No one would have imagined that, facing a barrage of verbal attacks from more than a dozen people, Tang San would still have the courage to strike.
Seeing this,
Wang Sheng and the others swiftly used Martial Soul Possession. Even when they were in the wrong, they acted as if they were three parts in the right, so why would they fear him when they actually were in the right?
Brothers, get him! Beat him up!
But Tang San stepped through Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, both hands using Mysterious Jade Hand. With the grappling techniques of Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon, he charged into the crowd of more than a dozen as if no one were there. Wang Sheng and the others were no match for him.
In moments, only a handful of people were still standing in Dorm Seven.
And Gu Chen?
He hadn't even had time to shout, "Stop fighting, all of you!" before the fight ended just like that.
"Now I'm giving you two choices. Apologize to my teacher, or take another beating from me. Pick one!"
Tang San swept his gaze over everyone present as if looking down on all the heroes under heaven.
"Apologize, my ass! Kill me if you've got the guts!"
Wang Sheng clearly had backbone. For someone like that, Gu Chen was willing to call him: a real man!!!
Just as Tang San was about to strike and beat him into submission,
"Stop!"
Xiao Wu spoke up.
"Who gave you permission to bully my underling like that?! You're treating me, Xiao Wu, like I'm not even here!"
If she could endure this, what couldn't she endure?
He had beaten her underling into this state right in front of her, the boss. If she didn't stand up for him, how could she ever show her face as their boss again?
Xiao Wu truly was an anti-San Noble Phantasm.
As soon as she stepped forward,
Tang San's eyes went wide.
"Th-this has nothing to do with you. Stay out of it!"
"Nothing to do with me? Are you blind?! Look what you've done to my underling, and you say it has nothing to do with me?!"
Everything Tang San had just said, openly and otherwise, was meant to keep Xiao Wu from interfering. Unfortunately, she didn't care one bit. Beating her underling was no different from slapping her in the face, and she wouldn't stand for it.
She immediately used Martial Soul Possession, and snow-white rabbit ears stood upright at the sides of her head. But for Tang San, it was another critical hit.
It was love at first sight!
Tang San really had fallen for her. He had been an assassin in his last life and Tang Hao's nanny in this one. His two lives added up to thirty-five years, and he had never seen a girl as cute as Xiao Wu. To him, she was practically an Infinity Edge: every hit was a critical.
But the thought that there was actually a conflict between them made his heart ache.
Tang San had frozen, but Xiao Wu hadn't.
Xiao Wu had seen everything Tang San had done in the fight. He was an opponent not to be underestimated, so naturally she didn't dare take him lightly. A Yellow Soul Ring rose from beneath her feet and circled her body. As it glowed faintly, her first Soul Skill, Waist Bow, activated, increasing her waist strength by one hundred percent and her flexibility by fifty percent.
At the sight, Tang San couldn't help being a little stunned. She was a One-Ring Soul Master, which truly caught him off guard.
But he didn't think he was any worse than her. Did she really think his Mysterious Heaven Skill, Mysterious Jade Hand, Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, and Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon were just for show?!
Still, he couldn't bear to hurt her, so he prepared to dodge.
But.
With his concentration scattered by Xiao Wu, Tang San failed to notice the azure Blue Silver Grass silently emerging from the floor beside him. It formed a knot of grass and waited quietly for him to walk right into its trap. Sure enough, with his attention distracted, Tang San fell for it. He stumbled, leaving an opening.
Xiao Wu seized the opening. Her scorpion braid instantly coiled around Tang San's neck, and with a mighty swing, she sent him flying.
What followed
was Xiao Wu's ultimate move-Eight-Stage Throw!!!
From the moment Tang San was caught, he couldn't break free and could only take Xiao Wu's Eight-Stage Throw head-on. By the time it was over, he'd been thrown into a daze, stars danced before his eyes, and he couldn't get back up.
"Hmph! With skills like that, you dare bully my underling? I'll teach you a good lesson today. If you ever dare bully my underling again, I'll throw you to death!"
After that combo, Xiao Wu felt refreshed. With that move, she'd vented all the frustration she'd felt since coming to the human world.
