Fortunately, since Tang San and Great Master Yu had advanced to Soul Elder, the Spirit Hall's subsidy for each of them this month was 100 Gold Soul Coins. Relying on the subsidies issued by Spirit Hall, the two had successfully avoided the fate of washing dishes to pay off their debts. However, the tea house's exorbitant expenses and the costs of clearing Great Master Yu's poisonous gas had completely drained those subsidies, once again returning the two to their days of utter poverty.
"Utterly disgraced!"
Great Master Yu sighed. He really could not accept the embarrassing things he and Tang San had done from time to time after their brains short-circuited during this period. Of course, what he regretted even more was failing to latch onto a wealthy female soul master and even paying money on top of that.
"Xiao San, we have to think of a way to recover the dignity we lost!"
What do you mean, the dignity we lost? You're obviously the one who disgraced yourself the most!
Tang San secretly cursed Great Master Yu's disgusting, pathetic behavior during this period. But since Great Master Yu was his teacher, he could only pinch his nose and accept it.
As for himself? What had he done wrong?
What did it mean to be disgraced? Could something that happened during a normal battle be called disgraceful?
Kneeling and acknowledging someone as his father was merely subduing the enemy without fighting. That was wisdom! It reduced unnecessary Soul Power consumption and let him prepare in advance for the upcoming seven-on-seven team battle!
The claims that using Eight Chysanthemum Spear to attack the entire arena was shameless were pure nonsense. Those people were obviously jealous of his large-scale killing divine skill! What did they mean by ignoring his teammates? Wouldn't everything be fine once he dealt with the enemies? He was Tang San of the Tang Sect! An expert in using poison! As long as his teammates had not been poisoned to death, they could still be saved! It was tactics!
The soul masters who had gone berserk and attacked them had long since earned a death sentence in his eyes. The only reason he had spared their lives was out of consideration for the Great Soul Arena. Yet those spectators had still kept running their mouths, giving him the disgusting nickname "Evil Ghost in the Fart." He would settle this grudge sooner or later!
"Master, you're absolutely right. We have to think of a way to restore our dignity at Shrek Academy!"
But as a qualified hypocrite, Tang San did not show the slightest dissatisfaction with Great Master Yu on the surface. Instead, he spoke in complete agreement.
Building an image of wisdom and might was quite tempting to his vain self. Whenever Tang San imagined those who had previously looked down on his soul skills gazing at him with worshipful eyes, even little Tang San down below wanted to stand up and salute.
"Why don't you use your extensive theoretical knowledge to write a set of martial soul training methods suitable for everyone?"
Thinking of his teammates' terrible performance in the previous seven-on-seven team battle, Tang San found it difficult to accept.
Their soul ring and martial soul configurations were clearly stronger than their opponents', yet they had nearly allowed a single berserk soul skill to turn the battle around. What a bunch of useless teammates.
"It would be best if it could clearly improve everyone's coordination in team battles. Then everyone would definitely worship you and forget about those uncontrolled things we did before. Wouldn't our image be restored that way?"
After thinking it over, Tang San spoke to Great Master Yu. The moment Great Master Yu heard Tang San's idea, he slapped his thigh in agreement.
That's right! How had I never thought of that? As long as my disciple and I put together a suitable set of training methods, wouldn't that surely restore our reputation? As expected of my disciple! Under my wise and mighty guidance, he has inherited quite a bit of my true teachings!
Great Master Yu secretly nodded to himself, agreeing with Tang San's idea completely. But how could Tang San, who trusted Great Master Yu so much, know that Great Master Yu was merely a man with an empty reputation who knew nothing but how to brag?
Every soul master had their own training methods. Ning Rongrong's representative Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing's representative Star Luo Empire had cultivation methods that Great Master Yu could never know. Not to mention Xiao Wu, who was a transformed soul beast. Great Master Yu also had no way to resolve Ma Hongjun's Evil Fire problem. Probably only an ordinary support-type soul master like Oscar could barely try the training methods Great Master Yu had summarized.
But how could Great Master Yu and Tang San have thought of any of this?
As for the Tang Sect's Mysterious Heaven Skill, Tang San guarded it extremely carefully and refused to offer it as a reference. The only contribution he could make was in selecting the medicinal ingredients for the medicinal baths after training. However, since most of the medicinal materials on Douluo Continent differed from those before his transmigration, he was destined to be unable to help much.
One half-baked fool and one selfish wretch spent several nights cobbling together something in the pigpen, and they successfully created a training method they thought was extremely impressive.
After this training method was completed, the way the two walked changed considerably, becoming utterly arrogant. Great Master Yu even swaggered over to Shen He and demanded that he use this training method to train everyone at Shrek.
Seeing the two acting so arrogantly, Shen He grew somewhat curious. But after reading the training method supposedly written by the soul master world's foremost theoretical grandmaster, Shen He felt that it was nothing more than a waste of time.
"Don't bring me this time-wasting trash again. Aren't these training methods just nonsense?"
Shen He directly rejected the work the two had produced through their recent nights of determined effort in the pigpen.
"How can you insult the painstaking work of Xiao San and me like this?"
Great Master Yu shouted furiously at Shen He. In his view, Shen He was simply jealous of his talent and maliciously suppressing his enthusiasm, afraid that once this training method was implemented and Great Master Yu's reputation rose, it would threaten his own image as the academy dean.
"Isn't this just ordinary running training? And what's this about extreme training to strengthen the body? The subsequent training of killing people amid life-and-death situations is even more absurd!"
"Support-type soul masters are wasting time training their bodies? Fine, training the body isn't necessarily impossible, but with this level of intensity, can they actually endure it? Wouldn't they be wasting an entire day?"
"What if they're ambushed by an enemy without a strong body? With a stronger body, they can hold out until their teammates arrive to support them!"
Great Master Yu continued arguing with Shen He, thoroughly unconvinced.
"Are you an idiot? You're comparing the physical qualities of a support-type soul master and an offensive soul master? If they can ambush you, do you think you can still escape? Your own teammates are incapable of stopping them, and you blame the support-type soul master for being unable to block the attack and hold out until your teammates arrive?"
"Do you think that after a support-type soul master trains according to your garbage method, they'll suddenly be able to block an offensive soul master's killing blow?"
Shen He said that he had never seen such trash blame the support role for his own incompetence.
"Isn't there also the medicinal bath method? It can effectively strengthen the body and accelerate the recovery of stamina!"
"Using the medicinal bath alone isn't necessarily impossible, but isn't this something all the major clans and noble families possess? Yet I haven't seen them completely replace Soul Power cultivation with physical training!"
"Leaving aside that medicinal baths only work well with rare medicinal materials, the enhancement from ordinary ingredients is barely better than nothing. The effects are strongest only during the first few medicinal baths. Don't even get me started on the cost—you haven't said a word about the body developing resistance to the medicinal ingredients!"
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