140 Chapter 139 Goodbye Su Yuntao (2 in 1)

The first ones to enter the door were the Imperial Crown Prince Xue Qinghe who had participated in the ribbon-cutting as well as the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan's Ning Fengzhi's group. Then came the Platinum Bishop Salas of Martial Spirit Hall's group who walked along beside Ghost Douluo, as well as Su Yuntao, who followed along behind him, and just as he reached the door.

He was called out by Lin Manshan, "Brother Tao!"

The people present froze, and even Ning Fengzhi and the others stopped to look back, and then they saw Lin Manshan walking straight towards a white-clothed youth beside Salas. As Lin Manshan approached, he turned his head towards Salas as well as Ghost Douluo, slightly arching his hand, "I hope that the Bishop and your Majesty will be able to accommodate us." The white-clothed youth, on the other hand, looked towards Salas with a somewhat restrained expression, as if asking for instructions.

"Since you are meeting an old friend, you should spend a while." Ghost Douluo smiled faintly, "Go on, just come back to join us when the banquet is over." After saying that, he nodded slightly towards Lin Manshan and led Salas towards the interior of the hall.

With someone following behind him, Ning Fengzhi was forced to go as well, frowning, he also turned his head to walk inwards.

Seeing his superior leave, only then did Su Yuntao turn his head to look at Lin Manshan, raising his hand in greeting with some formality, "Ah Man, long time no see."

Lin Manshan frowned at once, somewhat displeased, "Brother Tao, with our acquaintance, why are you so formal?" Saying that he put a hand on Su Yuntao's shoulder, "Come on, let's go in too, it's been a long time, let's have a good chat today."

After saying that, he turned his head to look behind him, "Bing'er, Yue'er, you guys also go to meet your family and old teammates." Today is not only the Academy's opening ceremony, but also the first high-level meeting of the Inner Academy, so the Ye Family's and Shui Family's in-laws are here as well.

"Hm." The two women nodded and watched the few people enter the door, and when the Skywater Academy approached, they immediately went toward them.

"Bing'er, who is that Spirit Hall young man? It seems like he's familiar with your family's Ah Man." A female teammate couldn't help but ask.

"His name is Su Yuntao, he used to be a deacon of the Balak Kingdom's Nuoding City Spirit Hall, and Ah Man's Martial Soul was awakened by him. Ah Man has always remembered this favour and has often exchanged words, after that, the two became good friends for years," Shui Bing'er introduced with a smile.

"I see." Several people nodded, secretly sighing at Lin Manshan's sense of gratitude.

While chatting idly, they clustered together and walked through the door.

On the other side, Lin Manshan led Su Yuntao to a seat against the inner edge of the meeting hall and sat down.

"Brother Ah Man, why are you wearing a mask?" Su Yuntao finally couldn't help but ask as his bum sat firmly.

"Because I've become too handsome, so I'm afraid of attracting attention." Lin Manshan faintly nodded his head and replied in a serious manner.

"???" Becoming handsome? Looks could still change, just how handsome. Su Yuntao froze and looked up and down.

Lin Manshan's skin which had once been bronzed from carbon fires due to frequent blacksmithing now looked significantly whiter, with sword brows and starry eyes, and an inexplicable aura.

It was the kind of majestic aura of being a leader that made him a little weak when he first saw him today.

Then he saw Lin Manshan take off his mask and was shocked, the overall outline of his facial features did not look like it had changed much. But the lines are smoother and finer, just like a chiselled artwork. Under the detailed investigation, nothing has changed, but from a distance, there is a kind of natural beauty.

Especially that steady and majestic temperament, directly raising the face value by several levels.

"This... Brother Ah Man, how did you do it?" He couldn't help but ask, he also wanted to become handsome. Pretty girls are plentiful in the Heaven Dou City Saint Spirit Hall, but with his average strength, it isn't easy to get into their eyes. But as long as he became handsome enough, it wouldn't be an issue!

