Chapter 32: Master, You Are Misleading Your Students

He couldn't be bothered to pay attention to Tang San; if it weren't for his Title Douluo father, he wouldn't mind giving him a beating.

If he were to beat Tang San, and Tang Hao were to give him a sound thrashing just like he did to Zhao Wuji, he wouldn't be able to handle it.

On the subject of me and my Title Douluo father.

It's just three words: can't afford to offend, can't afford to offend.

Tang San's expression faltered; he had already flattered him in front of so many people, and he hadn't expected Shi Quan to refuse him so simply and clearly.

"Shi Quan, you and I are classmates, and your teacher and my teacher are also good friends. Besides, you aren't busy right now, so can't you grant me some instruction?" Tang San continued, unwilling to give up.

"Who says I'm not busy?" Shi Quan pointed lazily at the high-hanging sun and said, "Aren't I sunbathing right now?"

Playing the emotional card with me? Keep dreaming.

"You!" Tang San stepped forward in anger.

The soldiers beside Shi Quan saw this and also took a step forward; a cold, blood-stained sense of oppression suddenly descended. It was clear that if Tang San dared to advance rashly again, the soldiers would take action directly.

Tang San's figure suddenly froze in place, unable to advance or retreat.

"Xiao San." Yu Xiaogang's hoarse voice suddenly came from behind.

"Teacher." Yu Xiaogang's voice happened to relieve Tang San of his embarrassment, and he hurriedly turned to look at Yu Xiaogang.

"Xiao San meant no offense; Your Excellency must belong to the Heaven Dou imperial guards, right?" Master stepped forward, patted Tang San on the shoulder, and asked, looking at the soldiers in front of Shi Quan.

"Who are you?" The soldier looked Yu Xiaogang up and down; he hadn't expected someone in this tiny Nuoding City to be able to see through their origins.

Yu Xiaogang introduced himself: "My name is Yu Xiaogang."

"Yu Xiaogang, known as Master in the Spirit Master world—I didn't expect you to be in Nuoding City?" Furei's hearty voice came from behind.

"Captain." The soldier turned to salute Furei. Furei nodded slightly, strode to Shi Quan's side, looked at Yu Xiaogang, and said, "I wonder what brings Master here?"

"Nothing much, I just wanted my disciple here to find Shi Quan to discuss and research Spirit Theory," Yu Xiaogang said stiffly.

"Oh?" Furei looked Tang San over with interest. "A disciple of the old-generation Master, is this an attempt to vindicate your teacher at the hands of a new-generation Master?"

"New-generation Master?" Yu Xiaogang's expression changed, his eyes staring fixedly at Furei. "What do you mean by that?"

Furei said with a smile, "The new Spirit Theory established by Lord Shi Quan has been recognized by His Highness, who praised him as a new-generation Master of Spirit Theory. This matter should only be circulating in Heaven Dou City for now; it is only natural that you, Master, are unaware."

Furei held nothing but contempt in his heart for an empty-titled Master like Yu Xiaogang.

"New Spirit Theory?" Master's expression twisted, and he roared, "He is a ten-year-old child; how can he be worthy of the title of Master?"

Shi Quan said indifferently, "If a piece of trash like you can be one, I imagine it's easy enough for me to be one too."

As the saying goes, if you want to kill someone with anger, you don't have to pay for it.

He didn't dare bully Tang San for now, but he wasn't afraid of Yu Xiaogang in the slightest; if he couldn't anger him to death, his surname wasn't Shi.

"What did you say?" Master said, gritting his teeth.

Shi Quan picked his ear and said, "Looks like you're not just trash, your ears are bad too. If you're sick, go get treated; don't howl around here."

"You... you..." Master was so angry he couldn't even speak.

Shi Quan hurriedly took a step back and continued, "You what? How can you not even speak clearly? Captain Furei, hurry and help this old Master find someone to look at him; if something happens to him, I can't take the responsibility."

Master was furious and shouted directly, "You brat, shut your mouth!"

Shi Quan said faintly, "You must have grown up eating seawater, you're so overbearing. I insist on speaking; what can you do about it? Can't one even criticize a piece of trash who misleads his students?"

"How dare you say I mislead my students!" Master stepped forward in anger, but was blocked by a cold spear.

Furei held the spear and looked at Shi Quan behind him in surprise; he hadn't expected Shi Quan's mouth to be so sharp, managing to anger Yu Xiaogang to this extent in just a few words.

"Shi Quan, how dare you insult my teacher! I challenge you!" Tang San's angry voice came.

"Yo yo yo, getting anxious, are we?" Shi Quan laughed mockingly.

"Running up like a fool to be a lab rat for Yu Xiaogang—I don't know what you're thinking. Such a good Innate Full Spirit Power, twin..." Shi Quan made a show of having misspoken and hurriedly waved his hands. "Pah, pah, pah, you've been ruined by Yu Xiaogang."

"What did you say?" Tang San stood frozen in place, and Master's expression also changed. They had both heard the word 'twin'; although Shi Quan hadn't finished the sentence, they both understood what he meant.

Twin Spirits.

"How could he possibly know!" Master looked at Shi Quan with a twisted expression.

Tang San was also stunned; Twin Spirits was one of his greatest secrets, yet the Shi Quan before him had actually seen through it.

"My theory is not wrong, and Xiao San is not some lab rat; stop spouting nonsense here." Master was too busy trying to vindicate himself to think of anything else.

