Douluo: Yu Hao Pan Tang San

Chapter 145, Section 162: Xiao Gang's Nominal Disciple

Lou Gao, along with his disciples and followers, decided to join the Spirit Hall. Soon after, they packed their belongings and boarded a carriage heading towards Spirit City.

However, their carriage was ambushed in the dense forest outside the city.

One by one, men in black rushed out of the forest and blocked Lou Gao and his group.

As soon as they appeared, they didn't say a word and charged towards Lou Gao and the others.

However, the next moment, a ghostly figure moved back and forth among their shadows. With each shadow it passed, the owner of that shadow collapsed, completely lifeless.

Only the last few realized they had been ambushed, but it was too late; the ghost appeared and killed them one by one.

"You ignorant fools, you dare to touch people from my Spirit Hall?" Ghost said contemptuously, killing these people was like killing a swarm of ants to him.

"Thank you for saving me, Your Majesty Ghost Douluo," Si Long quickly said.

“No need to be so polite. I’m merely following His Holiness the Pope’s orders.” With that, the ghost pointed to the corpses and asked, “Aren’t you going to verify the identities of those who wanted to assassinate you?”

Si Long realized what was happening. He went to the corpses, removed their veils and clothes, and discovered that they were actually members of the Power Clan. They all had one thing in common: they were missing an arm.

"It was them?" Si Long was shocked.

Lou Gao arrived before the group of corpses. Titan himself was not present, but his people had come, which represented Titan's will.

Lou Gao and Titan were friends for decades. He never expected that just because Lou Gao joined the Spirit Hall, Titan would disregard their long-standing friendship and send assassins to kill him.

This deeply saddened Lou Gao, and the incident completely deteriorated the relationship between Titan and Lou Gao.

After resolving the assassination attempt, Lou Gao joined the Spirit Hall under the escort of a ghost.

Later, he even received the true teachings of soul tools from Qian Renxue. The disciples he taught were all geniuses with exceptional talent in the field of tools. After mastering the technology of soul tools, they thrived and rapidly improved their level in the field of soul tools.

They also used the knowledge they had learned to give back to the Spirit Hall, creating soul tools and cultivating geniuses who could discover soul masters, but that's another story.

Two flowers bloom, one on each side

More than a year ago, Yu Xiaogang accepted a disciple named Lin Chen as a nominal disciple.

What ended Yu Xiaogang's decades-long period of decline and inspired him to take on disciples was that he overheard a deacon from the Spirit Hall mentioning while drinking that the Spirit Hall had once awakened two commoner siblings with innate level 9.5 soul masters. Because of their merit in awakening, the deacon was promoted three levels within the Spirit Hall.

These words made Yu Xiaogang take the commoner Soul Master class seriously.

Although these people from humble backgrounds are unworthy of my guidance, it is an honor for them to serve as my experimental subjects to verify my theories. With this in mind, Yu Xiaogang began to take on disciples. Although the Spirit Hall had already revoked Yu Xiaogang's title of Grandmaster, in this world where the probability of news transmission is extremely slow, even now Yu Xiaogang is unaware that his title has been revoked, let alone those foolish commoners.

The master's reputation was quite impressive. As soon as the news of Yu Xiaogang's decision to accept disciples spread, people immediately came to him to ask to become his disciples.

Faced with these eager young men and women, Yu Xiaogang proudly straightened his chest and swept them all out the door.

What a joke! I, Yu Xiaogang, am of noble blood from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, a master in the field of Soul Master theory. Anyone who can receive my guidance must have a talent level of at least 8. Yet, all I've received are worthless scoundrels.

Finally, having no other choice, Yu Xiaogang took a disciple with a level 6 innate soul power and a plant-type martial soul, Spirit Breath Grass, as his nominal disciple.

Although his innate level 6 soul power was rather pathetic, Yu Xiaogang didn't really intend to treat him as his disciple. His purpose in accepting him was simply to use him as material for his research on martial souls.

Yu Xiaogang firmly believed that his destined disciple would bravely walk towards him, and he would impart everything he knew to this disciple, thus making himself famous and renowned in the Douluo Continent.

On the other hand, Lin Chen respected Yu Xiaogang and studied diligently by Yu Xiaogang's side. Finally, when he reached level 10, Yu Xiaogang took him to hunt for his first soul ring.

"According to my theory, your Spirit Breath Grass is a very fragile plant-type martial soul, so you need an animal soul beast to enhance it. It's best to choose a snake-type soul beast, which can increase the resilience of your martial soul and also give it a good attack method. Of course, it's best to choose a venomous snake."

Soon, Yu Xiaogang found his target: a 35-year-old poison dart snake. However, Luo Sanpao, a 10-year-old soul beast, was more than capable of handling it.

Yu Xiaogang had Luo Sanpao fart, which stunned the venomous snake. Then, with his hands behind his back, he said to Lin Chen, "Come on, this is the first soul ring I've chosen for you."

Since most people start with ten-year spirit rings, Lin Chen had no doubts. He took out his dagger and ended the life of the poisonous snake. A pale white spirit ring appeared on the snake's body, and Lin Chen attracted and absorbed it.

After absorbing the nutrients, Lin Chen excitedly said, "Teacher, I succeeded!"

Yu Xiaogang nodded in satisfaction and said, "Show me your first soul skill."

"Hmm." Lin Chen summoned the Spirit Breath Grass and said to a blue stone, "First Soul Skill, Spirit Breath Entanglement—"

The spirit grass vines that sprouted from the ground wrapped around the blue stone, but that seemed to be all.

Yu Xiaogang nodded in satisfaction and said, "Not bad. It seems that my theory was not wrong. Plant-type martial souls can absorb animal-type soul rings."

However, what the two did not know was that Lin Chen's spirit spirit grass, like the blue silver grass, was of the life attribute, but it was attached with a poisonous snake spirit ring. Tang San's blue silver emperor had the ability to survive, but Lin Chen was basically useless after absorbing the poison ring.

Yu Xiaogang was unaware of this. He was already plotting something in his short hair. Now that he had proven his theory, there was no need for a peasant like Lin Chen to exist. Keeping him under his tutelage would only tarnish his reputation. Therefore, Yu Xiaogang decided to kick this disciple out.

Suddenly, a hissing sound came from the forest, and a giant snake thirteen meters long poked its head out, its gaze fixed on Yu Xiaogang and Lin Chen.

(End of this chapter)