A week later, outside Wuhun City, a ten-year-old soul beast, the Wind Chaser, panting heavily, crept into the city gate.
Riding it was none other than the master, Yu Xiaogang.
After packing his belongings, Yu Xiaogang didn't dare delay and immediately rented a fine horse, the Wind Chaser, from Zhou Horse Stable.
Amidst the mocking laughter of the crowd around him, calling him a "horse-renting bastard," Yu Xiaogang rode the Wind Chaser through a long and dusty journey.
After seven days, he finally arrived at his destination.
First came the donkey-riding war god Zhao Guangyi, now came the horse-riding war god Yu Xiaogang.
These seven days were truly grueling! Sitting on horseback for so long, Yu Xiaogang's fifth limbs were practically worn down to needles.
Besides his fifth limbs, Yu Xiaogang's buttocks had also been forged into iron.
As the saying goes, "Zhao Zilong is all courage, Master is all iron."
At this moment, a long queue had formed outside the gates of Wuhun City, with a large number of soldiers piled up at the entrance, beginning to check the identities of each passerby.
However, Master Yu Xiaogang clearly didn't have the habit of queuing.
After all, who was he?
He was Yu Xiaogang. Who was Yu Xiaogang?
He was the renowned Martial Soul Theory Master throughout the entire Douluo Continent.
"If Heaven hadn't given birth to me, Yu Xiaogang, Martial Soul would have remained in eternal darkness!"
After a moment of inner turmoil, Yu Xiaogang immediately mounted his horse again and rode backwards towards the gate of Martial Soul City.
As for why he rode backwards, it wasn't because Yu Xiaogang wanted to show off, but because his fifth limb had been worn down enough, and he wanted to change his posture and rest for a bit.
Along the way, looking at the long queues of people, Yu Xiaogang couldn't help but feel a sense of superiority.
People of such low status could only obediently follow other people's rules their whole lives and even had to queue.
Unlike himself, who was born superior, not only a member of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan but also a distinguished guest of the Spirit Hall and a master of spirit theory in the entire Douluo Continent, Yu Xiaogang didn't need to queue to enter the city!
Ignoring the stares of those in line, Yu Xiaogang held his head high and slowly moved forward.
However, before he could recover from his daydreaming, he was slapped on the back of the head, and then tumbled off his horse, his iron buttocks crashing heavily to the ground with a loud thud.
The guard at the city gate who had slapped Yu Xiaogang was clearly startled, his mouth slightly agape as he stared in astonishment at the small crater he had created.
He had never imagined that this man's buttocks were so iron-willed; the Iron-Butt God of War was terrifyingly powerful!
Yu Xiaogang was clearly stunned by the slap, especially with the eyes of a large group of people now fixed on him, making him feel that his dignity had been insulted like never before.
Yu Xiaogang quickly stood up, put his hands behind his back, and adopted a mysterious and inscrutable posture.
His sudden movement blocked the path of those behind him, causing an instant commotion in the group.
However, Yu Xiaogang didn't care about disrupting the order.
Instead, he looked at the guard with a calm gaze: "Who are you?
Why are you stopping me from entering the city?
Do you know who I am?"
"You, who are you?"
Seeing Yu Xiaogang's air of superiority, the guard who had slapped him was now somewhat bewildered.
The man before him didn't seem to be faking it; could he also be someone of importance?
"I am Master Yu Xiaogang..."
"Never heard of him, don't fucking block the way..."
The Spirit Hall guard at the entrance grabbed Yu Xiaogang's sleeve and dragged him aside.
Yu Xiaogang stumbled and almost fell to the ground.
"What are you doing?
To lay hands on someone in broad daylight is utterly disgraceful!
How could the Spirit Hall let you be a guard here?"
"The Spirit Hall doesn't need your concern. Get to the back of the line right now."
"You, you…"
Yu Xiaogang pointed at the guard's nose, speechless with anger.