"Wow, so handsome!" Not far away in the Skywater Academy seats, the crowd of students also had their eyes glowing. In the next second, they all turned their heads to look at Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er, and one of their former female teammates asked hastily, "Bing'er, Yue'er, we're good sisters. Ah Man's medical skills are so good, so he must have some kind of exclusive prescription, you two can't forget about us."

"The kind of medicine that Ah Man uses has already been prepared." Shui Yue'er, who already knew something like this might happen, squeezed out a helpless expression, her wrist swiped across the desktop, and several wooden boxes appeared, "This is what our sisters usually use now, applying it to the face before going to bed can beautify and nourish the face, slowing down the ageing of the skin. There aren't many herbs that can be used to configure it on Ah Man's side, this is all I have left, you guys have to use it sparingly."

A second didn't go by, the desktop was empty, and the atmosphere filled with sour-smelling sentiment that reverberated in the air.

"It's good to have a boyfriend with good medicinal skills. Why wasn't it me that Ah Man saved back then?"

"Bing'er, seventh girl, why don't you set me up? I can be a little lover."

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On the other side, Lin Manshan was also explaining to Su Yuntao, his tone filled with helplessness, "Hey, Brother Tao, there's no way. My wives are too good-looking, so I am under a lot of pressure. Honestly, I sometimes have a bit of an inferiority complex. So, I just have to think of a way."

"Hehehe, when it comes to my medical skills, I'm pretty good."

Saying that, he pulled out a ring from his spirit tool and smiled, "Brother Tao, I'm really sorry about before. After coming back from Nuoding City, I've been busy with other things and didn't have time to visit you at the Spirit Hall. Here, this is a gift I specially prepared for you."

"This is a storage spirit tool with not much space, only three cubic metres. It contains the medicinal wine I brewed for you and Grandpa Matthew Nuo, a small sip every day before bedtime will help with your sleep. If you take it for a long period of time, it will also detoxify and quench the toxins, soothe the tendons and invigorate the blood, which will help in cultivation to a certain extent. We are short on manpower here at the academy right now, so I can only rely on you to send it back to Grandpa Matthew Nuo's side."

"This, it is just too valuable!" Su Yuntao was shocked and quickly waved his hand.

"Brother Tao, there's no need to refuse. Back then, if it wasn't for you helping me awaken my martial soul, I'm afraid I wouldn't even have the chance to become a spirit master. Moreover, for so many years after that, you and Grandpa Matthew Nuo also took much care of me, and now I'm merely doing what I can." Lin Manshan laughed and placed the ring in front of Su Yuntao, raising his eyebrows slightly, "This wine can turn you handsome if you drink it for a long time!"

"Then thank you, Manshan." Su Yuntao accepted the ring subconsciously and lamented, "It's a pity that Master Matthew Nuo didn't follow along and come to Heaven Dou City, otherwise he would have been very happy with your current achievements." Being proficient in medicine, helping a Titled Douluo to detoxify the poison, and wreaking havoc in the Great Spirit Arena. If it wasn't for the bigwigs themselves saying it, he would have suspected they were talking about someone in a storybook. Bravo, my little brother Ah Man.

"I also invited Grandpa Matthew Nuo last time I went to Nuoding City, but he chose to dedicate the rest of his life to his hometown and children there."

Lin Manshan sighed with respect on his face, "As a junior, I can only choose to support him."

"Hmm." Su Yuntao nodded, then looked around the hall and continued, "Brother Manshan, I heard that you picked up Old Jack's family. Where are they? How come they didn't come to the banquet?"

"Grandpa and the others didn't like this kind of big occasion, so they didn't come over." As for the older brothers. With so many beautiful ladies present, they did want to come, but unfortunately, their wives didn't agree. Lin Manshan inwardly mourned for them.

"I see." Su Yuntao expressed his understanding.

Receiving the juice handed up by Lin Manshan, together they turned their heads towards the forces entering the door as he listened to Lin Manshan's introduction.

