"Gulp..."
Tang San knelt on the ground, looking up at Xue Bingchen as if a god had descended into the world. Staring at the Spirit Rings radiating terrifying pressure, especially that dazzling hundred-thousand-year red Spirit Ring, he could not help swallowing with difficulty.
"So... so shocking! What terrifying pressure!"
Tang San's heart pounded violently. In both his past and present lives, he had never seen such terrifying power!
Was this the master he had acknowledged?
This was practically an immortal descending to earth!
Meanwhile, Yu Xiaogang had completely broken down.
His legs went weak, and his entire body trembled like a sieve. Pointing at Xue Bingchen's sixth Spirit Ring, his voice came out hoarse beyond recognition:
"A... a hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ring?! Impossible! Absolutely impossible! This is an illusion! You must be using some trick to deceive people!"
Yu Xiaogang instinctively wanted to refute it frantically, because everything before him had utterly destroyed the Ten Core Theories of Martial Souls that he had taken such pride in!
According to his theories, a hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ring was something only a Title Douluo above level ninety could barely attempt to absorb!
For ordinary people, let alone absorbing one, merely approaching it would cause their bodies to explode from the terrifying energy!
But what about this young man before him?
His first Spirit Ring was already an unprecedented thousand-year purple one!
His third Spirit Ring had directly leaped to a ten-thousand-year black one!
And by his sixth Spirit Ring... it was fucking hundred-thousand-year red!
This was too outrageous!
It was practically grinding the ironclad laws of the Soul Master world into the dirt!
"How did he manage not to explode?! This is impossible! Spirit Hall's records never mentioned anything this absurd!"
Yu Xiaogang felt like his brain was about to explode. The theoretical system he had been so proud of had been blasted apart by Xue Bingchen in the simplest, most brutal fashion, leaving not even scraps behind!
Seeing Yu Xiaogang's dazed expression, as though he had lost his parents and had his entire worldview shattered, Tang San's heart was instead filled with unprecedented relief and ecstasy!
Setting aside all so-called theories and backgrounds, just looking at the difference in actual strength.
One was a Soul Grandmaster who could not even break through level thirty, whose Martial Soul was a pig, and who did nothing but spout nonsense.
The other was a six-ring Soul Emperor with six terrifying Spirit Rings, a Martial Soul like a fairy descending from the heavens, and unfathomable strength!
Was there even a fucking choice to make?!
As long as his brain was not full of water, anyone would know whom to choose!
"Master, your divine might is unparalleled! This disciple, Tang San, is fortunate beyond measure to be accepted into your tutelage!"
Trembling with excitement, Tang San abruptly straightened and heavily kowtowed to Xue Bingchen once more!
That cry of "Master" came from the bottom of his heart, full of complete submission!
Hearing Tang San's loud kowtow, Yu Xiaogang's heart suddenly clenched, as though something incomparably important had completely slipped away from him.
He knew that today, he had not only lost all face, but had also forever lost this genius disciple with Twin Martial Souls.
"Fine! Fine! Fine!"
Beside himself with rage, Yu Xiaogang pointed at Tang San and spat out through gritted teeth:
"Tang San! You are blind! Today, you refused to take me as your master and chose this fellow of unknown origin. One day, you will regret it!"
After delivering those empty words of intimidation, Yu Xiaogang abruptly turned around, clasped his hands tightly behind his back, and forced himself to look calm, as if everyone else was drunk while he alone remained sober, as if he could not be bothered to lower himself to the level of mere mortals. With stiff steps, he slunk through the gates of Notting Academy.
No matter how one looked at that retreating figure, he resembled a stray dog that had lost its home.
Yet at the instant he turned around, an intense unease surged within Yu Xiaogang.
He had a nagging premonition that his dream of breaking through level thirty in this lifetime had somehow become even more distant.
"Was it because I missed out on Tang San?"
Yu Xiaogang screamed wildly in his heart:
"No! I, Yu Xiaogang, will never admit defeat! I swear that I will search the entire continent and take in a disciple even more outstanding and monstrous than Tang San! I will pour all my theories into cultivating him into a peerless powerhouse! Then I will make him destroy Tang San with any means necessary! Destroy that white-haired bastard who humiliated me!"
Filled with venomous resentment and unwillingness, Yu Xiaogang completely vanished from everyone's sight.
Elsewhere.
After Yu Xiaogang fled in disgrace like a clown, Xue Bingchen also withdrew his terrifying Martial Soul and Spirit Rings.
Looking at Tang San, who was still kneeling on the ground, a satisfied smile flashed through his eyes.
"All right, Little San. Get up."
As he spoke, Xue Bingchen took out an ancient-looking ring set with a dark blue gemstone from his storage Soul Tool.
He held the ring out before Tang San and said gently:
"This is our first meeting, and your master has not prepared any proper gift for accepting you as a disciple.
Take this storage Soul Tool ring as a little trinket."
"I noticed that you seem to have some ingenious mechanisms hidden in your sleeves. This ring's storage space should be quite suitable for keeping those things."
At this point, Xue Bingchen paused before adding:
"Oh, right. There are also some Gold Soul Coins inside the ring.
You have just arrived in Notting City. If you see anything you want to buy, or need to acquire any cultivation resources, go ahead and spend them. There is enough for you to splurge for a while, so do not worry about saving your master's money."
In truth, both the ring and the Gold Soul Coins inside had been acquired by Xue Bingchen during his journey south from the Far North.
With combat strength far beyond that of an ordinary Soul Emperor, he had encountered several wealthy merchants being robbed by Wolf Bandits or Soul Masters along the way.
After stepping in righteously and dealing with those troubles, the merchants had naturally offered him generous rewards in gratitude, both to save their lives and to befriend a powerful expert.
All told, there were probably six or seven hundred Gold Soul Coins in the ring.
To Xue Bingchen, that was merely a drop in the ocean, but to a poor country boy, it was absolutely an astronomical sum!
He had also specifically chosen this ring-shaped storage Soul Tool because he knew Tang San was obsessed with Hidden Weapons. A highly concealed ring like this was perfect for storing and retrieving Hidden Weapons whenever needed.
At those words, Tang San's eyes immediately lit up!
As if receiving a priceless treasure, he stretched out both hands and respectfully accepted the sapphire ring from Xue Bingchen.
Following the internal cultivation method taught by the Tang Sect in his previous life, Tang San sent an extremely faint thread of Mysterious Heaven Skill inner force into the ring.
The next second!
Tang San was completely stunned!
He discovered that this inconspicuous little ring actually concealed an enormous storage space of fifty cubic meters inside!
It was practically a mobile arsenal tailor-made for him!
And what shocked him most was the small pile of glittering golden coins stacked in one corner of the space!
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