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Nuoding City.
Outside the gates of Nuoding Academy.
Holding the certificate from Spirit Hall, the gatekeeper frowned as he looked at the child standing before him, then at the elderly man beside the child. Disdain immediately spread across his face.
"Blue Silver Grass, innate full soul power?"
"This is fake, isn't it? Dressed in those rags, did you bring a forged certificate? Get lost, all of you! Since when did swindlers get to come here?"
With that, the gatekeeper waved his hand as though shooing away flies.
It wasn't simply that he was a dog looking down on people.
The scene before him really was hard not to question.
Innate full soul power, yet the martial soul was Blue Silver Grass, a notoriously trash martial soul. On top of that, both of them wore tattered clothes and were covered in dust. No matter how he looked at them, they seemed like swindlers.
He had seen far too many cases like this.
Every year, a few people tried to sneak into the academy, pulling every trick imaginable.
Hearing this, the child raised his head, indignation instantly flooding his small face.
He had dark skin and a scrawny build, and he was much shorter than others his age. One glance was enough to tell that he had long been underfed and was poorly developed.
The elderly man's expression changed at those words. He hurried forward a step and bent at the waist as he explained:
"Sir, we truly haven't falsified this certificate. A deacon from Spirit Hall personally issued it to us. It's absolutely genuine. We wouldn't dare tell you a single lie!"
Unexpectedly, the gatekeeper didn't believe him at all. Curling his lip, his eyes filled with contempt, he merely said coldly:
"You expect me to believe it just because you say so? Don't you know that Blue Silver Grass is a trash martial soul? There's no such thing as innate full soul power with it!"
"Just as I thought. One little swindler and one big swindler."
"If you don't leave, I'll get physical."
At the gatekeeper's rude words, Tang San's gaze abruptly chilled, a trace of killing intent flashing through his eyes.
He quietly moved one hand to his sleeve.
This gatekeeper had truly gone too far. Looking down on people like this-he had practically already courted death.
Just then, however, a figure approached from the side.
It was a six-year-old child.
He wore a snow-white robe, his ice-blue hair hanging loosely down his back. Even his eyes were a clear blue.
What drew the most attention was his appearance.
Though only six, his features were already outrageously handsome, his contours exquisite and his bearing otherworldly.
One could imagine how many young women he would bewitch once he grew up.
He walked up to the gatekeeper, completely ignoring both the unremarkable Little Scumbag beside him and the old village chief, Jack.
Instead, he simply took out his certificate from Spirit Hall and spoke with a composed smile on his lips:
"I'm here to study at Nuoding Academy. This is my certificate from Spirit Hall."
Seeing this child suddenly appear beside him, Tang San froze. Even the killing intent that had just been churning in his heart, as he planned to kill the gatekeeper outright, vanished completely at that moment.
"How could there be such a beautiful child in this world?"
His eyes widened, and he couldn't help murmuring to himself, his voice even carrying a trace of envy that he himself hadn't noticed.
Moreover, seeing such a beautiful child even stirred a hint of inferiority in his heart.
After all, Tang San currently had pitch-dark skin and a short stature, and he was clearly poorly developed.
Compared with this child in white, with blue hair and outrageously handsome features, one was practically in the heavens and the other in the dirt.
It was entirely normal for him to feel such inferiority.
At the sight of this outrageously handsome child, a flash of amazement immediately passed through the gatekeeper's eyes.
He couldn't help looking him up and down, inwardly astonished.
The bearing this child possessed was nothing like that of a child from an ordinary family.
He reached out to take the certificate from Spirit Hall and glanced down at it. The next instant, he cried out in surprise:
"Lin Chuan, innate full soul power? Your martial soul is a Qilin?"
The words had barely left his mouth when his gaze involuntarily drifted toward the short, dark-skinned Tang San beside him.
Then he turned back to Lin Chuan, with his blue hair, blue eyes, and outstanding bearing, unconsciously comparing the two in his mind.
Once he compared them, the difference was immediately apparent.
With that otherworldly bearing, Lin Chuan looked far more like someone with innate full soul power.
As for Tang San?
No matter how he looked at him, he seemed like a fake.
Still, the gatekeeper didn't dwell on the matter.
A respectful smile instantly spread across his face as he said to Lin Chuan:
"Young master, you may certainly enter Nuoding Academy. One look at your martial soul certificate is enough to tell it's genuine."
As he spoke, he carefully handed the martial soul certificate back to Lin Chuan.
"Thank you!"
A faint smile appeared on Lin Chuan's handsome face. He nodded lightly to the gatekeeper, thanked him, and stepped through the gates of Nuoding Academy.
But he didn't go all the way inside. After walking some distance, he slowly came to a stop.
"Judging by the timing, Yu Xiaogang should be making his entrance soon, right? Still... although Tang San hid that trace of killing intent very well, he couldn't hide it from me."
"To be honest, if I hadn't shown up here, or if things had gone like in the original story, waiting until Yu Xiaogang appeared, this gatekeeper might really have been doomed today."
Looking at the short, pitch-dark-skinned Tang San not far away, Lin Chuan wore an amused smile as he murmured to himself with interest.
Especially when he said the name "Yu Xiaogang," undisguised disdain flashed through his eyes.
In his previous life, whether he was reading the novel or watching the animation, he simply couldn't bring himself to like this character.
In fact, the more he watched, the more irritating he found him.
Back then, he had wished he could transmigrate into the Douluo World and give Yu Xiaogang a good thrashing.
And now, it had actually come true.
Since he was here, he had to give him a good thrashing.
Indeed, Lin Chuan wasn't from this world.
Six years ago, he had transmigrated to the Douluo Continent.
But in this life, he had no parents.
He came from the Far North.
From childhood, he had been raised personally by the Ice Empress and Snow Empress of the Far North.
As a transmigrator, he naturally looked forward immensely to the arrival of a system.
He had been looking forward to it ever since he arrived.
But as he waited, year after year passed, and it never came.
By the time he was five, he had thought the system would never come.
Unexpectedly, that very year, the system arrived.
However, his system wasn't some sign-in system.
Instead, it was the Goddess Favorability System.
The system's function was simple: gain a goddess's favorability, and he could earn points.
He could then use those points to draw prizes or buy anything.
Soul bones, immortal herbs, and even God-Given Soul Rings were all available for purchase.