At the entrance gate of the Nuoding Academy.
There were many people, young and old, gathered here. Many of them were discussing something among themselves, while pointing towards something near the entrance gate of the academy.
There, two 'T' shaped wooden poles were erected. And on these two poles were two males, one young and one old, tied completely naked to the wooden poles.
These two young and old were Tang San and Yu Xiaogang. The pair of master and disciple.
The two were now conscious and looked extremely angry and ashamed. They were constantly trying to free themselves from their bindings, but to no avail.
Tang San, because of his young age, was paid much attention to by the surrounding crowd. So, he found a bit of relief in this social death situation. He even cleverly used his blue silver grass to cover his face and his private part, which might as well be nonexistent.
Because of Tang San's low soul power level, this was the best he could do, and couldn't spare any for his teacher.
"I am sorry, teacher." Tang San silently apologized for his inability.
At this, Yu Xiaogang didn't say anything. He knew his disciple's situation. Although he wished deep in his heart that, Tang San would use the blue silver grass to hide his teacher's identity and sacrifice himself for it.
Yu Xiaogang couldn't bring himself to say this. He knew that, once he requested anything of this degree, then their master-disciple relationship is over. The relationship between him and Tang San isn't so deep yet.
Yu Xiaogang was indignant as he felt the mocking stares at him. He was hung naked by some unknown person, and his everything was for the public to view and… mock.
Some of the discussions reached Yu Xiaogang's ears, which made his expression become more uglier.
"Isn't this the great grandmaster?! Why is he hung up like this?!"
"Even if you ask me, how would I know?! Hey, look at his thing! Mine is definitely bigger than his! And I'm only twelve years old! I guess I'm above average?"
"Maybe it's grandmaster, whose size is way below average? Oh, and mine is bigger as well!"
"Me too, brother! Mine is bigger as well!"
"Me too, dad!"
A random female voice interrupted.
"Don't lie! At most, it equal! You're only ten years old! But still, who would have thought that the seemingly manly grandmaster would have an unmanly manhood! How disappointing!"
And a female group discussion started.
"I have the same thought! It's truly a disappointment! No wonder he is still single at his age!"
"Maybe after ladies got to know him, they left him after finding him lacking in that area?"
"This is a secret, don't tell anyone. I heard this from the Widows Welfare Association. Some noble widows were eyeing grandmaster. Apparently, he seems to have some hidden identity."
"Who cares about his hidden identity anymore! After this, those nobles definitely won't look at him! I don't believe they are willing to give up their future happiness for this lacking man!"
At the same time, some rational discussions were also going on.
"Who exactly would do this to the grandmaster? And who is that scrawny kid tied up along with him?"
"I don't know. His face is well hidden."
"Still, I'm quite curious as to who did this to grandmaster and what sort of hatred he/she has towards him."
"But this situation isn't very surprising to me."
"Oh? Why do you say that, comrade?"
"You guys might not know this. But grandmaster has accumulated quite a bit of enemies over the years in Nuoding city."
"Oh? Please elaborate, comrade!"
"In the name of suggestion and guidance, grandmaster has experimented unique soul ring choices on many past students of the academy. To be honest, quite a lot of them had negative effect and destroyed their futures. Some of them even had their life style destroyed."
"Seriously? Isn't grandmaster a scholar certified by Spirit Hall?"
"I've heard about it as well. About a few years ago, there was a student with blue silver grass martial soul who was lucky to have innate soul power. After five years of extreme hard work, he finally reached level 10 from his level 1 innate soul power."
"Hey! I know about this!"
"You do?"
"Well, that kid was appreciated by many of us back then because of his hardworking nature. He wanted to be a soul master very much. Apparently, it was his dream from a very young age."
"I remember him too. He was a very nice kid. He wanted to become stronger and help those in need. Apparently, that kid was under the impression that high-level soul masters were almost omnipotent."
"Such pure hearted ideals are very rare in this rotten nobility ruled world."
"So what happened to that kid in the end?"
"Ah yes. This incident took place about four years ago. At that time, grandmaster was hanging around those with blue silver grass martial soul, and spotted this kid."
"I was also there at that time and was a member of the soul hunting group that day. I remember that kid wanted to be a healing soul master at first and wanted a healing soul beast as his soul ring. But grandmaster came up with all sorts of reasons and persuaded that kid to absorb a poison type beast soul ring."
"What?!"
"Well, that kid was persuaded because of grandmaster's reputation as a scholar, as well as the college Dean's persuasion."
"Unfortunately, the kid almost died."
"Seriously?"
"Although the soul ring absorption was successful, the results were horrifyingly negative. That kid's martial soul collapsed and his body was also infected by the soul ring's poison. He was basically almost turned into a cripple."
"Damn!"
As more and more discussions were going on, Yu Xiaogang's expression was ugly with anger and shame.
He couldn't accept that, he, the grandmaster, would be in such a humiliating situation. His pride was heavily affected.
Unknown to him, a man covered in a black cloak was looking at him with deep resentment.
Shockingly, under the cloak was a face that seemed to have been corroded by deadly poison. And the man also exuded a fishy and decaying scent.
