Chapter 7: Spirit Hall is too evil!
"Garbage?"
"Utter nonsense?"
Yu Xiaogang trembled violently, his lips turning purple, his eyes bloodshot.
He pointed rigidly at the sky screen, his throat emitting a wheezing sound, like a drake with its neck being strangled.
One must know that the title of "Master" was the only thing in his life worth boasting about.
Yet now, it was being trampled underfoot by the very junior and successor he had just been praising, crushed into pieces with the most disdainful attitude!
"Pfft—!" Another mouthful of blood sprayed out, and Yu Xiaogang's body swayed, on the verge of collapsing.
"Slander!"
"This is naked slander!"
He roared hysterically, his voice sharp and distorted, completely devoid of any "Master" demeanor.
"Th-this Wang Yan is a remnant of Spirit Hall! Of course he wants to belittle me! These are all lies they fabricated!"
"It's to strike at Shrek, to smear my name!"
Beside him, Liu Erlong saw his painful appearance and couldn't bear it. She hurriedly stepped forward to support him, saying anxiously:
"Right! Xiaogang, don't get excited! This must be a conspiracy by Spirit Hall!"
"They are jealous of your talent, which is why they are using such despicable means to slander you! You must not fall for their tricks!"
Hearing this, Yu Xiaogang seemed to have grasped a straw to save his life.
He gripped Liu Erlong's arm tightly, nodding repeatedly as if insane:
"Right! Right! That's exactly it!"
"They can't stand to see me doing well, they can't stand to see my theories flourish!"
"This Spirit Hall is truly too evil!"
Liu Erlong looked at his painful appearance, her heart aching, and she chimed in:
"Exactly! Xiaogang, don't get excited! This must be a scheme by Spirit Hall!"
"They can't have you, so they want to destroy you!!"
"Right! Right!" Yu Xiaogang nodded repeatedly, as if this could convince himself and everyone else.
However, just as he found an excuse for himself and prepared to continue denouncing the shamelessness of Spirit Hall,
Above the sky screen, golden light flowed. The scene switched again.
It was still in that secret archive room of Spirit Hall.
The young Wang Yan seemed to have completely lost interest in Yu Xiaogang's "garbage theories."
He casually tossed it aside and turned to take a dust-covered jade slip from a bookshelf.
On the jade slip, a few archaic characters were engraved. [Elder Hall Secret Records]
...
[Douluo I Era]
When these words appeared, inside the Elder Hall, Qian Daoliu's brows twitched imperceptibly.
And in the The Pope's Palace, Bibi Dong's pupils shrank abruptly.
...
Inside the sky screen. Wang Yan's expression became focused.
He slowly unfolded the jade slip, and a dust-covered secret was thus exposed before everyone in both eras.
[File Number: XXXX]
[Subject: Holy Maiden Bibi Dong once requested to assemble several theoretical Elders to conduct a one-year specialized study on the special Martial Soul "Luo Sanpao" after the "Radiant Holy Dragon" Martial Soul mutation failed.]
[Research Conclusion: Although the Martial Soul mutation failed, its origin bloodline was not completely extinguished and still retains a glimmer of life. If one could use a pure Dragon bloodline to impact it, there is a high possibility of purifying the bloodline and reappearing in the form of the "Radiant Holy Dragon"!]
[Best Soul Ring selection: Various sub-dragon and true dragon species Soul Beasts.]
[The only risk: Dragon-type Soul Ring energy is extremely overbearing and violent. The absorption process will involve inhuman pain, and there is a 30% risk of death. But once successful, the Martial Soul will completely transform.]
[After the research report was completed, Bibi Dong personally reviewed it and immediately sent someone to secretly deliver it to Yu Xiaogang.]
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[Douluo I Era] Seeing this, in Shrek Academy, Yu Xiaogang's breathing suddenly hitched!
Flender and Liu Erlong widened their eyes even further, their faces filled with disbelief. There was such a method? They had never heard of it!
