I Want to Be Your Big Brother! Let's Settle This with a Fight!

"Yun Tian? When did you get here?" Tang San asked with a frown.

"Just arrived." Yun Tian smiled and clapped his hands, walking over to stand before them. His gaze swept back and forth across their faces, carrying a teasing smile. "How wonderful. While I was away, you two secretly became sworn siblings?"

Tang San and Xiao Wu exchanged a look, both feeling somewhat embarrassed.

"What do you mean, secretly... You were just wandering around the village..." Xiao Wu muttered, her cheeks slightly red.

Tang San was more composed. He coughed and said, "Yun Tian, your timing is perfect. Xiao Wu and I have just sworn to become brother and sister. From now on, she is my family. You have always taken good care of us at the academy, so we should have told you about this too."

Yun Tian folded his arms, the smile on his face becoming increasingly mischievous.

"Sworn brother and sister? That's no fun."

Tang San froze. "What do you mean?"

Yun Tian stepped forward, his gaze passing between the two of them. The teasing tone in his voice gradually faded, replaced by one that was serious and domineering. "How about this? You two can acknowledge me as your big brother too. Today, here on the back mountain of Holy Soul Village, the three of us will become sworn siblings. I'll be the eldest brother, and you two will be my younger brother and sister. How about it?"

Tang San and Xiao Wu were both stunned.

Tang San opened his mouth, choosing his words carefully. "Yun Tian, you were already our boss at the academy. We all call you boss..."

"Don't play dumb with me."

Yun Tian cut him off directly, staring into Tang San's eyes. "You know what kind of big brother I mean. Not the boss of the dormitory, but the eldest brother among sworn siblings. You acknowledged Xiao Wu as your sister. You can't just leave me standing by and watching, can you?"

Tang San fell silent for a moment.

He truly understood what Yun Tian meant.

The dormitory boss had been established by rules. Every work-study student called Yun Tian boss when they saw him.

But sworn siblings were different. It was an oath to live and die together, a bond where they truly treated one another as family.

Let Yun Tian be their eldest brother?

Tang San took a deep breath and looked up at Yun Tian, a stubborn fighting spirit igniting in his eyes.

"Fine. I agree."

He stepped forward. Blue Silver Grass vines spread from his palm across the ground, and a yellow soul ring rose beneath his feet.

Three months of cultivation had raised his soul power to rank fourteen. His progress was plainly visible.

"But there's a condition."

The moment Xiao Wu saw Tang San's stance, she immediately understood what he meant.

She chuckled and stepped forward to stand beside Tang San. As her Soft-Boned Rabbit martial soul possessed her body, a yellow soul ring likewise rose beneath her feet.

"A fight?" Xiao Wu tilted her head, her voice filled with eager excitement.

"A fight."

Tang San nodded. Purple Demon Eye was already circulating as he locked his gaze onto Yun Tian. "Xiao Wu and I will join forces and take you on together. If we lose, you will honestly be our boss—the dormitory boss. But if we win, we'll willingly call you Big Brother."

He paused before adding, "This time, I won't hold back. I'll use every ability I have, and so will Xiao Wu."

"That's right!" Xiao Wu rubbed her fists together. "We may have always lost to you lately, but Tang San and I are different when we join forces! Don't blame us for ganging up on you!"

Yun Tian looked at the two little ones standing side by side before him, their soul rings shining together, and suddenly laughed.

He laughed happily.

"Ganging up on me?" He rolled his shoulders as the Earth Shadow Stone slowly appeared in his palm, a dense earthy-yellow glow enveloping his body. "When have you ever seen me afraid of having too many opponents?"

He did not put on the Earth Tiger Armor, nor did he even activate his first soul skill.

He simply stood there barehanded and beckoned to them.

"Come on. If you beat me, I'll be whatever you want me to be."

"But if you lose..."

Yun Tian curled his lips into a grin full of confidence and dominance.

