Tang San: "Teacher, Why Are You Covering Your Butt Again?"

"Grandpa Golden Crocodile, please pick those two immortal herbs for me."

Xu Peinian pointed at a huge, brilliantly purple chrysanthemum and an eight-petaled orchid some distance away.

Those two immortal herbs were none other than the legendary Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and Eight-Petal Orchid.

The Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum was a neutral immortal medicinal herb. Consuming it would nourish the limbs, unblock the eight meridians, and allow one to cultivate the Vajra Indestructible Body.

It was extremely suitable for a fierce power-attack man like him.

The Eight-Petal Orchid had gentle, rich medicinal properties. It could strengthen one's foundation, purge impurities from the body, and make up for a Soul Master's slow cultivation speed.

The quality of his martial souls was very high, so the further he progressed, the slower his cultivation became.

This Eight-Petal Orchid happened to solve that concern for him.

Xu Peinian returned to his senses and accepted the two immortal herbs Golden Crocodile Douluo handed over.

"Grandpa Golden Crocodile, please stand guard for me."

"Mm. Go ahead and refine them without worry, Xiao Nian."

Xu Peinian relaxed, picked up the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, and swallowed it according to the proper procedure.

His cultivation was not high. The safest method was to consume them one at a time, avoiding the impact of being unable to withstand the medicinal potency of two immortal herbs at once.

Feeling the pure medicinal power flow through his body, Xu Peinian adjusted his posture, calmed his mind, and began refining it.

Refining medicinal power was tedious and lengthy.

Before he realized it, six or seven hours had quietly passed.

Dugu Bo, who had gone elsewhere earlier to consume and refine the Earth Dragon Golden Melon, had already returned.

It was as though he had been reborn. His entire body looked more than ten years younger.

His green hair had turned black again, and much of the unpleasant fishy odor around him had faded as well.

"Hahaha, Young Master, I truly have to thank you! The poison that plagued me my entire life has finally been neutralized!"

Dugu Bo strode over while laughing heartily. There was none of the cold, sinister aura of the old poisoner left in him. He now looked exactly like an old man with no more burdens in life.

"Keep it down. Xiao Nian is still refining."

Golden Crocodile Douluo's indifferent voice sounded out, and Dugu Bo's laughter instantly caught in his throat.

The outskirts of the Star Dou Forest.

The lingering evening sun looked listless, and the dense forest was nearly pitch-black.

Tang San, who had escaped disaster, opened his eyes and discovered that he was surrounded by pink mist.

His expression was extremely ugly, because he felt that he had been deceived again.

That supposedly rare and precious high-level soul beast, the Heaven-Devouring Demon Toad, had only granted him a soul skill with ordinary effects but an explosively horrifying visual display.

His first soul skill was already disgusting enough. If he used his second soul skill at the same time...

Anyone who saw a man covered in mucus, then watched him sprout countless pustules after his second soul ring lit up, with those pustules continuously bursting and oozing pus as they released pink mist, would probably have their stomach churn.

Moreover, the pink mist released by his second soul skill was no devouring godly skill. It was merely an aphrodisiac mist with intoxicating effects.

Aaaahhh!!!

Thinking of this, Tang San's eyes turned bloodshot and he panted like a bull.

After howling at the sky for three minutes, Tang San regained a little of his rationality. Only then did he notice that the mist had yet to disperse, while his teacher and the dean had vanished.

Seeing this, Tang San immediately circulated his Purple Demon Eyes to pierce through the mist.

In truth, he could have simply used his second soul skill to absorb all the pink mist back into himself. But when he thought of that disgusting image, he still chose to use the Purple Demon Eyes.

A flash of purple light flickered through Tang San's eyes, and his vision suddenly became clear.

Yet when he saw the scene in the distance, his eyes immediately hurt as if needles had stabbed into them.

The sight was simply too beautiful—so beautiful that it burned his eyes and would remain unforgettable for the rest of his life.

Not far away,

Yu Xiaogang was sprawled on the ground. Large portions of his eye sockets were filled with the whites of his eyes, indistinct sounds came from his mouth, drool ran from the corners of his lips, and he looked completely out of his mind.

