Chapter 123: Self-Righteous Yu Xiaogang

"Uncle, this is..." Seeing his teammates walk away, Yu Tianheng turned back to look at Yu Xiaogang, his voice somewhat choked.

"Tianheng, you've grown up." Yu Xiaogang's tone was filled with emotion, a hint of tenderness appearing in his eyes as he reached out to pat Yu Tianheng on the shoulder. "You've grown so tall. It seems you've been doing quite well these years, and your cultivation has been smooth; you're already at level thirty-nine."

After the two exchanged pleasantries and finished talking, when the subject of returning home came up, Yu Xiaogang's emotions became somewhat agitated, and he interrupted directly, "Say no more!"

On the other side.

Ye Lingling watched Yu Tianheng and Yu Xiaogang, who had already disappeared, and suddenly asked, "Xiao Quan, do you know that person?"

"?" Everyone turned their heads in unison to look at Shi Quan.

"I know him. That man is named Yu Xiaogang. He is Tang San's—that is to say, the Thousand-Hand Asura's—teacher. He should be the team leader from Shrek Academy."

"Isn't that the good-for-nothing you mentioned?" Yu Feng turned his head back in surprise and added, "The boss calls him uncle, and he has the surname Yu, doesn't that mean this Yu Xiaogang is a member of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Family?"

Dugu Yan frowned upon hearing this.

"Then let me tell you about it." Shi Quan looked at Dugu Yan, nodded slightly, and began to recount.

Yu Xiaogang's expression was arrogant, his eyes filled with confidence.

Yu Tianheng did not hide it either and said directly, "Shi Quan's soul power should already be at level thirty-eight!"

Hearing Yu Xiaogang say he was the team leader of Shrek Academy, Yu Tianheng was also startled, especially when he heard Yu Xiaogang say his student was the Thousand-Hand Asura; Yu Tianheng's expression changed accordingly.

"Xiao Quan, can you tell us in detail about you, Tang San, and Yu Xiaogang?" Dugu Yan suddenly asked.

"A fortuitous encounter?" Yu Xiaogang's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but ask, "Tianheng, can you tell me about him?"

Yu Xiaogang's expression changed in shock, and he asked in disbelief, "How is this possible? His innate soul power was only level one. Even if his martial soul mutated and evolved, his strength couldn't possibly improve this fast! You must know that even with Innate Full Spirit Power, Xiao San is only at level thirty-two. How could he surpass Xiao San by a full six levels!"

"Shi Quan's strength improved so quickly because he had a fortuitous encounter. When he first arrived at the academy, he was also just level twenty-two!" Yu Tianheng spoke of Shi Quan's situation without hesitation.

Shi Quan explained, "This Yu Xiaogang has already been expelled from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Family because his martial soul is a Mutated Spirit with an innate soul power of only 0.5. His current strength is only level twenty-nine. Precisely because of this, he has dedicated himself to researching various Spirit Theory, and later became known in the Spirit Master world as the Master."

"He is nothing more than a conceited kid with good luck." Yu Xiaogang's face turned cold, and he changed the subject, asking, "Tianheng, what exactly is Shi Quan's current soul power?"

"Uncle, you and Shi Quan?" Yu Tianheng looked up at Yu Xiaogang.

Yu Feng also hurriedly chimed in, "That's right, that's right, we want to hear it too."

Yu Xiaogang's emotions calmed down from the family issue, and he took a deep breath, continuing the conversation.

"But it is a pity that he lacks the talent; he is just a good-for-nothing who reads dead books. His so-called theories are mostly just gathering and summarizing some written data, and in the end, he calls it his own theory, vainly attempting to use shortcuts to solve the flaws of his own martial soul. You have seen the result."

"Hmm." Shi Quan nodded.

Thinking of the various things within the team, plus the fact that Shi Quan dared to speak this way about his most respected uncle, Yu Tianheng's expression immediately turned cold.

Yu Feng then asked, "Is that the Tang San?"

After all that, the good-for-nothing Shi Quan had been criticizing was actually his own uncle.

Meanwhile, on the other side.

Shi Quan waved his hand, "After all that fuss, his soul power is still only level twenty-nine. He has completely degenerated into a good-for-nothing whose brain is filled only with his so-called book theories. Not only has he achieved nothing himself, but he is also very self-righteous, thinking that by teaching one student, he can prove his ability."

"One day, I will let the world know that I, Yu Xiaogang, may be a failure, but I can teach an unparalleled genius."

"Of course you can." Yu Tianheng said without hesitation.

As the eldest grandson of the family, his grandfather and father had always been strict with him since he was young, only caring about his soul power progress and the use of soul skills. Only the uncle before him would often hold him to play, tell him interesting stories about Spirit Masters, and bring him a glimmer of childhood happiness.

Therefore, he had absolute trust in his uncle, Yu Xiaogang.

Immediately, Yu Tianheng told Yu Xiaogang everything he knew.

It started from Shi Quan participating in the Heaven Dou Team selection tournament, to him joining the team, participating in the team training regulations and plans together with Qin Ming, then to the battle between Shi Quan and the Sword Douluo, as well as Shi Quan discovering the problem with Dugu Yan's martial soul, helping her solve it, gaining the recognition of the Poison Douluo, and being fortunate enough to obtain a special Immortal Herb from Dugu Bo, completing his martial soul evolution, transforming his talent, and soaring in strength.