And Bibi Dong even sent the method over?!
...
However, the records on the sky screen continued to appear.
[Time: Douluo Calendar Year xxx, Month x, Day x, after the messenger delivered the research report.]
[The target, Yu Xiaogang, was furious after seeing the report and threw it on the ground.]
[The following are Yu Xiaogang's remarks at the time:]
[Yu Xiaogang: Absurd! Simply absolutely absurd!]
[Yu Xiaogang: How overbearing are Dragon-type Soul Rings? You want me to absorb that kind of thing? How could my Martial Soul possibly withstand it?]
[Yu Xiaogang: And a 30% risk of death? This isn't trying to help me at all, it's trying to kill me!]
[Subsequently, the target, Yu Xiaogang, threw the report into a brazier, burning it to ashes.]
[Yu Xiaogang: I know my own path! My theories are perfect and flawless!]
[Yu Xiaogang: I don't need you executioners with blood-stained hands to point fingers at me!]
Immediately after, the next record appeared.
[Time: Douluo Calendar Year xxx, Month x, Day x, Yu Xiaogang went to the Hunting Forest.]
[After the target, Yu Xiaogang, entered the Hunting Forest, he cautiously avoided all powerful Soul Beasts.]
[In the end, he chose the most gentle... pig-type Soul Beast.]
[The obtained Soul skills was... Fart...]
[After the target, Yu Xiaogang, obtained the Soul Ring, he was incomparably smug.]
[Yu Xiaogang: This is the Soul Ring most suitable for me!]
[Yu Xiaogang: Gentle, safe, and perfectly compatible with my Martial Soul!]
The record ended here. Inside the archive room, Wang Yan closed the jade slip, a trace of extreme mockery curling at the corners of his mouth.
["Trash... truly just trash. He was given a chance, but he couldn't grasp it himself."]
["For the sake of a little risk, he gave up the opportunity to reappear as a top-tier Martial Soul, willing to associate with farts."]
["Fearing risk, cowardly and afraid of death, yet he vainly attempts to use a set of riddled-with-holes theories to prove he isn't trash."]
["Truly pathetic and ridiculous."]
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The entire World seemed to have been pressed with a mute button.
[Douluo I Era] Spirit City, The Pope's Palace.
Bibi Dong's fingers gripping the scepter turned slightly white due to the exertion.
She also didn't expect that something she had done out of a moment of softheartedness back then would actually be recorded even by the Elder Hall!
Qian Daoliu... exactly how many trump cards of yours do I not know about?
An indescribable chill welled up from the bottom of her heart.
But immediately, her gaze turned to the sky screen, looking at the record of him throwing the scroll into the brazier.
The chill in her heart was replaced by endless disappointment and a sense that it wasn't worth it.
She had risked angering Qian Daoliu, and even shaking her own position as Pope, to find this one glimmer of hope for him.
Yet he... because he feared that mere 30% risk, treated it like worn-out shoes, discarding it like garbage.
Ridiculous. It's truly ridiculous. How could she have fallen for such a coward back then?
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Shrek Academy. Yu Xiaogang's face was like gold paper; his body swayed, almost collapsing to the ground.
If it could be said that Wang Yan's evaluation of his theories just now was an insult,
then this ironclad secret record from the Elder Hall was tearing away his last piece of fig leaf!
Exposing his deepest cowardice and incompetence bloody and raw before everyone!
He wanted to refute it. But the record was so detailed, down to the secret messenger's reporting time, location, and even the words he had spoken, without a single error.
This made him completely unable to argue.
"Xia... Xiaogang..." Beside him, Liu Erlong opened her mouth, wanting to comfort him, but found she couldn't say a single word.
In her eyes, a hint of unfamiliarity and disappointment, which she herself hadn't even noticed, was revealed.
Flender's face, which always wore a mercenary smile, also completely stiffened, and his gaze looking at Yu Xiaogang became incomparably complex.