"If you can't even beat Xiao Wu, you won't get the chance to be boss, you know?"
Xiao Wu smiled faintly. With a whoosh, she leaped into the air, then flashed forward and launched a flying kick—Rabbit Kicks Eagle—straight at Tang San's face.
Tang San frowned slightly and immediately used Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, barely twisting aside to evade it.
Xiao Wu's attack missed, but her waist was incredibly flexible. The instant one hand touched the ground, she used the momentum to flip over and followed with a spinning back kick.
"Damn it, how is she so fast?"
Even Tang San had not expected this little girl's movements to be so clean and decisive. At such close range, even Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track could not possibly dodge in time.
Mysterious Jade Hand!
At the critical moment, Tang San activated Mysterious Jade Hand and raised his arm to block.
Bang—
It was as though Xiao Wu had kicked a steel plate, and her calf went numb.
"Oh! You really do have some skills, huh?" Xiao Wu's eyes lit up, and her interest immediately grew.
Tang San's expression changed slightly as he muttered, "I originally wanted to leave you with a good impression, but you never should have stood up for that brat Ao Yin!"
"Since that's the case, don't blame me, Tang San, for being cruel to a beauty!"
As he spoke, he pushed Mysterious Jade Hand to its limit, a faint frost seeming to gather around it.
The next instant, Tang San used Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track again and shot toward Xiao Wu. Then he fiercely thrust out his Mysterious Jade Hand, intending to strike her with a Window-Pushing Palm Beneath the Moon.
Yet Xiao Wu leaned back, kicked away Tang San's groping hand, then twisted at the waist and wrapped both legs around him.
Tang San was caught and tried to break free, but Xiao Wu giggled. "Xiao Wu won't fail in the same place twice. You should go have an intimate encounter with the ground first!"
Xiao Wu gave a light snort. "Waist Bow!"
The instant Xiao Wu's legs tightly clamped around Tang San's neck, she unleashed a powerful grappling technique. With a vicious swing of her Rabbit-Twisting Waist Bow, she hurled him down.
Tang San did not have Ao Yin's Myriad-Jun Strength empowering his body. He only felt his neck tighten, followed by an immense force yanking him away. His feet suddenly left the ground, and the world before his eyes spun wildly.
Thud—
Tang San's face slammed into the ground, giving the earth an intimate encounter. The impact was so great that the entire Seventh Dormitory trembled slightly, and spiderweb cracks appeared in the marble floor.
Xiao Wu clapped her hands and proudly puffed out her chest as she looked toward Ao Yin, Wang Sheng, and the others.
"Taken down!"
Gasp!
Wang Sheng and the others, who had been watching from the side, sucked in a breath of cold air.
Ao Yin covered his eyes as he looked toward Tang San. If there was one phrase to describe this scene, it could only be that familiar sight from an arcade game's results screen.
"K—O—"
The two huge letters seemed to hang beside Tang San, whose face was bruised and swollen as he lay there in utter disarray.
Ao Yin gave Xiao Wu a thumbs-up. "Brutal!"
After a long while, Tang San finally climbed shakily to his feet, dazed and disoriented. Wiping away his nosebleed, he seemed unable to accept the outcome.
"Impossible, absolutely impossible!"
"I was careless just now. I shouldn't have underestimated you. I should have used my soul power from the start!"
Tang San swayed unsteadily, unwilling to accept reality. He only felt that while his physical strength could not compare to Xiao Wu's, his level-ten soul power was enough to crush every new student here.
Xiao Wu could not help laughing at Tang San's words. She had not used soul power either—she had relied only on physical strength and grappling techniques.
And he was actually making excuses over that?
Xiao Wu had clearly won, and she had no intention of swallowing such a grievance in silence.
"Soul power?"
"You're really strange. You just insist on making things hard for yourself!"
If Tang San had obediently admitted defeat, Xiao Wu would have happily stopped there. But his words made her feel that he was unconvinced, and she immediately marched angrily up to the bruised and swollen Tang San.
"Xiao Wu doesn't want to win without making it clear. Since you said you want to use soul power, then Xiao Wu will reluctantly indulge you!"
Hearing that, Tang San was briefly stunned before quickly recovering.
He sneered. "Competing in soul power? I was born with innate level-nine soul power, and after cultivating bitterly for three months, I am now level ten! Little sister, you're going to lose this time!"
