasons for the ranking.

He had never imagined that the sky screen would sum up the reason as riding coattails.

He put his hand on his chin and pondered seriously for a moment.

Uh.

It looked like the sky screen wasn't wrong.

Yu Xiaogang really didn't seem to have taught him anything.

The Mysterious Jade Hand and Tang Sect Hidden Weapons he used had been taught to him by the Tang Sect in his previous life. They had nothing to do with Yu Xiaogang.

His Blue Silver Grass and Clear Sky Hammer Martial Souls, and his innate full soul power, had been inherited from his father and mother.

Yu Xiaogang really had just taken him as a disciple and taught him nothing.

That was it, nothing else.

In the Douluo section's sky screen livestream.

(Nahida (1,000 years of cultivation version): "I've read the ten core competencies of Martial Soul proposed by Yu Xiaogang.

"They do indeed have a great, great many mistakes, just as the sky screen said.")

(Yu Xiaogang: "No, impossible! My ten Martial Soul competencies are absolutely not wrong.

"I, Yu Xiaogang, am the number one grandmaster of Martial Soul Theory. I understand the origins and rules of every Martial Soul under heaven!

"There are no trash Martial Souls, only trash Soul Masters.

"Martial Souls have no absolute distinction between strong and weak. A Martial Soul's grade cannot directly determine a Soul Master's upper limit. The path of later cultivation, Soul Ring combinations, and tactical application are the keys to determining strength.

"Your so-called claim that my theory is wrong is absolutely slander, naked slander. No, this is simply turning black into white and spouting nonsense.

"You call yourself the God of Wisdom. If you want to question my ten core competencies of Martial Soul, show me the evidence."

(Nahida (1,000 years of Asura version): "I'm only discussing the matter as it stands.

"You keep saying there are no trash Martial Souls, only trash Soul Masters. Then why are the Martial Souls of your disciple Tang San Blue Silver Grass and the Clear Sky Hammer?

"And Tang San's Blue Silver Grass isn't ordinary Blue Silver Grass at all. It was inherited from her mother, Ah Yin, the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Blue Silver Emperor.

"Why is it that not one disciple recruited by your Shrek Academy has a trash Martial Soul? Ning Rongrong's Martial Soul is the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, Dai Mubai's is the Evil Eye White Tiger, Xiao Wu is a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soft Bone Rabbit in human form, and Zhu Zhuqing's is the Netherworld White Cat.

"May I ask which famous powerhouse on the Douluo Continent has a trash Martial Soul?

"The Martial Soul cultivation system of the Douluo Continent is brutal by nature. A Martial Soul determines the upper limit.

"Yu Xiaogang, your Martial Soul mutated. You say there are no trash Martial Souls, only trash Soul Masters, so why have you never been able to break through level thirty?

"The reason your Shrek Academy is strong isn't that its teaching is so impressive. It's because the students it recruits are already favored children of heaven!"

Shrek Academy.

Yu Xiaogang instantly bristled.

He sprang to his feet.

He reached out and swept the books off his desk and onto the floor.

"I don't believe it, I don't believe it, I don't believe it!"

"My Martial Soul Theory can't be wrong. Impossible, absolutely impossible!"

"There are definitely examples of people with trash Martial Souls becoming powerhouses!"

Yu Xiaogang reached up and rubbed the back of his head over and over.

There were, there were.

There had to be.

Figure after figure flashed through Yu Xiaogang's mind.

His disciple Tang San?

No.

Dai Mubai? No, he was the second prince of the Star Luo Empire. Ning Rongrong, the little princess of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

Sword Douluo, the Seven Kill Sword...

He thought of one person after another.

He found that.

He fucking couldn't refute her.

Seeing Yu Xiaogang like this, Tang San instinctively moved a little farther away from him.

He suddenly realized.

This master he had taken was already—no, had never been the slightest bit of help to him.

He had to stay farther away from this guy.

Yu Xiaogang was no longer the slightest bit of help to him, Tang San.

What Tang San didn't know was that Lin Feng had long since taken in everything happening here.

As Phanes, the Heavenly Principles, the first Primordial One, casually observing Tang San here posed no difficulty.

He cast his gaze over.

He didn't mean anything else by it.

He was simply intrigued by the sky screen's summary.

He wanted to see what expression Yu Xiaogang was wearing.

As for Tang San's reaction.

He wasn't surprised in the least.

In the original novel, Tang San's character had always been utterly pragmatic.

There was no Yu Xiaogang in the Divine Realm, but there was Yao Lao in the Endless Fire Territory.

There was a reason for that.

In the original novel.

Tang San could even bring Da Ming and Er Ming, Xiao Wu's second and third brothers, to the Divine Realm.

How could he possibly not have had the authority to bring Yu Xiaogang to the Divine Realm?

The Douluo Continent livestream section.

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