Holding the Breath-Concealing Grass, Xiao Wu stood there with her mouth agape.
She'd originally thought Tang San was the same kind of being as her, a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast who had taken human form. She hadn't expected his identity to be even more complicated!
A union between a transformed Soul Beast and a human?
If they killed Tang San, would he drop a Soul Ring and Soul Bone?
Once the thought appeared, it wouldn't leave Xiao Wu's mind.
She'd heard her mother tell stories about the Blue Silver Emperor, Ah Yin. Though the two had been natural enemies in the Soul Beast world—Soft Bone Rabbits ate grass, which made perfect sense—the two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts had eventually transformed into humans and become just like best friends.
Xiao Wu just hadn't expected that Ah Yin would meet the same tragic end as her mother.
But there was one thing she could be sure of now: she didn't have to die just yet!
"Xiao Wu, your eyes are telling me you're thinking something very impolite."
At Tang San's sudden remark, Xiao Wu gave an awkward laugh and dodged his probing gaze.
Wait, was it really that obvious?
Was Sister Xiao Wu in danger again?
"Ah... haha... San, you're imagining things. It's nothing."
Jiang Li couldn't bear to watch them bicker any longer, so he got straight to the point.
"Alright, Xiao Wu, take the Breath-Concealing Grass first. We have something important to take care of outside. Do you want to come with us, or stay at the academy while we send someone to pick you up?"
After taking the Blue Silver King and Ah Yin's original bodies to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and settling them there, Jiang Li planned to head to Heaven Dou City.
With Dugu Bo and Tang Yuehua there, getting Tang San enrolled would be a piece of cake.
Besides, Nuoding City was far too small. Back when he hadn't been strong enough, he'd kept his head down and endured. Now he was a Soul Douluo, and Tang Hao—the ultimate workhorse—was lurking somewhere behind him, ready to clear away every obstacle. Wasn't it about time he enjoyed himself?
Xiao Wu wasn't especially clever, but even she knew that sticking with Jiang Li and the others was the right choice. She'd come to the human world with another goal in mind: to find a gifted human and cultivate them into a companion who could help her take revenge on that woman. In her eyes, Tang San, with his half-Soul Beast bloodline, was an excellent choice.
Back in the day, she'd won over Da Ming and Er Ming with her charm. Getting a human child like Tang San to fall at her feet would be a piece of cake.
"I... I'll go with you."
As soon as she finished speaking, Xiao Wu shoved the herb into her mouth and began chewing.
Once she swallowed it, a strange energy started coursing through her body. Before long, the Soul Beast aura she'd constantly given off vanished completely.
"Alright... let's go."
Meanwhile, not long after Jiang Li and the others left, a sexy little flat-top appeared at the entrance to Dorm Seven at Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy.
Failing to take Xiao Wu on as a disciple over and over for days hadn't dented Gangzi's confidence. Instead, it had only made him more determined!
He hadn't been idle these past few days, either. After a long period of deep thought, Gangzi had organized his cultivation insights on the Soft Bone Rabbit using his peerless wisdom.
He refused to believe that, this time, Xiao Wu wouldn't be so moved by his Invincible Theory that she'd fall to her knees and beg to become his disciple.
Bang, bang, bang—
"Damn it, who's there?!"
Wang Sheng opened the door with an annoyed look on his face, only to come face-to-face with Gangzi's sour mug.
"Master Yu, you've come to find Sister Xiao Wu so many times, and she's turned you down every time. How do you still have the nerve to come back?"
"Why don't you spend all that time improving your Soul Power? Maybe you'd be a Soul Elder by now."
At Wang Sheng's shout, all the other working students turned their mocking gazes on Yu Xiaogang.
Gangzi wasn't ruffled in the least.
Slowly, he placed his left hand over his chest, clasped his right hand behind his back, tilted his nose forty-five degrees toward the sky, and put on an inscrutable expression.
Heh. A bunch of ignorant peasants. You have no idea. Without this master's guidance, that girl Xiao Wu would be a lost cause for the rest of her life.
You ignorant fools, just stew in your resentment over your fate of never receiving this master's guidance!
One second... ten seconds...
Several minutes passed, and Yu Xiaogang still hadn't heard Xiao Wu's voice. He was beginning to lose his composure.
Before, even when Xiao Wu turned him down, she would at least come out and say a few words...
An ominous thought surfaced in his mind...
Oh no!
Gangzi hurried into Dorm Seven. Xiao Wu's bed was still there, but she was nowhere to be seen!
"Where's Xiao Wu?"
Yu Xiaogang anxiously questioned the onlookers around him, but all he got in response was laughter, mixed with more than a few insulting remarks.
Gangzi was furious. He was the young master of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan! He could put up with Qian Xunji humiliating him, and when Jiang Li—who had the strength of a Soul Saint—had humiliated him earlier, he could pretend not to notice!
But what gave these working students, the lowest of the low in the Soul Master World, the right to mock a level-29 Soul Grandmaster like him?
"They dare mock this master? You're beyond forgiveness!"
He summoned the goofy-looking Luo Sanpao. Gangzi might cower before the strong, but against a bunch of working students without even a Soul Ring, he would strike hard!
Seeing that Yu Xiaogang really seemed to be getting angry, Wang Sheng felt a flicker of alarm. Master Yu's Soul Skill might not do them any real harm, but Dorm Seven was still where they had to live.
He couldn't even imagine how disgusting it would be if that pungent fart were released in their cramped quarters.
"Master Yu, please calm down first. I know where Sister Xiao Wu went."
At that, Gangzi really did stop just short of unleashing his Soul Skill.
Someone else had already beaten him to it and taken Tang San on as a disciple. If a promising talent like Xiao Wu, who had Innate Full Soul Power, disappeared too, he had no idea how else he could prove his Invincible Theory.
He wanted to improve so badly!
And now that he thought Tang San was merely a variant Blue Silver Grass, Xiao Wu clearly held more strategic value in his eyes.
He'd even planned to cultivate her into a Titled Douluo, then have her return with him to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
Then he'd find one of his clan's worthless younger relatives for Xiao Wu to marry. Their offspring would be unbelievably gifted!
By then, he refused to believe anyone in the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan would still dare look down on him, the greatest theory master on the continent!
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