Volume One

Volume 1, Chapter 35: Three Years Later

"Hehe, little thing, I'll use you to supplement my meal today."

"Hiss!"

In an apartment at Nuoding Academy, Nuoding City, Heaven Dou Empire.

The Striped Snake opened its mouth wide, revealing two sharp fangs, and bit down fiercely on the boy's arm.

Given Su Xing's strength and talent, Nuoding Academy was prepared to recommend him for admission to an advanced Soul Master Academy, and many aristocratic academies had also extended olive branches to him.

The Bala Kingdom in the south bordered the Star Luo Empire directly; therefore, among the four kingdoms of the Heaven Dou Empire, the Bala Kingdom possessed the most powerful military force and could be considered the gateway of the Heaven Dou Empire.

This was Su Xing, who had just graduated from Nuoding Academy.

Su Xing patted the Striped Snake on the head and said with annoyance.

Outside Suotuo City.

But what Tang San found strange was that this book had no title.

Did those people at Shrek not know what a ten Gold Soul Coin registration fee meant to a commoner family?

But just at this moment, a sound of wind breaking rang out...

But Su Xing had politely declined them all, as he had his own plans.

Since the requirements for recruiting students were so high, why not post them? Feeling someone's bones and then saying they weren't good enough, and not even refunding the registration fee—was this fraud or blatant robbery?

As these words left his mouth, Grandmaster's pupils suddenly shrank. He tilted his head with difficulty to look at his right arm, only to find that apart from white bandages, it was completely empty.

Su Xing licked his lips and snorted.

The Striped Snake was already within reach.

"Teacher, you're awake?" Tang San approached Grandmaster in surprise. He had never expected that after being in a high fever and unconscious for several days, Grandmaster would actually survive and wake up.

"The taste is alright, it's a pity the meat isn't as good as a Soft Bone Rabbit."

A youth set up a tent, sat by a campfire, and was happily roasting a Soft Bone Rabbit he had just caught.

Immediately after, Su Xing chopped off the Striped Snake's head, skinned it, and finally swallowed it raw.

The next second, the Striped Snake was grabbed by a boy; it hadn't even realized what was happening.

The Striped Snake's two sharp fangs seemed to bite into a stone, shattering instantly.

Three years later.

But the next second.

"Swish!"

A mother bird, with a few worms in its beak, was feeding its chicks.

Isn't this pure nonsense?

During this period, the one-armed Yu Xiaogang had also sought out Su Xing several times, constantly praising Shrek Academy, claiming that Shrek had abundant teaching resources and was a gathering place for monsters among monsters. He claimed it possessed multiple Soul Saints and several Soul Emperors as teachers, and that Shrek's most outstanding student had already become the youngest elder of Martial Soul Hall.

Nuoding Academy, on a large tree.

After the mother bird sensed something, it seemed it was already too late.

Grandmaster took the book from Tang San's hand with one hand and said, "This book records all my research on soul power, martial souls, and soul beasts. It contains a great deal of knowledge: which circulation routes cultivate the fastest, which martial souls are most suitable for cultivation in what environments, and where certain soul beasts appear. I'm afraid I won't be able to teach you personally for a while, so take this book back and study it carefully."

Just then.

"Boom~"

Shrek Academy had been operating for less than twenty years. Currently, the youngest Title Douluo on the continent, Tang Hao, was forty-five, and Flender was only about fifty. Even if he had started the academy at thirty, the first batch of students would only have been there for twenty-something years.

Suddenly, a Striped Snake darted out from the bushes, opened its bloody maw, and bit toward the mother bird.

Seeing the old mother about to die in the jaws of the Striped Snake, the birds in the nest chirped incessantly, as if warning the mother bird.

A few days later.

"..."

Striped Snake.

Grandmaster felt as if his body had no strength left; even lifting his hand was a struggle. No, he no longer had a right hand; it would certainly be a struggle.

"Yes." Tang San agreed respectfully.

The Bala Kingdom was located at the border between the south of the Heaven Dou Empire and the Fasnuo Province. Although called a kingdom, its area was only three-quarters the size of Fasnuo Province. It was subordinate to the Heaven Dou Empire and was one of the four kingdoms within the Heaven Dou Empire.

"Yo, you're quite stubborn, actually refusing to give in."

The boy laughed, not taking the Striped Snake's attack seriously at all...

"I... what happened to me?"

Within the Bala Kingdom, there were two extremely important cities: one named Bala City, and the other, known as the granary of Bala, called Suotuo City.

"Cheep cheep!"

"Little San, what happened to me? Why do I feel like I can't use any strength in my right hand?" Grandmaster looked at Tang San beside him in a daze and asked.

Grandmaster nodded silently and said, "I really didn't expect to survive this time. It doesn't matter that my body hasn't recovered, but your cultivation cannot be interrupted. Little San, bring me the third book on the fourth row of the left bookshelf."

Therefore, Su Xing planned to go over and stir up some trouble for Shrek first, then see if he could lure a few people away. After all, even though Shrek was disgusting, the little cat was still quite sweet.

Although the Striped Snake's body was pinched, its head was still swaying around. Suddenly, it made a strange turn and bit fiercely toward the boy's arm.

Sunlight filtered through the gaps in the leaves, falling on the boy's smiling face, making his fair skin look rosy and incredibly handsome.

"Click!"

"Teacher, you rest for a while, I'll go out and make some meat soup, and I'll bring it to you in a moment."

Tang San carefully tucked the book Grandmaster gave him into the Twenty-Four Moonlit Bridges.

"I am someone who has consumed the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and possess an indestructible body. If you had ten thousand years of cultivation, you might be able to hurt me, but with your current state, you wouldn't even last three seconds in my stomach!"

"Okay, Teacher."

Tang San followed Grandmaster's instructions and brought him the book from the shelf.

In the bird's nest, a few chicks were chirping.

"My... my right arm!" Grandmaster suddenly realized, recalling everything that had happened before. The next second, his face turned even paler, and his expression became even uglier.

This was a very handsome youth, looking about twelve or thirteen years old. He was dressed in a gorgeous outfit and wore a blue-gold bracer on his wrist, which was very eye-catching.

His long golden hair drifted slowly in the heat of the campfire.

Moreover, Shrek Academy's attitude toward commoners was also extremely poor.

To become an elder of Martial Soul Hall, one must at least reach the level of a Title Douluo. Who was this Title Douluo under forty? Why had no one heard of him?

Hearing this, Tang San scratched his head and said with a half-smile, "Teacher, you... you have already lost your right hand, so naturally, you cannot use any strength."

"Teacher, you should rest for a while. I'll go make you some meat soup. You've been unconscious for too long and suffered such a serious injury, you must nourish yourself well." Tang San said softly.

The main reason was that Su Xing had loved drinking milk since he was a child!!!