Nuoding Cafeteria had two floors. The first floor was a hall, while the second was for ordering individual dishes.
After getting their meals on the first floor, everyone found seats and sat down.
The food here was nothing special, but it was cheap and came in large portions.
"Isn't this Wang Sheng and his bunch of poor wretches?"
The moment they sat down, an unpleasant voice drifted over.
Yu Cheng looked toward the voice and saw Xiao Chenyu and his group standing on the stairs, looking down at them from above.
"Still eating pickled radishes and rotten greens."
"Tsk, tsk. Poor wretches will always be poor wretches. You probably won't ever get to eat upstairs."
Xiao Chenyu wagged a finger, his eyes brimming with disdain.
"What the hell are you barking about?"
Xiao Wu was still unhappy after getting beaten up by Yu Cheng. Hearing Xiao Chenyu's remarks, she immediately exploded.
She abruptly stood up, slammed her chopsticks down, and glared furiously at him.
"Sister Xiao Wu, don't act rashly."
A work-study student hurriedly tugged at the corner of her clothes.
Yet Xiao Chenyu ignored Xiao Wu's insult. Instead, he stared at her with great interest, excitement gleaming in his eyes.
"Oh? What a pretty little girl."
He stroked his chin. "Wang Sheng, I'm going to eat now, so I'll let you off this time."
With that, the group headed up the stairs to the second floor.
Xiao Wu raised a foot to chase after them, but Wang Sheng grabbed her. "Sister Xiao Wu, forget it. Let's eat first."
"You're all this afraid of trouble?"
Xiao Wu looked at Wang Sheng with disdain.
Wang Sheng gave a bitter smile. "His name is Xiao Chenyu. His father is the Lord of Nuoding City. He acts arrogantly in the academy every day. Even the teachers don't dare to discipline him."
Over the years, Wang Sheng had borne the banner of the work-study students and fought against the oppression of the noble students.
However...
Whenever there was a group fight, he did not even dare to go all out. He was afraid of injuring one of them and bringing unnecessary trouble upon himself.
"Sister Xiao Wu, you're a girl. You should stay away from them from now on."
Wang Sheng tried to persuade her.
"What's wrong with being a girl?"
Xiao Wu was immediately displeased.
Wang Sheng sighed. "There used to be a girl among us work-study students, but she suddenly dropped out."
"Why?"
Confusion flashed through Xiao Wu's eyes.
"I heard Xiao Chenyu bullied her. Reporting it to the academy was useless, so she could only drop out."
Wang Sheng smiled bitterly.
"Bastard!"
Xiao Wu clenched both fists and slammed them heavily onto the table.
The "bullying" Wang Sheng spoke of naturally did not mean merely getting beaten up, but losing her innocence.
As a girl herself, Xiao Wu wanted nothing more than to rush upstairs and tear Xiao Chenyu into eight pieces after hearing Wang Sheng's words.
"This man already deserves death!"
Tang San put down his chopsticks and could not help saying it.
"That kind of thing happened?"
Yu Cheng was also somewhat surprised.
He had read the original novel and knew that the nobles of Douluo Continent were no good. Yet Xiao Chenyu's actions were no different from those of a beast.
Yu Cheng lightly tapped the tabletop with his fingers.
Originally, he had still been hesitating over whether to use Xiao Chenyu to strike at the City Lord's Mansion.
Now, it seemed that letting such a person remain in this world was simply a waste of food.
Yu Cheng glanced at Xiao Wu, who was on the verge of exploding, then at Tang San's gloomy face. The plan in his heart gradually became clear.
Academy life began.
Tang San did not attend the opening ceremony. On the second day of school, he followed Yu Xiaogang to Soul Hunting Forest.
That afternoon, Xiao Wu also took leave and left the academy.
Her reason was to hunt Soul Beasts.
Inside the library.
"Brother, what was your First Soul Ring?"
Yu Cheng closed the Soul Beast Illustrated Handbook and communicated with the Ash Box in his mind.
After searching through the library for two or three days, he found that there were not many Soul Beasts suitable for the Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul.
There were even only a handful of books concerning the Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul.
"My First Soul Ring came from a Soul Beast called the Sun Flower."
