Kids, Hidden Weapons Are Too Sneaky

After that incident, Chen Yumo's appetite had been greatly dampened. Running into an idiot in the middle of the day was genuinely nauseating.

The premium set meal had cost a full three Silver Soul Coins, yet it tasted like wax in his mouth. Chen Yumo added this blood feud of three Silver Soul Coins to Yu Xiaogang's forehead.

To borrow Tang San's words:

Gangzi, you have chosen the Way of Death!

After finishing that especially grueling meal, Chen Yumo returned to the dormitory and fed the Ice Silkworm mulberry leaves for a while. Then Boss Xiao sent someone to find him, saying that the wagered duel with the Work-Study Students was about to begin.

Chen Yumo did not back down. Even though he knew Xiao Chenyu and the others were certain to lose, and that going along would mean taking on work that should not have been his to bear, he still went.

By the time he arrived, the Louse Swarm was already itching to hunt. Chen Yumo slipped into their ranks without drawing anyone's attention and quietly stayed behind everyone else.

Participating was one thing, but getting beaten up was out of the question. He could only coast along to barely get by.

The group marched grandly toward the back mountain. At that moment, the Work-Study Students' group arrived by another path. The two sides stood facing each other from opposite ends of the clearing, and the atmosphere immediately ignited.

Chen Yumo did not pay much attention to their pre-battle trash talk.

It was probably Xiao Chenyu's deceptively shrewd provocation. The Rogue Rabbit, being an animal at heart, did not understand all those twists and turns, so she was enraged in just a few exchanges and readily agreed to the wagered duel.

Ten against ten.

There were only ten Work-Study Students, while Xiao Chenyu's side had twice as many people. Naturally, they chose the strongest among them, so it had nothing to do with Chen Yumo and his mere level-one Soul Power.

But honestly, with the Noble Students' numerical advantage, rushing in together and beating the few with the many would have been the safest tactic. If Chen Yumo had been the boss, he definitely would not have bothered talking about honor with the other side. Only victors had the right to write history and give speeches.

Boss Xiao was still too loyal. He was not even willing to bully the weak with superior numbers.

The duel officially began. The first match was still Liu Long against Wang Sheng.

It was just that the Rogue Rabbit's remark about "withered flowers and ruined willows" when they took the field was rather explosive. It angered Liu Long badly, and once he began fighting Wang Sheng, every strike of his staff targeted vital points. He was clearly aiming to beat Wang Sheng flat on the ground.

A one-ring Tool Spirit Master fighting someone with level-seven Soul Power and no Spirit Ring at all was basically a complete stomp.

Standing in the corner, Chen Yumo saw it clearly. Liu Long's staff techniques were not particularly brilliant; they even possessed the artistic beauty of wildly swinging it around. Yet Wang Sheng simply could not get close. Every time he tried to close the distance, Liu Long forced him back with a single swing.

The battle was incredibly tense—so tense that Chen Yumo nearly fell asleep watching it.

Just as Wang Sheng lunged forward again and Liu Long repeated the same move, Chen Yumo, whose innate spiritual power had been strengthened by transmigration, caught sight of an extremely fast black shadow with his sharp eyes.

It jolted him awake at once, instantly clearing away his drowsiness.

The black shadow struck precisely at the nerve in Liu Long's elbow. The hand gripping his staff immediately trembled, and his swinging motion stalled uncontrollably. Wang Sheng then pounced on him and knocked him to the ground, before sending him into a sweet dream with a punch.

That was the weakness of Tool Spirit Masters.

Before reaching the seven-ring Spirit Saint level, their physical condition was simply far inferior to Beast Martial Soul Spirit Masters of the same rank. Liu Long had suppressed Wang Sheng from start to finish, but the slightest opening was enough for Wang Sheng to turn the tables and kill him off.

Although that opening had been created by Tang San and had nothing to do with Wang Sheng himself.

Still, it exposed the weakness of Tool Spirit Masters, and Chen Yumo had the same weakness.

