Watching the Pride of Heaven Ranking, which was about to be revealed, the various major powers stopped in their tracks. It would not be too late to trouble the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect after the ranking had been fully revealed.
New content kept appearing on the Pride of Heaven Ranking.
[Tenth place: Tang San, Twin Martial Souls.]
Everyone at Shrek Academy immediately cheered with delight. Xiao Wu even jumped three feet into the air. "Third Brother made the ranking!"
Tang San's expression, however, kept shifting.
He knew he would definitely make the ranking. After all, Yu Xiaogang had once told him that only a handful of people with Twin Martial Souls appeared in an entire century.
With his Twin Martial Souls, he would certainly make the ranking, and once he did, he would unquestionably take first place, unless someone else also had Twin Martial Souls.
But now, although he had made the ranking, he was only tenth. Could all nine people ahead of him have Twin Martial Souls? Were there actually ten people with Twin Martial Souls on the continent?
In an unnoticed corner of the roof of Shrek Academy's teaching building, a burly man with a powerful build and ragged clothes also looked at the Pride of Heaven Ranking in utter bewilderment.
"Are there really ten people with Twin Martial Souls on the continent? How is that possible? And Little San is even the least talented of them!"
"Can someone with only the tenth-best talent on the continent really help me take revenge?"
"Little San... it seems there's no need to keep nurturing him..."
The burly man's gaze was dark, his expression cold.
Down below, Tang San felt a chill sweep through his entire body for no apparent reason.
Spirit Hall.
Hu Liena wheedled prettily to Bibi Dong, "Teacher, he has Twin Martial Souls, just like you. This is the first time I've heard of anyone else on the continent having Twin Martial Souls."
Beside her, Xie Yue said, "Even Twin Martial Souls only earned tenth place. It looks like our chances of making the ranking are slim."
Only then did Hu Liena realize this, and her face fell.
Bibi Dong, however, looked thoughtful. "His surname is Tang..."
More words appeared across the sky screen:
[Reason for ranking: Twin Martial Souls!] [One Martial Soul is the Blue Silver Emperor, containing the power of the Life Law; the other is the Clear Sky Hammer, containing the power of the Destruction Law. Twin Martial Souls hold boundless prospects!] [Unfortunately, Tang San suffered from malnutrition in childhood, leaving his body depleted. He should have possessed innate full-level Soul Power, but because he could not get enough to eat, he might even have failed to awaken his Martial Souls.] [Through diligent training in an unknown martial cultivation method, Tang San ultimately awakened innate full Soul Power!] [More unfortunately still, when the Blue Silver Emperor Martial Soul absorbed Soul Rings, someone gave him misguided instructions. The Soul Rings he absorbed not only did nothing to aid the path of life, but instead harmed it. His Blue Silver Emperor Martial Soul is now all but ruined, and it is no longer possible for him to embark on the path of life. If he rashly uses the Clear Sky Hammer to awaken the power of destruction, his Martial Souls may even fall out of balance, killing him and extinguishing his cultivation.] [Assessment: he was born a prodigy of his generation, yet was abused by his beast of a father and ruined by his pig-brained teacher. Even with his damaged talent, he can still enter the top ten of the Pride of Heaven Ranking. Had his talent remained intact, his prospects would have been limitless. Pitiful, regrettable, tragic, lamentable.]
After hearing the sky screen's explanation, Tang San immediately recalled everything from his childhood.
Before he was even three, he had been forced to tend the fire and cook. Every day, he could only drink thin gruel, and he even had to do farmwork for others to earn money to buy his father liquor, while barely keeping himself from starving to death.
He had thought every household on this continent lived that way. Combined with the feudal notion of "Heaven, earth, sovereign, parents, teacher" from his previous life weighing heavily on his mind, this had kept him from resenting Tang Hao. A voice in his head had even desperately insisted that his body, hair, and skin were gifts from his parents, and that even if Tang Hao killed him, it would only be right and proper.
Only after entering Nuoding City to cultivate had he learned that parents in ordinary families were nothing like his father.
He had finally thought he had found a teacher, yet now the Pride of Heaven Ranking had plainly told him that his so-called teacher knew absolutely nothing and was merely a stupid pig.
"Nooooo!!!!!!!"
Overwhelmed by grief and rage, Tang San spat out a mouthful of blood.
Meanwhile, on Tang Hao's side.
