Out of consideration for Yu Xiaogang, the dean arranged new accommodations for them.
By the time Tang San had moved both Yu Xiaogang and Tang Hao into their new accommodations,
it was already dark!
After a busy day, Tang San returned to Dorm Seven, utterly exhausted.
A burst of cheerful laughter immediately caught his attention.
Standing at the entrance to Dorm Seven, Tang San looked inside the dormitory, toward the two beds placed side by side.
Li Jin sat on the bed with Martial Soul Possession active. His black hair had turned a dazzling nine colors, and nine-colored fish scales had grown at the corners of his eyes. With red lips, white teeth, and an immortal's jade-like beauty,
however unwilling Tang San was to admit it, he had to acknowledge it.
Li Jin was handsome, as handsome as a banished immortal descended from the heavens.
And what made Tang San even more envious was Xiao Wu, who was lying in Li Jin's arms, her little face flushed as she rocked with laughter.
"Li Jin, Tom is so unlucky! Jerry always runs circles around him. This is good, so good!"
"Hurry, hurry! I want to watch the next episode!"
Yes!
What Li Jin had called good was Tom and Jerry.
Using Spiritual Sharing, one of the four great Soul Skills of his first soul ring, Li Jin played the Tom and Jerry episodes in his mind for Xiao Wu.
He had originally only wanted to test the limits of Spiritual Sharing, only to discover that he could share both the images he saw and the images he imagined with others.
Now that was interesting.
Just like now, playing Tom and Jerry could make Xiao Wu rock with laughter.
He had also envisioned many other uses, besides combining detection and sharing into Spiritual Detection Sharing the way Huo Yuhao did.
He could also use Spiritual Sharing to interfere with enemies. Perhaps, at certain moments, it could produce effects beyond imagination.
Li Jin glanced sideways toward the doorway. That eyesore Tang San was back.
"All right, Xiao Wu, that's enough for today. It's already dark. We should get some rest."
"Ah! No, no! I'm not sleepy yet. One more episode, just one!" Xiao Wu blinked her big, watery eyes, pleading with Li Jin in a wheedling, cutesy voice.
Unable to withstand her pestering, Li Jin agreed to play another episode for Xiao Wu. One episode followed another, until his Soul Power was nearly depleted.
Only then did he withdraw his Martial Soul and burrow under the covers.
"No more. I have to sleep!"
Xiao Wu yawned. She had laughed so happily today. She also burrowed under the covers and lay beside Li Jin, propping her cheek on her little hand. Her eyes sparkled as she said earnestly,
"All right, then we'll watch more tomorrow."
"Li Jin, will you always let me watch Tom and Jerry?"
Li Jin had already closed his eyes and answered as though it went without saying,
"Of course. You're my future wife."
Xiao Wu giggled and rolled onto her side to face Li Jin. Gazing at his exquisite, flawless profile, she drifted sweetly into dreamland.
Fuck!
This was enough to make anyone green with envy and hatred!
Tang San watched with bloodshot eyes, panting like an ox.
He was either looking after Yu Xiaogang or looking after Tang Hao, washing away shit and piss and wiping down their bodies.
And Li Jin?
He had played with Xiao Wu all afternoon, and at night he even got to sleep in the same bed as her!
Was there any morality left? Any law? Any justice under heaven?
Seething, Tang San sat back down on his collapsed bed, gritted his teeth, and thought viciously,
Fine, you sleep. I'll cultivate!
Once my Soul Power surpasses yours and I grind you into the ground in the future, I'll make you regret it!
Tang San began cultivating the Mysterious Heaven Skill, circulating it through his body again and again as though he knew no fatigue. Yet for some reason, the harder he cultivated, the more negligible his gains in Soul Power became.
And on the other side?
Li Jin and Xiao Wu entered dreamland, one absorbing the origin essence of the million-year Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, the other absorbing her own hundred-thousand-year Soft Bone Rabbit origin essence. While they dreamed, the power of that essence subtly strengthened their bodies and increased their Soul Power.
Their cultivation rose far faster than Tang San's.
A night passed!
Dawn began to break!
Tang San had cultivated all night. When he opened his eyes and woke, the corners of his eyes were dark, and his eyes were bloodshot.
He turned to look toward Li Jin and Xiao Wu. Neither had woken yet. Who knew how they had slept last night, but they had actually ended up in each other's arms again.
In the entire dormitory, he, the one who had stayed awake cultivating all night, was the only person awake.
Sleep, then. Just keep sleeping. I'll outgrind you to death.
Tang San rose, rubbed his eyes, and went out.
What fine weather today. Perfect for cultivating the Purple Demon Eye!
Tang San went to the dormitory rooftop, faced the direction of the rising sun in the east, and sat cross-legged. He recited the Purple Demon Eye's formula, preparing to absorb that wisp of Purple Qi from the rising sun.
But then!
To his frustration, Tang San discovered that a large white cloud had inexplicably drifted over, positioning itself right on the horizon and blocking that first wisp of Purple Qi from the newborn sun.
"Fuck!"
"Back in Holy Soul Village, cultivating the Purple Demon Eye always went smoothly. Why did something like this happen on my very first day cultivating it at Nuoding Academy?"
"The sun is completely blocked. I can't absorb that wisp of Purple Qi at all. I'll have to head back for today."
Tang San clenched both fists, his face filled with frustration. He stood up, preparing to leave the rooftop.
The moment he turned around, the cloud on the horizon slowly drifted away.
Huh?!
Noticing that sunlight had appeared again, Tang San excitedly turned back, ready to continue cultivating the Purple Demon Eye.
"Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck!"
Veins bulged on Tang San's forehead. The cloud that had already drifted past had actually fucking drifted back the moment he turned around, blocking the sunlight once more.
Targeting him!
Even a cloud was targeting him!
Tang San refused to believe it.
He turned around again, and the cloud on the horizon silently drifted away.
Then he turned back, and that silently departing cloud fucking drifted back again.
Trembling all over with rage, Tang San pointed at the cloud blocking the sunlight on the horizon.
"You motherfucker, you're courting death!"
"I'll admit defeat today. If you've got the guts, come block the sunlight every single day! I refuse to believe a cloud like you can keep me from cultivating the Purple Demon Eye forever!"
Just then, who knew whether the cloud on the horizon had heard Tang San's curses.
The cloud shifted shape, curling four fingers and raising its middle finger. It actually gave Tang San the middle finger.
Tang San's eyes were bloodshot, and he panted like an ox.
He had been scorned by a cloud.
Tang San could never have imagined that his words had hit the mark.
From that day onward, he could no longer cultivate the Purple Demon Eye.
Whenever he came to absorb that wisp of Purple Qi in the morning, that cloud would arrive at precisely the right moment to block the sunlight.
It reached the point where Tang San began doubting himself.
Ever since coming to Nuoding Academy, not a single thing had gone his way.
It had all been fucking rotten luck.
Grrr!
Tang San's stomach growled. Rubbing his belly, he gave up on cultivating the Purple Demon Eye and went to find some way to get food first.
Then he would visit his bullied teacher and paralyzed father.
His expression was bitter in the extreme.