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The Douluo Continent's Main Timeline.
Countless people, including Tang San, wore stunned expressions.
He was already the protagonist chosen by fate, and he could still be defeated?
If the protagonist was defeated, was he still the protagonist?
For a moment, countless people grew curious about how Ye Tianyun had defeated the protagonist.
"The protagonist was defeated? I wonder how he managed to defeat Tang San."
Bibi Dong murmured to herself. The thought of her enemy Tang San being defeated only made her more curious.
If she could obtain Ye Tianyun's method, might she be able to defeat Tang San too and maintain Spirit Hall's rule?
Tang San could feel the astonished, confused gazes of the crowd.
He couldn't help but snort coldly.
"That other Tang San is just no good. If it were me, as the protagonist, how could I possibly lose?"
Everyone knew that the protagonists in novels were almost invincible.
In the sky, the Live Broadcast Room continued its broadcast.
[To defeat Tang San, Dou Di Ye Tianyun even compiled several manuals, all filled with his insights on defeating protagonists.]
100 Ways to Defeat Tang San.
The Weakest Protagonist Tang San.
How I Easily Defeated Tang San.
Tang San's expression grew even darker. The other version of him from another world was a complete waste, to be looked down on like this.
If it were him, he could defeat Ye Tianyun in minutes and trample him underfoot.
"Methods for defeating the protagonist? I'm incredibly interested."
"It would be great if someone could defeat the protagonist."
Everyone chimed in, initially hoping to learn these manuals so they could defeat protagonist Tang San someday.
[Of course, that's all beside the point. Let's get back on track. Next up are the events after both of them awakened their Martial Souls.]
[After the Martial Soul Awakening, Tang San and Ye Tianyun both faced the choices ahead of them, and both received the opportunity to enroll.]
[Although Ye Tianyun had only Innate Soul Power of 0.1, he did possess Soul Power. His village gave him its enrollment slot.]
[And both of them entered Nuoding City Junior Academy at the same time.]
Nuoding City?
Bibi Dong was the first to react. She turned and issued an order:
"Send someone to Nuoding Academy and find Ye Tianyun immediately."
She needed a talent like Ye Tianyun to help her defeat Tang San.
At the competition venue.
Sword Douluo thought it over, made up his mind, and turned to Ning Fengzhi.
"Fengzhi, talent is hard to come by."
Ning Fengzhi understood that as well. After a moment's thought, he replied without hesitation:
"He was able to defeat the protagonist and become a Dou Di. Although I don't know much about Dou Di, he should be useful to me."
Across the world.
The major factions stirred beneath the surface.
Some wanted to recruit Ye Tianyun; others wanted to assassinate him.
Tang San, for example, let his killing intent spill out. He absolutely wouldn't allow anyone to surpass him and threaten him.
If Ye Tianyun from another world could defeat him, then Ye Tianyun in their world was a danger.
Feng Xiaotian sensed a wave of killing intent and followed it to Tang San, whose face was gloomy. He clearly wanted to kill Ye Tianyun.
He muttered to himself:
"Tang San wants to kill someone. That shows how narrow-minded he is, so I mustn't offend him."
If he hadn't known Tang San was the protagonist, he would definitely have mocked him a few times.
[The two of them arrived at Nuoding Academy to register on the same day.]
[Next, we'll show what happened on the day they entered Nuoding Academy.]
The scene shifted to the Douluo Main Timeline.
Tang San and Village Chief Jack arrived at Nuoding Academy. As soon as they reached the school gates, the gatekeeper stopped them.
"Innate Full Soul Power, and your Martial Soul is Blue Silver Grass? What a joke. Get lost! We don't take in trash here."
Faced with the gatekeeper's taunts, killing intent filled Tang San. He pulled out the Godly Zhuge Crossbow, ready to fire at the gatekeeper.
But just then, Grandmaster appeared.
Yu Xiaogang berated the gatekeeper:
"What are you doing? Who taught you to act like a gatekeeper? Do you want me to report you to the academy?"
The narration from the Live Broadcast Room rang out along with the footage.
[After studying Spirit Hall's records thoroughly, Yu Xiaogang guessed that Soul Power was directly proportional to the quality of a Martial Soul. Tang San had Innate Full Soul Power, so his Martial Soul definitely wasn't just ordinary Blue Silver Grass. He must have Twin Martial Souls.]
[That was why Yu Xiaogang stepped forward to speak up for Tang San: he wanted to take him as a disciple and thereby fulfill his own dream.]
"Grandmaster, it was all my fault."
The gatekeeper hurriedly apologized with great respect.
[Although the gatekeeper apologized, he looked down on Grandmaster in his heart. He was nothing but a good-for-nothing. Did he really think publishing the Ten Great Theories made him a successful person?]
[If Yu Xiaogang weren't acquainted with the dean, the gatekeeper would have given him a hard slap and put him in his place. A useless Grandmaster, acting like he had any right to talk.]
Yu Xiaogang: "..."
Damn, what was wrong with this Live Broadcast Room?
Just show the footage! What was with all this narration? What did it mean, calling him a good-for-nothing? How was he useless?
The gatekeeper's words had struck him right in the heart.
Setting aside the facts about his Martial Soul, didn't he, Yu Xiaogang, deserve to be called Grandmaster?
Yu Xiaogang wasn't the only one angry. Liu Erlong was hopping mad too, cursing furiously:
"Who is this gatekeeper? Let me find out who he is, and I'll beat him up! He's a good-for-nothing himself."
"'Himself'?"
Yu Xiaogang was struck again by that word. Those words hurt even more.
It was as if he and the gatekeeper were both good-for-nothings.
He absolutely wasn't a good-for-nothing.
In the Live Broadcast Room's footage, after Yu Xiaogang sent the gatekeeper away, he took Tang San to his room, exposed the truth about Tang San's Twin Martial Souls, and asked to take him as a disciple:
"Are you willing to take me as your master?"
"Master, please accept this disciple's bow."
Tang San didn't hesitate in the slightest. He immediately knelt down to pay his respects.
The Live Broadcast Room's narration sounded again.
[Tang San was willing to become his disciple simply because he thought that someone with decent strength could protect him in the future and provide him with some theoretical knowledge.]
[He thought his father, Tang Hao, was lazy and good-for-nothing, unworthy of being a father and of little help to him.]
Outside the venue, Tang Hao's expression turned ugly.
What did they mean, lazy and good-for-nothing, unworthy of being a father? He had done a pretty decent job as a father...
He was probably a fairly responsible father, right? Even Tang San wasn't sure anymore. In the past, he'd been hurt too deeply by love and hadn't paid any attention to Tang San's upbringing. Jack was the one who raised Tang San.
At Shrek Academy, everyone turned to look at Tang San.
No, brother, you've got guts, calling your own father lazy and good-for-nothing.
Tang San: "..."
They were slandering him again.
[After learning about Yu Xiaogang's Soul Power, Tang San thought that for someone so old to have such low Soul Power, he was a complete good-for-nothing. He genuinely looked down on him.]
[But it was all for the information Yu Xiaogang had collected. Tang San still decided to swallow his pride and take a good-for-nothing as his master.]
Yu Xiaogang: "..."
Tang San: "..."
The Live Broadcast Room was really rubbing salt in their wounds now, wasn't it? It was clearly slapping them both in the face.
Across the Douluo Continent, countless people watched and laughed.
"Tang San's something else."
"Swallowing his pride, huh."
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