Xiao Chenyu took a step forward.
His eyes were full of lofty contempt.
His tone dripped with mockery:
"Hey, you lying there. I heard you only have innate level six soul power?"
"You're the trash older brother mingling with a bunch of geniuses?"
"What, are your legs so weak with fright that you can't get up?"
"Hurry up and crawl out here as an appetizer!"
"Give us a laugh!"
Liu Long and Ling Feng beside him immediately caught his meaning.
They joined in the jeering:
"Exactly! Trash should know its place. Don't think having a genius little brother means even your chickens and dogs get to ascend to heaven!"
At those words, Tang San's previously calm expression instantly darkened.
A dragon had a reverse scale; anyone who touched it must die.
As far as he was concerned, they could insult him.
They could even call his Blue Silver Grass a trash martial soul!
But insulting his older brother was absolutely out of the question!
"You're courting death."
A flash of purple passed through Tang San's eyes.
He slowly raised his right hand, blue light surging in his palm.
He was just about to teach these brats who knew neither the heights of heaven nor the depths of earth a lesson.
He wanted to cripple them!
Standing beside Tang San, Xiao Wu keenly sensed the murderous aura coming from him.
She glanced at Tang San in surprise and thought:
Wow, Little San is usually like a little block of wood. How is he so scary when he gets angry?
But then, she clenched her fists with a little excitement.
She loved a good group brawl more than anything!
Wang Sheng and the other work-study students hiding in the back.
They were already trembling with fear.
Just as Tang San's Mysterious Jade Hand was poised to strike.
Just as he was about to teach these brats who knew neither the heights of heaven nor the depths of earth a lesson-
Tang Tian suddenly felt a violent disturbance in his Sea of Consciousness.
The Blue Silver Grass phantom that had slumbered for so long-Little Blue-had awakened!
Feeling that familiar stirring.
Tang Tian could not help a trace of amusement flashing through his eyes.
It seemed it was time for him to farm affection again.
According to the script, wasn't this a classic affection event?
As long as he acted a little more pitiful, this girl would surely be moved to tears.
However.
The next second.
"Trash... who are you calling trash?!"
A trembling surge of fury exploded in Tang Tian's mind.
The once gentle, gloomy Little Blue had undergone an enormous change!
Awakening this time, she was no longer that frail little blade of grass!
Instead, she had completed a leap to a higher level of life!
She had transformed straight into a Blue Silver King!
With the improvement in her martial soul quality, although her appearance had become incomparably magnificent.
Her leaves had turned a deep azure.
Golden patterns even flowed across them!
[Little Blue (extremely furious)]
[You dare insult my baby Tang Tian? Who gave you the nerve!]
[You're defying heaven! All of you, on your knees! No one gets to bully him except me!]
Meanwhile, sensing Little Blue's increased strength.
[Little Iron Hammer (watching the drama)]
[Why does this useless grass look so much stronger?]
[But something seems off about those lines. Why does she sound even more domineering than me?]
[Has she gone berserk?]
"Wait, Little San, don't move yet!"
Tang Tian's expression changed.
Baby Tang Tian? What kind of line was that?
He instinctively felt that something was wrong with Little Blue.
But it was already too late.
Boom!
With Tang Tian at the center.
The surrounding Blue Silver Grass, originally limp and boneless.
Suddenly grew wildly, as though injected with chicken blood!
It turned into countless thick blue pythons!
"Wh-what is that?!"
Xiao Chenyu, Liu Long, and Ling Feng, who had been preparing to attack, paled.
That aura of a king of the plant world made them feel instinctive fear.
The next second.
Countless vines burst out of the ground.
Carrying a savage momentum!
Smack! Smack! Smack!
They were given no chance to react at all.
Liu Long and Ling Feng were whipped straight into the air by the vines.
Then they were trussed up tightly.
They hung upside down in midair like strips of cured meat.
Relying on his Wolf Martial Soul, Xiao Chenyu tried to fight back and roared:
"I'm the City Lord's son! Take my wolf claws!"
His hands turned into wolf claws, and he slashed viciously at the vines before him.
But before he even touched a blade of grass.
An even thicker vine bearing golden patterns slapped his Wolf Martial Soul apart.
"I don't care who you are! I am the Blue Silver King!"
"Urgh..."
Xiao Chenyu let out a miserable scream.
The blow sent him spinning three and a half times in midair.
Then he too was tightly bound and hung beside Liu Long.
Everyone was stunned.
Wang Sheng and the other work-study students' jaws dropped, their eyes as wide as bronze bells:
"Th-this is Blue Silver Grass?!"
Tang San froze.
That control, that explosive power!
