"Ding! Today's next mission: 'Beat Tang Hao to a pulp!'"
Su Ling's heart trembled when he saw the mission. It seemed even the system could no longer stand Tang Hao's beastly behavior.
"Beating Tang Hao to a pulp is what the people want. Only by completing this mission will the host count as a real man. Reward: tenfold staying power!"
"What!"
"What!!!"
Not just Su Ling-even everyone secretly watching the livestream was startled by the reward.
Staying power?
Tenfold!
Bibi Dong, who had been planning to send Hu Liena to win Su Ling over, began to hesitate. Was this really not going to get someone killed?
Another mechanical voice rang out in the livestream.
"This reward is tailor-made for Qian Renxue's next mission, guaranteed to leave Bibi Dong like fallen blossoms on flowing water!"
"What!"
Qian Renxue stared blankly at the screen.
What the hell kind of fallen blossoms on flowing water was that? Was this supposed to be anything decent?
"What a filial daughter!"
Bibi Dong was speechless. Was Qian Renxue trying to find herself a stepfather?
Although it sounded strange, there seemed to be nothing wrong with it.
"Tang Hao has a vile character and stands condemned by thousands! I, Su Ling, must rid the people of this scourge!"
"Ah Yin, I'm going to beat Tang Hao up!"
Listening to Su Ling's righteous declaration, anyone who did not know the inside story might have thought he was brimming with a sense of justice.
But now...
Ah Yin looked at Su Ling, somewhat speechless.
Still, tenfold stamina did seem pretty good. Otherwise, she might end up falling out with Tang Xiaosan over a bite to eat in the future.
With things as they stood now, the two of them could instead become comrades who would never abandon one another.
"All right! You have my support!"
Su Ling returned to Dorm Seven with Tang Xiaosan in his arms. It was already the early hours of the morning when he arrived.
Xiao Wu, who knew everything, said nothing about it and pretended the two of them had woken her.
She looked at Su Ling in astonishment.
"You two went... on a secret date yesterday?"
Feigning surprise, Xiao Wu covered her little mouth with her little hand.
"Did you... stab Tang Xiaosan to death with your deadly weapon?"
"That's slander!"
Su Ling hurried to explain. With so many people in the dorm, if they misunderstood, word would spread from one to ten, then ten to a hundred. In less than three days, he would be Nuoding City's number-one scumbag.
"We... we went out to cultivate last night. Tang Xiaosan pushed herself too hard and passed out from exhausting her Soul Power."
"Oh~"
Su Ling paid Xiao Wu no further attention. He gently laid Tang Xiaosan on the bed and tucked her under the covers.
As he watched Tang Xiaosan sleeping soundly, Su Ling's eyes were filled with affection.
Just then, Ah Yin's voice sounded in Su Ling's mind again.
"Find some time to take Tang Xiaosan to the Blue Silver Ancestral Land."
"You want to help her awaken her blue silver emperor bloodline?"
"That's right. I no longer belong to the Douluo Continent, so a second Blue Silver Emperor can be born on this continent."
"Besides, I can now draw on the power of an entire planet's Blue Silver Grass to help strengthen her body further. Together with the Blue Silver King's sacrifice, that can make her first Soul Ring a Fifty Thousand Year Soul Ring. Afterward, she can directly absorb a Thousand-Year Soul Ring. It will also make up a little for my six years of failing in my duties as a mother."
Blue Silver King: "You're so great, so noble. You're using me to make up for your maternal love."
"It's not your fault."
He had to admit, the path Ah Yin had arranged for Tang Xiaosan was truly quite perfect.
Of course, it could not compare with his own at all. For Su Ling, a hundred thousand years of cultivation was merely the most basic threshold for becoming his Soul Ring.
He would go to Xiao Wu for his second ring, the Ice Empress for his third, and the Snow Empress for his fourth.
There were also those few Ferocious Beasts still fast asleep.
He just did not know whether his planet's food chain would collapse when the time came. From what he could see so far, after he absorbed a Soul Beast, his planet would automatically generate some low-level Soul Beasts of the same kind.
He wondered whether there was another hundred-thousand-year plant Soul Beast on the continent.
Su Ling washed his face in Dorm Seven, then ran swiftly toward the academy cafeteria.
Every mission the system issued had a twenty-four-hour time limit. He had to finish it as soon as possible.
In the original story, Tang Hao should have followed Tang San to Nuoding Academy at this point, but even after what had happened yesterday, Tang Hao had been nowhere to be seen.
Then Tang Hao was probably still lying around drinking in Holy Soul Village.
Could Tang Hao dislike daughters?
It was also possible that losing the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone had left Tang Hao unsettled.
"Well, isn't this Su Ling? The work-study student cafeteria is on the first floor."
Just as Su Ling was still debating whether to eat steamed buns or wontons, a loathsome voice reached him.
The newcomer was none other than Yu Xiaogang.
Su Ling's words yesterday had nearly infuriated Yu Xiaogang to death, leaving him tossing and turning in bed, unable to sleep.
But then he had thought that although he could do nothing to Su Ling and Tang Xiaosan themselves, he could obstruct their Soul Hunting.
Even if Tang Xiaosan had innate full soul power, she could not obtain a hundred-year soul ring without a teacher's help.
In the end, she could only get a ten-year soul ring and then come begging to him.
When that happened, he could make things difficult for her and twist her around his finger however he pleased.
Rather than taking Tang Xiaosan as his disciple, he had come up with an even more wicked idea: making Tang Xiaosan his own.
She would bear his children. As long as his children were strong enough, neither the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan nor Spirit Hall would be able to look down on him again.
He would also truly become a Grandmaster whose name resounded across the continent.
"Well, if it isn't Yu Prolapse. I'm not a work-study student."
With that, Su Ling took out his money pouch and waved it in front of Yu Xiaogang.
"But you, Grandmaster Prolapse-don't you feel ashamed, freeloading at the academy every day?"
Su Ling's words made Yu Xiaogang's face turn livid, then red.
"How can you speak to an academy teacher like that?"
Yu Xiaogang looked around and raised his head a little higher.
"I order this cafeteria not to sell food to this ill-bred brat who has no respect for teachers or their teachings!"
Seeing that no other teachers were present, Yu Xiaogang shouted at the cafeteria lady.
The cafeteria lady was not about to indulge him.
"If I don't sell food to paying students, am I supposed to sell it to freeloading charlatans like you? Are we supposed to keep this place running or not?"
Teachers at Nuoding Academy could eat without paying, but most of them paid just as the students did.
Only Yu Xiaogang had never paid once in his six years at Nuoding Academy.
That made every member of the cafeteria staff detest Yu Xiaogang immensely.
In their eyes, Yu Xiaogang was nothing but a freeloading good-for-nothing.
He never went when students hunted for Soul Rings, and he never went when students had classes, but the moment mealtime came, he showed up.
And every time, he specifically picked the expensive dishes.
"You!"
The cafeteria lady had struck Yu Xiaogang's sore spot, leaving him somewhat furious.
"Xiaogang, how could you be this kind of person?"
Liu Erlong was beginning to question her entire life. This was the man she had nearly married.
Now, not only was he old and ugly, but he also loved taking petty advantages?
How had I ever fallen for Yu Xiaogang? It was not just Liu Erlong who was falling apart; Bibi Dong was too.
Now, whenever she recalled the days she had spent with Yu Xiaogang, she dry-heaved. She had already developed a physical revulsion toward him.
No, if anyone found out my first love was someone like this, how could I ever show my face again?
I have to dispose of Yu Xiaogang quietly!
"Elder Ling Yuan!"
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