Chapter 56 – Does Your Face Still Hurt? (1/2)

Wu Zhangkong raised an eyebrow. “Forging? You're a Soul Master, but you learned how to forge? The clumsy bird flies early into the forest. You're a clumsy bird, yet you actually wasted your time on such a pointless thing.”

Tang Wulin lowered his head and said, “But everyone told me that my martial soul is trash. And my spirit soul isn't that good either…”

Wu Zhangkong interrupted, “So you decided to become a blacksmith? What a farce! Remember this, you are my student. Unless I deem you to be useless, you must put all of your efforts into developing as a Soul Master.”

Off to the side, Xie Xie's mouth unexpectedly began to twitch. 'Didn't you just say I was useless?' At this moment, he could sympathize with Tang Wulin. Of course, he was only able to do so because he had won.

“Oh.” Tang Wulin agreed. However, there was no way he would actually give up forging. He couldn't possibly renounce forging after all he had achieved. As for his martial soul, he only felt defeated when he cultivated!

Wu Zhangkong turned and looked at Xie Xie. “What are you laughing for? You think you're better than him? Is it really that fun to hide your twin martial souls? You have rank 18 soul power and are gifted with twin martial souls. Just because you were born with a higher level of soul power, you think you can be proud of yourself?

Xie Xie raised his head, staring at Wu Zhangkong in astonishment. 'How does he know all this?'

Wu Zhangkong coldly said, “You've still go a long ways to go. Even twin soul holders can be rubbish people. As an Agility System Battle Soul Master, what glory is there in being forced to use your twin souls by a Soul Master with Bluesilver Gra.s.s?”

“I…” Xie Xie's face turned red with embarra.s.sment, speechless.

“Teacher, what are twin martial souls?” Tang Wulin curiously asked.

Wu Zhangkong's eyebrows wrinkled into a frown. “How incompetent was your elementary academy teacher? They didn't even teach you about twin martial souls? Twin martial souls means that you have two martial souls. The benefit of having two martial souls is obvious; people born with twin martial souls usually have innate rank 10 soul power. It's much easier for them to cultivate and they are able to acquire more soul rings in the future. It's just that in this age of spirit souls, they are restricted by their spiritual power, which means their advantage isn't that big anymore. There isn't anyone who possesses the spiritual power necessary to sustain eighteen soul rings worth of spirit souls. Perhaps it would be possible if one possessed a spiritual-type martial soul like the Spirit PaG.o.da's founder, but each spirit soul would need to be extremely powerful in order to bestow a total of eighteen soul rings.”

Tang Wulin looked towards Xie Xie. They were both people, but why was life so unfair? He had a trash martial soul, yet Xie Xie had twin martial souls. The disparity was simply enormous.

Wu Zhangkong suddenly asked Tang Wulin, “Do you think his martial soul is good?”

Tang Wulin stared back at him. Was there really a need to say it out loud?

Wu Zhangkong lips curled. “It isn't necessarily better than yours. His martial soul is a dagger, and his second martial soul should also be a dagger. But, it's just a concealed dagger, that's all. The attack range of a dagger is very short. In this modern era of mecha conflicts, what do you think of it now? An Agility System Battle Soul Master gains the most restrictions when they become a Mecha Master.”

Xie Xie's eyes widened in shock as he started at Wu Zhangkong. 'Could it be that Tang Wulin is actually his long lost son? Why else would he belittle me in order to boost Tang Wulin's confidence? This is simply too biased!'

However, Wu Zhangkong didn't even spare him a glance. “Alright then. Down to business.”

Xie Xie's spirits were roused. 'Is he finally giving out rewards?'

“Every new academic year, the academy has a grand tournament. There's one for both the intermediate division and the advanced division. Our intermediate division has a total of six grades, and all of them will be partic.i.p.ating. This tournament is known as the Cla.s.s Promotion Tournament.”

“Cla.s.s Promotion Tournament?” Tang Wulin's eyes were full of doubt.