Fooling Tang San

Douluo Dalu, southwest of the Heaven Dou Empire, Notting City.

To the west of Notting City, at a small stall not far from Notting Junior Soul Master Academy, Li Ang—a silver-haired man with a kind and benevolent appearance—was enthusiastically fooling a young man and woman standing before his stall.

"Wow, incredible, truly incredible! Young man, I could tell at a glance that you're a once-in-a-million Soul Master prodigy. If you ever open up your Ren and Du meridians, won't you soar into the heavens like a dragon? As they say, if I don't go to hell, who will..." Though Li Ang looked old, when it came to salesmanship, he had one pitch after another.

As he babbled on to the blue-clad youth, he pulled a yellowed "martial arts manual" from his stall and said, "Young man, this self-created Soul Skill, the Sunflower Manual, suits you perfectly. I can see we're fated, so I'll sell it to you for one Copper Soul Coin. What do you say?"

Tang San: ???

Tang San was utterly bewildered. Earlier, he and Xiao Wu had been passing by when the old man running this stall suddenly called out to them and immediately began promoting the "self-created Soul Skills" on his stand.

Of course, Tang San did not take the old man's sales pitch seriously. How could someone possibly sell a self-created Soul Skill for one Copper Soul Coin?

After all, he had spent several days at Notting Junior Soul Master Academy and knew exactly how precious Soul Skills were to Soul Masters.

Under normal circumstances, Soul Masters could only obtain Soul Skills by hunting Soul Beasts and acquiring new Soul Rings.

Other than that, there were some exceptionally gifted Soul Masters who could rely on their own intelligence and talent to create self-created Soul Skills.

However, the overwhelming majority of Soul Masters in Douluo Dalu treasured the self-created Soul Skills they had developed and would never teach them to other Soul Masters.

Still, although he found it rather unreliable, Tang San accepted the Sunflower Manual Li Ang handed over and glanced through it.

At first, Tang San looked completely indifferent, but his expression soon began to turn solemn.

Because he discovered that this so-called self-created Soul Skill, the Sunflower Manual, seemed... perhaps... maybe... genuinely extraordinary!

If he had been a native of the Douluo World, he might not necessarily have recognized the brilliance of the Sunflower Manual. After all, the cultivation system native to the Douluo World was remarkably crude.

It was nothing more than cultivating Soul Power, attaching a Soul Ring upon reaching a bottleneck, breaking through to a new realm, then repeating the process. There was simply no concept of cultivation techniques.

But Tang San was different. As a transmigrator, he knew quality when he saw it. In his previous life, he had lived in a martial arts world, and even now, he cultivated an internal cultivation technique from the Tang Sect: the Mysterious Heaven Skill.

To be honest, the Mysterious Heaven Skill might not even compare to the Sunflower Manual. The Tang Sect was a sect that specialized in hidden weapons and poisons; one could not expect such a sect to possess an especially advanced internal cultivation technique.

But the Sunflower Manual was something else entirely. It could basically be considered one of the most supreme techniques in the martial arts world. Aside from requiring its practitioners to give up a few insignificant little things, it had no flaws whatsoever.

Even the Eastern Heretic said it was good after practicing it!

Moreover, the Sunflower Manual Li Ang had prepared for Tang San had been modified. Of course, the alterations were few—Li Ang had merely deleted the original opening line: "To practice divine arts, wield the blade and castrate yourself."

There was no helping it. If he had not removed that line, Tang San definitely would not have been willing to cultivate it. After all, he was still young and did not yet understand that one had to give something up to gain something.

Thinking about it, Li Ang felt that he truly was such a kind-hearted person!

Naturally, Tang San did not know what Li Ang was thinking, nor did he know about the trick hidden within the Sunflower Manual. Otherwise, he would definitely have smashed the manual right into Li Ang's face without another word.

Although part of the not-safe-for-children content had been removed from the Sunflower Manual, in Tang San's eyes, it was still an exceptionally profound technique, even superior to the Mysterious Heaven Skill he cultivated.

And most importantly, it was cheap—only one Copper Soul Coin! Opportunities like this to pick up a bargain were hard to come by!

With that in mind, Tang San was about to open his mouth and buy the Sunflower Manual.

Li Ang, kind-looking, refined, and easygoing, smiled again. "How about this? We're having a grand opening sale. If you buy this Sunflower Manual, I'll also give you a self-created Soul Skill that goes with it: the Evil-warding Divine Sword. Once mastered, it repels all evil—extremely useful!"

"Not 998, not 98, not even 9.8! For just one Copper Soul Coin, take two self-created Soul Skills home!"

"Why wait when you can act now? For one Copper Soul Coin, you won't lose out, you won't be scammed, and you can't buy any— You poor... pfft, I mean, what are you still hesitating for? Hurry up and buy it!"

Tang San: ...

Alright, Tang San felt that what he had encountered today seemed rather bizarre. Yet after flipping through the two manuals Li Ang had handed him, he could not find anything wrong with them. They both seemed genuine.

"Xiao San, is there something wrong with these two manuals?" Seeing Tang San's apparent hesitation, Xiao Wu could not help asking.

"There's no problem, really. The things recorded inside seem genuine, but..."

Before Tang San could finish, Xiao Wu waved her hand decisively. "Then that settles it. If they're genuine, buy them! It's not like they're expensive anyway!"

"The young lady makes a lot of sense. Young man, what do you think?" Li Ang asked with a smile.

A moment later, Tang San ultimately paid for the two manuals, which appeared to have no issues. As a transmigrator from a martial arts world, high-end manuals such as the Sunflower Manual and the Evil-warding Divine Sword were simply too tempting.

Watching Tang San and Xiao Wu put away the manuals and leave together, the smile on Li Ang's face grew even broader.

Because at that moment, a voice sounded in his mind.

"Plot alteration progress: 0.1%. Congratulations, Host, you have obtained 100 points."

This looks promising! Li Ang thought leisurely, deciding that he needed to keep up the good work and continue stirring things up.

Li Ang, ninety-nine years old, male, interested in women, a native of Douluo Dalu—obviously, he was a transmigrator.

After transmigrating to Douluo Dalu, Li Ang had originally planned to follow the plot, find opportunities to fish in troubled waters, and eventually reach the peak of life.

But after going out and asking around, he discovered a problem: he had transmigrated too early.

Forget Tang San—even Tang San's father, Tang Hao, had not been born yet.

In the current Douluo World, the most renowned legendary figures were Tang Chen of the Clear Sky Sect, Qian Daoliu of Spirit Hall, and Bo Saixi of Seagod Island.

There was nothing much to say about Tang Chen and Qian Daoliu. Ever since their debut, the two had been locked in a love-hate rivalry, and their combined gossip could circle Douluo Dalu once.