Though rabbits were nimble, lightning was faster.
Little Lei Yi vanished from Lin Ming's shoulder in an instant. When she reappeared, she was already behind Xiao Wu.
Her body suddenly expanded several times over, growing to sixty-six centimeters.
Xiao Wu was quick to react, too, and immediately completed her Martial Soul Possession.
Now it was a race to see who was faster.
Would Little Lei Yi pin her down first, or would Xiao Wu touch Lin Ming and throw him out first?
Just as her nimble body was about to wrap around Lin Ming, a flash of amusement crossed Xiao Wu's eyes.
Hmph.
No one had ever escaped this move of Sister Xiao Wu's.
She was already smugly convinced she'd won, ready to hear Lin Ming call her Sister Xiao Wu.
But when her fingers were barely an inch from Lin Ming, she felt something tingly touch them.
What was that?
A question flashed through Xiao Wu's mind.
Was this Soul Power?
Why did it feel tingly?
It was just like being shocked.
But in the instant she froze, Little Lei Yi behind her had already touched her neck.
Xiao Wu thought, This is bad. She tensed her neck, hoping to use its strength to resist Little Lei Yi, afraid she'd twist it clean off.
But aside from feeling Little Lei Yi touch her neck, she couldn't feel any other force.
What did that mean?
Xiao Wu was confused, but she didn't care.
Her fingers pushed through that tingling sensation. Victory was within reach.
Then, from the corner of her eye, she saw a brilliant golden light begin to shine from her neck.
[Self-Created Soul Skill, Electric Sacrifice.]
A burning, tingling sensation swept through her body, making her shudder.
For a moment, she couldn't summon the slightest bit of strength.
Her calves, especially, went weak.
Thump.
Xiao Wu fell flat on her face, catching herself with both arms so she wouldn't have an intimate encounter with the ground.
She had just wanted to catch her breath, but Little Lei Yi and Lin Ming gave her no time.
One punch now spared a hundred later.
Then came an even more intense electric treatment.
"Uhhhhhhh, ahhhhhhh~~~"
Xiao Wu felt like she was about to ascend to heaven. Her mind was a blank from the shocks, and she'd completely forgotten how to think.
I'm...
I'm gonna break.
That was the only thought left in her mind.
Her trembling arms had no strength left in them, and she could only hold herself up with her bones.
"Whoosh~"
A pebble flew toward Lin Ming's face. He calmly tilted his head and dodged it.
"Ow~"
A pained wail rang out from the doorway.
Lin Ming raised a hand to stop Little Lei Yi's electric treatment, then turned around.
A middle-aged man was crouching on the ground, clutching his mouth. A brand-new set of bedding had been tossed beside him.
He'd used delivering Tang San's bedding as an excuse to come see Lin Ming.
"Teacher!"
Tang San recognized the middle-aged man and hurried to the doorway to help Yu Xiaogang up.
Seeing Yu Xiaogang's two missing front teeth, he felt his heart ache.
He turned toward Lin Ming and said coldly,
"Why did you dodge?"
"Are you stupid?"
Lin Ming laughed in disbelief.
"We were in the middle of a fight, Xiao Wu and I. What was the point of ambushing me? Do you live by the sea? Why are you sticking your nose into everything?"
"Yeah, Tang San, that's not cool."
The others in Dorm Seven came to their senses and gathered around, grumbling.
One of them was Lin Ming, who'd beaten Xiao Chenyu; the other was a girl even stronger than Tang San.
They'd been looking forward to seeing which of them was stronger. Why was Tang San butting in?
"You think it's something to be proud of, bullying a little girl?"
Tang San made a mental note of everyone who wouldn't speak up for him, then lifted his chin and declared with the air of a man who was the only one in the room on the side of justice.
He'd lived two lifetimes. How could he stand by while someone bullied a child right under his nose?
Respecting teachers and elders, and caring for the young—those were traditions of the Tang Sect.
You worthless fools couldn't tell right from wrong.
You all deserved to die.
"Lin Ming bullied a little girl? It was Boss Xiao Wu who started a fight with him without even knowing what was going on."
Wang Sheng stepped forward.
"That's right! If it weren't for Boss Lin Ming, the Work-Study Students would still be getting bullied!"
The others chimed in, too.
Tang San was starting to lose face.
He was about to speak again when Little Lei Yi shocked him until he was shuddering.
Did he think Little Lei Yi was a pushover?
"How can you do that?"
Yu Xiaogang was missing two front teeth, and his words came out with a lisp.
Hearing his teacher speak, Tang San immediately felt emboldened.
"Yeah, how can you do that?"
So what if they were a bunch of Work-Study Students who weren't born with Innate Full Soul Power? What did it matter if every last one of them was against him?
They were all just a bunch of trash.
"I mean you, Tang San. How could you treat Lin Ming like that?"
"Exactly!"
Tang San nodded along with Yu Xiaogang, then froze the next moment.
"What did you say?"
He turned to look at Yu Xiaogang, who spoke to him with earnest concern.
"They were having a perfectly good fight, and you just had to throw a pebble at them. What was that for, but to cause trouble? It's a good thing it hit me. If it had hit Lin Ming, imagine how much it would've hurt."
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??
Three question marks popped into Tang San's mind.
What did he mean, it was a good thing it hit him?
Why hadn't it just killed him?
For the first time, Tang San wondered if it had been rash of him to take this old man as his teacher.
So this old geezer deserved to die, too.
"Teacher, what are you even talking about?"
Tang San stared at the teacher he'd just accepted, unable to believe it.
You know I was born with Innate Full Soul Power and Twin Martial Souls.
That's a lot more impressive than Lin Ming, who was born with only one level of Soul Power and has a Trash Martial Soul that can leave his body.
Even Soul Grandmaster Su Yuntao himself had confirmed it.
Yu Xiaogang rubbed his mouth. That hit had really hurt.
Hearing Tang San call him teacher reminded him that he'd just taken on a disciple.
He still wasn't used to it.
His hand froze as he rubbed his mouth. Then he casually cleared his throat twice, and his face returned to its usual stiff, expressionless look.
"It's just kids messing around. Here's your bedding. I have things to do, so I'll be going."
Yu Xiaogang picked up the bedding from the floor and coolly shoved it into Tang San's arms, then turned and walked straight out without a backward glance.
To everyone else, his attempt to avoid offending either side made him look like a clown. But Tang San was completely taken in.
So this was the bearing of a Grandmaster?
Looking at the brand-new bedding in his arms, now smudged with dust, Tang San's eyes grew damp.
Maybe this old geezer didn't deserve to die after all.
"Tang San, I was having a perfectly good fight! Why did you have to ambush me? Sister Xiao Wu was this close to winning, you know?"
Xiao Wu, who'd recovered enough to get up, charged over furiously and flung Tang San a long way.
"Perfect. I'll take your bedding as an apology to Sister Xiao Wu!"
She took the quilt Yu Xiaogang had given Tang San and made her own bed.
She had no intention of sharing it with Tang San.
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