Overwhelming Force

Light gathered in his palm. Su Sanjia brought his hands together, then slowly pulled them apart. A massive cross-shaped sword of light appeared, over three meters long, like the two-handed greatswords used by medieval knights. The instant it appeared, its incomparably sharp aura shredded Tang San's Spiderweb Binding to pieces!

Whoosh!

Su Sanjia gripped the sword with both hands and slashed. A golden crescent-shaped strike howled forth, severing every Blue Silver Grass blade in its path. This attack swept across more than half the training ground! Tang San's pupils contracted sharply. After absorbing his third Soul Ring, the resilience of his Blue Silver Grass had reached an astonishing level. Yet even so, it still could not withstand Su Sanjia's attack.

His fourth Soul Ring, taken from the ten-thousand-year Soul Beast Skysharp Golden Eagle, had produced this powerful single-target offensive soul skill. While wielding the Kusanagi Sword, Su Sanjia's speed and strength increased by 70%. He condensed a cross-shaped sword of light, which itself possessed a 50% defense-ignoring property! At the same time, he could still use his third soul skill while using his fourth!

"How the hell are we supposed to fight this?!"

More than ten Su Sanjias swung their swords in unison. The dense web of sword strikes nearly blanketed the entire training ground! Whether in the air or on the ground, there was nowhere to hide.

"Close in!"

Tang San hurriedly gave the order, but it was already too late. As Su Sanjia's strength rose, his speed had also surged dramatically. Before Tang San could even finish speaking, the overwhelming sword qi had already engulfed everyone on the field! Seeing that things were going badly, Flender activated Martial Soul Possession. He darted through the field like a swimming dragon, rescuing Ma Hongjun and the others who had no power to resist. Yet when his black wings were struck by the sword qi, Flender instead breathed a sigh of relief.

He could tell that this was not Su Sanjia's full-power outburst. At most, each sword strike carried the power of a Soul Elder.

"You let me win, everyone!"

Su Sanjia raised an eyebrow, and the sword of light dissolved into particles. The strength he had displayed left the Shrek group in despair, but in truth, Su Sanjia had always kept in mind the idea of holding back half his strength. If he had truly unleashed his fourth soul skill at full power just now, not to mention the Shrek Seven Monsters, even Flender would inevitably have been injured if he had tried to block it with his wings.

Yu Xiaogang's eyes were practically popping out of their sockets! One against seven—although Su Sanjia held an advantage in Soul Power, Yu Xiaogang had believed the odds between him and the seven from Shrek should have been three to seven. But now? It really was three to seven—three moves to take down seven people...

As he watched the high-spirited Su Sanjia in the training ground, Yu Xiaogang felt both envy and jealousy. Born into the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, he craved strength more than anyone. In this world where strength reigned supreme, what did it matter if his theories were the best? A single Soul Grandmaster could kill him!

If he had strength, if he had talent—even if it were merely ordinary innate talent at rank four or five—he could still have been one of the privileged elite in the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, rather than being cast out as he was now, able only to drift through life and wait for death.

That was why he yearned more than anyone to return to the clan, to return with glory!

Yu Xiaogang's eyes lit up. In his view, the reason Su Sanjia could unleash such exaggerated combat power could not possibly be separated from that secret method for absorbing Soul Rings beyond one's level! He had to obtain it!

"Stop fighting, all of you! That was an absolute mess! You were simply fooling around!"

Yu Xiaogang put on a stern face and walked into the training ground. Dai Mubai and the others were already depressed after being utterly crushed, and hearing Yu Xiaogang speak like that immediately infuriated the more hot-tempered ones, such as Dai Mubai and Ning Rongrong!

"Fooling around? Fine, then tell us, Master—how are we supposed to resist an opponent like Su Sanjia? What should we do for it not to count as fooling around? With your cultivation, you must surely be able to put yourself in our position, right?"

Dai Mubai's voice dripped with sarcasm. How could a prince have no temper? Not to mention his naturally arrogant disposition, anyone would have felt resentment after being lectured by Yu Xiaogang like this.

"You! Hmph! Then let me ask you: when facing an assault-type Soul Ancestor like Su Sanjia, why didn't you hold him back from the beginning? Why did you let him unleash his clone soul skill? Your White Tiger Martial Soul is extremely powerful in close combat. Combined with the support of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, there would be no problem bursting forth with the combat power of a Soul Ancestor! As long as you could hold Su Sanjia back briefly, with everyone surrounding and attacking together, he would undoubtedly lose!"

Yu Xiaogang began a lengthy explanation of everyone's shortcomings in that battle, utterly failing to notice the strange expressions on their faces. Flender tried several times to speak, but seeing his old friend still talking on and on, he could not find an opportunity to interrupt.

"Still don't understand? In my eyes, you so-called monsters are nothing special! You're riddled with flaws from head to toe!"

Words had always been Yu Xiaogang's sharpest weapon. He firmly believed that his speech would make these teenage brats feel convinced by him.

Everyone stared quietly at Yu Xiaogang. Not a sound could be heard.

Pfft!

Ning Rongrong truly could not hold it in any longer and covered her mouth as she laughed. That laugh triggered a chain reaction. Dai Mubai laughed even more wildly, Oscar strained until his face turned red, Ma Hongjun slapped his thigh, and even Xiao Wu turned around, resting her head against Tang San as her shoulders shook continuously.

Tang San's expression was somewhat ugly.

"As expected of the master with the number one theory in the Soul Master world. Your reasoning does make some sense! But since when did I, an agility-attack-type Soul Master, become an assault-type Soul Master?"

Su Sanjia raised an eyebrow and spoke with undisguised mockery in his voice.

"Agility-attack type?"

The mockery stung Yu Xiaogang's ears, and he instinctively refuted it. Otherwise, everything he had just said would be complete bullshit! What right did someone who could not even distinguish between agility-attack and assault types have to call himself number one in theory?

"The combat power you unleashed absolutely cannot belong to an agility-attack-type Soul Master! Since the Radiant Light Martial Soul was first recorded, every Soul Master who possessed it has been an assault type!"

"Um, Xiao Gang, Sanjia really is an agility-attack-type Soul Master..."

Unable to bear watching his old friend become a laughingstock, Flender spoke up to explain. At the same time, he forcibly cut off the topic in his capacity as the academy's headmaster.

"What Xiao Gang said just now makes a lot of sense. You little monsters may all have good talent, but every one of you is far too arrogant! From now on, study properly under Xiao Gang! I believe that under his guidance, you will all be completely transformed!"

No matter how Yu Xiaogang had behaved, Flender forcefully appointed him as the teacher responsible for instructing the Shrek group under the authority of his position as headmaster. Without giving anyone a chance to object, he turned and left.

Unfortunately, Yu Xiaogang had not conquered these Shrek geniuses with his theories. Combined with his Soul Grandmaster cultivation, making them genuinely respect him would be no easy task!

The training of the Shrek group was handed entirely over to Yu Xiaogang. His back straightened once more, and whether they would be convinced by him was no longer the most important thing.

Yu Xiaogang fixed his gaze on Su Sanjia, his eyes turning incomparably fervent and greedy!

"Before class begins, Su Sanjia, explain how you absorbed Soul Rings beyond your level!"