Yu Xiaogang's Courtship Did Not Go Well

Why did the world always kiss me with pain?

Yu Xiaogang's face was gloomy as he stared fixedly in the direction of Liu Erlong's home.

"You forced me to do this!" Yu Xiaogang took a deep breath and left without another word.

He knew there was a black market in the nearby marketplace.

There was something in the black market that Yu Xiaogang needed.

"Erlong might be cheerful and carefree, but I know she's a very traditional woman. As long as I possess her, she'll definitely be willing to use a Martial Soul Fusion Skill with me!"

His face dark, Yu Xiaogang knocked on the door of a tavern.

The black market was beneath the tavern.

Although Yu Xiaogang had no money, he believed his theoretical knowledge would surely make those unsophisticated fellows bow before him and present him with the powder he needed.

A fat man with a fleshy face opened the door.

He looked at Yu Xiaogang and snorted. "We're not open during the day. If you want a drink, come back tonight!"

Yu Xiaogang shook his head. "I'm looking for something rare."

"Something rare?" The fat man looked Yu Xiaogang up and down. "I remember now. You're the fellow who stole flowers a while back, aren't you?"

Yu Xiaogang's eyes widened, and the gap where his front teeth had been made his words whistle. "How can you slander an innocent man out of thin air?"

"Innocent? Plenty of people saw you stealing flowers in the street that day, and you still claim you're innocent?"

The fat man had exposed Yu Xiaogang for stealing flowers from the flower bed.

His face flushed red and veins bulged as he argued, "Taking flowers can't be called stealing... that's called admiring flowers!! ...How can a Soul Master's affairs be called stealing?!"

Yu Xiaogang went on to share some common Soul Master knowledge and his theoretical insights into Martial Souls, making the fat man roar with laughter. Passersby outside the tavern laughed along, and the whole street was filled with a cheerful atmosphere.

His face black, Yu Xiaogang roared at the passersby, "Get lost! All of you, get lost! Do you know who you're offending? I'm a Grandmaster! I'm the man who will become a god!"

The passersby laughed even louder.

Unable to shout them down, Yu Xiaogang turned to the fat man. "Let me in first!"

The fat man looked Yu Xiaogang up and down, the corners of his mouth rising. "All right, come in. Since you know to look for rare things here, you must know your way around."

Yu Xiaogang straightened his sleeves, snorted, and walked inside.

The fat man smiled without speaking. "You dare come here when you've got money? Do you even know the rules here!?"

Yu Xiaogang said calmly, "Of course I do. If you don't have money, you exchange something valuable. Believe me, after tonight, all of you will be singing my name!"

The fat man scoffed and led Yu Xiaogang underground.

Passages led in every direction, and dozens of load-bearing pillars held up the underground space. It was clearly an established black market trading ground.

The fat man pushed open a door. "Go on in. Hope you make it out alive."

"What can't kill me will only make me stronger!" Yu Xiaogang strode in with his head high and chest out.

The fat man watched him go, rubbing his chin. "This guy... maybe the boss's dog will like him. That dog's been in heat lately, trying to mount people every day."

The black market's rule was that anyone who couldn't pay had to put something up as collateral.

And if they had nothing to use as collateral, they had to pay with their bodies.

Yu Xiaogang had no idea what awaited him as he looked at the crowd of people in tattered clothes, ignorance written all over their faces.

His back straightened again.

Yu Xiaogang silently declared, Let me use my Soul Master knowledge to guide you ignorant fools!

He wandered through the black market, unaware that someone had set their sights on him from the shadows.

"Boss, that guy looks like the one who stole flowers a while back. He doesn't have any Gold Soul Coins on him."

"Oh? He dares come here without money?"

The boss of this black market was an extremely rotund, cube-shaped woman—Madam Cube. Whenever she so much as moved, the fat on her body would jiggle several times.

She was also a Soul Elder, so it was no exaggeration to say she lorded it over everyone here. Even the dog she kept had a higher standing than the others.

Madam Cube looked at Yu Xiaogang, her eyes narrowing. "He's actually a rank-thirty Soul Elder."

