Dark World, Shrek Academy.
"Heh heh, Grandmaster, didn't you say earlier that there was no way he could succeed?"
"Why so quiet now? Don't feel like talking?"
When Yu Xiaogang successfully absorbed the Spirit Ring on the Heavenly Screen, everyone froze.
After a long silence, Ning Rongrong recovered and turned to Yu Xiaogang with a smile.
Her raised lips and mocking gaze reminded him of everyone who had once dismissed him.
Normally, a look like that would have made Yu Xiaogang furious.
But right now, he had no room to think about it.
His mind was a mess.
He couldn't understand it. They had the same father, the same family, the same Martial Soul.
So how had he and the Yu Xiaogang of the Parallel World ended up so far apart?
Why?
In what way was he inferior?
They were both human. They had awakened the same Martial Soul, and neither had high Innate Soul Power.
How could that other man do it when he couldn't?
A thousand-year ring as his first Spirit Ring! Even Tang San, the disciple he was proudest of, wouldn't dare try it. Yet the other Yu Xiaogang had tried—and succeeded.
Hadn't he feared the Spirit Ring's power might overwhelm him and make him explode?
Thud!
Yu Xiaogang's legs gave way, and he slumped to the ground, muttering over and over:
"Impossible. Impossible..."
Seeing him so utterly lost, Ning Rongrong no longer felt like mocking him.
There was no fun in it.
Beside her, Tang San saw Yu Xiaogang's wretched state but, unusually, made no move to comfort him.
Because Tang San, too, was questioning everything.
He had always believed that becoming the Grandmaster's disciple was the best decision of his life.
Under the Grandmaster's guidance, he had learned about Douluo Continent's Martial Soul system.
He