The Provocation That Was Late but Never Absent—Knowing When to Bend and When to Stand Tall

Spirit City Junior Soul Master Academy.

After successfully registering Gu Han, Hu Liena also had to head to Spirit City Intermediate Soul Master Academy to register.

After seeing Gu Han to the door of Class A(1), Year One, Hu Liena prepared to part ways with him.

"Xiao Han, this is Class A(1), Year One. Go in and get familiar with the environment and your classmates first. I'll be leaving now, but I'll come find you at noon!"

In front of the first floor of a teaching building.

A bright smile adorned Hu Liena's enchanting, stunning face. She reached out with her delicate hand and first rubbed Gu Han's head.

Then she gave Gu Han a fierce kiss before finally waving in satisfaction and turning to leave.

Wiping the spot on his face where Hu Liena had kissed him, Gu Han's handsome little face remained calm and composed.

He had long grown used to his senior sister Hu Liena expressing her affection this way.

This was only a kiss on the cheek. Senior Sister Hu Liena often held him in her arms and ravaged him wildly too!

Unfortunately, he was still a child. He truly had not even grown a single hair yet!

Otherwise, he would definitely let this senior sister know what it meant to play with fire!

After watching Senior Sister Hu Liena disappear from sight.

Gu Han turned and walked toward Class A(1), Year One, behind him.

Arriving at Class A(1), Year One.

Gu Han stood at the door.

He saw a spacious classroom, neatly and brightly furnished, with over thirty desks and chairs arranged in tidy rows.

At the moment, only a dozen or so students sat in the entire Class A(1), Year One. There were still very few people.

"Hey! Brother, were you assigned to Class A(1) too?"

"My name is Wang Hao. My martial soul is the Radiant Sacred Tiger, my Innate Soul Power is rank seven, and I'm from the Balak Kingdom. What's your name? What's your martial soul, and where are you from?"

The moment Gu Han entered the classroom, a little boy dressed in white, with golden hair and a heroic appearance, came over. He was remarkably familiar and asked curiously.

Gu Han: "..."

Big brother, we're not that close yet, are we?

Are you checking my household registration?

Ignoring Wang Hao, Gu Han speechlessly found an empty seat and sat down.

But unexpectedly, the little boy named Wang Hao still would not leave him alone. He insisted on sitting beside Gu Han and said enviously.

"Brother, I can understand if you don't want to tell me your name. After all, we're not familiar yet. But if you were assigned to Class A(1), your talent must be outstanding too."

"But our talents are about the same, while our looks are worlds apart. If only I were as handsome as you! Then the girls in White Tiger Town would probably be chasing after me. Can we be friends?"

"My sister likes your type the most. If I introduce you to her, she definitely won't bully me anymore."

Hearing Wang Hao's words, Gu Han could not help twitching at the corner of his mouth, feeling as though his brain was about to shrivel up.

Brother, we haven't even become friends, and you're already thinking of selling me off.

At least tell me what your sister looks like!

If she's a pretty tiger girl, I can reluctantly save you from your miserable fate.

But if she's a tiger tank, then please pray for yourself!

Just then, inside the classroom.

At two adjacent seats not far away.

A little boy dressed in luxurious golden robes, with short golden hair and a delicate, feminine-looking face, and another little boy dressed in black, with short black hair, a cold, stern face, and a gloomy aura, both looked toward Gu Han with scrutiny and curiosity in their eyes.

It was as though they knew Gu Han.

Suddenly, accompanied by a series of footsteps.

A tall, burly little boy wearing black clothes patterned with a blood-red bear head, with broad shoulders, a muscular build, short blood-red hair, and a fierce aura, entered the classroom with a chubby green-haired boy and a red-haired little boy.

When he saw these three boys, Gu Han could not help frowning.

He had seen these three boys in the office when he registered earlier.

They seemed to have had a rather poor attitude toward him.

After entering the classroom.

The tall, burly little boy with short blood-red hair and a fierce aura quickly spotted Gu Han. With a cold laugh, he walked over.

"Gu Han! Now that there are finally no teachers around, I've held this in for a long time!"

"Not bad! Relying on deceiving His Holiness the Pope and getting benefits from His Holiness the Pope, you actually broke through from rank 0.25 soul power to become a Soul Scholar in just three months!"

"Your progress is certainly extraordinary, but it's only because His Holiness the Pope showed you mercy. If it were us, we could definitely do even better than you!"