Tang San's confidence returned at once, and he immediately stretched out his right hand.
Xiao Wu narrowed her eyes and focused on Tang San's right palm. A small blade of Blue Silver Grass slowly emerged there, and she froze for a moment.
Pfft— She could not hold back her laughter.
But to Tang San's ears, that laughter was especially piercing. Gritting his teeth, he said, "Hmph! Are you going to say that my Blue Silver Grass is a useless martial soul too?"
"However, even a useless martial soul has... level-ten soul power!"
"Martial soul... Blue Silver Grass, grant me soul power!"
Tang San let out a furious roar, and the soul power around his body surged higher and higher. In an instant, its oppressive force blanketed the entire Seventh Dormitory.
Wang Sheng and the others gasped, staring in shock. "No way? Blue Silver Grass has soul power too? And it's level ten?"
"Sister Xiao Wu, stop laughing. What level is your soul power?"
Only Ao Yin remained silent. As far as he knew, Xiao Wu had registered her innate soul power as [Innate Full Soul Power] upon enrollment, but the truth went far beyond that. As a hundred-thousand-year Soft Bone Rabbit that had taken human form, she possessed more than twenty levels of soul power the moment she transformed.
Of course, Xiao Wu was not laughing because she was proud of her high soul power or mocking Tang San.
It was because Tang San's Blue Silver Grass martial soul... was simply too much for her to hold back.
"Soft Bone Rabbit, possess—"
With a soft snort, a pink-and-white phantom of a Soft Bone Rabbit appeared around Xiao Wu. As her soul power surged higher and higher, she stared greedily at Tang San's Blue Silver Grass martial soul.
The reason Xiao Wu was laughing so happily was precisely because Blue Silver Grass was originally food for Soft Bone Rabbits. How could that not make her happy?
"Then Xiao Wu won't hold back! Time to eat—"
Xiao Wu's Soft Bone Rabbit lashed out with a claw. Tang San fully unleashed his level-ten soul power barrier, yet it was torn apart by the rabbit claw in an instant, as if it were made of paper.
Not only that, Xiao Wu merely revealed a fraction of her twenty-plus levels of soul power toward Tang San, completely suppressing him.
Then, with a wave of Xiao Wu's delicate hand, her Soft Bone Rabbit martial soul lunged forward, grabbed Tang San's Blue Silver Grass martial soul, yanked it up by the roots, and swallowed it in one bite.
Chomp, chomp, chomp!
"Argh—"
A martial soul was linked to its owner's life force. With the Blue Silver Grass damaged, Tang San himself suffered severe injuries.
"Blue Silver Grass, return!"
Blood trickled from the corner of Tang San's mouth as he urgently recalled it at the critical moment. But half of his martial soul had already been eaten by the Soft Bone Rabbit, and his heart bled at the thought of whether this would affect its future growth!
Tang San looked utterly wilted, his eyes vacant as he knelt on one knee.
"Oh my, you're not much either!"
"Can't you hold on a little longer? Xiao Wu hasn't eaten her fill yet!"
"I... concede!"
Tang San's body and confidence had both suffered a crushing blow.
Even when Xiao Wu said he was no good, he did not argue.
"How boring!"
Xiao Wu shot a disdainful glance at the dejected Tang San on the ground.
Then she looked at the bedding Tang San had brought over and snatched it up. "Since you lost, this bedding belongs to us!"
"Us?"
Tang San froze slightly.
Ao Yin's voice rang out at just the right moment. "Thanks, Little San!"
"You even knew Xiao Wu and I were short a set of bedding, so you specially brought it all this way for me. I'll accept this friendship between fellow villagers!"
When Xiao Wu saw Ao Yin walk over, her smile returned.
"So your name is Little San. Thanks, Little San!"
Those words stabbed into Tang San's heart like knives.
He gritted his teeth. "You're welcome!"
"Then what should you call him?" Xiao Wu pointed at Ao Yin.
"Boss...!" Tang San called out humiliatingly.
He truly was no match for this girl named Xiao Wu right now.
And Ao Yin was hiding behind her, so Tang San chose to swallow his anger for the moment and wait for another chance to take revenge.
"Little San, listen to Boss's advice. From now on... keep a low profile!"
Ao Yin patted Tang San on the shoulder.
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