Mo Bai, a Tang Sect Disciple

Mo Bai, male, a Tang Sect disciple.

A professional assassin, he had operated overseas year-round.

There was no helping it. There was too much surveillance in his own country, making it hard to work as an assassin.

Whenever he wanted to rest, Mo Bai would return home.

As for safety, there was basically no need to worry about danger!

Mo Bai was not the kind of cold-blooded assassin seen in movies. He became an assassin only because the money came quickly, and because he did not want his Hidden Weapon Technique to go to waste.

During this break back home, Mo Bai heard that Tang San, the protagonist of an anime that had gone viral across the internet in the country, Douluo Continent, was also a Tang Sect disciple who had transmigrated there.

Out of curiosity, Mo Bai found it online and began watching.

At the very beginning of the anime, the male lead Tang San appeared.

Watching his footwork, his eyes, and his Mysterious Jade Hand, Mo Bai muttered to himself.

"Purple Demon Eyes, now that's impressive. Too bad my Tang Sect doesn't have that!"

"Same with Ghost Shadow Perplexing Steps, though we do have something similar called Flower Butterfly Steps!"

"Mysterious Jade Hand looks a lot like my Jade Hand, and their functions are similar. But my Jade Hand is poisonous, so mine seems stronger!"

"As for Hidden Weapon Technique, I can't really tell anything from it!"

"But that's only natural. The people making the anime don't understand it themselves!"

"Still, the moves do look pretty cool!"

While complaining, Mo Bai was gradually drawn in by the unfolding plot.

Perhaps because he too was from the Tang Sect, Mo Bai found it easy to immerse himself in the story.

But when Tang San chose to jump off the cliff, Mo Bai found it hard to accept. That was far too blindly loyal!

Still, it was barely tolerable. He kept watching!

"Buddha's Fury Tang Lotus, supposedly number one on the Hidden Weapon rankings? No matter how powerful it is, it's still a mechanical Hidden Weapon!"

"And no matter how strong a mechanical Hidden Weapon is, it can't compare to a handgun. In my Tang Sect, mechanical Hidden Weapons were phased out long ago!"

"And the Tang Sect's internal cultivation methods—the strongest and hardest one to master isn't Mysterious Heaven Skill at all. It should be the Startling Feather Art that I cultivate!"

When he saw the flower-like Buddha's Fury Tang Lotus, Mo Bai complained again.

Mo Bai himself was a Tang Sect disciple, so whenever he saw something that differed from what he knew, he naturally judged it to be fake and fictional.

"So he reincarnated into another world just like that..."

"As expected, my Startling Feather Art is the real deal. It has twelve levels in total, while Tang San's Mysterious Heaven Skill only has nine!"

Mo Bai kept complaining as he continued watching.

Mo Bai skipped over everything that happened in Holy Spirit Village. There was nothing worth watching and nothing worth complaining about.

He could tell that Tang San's father was far from ordinary.

It was not until the Martial Soul awakening that Mo Bai's eyes lit up again.

"This Martial Soul looks cool! It even comes with visual effects!"

"What Martial Soul will Tang San have?"

"Blue Silver Grass?"

"Not a bad Martial Soul!"

"In the supreme realm of martial arts, 'even flowers and leaves can wound, while grass, wood, bamboo, and stone can all become swords'—the flowers and leaves refer to Hidden Weapons!"

"Blue Silver Grass as a Martial Soul is practically tailor-made for Tang San!"

"In battle, Tang San can have as many Hidden Weapons as he wants!"

When Tang San awakened Blue Silver Grass as his Martial Soul, and it was even labeled a useless Martial Soul—

Mo Bai could already foresee it.

The later development of this anime would surely involve Tang San using the Blue Silver Grass everyone considered useless, along with the Hidden Weapon Technique from his previous life, to wield it with divine mastery and crush geniuses from all sides. A classic underdog rise to the peak of life!

But when Tang San arrived at Nuoding Academy and actually wanted to take Master as his teacher just because Master's guess had been correct, Mo Bai was speechless.

"Didn't your Innate Full Soul Power come from cultivating Mysterious Heaven Skill yourself? What does it have to do with Twin Martial Souls?"

"And you got fooled just like that?"

"Besides, the man already said you didn't need to kneel, yet you insisted on saying nonsense like, 'A teacher for a day, a father for life.' My god, are you that eager to find yourself a dad?"

"What ignorant, backward thinking. That kind of rhetoric and mindset was discarded by our Tang Sect long ago!"

"Teachers can be respected, and good teachers deserve even more respect, but you can't just acknowledge them as your father!"

"And if you run into a bad teacher, respect my ass!"

As the plot unfolded, Mo Bai found even more to complain about.

Still, since that Master really did seem knowledgeable, Mo Bai endured it. Being able to quickly learn about another world through Master was important!

Everyone knew that knowledge changed one's fate.

"A Control System?"

"No way? That can't be right?"

"Master doesn't know Tang San's situation or that he knows Hidden Weapon Technique, so it's not wrong for him to suggest that Tang San follow the Control System!"

"But Tang San, why the hell would you agree? You're even thinking that your Hidden Weapons will only be used against stationary targets from now on?"

"My god, as a Tang Sect disciple, are you seriously afraid of moving targets?"

"If you can control an enemy, you should have already dealt with them using Hidden Weapons!"

As he continued watching, Mo Bai found himself unable to keep going.

He had thought the protagonist Tang San would use Hidden Weapons alongside his Martial Soul to rise from being an underdog and crush everything in his path!

Fine, taking Blue Silver Grass down the Control System route could count as combining Hidden Weapons with a Martial Soul, but it was completely different from what he had imagined!

Tang San's behavior in particular seemed incredibly foolish to him.

Especially that scene of acknowledging a teacher. He even performed an ancient apprenticeship ceremony and sincerely treated the other man as his teacher. He clearly had an adult soul, yet he kept trying to find himself a dad!

It might have looked sincere, but Mo Bai only found it ignorant.

You had only just met him. Did you even know that Master?

"Forget it, I'm done watching. Blue Silver Grass actually went down the Control System route. What a waste of the Tang Sect disciple setup!"

The more he watched, the more boring it became, so Mo Bai simply dropped the anime.

If he were not a Tang Sect disciple, perhaps he could have continued watching.

But as a fellow Tang Sect disciple, he really could not stand it.

Snap—

He shut off the computer. He was done watching.

Wasn't sleeping much better?

"Mm..."

The next day, Mo Bai had only just awakened when his entire body jolted alert.

Something was wrong. He felt wrong all over.

"Where did my internal energy go? And what's with this weakness throughout my body?"

Amid his panic, Mo Bai opened his eyes.

What he saw left him utterly stunned.

"Where is this?"

The scene before him was nowhere near his luxurious presidential suite!

It was clearly a shabby mud-brick house.

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