You Want to Take Me as a Disciple? Are You Worthy?

Girls' Dormitory Area.

Yu Xiaogang and the Dean of Notting Academy were stopped outside.

"Sorry, Dean, but academy rules forbid males from entering." The female dorm supervisor looked troubled, but her attitude remained firm.

Even the Dean could not break the rules.

Sweat beaded on the Dean's plump face. He turned to Yu Xiaogang, looking awkward.

Yu Xiaogang's cheek twitched. He took a deep breath, suppressing the irritation in his heart, then called toward the dormitory building in as steady a voice as he could manage:

"Student Lin Xi inside, I am Yu Xiaogang. I have some questions regarding martial souls that I would like to ask your advice on."

He deliberately lowered his stance, using the words "ask your advice."

For a man hailed as the "Master" to "ask advice" from a six-year-old child was, in itself, an absurdly unbelievable thing.

The passing students around them heard this and stopped in their tracks, gathering at a distance to watch, their faces filled with shock.

A window on the third floor of the dormitory was pushed open.

Lin Xi's cool figure appeared at the window. She looked down at the somewhat bedraggled middle-aged man below.

Behind her, Xiao Wu and Tang San also poked their heads out.

"So he's the Master? He looks pretty ordinary." Xiao Wu spoke softly.

Tang San said nothing. His gaze shifted between Yu Xiaogang and Lin Xi. He could sense the scholar's stubborn obsession in Yu Xiaogang, as well as the detached indifference of one looking down upon all living beings in Lin Xi.

The clash between those two temperaments was inherently dramatic.

"Is something the matter?" Lin Xi asked, her voice cool and clear, without the slightest ripple.

Yu Xiaogang raised his head and looked at the girl who seemed carved from ice and snow. His heart began pounding faster against his will. He forced himself to calm down and asked in a low voice:

"Is your Soul Ring a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring?"

This was the question that concerned him most.

"Yes." Lin Xi's answer was crisp and direct.

Even after receiving confirmation, Yu Xiaogang's body still swayed.

It was real.

The rumor was actually true!

He felt as though his worldview was collapsing inch by inch.

"Why... why were you able to possess a Soul Ring immediately after awakening your martial soul? And a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring at that?" he nearly roared, his voice trembling with a trace of despair. "This violates every law in the Soul Master world!"

"A law?" The corner of Lin Xi's lips curled into the faintest arc, tinged with mockery. "Whose law? Yours?"

That single sentence was like the sharpest blade, plunging straight into Yu Xiaogang's heart.

His face instantly turned deathly pale.

That was right—laws. He had spent his entire life researching them, believing he had grasped the truths of the martial soul world. Yet now, a living example stood before him, mercilessly telling him that his so-called "laws" might be worthless.

"I..." Yu Xiaogang opened his mouth, only to find that he could not say a thing.

All his pride, all his theories, seemed so pale and powerless before that glaring "Hundred Thousand Year."

Seeing that the atmosphere had turned sour, the Dean hurriedly tried to smooth things over. "Master, Student Lin Xi, whatever you have to say, let's sit down and discuss it properly. Student Lin Xi, come down first. We can talk in the office, all right?"

Lin Xi ignored the Dean. Her gaze remained fixed on Yu Xiaogang.

"You want to know why?" she asked.

Yu Xiaogang abruptly raised his head. Hope blazed anew in his eyes, like a drowning man clutching at his last straw. He nodded forcefully. "I do! Please tell me!"

"I can." Lin Xi spoke calmly. "But why should I tell you?"

Yu Xiaogang froze.

That was right. Why should she?

What could he offer this child? Money? Status? She seemed to lack neither, nor did she care about either.

The only thing he could offer was his set of martial soul theories, which were already on the verge of collapse.

With that thought, Yu Xiaogang straightened his back.

He still had his last shred of dignity.

