[Yu Xiaotian stood before the window, his gaze deep and brimming with ambition.]
[The first step of the Three-Year Agreement.]
[Be the first to break through Level 10 and absorb an absolutely powerful first soul ring.]
[The family records stated that the limit for a first soul ring was 423 years.]
[Heh, that was a limit imposed on ordinary people.]
[But rules were meant to be broken!]
The Sky Screen froze on Yu Xiaotian's ambitious gaze.
Black World, Shrek Academy's training grounds.
The atmosphere was so oppressive it was suffocating.
Yu Xiaogang stared fixedly at the Sky Screen, his eyes bloodshot.
Like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.
"Absurd! This is utterly absurd!"
He roared hysterically:
"The limit for a first soul ring is 423 years! That is an ironclad rule!"
"This is the truth I arrived at after countless calculations and poring over innumerable ancient texts!"
"How could it possibly be broken?!"
"This Sky Screen is definitely fake! It is an illusion meant to disrupt my resolve!"
Just moments ago, unwilling to accept it, he had fed his Three-Eyed Demon some sub-dragon meat.
And the result?
Other than making Three-Eyed Demon crap all over the place and let out several foul farts, it had done nothing!
That only convinced him further that everything on the Sky Screen was a scam!
"What are you all still standing around for?!"
Yu Xiaogang suddenly spun around and roared at the Shrek Seven Devils behind him:
"What is the point of watching this kind of false fantasy?"
"Why aren't you off running laps? Go do weighted training!
"Only my theory is the true path!"
Yet this time, no one answered him.
The entire place fell silent.
Tang San stood where he was, his gaze somewhat unfocused.
Though he was the one who respected his teacher the most.
Yu Xiaotian's words on the Sky Screen—"Rules were meant to be broken"—had deeply stirred him.
In his previous life, he had ultimately died without regrets in pursuit of the Tang Sect's more profound knowledge.
They had both begun with useless martial souls, yet Yu Xiaotian had walked an entirely different path.
And he himself even possessed Innate Full Soul Power!
"If I could strengthen my body through dietary supplements or other methods like he did, could I also absorb a soul ring beyond the limit?"
"Was Teacher's theory truly absolutely correct?"
"If it were right, why was the teacher himself still only Level 29?"
Tang San hesitated.
He longed to grow stronger, longed to defy fate like Yu Xiaotian.
Rather than follow his teacher and become a giant only in theory.
"What? Even you doubt me?"
Yu Xiaogang saw Tang San's hesitation.
His heart twisted like a knife, and his fury surged even higher.
"Heh."
A cold sneer shattered the silence.
Dai Mubai crossed his arms and cast a sidelong look at Yu Xiaogang, his evil eyes full of disdain.
"Master, you should save your breath."
"I came to Shrek to become stronger, not to be a lab rat."
Dai Mubai pointed at the Sky Screen, then at Three-Eyed Demon lying on the ground and whining:
"If you can even raise your own martial soul into uselessness, why should we believe you can teach us properly?"
"You are Little San's teacher, so I won't say anything about that."
"But you want to control me? Sorry, I'm not interested."
"Compared to running laps, I think watching this Sky Screen can teach me far more."
With that, Dai Mubai found a comfortable spot to sit down and continued looking up at the sky.
"You... you..."
Yu Xiaogang trembled with rage, even the finger he pointed at Dai Mubai shaking:
"Rotten wood cannot be carved! You are destroying your own future!"
"Enough!"
Seeing the situation about to spiral out of control, Flender hurriedly stepped forward.
He grabbed Yu Xiaogang, who was on the verge of exploding.
His face was piled with an awkward smile as he tried to smooth things over:
"Ah, everyone, say a little less."
"Xiaogang means well."
"Mubai, don't be so hotheaded either."
"After all, Xiaogang's theories do have some unique insights in certain areas."
As Flender spoke.
He desperately signaled Dai Mubai with his eyes.
Then he turned to soothe Yu Xiaogang:
"Xiaogang, calm down too."
"The children are young and spirited. It is a good thing that they have their own ideas."
"Why don't we keep watching? What if there really is something on the Sky Screen worth learning from?"
"Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated!"
Yu Xiaogang was forcibly held back by Flender.
Though he no longer shouted, his chest still heaved violently.
He stared fixedly at the Sky Screen, his eyes filled with venom:
"Fine! I'll watch! I'll see how he breaks the limit!"
"When he explodes from overload, you'll all learn that only my theory is the truth!"
White World.
Above the Sky Screen, the words "Rules were meant to be broken" rang like thunder.
Within the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
Yu Xiaogang abruptly turned to look at his elder brother beside him.
The admiration in his eyes nearly overflowed.
"Good! Very well said! Rules were meant to be broken!"
Why couldn't he be as clever as his elder brother?
His elder brother could casually speak a line worthy of being remembered.
Elsewhere.
Pope Bibi Dong stared quietly at Yu Xiaotian.
"It would have been wonderful if I had met you sooner back then."
"I foolishly went to absorb my first soul ring without knowing that exceeding the limit was even possible, so I obediently settled for a four-hundred-year one."
"If you had been there then, I definitely could have broken the limit too."
"Fortunately, I gained a second martial soul later and made up for it."
Seeing Bibi Dong acting like a young girl, Yu Xiaotian instantly felt a chill run down his spine.
He quickly looked away and pretended to focus on the Sky Screen.
"Ahem, let bygones be bygones. Watch the Sky Screen, watch the Sky Screen..."
Ever since they had gotten together, the Pope who appeared cold and commanding to outsiders.
Had turned into a clingy person before him.
He enjoyed it, but also found it somewhat difficult to handle.
At this moment, the scene on the Sky Screen shifted to Yu Xiaotian's Secret Chamber.
[Although Three-Eyed Demon devouring dragon-type flesh had brought enormous feedback.]
[Yu Xiaotian could at most catch up to those geniuses with Innate Full Soul Power through that alone.]
[If he wanted to crush the other geniuses and break the limit of the first soul ring, physical strength was the hard requirement.]
[The body was a container, and a soul ring was water. If the container was not large enough, too much water would only burst it apart.]
[The young Yu Xiaotian wrote down a Whale Rubber enhancement plan on paper.]
Seeing the Sky Screen, Yu Xiaotian could not help recalling the situation back then.
Before his awakening, his frail body could not have withstood even hundred-year Whale Rubber.
But after Three-Eyed Demon's nourishment, he was already qualified to absorb thousand-year Whale Rubber.
Once he absorbed the thousand-year one, he could challenge the Ten Thousand Year Whale Rubber!
At the time, that had been an utterly crazy idea.
[Yu Xiaotian sought out his father, Yu Yuanzhen, who supported him unconditionally, once again.]
[He told him about the plan.]
[Yu Yuanzhen was delighted upon learning of it. If Xiaotian succeeded, Xiaogang could replicate it as well.]
[Thus, after Yu Yuanzhen ordered a search for Whale Rubber, clan members soon brought some back to the clan.]
[Among it were exceptionally high-quality thousand-year Whale Rubber and Ten Thousand Year Whale Rubber.]
[However, Yu Luomian intercepted it at that moment.]
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