Like Father, Like Son

Yu Xiaogang explained to the stall owner that he still had classes in the afternoon and asked him to deliver the items to Notting City Junior Soul Master Academy, where the gatekeeper would help direct him. As for that gatekeeper who had once been so arrogantly ignorant of his place, he had originally been about to be fired. It was only because Yu Xiaogang had magnanimously spared him that he kept his job. Now, the gatekeeper treated Yu Xiaogang with great respect.

Whenever the gatekeeper spotted Yu Xiaogang from afar, he would greet him warmly and even open the academy gates in advance to welcome him. It made Yu Xiaogang rather uncomfortable. But what could he do? His personal charm was simply too great.

After paying the full deposit and giving a few final instructions, Yu Xiaogang planned to visit the Blacksmith Shop run by Wang Dachui's family to collect the materials and tools he had commissioned for making Soul Tools. After winding through the streets, he arrived at the largest Blacksmith Shop in Notting City.

Yu Xiaogang immediately felt a wave of heat rush toward him. The clanging of hammers on metal could be heard from far away. Amid the deafening racket, Yu Xiaogang could only raise his voice with soul power. "Excuse me, is the owner here? I'm the homeroom teacher of the Elite Class at Notting City Junior Soul Master Academy. I previously had Wang Dachui commission some items here, and I've come to collect them."

At that moment, a broad-shouldered, burly man who should have been the owner heard someone calling for him. He looked up and saw a refined, scholarly academy teacher standing at the entrance to his Blacksmith Shop.

Once the Blacksmith Shop owner heard that this was his foolish eldest son's homeroom teacher, he immediately put down the Great Iron Hammer in his hand and passed it to an apprentice nearby. He removed his leather apron, wiped his hands on his clothes, and walked toward Yu Xiaogang.

"Hello! I heard about you from Wang Dachui. My foolish son recently joined a sect and took a teacher. That's you, right? A pleasure, a pleasure! The materials and tools Teacher Yu had my foolish son order have already been made. I'll have someone bring them over now! Please, sit down and have some tea first!"

Then Wang Dachui's father turned around and shouted toward the back in his booming voice.

"Wang Fugui! Where the hell did you die off to?! Hurry up and get the things that were packed up earlier from the warehouse! Stop dawdling! Or I'll beat you!"

After shouting, Wang Dachui's father turned back with a grin that looked exactly like his son's and said to Yu Xiaogang, "Hehe! Don't stand on ceremony, Teacher Yu. It's too noisy out here, so let's go to my office. We can wait for my nephew to bring the things over! That was my nephew just now. He's apprenticing here! My name's Wang Chui. Just call me Old Wang!"

After saying that, Wang Chui led Yu Xiaogang to the resting area behind the Blacksmith Shop and into his office. Seeing the cold weapons covering the walls, Yu Xiaogang could not help admiring Wang Chui's craftsmanship. The weapons gleamed with chilling light. Yu Xiaogang said, "Old Wang, your Blacksmith Shop's work is excellent! I'll have anything else I need made here in the future."

Old Wang grinned at Yu Xiaogang.

"Of course! My Blacksmith Shop has the best craftsmanship around Notting City! I won't charge Teacher Yu for the things you ordered this time. Consider it my apprenticeship gift for that disappointing foolish son of mine! Teacher Yu, if that foolish boy can't learn your skills, just beat him hard. Beat him enough, and he'll learn! That's how I learned blacksmithing!"

"As long as Teacher Yu needs something made, I'll give you a twenty percent discount! You don't even need to come here yourself. Just tell my Wang Dachui, and that'll do!"

Old Wang patted his chest boldly as he spoke. Yu Xiaogang was covered in black lines. So Wang Dachui had become such a simple-minded brute because his father had beaten him since childhood? Old Wang's family education truly was distinctive. Spare the rod, spoil the child!

Yu Xiaogang briefly chatted with Wang Dachui's foolish father about the Elite Class. Once Old Wang learned that the sect Yu Xiaogang had established needed a batch of throwing knives, he patted his chest and promised that he would forge them with the finest materials and have Wang Dachui deliver them.

Not long after, Old Wang's nephew entered the office carrying a large wooden box. "Second Uncle! I'll put the box here."

