The Gatekeeper Uncle and the Little Bunny Girl

Notting City.

Nuoding Academy, at the entrance.

In the lingering glow of the setting sun, a handsome, stubbled uncle leaned against the academy gate with a wooden stick, yawning as he gazed at the sky.

"What nice weather today~"

"These days as a guard finally have something to look forward to."

That was right. He was Du Bei from the group, the man who had promptly renamed himself Already an Uncle.

He pulled out the wooden stick behind him and looked at its rough grain with a complicated expression. Yes, this wooden stick was his martial soul—a perfectly ordinary wooden stick.

He was one of the few Soul Masters at Nuoding Academy who was both old and saddled with a trash martial soul.

Simply put, if he ran into Grandmaster's Luo Sanpao at mealtime, he would have to give way.

He was worse than a pig or a dog.

Even more tragically, although he had innate soul power level one, he was doing even worse than Yu Xiaogang.

The only thing he had over Yu Xiaogang was this:

Du Bei had adopted Xiao Wu as his younger sister, which was how he had landed the position of gatekeeper at Nuoding Academy, directly taking the gatekeeper's place from the original story.

From then on, he had a secure job that guaranteed food and shelter.

The main reason he became a gatekeeper instead of a teacher was that the job was far more leisurely and free than teaching. He could even wander around outside from time to time. It was a pure sinecure.

The only pity was that his cultivation remained as immovable as a rock. He was tied with Grandmaster at rank twenty-nine, unable to advance no matter what.

Tang San and Xiao Wu at the academy were already rank twenty-eight, while he was still stuck in place. It was simply too embarrassing to watch.

Fortunately, the cheat he had waited for twenty-two bitter years had finally arrived on the eve of Xiao Wu and Tang San's graduation.

Otherwise, he had been planning to take Xiao Wu and slip back to the Star Dou Great Forest when the opportunity arose. After all, Tang the Big Hammer had his eye on this little rabbit at all times.

Du Bei glanced at the messages in the group and saw that Bibi Dong was still roaring helplessly inside. He could not be bothered to pay her any attention.

Just as he was about to look away,

his gaze fell beneath Bibi Dong's name. The icon that had originally represented a small door had already changed into an open-door symbol.

He looked back at the group...

[Bibi Dong: Bastards! Didn't you want to know what the secret room was? I've opened the door for you! Come in if you dare!]

[Bibi Dong: And you, @Already an Uncle, you useless eunuch! If you don't come in, I'll look down on you! Come in, bastard!]

[Big Radish: Bad woman, die mad! I'm not going in, nyah nyah nyah~ "tongue out" "thumbs down"]

[Jade Not Jade: You tell me to go in, and I go in? Wouldn't that make me lose face? "thumbs down" "pinky finger"]

[Big Goose: You told her to open it and she did? @Bibi Dong, tell her to eat shit—why doesn't she eat it? "smile" "smile"]

Watching the lively quarrel in the group, Du Bei curiously scrolled upward and roughly figured out what had happened.

It turned out Bibi Dong had been cursed out by someone named [White as Snow].

And [White as Snow] was remarkably skilled at insulting people. Every sentence seemed to hit exactly where it hurt.

That led Bibi Dong to furiously trade insults. Fox Eyes had originally tried to mediate, but it backfired and dragged the other group members into it.

That was what had finally ignited Bibi Dong's temper.

But Du Bei had no mood to concern himself with the people in the group right now. With an excited expression, he summoned his cheat.

"My little secret, this counts as opening a secret room, right?"

Ding!

[Congratulations, Host, on unlocking the first secret room! Exclusive rewards are being issued!]

[Congratulations, Host, for obtaining: Wishful Staff Technique (Adaptive Version), Magic Mirror (One Hundred Thousand Bad Jokes Version), Ultimate Douluo Experience Card (five minutes remaining).]

[Wishful Staff Technique (Adaptive Version): When soul power is infused into a weapon, it becomes like an extension of the arm. The built-in technique has three forms: Mind Follows Will, Size as Wished, and Sea-Calming Strike.

Mind Follows Will: Every strike follows one's intent, allowing precise attacks as the mind wills.

Size as Wished: The weapon can change size at will, and its form can be adjusted according to one's needs in battle.

Sea-Calming Strike: Condense the soul power within the body into a single point and unleash a heaven-shaking blow!]

[Magic Mirror (One Hundred Thousand Bad Jokes Version): Open the Magic Mirror to ask it questions. Theoretically, it is omniscient.]

[Ultimate Douluo Experience Card (five minutes remaining): For five minutes after activation, grants the strength of a rank 99 Titled Douluo.]

[Secret Room Group upgrade template activated.]

[After all secret rooms have been upgraded, the number of secret rooms can be expanded. A new member may be randomly invited from the Douluo world to join an empty secret room...

Host, please actively cultivate the group environment!]

"I'm rich! I'm rich!"

Du Bei excitedly tossed aside his lousy martial soul.

The Wishful Staff Technique!

If he remembered correctly, that was the ability used by some giant cockroach, wasn't it? Combined with his wooden stick, would that not make it a low-end version of the Golden Cudgel?!

And there were other rewards, too.

If he remembered right, the Magic Mirror from One Hundred Thousand Bad Jokes came from that world full of conceptual gods, right? Yu Xiaogang's usefulness had just dropped to nearly zero.

And there was the Ultimate Douluo Experience Card. Now he would never have to worry about anyone coveting his little rabbit again! He could finally go all out and beat up that little shriveled Third!

Invincible.

Being able to enter the secret rooms had already been absurd enough. He had not expected this trump card on top of it all. From now on, he could stop eating beef!

"Claim the rewards!"

Ding!

[Issuing rewards...]

In an instant, countless pieces of knowledge flooded into his mind.

Every move and form of the Wishful Staff Technique became firmly etched in his memory, as though carved into his bones. Even his physical strength increased significantly along with it.

At the same time, the fine cracks on his martial soul wooden stick slowly healed. The battered old stick became a smooth wooden stick that would make any man jealous!

"It feels great!"

The incomparably smooth wooden stick in his hand was utterly incomparable to the rough stick from before. The feel was on an entirely different level.

He instinctively launched into the Wishful Staff Technique, and fierce winds howled at the academy entrance.

Just as Du Bei was getting into the swing of practicing his staff, a crisp voice suddenly came from inside the gate.

"Uncle, what are you doing at the entrance?"

Du Bei, who had been swinging his staff, abruptly stopped when he heard the voice behind him.

He warily turned to look back.

He had gotten carried away with excitement just now. He had not even noticed when someone came up behind him—it gave him quite a scare!

Looking closely, he saw an adorable little girl standing at the gate in a pink short skirt. Two cute rabbit ears stood atop her head.

"Whew, so it's Xiao Wu."

"When did you get here?" Du Bei asked with a relieved smile, reaching out to rub the little girl's head.

Faced with the large hand reaching toward her head, Xiao Wu did not resist at all. Instead, she eagerly leaned into it with a pleased expression.

"Uncle, I just brought you food from the cafeteria. Is that all the thanks I get?"

Xiao Wu held the lunchbox in her hands, her big eyes unblinkingly fixed on Du Bei.