The Mysterious Black-Robed Man—Then I'm Going to Throw Up!

The next day, early morning.

As the rising sun cast its fiery red light from the sky, it spilled into Spirit City, into a quiet courtyard.

At that moment, Gu Han was in the courtyard, practicing the Sun Radiance Sword Art.

As Gu Han wielded the Sun Radiance Sword, streaks of golden sword light flashed continuously through the air.

From time to time, sheets of golden Sword Qi shot forth, either instantly reducing a large tree to splinters scattered across the sky or leveling a broad stretch of lawn.

As the year-end approached ever closer, in another two and a half months, it would be time for the one-year battle Gu Han had agreed upon with Xiong Ba.

Gu Han had directly asked his homeroom teacher, Chris, for leave and cultivated at home, preparing for the battle two and a half months later.

But just as Gu Han was fully focused on practicing the first form of the Sun Radiance Sword Art—Sun Rises in the East—a tall black shadow suddenly appeared atop the courtyard wall.

"Hmph! So you're the brat?"

The shadow snorted and muttered.

The next instant, the figure flashed and appeared directly behind Gu Han.

Before Gu Han could react at all, his collar was seized, and his entire body was dragged into the air.

The wind howled past his ears, while everything before his eyes raced backward in a blur.

In just a moment, Gu Han discovered that he had already been taken more than ten thousand meters into the air, his collar held by a Black-Robed Man who was carrying him along at high speed.

The speed was so great that the air rushing toward him had become a screaming gale, making it difficult for Gu Han even to keep his eyes open.

But that was not important.

More importantly, the visual disorientation from constantly changing altitude gave Gu Han a powerful bout of motion sickness—no, airsickness. He felt like he was about to throw up.

Yet even as his stomach churned violently, Gu Han's mind raced.

What was with this Black-Robed Man who had suddenly seized him for no reason?

He was in Spirit City. There was absolutely no way an outsider Soul Master could have come in and abducted him. This had to be a Soul Master from Spirit City.

But who could it be?

Because of his 0.25-rank Innate Soul Power and his becoming Bibi Dong's disciple, Gu Han knew he was rather hated in Spirit City.

But surely no one would go so far as to come and abduct him!

Was this person not afraid of his teacher, Bibi Dong?

"Senior, whoever you are, I think you'd better put me down quickly. Otherwise, I don't think you'll want to see the consequences."

Forcing down the turmoil in his stomach, Gu Han spoke in a muffled voice.

"You brat, you've got some nerve, huh? But I'm not putting you down. What are you going to do about it?"

Qian Daoliu could not help but laugh in irritation. Even after being caught, Gu Han showed no fear and even dared to "threaten" him.

"Senior, you said it. Then I'm going to throw up!"

Gu Han did not hesitate and simply told him the truth.

Then he made as though he were about to vomit.

"Wait!"

Qian Daoliu had not expected that Gu Han's reason for telling him to put him down quickly was this. His expression beneath the black hood instantly changed.

You little bastard, you're going to throw up?

Throw up if you want, but don't you dare throw up on me!

That was something Qian Daoliu, who was somewhat of a clean freak, absolutely could not accept.

If Gu Han vomited on him, he would go mad!

"Brat, hold it in a little longer. I'll take you down right now."

So he was going to throw up—no wonder he had been so bold. With a dark expression, Qian Daoliu gripped Gu Han by the collar and flew downward, landing in a forest outside Spirit City.

The moment they landed, Gu Han could no longer hold it in. Bracing one hand against a tree, he began vomiting violently.

Though he was already a Soul Master and had cultivated the Sacred Dragon Body Forging Method, being grabbed and flown at full speed by a Titled Douluo still felt unbelievably awful.

Right now, he simply could not take it anymore.

Watching Gu Han vomit wildly beneath the tree, Qian Daoliu could not help but feel a bit pleased.

He had deliberately put Gu Han through this.

Though he now felt Gu Han might be different from that useless Yu Xiaogang, it did not stop Qian Daoliu from being displeased with this wild boar that had rooted around his family's precious cabbage.

