Douluo's Seventh Class

Everything seemed to have returned to its original track. Tang San had still acknowledged Xiao Wu as his little sister, but things were different from the original story.

Before Tang San's Martial Soul underwent its second awakening and revealed its true form in the original story, he might not have been handsome, but his features had at least been decent.

Now, though, he was the spitting image of Song Moubao. It would have been a miracle if Xiao Wu clung to him as she had in the original story.

The two were nowhere near as close as they had been in the original story.

Moreover, Xiao Wu had come this time specifically to ask Ning Chuan to become sworn siblings with them. Unsurprisingly, he had refused.

He did not want any dealings with Tang San, and Tang San likely felt the same.

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The Yu Xiaogang incident had merely been the fuse. More importantly, Xiao Wu was closer to Ning Chuan than she was to Tang San. Even without Yu Xiaogang, Tang San would have grown jealous over Xiao Wu and gradually become hostile toward Ning Chuan.

Time flowed like water, and in the blink of an eye, five years had passed.

Ning Chuan had finally graduated from Notting Academy.

Balak Kingdom, Suotuo City.

Near noon, three people who looked to be only teenagers entered through Suotuo City's western gate—two boys and a girl.

The girl in the middle looked twelve or thirteen. She stood over 1.7 meters tall, with fair skin flushed with rosy color, beautiful features, and a nearly perfect figure. What drew the most attention, however, were her long legs wrapped in white trousers. Any man who saw them would feel the urge to play with them for half a year.

The boy on her left was much taller still, nearly 1.8 meters tall. He had a lean build and long legs, fair and handsome features, a perfect physique, and an extraordinary bearing.

Compared to them, the boy standing to the girl's right looked rather shabby. Not only was he far shorter than the other two, at less than 1.6 meters tall—

His limbs were thick and stubby, his entire body was as black as charcoal, and he was somewhat hunched over, looking exactly like a humanoid black bear.

If not for the traces of childishness still on his face, anyone unaware of the truth would have assumed he was a middle-aged man in his forties or fifties.

With her shoulders slumped, the girl complained listlessly, "I'm exhausted. Why did I leave a perfectly good advanced Soul Master academy behind to come to that disgusting Shit-whatever academy that doesn't even have a proper ranking system?"

The charcoal-black boy smiled faintly and corrected her, "It's Shrek Academy."

"Whatever academy it is, I don't care. I'm tired," the girl whined.

The charcoal-black boy asked hopefully, "How about I carry you?"

"I don't want you... I want Little Six to carry me." As she spoke, the girl moved to throw herself onto the handsome boy on the left.

But the handsome boy seemed to have eyes at his side and dodged in advance.

Expressionlessly, he said, "If you want someone to carry you, have your good brother do it." She had learned the nickname Little Six from the villagers of Emperor Soul Village.

"Yeah, Xiao Wu. How about I carry you instead?" The charcoal-black boy's tone was humble, his smile somewhat forced.

These three were none other than Xiao Wu, Ning Chuan, and Tang San, who had come from Notting Academy.

Just as in the original story, after graduating from Notting Academy, Tang San had come to Suotuo City with Xiao Wu to register for Shrek Academy.

The slight difference was that Ning Chuan had come as well.

And he had come at Xiao Wu's invitation.

It was not because Ning Chuan had developed feelings for Xiao Wu. What truly interested him were Ning Rongrong, Little Cat, and the Eight Spider Lances.

One had Sword Douluo behind her and also possessed the Distraction Control Method, allowing her to provide Ning Chuan with suitable guidance. The other made Ning Chuan lust after her body; naturally, he would not pass up such a beauty. He certainly could not let Dai Mubai have her.

Otherwise, wouldn't he have come to this world for nothing?

And aside from Little Cat, he could not miss out on the Eight Spider Lances either.

Most importantly, he needed to find that Shit Rek bunch and use them as suckers. That was the highest priority.

Only by screwing them over could Ning Chuan do so without any psychological burden.

Xiao Wu looked Tang San's extremely disproportionate body up and down again, her face full of resistance.

"I don't want to. Black Bro is too short. If he carries me, my feet will drag on the ground. That'd just make me even more tired."

She pouted as she spoke. The way she addressed him had also changed from the original story's Third Brother to Black Bro.

"Uh..." Tang San's face darkened, and his expression was indescribably awkward.

He did not know what had happened either. Before awakening his Martial Soul, he had been perfectly normal.

But ever since awakening it, his skin had grown darker and darker, while he had failed to grow any taller. They were both at rank twenty-nine in Soul Power and had both absorbed two hundred-year Soul Rings, yet Xiao Wu was a full half-head taller than him. Ning Chuan was nearly a full head taller, and he had grown wider too, with plenty of utterly useless dead muscle added to his body.

As a result, Xiao Wu was closer to Ning Chuan than she was to him, her "brother."

It was enough to make him depressed to death.

"Then walk yourself."

Ning Chuan ignored Xiao Wu and kept walking forward.

Yet the more he acted that way, the more relentlessly Xiao Wu pursued him.

And Tang San, in turn, relentlessly pursued Xiao Wu.

How should their relationship be described now?

Tang San simped for Xiao Wu, Xiao Wu simped for Ning Chuan, and Ning Chuan felt nothing, with pursuits of his own in his heart. It was somewhat like the early Seventh Class of Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura in Fire Shadow.

The reason was the bedding Ning Chuan had given Xiao Wu back then. It made her mistakenly believe that Ning Chuan was cold on the outside but warm at heart. She had always viewed Ning Chuan through that filter.

On top of that, Ning Chuan's actions in Emperor Soul Village—building roads and houses for the villagers—

further confirmed Xiao Wu's belief.

So no matter how Ning Chuan ignored her, Xiao Wu believed he was only acting that way because he was outwardly cold but warm-hearted, and simply bad at expressing himself.

Meanwhile, because she and Tang San were brother and sister, Xiao Wu gradually came to take Tang San's kindness toward her for granted. After all, it was only natural for an older brother to treat his younger sister well, just like how the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python treated her well.

That was what led to such a ridiculous scene: Tang San had poured his heart and soul into Xiao Wu for six years, yet he still could not compare to a set of bedding casually given by Ning Chuan.

Who could blame him? Ning Chuan had kept making Tang San uglier for six straight years.

From the moment he started becoming uglier, all of this had already been destined.

Still, Xiao Wu's actions had not been entirely without effect. Ning Chuan was not truly made of stone, after all. Toward a Xiao Wu who had fawned over him for six years, he no longer had the same urgent desire as before to obtain her Soul Ring and Soul Bone.

As one of the Balak Kingdom's two major cities, Suotuo City was far larger than the remote little city of Notting City.

The three found a small restaurant and ate something simple.

After the meal, Xiao Wu naturally had Tang San, as her brother, pay for her, while Ning Chuan paid for his own portion.

And so, with Xiao Wu leading them around aimlessly, Ning Chuan followed them to the Rose Hotel from the original story. From beginning to end, he watched everything as a mere spectator.