Comments: [Liu Dazhuang: One look and you know Yu Xiaogang is up to no good.]
[Liu Erlong: That's enough! If you've got the guts, give me your address.]
[Hai Erlu: This so-called Grandmaster's reputation is in pieces, and you still trust him unconditionally? Tang Si on the sky screen said your love had driven you mad. He was right.]
[Liu Erlong: Bullshit! The sky screen is one huge scam. It's targeting Yu Xiaogang and Tang San!]
[Russell: Yu Xiaogang and Tang San must think highly of themselves if they believe the sky screen is targeting them.]
[Flender: Yu Xiaogang's excellence is beyond doubt, and the sky screen's attacks on him are plain for all to see. That's proof—ironclad proof!]
[Russell: Idiot.]
Few people bothered to join such an endless argument.
Even Bibi Dong had quieted down after Golden Crocodile Douluo warned her. She stopped speaking on the sky screen.
But she remained defiant. Yu Xiaogang is so outstanding, yet Tang Si slanders him like this. I'll lock Tang Si in a secret chamber and torment him every day!
Bibi Dong had long since lost her mind. She would never consider the questions Tang Si and the others had raised.
The Golden Holy Dragon Bloodline? The deductions about Twin Martial Souls? She had no interest in thinking about any of it. Her mind was filled with the man she had once loved.
Hu Liena saw her teacher's gloomy expression, and her heart sank. This is bad.
On the sky screen.
The journey to the Soul Hunting Forest would normally have taken seven days by carriage. In the live-streamed footage, it flashed by in seven seconds.
There were fifteen of them: eleven students, including Tang Si, three academy teachers, and Yu Xiaogang.
Soon after entering the Soul Hunting Forest, the group came upon a Lone Bamboo.
Yu Xiaogang hurriedly said, "Headmaster, this Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo is perfect for Tang Si. His Martial Soul is the Trash Martial Soul Blue Silver Grass, and this bamboo is naturally tough. Once he absorbs its Soul Ring, his Trash Martial Soul will grow considerably."
Tang Si: "..."
Good. Very good. Yu Xiaogang, you're asking to die.
Tang Si narrowed his eyes. "Headmaster, let another student have this Soul Ring. I'd like to keep looking."
The headmaster frowned. "Tang Si, finding a suitable Soul Ring takes luck. One isn't easy to come by. Don't set your sights too high."
"Phew... I'd still rather wait."
Tang Si answered helplessly and sighed to himself. Looks like I'll have to get a Thousand-Year Soul Ring on my own. My poor Popularity Points.
Tang Si held nothing against the academy headmaster. This was simply how lower-level Soul Masters thought and acted.
Yu Xiaogang, on the other hand, was genuinely malicious.
Yu Xiaogang snorted. "Tang Si, the Soul Ring I chose suits you perfectly. Why are you being so picky? If you agree to become my disciple, I'll put my heart into finding you a Hundred-Year Soul Ring. You should know that no one in this world treats someone else well for no reason—unless they're teacher and disciple!"
Tang Si tilted his neck until it cracked twice, then smiled. "Grandmaster, you should choose Soul Rings for the others. Sorry for the trouble, but I'll find my own."
Yu Xiaogang, you're asking to die. If I don't teach you a lesson, you'll think I'm a pushover.
Tang Si's thoughts reached the Different World and won plenty of agreement, though some people objected.
Comments: [Yan: He's using a white Ten-Year Soul Ring to pressure Tang Si into becoming his disciple? Yu Xiaogang is despicable!]
[Yu Tianheng: What's despicable about it? Why would anyone go all out for a stranger? My uncle in the Different World did nothing wrong!]
[Feng Xiaotian: Yu Tianheng, do you have a brain?]
[Yu Tianheng: You're the one without a brain! Feng Xiaotian, come out and spar with me if you've got the guts!]
[Feng Xiaotian: Fine. Once my Soul Power recovers, I'll beat you into a worm!]
[Yu Tianheng: Heh. You can't even understand my uncle's theories. You think I'd be afraid of you? I'll smash both your dog heads!]
[Feng Xiaotian: Fuck.]
On the live-stream sky screen, another student chose the Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo.
"Hahaha! I finally have a Soul Ring! I'm a real Soul Master now!" the student shouted excitedly.
Among commoners on the Douluo Continent, becoming a Soul Master at all was a stroke of fortune. Choosing a white Ten-Year Soul Ring as a First Soul Ring was the norm.
The group waited for him to absorb the Soul Ring, then set off again.
As they walked, the live stream fast-forwarded. In the blink of an eye, trouble appeared.
"Awooo!"
"Ghost Wolves!"
One of the academy teachers cried out, and all three teachers immediately went on guard.
Ten Ghost Wolves soon came into view. The academy headmaster shouted, "This is bad! Two of them are Hundred-Year Ghost Wolves! Take the students and retreat. I'll cover you!"
For lower-level Soul Masters, avoiding a fight with Hundred-Year Soul Beasts was only sensible.
In the Different World, many people had little interest in watching low-level Soul Masters fight Ghost Wolves.
But then things changed!
Several Ghost Wolves broke through the headmaster's defenses and scattered the small group.
Tang Si immediately turned and ran into the distance.
As he ran, he thought, This is the perfect chance to go off alone and find a Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
But as Tang Si fled, Yu Xiaogang followed him.
Damn it! That bastard... is he trying to get himself killed?
Tang Si cursed inwardly, then saw two Ghost Wolves chasing behind Yu Xiaogang.
Tang Si ran ahead, but how could a child outrun a rank-29 Soul Grandmaster?
Yu Xiaogang caught up to him in a few breaths.
"Tang Si, it's not too late to become my disciple! Otherwise, you'll regret it!"
Tang Si erupted. "You brought the fucking Ghost Wolves straight to me, and you still have the nerve to nag me? You think I'm that easy to bully?"
"Who do you think you're talking to? Believe me, I can make sure you never leave the Soul Hunting Forest."
Yu Xiaogang had plainly dropped all pretense with Tang Si. He reached out, grabbed Tang Si, and hurled him toward the Ghost Wolves behind them!
Comments: [Yan: What the fuck! That's the Grandmaster?]
[Huo Wushuang: Holy shit! So that's the Grandmaster? He threw a six-year-old child at Ghost Wolves? What kind of person does that?]
[Feng Xiaotian: Heh, now I've seen everything! Yu Tian-dog, come look at your uncle.]
[Blue Lightning Grand Elder: That beast! That beast! Let me make this clear: Yu Xiaogang has nothing whatsoever to do with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon. He was expelled from the family long ago!]
Everyone in the comments condemned him. At Shrek Academy, however, everyone fell silent.
Yu Xiaogang protested, "Erlong, Flender, everyone, this is slander! Ask Tang San. When we encountered that four-hundred-year-old Datura Snake, wasn't I the one who stood at the front?"
Liu Erlong immediately came to his defense. "Exactly! This is pure slander! Nothing like this ever happened back then. The historical facts are ironclad proof!"
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