Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy.
Inside the classroom, the air was terrifyingly still. Yu Xiaogang stood at the podium, his chest heaving and his face flushed red. He had clearly reached the height of his fury.
"Su Bai, do you know who you're talking to?"
"I am the Grandmaster renowned throughout the Soul Master World, the Grandmaster who proposed the theory of the Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul! You actually dare question my judgment?"
Yu Xiaogang practically spat those words through gritted teeth. As far as Gangzi was concerned, it was already an extraordinary concession for a Grandmaster like him to stoop to teaching here. Now someone had openly talked back to him. How could he possibly tolerate that?
The boy named Su Bai wore his hair short, and a faint smile rested on his face. He was as calm as drifting clouds in a gentle breeze, showing none of Yu Xiaogang's anger.
"I'm not questioning your judgment. I'm simply sticking to my own choice. At the end of the day, this is my martial soul."
Hearing that, Yu Xiaogang grew even angrier and slammed his hand onto the desk.
"Foolish! You can't see beyond the end of your nose!"
"Your martial soul is a tool martial soul pagoda, and the strongest of that kind is the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda. With Seven Treasure Glazed Tile's pearl and jade already setting the standard, your future path is perfectly clear."
"You should take the support path!"
"Although your martial soul isn't of high quality, you do have innate full soul power. You can still serve a purpose as a support-type soul master. Do you understand?"
Su Bai shook his head, his tone utterly firm.
"I disagree. No one understands my martial soul better than I do. Taking the support path would be a complete waste of its potential."
"As I see it, it can form contracts with soul beasts and wield the abilities of every type of soul master!"
As someone who had transmigrated, Su Bai naturally knew what he was talking about, and he had absolute confidence in his martial soul.
Because his martial soul was the Spirit Pagoda!
The terrifying power of the Spirit Pagoda needed no explanation. With such a powerful martial soul, Gangzi actually wanted him to take the support path?
What a joke!
Su Bai knew all too well how absurd Gangzi could be. He would never listen to him.
As Su Bai finished speaking, many of the other students began whispering among themselves, curiosity in their eyes.
Bang!
Yu Xiaogang slammed his hand onto the desk and roared, "Silence!"
His eyes blazed with fury. Earlier, Gangzi had merely succumbed to his craving to give advice, eager to lecture any youngster he saw. Now, however, he was furious because his authority had been challenged.
"You're going against the mainstream of soul masters! Contracts with soul beasts? Tell me, do you know what a martial soul's age limit is? Do you even understand what a martial soul is?"
"According to my Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul, there's only one outcome if you do that: you'll form contracts with some worthless soul beasts early on and fail to bring out your martial soul's true potential!"
"Martial souls are extremely complex. Only a Grandmaster like me can unravel them. What could a greenhorn like you possibly understand?"
By now, Yu Xiaogang was simply throwing his weight around, trying to make Su Bai bow his head through the prestige of his Grandmaster title.
Or rather, trying to make Su Bai yield.
Whatever path Su Bai chose no longer had anything to do with Yu Xiaogang. What mattered most to Gangzi now was that his authority as Grandmaster had been challenged to his face. If he couldn't convince Su Bai, where would he put his face?
After listening to Yu Xiaogang prattle on at length, Su Bai couldn't help letting out a helpless sigh.
Gangzi was still Gangzi. There was simply no reasoning with him.
He nodded perfunctorily and said, "I understand, Graaandmaster."
Although Su Bai claimed to understand, anyone could hear the dismissiveness in his voice.
Yu Xiaogang grew even more furious, nearly choking on his own breath and passing out.
"Su Bai!"
"Your stubborn insistence on having your own way will ruin you sooner or later!"
"Do you think having innate full soul power makes you so powerful? Let me tell you, there are plenty of people like you at this academy, and quite a few are more outstanding than you!"
"My disciple Tang San also has innate full soul power. I'll soon take him to obtain his first soul ring. His future is boundless!"
"Do you understand all the painstaking thought I've put into this for your sake? If you take the support path and follow Tang San, you can still achieve something. But if you keep indulging in these fantasies, you'll only be digging your own grave!"
The corners of Su Bai's mouth curved upward. He said nothing more, his eyes filled with mockery.
What was the point of wasting so much breath arguing with someone like Gangzi?
Su Bai had never been someone who did nothing but flap his lips. With anything, the final result was always the most convincing proof.
Recognizing Su Bai's mockery, Yu Xiaogang's anger burned even hotter.
He was the Grandmaster, renowned throughout the entire Soul Master World!
His disciple was an unparalleled genius with twin martial souls!
To Yu Xiaogang, having the chance to support Tang San was already an honor for Su Bai. Su Bai should have been overflowing with gratitude toward him. Yet not only did he refuse to listen, he was now ignoring him?
"Fine, fine, fine!"
After saying "fine" three times in a row, Yu Xiaogang glared at Su Bai and said, "In that case, I won't bother with you anymore. Absorb whatever you want for your first soul ring. Once you do, spar with Tang San, and you'll see just how right I am!"
"If you don't dare, admit your mistake to me right here and now."
Hearing that, Su Bai raised his eyebrows.
"First, why should I admit a mistake when I'm not wrong?"
"Second, of course I dare to spar with him. But what happens if Tang San loses? Surely I shouldn't be the only one who has to apologize?"
At those words, the other students all widened their eyes. They hadn't expected Su Bai to have the guts to shoot right back at Yu Xiaogang to his face.
Yu Xiaogang's face turned the color of pig liver, and he clenched his teeth.
"If Tang San loses?"
"We'll discuss that if he loses. He's my disciple. There's no way he'll lose!"
In Yu Xiaogang's mind, Tang San losing had never even been an option.
What a joke. This was the disciple he, the Grandmaster, had personally chosen. Innate full soul power, and twin martial souls besides. How could he possibly lose?
In Gangzi's eyes, Su Bai's martial soul was nothing more than the most ordinary tool martial soul pagoda, without the slightest destructive power. Su Bai's ideas seemed even more like tales from the Arabian Nights to him.
If Tang San could still lose under those circumstances, that would only mean there was something wrong with Tang San himself. What would that have to do with Gangzi?
Seeing Yu Xiaogang's stubborn refusal to concede, Su Bai said no more. Instead, he turned his head aside and began thinking.
Tang San is finally going to obtain his first soul ring...
He had already been tested and found to have innate full soul power when he awakened his martial soul. The only reason he had kept putting off obtaining his first soul ring was that he was waiting for an opportunity.
The opportunity he was waiting for was Tang San and Yu Xiaogang setting off together for the Soul Hunting Forest!
At that point, Tang Hao would certainly be protecting the two of them from the shadows. That would give Su Bai the chance to obtain the first soul ring he had planned for himself.
It would also be the first soul spirit the Spirit Pagoda would form a contract with.
Ah Yin!
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