Douluo Continent: Martial Soul Golden Dragon, Tang San's adoptive father

Chapter 51 Gangzi's Collapse

"I disagree. I'm fine with being your deputy, but I don't want to be your trainee's sparring partner."

"The Heaven Dou Royal Academy isn't your private property. I should have the right to refuse to be a sparring partner for your students, right?"

Di Ruier was clearly unwilling to work illegally for Lin Feng. She had already witnessed Lin Feng's wickedness in the Star Dou Great Forest, and if she agreed to his request, she didn't know what kind of suffering she would endure in the future. Seeing Di Ruier still struggling, Lin Feng shook his head, a smirk playing on his lips, and told her a painful truth, "You're right, the Heaven Dou Royal Academy isn't my family's business, but who can blame me when His Highness the Crown Prince of the Heaven Dou Empire is my good buddy?"

"The Heavenly Dou Royal Academy is now under the jurisdiction of His Highness the Crown Prince. You should have already inquired about this, right?"

Now it was Di Ruier's turn to be shocked. She never expected that Lin Feng, that despicable guy, would actually have gotten involved with the Crown Prince. "The Crown Prince is your good buddy?"

After asking this question, she glanced around at everyone. Seeing that their expressions hadn't changed, she was certain that Lin Feng hadn't lied to her. This was troublesome. Was she going to have to live in this guy's shadow forever?

Seeing that Di Ruier was intimidated, Lin Feng began to comfort her, saying, "Hey, working for me isn't such a bad thing. Would I exploit my own employees?"

After saying that, Lin Feng turned his gaze to the members of the Royal Fighting Team, "You can ask my students how I treat them."

Hearing Lin Feng's words, Di Ruier looked at Tang San, Xiao Wu, and their group with some skepticism. From what she knew, Lin Feng hadn't been at the Heaven Dou Royal Academy long, and his relationship with the Royal Dou team members wasn't that deep yet. She could indeed try to find out about Lin Feng through these people. However, to avoid suspicion, she deliberately bypassed Tang San and Xiao Wu, taking Dugu Yan and Ye Lengling aside for a private conversation. Meanwhile, seeing that Di Ruier had actually done as he said, Lin Feng couldn't help but find it amusing. Yan Yan and Lengling had eaten the food he had prepared... The immortal herbs had solved his martial soul defect, so he was naturally moved to tears. It would be truly strange if Di Ruier could glean anything negative from the two of them; they were probably already praising him to the skies. Soon, after their private conversation, the three returned. At this moment, Di Ruier's gaze towards Lin Feng was noticeably different from before, clearly having been successfully brainwashed by Dugu Yan and Ye Lengleng. "Lin Feng, I really didn't expect you to be such a good person. I misunderstood you before!"

Next, in order to make up for what she owed Lin Feng, she immediately agreed to be his student's sparring partner.

Meanwhile, Zhao Wuji and his group stumbled back to Shrek Academy from the Star Dou Great Forest. "Wuji, what happened? Were you attacked by high-level soul beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest?"

At Shrek Academy, Flander looked at Zhao Wuji and the others with disbelief. Of the group, only Oscar was unharmed; Zhao Wuji, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun were all injured to varying degrees. Zhao Wuji's face was swollen like a panda's head, and Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun's wounds looked as if they had been cut by something sharp. Ma Hongjun, in particular, was a truly gruesome sight, which pained Gangzi greatly. "Dean, we weren't attacked by a soul beast, but by a powerful expert and his disciple."

Zhao Wuji gently rubbed his swollen face and complained to Flander. At this moment, Oscar, who was the least injured, put Ma Hongjun on the ground and began to tell everyone what had happened in the Star Dou Great Forest. As Oscar continued to explain, Gangzi, who was standing to the side, became more and more furious. Until he heard that his beloved disciple Ma Hongjun's Phoenix Flame had been immune to, he could no longer sit still. "Little Oscar, what did you say!?"

"Hongjun's Phoenix Flame was spared by Blue Silver Grass Flame!?"

Yu Xiaogang's eyes widened in disbelief at Oscar's words. All his attention was focused on the fact that the Blue Silver Grass was immune to the Phoenix Flame. Blue Silver Grass was a universally acknowledged useless martial soul; no matter how much it mutated, it couldn't possibly be immune to flames. Moreover, the Phoenix Flame emitted by his beloved disciple Hong Jun's Evil Fire Phoenix martial soul was a top-grade flame. There couldn't possibly be any plant-type martial soul on the continent that could be immune to Hong Jun's Phoenix Flame. "This is impossible! This completely contradicts my martial soul theory!"

Yu Xiaogang was now somewhat on the verge of collapse. He hurriedly pulled out a notebook from his pocket and began flipping through it. Finally, he found a certain page in the notebook, and after reading the title, he stopped. The title of this page was about the research on the Crimson Thorn Martial Soul of the Plant Academy: "According to my research on Martial Soul theory, there are some Martial Souls on the continent that can resist fire, including the Crimson Thorn Martial Soul of the Plant Academy."

"Although it has high fire resistance, the Crimson Flame Thorns' fire resistance will be significantly reduced when facing a top-grade fire attribute martial soul, and it simply cannot withstand the flames emitted by Hong Jun's top-tier fire attribute martial soul."

"How could Blue Silver Herbs, which lack fire resistance, possibly possess a fire immunity attribute that is even stronger than fire resistance?"

"Fire immunity is an attribute that my martial soul theory has never touched upon."

Gangzi held his notebook and muttered something to himself, still looking bewildered. His theory of martial souls mentioned that there were mutual restraints between martial souls. For example, water-attribute martial souls restrain fire-attribute martial souls, and fire-attribute martial souls restrain plant-type martial souls. But now, plant-type martial souls were restraining fire-attribute martial souls instead. This violated his theory of martial soul restraints. It shouldn't be like this. How could fire immunity appear on Blue Silver Grass?

"Teacher, I don't understand either, but Tang San's Blue Silver Grass martial soul is immune to my Phoenix Flame!"

Seeing Gangzi's bewildered expression, Ma Hongjun sighed helplessly. He recalled his battle with Tang San and felt utterly powerless, even more so than Dai Mubai. Dai Mubai could at least exchange a few blows with Tang San, but Ma Hongjun, despite his best efforts, couldn't even force Tang San to attack him, let alone make him simply move aside. It was utterly agonizing. At that moment, Gangzi quickly gleaned a crucial piece of information from Ma Hongjun's words: "Wait a minute, Hongjun, what did you say? That Blue Silver Grass Soul Master who's immune to your Phoenix Flame is named Tang San!?"