You Shouldn't Meet Someone Too "Rich" When You're Young

[Lu Chen: They say you shouldn't meet someone too wonderful when you're young, or they can easily become a lifelong regret.

I'd say you shouldn't meet someone too "rich" when you're young either. Gangzi's baffling confidence has practically sweet-talked our newly arrived Tang God King into a fish with its mouth turned up~]

[Lu Chen: Every time I think of that iconic scene where Tang San solemnly kowtowed to Gangzi and became his disciple, saying "a teacher for a day is a father for life," I can't help laughing.

Once Tang San grew up, did he ever want to travel back in time and kick his younger self to death?

No wonder he was so unfilial later and wouldn't even take his teacher along when he ascended to the Divine Realm. He hated Yu Xiaogang to the bone~]

In the chat group, the members, led by Dugu Yan and Ning Rongrong, were nearly laughing themselves unconscious.

The entire group chat panel brimmed with merriment.

[Yanzi: @Liu Erlong, come out and say something!]

[Netherworld: Facts speak louder than words. I just found a copy of Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul. After reading it, all I can say is that Lu Chen didn't write a single thing wrong.]

[Spirit Cat: @Liu Erlong, why aren't you saying anything now?]

[Ah Yin: @Liu Erlong, are you there?]

Ah Yin, too, had now discovered the fun of watching spoilers from Lu Chen's Notebook in the group chat while tormenting the other members.

Remembering how the others had mocked and sneered at her before, she thought, The wheel of fortune turns! My only regret is that I haven't torn your umbrellas apart hard enough!

[Little Princess: @Back to That Day @Little Fox @Angel, say what you will, but with a Supreme Pontiff like Bibi Dong, I think your Spirit Hall is doomed sooner or later (๑･∀･๑)~]

[Angel: I can't argue with that. Honestly, when I learned she'd actually had something murky going on with that useless Yu Xiaogang in her youth, I was utterly thrown.]

[Little Fox: Ahem... I think there might perhaps be some hidden circumstances here.]

[Angel: @Little Fox, don't defend her at every turn just because she's the Supreme Pontiff. You need to learn to take her off that pedestal. The core of our Spirit Hall has always been faith in the Angel. Who does an outsider like her think she is?]

Hu Liena sat on her dormitory bed. Seeing signs that the group's fire was gradually shifting from that stupid woman Liu Erlong toward her teacher, she couldn't help speaking up in her defense.

But with Liu Erlong and Bibi Dong clearly facing fierce headwinds, she hadn't dared to make her meaning too obvious. As a result, Angel had taken it as fear of the Supreme Pontiff's authority...

That's not it!

Teacher is right here in the group watching you court death!

Especially you, Angel. If Teacher discovers your true identity, you really will... huh? Don't the group rules prohibit members from maliciously harming one another?

Then never mind~

Actually, Hu Liena also felt her teacher had gone a little too far. What exactly was so good about that Gangzi that he had caught her teacher's eye?

Was he as handsome as Lu Chen?

Or more knowledgeable than Lu Chen?

Or was his talent greater than Lu Chen's?

Her teacher had even used her position as Saintess to secretly borrow books from Spirit Hall's collection for that good-for-nothing. Was he worthy of that?

Knock, knock, knock~

There was a sudden knock at her dormitory door.

Hu Liena asked warily, "Who is it?"

A familiar voice came from outside.

"Nana, it's me, Yan."

"Oh, it's you. Do you need something?" A faint distance colored Hu Liena's voice. As they grew older, this fellow, who had always followed her brother around like a little sidekick back then, had increasingly lost his sense of boundaries, which she very much disliked.

"Well, I heard a new restaurant opened in Spirit City. The head chef is a food-type Soul Ancestor from the Heaven Dou Empire, and I wanted to treat you and Brother Xie Yue to a meal." Yan stood outside in his Spirit Hall Academy uniform. His usually bold face was full of apprehension as he said hopefully:

"Haven't you suddenly taken quite an interest in the Heaven Dou Empire these past couple of days, Nana? We could eat while having the chef tell us about its local customs."

Sorry, I'm not interested in the Heaven Dou Empire.

I'm only interested in certain people in the Heaven Dou Empire.

Irritated that the person outside had interrupted her "web surfing," Hu Liena said impatiently, "Sorry, Yan, but I've already had dinner. Besides, it's very late, and I'm already tired from cultivating, so..."

"Oh, oh~ I understand. Then I won't disturb your rest, Nana. We can discuss it when you have time~"

With that, Yan turned to leave.

"Wait."

The voice from inside made Yan stop dead in his tracks, wild joy filling his heart. Has Nana changed her mind?

"Yan, I hope you'll call me your classmate from now on. We're older now. If the way you address me causes any misunderstandings to spread, it won't be good for any of us."

"Ah... haha, Na... Classmate Hu Liena, you're right. I didn't think things through today. I'll be off, then. Get some rest."

As the burly man's footsteps faded outside, Hu Liena shook her head and sat back down by the bed. She knew how Yan felt, but if she felt nothing, she felt nothing. It couldn't be forced.

She composed herself and went back to chatting up a storm in the group.

Meanwhile, in another building right beside Hu Liena's dormitory, Xie Yue watched Yan's departing figure and shook his head slightly.

[Lu Chen: I still remember how, when I followed the river of time and saw Yu Xiaogang point out that Tang San had twin martial souls at their very first meeting, I was quite nervous.

I thought, as expected of the God King's teacher, he truly had extraordinary insight.

But once I learned more, I realized he was actually complete crap...]

[Lu Chen: Grandmaster once investigated quite a few people with a Blue Silver Grass martial soul. Fewer than three percent possessed Soul Power, and not one of them had Soul Power above rank one.

According to his theory, cobbled together through out-of-context quotations and plagiarism-innate Soul Power was directly proportional to the quality of one's martial soul.

Gangzi naturally assumed that Tang San had another extremely powerful martial soul supporting his innate full Soul Power.]

At this point, the chat group began discussing it as well.

[Netherworld: @Ah Yin, but shouldn't Tang San's martial soul be the Blue Silver Emperor? Couldn't the Blue Silver Emperor support innate full Soul Power?]

[Ah Yin: A Blue Silver Emperor was never simply born one. I don't know whether the first Blue Silver Emperor in history was born that way, but every Blue Silver Emperor I know of cultivated step by step from Blue Silver Grass.]

[Spirit Cat: So Tang San's martial soul is just ordinary Blue Silver Grass? Doesn't that mean he guessed right?]

[Yanzi: No, my grandfather once said that the prerequisite for twin martial souls to appear is that the two martial souls must be close in quality. But Tang San's situation might be rather special. Perhaps my grandfather would have some ideas after seeing it...]

[Little Princess: Listening to your words was like listening to some words.]

[Yanzi: @Little Princess, are you picking a fight (｡•ˇ‸ˇ•｡)?]

[Little Princess: ╮(•́ω•̀)╭]

[...]

Seeing that the group's discussion had more or less run its course, Lu Chen continued updating.

[Lu Chen: If Gangzi had been a little more learned, or hadn't been kicked out of Spirit Hall so early by its previous Supreme Pontiff, he might have known that the soul world also had a theory stating that "the prerequisite for twin martial souls to appear is that the two martial souls must be close in quality."

But that theory and the so-called "innate Soul Power is directly proportional to the quality of one's martial soul" are actually both inaccurate.]

The women: !!!