Yu Xiaogang: He Already Respects Me So Much, I Can't Even Imagine How He'll Treat Me in the Future!

"Take you as my master?"

As he said that, Tang San himself actually began to waver. After all, the man before him was a master of theory who had deduced from a few clues that he possessed Twin Martial Souls.

Compared to the teachers who had recently been teaching him nothing but ordinary knowledge, he was on an entirely different level.

Tang San immediately took a step back, putting some distance between himself and Yu Xiaogang. Then he fell to his knees and respectfully kowtowed to him three times.

Bang, bang, bang-

Three heavy, muffled thuds sounded in succession. Tang San raised his head, revealing his reddened forehead, and said respectfully, "Grandmaster, please accept me as your disciple!"

"There's no need for this, no need at all!" Yu Xiaogang hurriedly helped Tang San up, but inwardly he was beaming. The more Tang San respected him, the more impressive he himself appeared, didn't he?

Besides, Tang San already respected him as his teacher so much. Once Tang San grew stronger under his tutelage, Yu Xiaogang could hardly imagine how he would treat him!

In his delight, Yu Xiaogang hurriedly reached to the side, pulled out a belt, and handed it to Tang San.

"Good boy, good boy. This is my gift to you for taking me as your master. Take it. It has twenty-four pieces of jade, each with one cubic meter of storage space. You only need a tiny bit of Soul Power to store and retrieve things."

When Tang San saw Yu Xiaogang bring out such a gift, he was overjoyed beyond measure.

As the saying went, compared to the way Tang Hao behaved, even giving him a little attention would probably have shown him more love than Tang Hao, his own father, did. How much more so with such a precious gift from his teacher, one of "heaven, earth, sovereign, parents, and teacher"?

He accepted the belt with both hands and was about to kowtow to Yu Xiaogang again, but Yu Xiaogang stopped him.

"Good boy, I appreciate the thought." Yu Xiaogang patted Tang San on the head. "Now, release your other Martial Soul and let me see it."

Tang San nodded. Since his teacher already knew he had Twin Martial Souls, there was nothing to hide.

He raised his left hand, and black light surged forth, coalescing into a small, jet-black hammer.

At the sight of the hammer, Yu Xiaogang rose to his feet on instinct. "This is! Clear, Clear-"

He was just about to say "Clear Sky Hammer," but a chill welling up in his heart cut him off.

Tang San, Tang San, his surname is Tang...

Could he really be a disciple of the Clear Sky Sect?

But the Clear Sky Sect has no disciples living away from the sect, does it? Except for that Clear Sky Douluo...

At that thought, Yu Xiaogang immediately calmed down. Since Tang San himself didn't know his identity, that meant Clear Sky Douluo didn't want it exposed either, so there was even less reason for Yu Xiaogang to say it.

Then came wild joy. He had originally thought that, although Tang San had Twin Martial Souls, he still had some way to go before becoming the strongest under heaven. But if his father was Tang Hao and he had the Clear Sky Sect behind him, that was another matter entirely.

At that thought, Yu Xiaogang hurriedly said, "All right, this Martial Soul of yours is extremely powerful. Keep it well hidden and make sure no one else finds out about it. And don't attach any Soul Rings to it."

Tang San, however, didn't understand. "But doesn't attaching Soul Rings make you stronger? Why can't I attach Soul Rings to this Martial Soul?"

"You don't understand. The age of the Soul Rings a person can attach depends on their own level and physical condition, but you don't need to attach a Soul Ring to every Martial Soul to break through. Once you reach level ninety, you can attach nine black Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings to your Second Martial Soul. How could a normal Soul Ring combination compare to that?" Yu Xiaogang explained.

Put that way, Tang San understood and nodded.

"All right, let's not talk about your Second Martial Soul for now. Let's talk about your First Martial Soul. I remember Lei Nuo took you to hunt for your First Soul Ring, didn't he? Show me your Soul Skill,"

Yu Xiaogang said.

"Yes!"

Tang San hurriedly raised his right hand and released his Blue Silver Grass. Then his First Soul Ring lit up, and two strands of Blue Silver Grass shot out and wrapped around a nearby chair.

"Teacher, my First Soul Skill is called Blue Silver Absorption. It can absorb some of the Soul Power of whoever it wraps around for my own use. Normally, it can also absorb some life energy from the air."

Hearing Tang San's words, Yu Xiaogang frowned and pinched a strand of Blue Silver Grass between his fingers.

Sure enough, he felt a tiny suction at his hand. That was the sensation of his Soul Power being absorbed.

It seemed the effect was real, but...

Isn't the amount it absorbs far too little?

As Yu Xiaogang sensed it, the speed at which it absorbed Soul Power was barely comparable to the speed at which he recovered it. If he put a little more effort into it, he could immediately make his recovery speed overtake the absorption.

At that thought, Yu Xiaogang's expression instantly darkened, and he burst out, "Damn it, Lei Nuo, you're an amateur! How dare you waste my disciple's precious talent like this!"

(Lei Nuo: Meow, meow, meow?)

This actually had little to do with Lei Nuo. After all, this was normal; everyone made the same choice. Besides, getting a Soul Skill like Blue Silver Absorption was a bonus in itself. The Azure Vine wasn't a Soul Beast known for its devouring ability, either. I'd say his Blue Silver Grass had become much tougher, too.

Seeing Yu Xiaogang burst into curses, Tang San scratched his head.

Judging by Teacher's reaction, does he think my Soul Skill is no good?

His expression darkened a little as well. I knew it. Why was Lin Qingchen's Soul Skill so strong while mine was so weak? So you really did just find me some random Soul Ring to fob me off, Dean.

But Tang San remembered that Lei Nuo had taken him Soul Hunting, after all. Without him, his Mysterious Heaven Skill would not have broken through, so he did not blurt out, "You already have a way to die."

Even so, that gratitude ultimately faded away.

Seeing Tang San's unhappy expression, Yu Xiaogang decided to keep building up his image and said, "Little San, do you know what I had planned?"

"Please tell me, Teacher."

"Blue Silver Grass is a good candidate for the Control System, but its advantage doesn't actually lie in physical forms of control like entanglement. Instead, it should focus on something else: poison."

"Poison?"

The word immediately piqued Tang San's interest. He knew all about poison; he was an expert in using it!

"Think about it. Blue Silver Grass already grows extremely quickly. If, the instant your Blue Silver Grass wrapped around an enemy, it could administer toxins that slowed their movements, paralyzed their nerves, or even directly threatened their life, wouldn't that fulfill the purpose of controlling the battlefield as well?" Yu Xiaogang made a bold hypothesis.

As he listened, Tang San's eyes instantly lit up.

"That's right! If my First Soul Skill could administer poison, wouldn't it be much stronger than this useless absorption?"

At the same time, he thought of Lin Qingchen. If my First Soul Skill used poison, combined with my expert understanding of poison techniques, would I still need to worry about being no match for him?

If my opponent were poisoned, wouldn't my Hidden Weapons be even stronger and easier to put to use?

The way Tang San looked at Yu Xiaogang changed, too.

As expected of the Grandmaster! He truly possesses the strongest theory under heaven!