"Senior, may I ask why you went to such lengths to seize this junior and bring me out of Spirit City?"

After finishing, Gu Han's face was somewhat pale. He took out a piece of white silk from the Void Clarity Ring, wiped the corner of his mouth, then looked at Qian Daoliu and asked.

"Why? Aren't you afraid that I'm here to kill you?"

Qian Daoliu had not expected Gu Han to remain unafraid and unpanicked after realizing he had been taken away by a strange Titled Douluo. Instead, he calmly questioned him. Qian Daoliu did view Gu Han somewhat differently now, but he still refused to reveal anything and merely said indifferently.

"I don't think that's possible. After all, I live in Spirit City. No outsider Soul Master could abduct someone from Spirit City. You must be a senior from Spirit Hall, right? You're just joking with me, aren't you?"

Gu Han smiled faintly as he analyzed the situation and gave his answer.

From the fact that the black-robed man before him could fly through the air, Gu Han could tell that he was definitely a Titled Douluo of Spirit Hall.

What remained to be determined was exactly which Titled Douluo he was.

"You brat, you're quite confident in our Spirit Hall!"

Qian Daoliu did not admit it outright, but his faint smile indirectly confirmed that Gu Han's guess was correct.

"Brat, the rumors in Spirit City say you're trash with only 0.25 levels of Innate Soul Power. But I've also heard people say that you're a monstrous genius."

"Let me test you properly and see what kind of person you really are!"

As he spoke, a glint flashed through Qian Daoliu's eyes. He suddenly reached out with both hands, using Azure Dragon Probes Its Claws to make a grasping motion at Gu Han.

However, as a Titled Douluo, Qian Daoliu naturally could not truly bully the young.

Thus, he used only strength roughly at the level of a Soul Grandmaster in this grab.

Gu Han was a Soul Master, after all.

If he really was the monstrous genius his granddaughter Qian Renxue had described, he should have been able to evade the attack.

When he noticed Qian Daoliu's sudden assault, Gu Han immediately unleashed the movement technique he had derived, Cloud Dragon Nine Illusions. His figure flickered, shifting several meters away in an instant and dodging Qian Daoliu's grab.

"Hm?"

Qian Daoliu cried out in surprise.

He realized that Gu Han's movement just now had definitely not been an ordinary dodge. It should have been a Self-Created Soul Skill as well.

And judging by its effect, it was quite impressive!

"Brat, you've piqued my interest a little."

Qian Daoliu smiled faintly, then continued pressing forward, launching attack after attack at Gu Han.

At first, Qian Daoliu only used the strength of a Soul Grandmaster, which did not put much pressure on Gu Han.

Although Gu Han had yet to master either the Sun Radiance Sword Art or Cloud Dragon Nine Illusions.

At present, he could only bring out effects equivalent to the enhancement of a hundred-year offensive Soul Skill and a hundred-year agility-type Soul Skill.

But that was enough to let Gu Han face the attacks of a Soul Grandmaster without falling behind.

Unfortunately, after this old schemer Qian Daoliu discovered that Soul Grandmaster-level strength could not handle Gu Han, he quickly raised his power to the level of a Soul Elder.

This immediately left Gu Han struggling to cope, scrambling in disarray.

Before long, Qian Daoliu had inflicted quite a few injuries on Gu Han. He looked thoroughly bedraggled, with many tears in his clothes and his face covered in bruises and cuts.

Whether it was the evolution of Martial Soul: Sacred Dragon or the cultivation methods and martial arts derived by the Heavenly Transformation System, both had greatly increased Gu Han's potential.

But the Sacred Dragon had not yet completed its evolution, and Gu Han had not cultivated the methods derived by the Heavenly Transformation System—the body-tempering technique, the Meditation Method, Cloud Dragon Nine Illusions, and the Sun Radiance Sword Art—to any profound level.

At this point, Gu Han could indeed only exchange a few moves with a Soul Grandmaster at most.

Against a Soul Elder, however, he was clearly outmatched.