Backing Them Up, Please Keep Reading

Backing Them Up, Please Keep Reading

"Eh? You're Tang San from Holy Soul Village?" Su Yuntao walked over with a smile.

He remembered this child with Innate Full Soul Power quite clearly.

"Yes." Tang San gave a slight bow. He still held some goodwill toward the Battle Soul Master who had awakened his Martial Soul.

"Changqing, you two know each other? Oh, right. You're both work-study students at Notting Academy this year, so it's only natural that you'd know each other."

As he spoke, Su Yuntao looked at Yu Xiaogang lying off to the side. Frowning slightly, he went over to examine him before asking, "He's very weak. Were you attacked?"

"Yes. It was a Mandala Snake over four hundred years old. Teacher was poisoned by its venom. I learned some detoxification methods from my father before, and I've already removed the poison from Teacher's body, but he lost too much blood and is still very weak," Tang San said.

The corner of Xu Changqing's mouth twitched. Tang Hao knew how to detoxify poison?

Fine, keep pretending.

"Since we've run into you, we can't just leave you alone. Let's head back together. We can look after you on the way too, in case you run into danger. Soul Hunting Forest isn't safe." As Su Yuntao spoke, he lifted the unconscious Yu Xiaogang onto his back.

"Thank you, Master Su Yuntao," Tang San said gratefully.

With that, their group of three expanded to five.

On a thick branch hidden among dense leaves, a broad, powerfully built figure dressed in ragged clothes watched the five leave together in silence.

Seventh Dorm, Notting Academy.

Xu Changqing emerged in a dark-blue academy uniform. After officially becoming a Soul Master, he had grown noticeably sturdier, and the outfit Su Yuntao had bought for him no longer fit. Fortunately, the academy uniform was fairly loose and fit him just right.

"It's noon. There shouldn't be classes right now, so why isn't there anyone in the dorm?" Tang San, who had also changed into an academy uniform, asked in confusion.

"No idea." Xu Changqing shrugged. "I'm going to the cafeteria for lunch. Want to come, Xiaosan?"

Tang San thought of his empty wallet and answered gloomily, "No. Teacher told me to register at the Martial Soul Branch Hall. I'm planning to officially register as a Soul Master first."

"Alright, then I'll be off."

After saying goodbye, Xu Changqing prepared to leave.

By coincidence, two older students were walking down the dormitory corridor ahead, chatting as they approached.

"Those work-study students are really overestimating themselves. They actually dared to challenge Boss Xiao from the sixth year. Tsk, tsk, they'll probably be bedridden for days."

"Exactly. I heard Wang Sheng and the others made some little girl who just enrolled their boss, even calling her Sister Xiao Wu. It's hilarious. What can a first-year little girl possibly do? There are probably people lying all over the academy's back hill by now."

The two students spoke without restraint, their tones filled with mockery. When they reached Seventh Dorm, they spotted Xu Changqing and Tang San standing at its entrance and looking at them.

These two students standing outside Seventh Dorm were clearly the work-study students they had just been discussing, making the teasing in their eyes even more obvious.

I almost forgot about this part of the plot.

Xu Changqing suddenly understood. No wonder there was no one in Seventh Dorm. Xiao Wu had taken them out for a fight.

Should I go help? Fine, I'll make a trip over there.

They were, after all, his companions who slept in the same room. He should go back them up. Otherwise, that would be far too heartless.

"I'm heading over there." Xu Changqing looked at Tang San and spoke before leaping five or six meters into the air. While he was still airborne, a yellow Century Soul Ring quietly spread beneath him. A Golden Divine Dragon roared out from within the ring, letting out a resounding dragon's cry as it caught the falling Xu Changqing.

He swept his right hand, and the Golden Dragon flicked its tail, soaring rapidly toward the academy's back hill.

He looked as dashing as could be.

Tang San watched the man and dragon disappear into the distance, his eyes full of envy. As for the two students whose eyes had been filled with mockery moments ago, their mouths now hung wide open as they stood frozen in place.

"Clowns." Tang San merely sneered at the two before turning and leaving.

Since Xu Changqing had already gone to the back hill, Tang San felt that the matter was more or less settled. How could some little academy kids possibly stand against a Golden Divine Dragon more than ten meters long? Even Tang San himself was not confident he could face it.

In that case, it would be better to hurry to the Martial Soul Branch Hall, register as a Soul Master, and collect the Soul Master subsidy.

Meanwhile.

Riding the Golden Dragon, Xu Changqing drew countless astonished gazes along the way. He flew straight out through the academy's rear gate. There was a low hill ahead, and he could already vaguely make out many figures on it.

The moment he arrived nearby, he saw Wang Sheng get smashed across the face with a club by an older student whose Martial Soul was a cudgel. Wang Sheng was sent flying, then lay on the ground groaning for a long while, unable to get back up.

Tsk. Don't hit someone in the face. That looked painful just watching it. Xu Changqing stared at the bruise swelling on Wang Sheng's face, secretly amazed by how tough Soul Masters on Douluo Continent were. Their faces were unbelievably durable.

If that savage blow had landed on an ordinary person from his previous life, their face would probably have been smashed to pieces. Yet Wang Sheng seemed to have suffered only a superficial injury. Were Soul Masters' bodies really this resilient?

Looking at it that way, his own physique was definitely far stronger than Wang Sheng's. This was the difference brought by Soul Rings. The higher a Soul Ring's age, the greater the enhancement to one's body and Soul Power.

Comparing the two, his body was even tougher than Wang Sheng's!

Could it be that if that club hit me in the face, it wouldn't even break through my defenses?

In an instant, Xu Changqing tossed that thought out of his mind. He had no masochistic tendencies, and there was absolutely no way he would try something like that!

The fight below had already stopped. Everyone halted what they were doing and stared blankly at Xu Changqing sitting on the Golden Dragon's neck, looking at him as though he were some kind of monster.

Everyone except Xiao Wu.

Carefree as ever, she happily waved from below and called out, "Xu Changqing, you're back! Is that your Soul Skill? Hurry down and let Sister Xiao Wu get a good look! I want to fly around in the sky too!"

As a transformed Soul Beast, she was extremely sensitive to the aura of Soul Beasts. Naturally, she could tell that this Golden Dragon did not possess even the slightest Soul Beast aura.

That left only one possibility: it was a Soul Skill!

Xu Changqing had long grown used to Xiao Wu's brash personality. With a turn of his right hand, he controlled the Golden Dragon as it circled down to the ground. He glanced at the older students ahead and asked, "Are you having a scheduled fight?"

At that, Xiao Wu puffed up her cheeks and pointed angrily at the leader among the older students. "That brat called Boss Xiao said he wanted me to be his pet rabbit. I'm furious! Today, I'm definitely going to beat him until he's crawling around looking for his teeth! Your Soul Skill looks really powerful, so you have to help me!"

"Of course I can help you." Xu Changqing changed the subject and smiled. "But don't bring up making me call you Sister Xiao Wu again."

"No way!" Xiao Wu immediately shook her head like a rattle drum.

"Suit yourself." Xu Changqing shrugged. "Either way, I'm not calling you Sister Xiao Wu."

"Xu Changqing! Now that you have your First Soul Skill, you think your wings have hardened and you dare not call me Sister Xiao Wu anymore, is that it?" Xiao Wu demanded angrily, hands on her hips.

"Seems like I never called you that before, did I?" Xu Changqing chuckled. In the past, he had been too afraid of getting beaten up to refuse outright, so he had always muddled through it. But now, he was no longer afraid. At worst, they could have a match. With his First Soul Skill, he might not necessarily lose.

Today, a man's dignity must be defended!

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