Chapter 163: 181. This Is All For Your Own Good, As Your Master
Yu Xiaogang led Tang San and Xiao Wu toward the Soul Beast Forest. Along the way, wherever they passed, Yu Xiaogang saw Tang San trotting behind Xiao Wu attentively, and his heart couldn't help but tighten. He found that Tang San was spending too much thought on Xiao Wu. If that delayed little three's cultivation and wasted his talent, wouldn't that be putting the cart before the horse? No, it seems when we get back, I need to do more ideological and moral work on little three.
Yu Xiaogang glanced over and seized the last moments before soul hunting to use every trick he had to sell to Tang San the benefits of a soul ring formed from a venomous snake-type soul beast.
He talked all the way, pulling out his lifelong knowledge to persuade Tang San (after all, Haotian Douluo said I have to follow little three's wishes, but if I can change little three's wishes, that wouldn't violate His Excellency Haotian's meaning, right?).
However, despite talking until he was blue in the face and spittle flying, Tang San didn't say a word. What responded to him was the increasingly obvious impatient expression on his face.
"Have you said enough?" Tang San couldn't hold back and erupted. He said, "I decide my own soul ring. I want to find a plant-type soul beast that satisfies me. If you can do it, I'll follow you; if you can't, then find someone else."
Yu Xiaogang: "..."
"Ah San gege, the master is your teacher, right?" Xiao Wu asked.
Tang San unwillingly nodded.
"From what I know, a master refers to those people among humans who have made achievements in their field and lead the way uniquely. Teacher Yu Xiaogang being called a master must mean he's a teacher rich in theoretical knowledge. Him advising you to absorb a toxic attribute snake-type soul beast must have his reasons." Xiao Wu said. For Xiao Wu, she didn't care what soul ring Tang San absorbed; she only cared about using this matter to test Tang San's degree of obedience to her. If Tang San listened to the teacher because of her, then it meant her obedience test for this stage was complete, and Tang San was a high-quality lapdog.
Facing Xiao Wu's words, Tang San couldn't treat her the same way he treated the master and could only say gently, "Xiao Wu, on the entire Douluo Continent, soul masters with plant-type martial souls basically all seek plant-type soul beasts. I think it's still better to be prudent."
Yu Xiaogang saw Tang San's completely different attitudes toward him and toward Xiao Wu, and his heart couldn't help but ache. This made his determination to persuade Tang San to absorb a toxic snake-type soul ring even stronger. He must, must leave a mark belonging to himself on Tang San. Only then could Tang San truly be considered his disciple.
One hand behind his back, the other pointing at Tang San, he said, "Little three, it's not that I'm saying you, but who told you that all plant-type soul masters on the entire Douluo Continent seek plant soul beasts? There are also those who seek animal soul beasts (the last experimental subject Yu Xiaogang abandoned)."
Then, Yu Xiaogang, spittle flying, introduced to Tang San the benefits of animal soul beasts for plant soul masters.
If it were just Gang Zi alone, Tang San would have erupted, but Xiao Wu was also echoing the master's words, advising Tang San to get a venomous snake-type soul beast.
The two persuaded until the end, and the tone of their words slowly changed—
"Little three, how can you not listen to your master? Your master is all for your own good. Your blue silver grass is just a waste martial soul; to change your fate against the heavens, you have to absorb a venomous snake-type soul beast."
"Ah San gege, the master's words make a lot of sense, and he's your teacher, so you should listen to your teacher. How could your teacher want to harm you?"
Tang San was caught in a pincer attack by Xiao Wu and Yu Xiaogang, pressed until he couldn't speak. He wanted to erupt, but looking at his beloved Xiao Wu, how could he bear to erupt at her?
Xiao Wu doesn't know the master's true face; she must think Gang Zi is doing this for my own good, so she's persuading me along with the master to absorb a venomous snake-type soul beast. It must be like that. Tang San thought.
He still didn't plan to give up his own plan. He wanted to hunt a plant-type soul beast; even if it wasn't life attribute, it couldn't be poison attribute.
In the previous life, before the Blue Silver Emperor martial soul awakened, the cultivation talent he felt had grown slower and slower, all because the poison attribute conflicted with his own life attribute. The culprit for all that was Yu Xiaogang.
Tang San stewed in silence. Under Xiao Wu and Yu Xiaogang's repeated "it's all for your own good," they arrived at the Soul Hunting Forest.
Yu Xiaogang took out a token and showed it. The Soul Hunting Forest opened, and Yu Xiaogang led Tang San and Xiao Wu into the forest.
Once inside the forest, Gang Zi began introducing information about the Soul Hunting Forest and soul beasts.
At this time, a group of ten-year soul beasts appeared before them, eyeing them covetously.
"Teacher (this was the first time Tang San called him teacher along the way)—" Tang San said teasingly: "These soul beasts, with your strength, should be easy for you to handle, right?"
Yu Xiaogang's face was somewhat unnatural. Handle them? Of course he could; after all, they were only ten-year soul beasts. But his martial soul... Due to his lack of confidence in himself, Yu Xiaogang really didn't want to display his strength before taming Tang San.
Knowing Yu Xiaogang's bottom line, how could Tang San let the master off just like that? He said to Xiao Wu, "Xiao Wu meimei, the teacher is a highly respected master; his strength must be pretty good, right?"
Xiao Wu also looked at Yu Xiaogang expectantly.
Yu Xiaogang: "..."
This time, it was Yu Xiaogang's turn to be put on the spot. He was eager to leave his mark on Tang San and had brought him to the Soul Hunting Forest, but he had subconsciously ignored the embarrassment of his martial soul and his own pathetic strength.
Finally, with no other choice, Yu Xiaogang pulled three masks from his pocket, put one on himself, and handed the other two to Xiao Wu and Tang San.
Knowing the truth, Tang San teased even more: "Teacher, what are you giving us masks for?"
"You'll see in a bit." Yu Xiaogang said, his face unnatural.
After seeing the two put on the masks, Yu Xiaogang directly summoned a purple thing that was neither pig nor dog.
"Master, is this your martial soul? It looks so ugly." Xiao Wu couldn't help but comment.
Xiao Wu, you're right. Tang San continued teasing: "Xiao Wu, you can't judge a martial soul by its appearance. Although teacher's martial soul doesn't look very good, I think it must be very powerful."
Yu Xiaogang's face was like a zombie's. He didn't speak anymore but reached out to Tang San and said, "Little three, give me some carrots."
"Carrots? What are the carrots for?" Tang San said "surprised."
"To induce farts." Yu Xiaogang's voice was as tiny as a fly.
"Induce farts?" Tang San took out some carrots from the soul guide device and handed them to Yu Xiaogang.
(END CHAPTER)
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