Gangzi: I Haven't Brought Shame on My Clan-I've Reached Level Thirty

"Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang, you can make your wish now!"

Xu Yuan raised a hand, signaling him to begin.

Xu Yuan looked down on Yu Xiaogang, but the man was still a Soul Grandmaster.

A level twenty-nine Soul Grandmaster was not to be taken lightly!

One blast from him, and an ordinary person genuinely couldn't withstand it!

Besides, when Xu Yuan thought of the Wish-Granting Tree Martial Soul's side effects, he treated Gangzi much more politely.

"One thing before we start!"

"Whatever happens after you make your wish, you'll have to bear the cost yourself. I can't change the outcome."

Xu Yuan glanced at Director Su beside him.

Director Su nodded. "What do you think, Grandmaster?"

"Of course!" Yu Xiaogang flicked his sleeve.

"But can someone else make a wish on my behalf through your Wish-Granting Tree Martial Soul?"

After securing the spot, Yu Xiaogang suppressed his excitement and asked.

"That... I've never tried it!" Xu Yuan hesitated for two seconds.

Of course he knew Yu Xiaogang was looking for a loophole.

But he truly didn't know the answer.

After all, it had only been three months since his Martial Soul awakened.

This month made four.

"If you want to, Grandmaster, you can ask someone else to make the wish for you. But I take no responsibility for the consequences!"

Xu Yuan had no intention of refusing Yu Xiaogang's idea.

Because that wasn't really the question.

What mattered wasn't whether it was possible, but whether Xu Yuan wanted it to happen.

Although Xu Yuan couldn't control the Wish-Granting Tree's ability to grant wishes, he could control whether it activated!

In other words, Xu Yuan held the switch.

When Yu Xiaogang heard Xu Yuan agree, temptation seized him at once.

Who wouldn't want a wish granted without paying the price?

But...

Yu Xiaogang looked around, worried that whoever made the wish might not follow his wishes.

What if that person had another wish in mind?

"According to Tang San, that girl Xiao Wu never said her wish aloud!"

Yu Xiaogang stood there thinking while the other teachers and students waited anxiously.

"Oh, come on. Is he going to make a wish or not?"

"If he isn't, why did he compete for the spot?"

"He probably just wants to eat and drink on someone else's dime and get something for nothing again!"

Teachers and students across the Sports Field began murmuring.

Even Director Su, standing nearby, was growing impatient.

"Grandmaster Yu, why don't I make the wish for you?"

Director Su was waiting for this to end so he could take his students back to class.

"Oh, would that really be all right?"

Yu Xiaogang's eyes lit up. There wasn't a trace of embarrassment in his voice.

Inwardly, though, he was already mocking Director Su and the others.

"Those Soul Masters really do come from the back of beyond. They stepped forward without even understanding Xu Yuan's Wish-Granting Tree Martial Soul!"

"Still, this could be an opportunity!"

Director Su said nothing about Yu Xiaogang's affected manner.

He didn't believe Xu Yuan's Martial Soul could grant wishes in the first place, so he didn't care what price there might be.

"Then what is your wish?"

Director Su walked up to Xu Yuan's Wish-Granting Tree Martial Soul and looked back at Yu Xiaogang.

"Let—" Yu Xiaogang nearly blurted it out in his eagerness, but forced the words back down.

"Though the Soul Master World honors me as a grandmaster of Martial Soul Theory, a malignant mutation in my Martial Soul left me with only half a level of Innate Soul Power!"

"Despite my tireless efforts bringing my Soul Power to level twenty-nine, I've never been able to cross that threshold!"

Yu Xiaogang launched into his usual boasting again.

You couldn't say he was wrong, but he was a long way from the truth.

He called himself a grandmaster of Martial Soul Theory, for instance, but never mentioned that those theories had actually come from Spirit Hall.

And when he told Tang San that Soul Saints had accompanied him on his travels across the continent, he never mentioned that they had only reached that rank later.

It was the same now!

Yu Xiaogang had indeed started with half a level of Innate Soul Power and later reached level twenty-nine as a Soul Grandmaster.

But he said nothing about diverting cultivation resources meant for other Soul Masters in his sect.

"So my wish is to reach Level 30!"

"Once I reach Level 30, my invincible theories will surely let me break the curse of fate!"

Yu Xiaogang spoke with such passion that Tang San's blood surged!

That was the teacher Tang San knew!

Director Su's mouth twitched. If the man wanted to reach level thirty, he could have just said so instead of taking such a long detour.

"Then I'll make the wish now!"

"Let Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang reach Level 30!"

Director Su addressed Xu Yuan's Wish-Granting Tree Martial Soul.

Yu Xiaogang immediately fixed his burning gaze on Xu Yuan's Martial Soul, unaware that his nails had dug into his palms.

Yet the Wish-Granting Tree Martial Soul did not move an inch.

"My Wish-Granting Tree Martial Soul hasn't activated."

Xu Yuan had his answer. There was no exploiting that loophole.

Behind Yu Xiaogang, Tang San was disappointed, though he had expected this might happen.

"Forget it. I'll do it myself!"

His mood plunged from heaven into hell, and Yu Xiaogang could wait no longer.

He pulled Director Su away from the Wish-Granting Tree Martial Soul, then closed his eyes in reverence.

"If heaven has eyes, let me, Yu Xiaogang, change my fate and reach Level 30!"

Yu Xiaogang squeezed his eyes shut as sweat ran down his closely cropped hair.

"As you wish!"

Xu Yuan sensed the signs that his Wish-Granting Tree Martial Soul was about to activate and gave it permission.

The next instant.

Its translucent leaves rustled and trembled. Pale golden light flowed through their veins, spilling out and drifting into the air.

Dazzling white light burst from the thick, jade-white trunk and covered the entire Sports Field in the blink of an eye.

"Ahh..."

Yu Xiaogang couldn't help letting out a moan of bliss.

The dazzling white light swept over his body like a gentle breeze and passed through his Martial Soul.

His body, always so unbearably heavy, suddenly felt light, as though someone had lifted a thousand-jun burden from his shoulders.

And that wasn't all!

Soul Power boiled through Yu Xiaogang's meridians as the medicinal energy stored there began to be refined!

Yu Xiaogang was the son of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's patriarch.

His father, Yu Yuanzhen, was a level ninety-five Power Attack System Titled Douluo!

He was also the only Titled Douluo in the entire Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan!

The resources at his disposal were beyond anything an ordinary person could imagine.

Who knew how much he had spent, or how many rare medicinal ingredients he had used, to help Yu Xiaogang become a Soul Grandmaster?

Had Yu Xiaogang refined all that medicinal energy?

In the end, it had merely settled in his meridians.

Later, the Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma would restore his foundation, stabilize his unstable Soul Power, and refine that medicinal energy, allowing him to surge straight to level forty as a Soul Ancestor.

That was how the Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma, though no Immortal Herb, had produced effects comparable to one.

But now, all of that was gone.

Ninety-nine percent of the stored medicinal energy had been drained away, leaving Yu Xiaogang only scraps to reach Level 30.

Of course, nobody knew any of this!

When he opened his eyes, the first thing he felt was his surging Soul Power, already past Level 30!

Yu Xiaogang collapsed to the ground on the spot, tears streaming down his face.

"I, Yu Xiaogang, haven't brought shame on my clan! I've reached Level 30! I'm a Soul Elder!"