Volume One

Three years later. "Hehe, little thing, I'll use you to add something extra to my meal today." "Hiss!" In an apartment at Nuoding Academy in Nuoding City, Heaven Dou Empire, the Striped Snake opened its jaws wide, exposing two sharp venomous fangs as it viciously bit down on the boy's arm. Given Su Xing's strength and talent, Nuoding Academy had planned to recommend him directly to an advanced Soul Master Academy, and many noble academies had extended invitations to him as well. The Balak Kingdom bordered the Star Luo Empire directly to the south, so among the Heaven Dou Empire's four great kingdoms, the Balak Kingdom possessed the strongest military force and could be considered the empire's gateway. This was Su Xing, who had just graduated from Nuoding Academy. Su Xing smacked the Striped Snake on the head and said irritably. Outside Suotuo City. What puzzled Tang San was that this book had no title. Did those people at Shrek not know what an enrollment fee of ten Gold Soul Coins meant to a commoner family? Just then, the sound of something cutting through the air rang out... Yet Su Xing politely declined them all; he had plans of his own. If the requirements for admitting students were so high, why not post them publicly? Feeling someone's bones and declaring them unqualified, while refusing to refund the enrollment fee—was that fraud or outright robbery? The moment those words left his mouth, the Grandmaster's pupils suddenly contracted. He reluctantly tilted his head and looked at his right arm, only to find nothing there except white bandages. Su Xing licked his lips and snorted. The Striped Snake was already right in front of him. "Teacher, you're awake?" Tang San moved closer to the Grandmaster in surprise. He had never expected that after being unconscious with a high fever for several days, the Grandmaster would wake up without dying. "The taste is decent, but the meat isn't as good as Soft Bone Rabbit." A youth had pitched a tent and sat beside a bonfire, happily roasting the Soft Bone Rabbit he had just caught. Next, Su Xing chopped off the Striped Snake's head, skinned it, and swallowed it whole. In the next second, the Striped Snake was caught by a boy before it could even react. The Striped Snake's two sharp venomous fangs seemed to have bitten into a rock and shattered instantly. Three years later. But the next second. Whoosh! A mother bird carried several insects in her beak as she fed her chicks. Wasn't this complete nonsense? During this time, the one-armed Yu Xiaogang had sought out Su Xing several times, endlessly praising Shrek Academy. He claimed Shrek had abundant teaching resources, was a gathering place for monsters among monsters, had several Soul Sages and several Soul Emperors as teachers, and that Shrek's most outstanding student had already become Spirit Hall's youngest elder. On a large tree at Nuoding Academy. By the time the mother bird sensed something, it seemed to be too late. The Grandmaster took the book from Tang San with one hand and said, "This book contains all my research on Soul Power, martial souls, and soul beasts. It contains a great deal of knowledge: what cultivation routes are fastest, what environments suit different martial souls best for cultivation, and what soul beasts appear in which places. I'm afraid I won't be able to personally teach you for some time, so take this book back and study it carefully." Just then. Bang~ Shrek Academy had only been operating for twenty years. The youngest Titled Douluo on the continent was Tang Hao, who was only forty-five, while Flender was only around fifty. Even if he had started the academy at thirty and enrolled his first batch of students then, it had only been a little over twenty years by now. Suddenly, a Striped Snake shot out from the bushes, opened its bloody maw, and lunged at the mother bird. Seeing their mother about to die in the Striped Snake's jaws, the chicks in the nest chirped incessantly, as though warning her. Several days later. "..." Striped Snake. The Grandmaster felt as though he could not summon even a trace of strength from his body. Even lifting a hand was extremely difficult. No, he no longer had a right hand. Of course it would be difficult. "Yes." Tang San answered respectfully. The Balak Kingdom lay at the southern border of the Heaven Dou Empire, adjoining Fasinuo Province. Though called a kingdom, its territory was only three-quarters the size of Fasinuo Province. It belonged to the Heaven Dou Empire and was one of the empire's four great kingdoms. "Oh, you're quite stubborn. You actually refuse to accept this." The boy laughed playfully, not taking the Striped Snake's attack seriously at all... "I... what happened to me?" Within the Balak Kingdom were two extremely important cities. One was Bala City, while the other was Suotuo City, known as the granary of Balak. "Chirp chirp!" "Little San, what happened to me? Why do I feel like I can't use any strength in my right hand?" The Grandmaster looked groggily at Tang San beside him and asked. The Grandmaster silently nodded and said, "I never expected to escape death 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 in the fourth row of the shelf on the left." Therefore, Su Xing planned to go to Shrek first and cause some trouble, then see whether he could lure a few people away. Shrek might be disgusting, but the little kitty was still quite tempting. Although the Striped Snake's body was being held, its head continued swaying about. Suddenly, it twisted its head at an unnatural angle and viciously bit toward the boy's arm. Sunlight filtered through the gaps between the leaves and fell upon the boy's smiling face, making his fair cheeks glow rosy-white and highlighting his extraordinary handsomeness. Crack! "Teacher, rest for a while. I'll go make some meat soup and bring it to you later." Tang San carefully stored the book the Grandmaster had given him in Twenty-Four Moonlit Bridges. "I've consumed the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, so my body is indestructible. If you had ten thousand years of cultivation, you might have been able to hurt me. But in your current state, once you're in my stomach, you won't even survive three seconds!" "All right, Teacher." Following the Grandmaster's instructions, Tang San took the book from the shelf and handed it to him. Several chicks chirped noisily in the nest. "My... my right arm!" The Grandmaster suddenly understood, recalling everything that had happened before. In the next moment, his face turned even paler and his expression even uglier. This was a remarkably handsome youth, around twelve or thirteen years old. He wore a luxurious fitted outfit and a striking blue-gold wristguard around his wrist. His golden hair drifted slowly in the heat waves from the bonfire. Moreover, Shrek Academy's attitude toward commoners was exceptionally vile. To become an elder of Spirit Hall, one had to at least reach the realm of a Titled Douluo. Who was this Titled Douluo under forty? Why had no one heard of him? Hearing this, Tang San scratched his head and said with an awkward smile, "Teacher, you... you've already lost your right hand. Naturally, you can't use any strength in it." "Teacher, rest for a while. I'll go make you some meat soup. You were unconscious for too long and suffered such serious injuries, so you need to nourish yourself properly." Tang San said softly. The main reason was that Su Xing had loved drinking milk ever since he was little!!!