It was nothing like ordinary Blue Silver Grass!
And these vines actually carried a kingly pressure that made his heart tremble!
Could this be the result of his big brother secretly grinding away back in the village?
Tang San's admiration for his big brother instantly surged like an endless river.
Xiao Wu's mouth fell open too:
"Wow, Big Brother Tang Tian is so scary when he gets angry!"
"Is he going to turn them into air-dried meat?"
However, a sight that made everyone's eyes practically fall to the ground unfolded.
Tang Tian, the person at the center of it all.
Was staring at his own waist in utter bewilderment.
Because-
At the same moment those three were strung up.
Several dark blue vines had also wound around his waist and legs with exceptional smoothness, yet brooking no refusal.
"Um... Little Blue? We're on the same side! I'm friendly!"
Tang Tian shouted, wanting to cry but finding no tears.
Inside the Sea of Consciousness.
Little Blue folded her arms and tilted her head up with a haughty look:
"Baby, you're far too weak."
"When you encounter opponents like these, you should face them directly!"
"You need to take the initiative!"
"You can't just passively fight back!"
"To keep you from getting hurt, I have to protect you in my embrace!"
[Little Iron Hammer (confused)]
[Aren't those my lines?]
[Has this useless grass gone nuts after evolving?]
[She calls this protection? Isn't this bondage play?]
Whoosh!
Tang Tian felt the world spin around him.
The vines also lifted his entire body "gently" into the air.
He was brought face-to-face with Xiao Chenyu.
Except Xiao Chenyu and the other two were upside down.
While Tang Tian was right side up.
Tang Tian: ...
This is what you meant by facing them directly?
Was this still the shy Little Blue he knew?
Had she awakened some strange trait?!
The four swayed gently in the wind, staring at one another.
Xiao Chenyu was already scared out of his wits.
He looked at the strange fellow before him and said in a trembling voice:
"B-big brother, what school of fighting is this?"
"I give up, I really give up! Let me down! My dad is the City Lord..."
Tang Tian sighed.
Since I can't get down, I might as well keep up the act to the bitter end.
He did his best to put on an inscrutable expression as he looked at Xiao Chenyu, who was mere inches away:
"The City Lord's son, right?"
"You were going to pull up my grass, right?"
"Do you know how much hard work I put into raising this grass?"
"Do you know how much psychological trauma you've caused it?"
Tang Tian stared hard at Xiao Chenyu with an air of bitter anguish:
"You want to get down? Fine, pay a ransom."
"Oh, no, I mean compensation for the Blue Silver Grass's emotional distress, fright, lost working time, and lawn maintenance."
Xiao Chenyu wanted to cry but had no tears.
What the hell kind of emotional distress compensation was this?
This was blatantly kidnapping and extortion!
He felt as though he had run into a bandit.
The kind of bandit who even tied himself up.
"I'll pay! I'll pay! I'll pay right now!"
He struggled to wriggle his body in midair like a maggot.
He pulled a heavy money pouch from inside his clothes and handed it to Tang Tian with a mournful face:
"Here are a hundred Gold Soul Coins. That's all my pocket money..."
"Boss, can you let me down now? The blood's rushing to my head..."
Tang Tian took the pouch.
He weighed it in his hand.
He nodded in satisfaction.
"Little Blue, we're done."
He said it silently in his mind, keeping his tone as gentle as possible.
He was afraid this "Queen Grass" would fly into another rage.
The entwining vines seemed to understand and loosened their grip with great reluctance.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
Xiao Chenyu and the other two fell face-first onto the ground, landing like dogs with their mouths in the dirt.
The vines on Tang Tian's side, however, lowered him slowly with extreme gentleness.
Wang Sheng and the others watched, dumbstruck. This Blue Silver Grass... had it become sentient?
Xiao Chenyu did not dare linger.
He scrambled to his feet and fled with his lackeys, stumbling and crawling.
Even as he ran, he did not forget to throw out a threat, though his tone had lost all its confidence:
"Just you wait..."
After running another couple of steps, he felt that was wrong and immediately changed his tune, shouting:
"No, Boss, I was wrong! I'll never dare do it again!"
Watching the group flee in panic.
And the Work-Study Students gazing at him in admiration from afar.
Tang Tian counted the Gold Soul Coins, in an excellent mood.
Not only had he made money and established his authority, but Little Blue had even evolved.
What a landslide win!
Just then, he instinctively looked at the System Panel.
He wanted to see Little Blue's exact attributes after evolving into [Blue Silver King], and whether it had gained any powerful Soul Skills.
However, when his gaze fell on the latest system notification, the corners of his mouth, which had been curled upward, suddenly began twitching wildly.
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