In Gu Chen's first clash with Xiao Wu, he had treated her like a speed bump and rolled right over her.
Over the next few days,
He went out and gathered some ten-year Blue Silver Grass, then upgraded it. That fulfilled the upgrade requirements for the Intermediate Life Meditation Method, allowing him to upgrade it to the Advanced Life Meditation Method. When he tried it out, his cultivation efficiency improved dramatically once again.
But one look at the upgrade panel for the Advanced Life Meditation Method, and he no longer wanted to see the requirements for upgrading it to the Top-Tier Life Meditation Method.
One advanced meditation method!
No problem!
One corpse of a thousand-year life-type Soul Beast!
A piece of cake!
One thousand-year life-type Soul Ring!
Easy peasy!
One thousand-year life-type Soul Bone?
Sorry to bother you!
As for an advanced meditation method, he planned to take a stroll through Yu Xiaogang's office. He remembered that in the original story, Yu Xiaogang had given Tang San a meditation method he had put together himself. But did Yu Xiaogang have the skill for that? Eight times out of ten, it was something stitched together from the advanced meditation methods of Spirit Hall and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
But that didn't matter.
As long as his upgrade cheat deemed it acceptable, that was enough.
He would consider it compensation for Yu Xiaogang stepping on him to elevate himself. Right, since the man was going to be locked up for a year anyway, the books in his office would only go to waste if left there. To keep anything from happening to damage them, he felt that, as an heir to civilization, he ought to do his part to protect those books.
And so,
On an afternoon unbeknownst to anyone, the useful books in Yu Xiaogang's office quietly vanished.
Nobody noticed.
But that was perfectly normal.
Yu Xiaogang had been the dean's friend to begin with. Even though Yu Xiaogang was now in prison, he had been arrested before Dean Chen had a chance to announce his departure from Nuoding Academy, leaving the dean too embarrassed to throw stones at a man who had fallen down a well.
So he put it aside for the time being, intending to deal with it when Yu Xiaogang came out.
As for the other teachers and students, Yu Xiaogang was a clown through and through, a complete piece of trash. They genuinely had no interest in the research materials in his office. What earth-shattering discovery could a piece of trash possibly have made?!!!
Besides, Yu Xiaogang had been arrested before he had a chance to go to his office and pack up. Otherwise, how could Gu Chen have gotten such a bargain?
But Gu Chen only took two kinds of things.
The first was the Soul Beast information Yu Xiaogang had copied from Spirit Hall. Gu Chen knew nothing about Soul Beasts, so these materials would give him a deeper understanding of them and let him prepare in advance for absorbing Soul Rings in the future.
The other was the meditation method Yu Xiaogang had given Tang San. After reading it, he felt that although the man was trash, he did have some ability. The stitching seemed pretty good.
But.
That thought lasted only until he used his upgrade cheat to examine it.
[Item: Advanced Meditation Method (stitched-together version)] [Effect: An advanced cultivation method combining the strengths of Spirit Hall's and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's cultivation methods. It appears exquisite, but in truth conceals flaws. Practicing it can easily cause Soul Power to clash within the meridians, causing a backlash against the practitioner. Please consider carefully before practicing.]
He could only say this:
Sure enough, he shouldn't expect too much from Yu Xiaogang!
Because the man would use the facts to show you that he was a clown!
Too bad Tang San hadn't learned it.
Otherwise,
Never mind becoming a god, he would probably have had trouble becoming a Titled Douluo!
Fortunately, the man had been thrown behind bars!
A scourge had truly been removed for the people!
Oh, right!
He had also sent that living King of Hell, Tang San, who had plagued Douluo Continent for tens of thousands of years, in with him.
This...
Wasn't his merit boundless?
If this had happened in the Primordial World, the merit from getting rid of those two scourges might not have made him a saint, but it should at least have made him an immortal!
What a pity!
He could only regret that he hadn't been born in the Primordial World!
In the days that followed, his life was an endless cycle of school, cultivation, school, cultivation. He couldn't say there hadn't been any ripples, but they really hadn't stirred up the slightest wave. It was undeniable that Yu Xiaogang and Tang San, master and disciple, really were scourges. Before they went in, his life had been quite exciting.
But after they went in, his life had no ups and downs at all, which was rather dull.
Still, it was worth mentioning that a mimicry environment for Blue Silver Grass was genuinely easy to find. He only had to find a place full of Blue Silver Grass and sit down to cultivate. With the Advanced Life Meditation Method, he cultivated considerably faster in a mimicry environment.
He wasn't far from breaking through to level 9 Soul Power.
As for Xiao Wu?
Ever since becoming the boss, she had completely let herself loose. Working hard was out of the question; slacking off was her way of life.
Gu Chen was baffled by the sight.
What was this?
Was she having so much fun in the human world that she had forgotten her own mother's grudge?
But he didn't say anything.
If she liked playing, he would let her play. In any case, all he needed was to establish a cooperative relationship with Da Ming and Er Ming through Xiao Wu.
He even gave her several dozen Gold Soul Coins as spending money so she could have more fun.
As long as she had fun, that was all that mattered.
Meanwhile,
Far away in Spirit City, thousands of miles away,
In the Pope's Palace,
Pope Bibi Dong, who held supreme power, was holding a letter. As someone who stood above countless people, she should not have had anyone to trouble her. Yet as Bibi Dong read the letter, her brows were tightly furrowed, and her expression was so dark it could drip water.
Someone standing not far from her had already begun to tremble.
What kind of letter is that?! How could it make His Holiness the Pope so angry?!!!
That was what he thought.
He had even begun to consider whether it would be better to kneel. At least when His Holiness the Pope flew into a rage, she might spare his life on account of his having knelt.
He was only a messenger!
Pope!
Even when two countries go to war, they don't kill the messenger!
Right!
I'm also a member of Spirit Hall. I'm finished!
Bang-!!!
Soul Power erupted from Bibi Dong's fingers, and the letter instantly turned to scraps.
"Get out!"
She swept a cold glance over him. At that one word, the messenger felt as though he had been granted a pardon. He greased the soles of his feet and vanished in a flash.
"Yue Guan, send someone to Nuoding City. Have the city lord of Nuoding City release Xiaogang!"
"Your subordinate obeys!"
Yue Guan answered and left, but Bibi Dong suddenly called him back.
"While you're at it, take that brat who humiliated Xiaogang's learning and have him locked up for two years!"
That one sentence from Bibi Dong showed just how angry she was. Even a child of only six would have to pay a considerable price for humiliating her beloved Gang.
Yue Guan accepted the order and left.
Gu Chen knew nothing of this, nor could he possibly understand that Bibi Dong's head could be so full of love!
At the same time,
On the road to Nuoding City, a figure in a black robe traveled through the night, racing madly onward on his own two feet.
This was none other than Tang Hao, who had finished pouring out his heart to Ah Yin.
Tang San, still in dire straits in the Nuoding City prison, probably never imagined that his own father,
At this very moment,
Was on his way here on horseback-oh, no, on foot!