It could be said that it was detailed down to the smallest matter.

Every single thing was told clearly and distinctly.

After listening, Yu Xiaogang was shocked inside. While lamenting that Shi Quan was truly lucky, his heart was also filled with regret.

So that was the origin of Shi Quan's Blue Silver King. To think there was such a rare treasure in the world, and it was of the same lineage as the Ink Jade Bamboo, not only allowing Shi Quan's martial soul to evolve, but its toughness was also astonishing.

No wonder Shi Quan's Blue Silver King was so powerful.

Such a rare treasure was actually obtained by Shi Quan, who only had level one innate soul power.

If this had been obtained by his disciple Tang San, who possessed Innate Full Spirit Power, how strong would the abilities of his martial soul be?

As for soul power, not to mention thirty-eight, he felt that thirty-nine or forty were both possible.

Thinking of this, a sense of indignation couldn't help but rise in Yu Xiaogang's heart.

A waste of a heavenly treasure, it was simply a waste of a heavenly treasure!

In his view, such good things were not at all worthy of being consumed by Shi Quan with his level one innate talent; only his disciple was worthy of consuming them.

But since things had reached this point, Yu Xiaogang could only keep this matter in mind for now and turned to ask, "Then what about his soul skills? How can he control so many Blue Silver Grass to form shapes like armor and walls for defense and support?"

"Is this also because of the martial soul evolution? If I remember correctly, these abilities shouldn't have much to do with his soul skills, right?"

"Actually, this is all because Shi Quan possesses a powerful ability to control his martial soul. He can multitask, controlling a large amount of Blue Silver Grass simultaneously..."

Yu Tianheng immediately explained the ideas and thoughts Shi Quan had when he first practiced multitasking.

"A martial soul can actually be cultivated like this? Sensing the martial soul—doesn't that mean if one reaches the depths, one can directly comprehend the Martial Soul Heart and perfectly unleash the power of the martial soul?" Yu Xiaogang was shocked in his heart.

He secretly thought to himself that after returning, he must use today's performance by Shi Quan to let Xiao San train in this direction. If he could obtain the method of Distraction Control from Ning Rongrong, perhaps Xiao San's cultivation could achieve twice the result with half the effort!

Yu Tianheng continued, "As for the vine walls and vine armor, they are actually all because of Shi Quan's First Soul Skill."

"Shi Quan's First Soul Skill is called Blue Silver Growth. It allows his Blue Silver Grass to grow and extend rapidly, with faster speed and lower consumption. Coupled with his control over the Blue Silver Grass, he can use his martial soul to make the martial soul itself interweave and weave into various forms, appearing with changes."

"The vine walls and vine armor are actually all extension skills of his First Soul Skill."

"And Shi Quan's Second Soul Skill, Blue Silver Hardening, can make the Blue Silver Grass become exceptionally hard. He not only has strong control over his martial soul but also strong mastery over the use of soul skills. For a simple hardening ability, he can perfectly control the range and size of the hardening."

"This not only saves him as much soul power as possible, but because the age of Shi Quan's soul skills is generally nearly double that of ours, his soul skill abilities are much stronger than those of the same level."

"With all these factors overlapping, he can almost be said to be invincible at the same level. Even if I am bound by him, I cannot break free." Yu Tianheng sighed.

Regarding Shi Quan's strength, he had the most say within the entire Heaven Dou Team.

"So that's how it is!" Yu Xiaogang was filled with shock. According to Yu Tianheng, these abilities of Shi Quan were no different from Self-Created Spirit Skill.

Only then did he realize that Shi Quan was indeed a genius in the application of martial souls and the development of soul skills.

However, it was naturally impossible for Yu Xiaogang to acknowledge Shi Quan, but that did not prevent Yu Xiaogang from preparing to take this set of theories from Shi Quan and have Tang San try them out.

If Shi Quan knew of Yu Xiaogang's thoughts, he would certainly show a look of disdain; how could his things be learned just because someone wanted to?

These were all just superficial pieces of information, and the described abilities could be known with just a little understanding, but imitating them was simply impossible.

Setting aside the issue of control, Tang San's soul skills were vastly different from Shi Quan's; Tang San could not even manage to grow such a large amount of Blue Silver Grass, for while the soul power consumed to grow Blue Silver Grass within a short range was not significant, once a certain quantity and distance were exceeded, the soul power consumed would grow exponentially.

If Tang San tried to grow them like Shi Quan, the enemy would likely have already charged right in front of him by the time the growth finished, not to mention that he would have already exhausted more than half of his own soul power; what was most important in a battle between Spirit Masters? Naturally, it was soul power; if more than half was consumed before the battle even began, then what was there to fight for? He might as well just admit defeat and be done with it.

As for control, besides the Spirit Enlightenment State taught by his father, Shi Quan had another major cheat: the Natural Affinity ability brought by Xiaomeng, which allowed him to control his martial soul almost perfectly.

The reason he was able to control so many Blue Silver Kings was also because of the existence of the Spirit Soul Martial Soul, which granted Shi Quan powerful and resilient Mental Power.

Want to imitate? To draw inspiration?

Shi Quan could only say: "Knowing is one thing, but whether you can actually do it is another."

But in Yu Xiaogang's view, Shi Quan being able to reach this point today was all due to luck; if it weren't for the help of the Immortal Herb that allowed Shi Quan's martial soul to undergo a metamorphosis, Shi Quan would still be a waste just like him...