Chapter 138

Life isn't fair, that is the truth. When someone commits a crime, they sometimes get away with it through incompetency or their connection within the justice system. When someone is born with trash talents and potential, someone else is born with godlike talents and potential that would lead them to supremacy over others.

Tang Wulin understood that clearly when he awakened his Blue Silver Grass martial soul with barely any soul power: since most of the time, soul masters' potential are decided by the soul powers they awakened along with their martial souls.

With his rank 3 soul power and martial soul, his potential was at the bottom low. It would have been a miracle for him to even reach Soul King by the time he's at his twenties.

When Tang Wulin told his father that he wouldn't give up his dream from becoming a powerful soul master, it was a lie. Deep down, in his heart and soul, he had doubts. Thoughts of that he wouldn't be able to achieve his goal and just retire into becoming a blacksmith.

He continued thinking about that for an entire night and it was further reinforced by the comments of his classmates.

His will was strong, but he was still a child. There are limits of what a child could endure and Tang Wulin was sure when he was a kid that one day, he was going to succumb to the pressure of his peers.

That was until he met his cousin, Xiu Ye.

He was everything that Tang Wulin had dreamt of being. Smart, talented, high cultivation rank, has a strong martial soul that he would seldom uses–overall powerful is what he's saying.

At first, he didn't want anything to do with him. He saw him as someone aloof and arrogant with how he acts. But then he smelled the most heavenly scent he has ever smelled, Xiu Ye's lunchbox. That was how, for some reason, he ended up becoming the latter's friend and brother when he stood up to those human traffickers who wanted to kidnapped Na'er.

And throughout the years, he helped and nurtured him into becoming a powerful soul master capable of fighting soul masters of higher realms.

Xiu Ye, it was him who helped him keep the fire of his dream burning and walked forward towards the future.

For his brother, for Xiu Ye... Tang Wulin would give his all and life for him.

So as he sat here, in his room together with all his friends minus Xiu Ye, almost everyone talking about the topic of why they were gathering....

"Taking over the world...is he crazy?!" Gu Yue clicked her teeth, narrowed eyes, and she slumped her head against the wall. "Though, with how he lead us to fight against an army of undead and evil soul masters three years ago, despite being a kid. I can't help but say that, if its him? He would be able to. That, and he's not exactly sane..."

They nodded in agreement. They'd seen how crazy and reckless he could be.

Though Wu Siduo narrowed her eyes at Gu Yue and the rest, although she had befriended everyone, she had only know them for a few days. Having heard them bad mouth Xiu Ye, their friend and leader, wasn't something she liked. But she kept her mouth quite, she was outnumbered after all, for now.

"Okay." Mu Xi parted her lips and shook her head. She was the same as everyone in the room. Shocked and confused by the decision of their friend and leader. "I know we called him the demon king, but that was only as a joke of a nickname he got back in Eastsea Academy. I didn't think he would actually start to walk that path!"

"...Does that mean we're his demon generals?" Xu Xiaoyan tilted her head with a finger on her lips as she turned towards the large body that occupied three people's worth of space in the room, Xu Lizhi, who shrugged in response.

"Probably? If we are, then I'm only taking the boss's food as my salary. Hahaha! Guk-!" He winced and rubbed the back of his head.

Ye Xinglan, who slapped the back of his head, shook her head at him. "Stop joking around. This is serious."

"Eh. I'm sorry big sis." Xu Lizhi chuckled nervously. His expression turned serious. "But I'm not kidding about getting the food he makes. Even if he becomes the demon king of this world, I'll gladly become his general if I can–" He wasn't able finish what he was going to say when Ye Xinglan smacked him over his head, again.

Wu Siduo shook her head around. "I don't know what the big deal is. Taking over the world could mean that he would become the leader of the world by uniting the three continents or he becomes a god. Which are extremely difficult to do. But how did you guys end up talking like Xiu Ye's going to take over the world like a real demon king?"

They shared a certain look with each other and unexpectedly, Na'er was the first one to speak.

Nervously chuckling and scratching her cheek, she said. "Well, this is big brother Ye we're talking here... If there's anyone I'd expect and not be surprised to become the demon king of this world, then it's him."

She continued. "Big brother Ye might be the most nicest, kindest and overall chill person you ever got to know but when you get into his bad side...trust me, he would literally look like a demon king."

Everyone in the room nodded in agreement, including Wu Siduo. She still remember how he barged into her house with a sword and looking like he was in a war path when he heard what was happening to Skysea City.

Wu Siduo shuddered and thought that, maybe they really made some sense.

Xie Xie thinned his lips and he turned towards his first and best friend. "Wulin, what do you think?"

They all turned towards him.

They knew, in their group when Xiu Ye wasn't around, despite having the lowest cultivation, Tang Wulin was their vice leader. Even just being around them for several days, Wu Siduo recognized this as well and acknowledged it when she had a spar against him and lost.

She was a bit depressed at that, including the fact that she wasn't among the top three strongest combat wise in the group.

Among them, Xiu Ye was the strongest with Mu Xi in second and both Gu Yue and Na'er tied at the third place. Tang Wulin was fourth, Xie Xie fifth, Wu Siduo sixth, Xu Xiaoyan in seventh and Xu Lizhi in last.

Although she wasn't the strongest among them, it really widened her horizon of the world for her. That in her generation, she wasn't among the strongest. But that was fine. In fact, knowing this only made her more excited.

Wu Siduo only craved small things in life, and among that was to fight and become stronger.

She was even more certain of her choice in going to Shrek Academy and following Xiu Ye.

There was a beat of silence and Tang Wulin, only turning his head around to look at them, finally spoke out with a sigh and stood up.

"I trust him. I wouldn't be the person that I am right now if it weren't for Xiu Ye. If he's going to take over the world, by becoming an emperor or a god, I'm going to support him. But," His expression turned pained and turned around, walking towards the window. "if that ends up killing innocent people or ruling over them like a tyrant, I'll be the one to stop him."

"....Are you going to kill him?" Mu Xi asked with narrowed eyes, everyone else was silent.

"No, I won't be killing him." Tang Wulin shook his head, a wry smile on his face.

'Disregarding the possibility that I might not be able to, Ye might have a backup plan that might end up destroying the world. No one would want to kill him if he has the entire world as his hostage.'

He looked out of window, staring deep into the star filled night sky and watched as a falling star went by. Sadness and worry for the future flashed in his eyes.

"I don't want to be the one to decide for you all if you support him or not, that's yours. If there's some things that Xiu Ye values, it's freedom and a peaceful life."

"..."

Gu Yue turned towards Na'er, raising an eyebrow in confusion, she asked. "What about you? Don't you want to say something?"

Na'er glanced at her and shrugged her shoulders. "What else is there to say? Big brother Ye and big brother Wulin are my big brothers, where they're going or planning, I'm following them. It's the job of the little sister to support their older siblings. What about you?"

Gu Yue snorted. "Hmph. Of course I'm going along with that idiot's plan."

"Why?"

"None of your business."

Na'er giggled.

The rest shared looks with each other and smiled.

"We're in as well."

The group didn't know, that the decision they made today, would be the start of something great.

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