Gangzi Gets Out of Prison [Bonus Chapter Owed from Yesterday's Tips]

The Spirit Hall Prison in Nuoding City.

Gangzi lay on the floor, his body twitching faintly. He seemed to have no strength left.

No one knew how he had survived all those days!

Forced to pick up soap, with his jaw dislocated more times than he could count, Gangzi had endured pressures no one his age should have had to bear.

Gangzi had no idea how many days he had spent in prison. He only knew that every day, his lifelong nemesis Scarface beat lessons into him with a club, telling him to stop using his bullshit theories to deceive people.

Tang San had barely eaten or slept lately. He had lost count of how many times Bruce had scratched up his backside. He spent his days sighing, worried that his teacher was suffering in prison.

All he could do was hope his teacher's Soul Saint friend would hurry up and arrive.

Had Flender come?

Of course he had!

He had written Gangzi a letter earlier, bragging that he had stumbled upon a genius with an innate Soul Power level of nine and a mutated Phoenix Martial Soul. He thought Gangzi's reply would tell him how to solve Hongjun's Evil Fire problem. Instead, he learned that Gangzi had been thrown in prison.

Flender flew almost the entire way to Nuoding City.

Once there, he hurried to see Wang Ruo, the headmaster of Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy.

The headmaster immediately took Flender to Spirit Hall.

A Soul Saint still carried some weight on the continent. Flender might not belong to any major faction, but his strength spoke for itself. A small place like Nuoding City did not even have a Soul Emperor. Someone of his level stepping in ought to help at least a little.

Flender's frown was deep enough to crush a fly.

He was a Soul Saint, yet even he could not get his good friend released.

"Deacons of Spirit Hall, can't you make an exception and let Xiaogang out?" Flender asked, clinging to his last shred of hope.

Master Ma Xiunuo coughed. "Soul Saint Flender, it isn't that we don't want to release him. Master did do something wrong!"

"He needs to make amends. If he doesn't contribute to the Soul World, how can we let him go? Wouldn't you agree?"

As he spoke, Master Ma Xiunuo rubbed his fingers together. His meaning was obvious.

Flender understood perfectly, but he was a shrewd merchant! Parting with his money hurt worse than parting with his life.

But Gangzi was his brother.

Flender now faced a dilemma for the ages: did he love his brother more, or his gold?

Loyal to a fault, Flender chose his brother. He handed over nearly half the Gold Soul Coins he had amassed over the years by gouging people on registration fees.

Only then did the group smile.

"Although Master did wrong, there is no greater virtue than correcting one's mistakes. I'm sure he'll turn over a new leaf."

The main thing was that Gangzi's offense was not that serious. He had only killed a few commoners. Before becoming Soul Masters, plenty of Soul Masters born to common families had enemies. Who among them had not secretly killed a few ordinary people?

As long as they were not too blatant about it, no one bothered to interfere.

Inside the prison's Public Bathhouse.

Gangzi was receiving a lesson from a group of prison bosses, one that had given him a profound understanding of his mistakes.

Just then, a Prison Guard came in.

The moment he entered, disgust spread across his face.

His eyes burned. What a sight!

The Prison Guard struck the wall hard with his baton, finally drawing the attention of the teachers busy educating Gangzi.

"Oh? Brother Li, what brings you here?" Scarface smiled obsequiously and paused the lesson.

The Prison Guard frowned. "Yu Xiaogang. Where's Yu Xiaogang?"

"Ah'm ovah heah...!"

Hearing the Prison Guard call his name, Gangzi shouted in a panic. He had been lying there like a corpse, but now he wriggled like a caterpillar. With his jaw dislocated, he could barely get the words out.

Honestly... it was a little unsettling.

The Prison Guard gave Gangzi a look of disgust, then pinched his nose. "Your sentence is up. Get yourself cleaned up and get out!"

With that, the Prison Guard walked over and released the seal on Gangzi's Soul Power, then left with the same disgusted expression.

With his ability to move restored, Gangzi immediately felt bold again. He glared furiously at Scarface and the others, itching to summon Luo Sanpao and blast them all to death with a fart.

But he could not do that. If he killed Scarface, he would be stuck here picking up soap again.

Scarface and the others were the bosses. Each day, Gangzi only had to endure "lessons" from those few men. If he killed them, he would have to face the guidance of dozens of gym teachers instead.

After all, when an emperor died in an ancient dynasty, what happened to his consorts? Did that even need asking?

They would definitely die!

In the end, Gangzi only shot Scarface and the others one last hateful glare before storming off.

"Goodbye, Gangzi! I'm sure we'll see each other again soon!" Wang Hu grinned and waved at him.

Seeing that Gangzi did not dare attack him even with his Soul Power back, Scarface burst out laughing too. "Hahaha... Xiaogang, if you miss us, remember to come back to prison and keep us company!"

Gangzi's face darkened, and he quickened his pace.

Behind him rang the laughter of the prison bullies.

Damn it. If Scarface and Wang Hu ever got out of prison, he swore he would have Flender kill them!

But Gangzi's hopes were doomed.

Given Scarface's crimes, he was destined to spend longer in prison than the warden.

Wang Hu had once asked Scarface what he had done.

Scarface answered bashfully, "Oh, some bastard spread a rumor that I had a Soul Bone. Two people came to steal it, so I locked those thieves in my basement. I might've kept them there a little too long. Damn Spirit Hall sentenced me to five hundred years!!"

Wang Hu: "..."

When Flender saw Gangzi again, he wanted to give his good friend a proper hug. But the man before him bore so little resemblance to the one he remembered that they might as well have been strangers.

After all the ideological correction he had received from Teacher Scarface, more than half of Gangzi's crew cut had turned white. His jaw was still dislocated too.

Most baffling of all, Gangzi actually smelled faintly of... farts?

Just like that time Luo Sanpao had blasted Flender right in the face.

And yes, Gangzi really had done exactly that!

While changing clothes, Gangzi had discovered that he reeked of flowers. If Flender found out, how could he ever hold his head up again?

To Gangzi, his reputation mattered more than his life.

That was why he had abandoned Liu Erlong all those years ago and hidden himself away in Nuoding City.

So he had Luo Sanpao let out a little fart on him to drive the smell away.