He was indeed a Beast Martial Soul Spirit Master, but his was an External Beast Martial Soul. So far, he had not discovered any sign that his Martial Soul could possess his body.

If he could not use Martial Soul Possession, then what difference was there between him, a Beast Martial Soul Spirit Master, and a Tool Spirit Master?

If he still could not achieve Martial Soul Possession after obtaining his first Spirit Ring, then he would have to consider adding his second Spirit Ring in a defensive direction. Nothing was more important than his own life. That had always been his belief.

Especially since his future opponent would be Tang San...

That black shadow had undoubtedly been a pebble Tang San threw using Tang Sect Hidden Weapon techniques. Even if Chen Yumo had not witnessed it himself just now, he knew this scene existed in the original story.

After all, if Tang San did not descend like a god, how could the importance of him as the protagonist be highlighted?

The following developments did not differ from the original story. Tang San appeared, his yellow Hundred-Year Spirit Ring stunned the entire crowd, and one motherfucking Bind directly turned Boss Xiao into mashed tofu, forcing the Noble Students' side to surrender.

Xiao Wu subsequently revealed her Hundred-Year Spirit Ring as well, leaving Boss Xiao and the others utterly silent.

As the City Lord's son, he only had a Ten-Year Spirit Ring. Yet Tang San and Xiao Wu, two Work-Study Students, possessed Hundred-Year Spirit Rings. More importantly, they both had Innate Full Soul Power, despite having awakened their Martial Souls only recently.

Boss Xiao was no fool. He quickly realized that the two people opposite him were not people he could afford to provoke. Talent and strength reflected one's background to some extent; ordinary commoners could not possibly be so outstanding.

So he decisively admitted defeat, called Xiao Wu "Big Sister," and took over the Work-Study Students' work.

And so the matter came to an end.

Chen Yumo had initially only come to watch the Louse Swarm battle for entertainment, but the first Spirit Master duel he witnessed still gave him some inspiration.

He had to admit that on Douluo Continent, Tang San's Hidden Weapons were fucking underhanded.

Chen Yumo had originally planned to solidify the Ice Silkworm's Break Cocoon ability with his first Spirit Ring, then use his second Spirit Ring to strengthen his combat ability. But he had no choice but to consider Tang San's threat.

That meant the order of his Metamorphosis would need to change.

It would not affect his potential, but it would affect his early combat power.

Ha, what combat power could an Ice Silkworm possibly have early on?

Stacking up more life-saving measures might still be the better choice.

However, Chen Yumo was somewhat surprised that when Xiao Chenyu and the others assigned the Work-Study Students' tasks, they did not include him. Instead, they gave the work to the others.

Those who received that treatment were undoubtedly the people with higher cultivation in the group, yet Chen Yumo—the one with the lowest cultivation—had been left out.

What did that mean?

Chen Yumo immediately became a little wary.

Not until Xiao Chenyu came before him, patted him reassuringly, and told him not to let the Master's words disturb his mindset, but to just cultivate diligently.

When he said that, there was even a trace of pity and sympathy in his eyes.

Well damn, case closed.

Everyone, I'm getting free meals too.

Chen Yumo did not know whether to laugh or cry, but he still accepted Xiao Chenyu's goodwill.

At worst, when he intercepted the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well in the future, he could leave Xiao Chenyu the Nine-Rank Purple Ganoderma that had originally belonged to Gangzi.

A grand Louse Swarm battle thus ended with a whimper, completely becoming Tang San and Xiao Wu's personal show. The fame of those two geniuses would surely spread throughout Nuoding Academy in no time.

None of that had much to do with Chen Yumo.

The wagered duel had not lasted long. Afternoon classes had not even begun yet. After parting ways with Boss Xiao and the others, Chen Yumo leisurely fed the Ice Silkworm while heading toward the classroom.

There were quite a few others like him, including the random passersby who had spent the entire noon serving as background props in the back mountain forest.

Chen Yumo even saw Xiao Wu surrounded by a large crowd, her face full of smug pride as she bossed everyone around.

Seriously, girl? You're a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in human form, and you really think you're a human toddler?