Meanwhile, a certain person surnamed Gu, who had used Blue Silver General to sneak in an assist, quietly withdrew his Martial Soul.
Doing good deeds without leaving a name!
That was him.
"Fuck! Brothers, get him! Beat him up!!!"
At that moment, Wang Sheng seized the opportunity while Tang San still hadn't recovered. With a loud shout, he was the first to charge at Tang San, and under everyone's watchful eyes, he landed two punches on him.
The blows left Tang San's head buzzing.
Before Tang San could make out who had hit him, the people he'd knocked down earlier all rushed over. Without a second thought, some punched him, some slapped him, and others kicked him!
How miserable was Tang San?
All that could be said was that, in that short time, Tang San was beaten until his face looked like a pig's head.
"Stop! All of you, stop!!!"
A sudden roar rang out, making everyone stop punching and kicking and look toward the source.
The newcomer was a man with a crew cut, the notorious clown of Nuoding Academy, Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang. He was furiously glaring at everyone present.
"It's bad enough that you verbally abused a fellow student! But you even ganged up to beat him! Look what you've done to Little San! Are you even human?!!!"
Yu Xiaogang rushed forward and rescued Tang San. Seeing his disciple covered in injuries, his clothes covered in footprints, and his face beaten into a pig's head, he felt a terrible ache in his heart.
This was the disciple he'd waited more than a decade for!
He needed Tang San to clear his name as a "clown." If anything happened to Tang San, how could he go on living?!
"Grandmaster, stop slandering us. We weren't the ones who started the fight, your disciple was. When it comes down to it, this is all his own fault, so stop trying to pin it on us!"
"Yeah, exactly! Where were you when he was beating us? Look at this tooth of mine-he knocked it out!"
"Like master, like disciple. They're both shameless!"
"..."
Wang Sheng and the others had indeed been intimidated at first by Yu Xiaogang's stern appearance, but after seeing his shameless face, they refused to put up with it any longer. As for him being a level 29 Soul Grandmaster? Sorry, but if they stopped bullying people because they were afraid to die, how would that be any different from being dead?!
Will of the bully, activate!!!
To be fair, every work-study student living in Dorm Seven came from a village. They'd been afraid, they'd lost, but they'd never backed down!
Unfortunately,
Yu Xiaogang wasn't Naruto Uzumaki. He acted meek and timid before the strong, but when facing the weak, he struck with a heavy fist!
"Fine, fine, fine! Luo Sanpao!!!"
He summoned his Martial Soul, Luo Sanpao, which was covered in purple fur, looked like a dog, and had the build of a pig.
And in Gu Chen's eyes, an upgrade panel for this Martial Soul stood out.
[Item: Luo Sanpao] [Effect: low-grade Martial Soul, a stunted Radiant Sacred Dragon cub. Its Radiant Sacred Dragon bloodline is barely detectable] [Upgrade effect: Radiant Dragon Cub] [Effect: intermediate Martial Soul, its faint Radiant Sacred Dragon bloodline has been activated] [Upgrade conditions: 1 century-old light-type Soul Beast carcass, 1 century-old light-type Soul Ring]
When he'd argued with Yu Xiaogang earlier, Director Su had stood in front of him, so he hadn't noticed. But now that he saw it, it really was a pity. Following that good-for-nothing Yu Xiaogang and eating white radishes every day, its path to awakening was bound to be a long way off.
Such a good Martial Soul, wasted for nothing!
But before he could finish lamenting, two bright yellow Soul Rings rose from beneath Yu Xiaogang's feet. Seeing this, Gu Chen immediately sensed trouble and ran out of Dorm Seven, pulling Xiao Wu, who was closest to him, along with him.
"What are you doing? Ow!"
Before Gu Chen could answer, Yu Xiaogang's furious shout rang out from inside Dorm Seven.
"A fart like thunder, Earth-Shattering Luo Sanpao!!!"
After the thunderous fart rang out, the displeasure on Xiao Wu's face instantly turned to deathly pallor, tinged with relief at having survived the ordeal.
There was no telling what kind of psychological scars Yu Xiaogang's actions this time would leave on everyone in Dorm Seven.