“What an ungrateful guy.
Ptooey!” The Dean of Notting Academy cursed under his breath again.
Then, he remembered something, turned around, and instructed the logistics director:
“Since Master has left, let him go.
Here is what we’ll do: clean up the room Master left vacant and prepare it for other teachers.
Don’t let it go to waste.”
The room had originally been lent to Yu Xiaogang by the Dean of Notting Academy for a temporary stay, but who knew he would be so thick-skinned as to stay for several years.
The Dean of Notting Academy and Yu Xiaogang were friends.
When Yu Xiaogang first came to seek refuge, the Dean valued Yu Xiaogang’s title as a master of theory in the Soul Master World and needed his reputation to attract students to Notting Academy.
Therefore, he specially hired Yu Xiaogang as a teacher at Notting Academy, hoping he would teach the students some knowledge about Martial Souls.
Who knew that Yu Xiaogang wouldn’t even be willing to teach a single class?
He was so arrogant that the Dean of Notting Academy was helpless and could only hold his nose and accept it.
He had thought that keeping Yu Xiaogang would at least be somewhat useful due to his reputation, but as it turned out, no one knew him at all.
Some invincible master of theory.
No one believed it; he was just a freeloader and a fraud.
The Dean of Notting Academy didn’t feel right about kicking Yu Xiaogang out and assumed that Yu Xiaogang would have some shame and leave on his own.
As it turned out, Yu Xiaogang was like a piece of stinking chewing gum, sticking around and refusing to leave.
Regarding this, the Dean of Notting Academy felt as uncomfortable as if he had eaten a dead fly, and he didn’t know how many times he had cursed Yu Xiaogang in his heart:
“Disgusting!
What a thick-skinned piece of trash!
Shameless thing!…”
There was no helping it; the Dean of Notting Academy had to turn a blind eye, treating it as if he were raising an extra dog—ah no, a piece of trash.
Yu Xiaogang wasn’t even as good as a dog; at least a dog could faithfully guard the door for you.
“It’s good that he left!”
The Dean of Notting Academy was very happy in his heart.
Out of sight, out of mind; he felt relieved.
Three days later.
Yu Xiaogang spent twenty gold coins to hire a carriage, traveling day and night, whipping the horses to go faster, and arrived outside Spirit City covered in dust.
He paid the fare and got off the carriage.
At the city gate.
The city guards were conducting customs checks on a long line of people.
Yu Xiaogang was anxious and couldn’t wait to run to the front.
He didn’t queue up and headed straight for the city gate.
“Hey, hey, what are you doing?
Do you understand how to queue?”
A city guard responsible for maintaining order stopped him and said with a slight frown.
“You dare to stop me?
Do you know who I am?”
Yu Xiaogang was anxious to enter the city quickly, and in his annoyance, he put on the appearance of an expert.
Back then, as an honorary Elder of Spirit Hall, relying on his title as a master of invincible Martial Soul theory, he considered himself a prominent figure in Spirit City.
The city guard’s face darkened: “I don’t care who you are, go queue up.”
However, Yu Xiaogang did not follow the guard’s instructions to go back and queue up obediently.
He puffed out his chest, put his hands behind his back, proudly projected an air of profound mystery, and introduced himself:
“The invincible Master of Martial Soul theory, ever heard of it?
That’s me.”
“Never heard of it.
Go queue up!” The city guard pushed him with a dark face.
Plop!
Caught off guard, Yu Xiaogang was pushed to the ground and fell face-first.
“Ptooey, ptooey!” Yu Xiaogang quickly climbed up, spat out the sand and dirt in his mouth, and then roared with a face full of anger, “How could you do this?!”
This shout made the city guard who stopped him look very displeased, and he drew the knight’s sword at his waist:
“If you yell again, believe it or not, I’ll cut you down with one sword stroke.
Go queue up obediently!”
Seeing the city guard menacingly brandish his weapon, Yu Xiaogang shrank his neck, his lips moved a few times, and he didn’t dare to chirp again.
He chickened out.
Seeing that his identity as Master wasn’t working, he decided to try another way.
A moment later, a flash of inspiration struck his mind, and he thought of another method:
“I know the Holy Maiden.
I am a friend of the Holy Maiden.
Can you let me in now?”
“Heh!” The city guard didn’t pay him any mind and laughed coldly.
Then he looked at him expressionlessly:
“I’ve seen plenty of people like you.
I don’t know how many people claim to know the Holy Maiden or be friends with the Holy Maiden every year—there must be hundreds, if not a thousand.
You still dare to lie?
You’re asking for a beating.”
As soon as he finished speaking, the city guard suddenly drew his longsword, four Soul Rings—yellow, yellow, purple, purple—appeared under his feet, and he slashed at Yu Xiaogang.
Boom!
Caught off guard, Yu Xiaogang hastily reached out to block, and the Soul Power aura of a Great Soul Master was revealed on his body.
But he was still knocked flying four or five meters away and fell to the ground.
“Ah!”
Yu Xiaogang clutched his twisted arm and screamed miserably, in immense pain.
The city guard stared at Yu Xiaogang with an unfriendly expression and mocked:
“Heh, so it’s just a level 29 Great Soul Master.
Where did this piece of trash come from?
With just this much ability, you dare to impersonate a friend of Her Highness the Holy Maiden?
