Ning Rongrong had always been an unruly Little Witch.
Now, as she watched the Sky Screen, she could not help speaking in a sarcastic tone:
"Ah, what a pity for that Three-Eyed Demon."
"It was clearly a Martial Soul with the potential of a divine beast, yet someone force-fed it radishes for decades until all it could do was fart."
"Tsk, tsk. Does this count as misleading one's students?"
Her words were like a sharp blade, viciously stabbing into Yu Xiaogang's heart.
"Shut up! What do you know!"
Yu Xiaogang's face turned deathly pale, and his entire body trembled.
His mentality completely collapsed.
The Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul that he had been so proud of.
The dignity he took from claiming to be invincible in theory.
At this moment, they were mercilessly trampled beneath the Sky Screen.
Yu Xiaogang looked as though he had gone mad.
He suddenly turned and grabbed Flender's arm.
"Flender! Help me! Help me now!"
"If it's true... then I want to try too! I can become stronger too!"
How many years had he been stuck at level 29?
Even if the Sky Screen had slapped him in the face, he still had to try!
Even if this was something Yu Xiaotian had known when he was six!
"Xiaogang, calm down..."
Seeing his friend in such a frenzied state, Flender could not bear it.
"I can't calm down! You saw it too. Yu Xiaotian can do it, so why can't I?"
"Quick! Find me a soul beast with dragon bloodline! Even a lizard will do!"
Yu Xiaogang roared.
Flender sighed.
To soothe his friend, he flashed away, turning into an afterimage that vanished from the spot.
With the strength of a Soul Saint, finding a hundred-year-old Sub-dragon species soul beast was not difficult for him.
Before long, Flender returned carrying an unconscious Earth Dragon Lizard.
Though it was only a low-level soul beast, it did possess a thin trace of dragon bloodline.
"It's here! It's here!"
With trembling hands, Yu Xiaogang summoned his Three-Eyed Demon.
"Three-Eyed Demon!"
"Dorololo..."
The moment Three-Eyed Demon appeared, it habitually rubbed against its owner's trouser leg.
Its eyes looked expectantly toward Yu Xiaogang's hand.
It seemed to be waiting for that familiar white radish.
But this time, Yu Xiaogang did not give it a radish.
Instead, he threw the skinned, bloody Earth Dragon Lizard before it.
"Eat! Eat it!"
Yu Xiaogang commanded with bloodshot eyes.
Three-Eyed Demon sniffed the rank smell of raw flesh, then immediately backed away several steps in disgust and shook its head desperately.
It had eaten vegetarian food for decades.
Its stomach had long grown accustomed to radishes, and it instinctively rejected raw meat like this.
"You useless trash! Even you dare defy me?"
Seeing this, Yu Xiaogang's rage surged to his head, and he actually rushed forward.
He pinned Three-Eyed Demon's head down, forcibly pried open its mouth, and stuffed the lizard meat inside.
"Eat it! Eat it and you'll become stronger! Eat it and I'll become a Titled Douluo! Eat it!!"
Everyone present watched with their hearts pounding.
Was this still the gentle and refined Master?
He was simply a sadist!
Three-Eyed Demon let out a pained whimper. Under its owner's coercion, it had no choice but to swallow the meat.
Yu Xiaogang immediately released it and stared at Three-Eyed Demon with a face full of anticipation.
He waited for golden light to appear, waited for Soul Power to flow back to him.
One second... two seconds... one minute passed.
Other than dry-heaving several times from nausea, Three-Eyed Demon showed nothing else.
There was no golden light on its body, nor had its aura strengthened in the slightest.
Instead, its stomach rumbled strangely from indigestion.
Pfft—!
A thunderous fart burst out, far stinkier than any it had ever released before.
The stench nearly made Dai Mubai and the others vomit on the spot.
"It failed..."
Watching this scene, the light in Yu Xiaogang's eyes instantly went out.
He collapsed onto the ground, seeming to age ten years in an instant.
