Chapter 44: Yu Xiaogang: Thousand-Year Soul Rings? You Have Twin Martial Souls! Gu Chen: Cut the Crap, I'll Treat You to a Hundred Lashes First - Douluo: My Martial Soul Has an Upgrade Panel

The moment the words left his mouth.

Tang San looked bewildered, clearly not yet understanding what Gu Chen meant.

But that was fine.

Gu Chen would show Tang San what he had meant through his actions.

Under his control.

Several strands of Blue Silver Grass formed whips, and there were more than just one or two. The Blue Silver Grass whips instantly began lashing the suspended Tang San.

Crack, crack, crack-!!!

The sounds of the lashes striking Tang San rang out as crisp and pleasing as firecrackers at New Year.

But for Tang San himself, it was not so pleasant.

Because it really hurt.

His suspended body jerked nonstop under the lashes, and he howled in pain.

He did not understand.

How could a mere piece of trash with level-one Innate Soul Power crush a genius like him so easily, a genius with Innate Full Soul Power who had even absorbed a Hundred-Year Soul Ring, and then hang him up and whip him?

This...

He could not understand, nor did he have time to.

He was in too much pain to think about it.

A good while passed.

The Blue Silver whips still had not stopped attacking.

"That's more than a hundred lashes already! Why haven't you stopped?!!!"

Tang San cried out as he was beaten.

Hadn't he said a hundred lashes?

Are you no good at math? You're whipping me like crazy with four or five Blue Silver Grass whips. In this short time, forget a hundred lashes, there have been five hundred!

"I have to thank your dad for the special care he gave me a while back, don't I? A few extra lashes are on me, no need to be polite!"

Gu Chen showed no intention of stopping.

He had come this time for Tang Hao, but even now, after he had whipped Tang San into this state, Tang Hao still had not appeared. That made him wonder whether Tang Hao was even at Tang San's side, so until the man showed up, the hundred lashes could not stop.

If he reached a hundred lashes, he would throw in another thousand for free. That was just how generous Boss Gu was.

"What?!!!"

His words shocked Tang San.

Back in Holy Soul Village, Gu Chen had had no contact with their family, just like everyone else, much less with his father. So the special care Gu Chen spoke of was obviously not meant literally.

Rather.

Could it be that Gu Chen suddenly disappeared a month ago because Dad made a move against him?

Tang San's heart was filled with mixed feelings.

Back then, he had asked his father to deal with Gu Chen, but his father had refused. To his surprise, though his father had been cold with his words, he had actually already begun to act in secret. Although Tang San did not know how Gu Chen had escaped his father's hands, he was truly moved by what his father, Tang Hao, had done.

He truly was a good dad!

Tang San was almost moved to tears!

But.

Crack, crack, crack-!!!

The hundred lashes were over, and the thousand lashes continued.

The physical pain made the emotion in his heart vanish at once, and even the tears at the corners of his eyes retreated.

"Damn Gu Chen, how dare you treat me like this! If my dad were here, he'd smash you to death with one blow of his hammer!!!"

"I'll remember this grudge. Someday, I'll make you pay!!!"

As the lashes fell, Tang San thought bitterly.

But since he was no match for Gu Chen now, he could only remember this debt and settle it with him later, when thirty years had passed east of the river and thirty years west, and he could say, "Don't bully a poor youth."

"If Tang Hao isn't here, where else could he have gone? Surely he didn't run back to Ah Yin while I came here looking for him!"

Gu Chen pondered this to himself.

If things were really as he suspected, wouldn't he have made the trip for nothing? He could have waited by the stump for Tang Hao to appear!

He did not wait until Tang Hao appeared.

But.

"Stop! Stop this at once!!!"

Yu Xiaogang appeared instead. Seeing his disciple hung up and beaten until he was like a dead dog, he naturally could not hold back. He summoned his Martial Soul, Luo Sanpao, preparing to use force to stop Gu Chen from attacking his disciple.

But nothing within Gu Chen's domain could escape his senses. The moment Yu Xiaogang stepped into his domain, Gu Chen had already noticed him.

His two Thousand-Year Soul Rings rose from beneath his feet, shining with purple light.

"First Soul Skill-Power of the Earth!!!"

"Second Soul Skill-Wild Growth!!!"

With the activation of both Soul Skills, Gu Chen's expenditure instantly dropped sharply, and he could even receive Soul Power in return. Under the effects of his Soul Skills, the place seemed to become a forest of Blue Silver Grass, enveloping both Tang San and Yu Xiaogang.

Likewise, surrounded by such dense Blue Silver Grass, Yu Xiaogang did not even have a chance to react before Gu Chen captured him alive.

Captured.

Yu Xiaogang still looked as though he had yet to process what had happened.

"You're a level-twenty-nine Soul Grandmaster, at least, yet I captured you so easily. Yu Xiaogang, you really are a worthless piece of trash!"

With a single sentence, Gu Chen instantly ignited Yu Xiaogang's fury.

After being called "trash" for years.

The proud Yu Xiaogang had developed a stress response to the word.

"I, Yu Xiaogang, am a renowned master of Martial Soul research throughout the Soul Master World. It's one thing for an ignorant child like you not to understand the weight of my title of 'Grandmaster,' but you dare humiliate me like this and whip my disciple as well? I advise you to stop at once, or the consequences will be more than a mere Two-Ring Soul Grandmaster like you can bear!"

Yu Xiaogang rambled on, but toward the end, his voice suddenly stopped.

Right!

A two-ring Soul Master!

He had sensed Gu Chen's Soul Power fluctuations. They were indeed at the level of a Two-Ring Soul Grandmaster.

But why.

Were both of his Soul Rings Thousand-Year Soul Rings?!!!