"From today onward, I'm your big brother. Your real big brother."

Tang San did not say another word.

Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track was already in motion beneath his feet. His body turned into an afterimage as he charged straight at Yun Tian from the front. At the same time, Blue Silver Grass burst from the ground, several dark green vines extending rapidly along the grass from both sides to cut off Yun Tian's footing.

Xiao Wu moved almost at the same instant.

She was even faster than Tang San. The Soft-Boned Rabbit martial soul granted her astonishing explosive power and agility.

In the blink of an eye, she had leaped into the air above Yun Tian's head. Her legs curled beneath her before snapping straight, and an airborne axe kick tore through the air as it crashed toward Yun Tian's head.

One from above and one from below, one head-on and one from the air.

Their coordination was so seamless that it seemed as though they had practiced it thousands of times.

A trace of approval flashed through Yun Tian's eyes.

Over the past three months, these two little ones had indeed improved considerably.

Not only had their soul power ranks risen, but more importantly, their awareness of cooperation had improved.

Tang San restrained him from the front while Xiao Wu launched an aerial assault. Left and right, above and below—they had sealed off every route of escape.

Unfortunately...

He had no intention of dodging at all.

Yun Tian slammed his right foot into the ground.

Boom!

His second soul ring abruptly rose beneath his feet, its bright yellow light from over nine hundred years glaring in the twilight.

With the point where his foot landed as the center, the ground violently bulged and split apart. Web-like cracks spread rapidly in every direction, while shattered stones and dirt were blasted half a person's height into the air.

Tang San's Blue Silver Grass vines were torn to pieces by the rupturing earth before they could bind him, while he himself was forced back again and again by the oncoming shockwave.

With nowhere to brace himself in midair, Xiao Wu was struck by the shockwave surging from underground and flipped backward. When she landed, she staggered several steps before barely managing to steady herself.

"What!?"

"Second soul skill?!"

"You broke through to become a two-ringed Grand Soul Master!?"

Tang San cried out in shock, his eyes wide as he stared at the two yellow soul rings rotating side by side around Yun Tian's waist.

Xiao Wu was dumbfounded as well. After landing, she stood there blankly, her mouth wide enough to fit a fist inside.

Her mind exploded with a boom.

Three months ago, when she had condensed her hundred-year soul ring, she had even bragged about it to Yun Tian. Yet he had silently obtained his second ring without making a sound?

This cultivation speed was far too monstrous!

And this guy was way too good at hiding things!

Yun Tian's smile looked especially brilliant in the twilight.

"Let me give you a taste of my second soul ring."

"Second soul skill..."

"Mountain Collapse and Earth Split!"

Before the shockwave from Mountain Collapse and Earth Split had completely dissipated, Tang San had already regained his balance.

He dropped to one knee to steady himself. Purple Demon Eye glimmered faintly in the twilight, taking in every detail around Yun Tian.

Two yellow soul rings. The glow of the second ring was extraordinarily dense. It was definitely not merely one or two hundred years old—it had to be at least five hundred years.

No, six hundred, seven hundred, perhaps even higher.

Tang San's ability to judge the age of soul beasts had greatly improved after absorbing the Mandala Snake. He was almost certain that Yun Tian's second soul ring was nearing the thousand-year threshold.

"Xiao Wu! His second soul skill is an area attack. The ground will shake beneath your feet, so don't stay on the ground for too long!"

Tang San had already started moving again as he shouted.

He pushed Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track to its limit, his body weaving left and right through the shattered cracks. His footwork was unpredictable as he dodged the rolling stones and loosened clumps of earth.

Rather than moving in a straight line, he rapidly approached Yun Tian's right side along a curved path, and Blue Silver Grass burst from the ground for the third time.

This time, he did not spread it over a wide area. Instead, he concentrated his soul power into three vines, each as thick as an adult's arm. The dark green poison patterns on their surfaces were so dense that they had nearly turned black.