Chapter 29: This Boy Is Good, but Still Needs Polishing!
A few days later, at Nuoding Elementary Spirit Master Academy.
The sunlight of the new semester spilled onto the clean flagstones, and students gathered in twos and threes. They wore the uniform academy attire, holding textbooks, excitedly discussing their holiday experiences and the upcoming Cultivation courses.
It was a vibrant scene.
At the same time, inside the academy's office building, Grandmaster sat in his office, quietly reading a thick book, his brows furrowed with his usual solemnity and focus.
"Bang—!"
Just then, a sudden sound broke the tranquility of the room; the office door was abruptly pushed open from the outside.
Seeing this, Grandmaster was slightly startled. He looked up to see a middle-aged man rushing in, panting. It was Director Su of the academic affairs office.
"Grandmaster, I apologize for the intrusion."
Director Su had walked quickly, and his forehead was faintly sweating as he spoke.
Grandmaster frowned, put down the book in his hand, and slowly stood up, his tone carrying a hint of impatience: "Director Su, what's with all this panic?"
Director Su wiped his sweat and said urgently: "Grandmaster, I wanted to ask if you've seen Tang Chuan? He... he doesn't seem to have returned to school to register."
"Tang Chuan?" Grandmaster was slightly taken aback, then his brows furrowed tightly, and he let out a displeased snort, saying: "He's a Blue Silver Grass Spirit Master with only Rank One Innate spirit power. What does his return to school have to do with me? You ask me, who should I ask?"
Director Su quickly waved his hand to explain: "No, no, Grandmaster, you've misunderstood. I just asked Tang Chuan's younger brother, Little San, and he said that before he went home, his brother told him that in a few days he would go to the Soul Hunting Forest with an academy teacher to obtain a spirit ring."
Grandmaster's brows moved slightly, and a hint of doubt flashed in his eyes, but he remained silent.
Director Su continued: "But our academic affairs office never arranged a plan for Tang Chuan to obtain a spirit ring, nor did any teacher take him out. I even thought he might have received some special treatment from you... after all, he is the older brother of your Disciple, Little San."
"Tang Chuan has not come to see me." Hearing this, Grandmaster's brows immediately furrowed tightly. After a moment of silence, he responded faintly.
However, he thought to himself:
Could it be... this kid, secretly ran off to the Soul Hunting Forest by himself?
With his strength, it's unlikely any Soul Hunting team would want him. Even if there was a Soul Hunting team willing to take him, once they entered the forest, they would very likely treat him as a discard. If danger arose, he would most likely be the first one thrown out as a shield.
Thinking of this, Grandmaster's lips couldn't help but curl into a slight arc.
This kid... could it be that he saw Little San's spirit power Rank increase too quickly, and developed a competitive thought, leading him to impatiently want to hunt Spirit Beasts and obtain a spirit ring?
"Alas..." Director Su couldn't help but sigh, becoming even more anxious, and angrily said: "This kid wouldn't have gone to the Soul Hunting Forest alone, would he? That's simply ignorant!"
But just then, a hurried sound of footsteps came from the direction of the stairs.
Before Grandmaster and the other could react, the office door was pushed open with another bang.
A blue-clad youth appeared at the doorway, sunlight spilling from behind him, casting a faint golden halo over his entire being.
This person was Tang Chuan.
"Director Su, I heard you were looking for me?"
Hearing this, Director Su suddenly turned his head, his eyes wide. He took two steps at a time to approach Tang Chuan, scrutinizing him from head to toe, then immediately launched into a scolding:
"You brat! You're finally back! Where on earth did you run off to? The whole academy has been in class for half a day! And I've been looking for you all morning."
Tang Chuan scratched his head sheepishly, smiling somewhat awkwardly: "Sorry, Director Su, I... I went to the Soul Hunting Forest to hunt Spirit Beasts."
Director Su's expression changed dramatically, saying: "You, alone?!"
"Yes."
"Are you injured? You don't even have a permit, how did you get into the forest?!"
Seeing Director Su bombard him with a series of questions, Tang Chuan simply confessed: "I snuck into a relatively large Soul Hunting team. Those people didn't know each other to begin with; they were temporarily assembled. After getting in, I found a suitable Spirit Beast... well, I was lucky and managed to Breakthrough."
After speaking, he slowly raised his right hand and opened his palm. A Blue Silver Grass, glowing with a faint blue-gold luster, immediately emerged from his palm, emitting a faint aura of vitality.
At the same time, a white light flashed beneath Tang Chuan's feet, and a white spirit ring ascended accordingly.