You really don’t know whether you’re living or dead!”
“Two yellow, two purple?
A four-ring Soul Sect with the best configuration?!
Damn it, to think they would have a Soul Sect guarding the city gate!” Yu Xiaogang was horrified.
“Either go queue up obediently, or get out of here right now.”
The city guard glanced sideways at Yu Xiaogang and warned coldly, “This is your last warning.
If you dare to make trouble again, you die!”
Seeing that the other party was actually a Soul Sect, Yu Xiaogang didn’t dare say anything more.
Holding his injured arm and enduring the pain, he slunk to the back of the line and obediently started queuing.
Standing in line, Yu Xiaogang’s face was gloomy, and he said to himself, “Damn it!
Once I get into the city, I’ll make you pay.”
The city guard ignored him and continued to perform his duties.
An hour later.
Yu Xiaogang gritted his teeth, enduring the severe pain, his face pale, with sweat beads the size of beans hanging on his forehead.
In front of the city gate, it was finally his turn.
Yu Xiaogang stepped forward quickly, wanting to enter the city directly.
“Hey, hey, what are you doing?
Did I say you could go in?” The city guard said with a dark face, stopping him again.
“Why are you stopping me?
I’ve already queued.
I want to enter the city.”
Yu Xiaogang discovered that the one stopping him was the same city guard who had broken his arm earlier, and his expression immediately turned ugly.
His arm was broken, the pain was unbearable, and he wanted to enter the city quickly to find a Healing-type Soul Master to help treat it.
“Heh.
You want to enter the city?
Sure.
Bring me the pass!”
The city guard smiled and held out his hand to signal Yu Xiaogang.
“What pass?
I don’t have one.
Since when do you need a pass to enter Spirit City?
I am a Great Soul Master; I have the qualifications to enter Spirit City.”
Yu Xiaogang frowned.
He remembered that as long as one was a Great Soul Master, they could enter and leave Spirit City freely.
He began to suspect that the city guard was deliberately picking on him.
“You don’t have one?
Then I can’t let you through.
Get lost right now.” The city guard’s face darkened again.
Hearing this, Yu Xiaogang became even more certain.
So, it’s because I offended you just now, and you’re unhappy with me and want to exact private revenge?
Hmph, can’t I deal with you?
Thinking of this, a smile curled at the corners of his mouth; he had thought of an idea.
Immediately, Yu Xiaogang shouted loudly: “You are abusing your power for personal revenge.
I am going to report you.”
His voice was very loud and quickly attracted everyone’s attention.
With so many people here, I don’t believe you would dare to be so unruly and abuse your power for personal revenge.
You will be despised by everyone.
Why don’t you let me through quickly?
Yu Xiaogang put on the appearance of an expert, with one hand behind his back, looking up at the sky at a forty-five-degree angle, looking righteous and stern.
However, things did not develop as he had hoped.
What greeted him was a big slap.
Slap!
A loud slap rang out, and Yu Xiaogang’s body spun around a few times on the spot before falling to the ground.
Blood flowed from the corner of his mouth, and his right cheek became visibly red and swollen.
Suddenly slapped and fallen to the ground, Yu Xiaogang was stunned for a moment.
The city guard maintained the posture of the slap without pulling it back, cursing:
“Damn it, I hate people like this who are weak but love to act tough.
If this isn’t asking for a beating, what is?
Get out of here right now.
Otherwise, I don’t mind throwing you into the tenement building.”
The city guard’s expression became increasingly unfriendly.
“Ah!”
Suddenly, a miserable howl rang out; the sound came from Yu Xiaogang.
It was because when he fell, Yu Xiaogang’s broken arm was pressed underneath him.
When he recovered from his daze, the intense pain came, causing him to howl continuously, and he couldn’t even care about the slap on his face for the moment.
“What are you howling for!
If you yell again, I’ll cut you down right now!”
The city guard, listening to Yu Xiaogang’s unpleasant screams, was displeased and went up and kicked him again.
Hearing this, Yu Xiaogang was shocked.
Seeing the city guard’s hand about to touch the hilt of his sword, he quickly shut his mouth.
He had to pout and make wailing sounds, and tears and snot flowed down from the pain.
“Haha, serves him right, well hit.
How dare he appear here without a pass.”
“Don’t you know that now is a special period, and everyone who wants to enter Spirit City must hold a pass issued by Spirit Hall to enter?”
“Where did this idiot come from?
Are you here to be funny?…”
At this time, the onlookers spoke up one after another.
They had seen Yu Xiaogang’s performance from beginning to end; he was truly weak but loved to act tough.
Regarding his encounter of being beaten, not only did everyone not sympathize, but they were full of disgust and mockery.
Listening to everyone’s words, what Yu Xiaogang didn’t expect was that not only did everyone not help him, but they ridiculed him instead.
For a moment, Yu Xiaogang felt disheartened, and his heart was full of grievances.
He couldn’t enter Spirit City, and he didn’t have the face to stay any longer.
Yu Xiaogang struggled to climb up, stumbling and limping away from the direction of Spirit City.
After walking a long way.
Yu Xiaogang looked back at the direction of Spirit City, his eyes flashing with a resentful, eerie light:
“Spirit Hall, the humiliation you have brought upon me…
one day, I will pay it back a thousand times over!”
Today’s encounter made his hatred for Spirit Hall even deeper.