Gangzi: There's No Such Thing as the Life System

"The life path? Li Yan, are you kidding me?"

The Grandmaster froze for a moment. He searched his memory for a long time, but still found no information about a life path.

Could it be that Spirit Hall's records weren't comprehensive enough?

He questioned them instinctively.

"There's no such path in the world. Tang San, don't let Li Yan fool you. Following the control system path is your way forward."

"Otherwise, you'll waste all your fine talent for nothing."

Yu Xiaogang stuck out his neck, refusing to back down in the slightest.

"Just because you haven't heard of it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. You're ignorant and narrow-minded, so you won't allow anyone else to have seen more of the world?"

"Yu Xiaogang, you're like a frog at the bottom of a well. When you see how vast heaven and earth are, you blame the heavens for being so high and the earth for being so wide."

"Xiao San, let's go! We won't waste our breath arguing with him."

With that, Li Yan took Tang San away, heading straight for Li Gang's office.

In the office, Li Gang looked at the two youngsters and understood.

"Have you two been arguing with the Grandmaster again?"

"That fraud calls himself a Grandmaster? He's nothing but a jumping clown."

"Dad, when can you get everything arranged? Xiao San's First Soul Ring will definitely be a god-tier skill among divine skills."

Li Gang shook his head. "At least three days. I need to contact a Soul Hunting team I know, and your Uncle Wang too."

"We'll set off in three days, then."

"And son, you need to hurry up with your cultivation too. Try to break through to level ten soon. It's getting late now, so go to class."

Li Yan and Tang San left and went to class.

There weren't many students in each year at Nuoding Soul Master Academy, so there was more than enough room for everyone in one class.

Li Yan and Tang San entered the classroom, and the latter was immediately drawn to a little girl with a pink braid.

Because of Li Yan, Tang San and Xiao Wu hadn't fought in the dormitory, and the two had yet to meet.

After a lesson that Li Yan found extremely boring, Tang San tugged at his hand.

"Brother Yan, look at her. Is her name Xiao Wu?"

Sure enough, the plot's corrective force was tremendous. Li Yan had known there was no getting around this.

"Yeah. Don't tell me... you've taken a fancy to her?"

"How could that be? We're so young. I just thought she had a lot of personality."

Li Yan smiled without answering, and the two followed Xiao Wu toward the cafeteria.

Not far away, Yu Xiaogang was moving against the flow of people, looking around in the crowd.

After Tang San had explicitly rejected him, Yu Xiaogang had looked through the new students' Martial Soul certificates to find someone else to slap Tang San in the face: a newcomer with Innate Full Soul Power and the Soft Boned Charming Rabbit Martial Soul.

She could serve as his experimental subject too.

"You're Xiao Wu, aren't you?"

Yu Xiaogang blocked Xiao Wu's path, rubbing his hands like a fly.

"Uncle, who are you? Don't you know you're in the way?"

Xiao Wu wasn't nearly as polite as Tang San. Her little face scrunched up, and she was about to offer Yu Xiaogang's parents some choice greetings.

"Now, don't be impatient. You have Innate Full Soul Power, don't you?"

"What's that got to do with you?"

"As the saying goes, only a genius who grows up is a true genius. You may be talented, but you're still inexperienced. How will you amount to anything without a famous teacher to guide you?"

Frowning, Xiao Wu kept trying to put some distance between herself and Yu Xiaogang, but he stuck close to her like a stubborn plaster.

Watching the commotion from behind, Tang San felt very uncomfortable.

"Xiao Wu, let me introduce myself. I'm Yu Xiaogang, a theoretical Grandmaster personally acknowledged by Spirit Hall. With my guidance, you'll surely become one of the Douluo Continent's strongest experts."

"Well? Are you interested in becoming my disciple?"

Xiao Wu clenched her little pink fists and spoke word by word.

"You're saying you're from Spirit Hall?"

"You could say that."

"I'm not interested."

Xiao Wu had taken human form to overthrow Spirit Hall and avenge her mother.

Now someone from Spirit Hall wanted to take her as a disciple. It was no different from sitting on her head and taking a shit.

"Hey... you... you! You'll regret this someday!"

Yu Xiaogang had intended to keep shamelessly pestering Xiao Wu, but when he saw Li Yan and Tang San watching the commotion behind them and constantly talking trash about him, he put on his Grandmaster airs again.

Three days passed quickly. With Li Yan covering for them during those three days, Tang San and Xiao Wu had grown closer.

Their main topic of conversation was: "Yu Xiaogang came looking for me again today. Did he come looking for you?"

Of course, the episode from the original story in which Xiao Wu hadn't brought a quilt still happened. Only that night did Tang San marvel that it was no wonder such a large quilt had been prepared for him.

Just how far ahead had Brother Yan's eyes seen?

Early on the fourth morning, Tang San got up and joined Li Yan for morning training.

As for Xiao Wu, she was very lazy and was probably catching up on sleep.

After training, Tang San went home with Li Yan as naturally as could be. Over the past few days, he had come to think of the place as his home.

"Xiao San, we'll leave after breakfast. Does Xiao Wu really not need my help getting a Soul Ring?"

"That child is very talented too, and the choice of a First Soul Ring is especially important."

Tang San shook his head.

"Uncle Li, I've tried to persuade her several times, but she always says she'll have a relative help her."

"Then we won't insist. We already have a lead on your Senluo Tree Kui, so we can go straight after it once we enter the Star Dou Great Forest."

"As for my fourth Soul Ring, I need a flood dragon type a little over 3,500 years old. It may take quite some time to find one."

Li Yan had also chosen Li Gang's fourth Soul Ring: a flood dragon type, 3,500 years old. There weren't many other requirements.

Li Gang's First Soul Ring was only ten years old, so his foundation wasn't particularly good.

Although the age limit for a fourth Soul Ring was 5,000 years, that was for geniuses with abundant Qi and blood. His father was getting on in years, his foundation was poor, and he was absorbing a dragon type, the most overbearing kind of Soul Ring.

3,500 years was already his limit.

"You two must be careful. I'll wait for you at the academy."

"Remember, don't forget to collect Whale Rubber for me on the way. Get as much as you can."

Li Yan also wanted to see just how different the Tang San he had raised this time would be from the one in the original story.

With the continuous use of hundred-year-old Whale Rubber, his cultivation was already close to breaking through to level eight.

Li Yan estimated it would take a week at most. That was even faster than a genius with Innate Full Soul Power.

After breakfast, Li Gang left Suotuo City with Tang San. They would meet up with Uncle Wang and the Soul Hunting team on the way to the Star Dou Great Forest.

Li Yan continued his monotonous training, while his two Sanpao grew livelier and more spirited.

In the blink of an eye, a full month passed. Li Yan's cultivation successfully reached level eight and a half, but the Whale Rubber stock at home had run out.

"Going by the time, Dad and Xiao San should be back soon. With Tang Hao protecting them from the shadows, nothing should go wrong."

As Li Yan was thinking, the courtyard gate outside opened.

Mom had just gone out to buy groceries, and she always took quite a while, so it obviously wasn't her returning.

"Son, Xiao San and I are back! Did you miss us?"

Li Yan came out of the house.

"Brother Yan, my first Soul Skill... is very good!"

Tang San said eagerly.

"Really? Why don't you use it and show me?"

Tang San nodded, and a Yellow Soul Ring flashed beneath his feet.

"First Soul Skill, Myriad Senluo!"