Bai Yu Tests Tang Hao

Chapter 22 Bai Yu Tests Tang Hao

The next morning, everyone in Dormitory 7 got up, grabbed brooms and other tools, and prepared to do their work as work-study students.

Bai Yu was the last to get up. By the time he did, Wang Sheng and the others were already getting ready to leave.

Wang Sheng couldn't help but ask:

"Brother Yu, are you not feeling well? Why don't you take the day off and we'll help you with the work?"

Bai Yu laughed:

"No need, I'm already a Soul Master, I get a stipend, I don't need to be a work-study student."

Everyone was taken aback. Oh, that seems so!

Wang Sheng was jealous:

"Damn, Yu-ge, aren't you going to treat us to a celebratory meal?"

Bai Yu laughed and scolded:

"Eat my ass! Didn't you drink enough last night?"

Wang Sheng gave an awkward smile and went out with the others.

Xiao Wu walked at the back, looking at Bai Yu with a complicated expression. Bai Yu asked:

"Xiao Wu, what's wrong?"

Xiao Wu shook her head, went out the door, and thought to herself, "If I can't work with Xiao Yu anymore, then I have to find a chance to get my first spirit ring."

After everyone left, Bai Yu did not leave the academy to hunt souls in Notting Forest or Soul Hunting Forest.

He is only six years old now, and on the surface he is still a support-type Soul Master without combat power. If the dean or teachers find out that he is not at school, and after investigation they find that he went to the Soul Hunting Forest alone, his secret may be exposed.

Bai Yu's plan was to visit the Soul Hunting Forest once every two weeks, for a full day and night each time. Staying longer would arouse suspicion. After all, Tang Hao might be in Notting City right now, and if he discovered the secret of the Myriad Soul Banner, he might immediately strike with his hammer.

Bai Yu had calculated that he would be staying in Notting City for six years, or 72 months. Even if he went every two weeks, he would still need to go 144 times, and he would eventually encounter a suitable soul hunter.

Moreover, there's the holiday, and he'll have even more time to go to the Soul Hunting Forest after the holiday, but he can't go too much. He needs to go back to Holy Soul Village with Tang San, where Tang Hao is, so he can't act rashly.

By the way, generally speaking, Soul Masters only go to the Soul Hunting Forest when they need to hunt for Soul Rings; otherwise, they might not go even once every six months. If I go every two weeks, the guards will definitely remember me and report me up the chain of command, which will surely lead to an investigation by the higher-ups of the Spirit Hall.

I can use the excuse of gaining experience to go, but I can't go too often. At most, I can go once a month, and I can't stay for too long. So, in these six years, I can go to the Soul Hunter Forest a maximum of 72 times. The rest of the time, I have to try my luck in the Notting Forest.

Bai Yu sighed. The soul beasts in Notting Forest were inferior to those in Hunting Soul Forest in both quantity and quality, making it incredibly difficult to find suitable targets for soul refining there. He'd go to Hunting Soul Forest for soul refining in the future, and to Notting Forest for soul devouring to improve himself.

Having made up his mind, Bai Yu headed towards the classroom, where he ran into Boss Xiao.

As soon as Xiao Laoda saw Bai Yu, he ran over to complain. Bai Yu was puzzled after listening to him. His son had been molested by a boy, and Xiao, the city lord, didn't care.

He had also heard people at Notting Academy talking about Lord Xiao. Lord Xiao was not a big-minded person, so why was he so magnanimous in this matter?

Something unusual must be going on. Bai Yu suddenly had a bold guess: Could it be that Tang Hao threatened City Lord Xiao, forcing him to give up and ignore the situation?

If that's the case, it means that Tang Hao is always paying attention to Tang San and everything that happens at Notting Academy!

Bai Yu was extremely grateful that he hadn't rashly left the academy, otherwise he might have been discovered.

The next second, an idea popped into his head: what if he reported Tang Hao to the Spirit Hall?

But he quickly dismissed the idea. First, Tang Hao was watching Tang San and the academy from the shadows, so he couldn't possibly go to the Spirit Hall under Tang Hao's nose. Second, driving Tang San and Tang Hao to their deaths wouldn't do him any good; he still needed to use Tang San.

After comforting Xiao Laoda with a few words, Bai Yu, mindful that Tang Hao was constantly monitoring him, attended classes on time and acted as a good student, continuing this routine for the next week.

In the second week, Dean Wu took the initiative to approach me and said that since I was already a Soul Master, I should go out and accumulate more experience. There were all sorts of missions in the academy that he could keep an eye out for.

Following Dean Wu's instructions, Bai Yu went to the student affairs office, where the teacher in charge of student affairs smiled and said:

"You must be Bai Yu, right? Yes, you are a Soul Master now. As the only Soul Master academy in Notting City, many wealthy families in the city want to cooperate with us, so we have this mission commission."

"Generally speaking, it's very difficult for students below the fourth grade to obtain spirit rings, so most missions are not open to them, but you are an exception. This week's mission assignments are all here, take a look."

The teacher handed Bai Yu a booklet, which Bai Yu flipped through for a while. It contained requests for gatekeeping from wealthy families, escorting from caravans, and hunting soul beasts in the forest to search for materials.

The student affairs teacher advised:

"You're a support class, so I don't recommend you take on jobs that require combat."

Bai Yu nodded and smiled:

"Thank you, teacher. I know what I'm doing, and I'd like to accept this commission."

The student affairs teacher took the booklet and glanced at it. It was a request from a wealthy family in Notting City who wanted to find a support-type Soul Master to accompany them to the Soul Hunting Forest to search for materials.

However, there are very few support-type Soul Masters among the students of Notting Academy, and even if there are, they are not short of money. So this commission has been hanging here for two and a half months, and no one has accepted it.

At this point, the student affairs teacher remembered that Bai Yu was from a poor family and needed to earn extra money. So he readily agreed and took the initiative to help Bai Yu contact that wealthy family.

After lunch break, the student affairs teacher found Bai Yu and asked him to meet at the entrance of the Soul Hunter Forest the next morning and use the Notting Academy badge to prove his identity.

Bai Yu nodded.

The next day, Bai Yu left the academy and headed towards the Soul Hunter Forest.

As he walked, Bai Yu pondered:

"I've been acting the whole time. If Tang Hao has been observing, he'll definitely think Tang San and I are best friends. And this mission I took on is somewhat dangerous; Tang Hao might be protecting me secretly. In that case, if I were to refine my soul..."

"No, I can't refine the soul. I'll treat this mission as a test. I'll deliberately encounter a life-threatening situation on the way to see if Tang Hao is there. Although Tang Hao isn't the kind of person who would help someone in need, I'm such a useful support character, and I'll be of great help to Tang San in the future. He definitely won't stand idly by."

Bai Yu was thinking ahead, not knowing if he was being too paranoid, but he felt that being cautious was never a bad thing.

However, what he didn't know was that Tang Hao followed him right after he left the academy.

"This Bai Yu, he really doesn't know his own limitations. A support character like him insists on taking on dangerous jobs. If something happens to him, wouldn't Xiao San lose a powerful support for no reason? No, Bai Yu can't be hurt. I have to follow him."

Tang Hao followed Bai Yu, cursing and swearing, and no one could find his trail.

(End of this chapter)