Gangzi, Are You Deaf? I Said You're Trash!

"Y-Yes... Brother Xiao Wu!"

Tang San's pretty face flushed red like a ripe apple. Her delicate body went weak, and both hands tightly clutched the hem of her clothes.

Her voice was as faint as a mosquito's buzz, yet incomparably firm as she answered:

"I won't take him as my master anymore... From now on, I'll listen to Brother Xiao Wu. Whatever Brother Xiao Wu teaches me, I'll learn!"

Seeing the future "God King" herself become so hopelessly smitten by a single sentence from him, obediently displaying such bashful charm.

Lin Wu felt utterly delighted, and a satisfied, wicked grin crept onto his lips.

The underlying rules of this Romance Continent really were useful!

Meanwhile, inside a quiet teachers' dormitory at Nuoding Academy.

Yu Xiaogang, dressed in a black robe and standing with his hands behind his back, stood by the window with an unfathomable smile on his lips.

Yesterday morning, he had happened to see a new student named Tang San on campus.

With his years of research into martial soul theory, he had seen through the earth-shattering secret hidden within that petite girl at a glance—

Innately full soul power, twin martial souls!

What an astonishing, peerless genius!

Yu Xiaogang had immediately laid out his "Ten Core Competencies" and proudly declared that he was willing to make an exception and accept her as his personal disciple.

When he saw the surprise and hesitation flash through the girl's eyes, Yu Xiaogang had already considered the matter certain.

"Heh, a genius with twin martial souls... As long as I take her as my disciple and train her into one of the foremost experts of this age.

I'll be able to prove to the entire continent that my, Yu Xiaogang's, theories are no empty talk! Bibi Dong... I can prove that I'm not useless either!"

Yu Xiaogang straightened his neat collar and deliberately brewed a pot of fine tea.

He sat upright behind his desk, assuming the posture of an otherworldly sage and an esteemed, strict master.

In his view, once that little girl had returned to her dormitory and arranged her luggage.

She would surely come with tea in hand, full of reverence and excitement, to perform the formal disciple ceremony and begin cultivating under his guidance!

One minute passed.

Half an hour passed.

An hour passed...

The sun outside gradually rose from the east to directly overhead, then slowly tilted westward.

The entire afternoon, the dormitory corridor was so quiet that even a fly passing by could have been heard clearly.

The tea went cold and was replaced, then went cold again.

Yu Xiaogang's unfathomable expression gradually shifted from utter confidence.

To suspicious unease, before finally stiffening completely.

"Something's wrong..."

Yu Xiaogang rose to his feet, his gaunt face full of disbelief as he paced the room anxiously.

"This isn't scientific! No one on this continent understands the mysteries of twin martial souls except me!

How could she possibly not come to take me as her master?! Could it be... that little girl from some backwater place like Holy Soul Village got lost? Or was she delayed by something?"

Yu Xiaogang wiped away the cold sweat beading on his forehead, unable to maintain the poise of a great master any longer.

He threw open the door and hurried toward Seventh House in the new students' dormitory, his face dark.

He wanted to see exactly what had gone wrong for someone to dare stand up this "foremost master of theory"!

The setting sun cast its lingering glow over the entrance to Seventh House, staining it a bloodlike crimson.

Yu Xiaogang stood at the entrance to Seventh House with his hands behind his back, his gaunt, pale face grim and stiff.

Yu Xiaogang successfully intercepted Tang San, who had turned into a little sycophant and was carrying hot water out for Lin Wu.

Suppressing the irritation of having been stood up, he did his utmost to retain the bearing of a lofty theory master. His voice was low and hoarse as he spoke:

"Tang San, your master waited for you in his room for an entire afternoon. Why did you not come to cultivate with me?

Don't waste your time here doing things a genius should not be doing. Do you know that squandering time is an enormous waste for someone with your talent?"

Quite a few new students immediately gathered outside the dormitory to watch.

Wang Sheng and the others hid behind the door with their necks drawn in, looking somewhat guilty as they watched this school-renowned "eccentric master."

Before the awkward Tang San could explain, however, a clear voice carrying a hint of mockery drifted lazily from inside the dormitory.

"Your master? Taking a master?"

Lin Wu leaned lazily against the doorframe, arms folded across his chest as he glanced sideways at Yu Xiaogang.

An undisguised sneer of ridicule and contempt hung on his lips.

"Yu Xiaogang, just how thick is your skin to call yourself her 'master'?

You're trash who can insult yourself twice in one sentence. Where did you get the confidence to come here and mislead others?"

The moment those words fell, the whole crowd erupted in an uproar!

Yu Xiaogang's expression abruptly changed. His body shook violently as he snapped in outrage:

"Impudent! You ignorant junior, what do you mean by that?!"

"I'm impudent? I'm merely telling the truth!"

Lin Wu took a step forward and looked down on Yu Xiaogang from above, his gaze as sharp as a blade and every word cutting straight to the heart.

"You said, 'There are no useless martial souls, only useless soul masters'—didn't you say that yourself?

