Meeting That Jerk Again!

Xu Linjiu watched the figure fly out of the dormitory and found him somewhat familiar.

Taking a closer look, he was startled. Wasn't that Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang?

At that moment, Wang Sheng, who was standing among the crowd, also spotted Xu Linjiu's arrival and immediately went over to greet him respectfully. "Teacher Xu!"

"What's going on with your work-study student dormitory? Why is everyone gathered at the entrance? And why is Yu Xiaogang here?"

Faced with Xu Linjiu's questions, Wang Sheng could only give a helpless, bitter smile as he explained, "Teacher Xu, you don't know. Ever since you took Tang San away, Grandmaster has kept coming to bother Sister Xiao Wu!"

As Wang Sheng spoke, his eyes kept darting toward Yu Xiaogang.

"At first, he stopped Sister Xiao Wu in the cafeteria. Later, he publicly tried to take her as a disciple during the opening ceremony. Today, he even came straight to the dormitory."

So Yu Xiaogang had failed to take Tang San as his disciple and turned his attention to Xiao Wu instead.

By then, Yu Xiaogang had finally climbed back to his feet.

Though he was filthy and disheveled, he kept muttering things like, "Utterly disrespectful," and, "I'm the Grandmaster."

Yu Xiaogang looked at the students gathered around to watch the show and immediately frowned, putting on the airs of a teacher. "What are you looking at? Don't you need to cultivate? A bunch of good-for-nothings. No wonder you're all work-study students!"

After being yelled at by him, some of the work-study students immediately lowered their heads. But even more wore indignant expressions.

Yu Xiaogang snorted coldly and was about to continue when he suddenly caught sight of Xu Linjiu and Tang San standing nearby. His face instantly twisted.

"Xu Linjiu!"

The three words were practically squeezed through Yu Xiaogang's clenched teeth.

Without even bothering to brush the dirt off himself, he abruptly raised a hand and pointed at Xu Linjiu. "How dare you show your face in front of me!"

The surrounding work-study students all fell silent, their gazes shifting back and forth between the two men.

Wang Sheng also stepped aside. When dealing with someone like Yu Xiaogang, Teacher Xu was clearly more in his element.

In the face of Yu Xiaogang's accusation, Xu Linjiu merely tilted his head slightly, his eyes full of disdain. "Why wouldn't I dare? Because of your rank twenty-nine Great Soul Master cultivation?"

"You!"

Just then, Xiao Wu, who had been staying inside the dormitory, finally appeared.

She poked her head out of the dormitory, looked over the scene, and immediately spotted Tang San standing behind Xu Linjiu.

"Little San, you're back!"

Completely ignoring Yu Xiaogang, who was still roaring, she ran over to Tang San in just a few steps. "Why did you take so long? I've been annoyed to death all alone at school!"

As she spoke, she reached out and poked Tang San's arm, giving him a thorough once-over. "Did you get more handsome? You got taller too! Your skin's better as well! Tang San, what kind of miracle medicine did you eat on your trip?"

Although he had not known Xiao Wu for very long, sharing a bed with her for the entire night had made Tang San quite fond of the girl before him.

Tang San was just about to answer when Xiao Wu waved her hand and launched into a new round of complaints. "Let me tell you, that old man is so annoying! He insists on making me his disciple, saying my martial soul and his research are a match made in heaven. What a joke! Who wants to be a match made in heaven with him?!"

As she spoke, she pulled a face, placing especially heavy emphasis on the words "match made in heaven."

The surrounding work-study students immediately burst into laughter.

After Yu Xiaogang's earlier remarks, the work-study students had already found him unbearable.

"How can you talk like that? Is this how your parents taught you to respect your elders and teachers?"

Xiao Wu's words made Yu Xiaogang tremble with rage. He reached out, intending to teach this little girl who showed no respect for teachers a lesson.

For some reason, when Xiao Wu heard Yu Xiaogang's words, she froze for a moment.

Fortunately, Tang San reacted quickly. He pulled Xiao Wu behind him in one swift motion and cast Yu Xiaogang a cold glance, a flash of killing intent passing through his eyes before he turned back to Xiao Wu.

"That old bastard didn't do anything to you, did he?"

Only then did Xiao Wu snap out of it. She tossed her head, sending the scorpion-tail braid behind her flying high. "Him? What could he possibly do to me!"

"The first two times were in public, so it wasn't appropriate to make a move. I could only reject him to his face. This time, there weren't any of those annoying teachers around, so as for what happened to him..."

Xiao Wu gestured with her chin toward the grimy Yu Xiaogang. "You can see for yourself. That's what happened."

Tang San nodded, his expression relaxing slightly.

Seeing that Xiao Wu had not been bullied too badly, he felt a little more at ease.

Xu Linjiu stood nearby, looking at the two little ones in front of him with an odd expression.

You only met for one night, and you're already this close?

Was the will of the Land of Romance truly impossible to defy, or was this hundred-thousand-year-old rogue rabbit simply too skilled? Tang San, this innocent little virgin, couldn't resist the temptation.

Left off to the side, Yu Xiaogang's face shifted between green and white.

Those two brats were chatting away happily, while Xu Linjiu would not even spare him a proper glance. The humiliation of being treated like air was even more unbearable than being slapped in the face in public.

"Tang San! You've disappointed me too much!"

Yu Xiaogang abruptly turned his attack toward Tang San. "I thought you were a talent worth cultivating and was prepared to impart all my hard work of more than a decade to you. Yet you're so short-sighted that you let someone of unknown origin deceive you with just a few words!"

He spoke with such grief and indignation, his eyes reddening, as though he truly mourned for a youth who had gone astray.

Yu Xiaogang wanted to use his heartfelt words to move the surrounding work-study students, influence Xiao Wu's judgment, and achieve his goal.

Unfortunately, the work-study students were not fools. Between Yu Xiaogang's earlier mockery and Wang Sheng, the former leader of the work-study students, regularly praising Xu Linjiu, they could naturally tell who was right and who was wrong.

Seeing the disdainful looks appearing on the students' faces, Yu Xiaogang's expression stiffened. Then he continued in a forcedly calm tone, "What can Xu Linjiu give you? Isn't it just a hundred-year soul ring? If you follow my theory, even a ten-year soul ring can be stronger than a hundred-year one."

Before Tang San could speak, Xiao Wu was already unhappy.

She poked half her head out from behind Tang San and said, "How can you be so shameless? A ten-year soul ring can compare to a hundred-year soul ring? I think you're just too weak to handle even a hundred-year soul beast. No wonder you can't even beat a little girl like me!"

"You! You!"

Yu Xiaogang's lips trembled with rage. All he could do was repeat, "Stubborn and incorrigible! Stubborn and incorrigible!"

"Alright, Grandmaster Yu. This farce should be over!"

Xu Linjiu finally spoke. His voice was not loud, yet it drew everyone's attention.

"Since you say my hundred-year soul ring is inferior to your theory, fine. Let the facts speak for themselves."

As he spoke, he nodded toward Tang San. "Little San, show Grandmaster your soul ring."

"Yes, Teacher!"

Tang San answered and stepped forward. A bright yellow ring of light appeared beneath his feet.

Yu Xiaogang looked on with great disdain. "Isn't it just a hundred-year soul ring? My Luo Sanpao has them too—two of them!"

But by then, Xu Linjiu had quietly moved closer to Yu Xiaogang and softly whispered in his ear, "But this hundred-year soul ring is six hundred years old!"