Dare to Belittle Brother Lin, Yu Xiaogang, You Already Have the Way to Die!

Only a few short days passed by in a hurry.

The two work-study student quotas were successfully obtained by Grandpa Jack, and with a full smile on his face, he was now leading two children in great strides toward the Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy.

"Grandpa Jack, how do you get a spirit ring?"

The chattering little Xiao San was full of curiosity about everything, holding Lin Yue's hand with one hand while eagerly asking Grandpa Jack all sorts of questions.

"Spirit rings are absorbed by killing soul beasts. The age of the spirit ring that can be absorbed differs depending on one's rank. Grandpa Jack doesn't know these things either, but your teachers will teach you all about it in the future."

Grandpa Jack, smiling kindly, led the two of them through the bustling and noisy streets, tirelessly answering Xiao San's various questions.

Coming to Nuoding City for the very first time, Lin Yue looked around in curiosity, finally gaining a basic understanding of the city layout on the Douluo Continent.

The resident population of this small town established at the borders of the major empires seemed to be only tens of thousands. Rather than calling it a city, it was more like a larger border settlement...

No wonder that in the original work, the city lord of this place was only at the Four-Ring Soul Ancestor level. To be able to find such a remote little place, that rogue rabbit really knew how to pick...

Twisting and turning, the group finally relied on their own legs to hike all the way from the village to the Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy before the sun set.

Looking up at the rustic plaque hanging at the school entrance, Lin Yue crossed his arms and quietly waited for the plot to unfold.

"Blue Silver Grass? And Innate Full Soul Power, the hell? Old man, if you're going to forge documents, at least forge them properly!!"

The guard of the Junior Soul Master Academy threw his right hand down, fiercely slamming Xiao San's spirit awakening certificate onto the ground. Intense suspicion and disdain showed in his eyes.

A few country bumpkins from the village actually dared to daydream about awakening Innate Full Soul Power, and even brought this kind of nonsense here to swindle people.

How many years had he worked here as a guard? Could he not know how important Innate Soul Power was? Word was that having level seven or eight allowed one to steadily reach the Tutelary Douluo realm, or even charge upward, with chances at the Soul Douluo and even Titled Douluo levels.

In the entire school, not a single person had spirit power exceeding level 5. As a result, a few villagers showed up, pulled out a piece of paper claiming they had Innate Full Soul Power, and claimed their spirit was Blue Silver Grass, of all things.

The guard tilted his head, his body shaking as he spoke out of the side of his mouth:

"My spirit is a rogue rabbit, the hell! If Blue Silver Grass can even have Innate Full Soul Power, then since my rogue rabbit specifically eats Blue Silver Grass, wouldn't that be even more badass than Innate Full Soul Power?"

Seeing old Jack's complexion turn ugly as he instinctively hunched his old waist into a look of shame, the guard immediately gained confidence, growing more spirited the more he spoke. He put his hands on his hips and blocked the three of them, refusing to back down even half a step.

At this, Xiao San's face, which had originally carried a joyful expression, grew increasingly gloomy, and his hands clenched tightly inside his sleeves.

This guy actually dared to humiliate him right in front of Brother Lin...

[Ding, commission received from Tang San -- Vent pent-up frustration]

[Task content: Give the guard a painful lesson]

[Task reward: 100 points]

The moment the voice sounded in his mind, Lin Yue raised an eyebrow, thinking to himself that it was just as expected.

He had watched with his own eyes as that question mark marked by the system popped up from above Xiao San's head. Whenever people around him felt a heartfelt desire and hope, the system would accept a commission.

"Hey, have you said enough?"

Lin Yue stepped forward, blocking the space between them with a solemn expression.

He originally did not want to stir up trouble, but as the guard spoke, he became more and more spirited, showing no intention of stopping whatsoever.

Seeing the other six-year-old boy clenching his fists and looking as if he were sticking up for his companion, the guard immediately laughed.

"What? Are you also here to join the Soul Master Academy? Are you also Innate Full Soul Power? Let me guess, your spirit wouldn't happen to be a rogue rabbit, would it? Hahahaha!"

