"Who is it?" Ye Yin asked.
"Yin Ge, it's me," Tang San's voice replied from outside the dormitory.
"Come in."
Tang San walked into Ye Yin's room.
"What's wrong, Little San?" Ye Yin was a bit curious. "Didn't Grandmaster tell everyone to cultivate properly?" Tang San was one of the most diligent cultivators he knew.
Tang San scratched his head awkwardly. "Yin Ge," he started, "there's something I want to say, but I'm not sure if I should."
Ye Yin rolled his eyes. "If you shouldn't say it, then don't."
Tang San was silent for a moment before replying, "I think I still have to say it. Yin Ge, as you know, Grandmaster and I have known each other for over six years. We've both been learning from him, and we've always called him Grandmaster. But our relationship hasn't made any progress. Yin Ge, can you help me think of a way? You know what I mean, right...?"
Ye Yin nodded in deep agreement. "Indeed, this is a big problem. There should be a good solution. But you know, my relationship with Grandmaster isn't that close either, so it's not very convenient for me to bring it up. I'm also busy cultivating. As you know, as a Support-type Spirit Master, my cultivation speed is slow. I don't run fast, my strength is small, and I don't have many ways to protect myself. I need to cultivate harder."
Tang San was silent for a moment, then gritted his teeth. "Yin Ge, actually, I need to apologize to you. There's something I've been hiding from you and haven't told you."
Ye Yin was a bit puzzled. "What is it?" He couldn't believe Tang San was hiding something from him. Over the past six years, he knew every centimeter of Tang San's life; there was nothing he didn't know. It was impossible!
"I once found a secret manual," Tang San confessed. "I've been secretly cultivating it alone and haven't told anyone. Yin Ge, you've been so good to me, and I was wrong for not showing you the secret manual." As he spoke, Tang San took a thick booklet out of his storage soul tool bracelet. "This is the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record I obtained! It has an immense effect on a Spirit Master's cultivation!"
Ye Yin's eyes immediately lit up. Good stuff, this is good stuff! Tang San should have shown me this a long time ago. "Let me see..." Ye Yin took the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record.
"System, is the content complete?"
"[Complete, very complete. Except for the important content, it's all here.]"
Ye Yin was speechless. Indeed, this is so Tang San. He asked the system, "Does the system store have the rest of the content? How much resentment value does it cost?"
"[Ten thousand resentment points, all the remaining content is there, but it needs to be learned slowly.]"
"[Twenty thousand resentment points, learn thirty percent.]"
"[Thirty thousand resentment points, learn eighty percent.]"
"[Forty thousand resentment points, learn one hundred percent.]"
"[Fifty thousand resentment points, thoroughly master it, like an old expert who has been immersed in this path for hundreds of years, capable of innovating, such as replacing the black gunpowder in the Buddha's Fury Lotus with stronger yellow gunpowder.]"
Ye Yin immediately smiled and, without hesitation, spent fifty thousand resentment points to purchase the final version. Instantly, Ye Yin felt as if something rough had been forcefully inserted into his mind. Without caring if Ye Yin was comfortable, information and memories were continuously poured into him. Ye Yin's hand movements remained, and he stared blankly at one page of the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record. It wasn't until half an hour later that all the content absorption was complete.
Tang San finally couldn't sit still. "Yin Ge?" he asked. "Yin Ge?"
"Hmm?"
"What do you think of this thing?"
Ye Yin let out a long breath and closed the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record. "Good stuff! But you should keep this kind of thing for yourself. Since it's your secret manual, it's better for you to use it yourself. It might not necessarily suit me." Ye Yin then returned the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record to Tang San.
Suddenly, he stared intently at Tang San. "Little San, you showed me the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record and suddenly told me about a secret manual or something. You wouldn't think I'm asking you for favors, would you?"
Tang San's eyes narrowed. "No, no!"
Ye Yin shook his head and sighed. "Little San, oh Little San, so this is how you think of me. Who am I? Your biological brother from a different mother! Would I still ask you for favors? You've really disappointed me too much!"
Listening to Ye Yin's words was like a fierce slap across Tang San's face. Tang San now had the urge to kill himself. Tang San, oh Tang San! What have you done! Yin Ge has been so good to you! How could you think of him like that! Especially to humiliate Yin Ge with this Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record that only contains insignificant content! Tang San, oh Tang San! You're simply not human!
"Go!" Ye Yin waved his hand. His voice held a hint of resentment. "I will talk to Grandmaster about this matter. Take your Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record and go back to wait for news."
Tang San felt his heart twist into a knot. "I'm sorry, Yin Ge, I..."
"No need to say more," Ye Yin waved his hand. "There's a dice on the table; take it back and play with it. It's a gift for you. Little San, I'm telling you, thinking of others like this will bring you bad luck! And it will be really bad luck!"
Tang San nodded and picked up the dice from the table. After apologizing several more times, he returned to his own dormitory. Tang San sat on his bed and looked at the dice Ye Yin had given him. He raised his hand and heavily slapped himself across the face.
"Little San, what are you doing!" Oscar, who was sleeping, was startled awake. He stared at Tang San with wide eyes. "Are you crazy!"
Tang San sighed. "It's nothing, Little Ao. I'm really not a human being!" He casually tossed the dice onto the bed. It landed on a six. On the surface, there was no change, but a strong effect of bad luck silently fell upon Tang San.
"Crack!" Tang San's eyes widened. "What was that sound?" The next second, Tang San's bed board collapsed. Tang San fell directly through the middle. As luck would have it, there was an upright nail under Tang San's bed board, right where Tang San was sitting. The nail plunged with a plop into Tang San's butt. Tang San's eyes widened, and an extremely tragic scream echoed in the dormitory.
"Ah!"
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