Tang San was still being interrogated. Back at Shrek Academy, Gangzi slowly regained consciousness.
When Liu Erlong and Flender told him that Tang San's Twin Martial Souls had been exposed and that Spirit Hall had thrown him into Prison, he scrambled to his feet, desperate to rescue him.
Surely his reputation as the Theoretical Master would be enough to get Tang San out.
But Hei Ranbai stopped him. "Gangzi... ahem, Master, my father is already trying to get Xiao San out. If you interfere, you'll only make things more complicated."
Gangzi took a few ragged breaths and gradually calmed down. With Toji involved, Tang San should be all right.
"Yes, I understand. Ranbai, you may leave." Gangzi resumed his air of scholarly authority.
Wait. Had Ranbai just called me Gangzi?
Gangzi shook his head. He must have misheard. Ranbai was such a sensible boy. Why would he call a Master like him Gangzi?
Gangzi clasped his hands behind his back. A breeze drifted through the window, stirring the hem of his black-and-white Academic Robe.
Beneath his mask, his wise bovine eyes stared fixedly out the window.
"Looks like I have to go to Spirit City and see Bibi Dong again," Gangzi murmured.
The memory of Brother Long teaching him a lesson in Spirit City five years ago was still fresh. But Gangzi believed Bibi Dong must have had some reason she couldn't speak of for refusing to see him back then.
This time, he would reach Spirit City before word of Tang San's Twin Martial Souls did. He would trick Bibi Dong into giving him... no, borrow the Twin Martial Soul Cultivation Method from her, then pass it on to Tang San.
Once Tang San grew powerful, he would publish the Twin Martial Soul Cultivation Method as part of his