How Dare You, Yu Xiaogang?

Douluo Continent.

Notting City, Notting Academy.

"Grandmaster Yu, if you have something to say, just say it."

Jiang Li looked at Yu Xiaogang walking ahead of him—a slovenly, bearded, decadent uncle who looked like he had not bathed in days—and finally could not help speaking.

Hearing this, Yu Xiaogang stopped, turned back to look at Jiang Li behind him: "I want to take you as my disciple."

His tone was a matter-of-course, without even asking whether he was willing.

It was as if Jiang Li should have no objections to this and only needed to bow and pledge allegiance.

"Huh?" Jiang Li was stunned.

"Did you not hear clearly? I said I want to take you as my disciple."

A trace of impatience flashed in Yu Xiaogang's eyes. In his view, although the little fellow before him possessed the talent of Innate Full Soul Power,

he was ultimately just of commoner birth. With himself—the Douluo Continent-certified "Strongest Theoretical Master" and son of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan leader—willing to take him as a disciple, he had already struck gold.

Even though his theories were not currently recognized by the world, he always believed that the world was simply too ignorant.

Right now, he was merely a dragon in shallow water toyed with by shrimp; in the future, as long as he proved his theories, there would surely be a day when he soared into the sky.

And Jiang Li was the best candidate for him to verify his theories.

Therefore, he patiently repeated his words to Jiang Li once more.

"I heard it clearly."

Jiang Li nodded, indicating that he had heard clearly, but in his past life, he had read the novel Douluo Continent.

He knew very well how unreliable the Yu Xiaogang before him was, so naturally, he could not be like Tang San in the original work, foolishly falling into the trap and becoming an experimental subject for those bullshit theories of his.

Only, considering that he still had to spend the next six years at Notting Academy and would see him often, he did not want to offend the grand-sounding master too much.

So after thinking about it, he said: "It's just that I have no intention of taking anyone as a master. If you have nothing else, then I will take my leave."

With that, Jiang Li turned to leave.

"You need to think carefully. Although you have Innate Full Soul Power, you are only of commoner birth. Once you step out of this door, without my guidance, you might never have the possibility of becoming an outstanding soul master in the future."

Seeing Jiang Li unmoved, Yu Xiaogang instantly grew anxious, hurriedly blocking Jiang Li and alternating between coercion and temptation in his words.

Having been in Notting City for so many years, a soul master with aptitude had finally appeared, giving him hope of revenge against Spirit Hall. He did not want to miss it just like that.

"In that case, I'll be blunt. If I become your disciple, what arrangements will you make for the soul rings I hunt?"

An ordinary person might truly have been bluffed by the other party, but Jiang Li did not buy that routine.

Jiang Li's boss in his past life knew to paint big and round pictures when hoodwinking people; you didn't even have any solid offerings, yet you wanted people to kowtow and pledge discipleship?

Did you think you were Long Aotian?

Yu Xiaogang glanced at Jiang Li, not expecting this little fellow to be even smarter than he imagined. It seemed it wouldn't work without showing off a trick.

However, he was completely unfazed, because theory was precisely his strong suit.

"According to my research, the limit age for a soul master's first soul ring is 423 years."

"And since your martial soul is called the Summoning Grimoire, if I guessed correctly, it should possess the ability to summon that soul beast to fight after obtaining a soul ring."

"Therefore, the soul beast I have plotted for you is a 423-year-old Fear Armor Beast..."

Listening to Yu Xiaogang's bragging, Jiang Li could not help but want to laugh, and indeed he did laugh out loud.

Putting aside the fact that his guess about his martial soul was wrong—though that could not really be blamed on Yu Xiaogang, as no one knew the particularity of his martial soul—

that theory about the limit age of the first soul ring was simply laughable. No wonder Yu Xiaogang had always been a joke in the original work before Tang San appeared.

During the few years he had traveled to Douluo Continent, he had not been idle, and in his spare time, he had learned about soul master knowledge in advance.

First of all, the optimal configuration for the first soul ring being around four hundred years was practically common knowledge in Douluo Continent; it didn't require Yu Xiaogang to tell anyone.

Secondly, as long as it didn't cross the gap between hundred-year, thousand-year, and ten-thousand-year limits, having a few more or fewer years didn't affect the power of a soul skill at all. But if one insisted on pursuing some limit age of 423 years?

This neither increased the power of the soul skill by much nor did it do anything except increase the probability of the soul master dying a sudden death.

Only Tang San in the original work had the protagonist halo and a great life. If it were anyone else, they probably would have been played to death by Yu Xiaogang when obtaining their first soul ring.

Jiang Li had no interest in being Yu Xiaogang's experimental subject and suffering that torment.

"What are you laughing at?" Yu Xiaogang looked at Jiang Li with some annoyance.

Jiang Li waved his hand and asked: "Nothing, I just wanted to ask, what is Grandmaster Yu's soul power level?"

"Why are you asking this?" Hearing this, Yu Xiaogang's expression became somewhat unsightly.

"I just wanted to know, Grandmaster Yu, can you beat a 423-year-old soul beast?" Since the other party was bent on treating him as an experimental subject, Jiang Li didn't pamper him either, speaking bluntly right then and there.

"I... I naturally have my methods." Yu Xiaogang said stubbornly, refusing to admit defeat.

Seeing that Yu Xiaogang didn't even have the courage to admit it, Jiang Li looked down on him even more in his heart, sneering: "Just on the strength of a good-for-nothing who can never break through rank 30 in his lifetime?"

"You?!" Yu Xiaogang was like a rat whose tail had been stepped on, a sharp shriek issuing from his mouth.

Looking at Yu Xiaogang's clownish posture, Jiang Li instantly felt bored. If not for the fact that he was a teacher at Notting Academy, he wouldn't even have had the desire to speak with Yu Xiaogang. He then said:

"Alright, idle chatter ends here. After all, I am only a commoner soul master. Unlike you, a 'noble' soul master who survives on Spirit Hall subsidies, I still have to busy myself with working to support myself."

The subtext was that Yu Xiaogang was a freeloader.

"You... you..." Yu Xiaogang was so angry he couldn't speak.

"See you around, Grandmaster Yu." Having said that, Jiang Li had no intention of entangling further with Yu Xiaogang, waved his hand, and directly turned to leave.

"You will definitely regret this in the future!"

Stammering for a long time, Yu Xiaogang finally squeezed this sentence out of his mouth.

"Regret?"

Hearing Yu Xiaogang's words, Jiang Li curled his lips in disdain. You'd better go find your little San to plague instead.

Once Jiang Li left, Yu Xiaogang slumped into a chair and blurted out: "Truly a naturally evil brat!"

No one knew that not long ago, when Jiang Li awakened his martial soul, Yu Xiaogang had accidentally passed by nearby and vaguely seen the black angel phantom appearing behind him during the martial soul awakening.

Therefore, he believed that this Jiang Li was the best candidate bestowed upon him by the heavens to take revenge on the hypocritical Angel Clan of Spirit Hall.

Yet he hadn't expected Jiang Li to decisively reject the good intentions of the Strongest Theoretical Master and ruthlessly mock him into the bargain.

As expected, anything even remotely related to angels was nothing good.

Yu Xiaogang roared in his heart.

Jiang Li!!

I will definitely take an outstanding soul master as a disciple and cultivate him into a Title Douluo for you to take a good look at.

Letting you know what you missed out on today!

I will make you regret it!!