Pointing at the Spirit Hall certificate in Lin Yue's hand, the guard was about to burst into laughter when a majestic surge of blood qi violently erupted right before his eyes.

A massive pressure symbolizing madness and destruction poured down like an invisible giant hand, instantly seizing the guard's cackling neck.

Scarlet blood qi burst forth from the palm, wildly spreading all the way up Lin Yue's arm and shimmering with an alluring crimson glow under the setting sun.

Wisps of blood qi condensed into the shape of a long sword, landing in Lin Yue's left hand.

"Lin Yue, Innate Full Soul Power, Ghost Sword spirit, please advise."

The illusory long sword pointed forward. Lin Yue's expression was calm, and not the slightest emotion could be found within his icy eyes.

The guard's wide-open mouth no longer held a shred of laughter. Only intense shock and disbelief remained, completely frozen upon that comical face.

"Ahem, alright, step back."

A somewhat hoarse and weathered voice came from the side. The group cast their gazes over to see a figure wearing a scholar's robe, a flat-top haircut, and a small, unkempt circle of stubble around his lips.

Yet the moment he appeared, the guard instantly hunched his waist, assuming a servile posture as he fawned:

"Ah, Grandmaster! Wh-why have you come?"

"Humph, I came to the academy's library to look up some reference materials, and happened to run into you, a parasite idling away on your position, bullying students. I will definitely report this matter to the headmaster..."

Yu Xiaogang's arrogant expression swept over the blood-shimmering long sword in Lin Yue's hand, then drifted across the Spirit Hall certificate on the ground that bore the words "Blue Silver Grass, Innate Full Soul Power." A gleam of light flashed deep within his eyes.

"Don't, Grandmaster, I..."

"Alright, scram."

Stooping down to pick up that piece of Spirit Hall certification, Yu Xiaogang looked at the words "Blue Silver Grass" with his own eyes and clenched one hand tightly, as if he had discovered some incredible secret.

Seeing that the guard was about to leave in dismay with a bitter expression, Lin Yue immediately stepped forward.

"Hold on, I haven't let you leave yet."

His task wasn't finished yet, and this guard still wanted to leave?

"What... what are you doing again?"

Staring at the blood-qi longsword in Lin Yue's hand that emitted a terrifying ripple, the guard's face turned slightly pale, and fear slowly grew in his heart.

A martial soul that looked this astonishing at a glance was definitely not an ordinary thing like Blue Silver Grass.

Perhaps the person he provoked today really was a Soul Master with Innate Full Soul Power.

Thinking of this, his legs trembled uncontrollably, and the fear in his heart kept growing.

Lin Yue lowered his eyes and said indifferently:

"You humiliated us like this, and you want to leave without apologizing?"

"This..."

The guard's face turned bitter, and he looked up at Yu Xiaogang, only to find him standing aside with his arms crossed, clearly having no intention of stepping in to interfere.

"R-Right, I'm sorry! I shouldn't have provoked two Lord Soul Masters, and I shouldn't have doubted you!"

With that, the guard lowered his head and tried to leave, seemingly terrified of being remembered for the arrogant face he had worn earlier.

"Wait!"

Lin Yue's longsword slashed horizontally, blocking the guard's path once more.

"I didn't tell you to apologize to me. I told you to apologize to every country person you look down on. Apologize to Grandpa Jack!"

The boy stood holding his sword, his tone resounding, and his gaze as sharp as a knife. It pressed down on the guard so he could hardly breathe.

"S-Sorry!"

Having completely lost his nerve, the guard bowed repeatedly, his legs shaking so badly he was on the verge of kneeling, and only stopped when an old man offered words of reassurance, before fleeing as if running for his life.

[Ding! Quest completed -- Vent a spleenful anger]

[Received commission reward: 100 points]

"Alright, this matter is settled. Let me take you into the school. I am a friend of the headmaster, and also a Soul Master."

Watching all of Lin Yue's actions, Yu Xiaogang pushed up his glasses and smiled, though a trace of disgust flashed deep within his eyes, seeming quite displeased with Lin Yue's petty bickering.