This was the kid in the discussion regarding Yu Xiaogang's experiment on blue silver grass/plant martial souls.
The young man picked up a fist sized rock and gripped tightly.
How much he wanted to throw this stone at that hateful Yu Xiaogang!
But, he also saw that barrier that even stopped the dean and teachers of Nuoding academy from rescuing Yu Xiaogang.
He felt helpless.
However, looking at Yu Xiaogang's ugly expression, the young man couldn't hold back his anger and resentment.
"Yu Xiaogang!!"
He activated his meagre soul power and threw the rock at Yu Xiaogang with all his strength.
Surprisingly, or even shockingly, the barrier actually didn't stop the rock at all!
Because the rock was thrown without any proper aiming, and with full force… the young man didn't have any control on where the rock was aimed at.
As much as he would like to smash Yu Xiaogang's arrogant and proud face, the rock hit a place that was even better.
The young man's ugly face was filled with joy.
He immediately whispered, "Thank you, God of Contracts, for blessing my luck at this moment."
The young man happened to be a believer in the God of Contracts.
"Aaaahhhhh!!!!"
A miserable scream resounded throughout the place, silence the crowd briefly.
As they looked at the screaming Yu Xiaogang, they saw that the place where his manhood used to be, now completely bloody. And blood was dripping onto the floor.
"Teacher!" Tang San was shocked and angry.
"Xiaogang!" The dean of the academy was shocked and furious. He immediately shouted at the crowd to restrain them.
The place became very noisy and chaotic. The Spirit Hall personnel also arrived to maintain order. The City Lord's soldiers also arrived.
So the crowd was dispersed and a brief moment of peace was obtained.
Rayne, Ah Yin and Xiao Wu who were silently observing all this since arriving here had different expressions.
Rayne had an indifferent expression. Ah Yin and Xiao Wu had complicated expression. But, Ah Yin and Xiao Wu seems to be more disgusted with Yu Xiaogang. Especially after hearing some of the discussions among the crowd.
They too left the place along with the rest of the crowd.
Although this incident will have some effect on the academy's reputation. The ones most affected will obviously be Yu Xiaogang and the dean of the academy.
…
After having breakfast with Ah Yin and Xiao Wu.
Rayne looked at Xiao Wu and asked.
"Xiao Wu, how much do you know about soul core? It's also called bloodline core among most low level 100,000-year soul beasts."
Ah Yin was a bit depressed to be called low-level among the pinnacle level soul beasts. But she didn't care much, since it was the truth, and she also knew that Rayne doesn't mean any insult towards her.
But that wasn't the case for Xiao Wu!
"Hey! What do you mean by that?"
She has always unconsciously regarded herself as the most important soul beast. She has been pampered by her mother and father, who were both 100,000-year-old soul beasts. Later on, even two mighty soul beasts with super grade bloodline acted submissive to her.
So, her pride and self-esteem is quite high, and have even led to the delusion that, she might be the uncrowned ruler of the soul beasts.
Because she had been kept away from danger since day 1, she doesn't know the true terrifying hierarchy of soul beasts. Even her two little brothers with super bloodline is not worth mentioning.
Rayne didn't care about Xiao Wu's reaction and turned to Ah Yin.
"You discuss with this rabbit about the soul core and your human soul master cultivation experience. I have something to do. If I'm late, just return to my dormitory."
"Yes, young master."
Ah Yin nodded in understanding.
Seeing this, Rayne smiled, ignoring the fuming Xiao Wu and walked away.
Rayne wasn't lying. After about two hours is the meeting time decided for his newly recruited subordinates. The group of Xiao Chenyu and Wang Sheng.
But before meeting them, he has something he wants to do.
After walking around, he came to the grass fields behind the academy, and sat cross-legged under the shade of a tree.
At the same time, he summoned his Blue Silver Grass martial soul along with three soul rings.
Black, Black and White.
A very odd soul ring configuration.
Rayne took out two black color beads from his treasure storage, the Gate of Ashburn.
These were the advanced soul ring enhancement bead that can increase the age of the soul ring by 50,000 years.
After feeling his current physical fitness after awakening his Infinity Dragon bloodline, Rayne felt confident in himself.
He added the two black beads to his first soul ring.
Currently, his first two soul rings are about 20,000-years of age.
As the black beads were added, black flames seemed to engulf his first soul ring. As ten minutes passed, the black flames turned blood red and started to retract into his soul ring.
His first soul ring had completely turned red and there was another soul skill. But he could tell that his current physical endurance level has almost been reached.
Surprisingly, his soul power level also increased. His cultivation technique had improved under the infusion of this energy.
From level 35 to level 36. No, almost level 37.
Rayne took out five more black beads from his Gate of Ashburn.
He added two to his second soul ring and three to his third soul ring.
Both his second and third soul ring were set ablaze in black flames, that soon turned red after about thirty minutes.
Both his soul rings had turned red. His third soul ring represented his current physical endurance level limit, without any enhancement from Kāma martial soul.
150,000 years.
His soul power had been upgraded all the way to level 39. Just a bit short of level 40.
Now, his soul skills of his Blue Silver Grass martial soul are…
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