He took a deep breath and said in an incomparably solemn tone, "I can take you as my disciple! I will impart everything I have learned in my life without reservation! Although your circumstances are special, my theories can still guide your future path of cultivation and help you avoid many detours!"

In his view, this was the most sincere condition he could offer.

To become the sole personal disciple of Yu Xiaogang—what an honor countless people dreamed of!

The moment those words were spoken, the surrounding students burst into an uproar.

"Oh my god! The Master wants to take her as his disciple!"

"That's practically reaching the heavens in a single step!"

"She'll agree, right? She definitely will!"

Even Tang San felt that the offer was extremely generous. After all, Master's theoretical knowledge was acknowledged across the entire continent.

Xiao Wu's eyes widened as well. Tugging at Lin Xi's sleeve, she said, "Lin Xi, he wants to take you as his disciple!"

Yet no one had expected this.

After hearing Yu Xiaogang's words, Lin Xi fell silent for a moment. Then, she suddenly gave a soft laugh.

The laugh was quiet, yet like a feather, it stirred the hearts of everyone present.

Immediately afterward, cold and arrogantly extreme words left her lips, ringing clearly throughout the dormitory area.

"You want to take me as your disciple?"

Her voice paused. Those eyes that seemed to look down upon all living beings gazed at Yu Xiaogang below with a trace of pity.

"Are you worthy?"

BOOM!!!

Those three words were even more shocking than a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring!

Like a divine thunderbolt from the nine heavens, they crashed viciously onto everyone's heads!

The entire place fell deathly silent.

Everyone was petrified.

The Dean's mouth hung wide open, his eyes nearly popping out.

Tang San's pupils suddenly contracted, his heart pounding wildly.

Xiao Wu covered her mouth with her little hands, her face filled with disbelief.

As for Yu Xiaogang himself, he seemed to have been struck by a immobilization spell, frozen in place without moving.

The color instantly drained from his face, leaving it whiter than paper.

"Are... you... worthy..."

Those three words looped endlessly through his mind, growing louder and louder like a blunt blade cruelly carving apart the last, most fragile remnants of his pride.

The knowledge he took pride in, the theories he depended upon to survive, his identity as "Master"... in this moment, all of it was trampled beneath the feet of this six-year-old girl and ground to dust.

PFFT!!

A mouthful of blood burst from Yu Xiaogang's mouth, drawing a miserable arc through the air.

His body swayed violently several times before his eyes rolled back, and he fell stiffly backward.

Lin Xi had actually angered him into vomiting blood and fainting with a single sentence!

"Master!"

"Quick! Save him!"

The scene immediately descended into chaos.

Lin Xi coldly watched the pandemonium below before slowly closing the window.

As though everything that had just happened had nothing to do with her.

Only after returning to the room did Xiao Wu come back to her senses. She stammered, "Lin... Lin Xi... h-how could you say that... He even vomited blood..."

"He came looking for me himself." Lin Xi's tone remained calm. "Besides, I was stating the truth."

Let someone whose theoretical foundation contained fatal flaws guide her?

What a joke.

Tang San looked deeply at Lin Xi. Rather than criticizing her, he asked, "You think there's something wrong with his theories?"

"It's not that there's something wrong." Lin Xi shook her head, walked to the table, and poured herself a cup of water. "They were wrong from the very foundation."

Tang San's mind shook violently.

Wrong from the very foundation?

What a weighty judgment!

He could not help asking, "Where are they wrong?"

Lin Xi took a sip of water, looked at him, then at the bewildered Xiao Wu, and suddenly said, "Want to know? Fine. At tomorrow's public class, I'll tell you—and everyone at Nuoding Academy—just how absurdly wrong he is."

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The system notification sounded in her mind.

A faint, imperceptible gleam flashed through Lin Xi's eyes.

What she wanted had never been some petty private squabble.

What she wanted was a grand, public... execution!

Before everyone's eyes, she would shatter Yu Xiaogang's idol called "authority" with one punch!