Chapter 202: 221. As Your Teacher, I Must Teach You How to Be a Person
This move was indeed brilliant, but, hmph—Tang San snorted coldly.
I, Tang San, am the child of destiny in this era, the youth chosen by the Asura God. All your efforts are nothing more than an ant trying to stop a chariot, overestimating your own ability.
"Gangzi." Tang San glanced disdainfully at Yu Xiaogang and said: "You just said you were captured by the Spirit Hall on charges of spying for intelligence and locked in the Spirit Hall prison, but after only a month, the Spirit Hall released you?"
Hearing Tang San call him Gangzi again, Yu Xiaogang felt a stab of pain in his heart. In response to Tang San's question, his face instantly showed a mask of agony: "This teacher has had a hard month, Xiao San~"
"Then why didn't you use that brain of yours, which you claim is full of wisdom, to think properly about why the Spirit Hall only imprisoned you for a month?" Tang San said.
"Ah—" Yu Xiaogang was slightly stunned, then he pointed at Tang San with a heartbroken and accusatory expression: "Xiao San, are you actually complaining that the Spirit Hall didn't imprison your teacher for long enough? At the very least, I am your teacher. Can't you wish for your teacher to fare a bit better?"
"That's not what I mean." Tang San said impatiently. He didn't care at all what had happened to Gangzi during his month in the Spirit Hall prison; it was just a chamber pot, after all. He continued: "What I mean is, you were captured as a spy gathering intelligence. Do you think you'd only be imprisoned for a month?"
Yu Xiaogang instantly reacted. Yes, that day he had been suddenly released and eagerly rushed back to seek comfort from his obedient disciple, but he hadn't thought about this matter.
On the Douluo Continent, no faction would easily forgive a spy. They would either imprison them until death or execute them with extreme punishment. How could the Spirit Hall possibly just lock him up for a month and then throw him out?
"Now it seems there's only one explanation." Tang San looked at Yu Xiaogang and said.
"It's Dong'er." Yu Xiaogang suddenly realized: "That means it was Dong'er who released me."
Tang San nodded. According to his memories from his previous life, the struggle between the Spirit Hall's Worship Hall and the Pope's Hall was extremely intense, especially regarding the issue of Yu Xiaogang.
If that reborn person had used the Pope's Decree issue to have Yu Xiaogang imprisoned, then releasing Yu Xiaogang would have been the work of Bibi Dong from the Pope's Hall. This incident reflected deep internal conflicts within the Spirit Hall.
This waste Gangzi still had some use value for now.
"So that means—" Yu Xiaogang murmured.
"Yes, that's right. When you were released, if you had just held on a little longer, you might have seen Bibi Dong and made the request for the soul bone to be returned. Perhaps at that time, Bibi Dong hadn't fully fused with the external soul bone yet. But you didn't. Gangzi, you crawled back like a stinking bug." Tang San's eyes turned red, he panted with rage like an ox, grabbed the flat-headed one's collar with both hands, and said hatefully: "In other words, you're a waste who can't accomplish anything but can ruin everything. I have completely lost my Eight Spider Lances external soul bone, and it's all because of you, because of you—"
Even if he had analyzed through this incident that there were internal conflicts in the Spirit Hall, what good did it do? This soul bone had been seized by Bibi Dong and was now fully fused, which meant that he, Tang San, had completely lost this precious external soul bone. Xiao Wu didn't like his hidden weapons and those underhanded methods; the Blue Silver Grass was weakened because it had consecutively absorbed three poison-attribute soul beast soul rings, and before gaining immunity to ice and fire as well as awakening the Blue Silver Emperor, it was feeble. In other words, without the external soul bone, Tang San would lose many ways to attract Xiao Wu's attention.
If Yu Xiaogang had thickened his skin after being released from prison and gone to find Bibi Dong again, perhaps at that time the external soul bone hadn't fully fused with Bibi Dong yet, and there might have still been a slim chance to get it back. Gangzi, you've made me lose so many opportunities to show off; you're simply guilty of a heinous crime, deserving death.
"This, this... no, it's not me, it's not my fault. How would I know..." Gangzi's eyes were lifeless, his pupils dilated.
"It's you, it's you, it's you." Tang San casually flung Yu Xiaogang to the ground like throwing away trash, then walked out.
Although Tang San hated Yu Xiaogang in his heart for being a waste who failed to demonstrate his utility at a critical moment, through this incident, he also saw that this waste Gangzi was at least still useful, so it wasn't suitable to flip out too badly. He was just using this matter to increase Yu Xiaogang's sense of guilt. As long as Yu Xiaogang had guilt in his heart, things would be easy to handle. In the future, Gangzi would unconditionally contribute to him to make up for this mistake.
However, Tang San had calculated well, but he miscalculated one thing: our Gangzi was not someone who would self-reflect at all.
By the time Yu Xiaogang came back to his senses, Tang San had already walked far away. He thought about Tang San's various disrespectful behaviors before, the scene of him beating him up, how Tang San even refused to call him teacher and instead called him Gangzi—Yu Xiaogang felt heartbroken.
Immediately after, Yu Xiaogang thought about Tang San's talent. Even without this external soul bone, his talent was still there. Possessing the Clear Sky Hammer twin martial souls, flowing in his veins was the noble bloodline of the Clear Sky Douluo. If he used Blue Silver Grass as a springboard to cultivate soul rings starting from ten thousand years, possessing several hundred thousand year ones, Tang San's future achievements could even surpass his father, the Clear Sky Crown. The thought of such a powerhouse being nurtured by him made Yu Xiaogang's heart surge with excitement.
But from Tang San's various attitudes, Yu Xiaogang also knew that deep down, Tang San didn't respect him at all and kept a distant relationship with him.
This made the sense of crisis in Yu Xiaogang's heart even stronger. He always felt that at any moment, Tang San might abandon him and leave.
How could that be? Tang San was his only capital for turning things around in the future. Yu Xiaogang absolutely could not tolerate Tang San betraying him and leaving.
The more rebellious Tang San was, the more it aroused Yu Xiaogang's desire to control him.
"Xiao San, how can you blame the mistake on your teacher? There are no bad parents in the world. If something goes wrong, how can you blame it on the teacher? You should look for reasons in yourself more. Your teacher ran an errand to the Spirit Hall for you, suffering so much grievance, but you don't understand your teacher's position at all. Xiao San, you don't even have the basic principle of respecting teachers in being a person. Your teacher finds that your thoughts and character have serious problems. It seems that compared to teaching you soul master theoretical knowledge, your teacher should teach you how to be a person. Your teacher has the obligation to correct your attitude towards being a person, to make you learn how to be a person, to make you deeply understand the importance of respecting teachers, to make you realize that as a disciple, once a teacher for a day, a father for life—this is the mandatory principle you must follow in being a person." Yu Xiaogang clasped his hands behind his back and said profoundly.
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