The dean, meanwhile, had fainted from exhaustion, as though he had just endured a brutal battle.

The skinny, lecherous man from before was also lying beside them, but he had long since bled to death.

A trace of struggle flashed across Tang San's face, but when he thought of his teacher and the others' unclear condition, he ultimately released his second soul skill.

As the pink mist dispersed, the Master's slightly raised butt finally lowered flat again, and he too fell unconscious.

Helpless, Tang San could only change out of the clothes covered in foul-smelling pus before silently keeping watch beside the two of them.

Several hours later, the Master and the dean finally slowly woke up.

"Hiss... My butt hurts so much. What happened to me?"

Yu Xiaogang stood up with one hand covering his butt.

A familiar, sour sensation washed over him, and cold sweat streamed down his face without restraint.

Gangzi's ass had turned purple again.

"Teacher, what's wrong? Why are you covering your butt again?"

It would have been fine if Tang San had kept quiet, but the moment he spoke, Yu Xiaogang recalled the scenes from before he lost consciousness.

Gangzi's face instantly turned deathly pale, and his gaze unconsciously drifted toward the dean, who was standing up while holding his waist, and the skinny corpse on the ground.

"Teacher? Teacher, say something?!"

Tang San became even more curious about what had happened to his teacher. He had even thrown the matter of his trash soul ring to the back of his mind.

"Ah, I'm... I'm fine. The dean and I failed to take precautions and were knocked unconscious by this pink mist earlier, right, Dean?"

"Oh, right, right. That's exactly what happened."

The equally pale dean hurriedly nodded in agreement.

Tang San knew exactly what the pink mist did, so the way he looked at his teacher and the dean became strange. But since Yu Xiaogang did not wish to say more, he could not press the issue as his disciple.

To avoid continuing this conversation, the embarrassed Yu Xiaogang hurriedly changed the subject.

"Xiao San, how was the Heaven-Devouring Demon Toad's soul ring? Did your Blue Silver Grass gain the devouring trait?"

Now it was Tang San's turn to turn pale.

Seeing his disciple's expression, Yu Xiaogang's heart sank, and a bad feeling arose within him.

Under the cold night sky, master and disciple stared at each other without saying a word.

Silence was the Star Dou Forest tonight.

Luckily, Tang Hao had not come along this time. Otherwise, he would probably have beaten this Master Yu Xiaogang into a corpse.

The three of them staggered toward the edge of the forest, keeping far apart from one another, like friends who had pulled an all-nighter gaming together and become strangers by morning.

Who were they? Complete strangers.

Elsewhere.

After refining the Eight-Petal Orchid, Xu Peinian's Soul Power rose directly to level thirty. After instructing Dugu Bo to guard the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, he returned to Spirit City with Golden Crocodile Douluo.

Outside Spirit Hall Academy.

After listening to the intelligence his spies had brought back about Tang San and his teacher, Xu Peinian entered the academy gates with a furrowed brow, desperately suppressing the corners of his mouth.

He truly had not expected his subordinates to be so creative. Just imagining that bizarre scene was enough to make goosebumps rise all over his body.

Hu Liena, who happened to be passing by the entrance, saw Xu Peinian walk in with that strange expression. She immediately jogged over, skillfully hooked her arm through his, and said in a sweet, coquettish voice,

"A-Nian, where did you go these past two days? Your sister couldn't find you anywhere."

Feeling the soft sensation against his arm, Xu Peinian could not help letting his thoughts wander. His mind shifted from Gangzi's ordeal to the little fox before him.

"I went out to handle some matters these past two days. I wasn't at the academy."

"Alright then. Can your sister borrow just a tiny bit of your time now?"

Hu Liena tugged and swayed Xu Peinian's sleeve, tilted her head, and blinked with a wink. She executed the entire coquettish routine as smoothly as flowing clouds and running water, her seductive appearance carrying a touch of playfulness.

Xu Peinian had only just left the beginner's village. How could he possibly resist such a top-tier succubus? He was quickly defeated.

"Alright. I'll listen to whatever Sister Liena says."