"What? You're deliberately picking a fight, aren't you?"
The guard's expression immediately turned fierce. He'd seen plenty of thugs and rogues like this before.
This guy looked slovenly, with sunken cheeks; he was clearly not a good person and was likely a thief in Spirit City.
"Black Panther, Possess!"
Four spirit rings—one white, one yellow, and two purple—emerged from the guard's back.
After being possessed by the spirit, the guard's physique immediately swelled, his original 1.8 meters tall growing to 1.9 meters, looking down at Yu Xiaogang.
"I, I'll go to the line right now…"
Yu Xiaogang, seeing the four spirit rings appear behind the guard, immediately turned and walked towards the back.
As the saying goes, "A moment of patience brings calm, a step back opens up a vast sky," Yu Xiaogang thought, walking back while once again moved by his own magnanimity.
After this commotion, the queue grew longer and longer.
Furthermore, Spirit City was the largest city on the Douluo Continent, larger than Heaven Dou City and Star Luo City combined, with a population of tens of millions, resulting in a massive flow of people.
Yu Xiaogang's queue was already hundreds of meters from the city gate. It wasn't
until the moon slowly rose that Yu Xiaogang finally arrived at the city gate, looking exhausted.
"Please show your pass,"
the guard at the gate said impatiently upon seeing Yu Xiaogang.
His daily work was already tedious, and now he'd encountered such an idiot.
Yu Xiaogang's face darkened. "What pass certificate?
I've never heard of that. What pass certificate do you need to enter Wuhun City?"
"What the hell are you, you mountain bumpkin?
This policy has been in place for months, and you didn't even know?
If you don't have a pass certificate, get the hell back here!"
The guard finally snapped, unleashing a torrent of abuse at Yu Xiaogang.
To be honest, he'd been putting up with this guy for a long time.
However, Yu Xiaogang harbored a different thought.
He was convinced that the guard was deliberately making things difficult for him and preventing him from entering because of what had just happened.
The guard's shouting earlier was simply a way of masking his guilt.
Yu Xiaogang, once again basking in his own cleverness, put his hands behind his back and whispered in the guard's ear, "You're clearly taking revenge!
If this gets back to the higher-ups, you'll probably lose your job.
I advise you to let me in now; you don't want anyone else to know..."
"Fuck your mother!"
The guard finally snapped, slapping Yu Xiaogang hard across the face twice.
The slaps were precise and vicious, leaving Yu Xiaogang stunned.
After a few seconds, Yu Xiaogang's vision blurred, and he nearly collapsed to the ground.
His roar echoed throughout the city gate.
"You hit me! You fucking hit me! None of you in the Spirit Hall are any good, none of you are any good!"
Having been slapped twice across the face by a guard from Spirit City, and seeing the Spirit Hall insignia on the guard's uniform, Yu Xiaogang couldn't help but recall the terror of being dominated by Qian Xunji.
Almost reflexively, he covered his head, his buttocks sticking up high as he trembled.
"Damn it, so he's just a lunatic. He doesn't even know the customs documents, yet he's ahead of me in line."
The people queuing behind him finally saw what kind of person he was—incompetent and prone to fooling around.
"I wonder which backwater he came from, daring to cause trouble in Spirit City."
The people behind him entered the city gates one after another, no longer paying attention to the huddled Yu Xiaogang.
Only after the city gates closed did Yu Xiaogang belatedly get up from the ground, his eyes filled with almost tangible resentment.
Entering Spirit City was definitely out of the question.
He had originally intended to give Bibi Dong and the Spirit Hall a chance to reform, but now it seemed they hadn't cherished it.
Yu Xiaogang trudged onto his Wind Chaser Horse and headed into the distance.
His travel expenses had run out on the road.
Yu Xiaogang planned to first find a branch of the Spirit Hall in another city to collect a stipend of 10 gold soul coins before returning to Notting Academy.
"Spirit Hall, just you wait, I will definitely return for revenge!"
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