"Having a loud voice doesn't make you right." Compared to Master's anger, Shi Quan was even more composed. His gaze fell calmly on Tang San. "Tang San, your first Spirit Ring is a Datura Snake, and your second is a Ghost Vine. Your martial soul's development direction should be Control System, and your Spirit Ring selection direction is toughness and poison, right?"

Tang San gradually calmed down, but still looked at Shi Quan with a cold gaze. "That is correct."

"There is no major problem with the development direction of the martial soul, but the Spirit Ring selection..." Shi Quan shook his head and denied it. "Wrong, and dead wrong!"

"You are talking nonsense; where am I wrong?" Master retorted stiffly.

"Tang San, I ask you, in your eyes, what are the characteristics of Blue Silver Grass?"

"Low consumption, strong compatibility?" Tang San was stunned for a moment, reciting the advantages of the Blue Silver Grass martial soul that Master had told him before.

Shi Quan chuckled and pointed to the Blue Silver Grass in the corner of the Playground. "Tang San, I am asking about the characteristics of Blue Silver Grass, not about your martial soul."

"Blue Silver Grass..." Tang San looked at the Blue Silver Grass in the corner of the Playground. It was a very dark and damp corner, and in that corner, there were no other plants besides the Blue Silver Grass. "Tenacious vitality; it can grow in almost any environment."

"Exactly!" Shi Quan snapped his fingers. "It is tenacious vitality. Today, I will teach you a lesson, so listen carefully."

"As the most numerous plant on the continent, Blue Silver Grass can grow in almost any environment. Tenacious vitality and unyielding resilience are its characteristics. Although the Blue Silver Grass martial soul is weak, it also possesses the natural characteristics of the Blue Silver Grass plant, which is tenacious vitality. The low consumption and strong compatibility you mentioned are just some advantages of the Blue Silver Grass martial soul, not its characteristics."

"The acquisition direction of Spirit Rings should be based on the characteristics of the martial soul itself, not its advantages. Therefore, your Spirit Ring acquisition direction should be life and toughness; choosing the direction of poison is dead wrong."

"The strong compatibility of the Blue Silver Grass martial soul is indeed good, but are attributes something you can just add whenever you want?"

"Blue Silver Grass is just Blue Silver Grass. You want to turn it into a poisonous grass; have you ever thought about whether it can actually withstand so many toxins?"

"If the poison-attribute Spirit Rings you absorb exceed the limit that the Blue Silver Grass can withstand, your Blue Silver Grass will not only collapse and wither, but the toxins within the Blue Silver Grass will also directly invade your body."

"You are fine now because the Blue Silver Grass martial soul itself has tenacious vitality and can still withstand the toxins brought by your two Spirit Rings. When your strength improves, you can try absorbing a few more Spirit Rings with powerful toxins and see if your Blue Silver Grass martial soul can still withstand it."

If it weren't for the fact that Tang San's Blue Silver Grass martial soul possessed the Blue Silver Emperor bloodline, Tang San's Blue Silver Grass would have been ruined long ago. Adding attributes to a martial soul that it does not possess itself is a highly risky thing, let alone an attribute like poison. If you are not careful, not only will the martial soul be poisoned, but the Spirit Master themselves will be poisoned as well.

Judging from the current situation, there are two main reasons why Tang San's poison attribute has not completely destroyed his Blue Silver Grass martial soul: one is the Blue Silver Emperor bloodline, and the other is Tang San's External Spirit Bone Eight Spider Lances.

Because of the appearance of the Eight Spider Lances, most of the toxins in Tang San's body gathered onto his Eight Spider Lances, which greatly eased the pressure of the poison attribute on his Blue Silver Grass martial soul.

If the poison attribute were to be continuously stacked like this, it would be like throwing the Blue Silver Emperor into a poison pool; no matter how powerful it is, it would be finished sooner or later!

Tang San looked at Shi Quan with a dazed expression, then came to his senses and shouted sternly, "That's not true, this isn't real, Teacher would never harm me."

"Ah, yes, yes, yes." Shi Quan waved his hand, "He wouldn't harm you. I suppose Master Yu must have had his deep reasons for letting Tang San absorb the Soul Ring this way, right? Perhaps he had already thought of a solution, who knows? Isn't Master Yu wanting to exchange some Spirit Theory? Come on, tell me your thoughts. If I'm wrong, feel free to criticize me..."

Yu Xiaogang, standing to the side, had cold sweat streaming down his forehead after hearing Shi Quan's words, but he could only grit his teeth and stubbornly say, "That's right, I have already thought of a solution."

"I knew it, how could Master Yu not have thought of a solution?" Shi Quan looked at Yu Xiaogang with a smile, then continued, "It seems I was being rash, but I only said that because I was afraid someone would say I was spouting nonsense or telling lies. Master Yu, please forgive me."

The already unsightly expressions of Yu Xiaogang and Tang San were now even more twisted, yet Yu Xiaogang could only grit his teeth and say, "It's nothing."

"Then Master Yu, shall we talk more about plant martial souls absorbing beast-type Soul Rings?" Shi Quan looked at Yu Xiaogang with a half-smile.

Hearing Shi Quan say this, Yu Xiaogang suddenly became confident and said, "I proposed this theory a long time ago, and Xiao San absorbing the Datura Snake Soul Ring proves that this theory is correct!"

(End of this chapter)