She licked her lips, a gleam flashing in her eyes. "Let him take whatever he wants!"

"Whatever he wants? Boss... won't we be taking a loss?"

"What loss?! Let him take whatever he likes. Whether he can take it out is still up to me, isn't it?"

"Wise as always, boss!"

"My little baby, don't disappoint me!"

At that moment, Yu Xiaogang had taken a fancy to a storage Soul Tool.

He stared at the stallholder. "I'll take this. In exchange, I can give you guidance on cultivating your Martial Soul."

Yu Xiaogang took the Soul Tool straightaway. "Show me your Martial Soul. This is your chance!"

The man frowned, thought for a moment, and summoned his Martial Soul anyway.

It was an ordinary whip.

Yu Xiaogang rubbed his chin. "A whip Martial Soul? There are no trash Martial Souls, only trash Soul Masters. Trash like you isn't worthy of hearing my theories!"

The stallholder froze for a moment, and the way he looked at Yu Xiaogang changed.

"What? You want to fight?" Yu Xiaogang snorted. "You'd better not try to make an enemy of me, or you'll incur the hatred of the Douluo Continent's greatest theory grandmaster!"

With that, Yu Xiaogang left with his chin in the air.

The stallholder watched him go and sneered. "Lunatic. Hope you can keep smiling."

Yu Xiaogang then took some healing medicine and weapons for self-defense before finally going to the place that sold aphrodisiac powder.

"Give me two bottles of aphrodisiac!" Yu Xiaogang slapped the counter. "I don't have money, but I can give your boss guidance on cultivating her Martial Soul!"

At that moment, a rotund woman came out from behind the scenes.

She narrowed her eyes at Yu Xiaogang. "Young man, you're quite forward, buying that kind of medicine."

Yu Xiaogang nearly threw up. "You fat sow, who are you talking to?! Hurry up and give me the goods. You're too much of a trash, and I don't want to teach you my theories!"

Madam Cube's expression immediately changed. "So you're pretty brave, huh?"

"Please, I'm super brave!" Yu Xiaogang snorted. "Hurry up and give me the goods, then get lost. This Grandmaster pardons you for the crime of polluting my eyes!"

Madam Cube scoffed and raised her fat hands to clap.

In an instant, Yu Xiaogang was completely surrounded by a group of people.

He panicked at once. "What are you trying to do?! I'm a theory grandmaster! I advise you to behave yourselves!"

Madam Cube gave the order. "Tie him up and throw him in my room. I like a spirited stallion!"

Yu Xiaogang's expression finally changed. He tried to summon his Martial Soul, only to find that the flow of his Soul Power had become sluggish.

I've been poisoned!?

He was horrified. "You dare poison me? Do you know who I am?! Speak my name, and you'll jump in fright!"

The crowd hesitated slightly and turned to look at Madam Cube.

Madam Cube grew impatient. "What are you hesitating for? Tie him up!"

Yu Xiaogang struggled.

Yu Xiaogang failed to break free.

He was dragged into a dark room, and only when the lights came on did he discover that there was a big black dog in the room.

The sight of the black dog brought unpleasant memories flooding back to Yu Xiaogang.

Especially when the big black dog stuck its big butt in the air and kept approaching him.

When he saw Madam Cube come in, Yu Xiaogang hurriedly said, "No... let me out, quickly! I'm a young master of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan!"

Madam Cube laughed. "And I'm a princess of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Little baby, look how scared you are. I'll get you something to liven things up!"

She opened the packet of powder and poured it straight into Yu Xiaogang's mouth.

Unable to resist, Yu Xiaogang felt his whole body grow hot and dry. He went forward uncontrollably and embraced the black dog's big butt.

A dog it is, then. It's not my first time anyway, and I didn't get a taste of it last time.

Yu Xiaogang closed his eyes in resignation. This is for the path of invincibility. This is a necessary sacrifice!

Suddenly, he felt pain behind him, as if something had pierced through him.

With what awareness he had left, he looked back in horror.

Madam Cube had a prosthetic strapped to her waist, and both her hands were holding his waist.

"No!!!"