Watching this scene, Director Su was stunned, then a look of pleasant surprise flashed in his eyes, exclaiming: "A white spirit ring?! You actually succeeded? And came back alive! And your spirit ring appears to be circulating smoothly, indicating a very high Fusion rate, which means the Spirit Beast you hunted has a very good compatibility with your Spirit! Not simple, Tang Chuan!"
In Director Su's eyes, a commoner youth whose Spirit was Blue Silver Grass, being able to enter the Soul Hunting Forest alone, safely hunt a Spirit Beast, and successfully fuse a spirit ring, was already an extremely rare display of talent and courage. Even if the spirit ring was only a ten-year one, it was enough to prove the point.
However, Grandmaster at this moment let out a cold laugh, his gaze carrying a hint of disdain:
"A white ten-year spirit ring?"
Immediately after, he slowly walked forward, glanced at the Blue Silver Grass in Tang Chuan's palm and the white spirit ring, his tone filled with undisguised mockery.
"Hahaha... you kid really have guts, daring to go to the Soul Hunting Forest alone to hunt Spirit Beasts. You truly don't know your place. Being able to come back alive was pure luck. Even I, the last time I took Little San to the Soul Hunting Forest, almost capsized in a ditch."
"If I hadn't been there to protect him, Little San might have died under the mouth of a Datura Snake. The dangers of the Spirit Beast forest are not something a young Spirit Master like you, who hasn't Cultivated for many years, can imagine."
"You, you're truly incredibly stupid!"
"To Cultivate as quickly as possible, you even disregarded your life. I'm not afraid to tell you, it's actually the same whether you obtain a spirit ring a few days earlier or a few days later, because even if your spirit power reaches a Bottleneck, you can still Cultivate spirit power without obtaining a spirit ring."
"Didn't you used to pride yourself on being proficient in Spirit theory? You don't even understand such a simple principle?"
Hearing this, Tang Chuan's expression was calm, listening to these harsh words without a ripple. He did not argue, nor did he lower his head, but merely smiled slightly and glanced at Director Su faintly:
"Director Su, can I go back to class now?"
Director Su was stunned, scratched his head awkwardly, and quickly said: "Ah, of course, of course you can. You can also go back to your dorm to rest first and resume classes tomorrow."
"Mm." Tang Chuan nodded, then turned and left.
After Tang Chuan left the office and his figure gradually disappeared at the end of the corridor, Director Su finally couldn't help but speak:
"Grandmaster, just now... why did you say those things?"
His tone carried a hint of incomprehension:
"For someone of Tang Chuan's age, to Cultivate a trash Spirit like Blue Silver Grass to this extent, and even obtain a spirit ring by himself, among commoners, he is already considered outstanding—even if it's only a ten-year one, that's still very impressive."
"Don't you think it's too hurtful to suppress him like that to his Face?"
Grandmaster heard this, the page he was turning paused slightly, and he slowly closed the book. He looked up, expressionlessly glancing at Director Su.
"You think I was trying to suppress him?"
"No, what I said just now... was precisely for his own good."
He clasped his hands behind his back, looked at the swaying tree shadows outside the window, and smiled faintly:
"This kid is very stubborn. You haven't truly interacted with him in depth, so you don't know."
"He once questioned my Spirit theory in front of me and Little San. Whether you call him bold or opinionated, with his personality, once he believes something, he won't easily listen to others' opinions. Even if you explain the reasoning to him in detail, he will only think you are lying to him, that he is an incorrigible blockhead."
"If I didn't deliberately speak harshly, he might actually believe that with his Rank One Innate spirit power and Blue Silver Grass Spirit, he could forge a path for himself."
"You also know how cruel the Spirit Master World is. People with low strength but blind self-confidence either end up dying at the hands of Spirit Beasts or enemies, or they destroy themselves."
"This child is good, but still needs to be polished!"
...
The afternoon sun filtered through the campus tree shadows, casting dappled light on the flagstones.
After leaving the office, Tang Chuan did not go to class but followed the familiar path back to his dormitory.
On the way back to the dormitory, a faint smile played on his lips, his steps light, and he seemed to be in a very good mood.
He was not affected in the slightest by Grandmaster's earlier words.
In Tang Chuan's view, people like Grandmaster are shameless, rigid, stubborn, hypocritical, double-standard, and obsessed with saving Face—to describe him in one word: an idiot.
He was too lazy to bother with an idiot.
When Grandmaster truly touched his inverse scale one day, he would have it coming.
After all, before Transmigration to the Douluo Continent, Tang Chuan had read many Douluo fanfictions, some of which sent Grandmaster to prison to meet Brother Scar, some made him a eunuch, and some even turned Grandmaster into a woman who met General Yuwen and his subordinates.
All sorts of tricks emerged endlessly!
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