Dai Mubai

The staff member froze for a moment, then tentatively asked, "Sir, who might you be?"

But the young man impatiently cut him off, "Go call your manager out here."

After being glanced at by the young man's dual-colored eyes, the staff member felt a chill run through his entire body and immediately ran to the back to summon his superior.

Tang San frowned and spoke up, "This brother, it seems we were here first, right?"

The young man didn't even turn his head as he replied, "So what?"

"It's not 'so what,' it's just that I'd like to ask you to get lost," Xiao Wu was never one to shy away from trouble, so she added, "Don't think that just because we're young, we're easy to bully!"

"Oh?"

Hearing this, the young man finally turned around, looking at the two of them with interest before saying, "I see you both have soul power fluctuations, so I assume you're Soul Masters? How about this: you two come at me together. If you can defeat me, this room is yours. Otherwise, please perform the action of 'getting lost' for me right here."

"Bring it on, who's afraid of who!" Xiao Wu said, immediately preparing to rush forward and fight the young man, but she was held back by Tang San.

"Xiao San, why are you holding me back?" Xiao Wu asked, feeling somewhat dissatisfied at being stopped.

"Let me handle this kind of thing. I promised you that if anyone wants to hurt you, they'll have to step over my dead body first," Tang San smiled faintly and said, "Besides, let us men settle matters between men."

After speaking, he took a step forward, pulled Xiao Wu behind him, and stood in a standoff against the young man.

The twin girls beside the young man stood to the side with giggles, appearing completely unconcerned that the young man might lose.

Just then, the hotel manager ran out. Seeing the two about to fight, he hurriedly said, "Young Master Dai, please stop..."

"Cut the crap, I'll cover the damages," the young man interrupted the manager, and then began to fight Tang San right there in the lobby.

Neither of them activated their martial souls; it was pure hand-to-hand combat.

Seeing this, what else could the manager do? He could only smile bitterly and stand to the side, watching their battle.

Meanwhile, a youth who had been sitting in the lounge area in the corner of the Rose Hotel lobby, holding a cyan-green, kitten-sized fox in his arms, was also watching the fight.

"Little Funi, who do you think will win?"

The youth stroked the smooth fur of the fox in his arms and whispered.

Surprisingly, the fox in his arms spoke back; if anyone else had been sitting near the youth, they would certainly have been startled.

The fox, whom the youth called "Little Funi," lowered its voice as much as possible, as if afraid of being discovered, and said, "I think it's the one with the golden hair. After all, he is a level 37 Soul Elder."

The youth smiled slightly and said, "If they use their martial souls, Dai Mubai would indeed win. But if my brother goes all out, Dai Mubai would surely die."

Hearing this, the fox in his arms was immediately astonished, "What? That Soul Grand Master is your brother? Could it be that you sit here for an hour every day just to wait for him to appear?"

The smile on the youth's exceptionally handsome face deepened as he said, "That's right. Otherwise, why would I open a 'Blue Enchantress' room here?"

"But how did you know he would come here?" the fox asked, very puzzled.

"Because I have the advantage of the plot," the youth smiled mysteriously.

"Plot advantage?" A confused expression appeared on the little fox's cute face.

"Alright, let's go for a walk now. Didn't you say yesterday you wanted to see the general store? Today I'll take you to check it out."

The youth gently patted the fox's head, then rose from the soft sofa and walked toward the hotel exit.

"Um, aren't you going to go and acknowledge your brother?" the little fox asked with a confused look.

A pained expression appeared on the youth's face as he said, "No, I have a bit of a complex about my height compared to theirs." If he went over, he felt like he would just be mocked by Xiao Wu!

Little Fox: "...But you can't just keep dragging it out like this, can you?"

"That's why I'll just say something when we register tomorrow."

After saying this, the youth carried the little fox out of the Rose Hotel and strolled along the street.

The little fox in his arms nimbly burrowed into his collar, leaving only its cute little head poking out, its large, cyan-green eyes curiously observing the world around it.

This person and fox were none other than Tang Liu and Little Funi.

Tang Liu wasn't worried at all that Tang San would lose, because relying on Tang Sect combat techniques, as long as the gap in levels wasn't too massive, Tang San would have no problem handling the situation without using his martial soul.

Moreover, forcing Dai Mubai to use his soul power would be even less of an issue.

Therefore, Tang Liu wasn't worried in the slightest.

On the contrary, if he were to appear, it would be more likely to cause unknown changes.

After all, he had already butterfly-effected away the girl from Holy Soul Village whose martial soul was Blue Silver Grass, caused Grandmaster to guess his and Tang San's identities ahead of schedule, and given Su Yuntao and Ma Xiunuo—who were originally just bit players—so much more screen time.

One could see the terror of the butterfly effect.

However, Tang Liu was also hesitating about something that might cause an even greater butterfly effect.

He wanted to buy the piece of board crystal in Flender's shop as a gift for Tang San.

But if he bought the board crystal now, Tang San would be missing one of his key weapons for dealing with that bear-child Zhao Wuji: the Dragon Whisker Needle.

After thinking it over, Tang Liu decided not to buy that board crystal after all.

After all, it was something that was meant for Tang San to obtain.

But he still wanted to see Flender.

Of course, he would never buy anything from that profiteer Flender even if it killed him, for fear of being swindled blind.

Although his own savings could barely withstand a few of Flender's scams, if he were to actually make those purchases, he might have to dip into the money Tang Hao gave him. This was something Tang Liu was unwilling to do.

He was planning to use the money Tang Hao gave him to pay his tuition, which could be considered fulfilling a wish from his previous life.

As for his own savings, they came from the storage artifacts he had been secretly selling behind Tang Hao's back for the past few years—the kind with a twenty-four-hour expiration date.

Although these storage artifacts only had a twenty-four-hour limit, they were simply too convenient to use.

Moreover, Tang Liu sold them very cheaply, at five Gold Soul Coins apiece.

Furthermore, he had even had the system teach him a method to delay the activation of the storage artifacts, which was why the disposable storage artifacts he sold had become such a hit.

After all, there was currently no one on the Douluo Continent capable of crafting storage Soul Tools.

Thus, over the span of six years, Tang Liu had earned five or six hundred Gold Soul Coins just from selling those storage artifacts; while he couldn't call himself wealthy, it was more than enough to cover his daily expenses.