Battle Through the Heavens: Xiao Yan, who was kidnapped to another world

"That concludes my understanding of your soul skills," Xiao Yan nodded, pushed open his door, and walked out. "What remains is to consider how to improve how you use them..."

"You can't help me with this."

After breakfast, the bell rang on time. This time, in addition to the eight students, the dean and vice dean, and three other teachers gathered on the playground.

The other one was the Great Soul Master whom Xiao Yan sensed that morning, the one who led Tang San away from the room next to his.

As Flander finished introducing the teachers, he walked over to the stiff-faced Great Soul Master. Flander put his arm around the man's shoulder and said warmly:

"Finally, I want to introduce this person in detail. He is the one who, through his own research, determined the competitiveness of the top ten martial souls and is hailed as the strongest theorist of martial souls and the most intelligent soul master..."

After a series of boasts, Flander finally revealed the name of the middle-aged great soul master—Yu Xiaogang.

"I'd like to ask, what is Yu Xiaogang's soul power level?"

As soon as Flander uttered Yu Xiaogang's name, Xiao Yan calmly raised his hand and asked a question indifferently.

"Um, this..."

Flanders found it difficult to say, after all, the level of 29 was something he really couldn't bring himself to say.

"So, you think only high-level Soul Masters are qualified to teach you?" Yu Xiaogang asked without changing his expression. Well, it's not that he was expressionless, since he always had a stiff expression, and it was hard to tell if he had any emotional fluctuations.

"Otherwise what?" Xiao Yan looked calmly at Yu Xiaogang. "Without ever reaching the Soul Venerable realm, what right do you have to teach Soul Venerable level students? Based on your own imagination?"

Not yet Soul Master?

The expressions on everyone's faces changed, especially those of the teachers who had been informed that Yu Xiaogang would be in charge of designing all the teaching programs from now on.

Previously, because of Flander, they hadn't paid much attention to Yu Xiaogang's seemingly weak soul power level. After all, no matter how you looked at it, Flander, as a Soul Saint, couldn't possibly have a close friend who was only at the level of twenty-something, right?

However, after hearing Xiao Yan's words, they had a bad feeling—

"Why do you think that someone who hasn't reached the Soul Master realm is unfit to teach you?"

Yu Xiaogang's answer acknowledged Xiao Yan's previous statement, but it was unclear where his confidence came from. This Great Soul Master stared directly at Xiao Yan, his words filled with arrogance.

Xiao Yan suddenly laughed, "Your reliance isn't some Soul Saint, is it? Knowing your own strength is insufficient, so you find a Soul Saint to be your backer?"

Without even naming names, everyone knew that the Soul Saint Xiao Yan was referring to was Flander, who was awkwardly standing to the side.

“No.” Yu Xiaogang said calmly, his hands behind his back.

"...Did Tang San tell you about my martial soul?"

Seeing that Yu Xiaogang had directly removed his own escape route, Xiao Yan's expression turned strange for a moment. After a slight pause, he asked a very odd question.

"Do I need to know? Or do you think you can defeat the mistress?" Yu Xiaogang's expression remained unchanged, full of confidence.

In short, not only Xiao Yan, but even the other students couldn't keep their composure. Tang San even hesitated for a moment, unsure whether he should thank his teacher for his confidence in him.

"Dean, have you been fooled by this joke?" Xiao Yan looked at Flander with deep concern. "Yu Xiaogang, this level 29 Great Soul Master, is a notorious joke in the Soul Master world..."

"Yan Xiao, take back your insults to my teacher!"

Even knowing he was no match for Xiao Yan, Tang San still resolutely stood up and stood by Yu Xiaogang's side, doing everything he could to protect Yu Xiaogang's reputation.

"You think that's an insult?" Xiao Yan's gaze shifted to Tang San. "Then why don't you ask your teacher what his reputation is like in the Soul Master world? And why does he have that kind of reputation?"

After saying this, Tang San suppressed the urge to turn around and look at his teacher, and said coldly, "That's just because outsiders are ignorant. I will naturally clear my teacher's name in the future. Now, I just need you to take back everything you said."

"It's not impossible for me to take back what I said, if you beat me, I will naturally take it back."