"Fugui, put it down! Then get your ass back to learning blacksmithing! Your father told me that if you can't learn it within half a year, you'll be taught the same way as your cousin Wang Dachui!"

Wang Chui spoke sinisterly to his nephew in that broken-gong voice of his. Wang Fugui shuddered all over, immediately set down the wooden box, and bolted through the door. As he ran, he shouted, "Don't worry, Second Uncle! I guarantee I'll learn blacksmithing within half a year!"

Yu Xiaogang was utterly speechless. Sure enough, birds of a feather flocked together.

Wang Chui grinned at Yu Xiaogang, walked over, lifted the wooden box from the floor with one hand, and handed it to him. "Don't mind it, Teacher Yu! My nephew's slow in the head, learns things slowly, and is always slacking off. If my elder brother hadn't entrusted him to me, I wouldn't bother teaching him! Here, Teacher Yu, open it and see if you're satisfied with what I personally forged."

Yu Xiaogang accepted the wooden box and opened it. Inside were items exactly identical to the drawings he had previously given Wang Dachui. They had been treated afterward, and the blade edges gave off a dark gleam. The other items were all made from high-quality materials.

Yu Xiaogang greatly approved of Wang Chui's craftsmanship and casually stored everything in his Storage Soul Tool. He then chatted with Wang Chui about Wang Dachui's outstanding performance in the Elite Class and praised Wang Dachui as well.

Before long, Yu Xiaogang left the Blacksmith Shop amid Wang Chui's enthusiastic send-off. After walking some distance, Yu Xiaogang looked back at the Blacksmith Shop around the corner and sighed inwardly.

"Wang Dachui, your teacher can only help you this much! Your dad really is something else!"

Yu Xiaogang could not help shaking his head and sighing. Like father, like son. Then, carrying Snowball in his arms, he returned to the dormitory and began transplanting Blue Silver Grass into the room for Yun Lan to assimilate.

Yu Xiaogang intended to test whether the three ornamental Plant Soul Beasts he had just bought at the market could replicate the possibility of a 3D projection. He felt that setting up a holographic projection like Iron Man's on Douluo Continent would be cool as hell, whether it was useful or not.

Yu Xiaogang greatly coveted the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Tang San's greatest opportunity in the original story. However, with Yu Xiaogang's current soul power cultivation, that was nothing more than wishful thinking.

Yet the Golden Sunflower and Silver Moon Light he had seen at the market today had suddenly given him an idea. After all, the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was the product of ice and fire colliding, canceling each other out, and merging.

Yu Xiaogang wondered whether Yun Lan's abundant Life Soul Power could support the Golden Sunflower and Silver Moon Light, allowing those two soul beasts to break through their bloodline limits. Then, by using their conflicting attributes, he could artificially create a Light Dark Yin Yang Two Elements Eye. Even if it failed, he could later use Tang San to collect data from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and then simulate an artificial Light Dark Yin Yang Two Elements Eye.

Just as Yu Xiaogang was planning to find a natural spring in the Sect Residence and conduct an experiment first—success would be ideal, while failure could serve as early-stage research data on the laws of heaven and earth—he told his two capable assistants, Deep Blue and Yun Lan, about this inspiration and had them conduct a joint Deduction. Yun Lan would provide Life Soul Power, while Deep Blue controlled the soul power with precise operations. Yu Xiaogang had a feeling that this natural treasure land could be replicated.

Yu Xiaogang busily used Mental Power to transplant large amounts of Blue Silver Grass that Yun Lan had assimilated into the dormitory. Yun Lan then began controlling the Blue Silver Grass to absorb the energy drifting between heaven and earth and channel it into the bedroom of Yu Xiaogang, its creator.

Yu Xiaogang immediately felt the Heaven and Earth Energy around him grow much richer. It seemed Yun Lan could also be used like a spirit-gathering formation from cultivation worlds.

Revising is so painful. When this newbie author goes back to read what he wrote, it feels like a pile of crap, and now he has to carve flowers into that crap. I've already revised up to Chapter 12, and this newbie author will keep revising every day. Also, please toss in some monthly votes and bookmarks, and vote with your free Recommendation Tickets! (▽^*)⌒☆