The scene on the screen showed Yu Xiaogang taking Tang San to the Soul Hunting Forest.
In this scene, Yu Xiaogang stood with his hands behind his back, looking seriously at the Lone Bamboo in front of him.
"This is a Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo. It's known for its toughness, so it's very suitable for your Blue Silver Grass, Xiao San."
After Yu Xiaogang finished speaking, the six-year-old Tang San standing beside him wore a troubled expression, his eyes full of doubt.
The Heavenly Curtain zoomed in on Tang San's expression.
It even added a meme of a confused Black man.
"That's right. This so-called theoretical grandmaster, who claimed to have taught a god, spent fifty years studying theory."
"When faced with his own genius disciple, who had Innate Full Soul Power and Twin Martial Souls, his first thought was actually to have him absorb a Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo."
"Was this Yu Xiaogang's top-tier understanding from some advanced version of the world, or was he trying to ruin his genius disciple out of jealousy?"
Shrek Academy.
Ever since the Heavenly Curtain began playing, Dai Mubai and the others had gone through countless changes in expression.
But now, confusion filled the eyes of all six of them. They even began to doubt the Heavenly Curtain.
It had just said that Yu Xiaogang, who called himself a theoretical grandmaster, had told Tang San to absorb a Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo.
Was that possible?
Tell a genius with Innate Full Soul Power and Twin Martial Souls to absorb a Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo?
Forget a theoretical grandmaster who had studied Martial Soul Theory for fifty years—even an idiot who knew the basics of Soul Rings wouldn't do that.
Still, to be safe, Dai Mubai and the others turned to look at Tang San and Yu Xiaogang.
They could ask the two people involved and find out whether it was true.
"Xiao San, this... this can't be true, can it?"
Tang San first glanced at Yu Xiaogang beside him, then gave a slight nod and helplessly scratched his head.
"That's what happened at first, but then Teacher took me deeper into the Soul Hunting Forest to hunt a Mandala Snake."
"Ah! Third Brother, that really happened?"
Xiao Wu was visibly shocked by this revelation.
She genuinely hadn't expected that something like this had happened when Tang San absorbed his First Soul Ring.
"I thought it was fake too. How could Grandmaster possibly tell a genius with Twin Martial Souls like you to absorb a Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo?"
"Even the guards at the gate of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect wouldn't want a Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo."
Ning Rongrong, the little troublemaker, twisted the knife.
"That's right, Grandmaster. Were you just messing with Tang San back then?"
Yu Xiaogang watched the scene on the Heavenly Curtain showing him urging Tang San to absorb the Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo. With Dai Mubai and the others looking at him strangely and suspiciously, even his thick skin began to turn red.
Who was it? Who had done this?
How could they show something like this? Weren't they trying to smear his reputation?
If he ever found out who was behind the Heavenly Curtain, he would stop at nothing to destroy the mastermind who had made it.
In the shadows of Shrek Academy.
Tang Hao let out a long breath, a flicker of memory passing through his eyes.
Fortunately, he hadn't trusted that useless Yu Xiaogang to take Xiao San to hunt Soul Beasts alone. To be safe, he had secretly followed them.
When he saw Yu Xiaogang trying to make his genius son absorb a Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo, he had wanted to give Yu Xiaogang's brain a massage with his Clear Sky Hammer.
As the young master of the Clear Sky Sect, he had never seen a white Soul Ring in his life.
To keep Yu Xiaogang from ruining his son, Tang Hao had secretly caught a Mandala Snake and brought it over.
That was the only thing that had prevented a tragedy.
Yu Xiaogang may have raised his son to become a God King, but wanting him to absorb a Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo was absolutely insane.
The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
"F-Fengzhi, this... this can't be right!"
Bone Douluo was so shocked by Yu Xiaogang's words that he could barely speak.
Ning Fengzhi, who had been excited just moments earlier, was now completely stunned.
Was this a joke?
A God King's First Soul Ring was a Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo?
To put it nicely, it was a Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo. To put it bluntly—
Wasn't it just a worthless piece of bamboo that nobody wanted?
After a long pause, Ning Fengzhi managed to force out a few words.
"L-Let's watch first. Maybe there'll be a turn of events."
Spirit Hall.
Bibi Dong was too flustered to question Yu Xiaogang.
She hurriedly urged Chrysanthemum Douluo, who stood before her:
"Chrysanthemum Douluo, hurry and catch up with Ghost Douluo. Tell him not to take Spirit Hall's Soul Masters to hunt a Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo yet."
"Quickly! If we're too late, it'll be too late."
Peerless Tang Sect.
The Divine Realm.
Tang San, who had long since become a God King, felt a nameless fury rise within him when he saw this.
Tang San remembered this scene all too well.
After his teacher had coaxed him into becoming his disciple, he had actually wanted Tang San to absorb a Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo.
Even though he hadn't understood much back then, he had still sensed that something was wrong.
Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo was common as dirt, even in the world of his previous life.
And yet Yu Xiaogang had wanted him to absorb one.
Even that good-for-nothing Yu Xiaogang, who had only half a level of Innate Soul Power, had absorbed a hundred-year Soul Ring as his First Soul Ring.
If not for that Mandala Snake, Tang San really couldn't have been sure he would still have become a god.
That was why, after he grew up and came to understand things, he never agreed to Yu Xiaogang's repeated pleas for him to go to the Divine Realm, no matter how much Yu Xiaogang begged.
"Heaven... Brother Sky Dream, how could that grandmaster, who taught a god, have told his disciple to absorb a Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo?"
Huo Yuhao's eyes were full of confusion.
He had planned to absorb a Ten-Year Phoenix Baboon because, as a twelve-year-old child, he had had no other choice.
But Tang San had clearly had his teacher take him to hunt for a Soul Ring. Why had he still been told to absorb a Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo?
What was so special about this Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo?
"Uh, well, I don't know either."
Even Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, a Soul Beast, couldn't understand what Yu Xiaogang was up to.
After all, among Soul Beasts, Lone Bamboo wasn't even considered a Soul Beast.
"But maybe he had some deeper reason. After all, he was the teacher who raised Tang San to become a God King."
As top powerhouses from two different eras—one ten thousand years ago and the other ten thousand years later—wondered what deeper meaning there could be in Yu Xiaogang telling a genius with Twin Martial Souls to absorb a Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo,
the Heavenly Curtain continued playing.
"Although Douluo Continent never explicitly explained why Yu Xiaogang insisted that Tang San absorb a Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo,"
"after careful analysis, I've come up with two possible explanations."
At that, the confused crowd perked up and widened their eyes.
They really wanted to know why Yu Xiaogang had wanted Tang San to absorb a Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo.
"First, I suspect that..."
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