Ghost Charm's Investigation Findings

Just as Zhao Xiaotian was still lost in wild thoughts, Liu Ruyan plucked a candied hawthorn from her skewer and stuffed it into his mouth. The interruption instantly scattered his thoughts of his previous life.

He had been somewhat angry, but when he saw Liu Ruyan and Liu Ruxue holding back their laughter, his anger faded. After swallowing the hawthorn in his mouth, Zhao Xiaotian bit into another one from the skewer in his hand.

Liu Ruxue leaned close to Zhao Xiaotian and said, "Xiaotian, what is your martial soul? Judging by your age, your Soul Power Level should be somewhere in the teens, right?"

Watching from behind, Liu Baibin smiled. He did not step forward to reveal Zhao Xiaotian's Soul Power Level. He wanted Zhao Xiaotian to tell the two girls himself—give them a blow, but also ignite their fighting spirit.

Zhao Xiaotian smiled faintly. "My martial soul is the Tai Chi Yin Yang Fish. The Soul Douluo who awakened my martial soul named it for me."

Liu Ruxue's large eyes spun as she said, "Why don't you show it to us?"

Liu Ruyan also fixed her gaze on Zhao Xiaotian. She was equally curious about the martial soul of the Liu Family's only nephew.

Seeing that both of his older cousins wanted to see it, Zhao Xiaotian said, "All right. Cousins, please close your mouths and step back a few paces."

Liu Ruyan and Liu Ruxue did as he said, retreating several steps and covering their mouths with their hands.

Zhao Xiaotian closed his eyes, drew a deep breath, and said, "Taiji! Appear!"

In an instant, a flickering Taiji diagram appeared behind Zhao Xiaotian and slowly began to rotate. Just as Liu Ruyan and Liu Ruxue expected two yellow and one purple soul rings to appear, a shocking sight unfolded before them.

Three terrifying soul rings—purple, black, black—appeared before the two girls. Liu Ruyan and Liu Ruxue could only stare wide-eyed, their faces utterly blank.

Quite a few people had gathered nearby to watch. In particular, a young man dressed in a fiery red outfit within the crowd was practically boiling with rage.

He was Yan, Spirit Academy's universally acknowledged simp. Yan had assumed that after Zhao Xiaotian was taken away by Liu Baibin, he would never return.

But who would have thought that this brat would return together with Hu Liena—his goddess? The moment Yan emerged from the Soul Fighting Area, he saw Zhao Xiaotian walking with the Liu sisters, Liu Ruyan and Liu Ruxue.

What enraged Yan the most was that Zhao Xiaotian had already ridden in the same carriage as Hu Liena, yet he was now acting so intimately with two sixth-year goddesses whose looks rivaled Hu Liena's.

At this point, Yan no longer cared about Zhao Xiaotian's soul ring configuration. Magma had already begun erupting from his body, but his clothes had been specially made, so the magma could not damage them at all.

Feeling the intense heat, the people around Yan quickly scattered. Liu Baibin also sensed that furious fiery aura, his gaze locking onto Yan, who had been isolated in the crowd.

"Zhao! Xiao! Tian! You've gone too far!"

Yan charged out in fury and threw a punch at Zhao Xiaotian's face. At once, Liu Ruyan and Liu Ruxue's eyes darkened.

Just as Yan's fist was about to strike Zhao Xiaotian's left cheek, Zhao Xiaotian raised his palm in front of it.

Yan's punch landed as though it had struck cotton. As Yan tried to pull back his right fist and throw another punch—

Zhao Xiaotian grabbed Yan's clenched fist, yanked hard, and executed an over-the-shoulder throw. The surrounding students, along with Liu Ruyan and Liu Ruxue, watched in shock as Yan was utterly overwhelmed and beaten one-sidedly.

Yan spun through the air around Zhao Xiaotian, who stood motionless at the center. He stared in disbelief at Zhao Xiaotian, who had not moved an inch.

