Nuoding City, Nuoding Academy.
A man wearing a tight long robe, with center-parted bangs, a fat head and large ears, a pale clean-shaven face, and a strange mixture of perfume and stench about him, trudged heavily into the cafeteria.
The people around him covered their noses and moved aside. One of them jeered:
"Yu Xiaogang, your clothes got smaller again."
Yu Xiaogang did not answer. He said to the cafeteria auntie, "Two meat dishes, and a plate of tofu." As he spoke, he handed over his bowl.
The cafeteria auntie gave him a disdainful look and skillfully put her ladle-shaking technique to work.
Yu Xiaogang said nothing. Taking his bowl, he found an empty seat and sat down.
Someone else deliberately shouted, "Yu Xiaogang, you must have been stealing food again."
Yu Xiaogang opened his eyes wide and glared at the man. "How can you slander me out of nowhere?"
"What slander? I saw you sneaking into the cafeteria kitchen to steal food the night before last. The dean caught you and had you strung up and beaten."
Yu Xiaogang's face immediately flushed red as he argued, "Eating doesn't count as stealing... eating!... Can a Battle Spirit Master's business be called stealing?"
This was followed by a whole pile of grand theories—things like "researching Spirit Master theory is exhausting too" and "a Spirit Master's physique"—drawing laughter from everyone as the cafeteria filled with a cheerful atmosphere.
Ever since the former dean of Nuoding Academy had died, the Master's life had not been easy.
Many people who had been close to the dean believed Yu Xiaogang had caused his death. Otherwise, how could a useless Soul Grandmaster and a rank-twenty Spirit Master have emerged from the Soul Hunting Forest alive when the dean, a Soul Ancestor, had died there?
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