Sunflower Manual

Yu Xiaogang clenched his fists, his eyes bloodshot as he stared fixedly at Wang Chen. "It was you, wasn't it?"

"You were behind all of this."

Yu Xiaogang's face twisted viciously as he roared.

Tang San also stared fixedly at Wang Chen when he saw this.

Xiao Wu, Tang Hao, and everyone nearby also looked toward Wang Chen.

Their eyes held scrutiny, confusion, and suspicion.

"If you're useless, then you're useless. If you can't control your own martial soul, that's your own fault. Yet you insist on shifting the blame onto someone with only one-ring soul power. Yu Xiaogang, Yu Xiaogang, are you getting more childish the longer you live?"

At that moment, the dean of Notting City Junior Soul Master Academy walked over from the side and sternly rebuked him.

Upon hearing the dean's words, everyone else also looked at Yu Xiaogang with scrutinizing eyes.

"Exactly. How could Wang Chen, a one-ring Soul Master, possibly control the martial soul of a two-ring Grand Soul Master like you?"

"If you can't do it, then you can't do it. Why blame someone else?"

"If you're going to blame someone else, at least pick someone capable of doing it. You picked a one-ring Soul Master."

"Exactly, exactly."

The students chattered away, thoroughly berating Yu Xiaogang.

Yu Xiaogang's face turned red. It was unclear whether Luo Sanpao's blast had reddened it or whether he had been angered by the dean's words.

Before Yu Xiaogang could continue making trouble, the dean waved his hand, stirring up a gust of wind that dispersed the foul stench caused by Luo Sanpao's fart.

Then he said, "Everyone disperse! What kind of sight is this, gathering around here?"

Tang San shot Wang Chen a resentful glance.

In Tang San's dictionary, Wang Chen had already committed an offense worthy of death and had been added to his death list.

Yu Xiaogang was the same, though Yu Xiaogang's cultivation was far too weak for Wang Chen to fear him.

Still, Wang Chen intended to teach Yu Xiaogang a lesson.

That was because, just moments ago, he had learned from the Divine Spark Seed that while he was messing with Yu Xiaogang and Tang San, he had earned the admiration of many students and gained quite a bit of faith power.

At the same time, because Tang San was the protagonist of the Douluo world and Yu Xiaogang was an important member of the protagonist group, messing with Tang San and Yu Xiaogang had also earned him a great deal of destiny power, bringing considerable benefits to the Seed of Destiny.

With a thought, Wang Chen condensed a Nightmare Seed and planted it in Yu Xiaogang's mind.

Wang Chen thanked the dean. "Thank you, Dean, for upholding justice. Otherwise, Yu Xiaogang would have targeted me."

The dean looked at Wang Chen and said, "You are the fastest cultivator our academy has seen since its founding. You may reach level twenty-five before graduation. You are one of the students who has improved the most in rank, the pride of our academy. Naturally, I must protect you."

After Yu Xiaogang returned to his dormitory, he washed himself dozens of times, yet he could still smell that revolting stench.

In the end, Yu Xiaogang simply soaked himself in water.

Lying in the water, Yu Xiaogang unknowingly fell asleep.

And in his dream, Wang Chen's Nightmare Seed began to take effect.

Based on Yu Xiaogang's memories, the Nightmare Seed perfectly recreated the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect and restored the scene from the day before Yu Xiaogang awakened his martial soul.

"This is?"

"The day before I awakened my martial soul, before I was six."

"This is the library of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect."

Yu Xiaogang stared at the scene before him in shock.

Following his childhood memories, he began flipping through the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect's martial soul tomes.

At that moment, he accidentally came across a dust-covered book in a corner that no one had noticed.

Yu Xiaogang picked it up and saw the faint words Sunflower Manual on its cover.

Yu Xiaogang frowned. "Sunflower Manual?"

"What is this? Have I read this book before?"

He opened the book. On the second page were eight large words: "To practice this art, one must castrate oneself."

"Castrate myself?"

"I am the son of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect's sect master, entrusted with the mission of inheriting the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect. How could I castrate myself?"

Yu Xiaogang only took it as a joke.

"Let's see what this Sunflower Manual contains."

He assumed it would be an introduction to a sunflower plant martial soul, along with a meditation method.

He would never think that he would awaken a sunflower.

Yu Xiaogang continued flipping through it, but to his disappointment, it was not a book introducing martial souls or soul beasts, but a cultivation technique.

Other than the line in the technique stating, "It can allow someone with only innate level 0.1 soul power to cultivate beyond level thirty."

Because Wang Chen had deliberately deepened his impression of it, he remembered that sentence firmly, while he could not recall the rest very clearly.

Yu Xiaogang paid little attention to what the Sunflower Manual said. After hurriedly finishing it, he set the book down.

This memory of Yu Xiaogang reading the Sunflower Manual was naturally Wang Chen's handiwork.

This Sunflower Manual was a rudimentary technique Wang Chen had developed while researching the cultivation of the Indestructible Diamond Body. It could not allow someone to cultivate to level thirty-nine.

Rather, it could only allow someone to cultivate to level thirty-nine.

And the price was that one had to castrate oneself before cultivating it.

In order to make Yu Xiaogang remember the Sunflower Manual, Wang Chen used the methods of the Nightmare Seed to deepen Yu Xiaogang's memory of reading the Sunflower Manual.

But to keep that memory from seeming disjointed, Wang Chen did not deepen too much of it in any single one of Yu Xiaogang's dreams.

Instead, he chose to deepen it a little each time.

Then, the next day, he went to the sect's awakening square and began awakening his martial soul.

After arranging the things he intended to insert into Yu Xiaogang's memories, Wang Chen did not alter the memories that followed.

He merely strengthened some impressions and weakened others.

Wang Chen's Nightmare Seed deliberately skipped over the parts where Yu Xiaogang had felt happy, tearing open his past pain and making him experience it all over again.

The next day, beneath the gaze of countless onlookers and amid the expectations of innumerable people, Yu Xiaogang awakened Luo Sanpao.

After that, he went from being the young sect master, the center of everyone's attention, to a piece of trash despised by all, a parasite wasting the family's resources.

That shift in attitude—from a favored prodigy held up in the heavens to a piece of trash crushed into the mud—took less than fifteen minutes.

Wang Chen deepened the mark of this memory, allowing Yu Xiaogang to feel those emotions even more vividly.

Afterward, he spent more than a decade living under the family's pointing fingers and whispered criticism. Then he traveled outside, only to be called trash by others.

Soon after, he was driven away and ended up at Notting City Junior Soul Master Academy, where he holed himself up and taught.

Finally, using Yu Xiaogang's own past memories as a foundation, Wang Chen projected Yu Xiaogang's ending in the direction of Tang San betraying him.

Yu Xiaogang remained at Notting City Junior Soul Master Academy, but because he was a poor teacher, his own disciple Tang San came to despise him. Tang San left him and severed their master-disciple relationship.

In the end, Yu Xiaogang died in obscurity in some corner of Notting City.

After Yu Xiaogang's soul died, it separated from his body.

Recalling his miserable life, he roared, "Why did it turn out like this?"