Gangzi, Defeated in One Blow

"You bastard, didn't your parents teach you what it means to respect your elders and teachers?"

Yu Xiaogang finally took out the hand he had kept behind his back. His face was flushed red as he pointed at Lin Chen, panting heavily, his body trembling with rage.

Lin Chen slowly stepped forward, speaking with every step.

"First of all, I'm an orphan. I've never seen my parents since I was old enough to remember."

Yu Xiaogang: "..."

"Second, are you a teacher at this academy? What gives you the right to lecture me about respecting teachers?"

Yu Xiaogang froze for a second.

He really wasn't. He was merely freeloading here.

"Even if I'm not a teacher, I'm still your elder by age. Even if you don't have parents, you should have elders, shouldn't you? Is this how you speak to your elders?"

"An elder? You think you're worthy?"

Lin Chen stopped before him, his face brimming with mockery.

"Even an orphan like me, raised on the charity of others, knows his own surname. Yet for the sake of having people call you Master, you've forgotten even your own surname."

"Where do you get the nerve to throw your age around?"

Yu Xiaogang's eyes widened in disbelief.

How did the other party know what he was thinking?

Had he made it that obvious?

No way, right?

Coming back to his senses, Yu Xiaogang flew into a rage out of shame.

"Insolence!"

"The title of Master is an honor I earned through studying Spirit Master theory. How dare a little bastard like you, born of a mother but raised without one—"

Before Yu Xiaogang could finish, his abdomen took a heavy blow.

Lin Chen raised his leg and kicked.

Bang!

With a muffled impact, Yu Xiaogang was sent flying backward. He slammed hard into the balcony railing before bouncing onto the ground.

He clutched his stomach tightly and curled up on the floor, feeling violent cramps in his gut.

At that moment, Yu Xiaogang couldn't muster even a shred of strength. He didn't even have the energy to stand up, fight back, or release his Martial Soul.

How is this possible?

That little bastard is only around level ten. How could his strength be this terrifying?

Does that make any sense?

Most absurd of all, his speed was so fast I didn't even have a chance to react.

A storm raged in Yu Xiaogang's heart.

Lin Chen's strength and speed had completely surpassed his understanding of a First-Ring Spirit Master.

"For the sake of some so-called honor, you're willing to forget your own surname, yet you keep insulting other people's parents. What excellent upbringing you have."

A faint, disdainful smile appeared on Lin Chen's face.

"Lin Chen, what happened?"

Xiao Wu rushed out from the neighboring dormitory. She had already changed into the academy uniform, her hair let down and still slightly damp.

She had just finished cleaning the dormitory and had been bathing in the bathroom.

She had heard the commotion the moment she finished.

Xiao Wu looked at Lin Chen, then at Yu Xiaogang lying on the ground.

Her gaze gradually turned dangerous.

Anyone with half a brain could guess what was going on.

Lin Chen waved a hand. "It's nothing."

Having finally recovered somewhat, Yu Xiaogang climbed to his feet with a dark expression.

"Come out, Luo Sanpao!"

With a sharp shout from Yu Xiaogang, two yellow Spirit Rings suddenly rose beneath his feet.

At the same time.

A pig-like creature condensed into shape at his feet.

He glared viciously at Lin Chen.

"You little bastard! You've insulted me again and again. Since you were born of a mother but raised without one, today I'll discipline you properly in your parents' place."

Xiao Wu was the type to act first and talk later. Her figure suddenly shot forward.

She was less than three meters from Yu Xiaogang and arrived before him in an instant.

She bent her knee and leaped into the air.

Her not particularly long right leg whipped toward Yu Xiaogang's face like a lash.

"Snort, snort..."

Luo Sanpao let out a pig-like cry and lunged straight at Xiao Wu.

At that moment, Lin Chen moved.

He took one step forward, leaving layers of afterimages behind him. In the blink of an eye, he arrived and threw a fierce punch at Luo Sanpao.

Bang!

Lin Chen's punch wasn't overwhelmingly powerful, but it still sent Luo Sanpao flying with a single blow.

It sailed right over the railing and fell toward the first floor.

Forced to alter her move because of Luo Sanpao's sneak attack, Xiao Wu landed steadily.

"Sanpao!"

Yu Xiaogang cried out in alarm and turned to lean over the railing, looking down.

Fortunately, the building wasn't very tall.

Luo Sanpao wasn't seriously hurt. It merely snorted a few times before getting back up.

However, the falling Luo Sanpao happened to land right in front of Tang San and the others, who were heading to the cafeteria for a meal, making them all look up.

Tang San and the others happened to see Yu Xiaogang's ferocious face as he peered over the balcony.

"Damn it!"

Seeing this, Yu Xiaogang flew into a furious rage, the killing intent in his heart steadily boiling over.

Making him lose face in front of Tang San was simply asking to die.

"Down you go!"

Xiao Wu leaped up again and fiercely kicked Yu Xiaogang in the back of the neck.

Worried about Luo Sanpao and blinded by rage, Yu Xiaogang didn't react at all and took the kick squarely.

Bang!

Yu Xiaogang's body flipped through the air as he fell right over the railing.

"Sanpao!"

Yu Xiaogang's face changed drastically as he fell through the air, and he hurriedly called for Luo Sanpao.

"Snort, snort..."

Luo Sanpao jumped up, trying to catch Yu Xiaogang as he fell.

Unfortunately, it didn't have hands.

Yu Xiaogang slammed heavily onto Luo Sanpao, carrying it down toward the ground.

"Fuck!"

Wang Sheng and the others jumped in fright and hurriedly scattered away.

Bang!

Even if the building wasn't tall, it still couldn't withstand more than a hundred pounds landing on top of it.

Luo Sanpao was smashed out of existence.

"Ugh..."

Yu Xiaogang lay sprawled on the ground, letting out waves of pained groans.

It wasn't from the fall.

With Luo Sanpao serving as a cushion, he hadn't suffered much impact.

It was backlash.

Though Luo Sanpao seemed separate from his body, it wasn't an independent existence.

Just like a Tool Martial Soul.

If Luo Sanpao was forcibly dispersed, Yu Xiaogang would suffer backlash as well, and that backlash was even more severe than what an ordinary Tool Martial Soul would inflict.

Watching Gangzi lie on the ground groaning as though he were seriously ill, Tang San felt speechless.

The greatest theory master in the Spirit Master world?

This was it?

How long had they even been apart? How had this guy already been thrown off a building?

"Damn, who hit him that hard?"

Muttering to himself, Wang Sheng looked up at the second-floor balcony again. He happened to see Lin Chen and Xiao Wu poking their heads out from above.

Xiao Wu shouted sharply, "Old bastard, this is only a small lesson today. If you dare bother Lin Chen again, just see how I deal with you."

"Lin Chen?"

Tang San looked astonished and couldn't help glancing at Yu Xiaogang again.

Good lord.

He couldn't even beat two children? That was pathetically weak.

Good thing I didn't take him as my master back then.

If I had taken such trash as my master, wouldn't I have been laughed to death?

And that wasn't even the worst of it.

If he couldn't even defeat children, what help could he possibly offer me?

Tang San felt immensely relieved.