Sword of Night Upgrade, Gangzi's Escape Plan
Outside the teachers' dormitory at Nuoding City Junior Soul Master Academy, two figures, one tall and one small, appeared. They were none other than Xu Qing and Hsin.
A few days had passed since Gangzi was sold.
During those days, Xu Qing had gotten up early every morning to cultivate.
After cultivating, he spent the afternoons exploring with Hsin, walking all over Nuoding City while searching for the chests marked on the map.
But there weren't many chests in the town.
Over the past few days, he had found only fifteen Basic Supply Chests and three Standard Supply Chests. There hadn't been any Advanced Supply Chests or Premium Supply Chests.
They had yielded only twenty-two Basic Energy Cores in total.
What was more, upgrading a weapon required even more Energy Cores than it did in the game.
The level-ten Sword needed twenty Basic Energy Cores, as well as breakthrough materials before it could continue leveling up.
Xu Qing was utterly speechless. All right, the Sword had been localized.
Just as a Soul Master needed a Soul Ring to break through their current level.
Fortunately, the level-ten Sword's stats were nothing like the trash stats in the game.
Sword of Night, level 10.
Attack increased by 40%.
Attack speed increased by 20%.
Ignored 5% of defense.
This Sword was destined to grow into a divine weapon.
They were all those precious percentage bonuses!
It was simply overpowered!
Xu Qing looked forward to the Sword's future growth even more.
Following the chest marker on the map, Xu Qing hurried over and finally found a Standard Supply Chest in a corner of the teachers' dormitory.
Xu Qing hurried forward and opened the chest.
Inside were twenty Gold Soul Coins, six Soul Power crystals, an LF Howler Core, and a piece of solidified hair crystal.
"Great! I finally have four LF Howler Cores."
In the game, weapons needed special materials for every breakthrough.
The Sword in his hand was even more special. It needed a breakthrough at level ten before it could continue leveling up.
The materials currently needed for the upgrade were exactly four LF Howler Cores.
Fortunately, this chest wasn't in the game.
After all, LF Howler Cores only dropped from monsters, and there were no such monsters on Douluo Continent.
"Your Sword can be upgraded again, Rover."
Hsin took everything out of the chest and held the LF Howler Core out to Xu Qing.
Xu Qing pulled the other three LF Howler Cores out of his storage space, took out the Sword, and prepared to upgrade it through its breakthrough.
But he looked thoughtfully at the golden crystal in his hand.
"Hair gold."
Wasn't this the material Tang San had once used to make the Dragon Whisker Needle, ranked eighth among the Tang Sect Hidden Weapons?
Hair gold had an extremely fragile structure and could easily be shattered into grains resembling golden sand.
But once Soul Power was injected into it, the hair crystal would become straight and sharp, taking the form of needles.
It was meant specifically to pierce Protective Qi and Soul Power. Once a Dragon Whisker Needle entered a person's body and lost the support of Soul Power, the hair crystal would instantly curl up, twisting the muscles and causing immense pain.
To remove it, the entire mass of curled-up muscle had to be cut away. It was a completely natural Hidden Weapon.
Tang San had once used Dragon Whisker Needles during the Shrek Academy entrance examination, piercing Zhao Wuji's Soul Power and shooting them into his body, causing him injury.
That showed how powerful the material was.
Xu Qing wondered whether he could also incorporate it into his Sword.
If he could, his Sword would be able to cleave through an opponent's Soul Power shield.
"Rover, what are you thinking about?"
Seeing that Xu Qing hadn't come back to his senses for a long time, Hsin couldn't help asking.
Xu Qing told Hsin what he had in mind.
"If that's the case, your Sword really would be able to pierce an enemy's Soul Power shield. Now we need to see how to incorporate it."
Just as Xu Qing was wondering how to incorporate it, the four LF Howler Cores in his hand began to resonate, and the hair crystal also began to glow faintly.
Curious, Xu Qing put them together, and they actually began to fuse.
Could it be?
Seeing what was happening, Xu Qing immediately used the four LF Howler Cores to upgrade the Sword.
After the Sword flashed with light, its blade gleamed gold. Its chilling glint sent a shiver down the spine.
Xu Qing checked the Sword's numerical stats.
Sword of Night, level 10.
Attack increased by 46%.
Attack speed increased by 30%.
Ignored defense increased to 15%.
Protective Qi piercing.
Sure enough, a new attribute had appeared, and the amount of defense it ignored had also increased considerably.
Xu Qing nodded in satisfaction.
"Not bad, not bad. Now this weapon is made to pierce Soul Power."
"All right, we've got what we came for. Let's go."
Hsin nodded.
The two were just about to leave when a somewhat familiar, raspy voice suddenly came from the distance, bringing them to a halt.
Their figures flashed as they hid in the shadows.
Then they saw a familiar figure walking in with a little boy.
