"Thank you for the compliment, Boss!"
Hearing Tang Yin's words, Xiao Chenyu thought he was being praised and looked rather pleased.
"Oh, right!"
"You two just got back from the Soul Hunting Forest. You must've been roughing it for quite a while."
"I, Xiao Chenyu, will treat you two bosses to lunch on the second floor of the cafeteria today and welcome you back in style!"
Having learned that Tang Yin and Tang San had just returned from the Soul Hunting Forest, Xiao Chenyu thumped his chest and made the offer generously.
All the work-study students in Dorm Seven, including Xiao Wu, immediately brightened.
A dozen minutes later.
The group arrived on the cafeteria's second floor.
With Xiao Chenyu picking up the tab, it took several tables to seat all the work-study students.
Naturally, Xiao Chenyu sat at a separate table with Wang Sheng, Xiao Wu, Tang Yin, and Tang San.
It had to be said: though Xiao Chenyu hadn't acted like a decent person before and had often brought people to bully Wang Sheng and the other work-study students, when he wanted to win someone over and kiss up to them, he was quite the smooth operator, charming everyone in the room!
At the table, Xiao Chenyu offered juice to everyone and came up with all the right pleasantries without missing a beat.
Tang Yin and Tang San were both quite satisfied with the meal.
After all, ever since crossing over, Tang Yin hadn't had such a satisfying meal.
When they had finished eating, the group dispersed and prepared to leave.
But the moment they walked out of the cafeteria, a familiar figure came toward them.
That familiar black academic robe, that familiar gaunt build, that familiar buzz cut and rigid face.
Tang Yin and Tang San's eyes widened. They felt as if they were seeing a ghost.
Damn, Gangzi, did you win your resurrection match too?!
For a moment, Tang Yin wondered if he was hallucinating.
Tang San was just as incredulous.
Hadn't that damn buzz cut been swallowed by the Datura Snake after Tang San had set him up?!
How was he still alive?!
"Xiao Yin, Xiao San!"
When Yu Xiaogang saw Tang Yin and Tang San, his eyes lit up. He immediately grew excited and hurried over, sweeping in with a gust of wind.
A foul stench, as if it had soaked into him, rushed straight at them!
Xiao Chenyu, Wang Sheng, Xiao Wu, and the others seemed to have expected this. They immediately retreated several steps.
"Wait!"
The stench made Tang Yin cover his nose. He quickly pulled Tang San back several steps and stopped Yu Xiaogang.
"Grandmaster, weren't you swallowed by the Datura Snake?"
"How are you still alive?"
Yu Xiaogang's face stiffened at Tang Yin's words.
He understood that Tang Yin and Tang San would be shocked to see him, but did he have to put it like that?
Did he think Grandmaster shouldn't be alive?
With his hands clasped behind his back, Yu Xiaogang put on a proud expression and said, "That Datura Snake did swallow me!"
"But what did that matter? With my knowledge, I could handle it!"
"Inside the Datura Snake's belly, I killed it from the inside out and dug my way out!"
So he really had won the resurrection match!
Tang Yin shook his head, barely able to process it.
Good people died young, while troublemakers lived for a thousand years!
But how had Gangzi gotten out? Through its mouth?
Or through its... other end?
He hadn't seen it happen, but the foul stench clinging to Yu Xiaogang, as if soaked into him, told Tang Yin all he needed to know.
"Ah!"
"It's a shame you and Xiao San weren't here back then."
"Otherwise, that Datura Snake, which was nearly four hundred years old, would've been just right for Xiao San's First Soul Ring!"
As if remembering something, Yu Xiaogang shook his head, sounding rather regretful.
At his words, Tang San's face darkened. He wanted nothing more than to kill Yu Xiaogang.
That damn buzz cut had first tried to trick him into absorbing a Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo Soul Ring.
Now he wanted him to absorb a Datura Snake Soul Ring and witness that dogshit "Snake-Spider Control Flow"?
He was practically begging for death!
Compared with the Extreme Life Flow his big brother had arranged for him, that "Snake-Spider Control Flow" was trash!
