"Yes! Of course I can!"
Faced with Bibi Dong's question, Xu Nuo naturally answered without hesitation, his voice full of admiration and excitement.
"Your Holiness, you've always been my idol ever since I was little!"
"In all of Spirit Hall, there's no one else like you, who rose from a commoner Soul Master to become the Pope of Spirit Hall!"
"Since Your Holiness has spoken, I, Xu Nuo, won't say another word against it!"
Xu Nuo looked delighted and pleasantly surprised, as though he had just met his idol.
Bibi Dong, however, felt somewhat suspicious.
Kid, if you admire and respect me so much,
Then why didn't you come to me, the Pope, and tell me your Martial Soul could grant wishes after your Martial Soul Awakening?
Still, Bibi Dong didn't dwell on it.
Since Xu Nuo had agreed,
Bibi Dong spoke with satisfaction.
"Good! Come with me, then!"
"I'll take you to meet that friend of mine!"
"Okay!"
Xu Nuo nodded in agreement.
Bibi Dong then led Xu Nuo forward along the main road.
Before long, a small city appeared ahead of them.
Three characters were clearly engraved above its gates: Nuoding City!
Just as I thought! She brought me here to see Gangzi!
Xu Nuo muttered to himself, not at all surprised.
Earlier, when Bibi Dong had mentioned someone with extraordinary wisdom and outstanding talent,
he had already guessed it would be Yu Xiaogang.
Previously, Xu Nuo had told Golden Crocodile Douluo that the Wishing Magic Lamp Martial Soul could only grant one wish a month.
That had been a lie!
The Wishing Magic Lamp Martial Soul was not limited to granting one wish a month.
To be precise, each person could only make one wish on the Wishing Divine Lamp per month.
Xu Nuo had said otherwise to prevent Qian Daoliu from bringing people to make wishes every day in the future.
If that happened, when would he have any free time?
Originally, if Bibi Dong had not asked him to grant Yu Xiaogang's wish,
Xu Nuo had planned to stall for time by claiming that the Wishing Divine Lamp could only grant one wish a month, and that Qian Daoliu had already made one yesterday.
But since Bibi Dong had asked him to grant Gangzi's wish,
he thought of Yu Xiaogang's Martial Soul, Luo Sanpao, which had originally been a top-tier Martial Soul with limitless potential.
Yet Yu Xiaogang had raised it into a Trash Martial Soul that could do nothing but fart!
Xu Nuo immediately changed his mind and decided to let Yu Xiaogang make a wish.
That way,
perhaps he could use Yu Xiaogang's wish to seize the cost for himself and obtain a separate, intelligent Beast Martial Soul like Luo Sanpao?
Even if that didn't work, getting his hands on the Golden Sacred Dragon origin within Luo Sanpao would be good too!
Xu Nuo was filled with anticipation.
Nuoding Academy.
The top floor of the dormitory building.
In a room.
Yu Xiaogang sat at his desk reading. His expression was as stiff as ever, but inwardly he sighed again and again.
Soon, it would be time for another school year at Nuoding Academy to begin.
All these years, I haven't encountered a single genius.
Among the new students in every class, there hasn't been even one Soul Master with an innate Soul Power talent of level five.
I wonder how things will be this year.
If I still can't find a genius disciple,
how will I ever find a fine pupil and prove my title as a Grandmaster of Martial Soul Theory by raising that pupil into a peerless expert?
Just then, a knock suddenly sounded at the door.
"Who is it?"
Yu Xiaogang frowned, puzzled.
Who would come looking for me at a time like this?
"Come in!"
The next moment, the door opened, and Bibi Dong slowly walked in with Xu Nuo.
"Xiaogang, it's been a long time!"
Looking at Yu Xiaogang, Bibi Dong spoke slowly. A trace of longing and complicated emotion flashed through the beautiful eyes on her noble, coolly beautiful face.
"Bibi Dong!"
Yu Xiaogang had not expected Bibi Dong to come looking for him. A trace of complicated emotion and discomfort flashed through his eyes on his stiff face.
After a moment of silence, he stood up and spoke.
"What did you come here for?"
"Didn't you say back then that I wasn't worthy of you, and that there was nothing between us anymore?"
