Douluo Continent: I, an evil soul master, work nine-to-five in the Tang Sect.

Chapter 52 Senior Xu, you didn't want this either...

"I, you..."

Seeing Tang Ya's gloating expression, Xu Sanshi almost fainted again. Hearing her sarcastic words, he became so excited that he couldn't even speak clearly.

Seeing that the situation was about right, Luo Chen, who was behind Tang Ya, stepped forward and gently placed his hand on Xu Sanshi's shoulder.

But the moment Luo Chen placed his hand on Xu Sanshi's shoulder, Xu Sanshi seemed to react instinctively, retreating like a rabbit, his expression filled with terror as he looked at Luo Chen.

Clearly, he was traumatized by the method Luo Chen had demonstrated in the Soul Arena. However, given his current physical condition, how could he possibly escape Luo Chen's grasp?

"Don't move!"

With a cold snort from Luo Chen, Xu Sanshi's body seemed to have been given a command, instantly freezing in place and remaining motionless. This made Luo Chen feel a little strange, but he didn't think about it too much and simply placed his palm on it again.

The next moment, Xu Sanshi, who had been looking terrified, suddenly changed his expression and a look of surprise appeared in his eyes. The extreme pain he had expected did not come. Instead, he felt a very pleasant sensation.

A gentle and refreshing energy seemed to emanate from Luo Chen's palm, and under its influence, Xu Sanshi could clearly feel his body rapidly recovering, no longer feeling as weak as before.

This is because Luo Chen returned the life force he had previously absorbed from Xu Sanshi's body at this moment. After all, life force is different from soul force; even losing only one-fifth of it will have a great impact on it.

If we consider life force as a person's essence and blood, then Xu Sanshi just lost one-fifth of his essence and blood. Such a loss would be nothing to a thousand-year-old soul beast, but Xu Sanshi is only a three-ring Soul Venerable.

Normally, if a Soul Master loses even a little bit of his essence and blood, he will suffer a great loss of vitality and need a long time to recover. Fortunately, Xu Sanshi has the Xuanming Turtle Martial Soul with extremely tenacious vitality. Otherwise, if he lost one-fifth of his essence and blood, it would not have been as simple as just fainting.

After Luo Chen returned all his life force to Xu Sanshi, his own aura also decreased slightly. However, on the surface, it didn't seem to have much of an impact, since Luo Chen's own life force was exceptionally strong. He was only suffering a significant loss of mental energy.

"What did you do?"

Feeling his body regain its vitality, no longer in the state of extreme weakness where even moving was extremely difficult, Xu Sanshi couldn't help but show a look of doubt and asked Luo Chen in front of him.

Not only Xu Sanshi, but also Wang Dong and Tai An beside him, were looking at Luo Chen with surprise. Clearly, this was the first time they had learned that Luo Chen had this ability.

Bei Bei and Tang Ya, who had already seen Luo Chen use this ability and were relatively familiar with him, understood what Luo Chen had just done. However, since Luo Chen had not spoken, they naturally could not say anything more.

"You don't need to know that. You should think about how you're going to fulfill the bet. Two Profound Water Pills plus a Soul Bone—even if you want to use Gold Soul Coins to settle the debt, it's not a small amount."

Faced with Xu Sanshi's question, Luo Chen naturally couldn't tell him about his abilities. After all, although such things would be exposed sooner or later, it was better to keep the number of people who knew about them as small as possible. So he directly changed the subject to the previous bet.

Upon hearing this, Xu Sanshi frowned. Since the decision was made in public and the dean and the head of teaching affairs knew about it, he naturally couldn't refuse.

Now that he has lost the game in front of everyone, he can only try his best to fulfill this outrageous bet. However, even he feels a little suffocated when faced with such a huge stake.

If it were just two Profound Water Pills, that would be easy to handle, since they're not rare items, just relatively expensive. He already has three, but that Soul Bone…

Oh no!

Everyone knows how rare soul bones are. Let alone him, even in the Shrek Academy, which is famous throughout the continent, how many soul bones are there?

The saying that a single soul bone is priceless is not an exaggeration!

"Tsk."

Even after racking his brains, Xu Sanshi couldn't come up with a solution. After all, soul bones are extremely rare. Even if he did have a soul bone, he would definitely fuse with it himself rather than hand it over to someone else.

Left with no other choice, Xu Sanshi first took out two small bottles made of high-grade white jade from his storage bracelet, tossed them into Luo Chen's arms, and then said to him:

"These are the two Profound Water Pills I promised you. You should know their effects; they can help Soul Masters with insufficient innate strength to increase their innate Soul Power by one level and cleanse their marrow and meridians. As for the Soul Bone... could you replace it with something else?"

Before Xu Sanshi could finish speaking, Tang Ya snorted coldly, interrupting him. She knew he was going to go back on his word, and angrily said:

"Xu Sanshi, you agreed to the bet yourself. What, are you trying to back out now? Trading a soul bone for your reputation is already too good for you. You still want to deny it?"

Hearing Tang Ya's words, Wang Dong, who had been mostly silent, couldn't help but chuckle before speaking:

"Haha, senior, you can't even afford a single soul bone? Then why did you agree to this bet in the first place? Now that you've lost the competition, and it's time to fulfill the agreement, you're saying you can't afford to play along. Isn't that just slapping yourself in the face?"

Hearing Tang Ya and Wang Dong's scathing words, Xu Sanshi was furious, but Bei Bei and Luo Chen, who were watching this scene, both looked amused.

"Alright, Senior Xu, I didn't say you absolutely had to pay for that soul bone. After all, I wouldn't even consider a low-quality soul bone. But considering you're friends with my senior brother, I'll give you a friendly price: 100,000 gold soul coins!"

"I'll give you 100,000 gold soul coins, and I won't take the soul bone. Let's consider this a gesture of friendship, and let's call it even. I think 100,000 gold soul coins for your reputation in the academy is a pretty good deal, right? After all, Senior Xu, you wouldn't want..."

(End of this chapter)