What a stench! Why does it smell so awful?
Damn, Boss Dai, you stink!
Ugh, I'm going to throw up!
Great Master Yu was dripping wet and clearly had just taken a bath. He had even changed into a new set of clothes.
But a foul, nauseating stench was emanating from him. Even a lout like Zhao Wuji felt his stomach churn and nearly vomited.
Shen He circulated his Soul Power to seal his nose and mouth, then moved upwind. He immediately felt much more comfortable.
Yet he still felt puzzled. Yu Xiaogang hadn't eaten an Immortal Herb, so how could he have reached Rank 30?
One had to know that in the original story, the biggest loss Tang San suffered was accepting this boastful swindler and old fraud as his teacher.
This so-called teacher had provided Tang San with almost no guidance in cultivation. Douluo Continent had no cultivation techniques; apart from Tang San's own Mysterious Heaven Skill, everyone else relied on meditation to increase their Soul Power.
As a result, Yu Xiaogang couldn't help Tang San with his cultivation speed at all. He even had to mooch off Tang San's Immortal Herbs.
Even without this teacher, Tang San would still have become a god. It hadn't delayed him in the slightest.
What was more, when this number-one theoretical master of the soul master world took his beloved disciple Tang San into the Soul Hunting Forest to obtain his first spirit ring, he had nearly been poisoned to death by a Mandala Snake that suddenly appeared on the outskirts of the forest. Could anyone believe that?
Because he had miscalculated the spirit beast's strength, and because his own martial soul was merely a farting pig, the future Sea God had nearly died at the hands of a century-old Mandala Snake.
In the end, it was Tang San who killed the Mandala Snake with his Hidden Weapon techniques and removed the poison from Yu Xiaogang.
The only useful knowledge Yu Xiaogang passed down that Tang San could use until the very end was his precise understanding of the ages of various spirit beasts.
But honestly, that was low-level knowledge. You could find any soul master force—even a small sect—and obtain it from them.
A teacher was supposed to impart knowledge, teach skills, and resolve doubts. The problem was, Yu Xiaogang had done none of those three things.
Tang San's experience in the martial world had been taught by the Tang Sect in his previous life. His personality as a sly old schemer and hypocrite was his own nature, and had nothing to do with Yu Xiaogang.
To put it in ordinary terms, Yu Xiaogang was like a cloud gamer who posted on gaming forums every day.
After watching videos of a few experts playing, he thought he had a national-server badge floating above his head too.
But he never expected that not a single club would want him. They wouldn't even let him participate in a tryout.
Tang San, meanwhile, was a complete newbie who had just entered the game. Right from the start, he heard Yu Xiaogang boast endlessly about how incredible his mechanics were and how refined his game sense was.
After accepting him as his teacher, Yu Xiaogang immediately took Tang San into a simple bot match. He gave away first blood at the start, went horribly negative after one minute, collapsed all three lanes after two minutes, and by the third minute, the opposing team was fully equipped!
He had even managed to confuse the bots. How could someone be this terrible?
Most outrageous of all, Yu Xiaogang couldn't even fight jungle monsters and could somehow miss with his skills.
In the end, Tang San had to use a classic Tang Sect-style ambush from behind to barely steal the crystal and win the match.
Seeing this, Yu Xiaogang's eyes immediately lit up. Hadn't he struck gold and found a treasure through sheer luck?
He then babbled that there were no weak heroes, only weak summoners, and taught Tang San a bunch of lengthy, grandiose theories.
Only after playing many more games did Tang San realize that all the things Yu Xiaogang babbled about every day were merely common-sense tips like remembering to buy equipment at the start and remembering to bring runes—things anyone who wasn't brain-dead already knew.
The key point was that he couldn't give you anything, yet he still expected you to buy him skins.
In the end, the Shrek Seven Devils ascended together, while Yu Xiaogang died of old age on Douluo Continent. In the end, he didn't even reach the cultivation of a Titled Douluo; that was only mentioned in passing by that important person out of consideration.
Still, one couldn't blame Yu Xiaogang's beloved disciple Tang San for not taking him with him when he ascended to the Divine Realm. For a swindler like him, if Tang San—whose vengeful nature made him the founding patriarch of Evil Soul Masters—hadn't chopped Yu Xiaogang into pieces and fed him to the dogs, that alone counted as good luck.
What's wrong, Old Gang? You're not satisfied with Rank 30 and want to ascend to the Divine Realm too? Keep dreaming!
Go outside and guard the door for me. Erlong isn't busy, is she? I'll help you ride her for a while.
Xiao Wu scratched her head in confusion. "Master, I heard you say before that your cultivation had been restricted by your martial soul. How did you suddenly break through?"
After hearing Xiao Wu's words, everyone's gazes also turned toward Yu Xiaogang, their eyes filled with questions.
Yu Xiaogang's expression changed slightly. After hesitating for a while, he finally explained, "My cultivation broke through because of the Mimetic Cultivation Environment."
"A Mimetic Cultivation Environment?" Everyone was even more confused.
"Before this, I never thought of it. Since my martial soul, Luo Sanpao, attacks by farting, the toilet should be my best Mimetic Cultivation Environment."
"Because of that, my cultivation broke through."
Upon hearing Yu Xiaogang's words, Xiao Wu and the others could no longer hold it in. They bent over, nearly vomiting.
Yu Xiaogang continued, "I didn't expect that, by relying on that filthy substance, I would actually feel my Soul Power loosen. Then I successfully broke through to Rank 30!"
Yu Xiaogang's words immediately left everyone around him speechless.
Shen He hesitated for a moment before asking, "Great Master Yu, no offense intended, but I just want to ask—do you really enjoy smelling it?"
Yu Xiaogang fell silent. Then he nodded.
"Gasp!" Shen He was deeply shocked. Holy crap, he really has the Innate Lao Ba Sacred Body! So that stuff affects Great Master Yu the same way an Immortal Herb does!
If Great Master Yu wants to increase his cultivation, couldn't he just live in the toilet every day?
From now on, his codename is Feces Collector Yu Xiaogang!
Zhao Wuji's expression shifted for a long while before he finally forced out, "Great Master Yu really is... extraordinarily gifted!"
Shen He nodded. "Yu Xiaogang breaking through is definitely a good thing. We'll take you with us to the Star Dou Great Forest this time."
"To ensure your safety when you go out for training, today's lesson is this: apart from Oscar, every one of you must eat at least one of each of the two types of sausages Oscar makes."
When the students of Shrek Academy heard this, they immediately erupted into wails. Xiao Wu was the first to protest. "Dean, what kind of class is this? Why do we have to eat something so disgusting?"
Shen He shrugged. "Isn't that still better than eating farts?"
After that, everyone's eyes involuntarily turned toward Yu Xiaogang.
Yu Xiaogang waved his hands. "Don't look at me. I'm not eating anymore. I'm already full from what I just had."
"Ugh!"
Those words from Yu Xiaogang made the students rush outside and find places to vomit their guts out.
Unexpectedly, though, today's lesson turned out to be highly successful. Dai Mubai and the other students vomited up everything they had eaten for breakfast, leaving them no choice but to eat Little Ao's sausages to fill their stomachs.
Moreover, compared with what Yu Xiaogang had put them through earlier, Oscar's sausages no longer seemed so disgusting. The fragrance of the sausages even stirred their appetites.
Indeed, if you wanted to break through your own lower limit, all you needed was to find someone whose lower limit was even lower than yours.
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