"Where should I leave the Space Mark?"
Gu Chen couldn't help pondering the question.
Now that he had the Space Ring, its Soul Skill worked like the fountain in King of Glory: activating it would send him back to base. The location of the Space Mark needed to be safe enough, too. If it wasn't, what use was the Soul Skill to him?
However,
that wouldn't stump him.
"The enemy most likely to threaten me right now is probably Tang Hao. After all, I screwed Tang San over so badly, and with the relationship between Xiao Wu and me, if he wants to repeat what he did with Ah Yin using Tang San, my existence will be a real eyesore."
"So there's a very good chance he'll come after me."
How could Gu Chen not understand that?
Before buying the Space Soul Tool, all he could do was keep his distance from Xiao Wu as much as possible to avoid attracting Tang Hao's attention. But after buying it and confirming that Tang Hao wasn't in Nuoding City, he no longer cared.
And now there was even less reason to worry.
A mere Clear Sky Douluo thought he was worthy of attacking him? Bring on Qian Daoliu!!!
Gu Chen no longer took Tang Hao seriously, but he needed to decide where to place the Space Mark as soon as possible. After all, he wasn't sure when Tang Hao would return. If the man suddenly descended like a god and hit him with a hammer, wouldn't he become a laughingstock?
Then,
he turned his gaze to the Space Ring's upgrade panel.
[Item: Space Ring] [Effect: Magic implement, contains one cubic meter of space. Soul Skill: Space Mark. Effect:] [Upgrade result: Space-Rending Ring] [Effect: Treasure implement, contains ten cubic meters of space. First Soul Skill: Space Mark. Effect: Increases the number of Space Marks to 2. Second Soul Skill: Space Jump. Effect: Perform a Space Jump within a ten-meter radius of the user] [Upgrade requirements: 1 piece of Hundred Refinement void metal, 1 hundred-year space-type Soul Beast corpse]
A new upgrade had appeared, so how could he stop now?
Just as he had expected,
the Space Ring's upgrade requirements had increased. The Soul Beast corpse requirement had risen from ten years to a hundred years. He had already placed an order with the Seven Treasure Pavilion that day, so all he had to do was wait for good news. But the Hundred Refinement void metal was a harder requirement to meet.
He had asked the shopkeeper long ago. The man was only skilled enough to forge Ten Refinement metal. Hundred Refinement? He could stop dreaming. If the man really had that level of skill, he wouldn't be running a smithy in a small city like Nuoding City; he would be in a major city instead.
Fortunately, though, that wasn't a problem for him.
Because he was a man with a Leveling Cheat.
Before seeing the Ten Refinement void metal that day, he hadn't been confident. But after seeing it, he was.
All because he had seen the Ten Refinement void metal's upgrade panel and its upgrade requirements.
One piece of Ten Refinement void metal!
One hundred-year space-type Soul Beast corpse!
One hundred-year space-type Soul Ring!
None of those three upgrade requirements was particularly difficult for him. He could meet them all; it would just take time.
"Space Jump is a skill I'm getting no matter what!"
Gu Chen was brimming with confidence.
The second upgrade would give him a Soul Skill like Space Jump. Who knew whether another few upgrades might produce a Soul Skill like Space Slash? Thinking of that, he couldn't help feeling a little anticipation.
Just then,
Bang, bang, bang-!!!
A rapid knocking rang out.
He went over and opened the door. A figure stood outside, and it was none other than Xiao Wu.
"Gu Chen, no wonder I couldn't find you at school. So you were here!"
"Did you know today was the day I challenged the upperclassmen for the boss position? A lot of people from Dorm Seven were already laid up, so there weren't many of us to begin with, and yet you, my number one general, didn't even come to cheer me on!"
"Do you even have any respect for me, Sister Xiao Wu?!"
Xiao Wu pursed her little lips, her mood written plainly on her face.
"So... you went and fought Xiao Chenyu and the others?"
Gu Chen's face was full of helplessness.
This rabbit really couldn't go a single day without stirring up trouble.
"What do you mean, fought?! How rude of you to say that! We just had a friendly match, and the losing side had to give up the boss position!"
The moment Xiao Wu spoke, Gu Chen suddenly felt like he didn't know her.
A friendly match?
It had only been half a day. Since when had she become so glib? She could even use such refined words!
"Oh."
Gu Chen gave a calm reply.
"What kind of reaction is that? Aren't you going to ask if I won?"
Seeing how calmly he reacted, Xiao Wu immediately grew anxious. Did he really think she had left the chorus of praise from her Dorm Seven underlings and rushed back just to see Gu Chen react so blandly? She might as well have stayed at the academy!
"So, did you lose?"
Gu Chen glanced at her. He knew the answer without her saying it. Xiao Chenyu was just a Soul Master with a white ten-year ring. What made him worthy of competing with Xiao Wu, a Soul Master with a yellow hundred-year ring? Not to mention that Xiao Wu also had several tens of thousands of years of combat experience.
What did Xiao Chenyu have to compete with her?
He couldn't match her Soul Power!
He couldn't match her Soul Ring!
He couldn't even match a fraction of her age!
So...
What could he possibly use to win? What right did he have to win?!
"Of course I won!"
Xiao Wu looked smug.
"Gu Chen, what do you think? Isn't Sister Xiao Wu amazing? Now you know what you should call me, right?"
She showed off smugly while dropping him a hint.
"I don't know whether Sister Xiao Wu is amazing, but I really don't like you calling me by my name."
Gu Chen saw through what she was thinking at a glance and spoke pointedly.
Yesterday, she had called him Brother Chen every chance she got, and today she was calling him by his full name. What, was she trying to climb back on top of him?
What a joke!
Before he had shown her his ability to evolve Martial Souls, he could let her make him call her that. But now that he had that ability, she still wanted him to call her that? Wouldn't letting her know about his ability have been a waste?
"..."
Xiao Wu fell silent and made no reply.
"Xiao Wu, you wouldn't want your Martial Soul to be unable to evolve, would you?"
Gu Chen's voice was like the whisper of a devil.
Xiao Wu's pupils trembled.
"You can't go back on your word!"
She immediately grew anxious.
"Then what should you call me?"
Gu Chen straightened his back.
"Brother... Brother Chen!"
Xiao Wu spoke in a timid voice.
"Louder, I can't hear you!"
"Brother Chen!!!"
Xiao Wu shouted in shame and anger, her earlier smugness long gone without a trace.
She had her own little scheme in mind when she came back. She had defeated Xiao Chenyu and won the position of Nuoding Academy's boss. As the boss, how could she have a boss of bosses above her? So she had tried to use her position as boss to hint that Gu Chen should call her Sister Xiao Wu.
Unfortunately,
he refused to fall for it!
"Good, as long as you know!"
Gu Chen reached out and patted her on the head. Did a silly rabbit like her think she was worthy of playing mind games with him? Even if she were the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and lived another million years to become a Hundred Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, she would still be a silly rabbit!
Besides, getting a chance to evolve her Martial Soul just by calling him "Brother" was already an enormous bargain for her, and she still wasn't satisfied?
Did she even know that if her Brother Chen's Leveling Cheat were exposed, never mind calling him "brother," even those calling him "godfather" would have to get to the back of the line?!
And the line would stretch all the way from here to the Star Dou Great Forest!