"By the way! What kind of Soul Beast did each of you absorb your Soul Ring from?"
Since Tang Yin and Tang San had returned to Notting Academy, they must have successfully obtained their First Soul Rings.
Yu Xiaogang hurriedly asked.
"What does it have to do with you, what Soul Rings we absorbed?"
Tang Yin had had enough. He pulled Tang San along, ready to leave.
"Xiao San, did you absorb a plant Soul Beast's Soul Ring?"
"Ah! What a mistake!"
Since the mainstream view in the Soul Master World was that Soul Masters with plant Martial Souls should absorb Soul Rings from plant Soul Beasts, Yu Xiaogang immediately assumed that was what had happened. He wore an anguished expression.
"Your Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul is weak by nature. Only by following my Martial Soul Mimicry Theory and absorbing Soul Rings from poisonous snakes and spiders can you gain toughness and poison and achieve the strongest control effects."
"If you absorbed a plant Soul Beast's Soul Ring, you've ruined everything!"
Tang San could no longer hold back. He snapped angrily, "You damn buzz cut, shut your mouth!"
"I absorbed a hundred-year Evergreen Vine Soul Ring, and I'm cultivating the 'Extreme Life Flow' my big brother arranged for me!"
"My big brother's 'Extreme Life Flow' is far better than your dogshit 'Snake-Spider Control Flow'!"
"Impossible!"
Hearing Tang San reject his theory, Yu Xiaogang grew furious and shouted in protest.
"Your Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul is inherently weak. It snaps with a single tug!"
"You have to make it tougher and add poison to it. Only then can you achieve the strongest control effects!"
Yu Xiaogang was shamelessly still going on and on.
Tang Yin had had enough too. He sneered and said, "Listen here, 'Grandmaster.' What do you mean, the Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul is weak by nature and has to absorb Soul Rings from snakes and spiders?"
"You want to make the Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul tougher and add poison to it. Are snake and spider Soul Beasts really the only ones that can make it tougher and add poison?"
"Are there no tough or poisonous plant Soul Beasts?"
"Your theory is ridiculous!"
"Besides, if Xiao San had followed your idea and absorbed that Datura Snake's Soul Ring, what Soul Skill would he have gained?"
"Entanglement?"
"Isn't that something plants can already do?"
"Xiao San absorbed a plant Soul Beast's Soul Ring, and his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul can entangle people just the same. Why would he need to go out of his way to absorb a Soul Ring that only gives him an Entanglement Soul Skill and poison?"
"Xiao San, show him your Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul!"
At Tang Yin's instruction, Tang San, simmering with anger, summoned his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul, which took the form of a vine.
Then he controlled it like a long whip and lashed it at Yu Xiaogang.
"Ow!!"
Yu Xiaogang failed to dodge. The strike knocked him to the ground, leaving him in pain.
"Grandmaster, don't bother Xiao San and me again!"
"Otherwise, next time I won't just hit you once!"
"I'll hang you from a tree and let the whole academy see how pathetic you look!"
Before leaving, Tang Yin gave Yu Xiaogang a cold snort and threatened him.
He was truly fed up with the relentless, shameless Gangzi!
After threatening him, Tang Yin led Tang San, Xiao Wu, Wang Sheng, Xiao Chenyu, and the others around Yu Xiaogang and headed for the dormitory.
Yu Xiaogang could still faintly hear snippets of what they said.
"Bah! That freeloader and clown of a grandmaster dares to trick Boss Tang Yin and Boss Tang San? He really doesn't know his place!"
"He's an idiot himself, and he thinks Boss Tang Yin and Boss Tang San are just as stupid?"
"This so-called grandmaster is such a pain. He stinks to high heaven, too!!"
Listening to their scorn and mockery, Yu Xiaogang struggled to his feet. His fists clenched, his eyes bloodshot, his breathing heavy with fury.
You dare look down on Grandmaster!
One day, I'll make you all regret it! I'll make you regret it!!
Yu Xiaogang roared furiously in his heart.
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