Tang San Looks for Dad

Master lowered his head to look at Tang San and Mo Bai, forcing a faint smile onto his face. "Let's go in!"

After saying that, Master reached out to take Tang San and Mo Bai's hands.

Tang San let Master take his hand, but Mo Bai feigned carelessness and stepped aside to avoid him.

Master was slightly taken aback, but he did not pay it any mind, not thinking that Mo Bai had done it deliberately.

"Teacher, thank you!" Tang San thanked Master at that moment.

Because Master had taught the gatekeeper a lesson for him.

"Teacher? I'm not a teacher of this academy." Master glanced at Tang San and spoke indifferently.

"Not a teacher? Didn't you just say you represented the academy?"

Master smiled faintly. "Who says only an academy teacher can represent the academy?"

Tang San suddenly understood. "I see. Then you must be the academy's Principal, or some kind of administrator, right?"

"You definitely aren't the Principal, or the gatekeeper wouldn't have called you that just now!"

Hearing Tang San's words, Mo Bai could not help but interject with a jab from the side.

His disdain made him unable to resist mocking him.

Master looked at Tang San, then at Mo Bai, and laughed. "You two six-year-olds are quite clever."

Master said, "I'm merely a resident here, freeloading on food and lodging. Like everyone else, you may call me Master. Everyone calls me that. I've even forgotten my own name. You must understand that Master and teacher are worlds apart in meaning. Don't mix them up in the future. Unless..."

At that point, he stopped speaking, but a burning light flickered in his eyes. "Unless you truly wish for me to be your teacher."

"Will you teach me how to cultivate my Martial Soul?" Tang San asked.

"Yes!"

Mo Bai answered directly. Master was indeed extremely knowledgeable, and that was precisely what Mo Bai currently lacked. If he could learn from Master, that would be ideal.

Master first gave Mo Bai an approving look, then stopped walking and stood facing Tang San. "Then are you willing?"

Tang San naturally stopped as well. He raised his head to look at Master before him. Now that he was observing him from up close and from below, he did not speak. He neither agreed nor refused.

Master looked into Tang San's blankly staring eyes, and that stiff smile appeared again. "Good. As expected, you're a clever child."

His silence carried two meanings. First, he was not in a hurry to refuse, so as not to offend Master. Second, he was asking Master through his actions: why should I take you as my teacher?

Fuck, so that made me stupid?

Hearing Master's words, Mo Bai nearly exploded. Not agreeing right away was what made someone clever?

Fine, he really had agreed too quickly. But that was because he knew he could learn useful knowledge from this man, wasn't it?

Mo Bai grumbled inwardly, but for the sake of knowledge, he endured!

Master turned his back and continued walking, but his voice carried on. "It seems I must be persistent for once as well. After all, you are the third and fourth Twin Martial Souls to appear in the past hundred years."

He was absolutely showing off now!

Mo Bai looked at Master's back and mocked him inwardly again. The air of trying to appear unfathomably profound was far too strong!

Tang San was greatly shocked by Master's words. His gaze at Master immediately changed, and he turned to look at Mo Bai, his eyes filled with uncertainty and suspicion.

Master turned around and looked calmly at Mo Bai and Tang San, smiling. "Are you wondering how I knew you possessed Twin Martial Souls?" As he spoke, he shook the two certificates in his hand. "It was because of these two certificates. Others might not see the flaw in them, but if even I could not, then I would not deserve the title of Master."

"I once investigated six hundred and forty-seven people whose Martial Souls were Blue Silver Grass. Of them, sixteen possessed Soul Power, a probability of less than three percent. And among those sixteen who possessed Soul Power, not one had Soul Power exceeding Rank One. Yet you possess Rank Ten Innate Full Soul Power. According to one of the Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul that I have researched, Innate Soul Power is directly proportional to the quality of the Martial Soul. Blue Silver Grass clearly does not meet that condition. Therefore, I can be certain that you have another Martial Soul, and it is an extremely powerful one."

Tang San's expression gradually calmed, and he argued, "There are exceptions to everything. Why can't I be an exception?"

"Exactly!" Mo Bai also dropped the doubtful expression he had been pretending to wear and echoed him.

Still, while he agreed aloud, Mo Bai was viciously mocking Tang San in his heart.

So you know there are exceptions to everything? Just wait and see how he talks circles around you until you forget that your Innate Full Soul Power came from converted internal force!

Master nodded seriously. "That's right, there are exceptions to everything. But your Martial Souls are Blue Silver Grass, so you clearly are not those exceptions. Over the past hundred years, only two Twin Martial Souls have appeared in the Heaven Dou Empire and Star Luo Empire, but nineteen people have been born with Innate Full Soul Power. I carefully studied every one of their Martial Souls, and every one was powerful. Even the youngest among them had already reached the level of Soul Grandmaster. Aside from the fourteen who inherited powerful Martial Souls through their family bloodlines, there were five exceptions."

"They were not born into noble families, yet they possessed Innate Full Soul Power. Such exceptions were the result of Mutated Martial Souls. Their origins were likewise their parents' Martial Souls, except the Martial Souls of the father and mother possessed a certain degree of mutability, causing the inheritor's Martial Soul to mutate and produce a new Martial Soul. A Mutated Martial Soul could mutate into something powerful, even granting Innate Full Soul Power. But the vast majority of Mutated Martial Souls only became weaker. Mutated Martial Souls are like the product of incestuous marriage: the chance of an idiot is high, but there is also a possibility of producing a sage far surpassing ordinary people."

Tang San nodded. Then, suddenly, he took a step back, widening the distance between himself and Master. Immediately afterward, he dropped to both knees and respectfully kowtowed three times to Master.

Here it came, here it came—the scene where Tang San found himself a dad!

Seeing Tang San's actions, Mo Bai shifted a little farther away and mocked him wildly in his heart.

This time, it was Master's turn to be stunned. "What are you doing?"

"Teacher," Tang San called respectfully, "please accept me as your disciple."