"Hmph, trash!"
Yuanen Yehui curled her lip, but she still withdrew her Martial Soul and Soul Rings.
"What is your Martial Soul?"
Xiao Hongchen surprisingly did not retort. He merely looked at Yuanen Yehui with a complicated expression.
"Titan Giant Ape. So what?"
Yuanen Yehui did not hide it either. As she spoke, she took a robe from her Storage Soul Guidance Device and draped it over herself.
"The king of the forest... the Titan Giant Ape."
Xiao Hongchen's gaze tightened slightly before he let out a heavy sigh.
"Then it wasn't unfair that I lost."
His Three-Legged Golden Toad was already considered a top-tier Beast Martial Soul in the Sun Moon Empire, but compared to the Titan Giant Ape, known as the king of the forest, the difference between them was still far too great.
"Don't lose heart, Young Master Xiao."
Seeing Xiao Hongchen's spirits sink, Xu Tianming stepped forward and threw an arm around his shoulders.
"It was just one loss. Isn't this a bit much?"
"Cut it out!"
Xiao Hongchen tried to break free from Xu Tianming's hold, but how could Xu Tianming, who possessed a Body Martial Soul, let him escape so easily?
"I'm the number one genius of the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy... Losing to you was one thing, but today I actually lost to a woman too!"
Xiao Hongchen sighed dejectedly.
"And both times, I was defeated by you—by her—in a single move."
"I underestimated the Spirit Masters of our Sun Moon Empire. The number one genius of the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy... what a joke."
At the end of the day, Xiao Hongchen was only a fifteen- or sixteen-year-old boy.
In the past, he had been blinded by all manner of praise. After suddenly suffering two consecutive defeats, it