He casually exchanged a few words with Grandpa Jack, and the overjoyed old man, seeing that Yu Xiaogang actually turned out to be a distinguished Lord Soul Master, immediately entrusted the two kids to him.

Old Jack still had many things to attend to, and after leaving the two little ones with some living expenses pooled together by the fellow villagers, he returned to the village with a heart full of relief.

Seeing that the old man had already left, Yu Xiaogang, with his hands clasped behind his back and styling himself as a master, held his head high and offered a critique with a sense of innate superiority:

"Young man, standing up for your companion is fine, but being overly sharp won't do."

After finishing the report in his hands, Yu Xiaogang wore a trace of scheming on his face, his eyes darting smugly back and forth between the two children.

His luck truly was exceptional to encounter two geniuses with Innate Full Soul Power at the same time, and in such a remote backwater as Nuoding City.

With them, he would surely revive the glory of a master of theory! As long as he cultivated two Titled Douluos, everyone who had once looked down on him would completely reverse their views of him!

At the mere thought of this, Yu Xiaogang's frail body couldn't help trembling slightly with excitement, his expression twisting slightly as if he were about to experience a cerebral climax right then and there.

"Oh, does the master have any pearls of wisdom to share?"

Putting away his martial soul, Lin Yue revealed a few traces of undisguised contempt and disdain in his eyes.

Yu Xiaogang, quite simply the most disgusting character in the original work.

Hiding behind the excuse of a congenital martial soul flaw, cowardly, incompetent, entirely lacking in responsibility or accountability, he had personally ruined the lives of two women while hiding in a corner himself, lacking even the courage to stand beside his lover and share the pressure—he could be described as the absolute pinnacle of a useless piece of trash.

There are no useless martial souls, only useless Soul Masters. A single sentence that insulted himself twice. Of the so-called martial soul theories he put forward, only this one actually held water.

A martial soul flaw was not his fault, but for his character to be so base and cowardly to this degree was entirely his own problem.

If not for sheer dumb luck in obtaining a genius disciple and brothers who could entrust him with their lives, he probably would have been a shrinking turtle hiding his head for a lifetime.

Seeing that trace of undisguised disdain in Lin Yue's eyes, Yu Xiaogang felt a pang in his heart, his fists subconsciously clenching as if he saw in this child the shadows of countless people from the past who had sneered and mocked him.

"Humph, Lin Yue, don't be too arrogant. Although your martial soul looks stronger than Xiao San's, in my heart, Xiao San surpasses you a hundred times!"

Yu Xiaogang puffed out his chest, put his hands behind his back, and struck the pose of a master, looking entirely confident as if a mere two or three sentences would be enough to make them bow in submission.

Blue Silver Grass could not possibly have Innate Full Soul Power; Xiao San must possess a second martial soul. As long as he could point this out, not only would Xiao San be filled with gratitude toward him for his recognition, but even this proud little brat would inevitably submit to his judgment, ultimately throwing themselves under his banner to become the best raw material for proving his theory!

Thinking of this, Yu Xiaogang could hardly conceal his wild joy as he raised his voice in reprimand:

"You are nothing more than an arrogant brat who relied on a mutation to awaken an excellent martial soul. If you don't rein in your temperament, your achievements in life will be mediocre at best! Especially compared to those true sect prodigies with abundant resources, you are entirely worthless!"

"On the contrary, Xiao San, in my view, is a genius far superior to you!"

"However, since you and I meet here, it is also a matter of fate. I, Yu Xiaogang, am known to the world as a master of theory, with a reputation that shakes the continent. I can act as a guiding mentor for the two of you. Are you willing?"

First suppress them, then take them as disciples while these kids are dazed... Secretly feeling pleased with his own cleverness, Yu Xiaogang, the corners of whose mouth turned upward, failed to notice that along with his depreciation of Lin Yue, behind his back as he stood with his hands folded, Xiao San, whose expression had previously been calm, now wore a look of intense hatred and terrifying killing intent!

Daring to look down on her Brother Lin Yue, this person had already brought about his own path to destruction!!