You're already fifty, yet your soul power is still stuck at rank twenty-nine. You can't even become a rank-thirty Soul Grandmaster, much less a Soul Elder!

By your own theory, if you aren't trash, then what are you? You have a trash martial soul and you're a trash soul master!

You insulted yourself twice in one sentence, and you still haven't tasted the irony of it?!"

"You... you!! Nonsense!"

Yu Xiaogang's chest stabbed with pain from that vicious insult delivered straight to his face.

His complexion instantly changed from white to red, then from red to purple. Even the finger he pointed at Lin Wu trembled violently.

Lin Wu had no intention of letting him off. He casually pulled the delicate Tang San into his arms and sneered domineeringly:

"Third Sister has unmatched talent, yet you want to use her as an experiment to prove your rotten, worthless theories?

Why don't you piss and look at yourself! You're past fifty and still haven't reached rank thirty!

You haven't even figured out your own life, and you think you're qualified to guide others? Get back to your study and hug your dead books!"

Boom!

That verbal assault was utterly satisfying and vicious to the extreme!

Yesterday, when Tang San had heard Yu Xiaogang identify her twin martial souls.

She truly had felt a measure of admiration and respect for him, believing this elder to be unfathomably profound.

But now, as she looked at Lin Wu's upright, heroic figure and listened to every one of his incisive words.

To his domineering speech tearing apart the so-called "master's" facade.

Tang San's beautiful eyes instantly lit up with a brilliant glow!

She curled up in Lin Wu's broad, warm embrace, breathing in the masculine scent of the young man.

As she gazed at his incomparably handsome, wild and unrestrained profile, her girlish heart pounded wildly!

So handsome...

Brother Xiao Wu is really so handsome!

That domineering composure that feared no "authority" and saw through the essence of things at a glance.

Was countless times stronger than that master who only knew how to boast with empty words!

What twin martial soul theory? Before Brother Xiao Wu's absolute strength and charm, it was simply worthless!

Deep within Tang San's watery black eyes, pink heart-shaped bubbles burst once more in rapid succession.

Unable to help herself, she pressed her little face even more tightly into Lin Wu's arms.

On the other side, Yu Xiaogang, whose every shred of dignity had been publicly torn apart, was completely consumed by rage!

"Fine... Fine, you arrogant, ignorant brat!"

Yu Xiaogang's eyes bulged with fury. He was, at least in name, a Soul Grandmaster.

Even the academy headmaster had always treated him politely. When had he ever suffered such humiliation?

"If I don't teach you, a junior who doesn't know the immensity of heaven and earth, a lesson today, you won't understand what it means to respect your elders!"

In his fury, the weak soul power within Yu Xiaogang instantly erupted.

Two yellow soul rings glimmered around him. With a wave of his hand and an odd ripple of soul power, he roared:

"Come out! Luo Sanpao!"

Pfft—!

Accompanied by a muffled sound much like a fart.

A bizarre purple summoned beast, looking both like a pig and a dog, plump all over, fell from thin air onto the ground.

It shook its round rump and let out a "luoluo" cry.

The pressure of a rank-twenty-nine Soul Grandmaster spread out. A ruthless glint flashed in Yu Xiaogang's eyes as he pointed at Lin Wu and shouted, "Sanpao, teach him a lesson!"

Watching Luo Sanpao charge toward him, Lin Wu did not even release his martial soul. There was only an extremely disdainful sneer on his lips.

That's it?

A mere defective mutated trash martial soul dares to bark before him, a hundred-thousand-year-old transformed Soft Bone Rabbit?!

The instant Luo Sanpao rushed before him, Lin Wu shifted his feet slightly.

The terrifying physical strength of a hundred-thousand-year soul beast instantly condensed into his right leg!

Waist-Bow Leg Technique, seamlessly chained!

Bang—!

Luo Sanpao was not even given the chance to launch its "fart attack."

Lin Wu's immensely powerful kick had already landed heavily on Luo Sanpao's round belly!

"Awooo—!!!"

A miserable, bloodcurdling dog howl echoed through half the academy!

Luo Sanpao's plump body instantly turned into a purple cannonball.

It became a shooting star streaking across the sky, flew over the roof of Seventh House, and smashed fiercely into the academy garbage heap several hundred meters away!

Under the soul power backlash, Yu Xiaogang felt as though a heavy hammer had struck his chest. He grunted and staggered back five or six steps, blood even seeping from the corner of his mouth!

"Y-Your strength... How is that possible?!"

Yu Xiaogang clutched his agonizing chest.

As he looked at Lin Wu, who had not even revealed his martial soul and had kicked his martial soul away using sheer physical strength alone.

His eyes finally filled with extreme terror and shock.

Silence fell before the entrance to Seventh House.

The new students' eyes nearly popped out, and even Tang San in Lin Wu's arms parted her little mouth in shock.

Then, Tang San's gaze at Lin Wu became even more infatuated and feverish.

"Why aren't you gone yet?" Lin Wu patted the dust from his trouser leg, his eyes cold as iron.