"Why... why did you lie to me... The Sky Screen is fake... it's all fake..."
He muttered to himself, then furiously overturned the nearby tables and chairs.
"It doesn't work at all!!"
Just then.
Zhu Zhuqing, who had remained silent all this time, suddenly spoke.
She truly could not stand watching any longer.
From within the shadows came her cool voice:
"Master, is there a possibility that the method isn't wrong, but the timing is?"
Everyone froze and turned to look at her.
Zhu Zhuqing pointed at the Sky Screen.
"Yu Xiaotian in the Sky Screen began nurturing his Martial Soul immediately after awakening it at the age of six."
"That was when a Martial Soul was at its most malleable, like a young sapling that could be pruned and guided freely."
She paused before continuing.
"But your Three-Eyed Demon has eaten radishes for decades."
"Its constitution, habits, and even its origin have long since become fixed."
"It's like asking an elderly man on his deathbed to practice the skills of a child. Do you think that's possible?"
Her words awakened the dreamer.
Hearing this, Dai Mubai strongly agreed as well!
"Zhuqing is right! It was completely ruined by being raised that way."
A wave of lingering fear suddenly rose in his heart.
Master could even ruin his own Martial Soul. Was it really right for us to entrust our futures to him?
Would we end up like this Three-Eyed Demon too, destroyed by flawed theories?
Tang San stood to the side, looking at his dejected Teacher and the suffering Three-Eyed Demon.
That rebellious thought in his heart once again surfaced uncontrollably.
"There are no useless Martial Souls, only useless Soul Masters..."
"Teacher's famous saying... was it really about himself?"
"Three-Eyed Demon could have evolved, but because of Teacher's ignorance and stubbornness, it became a pig that could only fart..."
Tang San closed his eyes.
He took a deep breath and forcibly suppressed those thoughts.
But a seed of doubt had already taken root in the hearts of the Shrek Seven Devils.
Meanwhile, the scene on the Sky Screen continued.
[After Yu Xiaotian determined Three-Eyed Demon's evolutionary path] [Yu Yuanzhen, as clan leader, acted with decisive efficiency] [He began mobilizing the clan's resources] [Secretly gathering high-quality Sub-dragon species soul beast flesh throughout the continent] [In order not to arouse the suspicions of other clans] [They made the purchases under the pretense of improving the clan cafeteria's meals and refining special secret medicines]
White World.
Quite a few older Soul Masters suddenly understood.
An old soul beast hunter slapped his thigh.
"I remember now! It was probably over twenty years ago, right?"
"Back then, the price of Sub-dragon meat on the market suddenly went insane!"
"Originally, a whole Ironclad Lizard could be bought for a few dozen Gold Soul Coins. Later, the price rose to several hundred Gold Soul Coins, and there was still more demand than supply!"
"Yeah, yeah, I remember too!"
A nearby Soul Master chimed in.
"Our team had nearly disbanded back then, but we happened to kill a Cave Demon Spider Dragon and made a fortune in one go!"
"So the financier behind it all was actually the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan?"
"Tsk, tsk, tsk. Old Sect Master Yu Yuanzhen truly spent a fortune to pave the way for his son.
"But looking at it now, that investment paid off tremendously! He cultivated someone like Lord Yu Xiaotian!"
The Sky Screen continued playing.
[As a large amount of rare Sub-dragon flesh was delivered to Yu Xiaotian's room] [Three-Eyed Demon began its gluttonous feast] [The originally scrawny little pig] [After devouring large amounts of meat containing dragon bloodline, its body began undergoing visible changes] [Its skin became tougher, faintly giving off a pale golden sheen] [Its once listless aura also became full of vitality] [At the same time, Yu Xiaotian, as the host, received enormous feedback] [His body became sturdier, and the lines of his muscles gradually became distinct] [Soul Power Level: 8] [Through food supplements and Martial Soul feedback alone, Yu Xiaotian broke through two ranks] [But that was still not enough]
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