42: Chapter 42 The Right Way to Start a Genius's Enrollment
Lin Yue shrugged at Tang San, then bent down to pick up the torn-off book cover from the ground, handed it to Yu Xiaogang, and pointed at the publication date on the cover, saying word by word.
"Open your dog eyes and look clearly. The first edition of this book was published in the year 2500 of the Douluo Calendar. It is now the year 2637 of the Douluo Calendar. Over a hundred years ago, your grandfather hadn't even fathered your father yet!"
"You keep claiming it's your theory, yet it was thoroughly researched by someone over a hundred years ago. You are truly shameless."
Lin Yue's tone grew colder and colder: "Don't you just think that on the Douluo Continent, once you take a master, you cannot betray the sect, otherwise you will be despised by the entire continent? So you want to trick us into becoming your students first, so that even if we find out the truth later, we can't escape, and we'll be tied to you for life, serving as tools to prove yourself, right?"
These words directly pierced through Yu Xiaogang's last fig leaf. He stumbled back two steps, sat down on the ground with a thud, his face ashen, muttering "Impossible" repeatedly, completely numb.
Tang San looked at his dejected appearance, and the disdain in his eyes grew even stronger.
For the sake of his own vanity, he actually wanted to use such despicable means to tie him to his side and use his talent to gild himself. Such a person is simply not fit to be a teacher.
Meanwhile, Yu Xiaogang sat on the ground, his mind in chaos, with only boundless panic and despair remaining.
What to do? Tang San won't take him as a master, and his plan has gone down the drain.
He had experienced Rebirth just to rely on Tang San to obtain the opportunity for eternal life, but now, he couldn't even take the first step of becoming his master!
Why? Why did it turn out like this? In his previous life at this time, Tang San would have already knelt before him, respectfully calling him teacher!
How could a Lin Yue suddenly appear?
How could the Blue Silver Emperor incident from six years ago become known to everyone on the entire continent?
How could the theories he worked so hard to research have been written in a book over a hundred years ago?
Where exactly did the problem arise?
Could it be that his experiences in his previous life were all fake?
Was he really just having a daydream?
In fact, he didn't know at all that he wasn't dreaming; he was just using the memories from his previous life, and he had absolutely no memories of this current life, which created his current illusion.
Lin Yue watched Yu Xiaogang slumped on the ground in despair, crazily repeating "Impossible." Feeling annoyed just looking at him, she reached out and grabbed Tang San's arm, saying huffily: "Let's go, Tang San. Why waste time talking nonsense with such a fame-seeking madman? It's just a waste of time."
Tang San was pulled forward by her, his footsteps following subconsciously, while his mind was calculating rapidly.
His background was his greatest weakness. Once the Blue Silver Emperor Bloodline of a Spirit Beast was exposed, it would mean a situation of no return.
Those truly powerful Spirit Masters had strong Mental Energy and keen perception of Soul Power. If they happened to discover the Spirit Beast Origin in his body that was completely different from humans while teaching him personally, the consequences would be unimaginable.
On the contrary, this Yu Xiaogang, although a fraud who stole others' theories and was stuck in the Spirit Grandmaster Realm his whole life, had limited vision and strength, so there was a high probability he wouldn't see the secret in his Bloodline.
Yet this person had been immersed in Spirit theory for decades. Even if most of the core content was just repeating others' ideas, he might have accumulated some fringe knowledge that others hadn't noticed.
Listening wouldn't hurt. Taking him as a master was absolutely impossible, but occasionally joining in the fun, listening to a few useful things to remember, and treating the useless parts as wind passing by the ear wouldn't be a loss.
To put it bluntly, it could be considered panning for gold in shit.
"What are you thinking about? You seem absent-minded. You haven't really been fooled by that fraud, have you?"
Lin Yue saw him spacing out, reached out and poked his arm, reminding him with a wary look: "I'm telling you, this kind of person is best at finding loopholes to fool people. Don't you dare get hot-headed, believe his nonsense, and kneel down to kowtow and acknowledge him as a father."
Tang San came back to his senses, smiled, shook his head gently, and didn't say much.
He couldn't tell anyone his secret, not even Lin Yue, who grew up with him and knew everything about him.
The two soon returned to the Academic Affairs Office. The teacher in charge of registration had already reported the information about the two Innate Full Spirit Power Geniuses to the academy dean without missing a word.
Upon hearing this, the dean slapped the table on the spot.
Notting Elementary Spirit Master Academy had been running for decades and had never produced an Innate Full Spirit Power Genius. Not long ago, one came, and now two more had arrived. One of them was even a Spirit Grandmaster at the age of six, and their first spirit ring was a hundred-year spirit ring.
This was a living signboard that only appeared once in a hundred years!
Never mind waiving tuition fees; even if it meant paying them, he had to serve these three ancestors well.
In the original story, Tang San was arranged into the work-study student dormitory because it was felt that Blue Silver Grass with Innate Full Spirit Power couldn't be cultivated to much of a level, so there was no need to nurture him at all.
But now it was different. The certificate issued by the Spirit Hall headquarters was clear in black and white; how could the academy dare to neglect them in the slightest?
The final dormitory arrangement, naturally, could not be the dark and damp work-study student dormitory on the first floor where over a dozen people were squeezed together.
The academy directly set aside the best student dormitory building and arranged sunny, independent single rooms for the two, one room each, equipped with independent desks, wardrobes, and washbasins. The academy had prepared brand-new daily necessities like bedding and toiletries in advance, and even gave each of them a monthly Cultivate subsidy of five gold coins.
More importantly, male and female students lived in different units of the dormitory building. Tang San was on the third floor of the East Unit, and Lin Yue was on the third floor of the West Unit. They had to go downstairs to meet on weekdays, completely breaking the twisted fate in the original story where the male and female leads were squeezed into Dorm Seven, and even slept in the same bed.
Lin Yue pushed open the door to her single room, looking at the spacious and bright room, and the vacant area specifically left aside, feeling extremely satisfied.
Not having to squeeze into a dormitory with others, and having a special place to practice her spear—this treatment was ten times better than her living quarters in Saint Spirit Village.
Tang San also breathed a sigh of relief. A single room meant he had absolute private space to Cultivate the Tang Sect secret arts, without worrying about the Purple Demon Eye or the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record being discovered. The academy's arrangement was exactly what he wanted.
Hmm, even the air had become sweet.
The two simply tidied up their luggage and agreed to go downstairs to familiarize themselves with the academy's environment. Just as they reached the first floor of the dormitory building, they heard a commotion in Dorm Seven at the deepest part of the corridor, mixed with the cheers and teasing of children, making it extremely lively.
Lin Yue loved to join in the fun, and her eyes lit up immediately. She nudged Tang San's arm: "Hey, it seems quite interesting in there. Let's go in and take a look?"
Tang San originally had no interest, but he couldn't resist Lin Yue pulling him forward. Plus, he was indeed curious about what the work-study student dormitory arranged by the academy on the first floor was really like, so he followed her force and pushed open the wooden door of Dorm Seven together.