"Wei Fan, how far can your cannon shoot?"
Huo Wu had followed him all the way from Heaven Dou City to Elephant Armor City.
"A little over two hundred meters. The range will increase as I get stronger."
"Huo Wu, little sister, it's getting late."
"It'd definitely be dangerous for you to head back alone."
"Come over to my place for a simple meal, then get some sleep."
"Tomorrow morning, I'll send someone with a message asking Huo Wushuang to pick you up. Then we can all have another meal together while we're at it..."
Wei Fan turned and smiled as he extended the invitation.
"Huh? No, no..."
Huo Wu shook her head like a pellet drum. Though she liked Wei Fan, she wasn't that frivolous.
Stay overnight at Wei Fan's house on only their second meeting?
That was far too hasty!
Deep down, she resisted the idea.
"Wei Fan!"
Yu Xiaogang hurried over.
He had spent the entire day searching and only found out toward evening that Wei Fan lived nearby.
"Yu Xiaogang?"
Wei Fan frowned. Why was this dumbass here?
"I finally found you."
"I heard your strength is still stuck at the Soul Elder level. I have a way to solve your problem."
Yu Xiaogang wasted no time and went straight to the point.
To him, this was the simplest, most effective way to communicate.
"So what?"
Wei Fan couldn't have cared less. He knew perfectly well how strong he was.
"My Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul can help you!"
"As long as you come back with me, I guarantee I can get you to Soul Ancestor in the shortest time possible."
Yu Xiaogang's eyes burned with anticipation as he waited for the answer he wanted.
"No need!"
Wei Fan could tell that Yu Xiaogang was trying to take him as a disciple again.
"No need?"
"Do you realize you've already strayed down the wrong path as a Soul Master? Only I can help you now."
"If you keep going like this, you might very well destroy your entire career as a Soul Master."
"..."
Yu Xiaogang grew more agitated as he spoke.
He hadn't expected this sort of answer after traveling so far.
Seeing that Wei Fan wouldn't even look at him, Yu Xiaogang took a book from his clothes with the care one would show a priceless treasure. It contained the insights he had gathered over decades of research.
"This contains my life's theoretical work. Besides the Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul, it also includes some more in-depth research."
"I can allow you to take a look first!"
Apart from himself, only Tang San had ever read this book.
He hadn't intended to bring it out, but he had no choice if he wanted to win Wei Fan over completely.
"Wu Da?"
Wei Fan frowned at the two characters on the cover.
Why give it a name that practically screamed cuckold?
"This is my Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul. I call it 'Wu Da' for short!"
Yu Xiaogang explained.
"I'd advise you to give it up. Your theories are dogshit. Keep this up, and you might actually become Wu Da one day."
Wei Fan casually tossed the book back, not even bothering to look inside.
As far as he was concerned, nothing beat treating people to a meal!
Even without this system, he would never have taken Yu Xiaogang as his master.
"Useless?"
Yu Xiaogang stared at the book in his hands, trembling all over.
Wei Fan's declaration that his theories were useless felt as though his dignity had been thrown to the ground and trampled mercilessly.
What he couldn't stand most was people calling his theories useless!
Especially when that person was another Soul Master who, like himself, couldn't advance an inch. The only difference was that Wei Fan was a Soul Elder while he was a Soul Grandmaster.
"Wei Fan, let's make a three-year pact!"
"We'll see who's right at the Soul Master Elite Tournament three years from now."
Yu Xiaogang was furious. He hadn't expected things to end this way.
Not only had he failed to take Wei Fan as his disciple, but the theories he took the greatest pride in had been called dogshit.
He would make Wei Fan regret not becoming his disciple.
"No."
"You're afraid?"
"With you? Not interested!"
Wei Fan wasn't in the mood to waste time on a clown.
He couldn't even be bothered to throw a couple of punches at Yu Xiaogang.
"You..."
