Rules Are Meant to Be Broken, Target: Limit-Breaking Soul Ring!

[Yu Xiaotian stood before the window, his gaze deep and brimming with ambition.]

[The first step of the Three-Year Agreement.]

[Break through to Rank 10 first, absorb an absolutely powerful First Soul Ring.]

[The family archives record that the limit for a First Soul Ring is 423 years.]

[Heh, that's the limit rule for ordinary people.]

[But rules are meant to be broken!]

The Sky Screen froze on Yu Xiaotian's ambitious eyes.

Black World, Shrek Academy playground.

The atmosphere was suffocatingly oppressive.

Yu Xiaogang stared dead at the Sky Screen, his eyes bloodshot.

Like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.

"Absurd! Utterly absurd!"

He roared hysterically:

"The limit for a First Soul Ring is 423 years! That's an iron law!"

"This is a truth I arrived at through countless calculations and poring over endless ancient texts!"

"How could it possibly be broken?!"

"This Sky Screen must be fake! An illusion! Something to disturb my Dao heart!"

Just now, he had fed his Three-Eyed Demon some Sub-dragon meat on a whim.

The result?

Aside from making Three-Eyed Demon shit everywhere and fart a few stinky ones, it did nothing!

This only convinced him further that everything in the Sky Screen was a lie!

"What are you all standing around for?!"

Yu Xiaogang spun around abruptly, shouting at the Shrek Seven Devils behind him:

"What use is there in watching this fake wish-fulfillment?"

"Get running! Get to weight training!"

"Only my theory is the right path!"

But this time, no one answered him.

The scene was dead silent.

Tang San stood in place, his gaze a little distant.

Though he was the one who respected his Teacher the most.

Yu Xiaotian's words on the Sky Screen—"rules are meant to be broken"—had deeply stirred him.

In his past life, he had died without regret, all for the sake of learning the Tang Sect's deeper knowledge.

Starting with the same crippled martial soul, Yu Xiaotian had carved out a completely different path.

And he himself even had Innate Full Soul Power!

"If I could also strengthen my body through dietary supplements or other methods like he did, could I absorb a soul ring beyond the limit too?"

"Is Teacher's theory really absolutely correct?"

"If it were right, why is Teacher still stuck at 29th Rank to this day?"

Tang San hesitated.

He yearned to grow stronger, to defy fate like Yu Xiaotian.

Not to train into a theoretical giant under his Teacher.

"What? Even you doubt me?"

Yu Xiaogang saw Tang San's hesitation.

His heart ached as if cut, and his fury blazed even hotter.

"Heh."

A cold laugh broke the silence.

Dai Mubai crossed his arms, glancing sidelong at Yu Xiaogang, those evil eyes full of disdain.

"Master, save your breath."

"I came to Shrek to get stronger, not to be a lab rat."

Dai Mubai pointed at the Sky Screen, then at Three-Eyed Demon lying on the ground whimpering:

"You've even crippled your own martial soul. Why should we believe you can teach us well?"

"You're Xiao San's teacher, so I won't say anything."

"But if you want to control me? Sorry, I'm not playing along."

"Compared to running laps, I think watching this Sky Screen will teach me more."

With that, Dai Mubai found a comfortable spot, sat down, and continued looking up at the sky.

"You... You..."

Yu Xiaogang trembled with rage, his finger shaking as he pointed at Dai Mubai:

"A piece of rotten wood that cannot be carved! You're ruining your own future!"

"Enough!"

Seeing the situation about to spiral out of control, Flender quickly stepped in.

He grabbed Yu Xiaogang, who was on the verge of exploding.

A forced smile plastered on his face, he tried to smooth things over:

"Ah, everyone, let's all say a little less."

"Xiao Gang means well for everyone, right?"

"And Mubai, don't be so harsh."

"After all, Xiao Gang's theories do have their unique insights in some areas."

Flender spoke as he did.

Desperately signaling Dai Mubai with his eyes.

Then he turned to placate Yu Xiaogang:

"Xiao Gang, calm down too."

"The kids are young and hot-headed; having their own ideas is a good thing."

"Why don't we watch a bit longer? What if there's really something worth learning from in this Sky Screen?"

"Know yourself and know your enemy, and you'll never be defeated!"

Yu Xiaogang was forcibly held back by Flender.

Though he stopped roaring, his chest still heaved violently.

He stared fixedly at the Sky Screen, his eyes full of venom:

"Fine! I'll watch! I'll see how he breaks the limit!"

"When he explodes, you'll all know that only my theory is the truth!"

White World.

On the Sky Screen, the line "Rules are meant to be broken" rang out with force.

Inside the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

Yu Xiaogang suddenly turned to look at his elder brother beside him.

The admiration in his eyes was practically overflowing.

"Good! Well said! Rules are meant to be broken!"

Why couldn't he have a mind as sharp as his brother's?

Every casual word out of his mouth was a golden quote.

Elsewhere.

Her Holiness the Pope, Bibi Dong, stared at Yu Xiaotian with a deep gaze.

"If only I had met you earlier back then."

"At the time, I foolishly went to absorb my First Soul Ring, completely unaware there was such a thing as over-limit, and honestly settled for a four-hundred-year one."

"If you had been there then, I definitely could have broken the limit too."

"Luckily, I got a second martial soul later, which made up for it."

Watching Bibi Dong act like a little girl, Yu Xiaotian instantly felt a chill run down his spine.

He quickly looked away, pretending to focus on the Sky Screen.

"Ahem, let bygones be bygones. Watch the Sky Screen, watch the Sky Screen..."

Ever since the two of them got together, the cold and domineering Your Excellency the Pope in outsiders' eyes.

Had turned into a clingy pest in front of him.

It was something he both enjoyed and found hard to handle.

At that moment, the scene on the Sky Screen cut to Yu Xiaotian's Secret Chamber.

[Although Three-Eyed Demon devouring dragon-type blood essence brought a massive feedback]

[Relying solely on that, Yu Xiaotian's progress would at most catch up to those geniuses with Innate Full Soul Power]

[He wanted to crush other geniuses, to shatter the limits of the First Soul Ring—physical strength was the hard requirement.]

[The body was a container, the soul ring was water. If the container wasn't big enough, more water would only burst it.]

[The young Yu Xiaotian wrote down a whale rubber strengthening plan on paper.]

Yu Xiaotian looked at the Sky Screen and couldn't help recalling the situation back then.

If it were before his awakening, his frail body couldn't even withstand a hundred-year whale rubber.

But now, after being nourished by the Three-Eyed Demon's feedback, he had earned the right to absorb a thousand-year whale rubber.

Once he finished absorbing the thousand-year one, he could challenge the ten-thousand-year!

At the time, this was absolutely a crazy idea.

[Yu Xiaotian once again sought out his father Yu Yuanzhen, who supported him unconditionally.]

[He informed him of the plan.]

[After learning of it, Yu Yuanzhen was overjoyed. If Xiaotian could succeed, then Xiaogang could replicate it too.]

[So Yu Yuanzhen ordered a search for whale rubber, and soon clan members brought it back to the clan.]

[Among them were thousand-year whale rubber of excellent quality, as well as ten-thousand-year whale rubber.]

[However, at this moment, Yu Luomian intercepted them.]