This was where the power of the Succubus Martial Soul lay: when someone grew intimate with Li Zhiyan, they would be unable to restrain their instincts.
Shame, reason, and desire tangled endlessly within Ah Yin. In the end, she still could not restrain her instincts.
She and Li Zhiyan became entangled.
Meanwhile, Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar endured their piercing pain and made it to the hotel where they were staying.
Their eyes seemed to be spitting fire, and they hated Tang San to the bone.
Ma Hongjun and Oscar hated Tang San even more. Dai Mubai was the one who had stood there trading blows with him earlier.
They had already been at odds, so Tang San at least had a motive for ambushing Dai Mubai. But he had struck the two of them just as viciously.
What a beast!
"Grandmaster!"
The three went to Yu Xiaogang's door to complain. They knew he could still keep Tang San in line.
Yu Xiaogang stood with his hands behind his back, putting on the air of an expert.
But after opening the door, he saw a large lump bulging from each of the three men's bodies.
"This... what happened?"
Oscar cursed furiously, "It was all that beast Tang San!"
"Tang San ambushed us from the shadows and used Dragon Whisker Needles on us."
"It hurts..."
Unable to hold on any longer, Oscar lay down on the floor, his whole body convulsing. Ma Hongjun lay down too.
"Little San!"
Yu Xiaogang called out. Although he naturally wanted to protect his student Tang San, what Tang San had done this time was too much.
Even he could not help shuddering at the viciousness of a Hidden Weapon like the Dragon Whisker Needle, yet Tang San had actually used it on his own people.
If this matter was not resolved properly, serious problems would arise with the unity of the Shrek Seven Devils. Then his plan to have them win the Continental Soul Master Tournament would surely go completely down the drain.
He still wanted to use the Shrek Seven Devils to make his name resound across the continent. He could not afford to have his spear broken and buried in the sand here.
Tang San was in a foul mood. He had not expected to lose the Twenty-Four Moonlit Bridges and then have that beast Dai Mubai come up and beat him until he spat blood.
Now he was badly hurt as well.
The more he thought about it, the more certain he became that Li Zhiyan had done it, taking revenge on him and Shrek Academy from the shadows!
But that did not change the fact that Dai Mubai already had a way to die!
Just then, he heard Grandmaster's voice.
Tang San reined in his emotions and walked out. He was a textbook feudal warrior and had always treated Yu Xiaogang with great respect.
Hearing Grandmaster's shout, Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing also came out to see what had happened.
Zhao Wuji walked out of his room too.
Dai Mubai had been about to lie down.
But when he saw Zhu Zhuqing coming, he forced himself to endure the agony and remained standing, wanting to show her his manliness.
He had to get this woman who could take a beating.
"Little San! Get on your knees!"
Yu Xiaogang bellowed. Although Tang San was somewhat bewildered, he still knelt before him. He had never seen Yu Xiaogang so angry.
"Teacher, what happened?"
"Look at the good thing you've done! Everyone here is a student of Shrek Academy. How could you do something so vicious?"
Tang San looked utterly dumbfounded.
"Teacher, what good thing did I do?"
Zhao Wuji had already understood what was going on, and he wanted nothing more than to kick that beast Tang San to death. Back then, during an ordinary assessment spar, Xiao Wu had used her Charm Soul Skill on him and suffered a backlash.
As a result, Tang San had flown into a rage and used a vicious Hidden Weapon like the Dragon Whisker Needle on him.
That day was one Zhao Wuji would never forget, because that night, Tang San's beast of a father had dragged him to the mountain behind the academy and given him a brutal beating.
By now, he was even somewhat traumatized by Dragon Whisker Needles.
And now Tang San had actually used them on his own classmates. If Zhao Wuji had not been afraid that Tang Hao would beat him again, he would already have slapped Tang San across the face.
"Look at Dai Mubai and the others. You actually ambushed them with Dragon Whisker Needles. You're all young and hot-blooded, so a few disagreements are understandable."
"But is that the sort of thing you can use on your classmates?"
Tang San's vision went black, and his mind went blank. What the fuck does this have to do with me?!
He had never felt so wronged in his life.