"But do you think you can keep deceiving His Holiness the Pope forever? We won't let you succeed. Today, I'm going to expose your true colors!"

After saying that, the tall, burly blood-haired boy sneered and reached out to grab Gu Han by the collar.

He intended to yank Gu Han up and teach him a proper lesson.

He wanted to prove with his strength that trash would always be trash, even if he got lucky, deceived His Holiness the Pope, and used His Holiness the Pope to become a Soul Scholar!

Although he was not yet a Soul Scholar, as the owner of the Blood Demon Berserk Bear martial soul, his physical constitution was extremely strong.

Even if Gu Han was a Soul Scholar, he had heard that Gu Han's martial soul could not undergo Martial Soul Possession.

With Gu Han's skinny, stick-like body.

He could knock Gu Han down with one punch!

Gu Han had not expected this tall, burly blood-haired little boy to attack without another word. Every word out of his mouth made it sound as though Gu Han had deceived Bibi Dong and he was here to expose him.

Gu Han was utterly speechless.

But since someone had already bullied him to his face, he was not someone who feared trouble.

Though he knew when to bend and when to stand tall, he was already a Soul Scholar and had cultivated the Sacred Dragon Body Forging Technique.

His physical constitution might not compare to that of a Soul Scholar with a top-tier Beast Martial Soul, but it was absolutely not something a Soul Scholar could look down on!

Do you think I'm Yu Xiaogang?

Facing the hand reaching out from the burly, blood-haired little boy, Gu Han grabbed it directly and said coldly.

"I know you're jealous because Teacher accepted me as his disciple, but since you don't have that kind of luck yourselves, please look for the reasons within yourselves. Don't go around getting handsy at every turn, alright?"

"Handsy? I'm fucking going to beat you up!"

But the tall, burly little boy with blood-red hair did not listen to Gu Han at all. With an angry roar, he threw a punch at Gu Han with his other hand.

But Gu Han had already anticipated this.

After blocking it with his left hand, Gu Han clenched his right fist and drove it into the blood-haired boy's face with a backhand punch, instantly leaving his face a bloody mess.

His entire body flew backward and slammed hard into the wall at the front of the classroom.

"Boss Xiong Chuan!"

Seeing this, the chubby green-haired boy and the red-haired little boy who had come with the tall, blood-haired Xiong Chuan cried out anxiously.

After punching Xiong Chuan away, Gu Han knew this was not over. He stood up and stepped out from his seat.

"Kid, you've made me angry!"

Although Gu Han's punch had left his face a bloody mess and his nose bleeding profusely, Xiong Chuan had not lost his ability to fight. Instead, he fell into a frenzy, his eyes turning red as he roared and got to his feet. After wiping away some blood from his nose, he charged at Gu Han again with his fists raised.

But unfortunately, Xiong Chuan, who was not yet a Soul Scholar and could not undergo Martial Soul Possession, was no match for Gu Han, who was already a Soul Scholar and had cultivated the Sacred Dragon Body Forging Method.

Gu Han gave him a thorough beating.

Inside the classroom, the other students had all seen that Xiong Chuan was the one who started the trouble.

Therefore, in the end, none of them stepped in to stop it.

"Gu Han, you dare hit me!"

"You're a Soul Scholar, so I can't beat you. But my brother is also at Spirit City Junior Soul Master Academy. He's a fifth-year student, and he's already a Soul Scholar too. Just you wait!"

After receiving a thorough beating from Gu Han, Xiong Chuan stood there with a bruised and swollen face, staggering as his two lackeys supported him. He roared at Gu Han in fury and unwillingness.

After shaking off his two lackeys' support, he turned and prepared to go find his older brother, Xiong Ba.

This made Gu Han frown.

Just as expected, beat the little one and the big one comes running!

But there was nothing he could do about it.

Because of his talent of Innate rank 0.25 soul power, yet being accepted as Bibi Dong's disciple, too many people in all of Spirit City were jealous of and dissatisfied with him.

Xiong Chuan was the first, but he definitely would not be the last.

All he could do was deal with whatever came his way.

If he could win, he would fight. If he could not, he would keep his head down.

With Teacher Bibi Dong and Senior Sister Hu Liena around, he refused to believe that people stronger than him would still dare to forcibly attack him.

After all, the key was knowing when to bend and when to stand tall!