"What? Little San's talent could have been even greater, but Yu Xiaogang harmed him this badly? Damn it, damn it, damn it! Still, as long as Twin Martial Souls aren't a dime a dozen, that's fine. Once his depleted body is replenished, Little San will still be a capable hand at destroying Spirit Hall."
Yu Xiaogang had long since panicked as he read the Pride of Heaven Ranking. "This ranking was wrong just now, so its assessment now must be wrong too. There is absolutely no way my theories are mistaken!"
He felt a chill behind him and turned to find Tang Hao standing at his back. "Clear Sky Douluo, no, listen to my excuses-ah, no, my explanation! The Pride of Heaven Ranking is wrong. I'm the one who's right. It's slandering me! It's slandering me!"
"You stupid pig actually ruined all of my dear son's talent! How could I possibly spare you!" Tang Hao's eyes blazed with fury, his oppressive aura sweeping wildly across the scene, yet he never mentioned the first half of the heavenly ranking's account, or why Tang San had been malnourished and underdeveloped.
The Titled Douluo's oppressive aura left everyone present utterly terrified and unable to move.
Tang Hao walked up to Yu Xiaogang and delivered two resounding slaps, swelling his face until it resembled a pig's head.
"You ruined my son's talent and his Martial Soul! Yu Xiaogang, you are unworthy of being a teacher!" Tang Hao roared.
Already dizzy and seeing stars, Yu Xiaogang collapsed to the ground.
Tang Hao stepped forward and crushed his left leg beneath his foot. Yu Xiaogang immediately squealed like a pig being slaughtered.
"Your Excellency Clear Sky Douluo, spare me! Please spare me! The information on the heavenly ranking must be wrong! This certainly isn't my fault!"
Yu Xiaogang lay on the ground wailing, a large pool of blood spreading from his left leg. A yellow stream between his legs also steadily grew. He had actually wet himself in terror.
A rank, foul stench wafted out, making those around him frown in disgust.
Tang Hao gathered his Soul Power, wanting only to pound this useless, pig-brained bungler of students into a pulp.
"Your Excellency Clear Sky Douluo, please show mercy! Xiaogang is the son of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's leader. Please spare his life!"
Flender and Zhao Wuji wanted to intervene, but under Tang Hao's Titled Douluo-level pressure, they could not even approach.
Tang Hao, however, dismissed all of this with utter disdain and was about to strike.
Seeing this, Yu Xiaogang immediately spoke faster than he ever had in his life. He knew that if he did not speak now, he might never speak again.
"I know the secret to adding Soul Rings to Twin Martial Souls without your body exploding!"
At these words, Tang Hao immediately stopped. "Why should I believe you?"
Unable to spare any attention for the pain, Yu Xiaogang hurriedly rummaged inside his clothes, without a trace of his usual assured bearing as the continent's foremost theorist.
He finally managed to dig out a Pope Token from Spirit Hall. "Spirit Hall's current pope once pursued me. She has Twin Martial Souls herself. Only I can tell you that secret."
Tang Hao was dubious, but he still stayed his hand and withdrew his pressure.
Watching that pig-like good-for-nothing beg pitifully for mercy, Zhu Zhuqing finally saw Yu Xiaogang's true face. No longer wanting to remain in this so-called Monster Academy, she quietly took two steps back and left. Not a single person there noticed.
The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
Yu Tianheng laughed loudly as he looked at the Pride of Heaven Ranking.
"The Clear Sky Sect really has declined since sealing off its mountain. Someone with Twin Martial Souls appeared, yet instead of nurturing him properly, they gave him misguided instruction and even ruined one of his Martial Souls."
"Hahahahaha! That's hilarious."
"Tianxin, when you choose a teacher in the future, make sure you keep your eyes peeled. Don't go taking just any stray cat or dog as your master."
"My son, Yu Xiaogang, is the foremost authority on Soul Master theory. I haven't seen him in many years, either. Here's what I'll do: I'll write him a letter and have him come teach you, so you won't stray down the wrong path like that person with Twin Martial Souls on the ranking."
"Yes, Clan Leader."
Yu Tianheng bowed respectfully. From a very young age, he had heard that his clan had produced the Soul Master World's foremost theorist, who had even proposed the ten great theories of Martial Souls. That elder, however, seemed to have left to wander the continent long ago, and no one knew where he was now.
Meanwhile, the Clear Sky Sect had already erupted into a complete uproar.
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