Gangzi Loses It

Seeing this, Yu Xiaogang's face went from flushed red to ashen, then from ashen back to flushed red.

This brat actually dared to expose his shortcomings to his face.

At that moment, Yu Xiaogang hated Zhou Tao to the bone.

But with so many people watching, he could not act recklessly.

"Brat, you disrespect your teacher and defy a Grandmaster. You'll have a hard time in the academy!"

Unable to argue back, Yu Xiaogang began acting like a scoundrel.

Faced with Yu Xiaogang's threat, Zhou Tao remained unfazed.

As a genius with Innate Full Soul Power,

many factions had extended olive branches to him.

It was only that

Notting Academy held an opportunity he wanted—

the Seed of Life of the Blue Silver Emperor and a Spirit Bone.

He needed to remain at the academy for a few days before he could seize that opportunity.

As for enrolling at Notting Academy?

He had no interest in it.

Wasn't Spirit Hall better?

"Gangzi, your Martial Soul is a pig."

"That Martial Soul really suits you."

"You're just like a pig—you love farting."

Those words were like a steel needle stabbing straight into Yu Xiaogang's lungs.

The scene immediately erupted.

Everyone was stunned upon hearing this earth-shattering piece of gossip.

The surroundings fell silent, filled with a suffocating tension.

A pig Martial Soul?

How trashy.

This Yu Xiaogang usually bragged about being a Grandmaster, yet his Martial Soul was utter garbage.

How ironic.

Yu Xiaogang was completely red with rage, his breathing growing rapid.

He wanted to refute it, but had nothing to say,

because it was the truth.

The entire Spirit Master World knew it.

It was simply that no one had ever exposed his wound to his face.

All this time,

Yu Xiaogang had been ashamed of his useless Martial Soul.

Now,

he had intended to suppress Zhou Tao using his status as a teacher, only to suffer a backlash.

This seven-year-old child had exposed his wound on the spot and let everyone witness his ugly state.

He said nothing more and turned toward the academy gates.

Since Zhou Tao would not take him as his teacher, he would find someone else to take him as one.

As long as he found a genius and became that genius's teacher, he could use the genius's fame to wash away his humiliation.

At that moment,

"Zhou Tao, you've got guts."

"Does the Grandmaster really have a pig Martial Soul?"

"The Grandmaster has connections. He's really underhanded—Zhou Tao's in danger now."

"I'm afraid there won't be any place for Zhou Tao at the academy."

After the Grandmaster left, the students exploded into discussion, their voices rising one after another.

Having watched such a spectacle, everyone was excited.

However, Zhou Tao ignored the chatter around him.

He calmly walked out of the academy.

He had no intention of enrolling.

He merely wanted to wait for Tang San to arrive.

According to the original plot, Tang San would take Yu Xiaogang as his teacher,

then follow Yu Xiaogang the next day to hunt a Datura Snake.

Yu Xiaogang was too weak to defeat a hundred-year Spirit Beast, so Tang Hao would follow them in secret.

At that time, Holy Soul Village would be left unguarded.

The Blue Silver Emperor and the 100,000-Year Right Leg Bone would be his.

The Seed of Life of the Blue Silver Emperor contained immense life force.

To his Divine Tree Spirit, it was an invaluable treasure.

Naturally, Zhou Tao would not let this opportunity pass.

It was only while he had been waiting that Gangzi happened to latch onto him and insist that he take him as his teacher,

which led to what had just happened.

He went to a restaurant outside the academy for tea and waited quietly.

After both his parents died, they had left him a considerable sum of savings,

enough for him to cultivate without worry.

Before long,

he saw an old man bring a frail child to Notting Academy, where the gatekeeper gave them a hard time.

Yu Xiaogang took the opportunity to step in and thoroughly sweet-talk the child.

The child immediately performed a full kneeling ceremony for Yu Xiaogang,

just like a slave from the Qing dynasty.

Zhou Tao knew

that this was Tang San.

"The show has finally begun."

Only then did Zhou Tao relax and return to prepare supplies.

That day,

Notting City was still shrouded in the faint glow of dusk.

An ordinary carriage stopped before the academy gates.

Gangzi stood beside the carriage, a rare look of joy appearing on his face.

Watching Tang San carry a huge sack of white radishes, he fondly patted Tang San's head.

After decades, he had finally tricked himself a lab rat.

Before Tang San learned the truth,

as soon as the enrollment procedures were completed, Yu Xiaogang dragged Tang San off to hunt Spirit Beasts,

lest Tang San discover the truth and become harder to fool.

"Teacher, everything's ready."

"Are we leaving in such a hurry?"

Tang San deftly placed his backpack inside the carriage.

"Tang San, as the saying goes, one step behind means falling behind at every step. The sooner we obtain your Spirit Ring, the better. We must leave everyone else behind."

"Once you obtain your Spirit Ring, you must properly teach that Zhou Tao a lesson for Teacher."

"Mm."

Tang San answered and obediently nodded.

"This Zhou Tao dared mock Teacher. He has already earned death."

In the eyes of the slave-minded fighter Tang San,

a teacher for a day was a father for life.

Yu Xiaogang was his father.

Zhou Tao daring to defy Yu Xiaogang was simply unforgivable. He had already earned death.

As for the fact that he had once wanted to kill Yu Xiaogang?

As long as it had not happened, it meant nothing!

Yu Xiaogang urged Tang San into the carriage.

The coachman cracked his whip, and the carriage headed eastward out of the city.

Standing atop a tall building, Zhou Tao watched the carriage vanish at the end of the street,

and also saw a scruffy, unkempt, coarse-looking man quietly follow the carriage away.

"Gangzi really knows how to deceive people."

"Before Tang San can meet anyone else and learn his true nature, he rushes to attach a Spirit Ring to Tang San so Tang San cannot back out."

"Tang San is truly stupid too."

"Having lived two lives and trained for years in that assassin organization, the Tang Sect, he still falls for it so easily."

"First Soul Skill: Mother's Entanglement!"

"Second Soul Skill: Parasite!"

"Third Soul Skill: Spider Web Restraint!"

"Fourth Soul Skill: Blue Silver Prison!"

Thinking of those four utterly redundant Soul Skills Tang San would obtain in the future, Zhou Tao could not help but laugh.

"Good. This is precisely my opportunity."

Zhou Tao turned his gaze toward Holy Soul Village.

Tang Hao, Yu Xiaogang, and Tang San had all left.

This was the perfect time for him to enter Holy Soul Village and claim the treasure.

Holy Soul Village.

A valley.

Zhou Tao found that waterfall.

After searching for a while, he arrived at the cave beneath the waterfall.

The cave was pitch-black, forming a stark contrast to the bright sunlight outside.

Zhou Tao felt his way inside,

the ground slick and difficult to traverse.

As he ventured deeper, a pleasant sensation became increasingly distinct.

He sensed dense life energy,

like a warm spring breeze that made him instinctively want to approach it.

"Blue Silver Emperor, I'm determined to have you."

"The Seed of Life of the Blue Silver Emperor belongs to the worthy."

Zhou Tao was not someone who hesitated.

What Heaven granted but one refused would bring calamity!

Since there was treasure here, he would take it!

Before long, Zhou Tao arrived in a stone chamber.

Looking up, he saw a beam of sunlight pouring into the dim stone room, shining precisely upon a mound of earth at its center.

Growing atop the mound was an unusual Blue Silver Grass,

with pale golden veins on its blades, though it was in terrible condition.

The noon sunlight only lasted a short while, and there was no water source here,

so the Blue Silver Emperor could barely maintain its life.