"This has nothing to do with me! I was at the hotel the whole time! Teacher, you have to believe me!"
Ning Rongrong had long been unhappy with Tang San for driving Li Zhiyan away. She cursed, "It's not as if you couldn't climb out the window. You definitely did it, Tang San! How could you be so vicious to your classmates?!"
Even the aloof Zhu Zhuqing chimed in. "That's right, Tang San. You've gone too far."
"I really didn't do this!"
Tang San was like a helpless three-year-old child. He did not know what had happened; everyone had suddenly stepped forward to accuse him.
"If it wasn't you, who else could it be?!"
Dai Mubai's eyes were bloodshot as he spoke, trembling. The agony in his body had nearly brought him to his knees.
"Who doesn't know you're an expert with Hidden Weapons?"
"Is there anyone else on the whole Douluo Continent who has Dragon Whisker Needles?!"
He wanted badly to beat Tang San again, but he was injured and still suffering the immense pain caused by the Dragon Whisker Needle, so he had no strength to strike.
"I didn't do it! My Twenty-Four Moonlit Bridges was stolen. This has nothing to do with me! I don't even have any Dragon Whisker Needles myself right now!"
Oscar and the others did not believe a word of it.
Ma Hongjun gritted his teeth. "I actually believed you before, when you said your Soul Tool was stolen."
"But now it looks like you hid it yourself!"
Tang San felt anger surging within him. He felt he had suffered an enormous injustice.
"This has nothing to do with me!"
"I really didn't do it! I swear to heaven!"
Oscar cursed in a broken voice, "Even if you lost your Dragon Whisker Needles, who besides you has such precise Hidden Weapon techniques?"
Tang San thought of Li Zhiyan.
He cursed furiously, "It was Li Zhiyan! He must have stolen my Twenty-Four Moonlit Bridges!"
"He's the one who ambushed you with the Dragon Whisker Needles!"
Watching Tang San's hypocritical display, Xiao Wu could not help feeling a measure of disgust.
A rift had already formed between her and Tang San, and now she was certain that her Third Brother, who had been perfect and flawless in her heart, was actually a very hypocritical person.
"Brother, stop trying to talk your way out of it."
"Oscar is right."
"Even if someone else stole your Twenty-Four Moonlit Bridges, who else knows how to use these Hidden Weapons?"
"I really never thought you were the sort of person who wouldn't take responsibility, Brother. You dare to do it, but you don't dare admit it."
"Brother Zhiyan doesn't even know how to use Hidden Weapons. How can you pin this on him?"
Tang San stared at Xiao Wu and said in disbelief, "Xiao Wu, you don't believe me either?!"
In his heart, Xiao Wu was his private property.
She was his forbidden preserve.
No matter what he did, Xiao Wu should stand behind him and support him. But now...
Ning Rongrong cursed, "That's right, Tang San, you've gone too far! Brother Zhiyan was driven out of the academy, and who knows where he's wandering now? Even so, you still want to dump this great black pot on his head? Tang San, you have no heart!"
"Just thinking about it makes me feel how wronged Brother Zhiyan is."
As she spoke, Ning Rongrong wiped away her tears. The thought that Li Zhiyan was already so pitiful, only to be slandered by Tang San as well, made her heart ache.
Zhu Zhuqing wholeheartedly agreed.
"Tang San, I don't usually like criticizing people, but you've gone too far. How can you blame this on Brother Zhiyan? When you drove him away, he barely said a word. He's such an honest, good-hearted brother. Don't use your filthy thoughts to judge him!"
Looking at the people glaring at him in anger, Tang San shed tears of fury and grievance. Even with the temperament he had cultivated over two lives, he could not bear the feeling of being falsely accused.
"Smack!"
Yu Xiaogang knew that if he did not do something, Tang San would be ostracized by the students of Shrek Academy.
He slapped Tang San hard across the face.
"Little San, admit your mistake and apologize to Dai Mubai and the others!"
[Regarding the Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone: a reader pointed this out, so I looked it up. Some people say the Soul Bone being in the cave was a fan creation, but keeping it beside Ah Yin is reasonable too. I'll patch it up later and have them take the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone away. Also, illustrations were added to two earlier chapters.]