The meeting hall can't be described as small, but it can't be described as big either, those who can come to participate are all spirit masters, the conversation between Lin Manshan and Su Yuntao, all the people who have already entered and taken their seats have been listening carefully, secretly sighing at Lin Manshan's sense of gratitude while their thoughts are also varied.

After all, the one who was remembered by Lin Manshan as a benefactor was someone from the Martial Spirit Hall.

This child Lin Manshan is indeed good. On the Martial Spirit Hall side, Ghost Douluo and Platinum Bishop Salas are in a happy mood, and the latter is even more inwardly a little envious of Su Yuntao.

Detoxification and quenching, soothing the tendons and blood, the medicinal wine that is beneficial to cultivation, who doesn't want it?

Lin Manshan was able to treat Dugu Bo's decades-old poison on the body, and he could cure Titled Douluo, so his product must be a high-quality product, and the effect must be good.

But asking Su Yuntao for it, he didn't dare to do so. Speaking of which, Lin Manshan's temperament and Dugu Bo's are really a bit alike, both repay kindness with kindness, revenge with revenge, with both positive and evil temperaments, to friends they are indeed good. But for those who have offended them, they are truly ruthless.

For example, those few in Shrek Academy who were beaten badly.

While thinking, he glanced at the door, and the corner of his mouth was tugged, and his eyes showed disdain.

Within his line of sight, Yu Xiaogang stood on the left and right of Liu Erlong and Flender and was being led by the girl to walk inside, and behind him, a fat man's gaze was staring at the girl's buttocks.

Ma Hongjun? Heh, no wonder he was beaten.

It is said that what a teacher teaches what a disciple learns. On such an important occasion, they don't care, so it is clear what level of teaching the Shrek Academy teachers usually have, and what kind of virtues they have. Let's not talk about character, they didn't teach him the most basic law of survival.

Provoking right and left like this, when they graduated and went outside, one day they might be killed for offending someone.

"Huh! Isn't that Tang San?"

On the other side, Su Yuntao also recognised Tang San from the Shrek team that had just walked through the door, and he hadn't really noticed him before in the square, since the Blue Tyrant Academy was sitting at the back. Tang San had come to the Spirit Hall every month to receive his spirit master subsidy during his attendance at Nuoding Academy before he turned 12, so he remembered his face clearly, and now that he hadn't seen him for 1 year, he had only grown a little taller.

To his surprise, Tang San's gaze swept across the hall and happened to glance to this side.

After all, he is from the same neighbourhood, still a person he personally awakened the martial soul, so Su Yuntao hastily raised his hand to greet him.

But Tang San's expression remained flat, his eyes just gave a glance, then moved away.

So embarrassing. Su Yuntao's face froze for a moment, he was obviously quite polite and courteous when he received his spirit master subsidy.

The raised hand slowly lowered, and he drank the juice to hide his embarrassment.

This scene, however, happened to be seen by Xue Qinghe, Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, Ghost Douluo, Salas and many others.

The eyes of Ghost Douluo and Salas were both instantly chilled, Tang San and Lin Manshan came from the same village, and both awakened their martial souls in the hands of Su Yuntao, Tang San received his subsidy every month for six years in a row, and as a result, he didn't even nod his head when they met. While Lin Manshan only received a gold soul coin in the past six years and still went to give Matthew Nuo and Su Yuntao New Year gifts year after year, and when he was about to go on a long journey, he also donated 100,000 gold soul coins, and now he actively invited him and gave him wine as a gift.

There is such a difference between people and people.

The two empires have been jealous of the number of spirit masters under the jurisdiction of the Martial Spirit Hall since the period when Qian Xunji became Pope. Therefore, for various financial reasons, the special subsidy funds for civilian spirit masters have been cut year by year. At the time of Qian Xunji's death, the share was only 40%.

To maintain this expenditure, the Martial Spirit Hall's finances had been struggling during that time. If it wasn't for the fact that the current Pope Bibi Dong had filled the loophole by vigorously developing their own industry after taking office, perhaps the amount of the spirit master subsidy would have been slashed along with it. Without money, how can we do without cutting the amount?