Evil Soul Master Yu Cheng spoke.
"My First Soul Skill was called Sunlight. It could speed up my cultivation. In battle, it could help teammates restore Soul Power and had a slight healing effect as well."
Yu Cheng stroked his chin. "So you were a Support System Soul Master?"
Evil Soul Master Yu Cheng nodded. "There are not many paths suitable for the Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul. The Support System is one of the most normal ones."
"As for the others..."
He sneered.
"The Control System can barely work too, but don't be like Tang San and choose a pile of trash poison-attribute Soul Rings. The martial soul won't gain much poison, while the Blue Silver Grass's vitality will be damaged instead."
Yu Cheng nodded and smiled. "I didn't expect you to know so much about Soul Rings too."
Evil Soul Master Yu Cheng snorted coldly.
Even if he had never eaten pork, had he not seen a pig run?
During his years in Slaughter City, he had killed no fewer than eighty, if not a hundred, Soul Masters with plant martial souls.
"Then should I kill a Sun Flower Soul Beast like you did?" Yu Cheng asked.
Sunlight.
The effect of that Soul Skill sounded extremely powerful.
However, Evil Soul Master Yu Cheng shook his head.
"I obtained that Soul Skill to increase my cultivation speed and make up for my lack of Innate Soul Power."
"With half a rank of Innate Soul Power, you can pile up resources to cultivate quickly in the early stages. But if you fail to strive forward, you'll only end up like Yu Xiaogang, stuck at Rank 29 for your entire life."
He looked at Yu Cheng and sighed. "You started with the Blood Sacrifice Array. You do not need to consider cultivation speed at all."
Yu Cheng scratched his head. "Brother, was that Blood Sacrifice Array really that damn powerful?"
"Absorbing the blood of Soul Masters and Soul Beasts has the greatest advantage of making cultivation very fast, but this array has a flaw."
Evil Soul Master Yu Cheng changed the subject.
He recalled, "In Slaughter City, I defeated a Soul Master and happened to acquire the Blood Sacrifice Array from him. His Soul Power was higher than mine, yet he could not display the combat strength he should have had."
"Later, I understood. Soul Power increased through the array is extremely impure, and the energies inside the body can even clash with one another."
Yu Cheng asked doubtfully, "Then why did you still use the array to cultivate?"
Evil Soul Master Yu Cheng sighed.
"I only figured it out after entering the Ash Box. No wonder I couldn't beat Tang San. The more I think about it, the angrier I get!"
"Uh..."
Yu Cheng fell silent.
Evil Soul Master Yu Cheng was truly miserable. He had lifted a rock only to smash his own foot.
"Then what should I do?"
Yu Cheng suddenly thought of this issue.
If he used the array to increase his Soul Power, would he not encounter the same problem?
His Soul Power would rise rapidly, but it would be impure and leave his foundation unstable.
In the end, some "genius Soul Master" would defeat him despite being weaker, and he would become that person's stepping stone.
"Though the Blood Sacrifice Array has flaws, it is still an excellent cultivation tool. During the previous blood sacrifices, the Soul Power was filtered through my soul body and had no side effects whatsoever."
Evil Soul Master Yu Cheng said seriously.
"Therefore, your First Soul Skill must be able to serve as a filter."
"Devouring, purification, growth."
"These are the three directions you can choose from."
Yu Cheng nodded. "I understand devouring and purification. What does the growth direction mean?"
"Certain plant Soul Beasts can absorb corpses to replenish their own energy, such as the Ghost Face Banyan Tree and Ghost Vine."
"This ability differs from direct devouring and purification."
"A flower planted in cow dung absorbs shit, yet blooms into a flower."
"That is growth."
Evil Soul Master Yu Cheng explained.
"That example is certainly straightforward." Yu Cheng scratched his head and laughed.
"There is a Ghost Vine in Soul Hunting Forest outside Nuoding City. It happens to be suitable for you," Evil Soul Master Yu Cheng said.
"You mean... the Soul Beast Tang San killed for his Second Soul Ring?"
Yu Cheng lightly tapped the table with his fingers.
Choosing a Soul Ring more than six hundred years old as his First Soul Ring?
With his current physical condition, there was no way he could absorb it.
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