"Well, although Xiao Gang's soul power is a bit weak, he is the most famous theorist in the soul master world."

Flander naturally couldn't just watch Tang San get beaten up by Xiao Yan. After all, one side was Haotian Douluo, and the other was the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School. He couldn't afford to offend either side, so he could only stand in the middle and put on a smiling face.

"Moreover, Xiao Gang secured the best treatment for you as soon as he arrived. Starting tomorrow, all meals will be prepared to the highest standards..."

"Dean, the line you used to trick Oscar into running was taught to you by this Yu Xiaogang, wasn't it?" Xiao Yan calmly interrupted Flander's attempt to smooth things over. "As long as he dares to say which book he read those lines in, I won't say anything more."

“If it’s his own idea, then as long as he reveals his identity and his family, that’s fine.”

As he spoke, Xiao Yan gestured for Flander to tell the arrogant-looking Yu Xiaogang what had happened earlier, and also to let Yu Xiaogang reveal the origin of that sentence.

The other students were enjoying the gossip and didn't mind at all that Flander was quietly telling Yu Xiaogang what had happened earlier.

"...Nonsense!"

After listening to Flander's entire account, Yu Xiaogang remained silent for a moment, then angrily flung his hand away, "Flander, is this the student you found? Disobeying teaching arrangements and disrespecting teachers, is this what you call a genius student?!"

Not to mention Xiao Yan, even Flander himself didn't expect that Yu Xiaogang would choose to attack him after remaining silent.

For a moment, the scene was completely silent.

Everyone thought that Flander, who had been scolded by a weakling, would attack Yu Xiaogang directly. Even Tang San thought so, so much so that he quietly stood next to Yu Xiaogang, as if he believed he could block Flander's attack.

"Ten years old, level thirty-one, martial soul is fire... pure fire."

However, after a moment of silence, Flander calmly began to introduce Xiao Yan's information, "Do I need to remind you about the elemental martial soul situation, Xiao Gang?"

Yu Xiaogang's expression remained unchanged, but his heart was in turmoil. He had read in an ancient book that a pure elemental martial soul could not exist unless the person was a successor of a god.

"So what?" Yu Xiaogang pretended to be used to it. "If it's just level 30, Xiao San can also reach level 30 at the age of ten. It's just that I made him put down his soul power cultivation and strengthen his physical training."

Upon hearing Yu Xiaogang's words, Tang San's eyes suddenly lit up: That's right! For those few years, my teacher made me temporarily put aside the cultivation of soul power and focus on physical training. Otherwise, I could have reached level 30 at the age of ten!

Looking at the somewhat shameless Yu Xiaogang and the inexplicably confident Tang San, Xiao Yan sighed softly, "Teacher Zhao, what is the maximum multiple of gravity your gravity control can apply?"

"Huh? Uh..." Zhao Wuji blinked, suddenly reminded of the topic. "Five times, what's wrong?"

"Want to have a contest?" Xiao Yan looked at Tang San. "Under five times gravity, in hand-to-hand combat without using soul power, let's see who falls first."

"No problem!" Tang San, brimming with confidence, immediately nodded in agreement. "If you lose, apologize to your teacher, obey his arrangements from now on, and you'll have to switch rooms with me!"

"Wait, what do you mean by swapping rooms?"

While still watching the play, Oscar, who was suddenly called out, raised his hand with a blank look and asked a question.

I prefer living alone.

Tang San's words were so gentle that everyone could tell he disliked sharing a room with Oscar. In an instant, the previously tense atmosphere was softened by a touch of absurdity.

“If I win, have your teacher and dean bring the third one… that is, the Killer Horn,” Xiao Yan said calmly to Yu Xiaogang. “I want to see the Golden Iron Triangle’s Martial Soul Fusion Technique.”

The Golden Triangle?

It wasn't until Xiao Yan mentioned the name that the teachers suddenly remembered hearing about this famous group when they were in the Soul Master world. Of course, they mainly remembered that Yu Xiaogang seemed to be the one who was ridiculed in that group.

"Do not……"

"no problem!"