As a veteran subject who has assisted two generations of popes, this process is something he, Ghost Douluo, has seen in his eyes.

Moreover, he has also seen the money spent on patching up the loopholes every year, and the amount is so huge that it is striking to the eyes. Those who had not seen it would not understand it.

Now he can personally see that Lin Manshan is a person who remembers kindness, even if he has already become a Titled Douluo, he is also pleased in his heart. As for Tang San, who took subsidies for granted and didn't remember kindness at all, he was really angry and wanted to slap him to death on the spot.

Sulking back, his thoughts moved, he turned his head and glanced at Ning Fengzhi and the others sitting on the side, his gaze settled on Dugu Bo who was at the forefront, and he smiled faintly, ''Brother Dugu, congratulations on being able to get such a grandson-in-law as Ah Man. As far as I know, apart from when he obtained his first spirit ring when he was young, and was stuffed with a gold soul coin as a spirit master's subsidy by the Nuoding City Spirit Hall Deacon, Matthew Nuo, he hasn't claimed it once since then."

"And yet Ah Man always remembers Deacon Matthew Nuo, who certified him as a Spirit Master and handed out an allowance once, as well as Deacon Su Yuntao, who awakened his Martial Soul for him back then. For the next six years, he would visit them every New Year with gifts. Moreover, after turning twelve years old, before coming to Heaven Dou City to fulfil the promise he made with Brother Dugu's granddaughter back then, he even privately donated one hundred thousand gold soul coins to Matthew Nuo."

"In addition, a few months ago, he also brought his foster parents' family as well as the blacksmith shop owner and fellows who taught him to forge, including all of their family members to Heaven Dou City."

"This child is sentimental, keeps his promises, and is brave enough to take responsibility, a good-natured person with a heart that can be described as rare in the world."

"Unlike some people, who receive subsidies from my Martial Spirit Hall month after month, but have never remembered even half of the kindness in their hearts. Even when you see the elder of the Martial Spirit Hall who helped you awaken your martial soul and distributed the subsidy, you won't even look at them."

Saying that his gaze did not fail to skim towards Yu Xiaogang's direction. Honestly speaking, he really didn't know what Pope Bibi Dong saw as good in Yu Xiaogang. Yu Xiaogang's spirit power is still level 29, and he has been receiving the Martial Spirit Hall's spirit master subsidy for decades. Never missed a single month, but never said even a single thanks to the person who gave him the money, and according to the survey, even when he was receiving the money, he had a stern face.

As for Shrek Academy's students, they were similar to Tang San and were polite when receiving money. But During normal life, they wouldn't even give a nod when meeting outside, and they would occasionally slander Spirit Hall as well.

Because of their conflict with Lin Manshan, he had sent people to check all of their records.

At that time, he was so annoyed that he had the feeling of being distributing free food to beggars and still being despised.

However, Pope Bibi Dong knew about it and directly perfunctorily dismissed it, otherwise he would have already come to the door and shot all of them to death.

"He is like that! Otherwise, how can he be my grandson-in-law." Dugu Bo instantly straightened his waist and was very proud. Saying that he raised his eyebrows, "However, my grandson-in-law and I are both people who repay favours with favours and vengeance with revenge, and we never look at birth or background when making friends, we only look at whether the person we bumped into is worth befriending. Therefore, don't think of building this relationship up to the entire Martial Spirit Hall, we won't buy that."

"As for some people you mentioned, there's no need to beat around the bush with me. Those guys even offended my grandson-in-law a few months ago. Then they were severely beaten up by my grandson-in-law. Honestly speaking, those shameless people like that deserve to be beaten and scolded."

Saying that he glanced in the direction where Yu Xiaogang was and let out a cold laugh.

"Hehe, it's just that my grandson-in-law is kind and merciful. If I was present, I would have absolutely slapped them to death."

"They do deserve it!" Ghost Douluo smiled and nodded, not caring in the slightest that Dugu Bo brushed off the relationship.

Things were done for people to see, and it doesn't matter how the person in question feels about it.

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