Yu Xiaogang's dignity had been trampled again. This bastard didn't take him seriously at all.
"Keep buzzing around me like a fly, and I'll make you eat shit. Want to try me?"
He'd had this system for so many years, yet he still didn't know what stat bonuses he could get from treating someone to shit.
He wouldn't mind testing it on Yu Xiaogang!
"Can you stop being so annoying?"
"If you don't leave, I'll knock out your two front teeth!"
Huo Wu's fiery temper flared.
She could tell from his Soul Power fluctuations that he wasn't even as strong as she was, yet here he was, trying to take disciples right on the street.
Someone like him had never walked the path of the strong or experienced the difficulties they faced, yet he wanted to teach others how to become strong?
She'd figured him out. He was just an idiot!
"Wei Fan, don't get arrogant!"
"The river flows east for thirty years, then west for thirty years. Fortunes change!"
Afraid of getting beaten up, Yu Xiaogang ran away.
He threw those two lines behind him before leaving.
Hmph!
He would make Wei Fan understand what it meant to bitterly regret his past choices.
He would show everyone just how invincible his theories were.
"Lucky for him he ran fast!"
"Life is dull enough, and now beasts of burden want to judge humans."
"There's definitely something seriously wrong with him!"
Huo Wu shook her fist, watching Yu Xiaogang's pathetic retreat with contempt.
The next day.
"Wushuang, you must be hungry after coming all this way."
"Here, have this bowl of fried rice!"
Wei Fan pushed over an entire heaping basin of rice.
A young girl like Huo Wu had such a small appetite that he couldn't make much use of her. So when he encountered someone who could really shovel food down, he was absolutely not letting him slip away.
Huo Wushuang's face darkened. His sister's message had said she'd run into trouble in Elephant Armor City.
He'd rushed over, only to find that he'd been summoned to eat?
Seeing Huo Wu sitting beside Wei Fan, looking as sweetly contented as if she'd eaten honey, he couldn't see any sign of trouble.
He'd been played!
"Brother, hurry up and eat!"
"Wei Fan ordered this especially for you."
Huo Wu chimed in from the side.
Huo Wushuang's mouth twitched.
Just listen to her!
Was that something a little sister should say?
She'd barely known Wei Fan for two days, and already her elbow was bending outward, siding with an outsider.
Not only had she tricked him, she was helping force-feed him.
This was outrageous!
"Wushuang, don't just sit there!"
"You're not leaving until you finish."
"I had the chef fry those two wild ginseng roots you gave me last time into this rice."
"It'd be a waste not to eat it!"
Wei Fan began urging him to eat.
What?
He'd just fried the wild ginseng into the rice?
What a waste!
Huo Wushuang hadn't wanted to eat, but once he heard there was wild ginseng in it, he couldn't possibly refuse.
That stuff was a powerful tonic!
A quarter of an hour later...
"Burp~"
"Wei Fan, where's the wild ginseng?"
Huo Wushuang had been digging through the rice and eating for ages, but he hadn't seen so much as a hair of wild ginseng.
"Those ginseng roots weren't very big. I had the chef grind them into powder."
"Hurry up and eat. It'll upset your stomach if it gets cold."
Another quarter of an hour passed...
[Ding! Treated Huo Wushuang to egg fried rice. Reward: 100 years for a Soul Ring.] [Apply to the fifth Soul Ring!] [Ding~ Successfully applied. Fifth Soul Ring age +100.]
Today's meal hadn't been wasted!
"Burp~~~"
"Silly little sister, stop staring!"
"Let's go home!"
Huo Wushuang rubbed his bloated stomach.
He could already see the bottom of the bowl, yet he still hadn't tasted any wild ginseng.
Ground into powder, huh?
Even ground into powder, it should still have tasted like wild ginseng, shouldn't it?
Wild ginseng fried rice?
The only wild ginseng involved was probably a chef named Wild Ginseng who'd fried it!
He'd been duped!
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