"How is this possible? Even half the Soul Elders wouldn't dare take my strength head-on. How could he lift me so easily and throw me over his shoulder?"

Without hesitation, Zhao Xiaotian smashed Yan heavily into the ground, then hurled him forcefully into the air. He then elegantly took a black-and-white mask from his Soul Tool and put it on.

After being smashed hard into the ground, Yan's mind instantly went blank. Then he was flung high into the air, left in free fall.

Just as Yan was about to crash into the ground, Zhao Xiaotian moved. A murderous red gleam appeared in his eyes as he leaped into the air and drove his knee forcefully into Yan's abdomen.

The blow made Yan vomit a mouthful of swill. And after being struck, Yan, who had nearly hit the ground, was sent soaring into the air once more.

Seeing this, Liu Baibin cried out, "Not good! Xiaotian intends to kill him!"

In midair, Zhao Xiaotian unleashed his second soul skill. A spear condensed from Spirit Weapon in his hand. After twirling the spear, he pointed its tip directly at the spot where Yan was about to fall.

Zhao Xiaotian said coldly, "You've provoked me again and again. From the day I enrolled, you brought people to provoke and ambush me, only for me to defeat you. And this time, you actually dared to ambush me again—and you aimed for my face! This time, even if you don't die, I'll peel a layer off you!"

Whoosh!

The spear tore through the air, shooting toward the place where Yan was about to crash down. Liu Baibin roared, "Watch out!"

Just as the spearhead was about to strike Yan, an ice arrow shot out from the forest. Zhao Xiaotian frowned and poured a vast amount of Soul Power into the spear.

The spear shot through the air, shattering the ice arrow directly before striking Yan in the shoulder and pinning him to the ground.

Yan was barely alive. He never could have imagined that he would be defeated so easily by Zhao Xiaotian. At that moment, a feminine-looking man in golden battle armor flew out of the forest.

Zhao Xiaotian ignored him. Instead, he withdrew his Soul Power and recalled his martial soul. The spear lodged in Yan's shoulder also dissipated into Soul Power.

Yue Guan walked over to Yan and examined his injuries, silently cursing Yan for being an idiot. Fortunately, Yan had not been able to harm Zhao Xiaotian. Otherwise, Ghost Charm and he would both have been in deep trouble.

Zhao Xiaotian headed straight for his private dormitory. The farce soon came to an end, and under Yue Guan's infusion of Soul Power, Yan recovered a trace of vitality.

Night soon fell. After bathing, Zhao Xiaotian leaned against his bed and read a book. At that moment, a wicked ghostly shadow appeared in the room and took human form.

Zhao Xiaotian got out of bed and said, "Elder Gui, are the investigation results out?"

Ghost Charm replied, "Yes, Holy Son. However, His Holiness the Pope learned of those investigation materials and seized them. This subordinate was unable to retain the complete records."

"However, Holy Son, this subordinate knows some things about Yu Xiaogang. This subordinate can tell you everything I am able to say!"

Zhao Xiaotian said, "Go on, then. I want to see what this Yu Xiaogang is capable of to become the number one theorist of Spirit Hall."

Ghost Charm soon told Zhao Xiaotian everything he could about Yu Xiaogang, especially how Yu Xiaogang had copied much of the knowledge from Spirit Hall's ancient texts into his own books and claimed it as the result of his own research.

Zhao Xiaotian angrily smashed the table before him with a slap. Though Yu Xiaogang's affairs had nothing to do with him, as a disciple of a top sect on the Black Tortoise Continent in his previous life, he despised people who stole the fruits of others' labor.

Zhao Xiaotian said furiously, "Elder Gui, secretly send several people to find out where Yu Xiaogang is now. Once you find him, kill him on the spot!"

Ghost Charm hesitated upon hearing this. He had not mentioned that His Holiness the Pope had once been involved with Yu Xiaogang. He had only deliberately emphasized Yu Xiaogang's plagiarism of Spirit Hall's ancient texts.