The person in front was none other than Yu Xiaogang, whom Xu Qing had sold a few days ago.
Unlike Gangzi a few days earlier, however, he now walked with a slight stumble. His face was deathly pale, his eye sockets were sunken, and he looked utterly haggard. A faint, intermittent stench also came from him.
As for the little boy, he was naturally Tang San.
He was wrinkling his nose.
My newly acknowledged teacher smells so strong. He stinks.
Xu Qing was speechless. Gangzi had been reduced to this state in just a few days.
Brother Scar truly lived up to his reputation.
But something wasn't right!
Given how much Brother Scar and his group liked Gangzi-even spending five thousand Gold Soul Coins to buy him-how could they have let him leave so easily?
"Rover, that fellow was actually let out. Should I throw him back?" Hsin's voice rang out in Xu Qing's mind.
The two shared a contractual relationship and could communicate telepathically.
"Also, I can sense another fairly strong fellow in the distance."
A fairly strong fellow, huh.
Xu Qing glanced at Tang San and immediately knew who that fellow was.
Wasn't it a certain rat?
Like a rat in a sewer, he kept watching Tang San.
Back then, Xu Qing hadn't wanted to attend Nuoding City Junior Soul Master Academy, learn meditation, or learn to identify Soul Beasts.
He had wanted to avoid the likes of Tang San.
After all, there was an old rat lurking in the shadows and watching, and a certain troublemaking rabbit at the academy as well.
Once he got involved with that rabbit, he would draw Tang San's attention too.
Who the fuck wanted to be around the pure and noble God King Tang?
"Rover, shall I deal with that fellow?"
Xu Qing shook his head. "Don't bother with that rat. As long as he doesn't come looking for trouble with us, leave him alone."
"I don't want to compare character with Tang San."
Tang San had no conflict of interest with him and hadn't provoked him.
If Xu Qing went out of his way to step on and humiliate Tang San just because he couldn't stand the guy, what difference would there be between him and Tang San?
Would he be carrying out the will of the bully?
The worst thing a person could do was compare character with Tang San.
If it had already come down to comparing character with Tang San,
then you had failed pretty badly as a person.
Either be black or be white.
But he absolutely couldn't be a double-standard dog and a hypocrite like Tang San.
Hsin understood and nodded. "Then shall we keep watching them, Rover?"
"Let's wait a bit. There should be a good show soon, heh heh."
Seeing the wicked grin on her Rover's face, Hsin grinned wickedly too. Holding her little Rover, she prepared to watch the show from the side.
At that moment, Yu Xiaogang had sat in the dormitory for a while, talking with Tang San, and had recovered quite a bit of his vitality.
He had never expected to find an even better genius, Tang San, with the trash Martial Soul Blue Silver Grass and Innate Full Soul Power.
Another person with Twin Martial Souls, and Tang San had shown him the other Martial Soul too.
It was actually the number-one tool Martial Soul under heaven, the Clear Sky Hammer! Wonderful.
The worthy disciple of his dreams, who would prove his ten core theories, had finally arrived.
As for Xu Qing, Yu Xiaogang snorted inwardly.
Hmph, that brat actually sold me, and for five thousand Gold Soul Coins at that.
At the thought, Yu Xiaogang ground his teeth. His chrysanthemum still felt like it couldn't hold in a fart; Brother Scar and his group had put him through hell these past few days.
Damn it! It's all because of that brat!
If it weren't for him, how could I have been sold? Sold like a slave?
If he hadn't used his glib tongue to fool Brother Scar and his group into letting him return for a few days, they would surely still have him pinned down in that room.
But now he had to get away from Brother Scar and the others. Right, he had to leave Nuoding City next.
Otherwise, Brother Scar and his group would capture him again. For now, the most urgent thing was to pack his belongings and head to Suotuo City, where Flender was.
That was best. After all, Flender was a Soul Saint, and Brother Scar and his group would have to think twice, no matter what.
"Xiao San, from now on, we'll go to another school. You'll be able to grow better there," Yu Xiaogang said to Tang San.
"I'll follow your arrangements, Teacher."
Tang San didn't care which school he went to. As long as he had this Grandmaster, who could easily recognize that he had Twin Martial Souls, to teach him, that was enough.
Yu Xiaogang immediately packed his things and hurried out with Tang San, intending to hire a carriage and leave Nuoding City quickly.
"Hm? This guy is actually leaving Nuoding City?"
Xu Qing watched Yu Xiaogang leaving with Tang San, his eyes full of suspicion.
"Then it looks like Brother Scar and the others weren't dealt with. Gangzi somehow managed to get away from them for the time being, and now he's afraid of being captured again."
"Then, Rover, are we still following them?"
Xu Qing shook his head. "Forget it. Since there's no show to watch, let's leave. We've found all the chests in Nuoding City anyway. Let's go explore a new map."
"Yes."