Hearing this, Bibi Dong's beautiful eyes flashed with pain and guilt as she replied,
"Xiaogang, I had my reasons back then..."
But when she thought of what had happened all those years ago, Bibi Dong couldn't bring herself to say it. She could only say,
"Xiaogang, haven't you always been looking for a way to evolve your Martial Soul?"
"This year, a genius with a fate-type Martial Soul and Innate Full Soul Power appeared in Spirit Hall. It's this child."
Bibi Dong patted Xu Nuo on the shoulder and said excitedly,
"This child's Martial Soul is called the Wishing Divine Lamp. It can grant wishes."
"As long as you wish upon his Wishing Magic Lamp Martial Soul for Sanpao's Martial Soul to evolve, Sanpao will definitely undergo Martial Soul Evolution!"
"What!"
Yu Xiaogang's expression changed, his face full of disbelief.
"Is that true?"
"There's actually a Martial Soul in this world that can grant wishes?"
But faced with Yu Xiaogang's questions,
Bibi Dong thought of the two wishes Chrysanthemum Douluo had investigated. She hesitated for a moment, then explained,
"This child's Wishing Magic Lamp Martial Soul can indeed grant wishes."
"But it doesn't grant them by making something out of nothing, as though creating things out of thin air."
"To be precise, wishes made to this child's Wishing Divine Lamp Martial Soul are granted through a series of coincidences..."
Bibi Dong then told Yu Xiaogang about the level forty-nine Soul Ancestor and the female Soul Master who had fallen victim to a romance scam.
After listening, Yu Xiaogang fell into hesitation.
When he had first learned that Xu Nuo's Wishing Divine Lamp Martial Soul could grant wishes,
he had indeed planned to wish directly for his Martial Soul, Luo Sanpao, to evolve into the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon!
But after hearing Bibi Dong describe the previous two wishes,
Yu Xiaogang couldn't help worrying about what would happen if he wished directly for his Wishing Martial Soul to evolve and had to pay an enormous price.
After all, of the two examples Bibi Dong had given,
the wish in the first example had not been difficult to grant.
So the Soul Master who made it had merely suffered internal injuries.
But the wish in the second example had been too difficult to grant, and the woman had fallen victim to a romance scam.
In the end, her joy had come to nothing.
Thus, Yu Xiaogang quickly made his decision: he would not yet wish for Luo Sanpao to evolve into the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon.
Instead, he would first wish to break through to level thirty!
That way, at worst, he would be like the level forty-nine Soul Ancestor: his Soul Power would go awry while he cultivated, and he would suffer internal injuries.
But he would be able to recover!
I'm so clever!
For a moment, a proud smile appeared on Yu Xiaogang's stiff face.
"Bibi Dong..."
Yu Xiaogang then looked at Bibi Dong and told her what he had in mind.
"Xiaogang, that's just what I'd expect from you!"
After hearing Yu Xiaogang's idea, Bibi Dong's beautiful eyes were full of pride and admiration. She felt this was exactly what she would expect from the Xiaogang she loved.
He's so clever!
He had guessed that wishing might come at a price from just the two examples she had given him.
Because he was worried that wishing directly for Luo Sanpao to evolve might come at a considerable cost,
he had thought of wishing only to break through to level thirty, just like the first person who had made a wish, the level forty-nine Soul Ancestor.
That way, at worst, he would be like the level forty-nine Soul Ancestor and suffer internal injuries from the breakthrough.
But with her there,
wouldn't such minor internal injuries be easy to heal?
"Xiao Nuo, summon your Wishing Divine Lamp and let Xiaogang make a wish!"
With that, Bibi Dong looked at Xu Nuo and spoke.
"Yes, Your Holiness!"
Xu Nuo extended his right hand, summoned the Wishing Magic Lamp Martial Soul, and handed it to Yu Xiaogang.
"Grandmaster, to make a wish, you just need to rub the Wishing Divine Lamp three times and then make your wish!"
Yu Xiaogang nodded, took the Wishing Divine Lamp, and gently rubbed it three times.
The next moment, the Wishing Divine Lamp burst into dazzling golden light that enveloped Yu Xiaogang.
Forcing down his excitement, Yu Xiaogang spoke in a hoarse voice.
"Wishing Divine Lamp, I wish to break through to level thirty immediately!"
"Please grant my wish!"