"Lady, you're only a Soul Grandmaster right now, and I haven't even absorbed a single soul ring. Even if there really was a way, do you think you could pull it off?"
With Xiao Wu pestering him relentlessly, Link could only give her a solution that at least counted as a goal.
"If you want to bring your mother back to life, wait until you're a Titled Douluo!"
"Really?"
"You're not lying to me?"
"I'm a dog if I'm lying! (Yeah, right!)"
Link took a deep breath. "Also, stop pestering me. If you have any questions, just ask in the chat group. Haven't you seen the way Tang San looks at me? He looks like he wants to kill me!"
Link had never doubted whether Tang San would dare to act.
Although Tang San spoke and acted childishly, he had lived two lives and retained his memories of his previous one. Killing people held no terror for him.
When he had first arrived at Nuoding City Soul Master Academy, he had developed murderous intent simply because the gatekeeper looked down on him.
Now Link was getting so close to Xiao Wu, and Tang San regarded her as his exclusive possession. If Link wasn't careful to keep his distance, Tang San might assassinate him at any moment.
Among the methods of Tang Sect disciples, hidden weapons were one aspect, and poison was another.
See? Whatever the method, it was all crooked, sinister stuff that couldn't stand the light of day.
After much coaxing and arguing, Xiao Wu finally stopped pestering Link.
Link watched her go to Tang San, then went to the cafeteria to eat.
As a work-study student, he was poor and could barely keep himself fed and clothed.
After lunch, Link didn't even return to the work-study students' dormitory. He left the Soul Master Academy outright. He was heading to Heaven Dou City.
He didn't dare stay at Nuoding City Soul Master Academy any longer.
In Tang San's mind, Link had already given him a reason to kill him.
And if Tang Hao, lurking in the shadows, discovered that Link was getting close to Xiao Wu, he might simply eliminate him to cut off future trouble at the root.
So he had to leave!
After leaving Nuoding City Soul Master Academy, Link spent every copper soul coin he had scrimped and saved on dry provisions.
Nuoding City was located in Fasinuo Province, and Fasinuo Province was a long way from Heaven Dou City.
Although Link lacked resources, the most important part of making your way out in the world was getting out there.
Now that he had set a goal, he had to act on it.
Although Link's current body had not absorbed its first soul ring and he wasn't a soul master, sharing Xiao Wu's cultivation had also given him mastery of her innate combat art, jujutsu.
With their physical attributes shared as well, Link's current strength was no worse than a two-ring Soul Grandmaster's. He merely lacked soul skills.
But even without using soul skills, Xiao Wu's transformed hundred-thousand-year soul beast body possessed extremely high combat power.
This journey to Heaven Dou City shouldn't pose much of a problem.
Of course, if he died halfway there, then he died halfway there!
That was life. Whatever plans you made, people without backing could only take things one step at a time. If nothing worked out, they died along the way.
Link left without a sound.
Xiao Wu only learned that he had left when night fell and hurriedly called out in the chat group.
"Link, where did you go?"
"None of your business!"
Naturally, Link had no obligation to answer Xiao Wu's question.
"What do you mean?"
"Exactly what I said!"
"Link, you've gone too far! I'm telling you, I'm angry!"
"Why the hell should I care?"
"I'm asking out of kindness, and that's your attitude?"
"And here I was thinking of lending you a few gold soul coins. Forget it. Go ahead and starve!"
After Link snapped back at her, Xiao Wu's anger rose in surges.
Although Xiao Wu was indeed pretty, cute, and long-legged, unfortunately, Link had no interest in her.
He wasn't a lolicon!
Although his body was only ten years old now, he was mentally in his twenties. To him, older women were a better fit.
Of course, even with an older woman, he currently had the desire but not the ability.
On the Douluo Continent, when soul masters absorbed soul rings, their physical growth also accelerated as their soul power level rose. The problem was that Link hadn't absorbed even one soul ring. Right now, he was just like someone who didn't cultivate, still growing...
"You, you..."
Xiao Wu was furious, but there was absolutely nothing she could do to Link.
"Xiao Wu, are you all right?"
Seeing Xiao Wu suddenly become furious, Tang San couldn't help asking out of concern.
"Mind your own business!"
Xiao Wu shouted straight at Tang San, then stormed out of the work-study students' dormitory.
She did have some brains.
Not long after leaving the dormitory, a cool breeze blew over her, and she immediately understood why Link had chosen to leave.
But Link was already gone. What could she do?
Tang San had followed Xiao Wu out of the dormitory. Seeing her wandering at the edge of the grove, he didn't approach, merely watched from a distance, unable to understand why she had become like this.
But no matter what Xiao Wu became, she was his little sister, and he would accept her.
Xiao Wu wandered outside for quite a while before noticing Tang San standing in the shadows. But she ignored him and went straight back to the dormitory.
Looking at her bed, which was still pushed up beside Tang San's, Xiao Wu walked over and decisively separated the two beds.
She had gotten her own bedding long ago. After all, once she had absorbed her first soul ring, she could collect a stipend from Spirit Hall. Now that she was a two-ring Soul Grandmaster, she could collect ten gold soul coins every month.
When Link saw Xiao Wu's last remark about lending him money, he sneered and replied, "Do you have any money?"
It wasn't that Link looked down on Xiao Wu. It was that Tang San held all her money, including the soul master stipend she collected each month, because Xiao Wu was always spending recklessly.
When Link had seen this arrangement back then, he had really wanted to laugh.
How exactly did Xiao Wu spend recklessly?
Buying tasty food, pretty clothes, and all sorts of jewelry...
Was there anything wrong with a girl buying some of those things with her own money?
It was clearly Xiao Wu's own soul master stipend, yet Tang San had merely said he couldn't let her spend recklessly, and Xiao Wu, her brain apparently waterlogged, had genuinely believed he was doing it for her own good. She even had to hold out her hand to Tang San for money to buy radishes every month.
"Of course I have money! I..."
Xiao Wu had wanted to show off her monthly stipend of ten gold soul coins as a two-ring Soul Grandmaster, but halfway through, she suddenly remembered that she really didn't have any money on hand.
All her money was with Tang San. If she wanted to buy something to eat or drink, he handed over the money readily, but if she wanted a pretty little dress or some nice jewelry, he would try to talk her out of it!
At that moment, Xiao Wu suddenly realized that she seemed to have no control over how she spent her money.
No!
There was no "seemed" about it!
The fact was, she had no right to decide for herself how her own money was spent.
"You finally noticed!"
Link chuckled. "Xiao Wu, from now on, pay a little more attention and use your brain more. Your brain really doesn't work very well, but use it more anyway. Otherwise, it really will become useless!"
That was right!
Link was deliberately sowing distrust of Tang San in Xiao Wu's mind.
Although Link currently had no particular designs on Xiao Wu, he didn't want to see Tang San living comfortably either. Hurting others without helping himself was the whole point!
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