Yu Xiaogang, How Will You Repay What You Owe Me?

"It's fucking dark! Just promoting it and he wants eighty percent of my money! And he wants me to renovate the academy for him? Dream on! If I didn't owe him 150,000 Gold Soul Coins, who would ever ask him for help?"

After Great Master Yu discussed the profits with Shen He, the more he thought about it, the more displeased he became.

"This is a cultivation method for Soul Power that has never been publicly revealed in the soul master world. Why can't I take all the profits? I want the fame, sure, but can't I also take all those Gold Soul Coins?"

"If I could handle the promotional channels myself, wouldn't I gain both fame and fortune and prove myself all over again? Why should I live under someone else's roof and watch Shen He's expression? By then, that mere 150,000 Gold Soul Coins would be easy to repay."

Great Master Yu racked his brains and finally came up with a way to solve the promotional problem.

"Go to Heaven Dou City! As long as I go to the biggest auction house in Heaven Dou City and say that I created this technique myself, that it can completely change the way Soul Power is cultivated in the soul master world, and put it up for auction at a high price, then with the quality of this technique, after the Heaven Dou Auction House appraises it and sets an auction date with me, they will definitely promote it everywhere beforehand for the sake of their share of the auction proceeds."

"It won't take long for me to become famous throughout the Douro Continent. After that, the influential nobles who come to auction this technique will definitely compete to buy it and offer me an excellent price."

"Besides, the families that obtain it will cultivate this technique and widen the gap between themselves and other soul masters. That will also be excellent publicity. Wouldn't I be treated as an honored guest wherever I went for the rest of my life?"

The more Great Master Yu thought about it, the more feasible it seemed. He immediately returned to his pigpen to pack his luggage, preparing to leave for Heaven Dou City without telling anyone else.

As for Tang San? Sorry, Great Master Yu had long since tossed him to the back of his mind. Becoming the world's most renowned theoretical master was his lifelong pursuit. Even taking Tang San as his disciple had merely been for the sake of verifying whether his theories were viable.

It had to be said that Great Master Yu pursued his dream with remarkable efficiency. In less than a few minutes, he had packed his belongings and left Shrek Academy without telling anyone. This caused Tang San, who had learned from Shen He that Great Master Yu had stolen his Mysterious Heaven Skill and had come to settle the score, to find nothing but air. When Tang San reached the pigpen, all he saw was an empty bed.

His Mysterious Heaven Skill had been stolen without his knowledge, and Great Master Yu had left in such a hurry that even his bed was empty. If this wasn't a premeditated escape to avoid punishment, Tang San didn't know what was.

"This was the cultivation method I prepared for Xiao Wu! Damn it! Yu Xiaogang, do you even deserve to be my master?"

Enraged, Tang San erupted with Soul Power. He did not even conceal his second martial soul, directly swinging his hammer to destroy the pigpen where he had lived for so long, venting his fury through the destruction.

The commotion caused by Tang San's destruction in Shrek Academy also alarmed quite a few people who were cultivating, and they came to investigate.

"What the hell, Tang San, have you gone crazy? If you keep tearing things apart, Dean Shen He is going to demand compensation from you!"

The first to arrive was Dai Mubai, whose cultivation spot was the nearest. Seeing Tang San wielding an iron hammer and smashing things everywhere to vent his anger, he immediately invoked Shen He's name in an attempt to make Tang San regain his senses.

"Calm down? What do you expect me to calm down with?"

Though he said that, after Dai Mubai arrived, Tang San gradually calmed down and withdrew the Clear Sky Hammer in his hand.

"What happened? Did someone attack Shrek?"

"Could the debt collectors have come knocking? No, that can't be right. I remember it was already paid off."

Zhao Wuji and Flender appeared in the ruins one after another and began asking Dai Mubai, who had arrived first, about the situation.

"I don't know either. I just saw Tang San going crazy here for no apparent reason when I arrived."

"Brother, what happened to you? Didn't you say this morning that you were going to give me a surprise this afternoon? Is this the surprise you gave me?"

Xiao Wu and the other two girls arrived soon afterward and were frightened by the ruins covering the ground, especially since Tang San was standing in the middle of them with an expression as if he were owed tens of millions of Gold Soul Coins.

"What happened here? Where is Great Master Yu?"

Seeing that everyone was present except Great Master Yu, Oscar was somewhat puzzled.

"That's right, where is Great Master Yu? Could something have happened to him?"

Hearing Oscar's question, Ma Hongjun also noticed that something was wrong. In their minds, Tang San was usually with Great Master Yu, but now that such a huge scene had erupted, Great Master Yu was nowhere to be seen. It clearly went against common sense.

"Little San, where did Xiaogang go? Why do you look as if you're about to kill someone?"

Seeing that his friend Great Master Yu was absent, Flender asked worriedly.

"Let me explain it for Tang San."

Seeing that everyone from Shrek Academy had gathered there, Shen He decided to take this opportunity to make them clearly recognize Great Master Yu's true nature.

"Earlier, Great Master Yu came to me and said that he had created an entirely new method of cultivating Soul Power, one worthy of being recorded in history. He wanted the academy to promote it, with the academy contributing the effort and him providing the book, split eighty-twenty."

"So I went to find Little San. After all, he was also Great Master Yu's disciple and would be the most suitable assistant. But Little San had no idea about any of this."

"After seeing the cultivation method Great Master Yu had invented, he said he was going to settle the score with him. By the time I arrived here, things had already become like this."

"What the hell do you mean, an original Soul Power cultivation method? That is clearly my Tang Sect's Mysterious Heaven Skill!"

After hearing Shen He's explanation, Tang San could no longer hold back and cursed loudly.

He knew that his teacher was somewhat suspected of academic misconduct and seemed to have plagiarized other people's work before.

But he had never imagined that something like this would happen to him. He was his teacher's dearest and most beloved disciple, after all!

Yu Xiaogang, how will you repay what you owe me? (Electronic voice~)

"This is the Soul Power cultivation method I practiced. I originally intended to copy a version and give it to Xiao Wu, but I forgot it by the head of my bed. My good teacher secretly copied it, then went to Dean Shen He and claimed that he had created it himself!"

"Only when Dean Shen He came to me and asked me to help did I learn that this teacher of mine had stolen his disciple's cultivation method and was preparing to sell it! Now I've rushed over, only to find that he has disappeared without a trace! If this wasn't premeditated, then what was it?"

After hearing Tang San's accusation, everyone was shocked, and their favorable impression of Great Master Yu plummeted.

After all, they had only ever heard of students stealing their teachers' secret techniques. They had never heard of a teacher stealing a student's secret technique.

People always said that a teacher was a father for life, but Tang San's experience was a textbook example of the exact opposite.

"Xiaogang isn't that kind of person! Could there be some misunderstanding?"

Flender recalled the friend he knew and awkwardly tried to defend him, only to be stared at by the others with strange expressions.

"Teacher Flender, I can understand how you feel, but the evidence is conclusive. You don't need to make excuses for him. Or do you think Little San and I would fabricate this together to frame Great Master Yu? If he didn't feel guilty, why would he leave so quickly with his belongings?"