Before Flander could refuse, Yu Xiaogang, feeling certain of victory, readily agreed, "Considering your spirit of striving for improvement, if you win, I will naturally let you witness the awe-inspiring Trinity Martial Soul Fusion Technique!"

"My second request is that I need a month's vacation."

"If you can win, then of course you can."

Yu Xiaogang nodded generously.

"Then I'll have to trouble you, Teacher Zhao..."

“No, let’s save this battle for tomorrow. It’s perfect timing, my teaching officially starts tomorrow,” Yu Xiaogang interrupted Xiao Yan.

Then, Yu Xiaogang's gaze swept over everyone. "Alright, you can all disperse now. Meet here tomorrow morning. Also, I don't want anyone to be absent from breakfast. Those who are absent will be treated differently during training!"

After saying these two sentences, Yu Xiaogang led Tang San directly towards Flander's office, calling for Flander to follow along.

Watching Yu Xiaogang, Tang San, and Flander gradually disappear into the distance, Xiao Wu followed them without hesitation.

"Yan Xiao, if you and Tang San were to compete, who would win?" The departure of the group did not dampen the enthusiasm of the teachers. Zhao Wuji approached Xiao Yan and asked in a low voice.

The whisper was just Zhao Wuji pretending to be whispering; in reality, the voice was ridiculously loud. Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai, who were talking about going to Soto City to relax, and Oscar, who was preparing to go back to his dormitory to continue sleeping, all turned their attention to him.

"I was born with superhuman strength."

Xiao Yan just smiled and said, "If it starts after breakfast tomorrow, one punch from me and Tang San's breakfast might be wasted."

He phrased it very tactfully, but everyone wasn't stupid; of course, they understood what Xiao Yan was trying to say.

"That Tang San kid is pretty slippery, can you beat him?" Zhao Wuji asked with some curiosity.

"If he wants to defeat me, he has to get close to me, right?" Xiao Yan rubbed his nose. "Once he gets close, there's always a chance, isn't there?"

'Too modest...'

Ning Rongrong, who had witnessed Xiao Yan's mental strength long before entering Shrek Academy, silently complained to herself as she looked at Xiao Yan, who seemed to be saying, "I can only do my best to catch Tang San."

"By the way, Yan Xiao, why do you harbor such a deep grudge against Yu Xiaogang?" Ning Rongrong blinked, suddenly thinking of this question.

"...There was a person who became a cripple because of Yu Xiaogang's theory about the optimal age for spirit rings."

Ning Rongrong's question reminded Xiao Yan of someone who had long since passed away.

"There was another one, who lost his eldest son as a result."

Xiao Yan's voice gradually weakened, "They both died at the hands of the wolf bandits. I was lucky to survive. The wolf bandits who killed them have long been wiped out. This is all I can do."

Those who knew about the wolf bandit incident that had occurred in Soto City a few years ago fell silent.

"Of course, the most crucial factor is the fusion skill of Yu Xiaogang, Flander, and Liu Erlong's martial souls."

After a brief moment of gloom, Xiao Yan laughed again. "A three-in-one martial soul fusion skill, the only case in nearly a hundred years. If we miss this, who knows when we'll see it again."

“That’s true,” Zhao Wuji grinned. “A three-in-one martial soul fusion skill… I’ve never seen anything like it in my entire life!”

Chapter 52 The Funny Clown

“I have learned about your respective martial spirits and abilities. Starting today, I will begin intensive training for you. Dai Mubai, step forward.”

The next day, after breakfast, Yu Xiaogang looked at the assembled trainees and said in a cold tone.

Dai Mubai took a step forward. He had been reckless in Soto City last night, and it was only after Ma Hongjun urged him that he returned on time this morning. He still felt a little weak.

"I'm giving you a task: starting now, take down all seven of them one by one without causing serious injury..."

"Wait a minute, shouldn't we start with my duel with Tang San, no matter what?"

Upon realizing that Yu Xiaogang didn't seem to intend to continue discussing yesterday's bet, Xiao Yan decisively interrupted him.

"?"

Dai Mubai was slightly taken aback, but quickly, realizing he had no intention of taking a beating as Yu Xiaogang had arranged, he silently took a small step back.

"Who gave you permission to back up?"