Heaven-Shattering, Earth-Rending Sanpao

The moment the pale purple light vanished.

The entire Sports Field... no, all of Nouding Academy fell deathly silent.

Every teacher and student stared at Yu Xiaogang as though they had seen a ghost.

Even Tang San was no exception!

Hadn't he said his Martial Soul would turn into a dragon?

Where was the dragon?

"Xiao San, I did it! I succeeded!"

"My External Beast Martial Soul has finally become a normal beast Martial Soul that possesses me... wait, why are you looking at me like that?"

On Nouding Academy's Sports Field, a fat pig covered in pale purple fur stood before Tang San.

Its face was unmistakably his teacher's!

"Xiao San, is something wrong with me?"

Yu Xiaogang sensed something was amiss and took a small step forward. Tang San immediately used Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track to retreat a huge step!

"T-Teacher!"

"Your Martial Soul didn't turn into a dragon. It went from a pig Martial Soul outside your body... to one that possesses you!"

Tang San's face twitched as he forced himself to explain.

"Could this be the price of using the Wish-Granting Tree Martial Soul?"

"Isn't Xu Yuan's Martial Soul a little too sinister?"

Tang San looked at Yu Xiaogang's pig form with growing fear and swallowed hard.

Now he wasn't sure whether he should use Xu Yuan's Martial Soul to make a wish after all.

"What do you mean, it went from a Martial Soul outside my body to one that possesses me?"

Yu Xiaogang felt as though his brain had shriveled.

He pondered it for ages but still couldn't make sense of it.

Then a student blurted out, "The pig's standing on two legs!"

"Pfft!"

"Hahahahaha! A pig at the Soul Elder level!"

"By the Blue Silver Grass, is this the price Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang has to pay for wishing to become a Soul Elder?"

"That price is way too steep!"

"..."

The entire Sports Field erupted in laughter.

Even the stern Director Su struggled to keep the corners of his mouth down.

As for the younger teachers, they had always looked down on Yu Xiaogang. Now they were laughing so hard they couldn't straighten their backs.

"No wonder I'd never seen Yu Xiaogang summon his Martial Soul. Turns out it was a pig!"

"When Yu Xiaogang started talking about the day he'd become a dragon, he gave me a scare. I thought he really meant it."

"A pig for a day, a pig for life. Even a lucky breakthrough to Soul Elder can't change that cruel reality!"

As everyone pointed and whispered, Yu Xiaogang's heart sank.

"Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang, please stay calm!"

Director Su came over and handed Yu Xiaogang a makeup mirror he had obtained from a female teacher.

"Aaaaaah..."

The instant Yu Xiaogang saw the monster in the mirror, he let out a piercing scream.

"Impossible!"

"How is this possible? How could my Martial Soul become this?"

Yu Xiaogang clutched his fat head and dropped to his knees.

He glared at Xu Yuan, his face twisted with rage. "Xu Yuan, you fraud! This doesn't count as my wish coming true!"

Hearing Yu Xiaogang malign his Martial Soul, Xu Yuan couldn't stay silent.

"Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang, how can you say that?"

"My Wish-Granting Tree Martial Soul cheats neither young nor old!"

Xu Yuan shifted position, putting Director Su between them.

"Then how do you explain my Martial Soul?"

Yu Xiaogang's eyes were bloodshot, and he panted like an ox. Paired with his pig-like appearance, there was little human left about him.

"What's there to explain?"

"You told Director Su you wished to break through Level 30. Did you break through or not?"

Xu Yuan's words left Yu Xiaogang speechless.

The others standing on the Sports Field exchanged looks.

From that perspective, his wish really had come true.

But... the price the wisher had paid was far too high.

The teachers and students who had been fervently praising the Wish-Granting Tree Martial Soul instantly cooled off.

Being stuck at level twenty-nine was miserable, but turning into Yu Xiaogang would be worse than death.

The urge to back away flashed through countless eyes.

"Besides, I warned you beforehand!"

"The Wish-Granting Tree Martial Soul can't grant wishes unconditionally. Sometimes there's a tiny price to pay!"

Xu Yuan repeated his disclaimer to Yu Xiaogang.

"You call this a tiny price?"

"Yes. A teeny-tiny price. It couldn't be avoided."

Xu Yuan's expression was utterly solemn.

Xiao Wu and the others beside him wore expressions beyond words.

For a moment, they couldn't tell whether Xu Yuan had said "tiny" or "billion."

"Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang, what's done is done. You should accept reality."

Thinking back to how he had helped Yu Xiaogang make the wish, Director Su felt a chill of lingering fear.

He had come within a single step of following in Yu Xiaogang's footsteps.

"Accept it? How am I supposed to accept this?"

"You broke through Level 30, didn't you? That's one wish fulfilled."

"As for your Martial Soul... just don't use it. It's not as though you used it much before."

Director Su casually twisted the knife.

"No! I refuse to accept this!"

"Right, my Soul Skills! I still have two Soul Skills!"

On the verge of collapse, Yu Xiaogang seized on a last straw. If his Martial Soul now possessed him, surely his Soul Skills had changed too.

He immediately used Luo Sanpao's first Soul Skill.

"Fart like thunder—Heaven-Shattering, Earth-Rending Sanpao!"

The moment Yu Xiaogang shouted the name of his first Soul Skill, he knew something was wrong.

But by then, it was too late to change anything.

"Grrrgl..."

A muffled rumble sounded in his stomach.

Behind Director Su, Xu Yuan's face changed sharply.

"No!"

Yu Xiaogang clutched his stomach and cried out, his eyes nearly splitting with horror.

He had a premonition that his lifelong reputation would be destroyed today!

"Pffffft—"

A warm current surged.

Gas carrying Level 30 Soul Power burst from Yu Xiaogang's body, sweeping aside everything in its path!

But Yu Xiaogang and Luo Sanpao were different.

Luo Sanpao was a life-form made of Soul Power. Its intestines could perfectly absorb food residue and convert it into gas.

Yu Xiaogang, however, was just an ordinary Soul Grandmaster. His intestines could not absorb food residue like that.

And after days of roughing it with Tang San and eating whatever they could find, his stomach had already been unsettled.

His bowels contained far more than gas. There were solids and liquids too.

Now, propelled by his first Soul Skill, it all came out at once.

Tang San, standing behind him, took the brunt of it.

Poor Tang San!

He had hauled Yu Xiaogang's four-wheeled cart all the way from Soul Hunting Forest to Nouding Academy, then come straight to the Sports Field without even resting.

Though the Mysterious Heaven Skill helped him recover his strength, he was still a beat slower than he would have been at his best.

Only when Yu Xiaogang's first Soul Skill erupted did he snap to his senses.

"Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track!"

Terror filled Tang San's face as he worked Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track so hard his feet practically smoked.

Unfortunately, Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track excelled at quick shifts and evasions over short distances, not long-distance sprints.

So he was still one step slower than disaster.

Boom!

Tang San had barely taken two steps when a powerful force slammed into his back. He flew away like a battered sack, completely out of control.

"No, Xiao San!"

Seeing Tang San blasted away by his own eruption, Yu Xiaogang cried out in anguish.

Xu Yuan saw Yu Xiaogang about to turn around and shouted, "Run!"

He then cast Wish-Granting Golden Body on himself.

"Give Sister Xiao Wu one too!"

Xiao Wu grabbed Xu Yuan's arm, exerted a little force, scooped him up in a princess carry, and fled into the distance.

As for everyone else... well!