Holding the Sect Token, Yu Xiaogang ran down the mountain gate in tears, casting hateful looks at the towering Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan gate behind him as he ran.
Just you wait. One day, I, Xiaogang, will make a name for myself in the outside world, and when that time comes, I will make everyone who ever looked down on me pay the price.
As Xiao Gang turned his head, however, a large elbow came at him head-on, crashing right into his stomach.
"Ow..." Xiao Gang cried out in pain, then sent flying backward.
"Brother Xiaogang!" Before Yu Xiaogang could climb back up to see who had attacked him, that annoying voice of Yu Xiaomen rang in his ear. "Oh, I didn't notice it was you just now. I am so sorry."
Yu Xiaomen helped Yu Xiaogang up.
"You did that on purpose, didn't you?" Yu Xiaogang said angrily, his chest burning with pain.
Yu Xiaogang expected Yu Xiaomen to feign ignorance as he always had in the past, but instead, a huge slap came flying straight at him, knocking Yu Xiaogang spinning.
"You..." Yu Xiaogang covered his swollen face and stared at Yu Xiaomen.
"Right, I did it on purpose. So what?" Yu Xiaomen said, shaking his palm as he walked step by step toward Yu Xiaogang.
"You... Y-you're not pretending anymore?" Looking at Yu Xiaomen, terror struck deep into Yu Xiaogang's heart, and he sat on the ground, scrambling backward repeatedly.
"Pretending? Why would I pretend? Look around us, it seems to be just the two of us." Yu Xiaomen said playfully.
Suddenly, his speed shifted, and he appeared instantly in front of Yu Xiaogang, delivering a slap that evened out the other side of Yu Xiaogang's face.
"Sanpao, save me." With his head swollen into a pig's head from the slaps, Yu Xiaogang summoned Luo Sanpao. Having this fat pig block the front gave Yu Xiaogang a slight sense of security.
"Ha, your Martial Soul just gets funnier the more I look at it." Yu Xiaomen partially transformed into a dragon. With his current soul power reaching a full Level 46, dealing with a farting little wild boar was simply effortless.
Yu Xiaogang's expression flickered uncertainly as he said, "I know you still hate me for what happened back then, so...
You want to kill me here? First Soul Skill: Thunderous Howl, Earth-Shattering Luo Sanpao!" Luo Sanpao's first soul ring lit up. "Kill you?" Hearing this, Yu Xiaomen's expression darkened. Taking advantage of the fact that Luo Sanpao hadn't farted yet, he grabbed Luo Sanpao with one dragon claw and hoisted it up. Luo Sanpao let out a series of luo-luo-luo cries as Yu Xiaomen aimed its backside right at Yu Xiaogang just as the first soul skill finished charging.
With a puff, a thick, stinking fart blasted straight into Yu Xiaogang's face.
"Cough, cough, cough. So stinking..."
Yu Xiaogang's entire body was submerged in the yellow gaseous fog, and only Yu Xiaomen's figure could be vaguely seen.
"Before the Spirit Awakening, I wanted nothing more than to kill you," Yu Xiaomen said playfully. "But after the Spirit Awakening, I suddenly realized that taking revenge on someone doesn't necessarily mean killing them."
"When I saw your Martial Soul was the Golden Sacred Dragon, my pressure spiked, but it turned out your Martial Soul mutated into a pig instead. It is truly laughable, truly delightful."
"Yu Xiaogang, I am going to let you live, to let you look up at me. Level 29 is your limit. For the rest of your life, you can just stand at attention and watch the receding back of me, Yu Xiaomen, until you can't see it ever again."
With those words, Yu Xiaomen left.
You can just stand at attention at Level 29 for the rest of your life. Yu Xiaomen's words echoed in Yu Xiaogang's heart. When the heavy stench finally dissipated, Luo Sanpao crawled up to Yu Xiaogang affectionately, nuzzling him with soft luo-luo-luo sounds.
Yu Xiaogang's eyes turned blood-red. He clenched his fists and, disregarding the backlash from his Martial Soul, beat Luo Sanpao savagely.
While pummeling Luo Sanpao, Yu Xiaogang venomously interrogated it, "Why? Why did you have to mutate into Luo Sanpao? Why?! You are the reason I became waste! Luo Sanpao, this is all your fault! Give me back the Golden Sacred Dragon! Give me back—"
Luo-luo-luo! Luo Sanpao let out screams of agony.
Before long, Yu Xiaogang's delicate body could no longer handle the backlash from his Martial Soul, forcing him to stop.
"Yu Xiaomen, thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river; do not bully the young and poor! Letting me live is the biggest regret of you will ever make in your life. One day, I will return to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan with the Golden Sacred Dragon Martial Soul and take back everything that rightfully belongs to me!"
Uttering a harsh threat, Yu Xiaogang dragged Luo Sanpao and slunk down the mountain in disgrace.
Spirit Hall, inside the Worship Hall.
The guardians who absorbed the Immortal Herbs provided by Qian Renxue all made tremendous progress.
Although the Second Worship, Golden Crocodile Douluo, did not step into the limit realm, the bottleneck that had plagued him for many years loosened at this moment.
"Xiao Xue, thank you for your Immortal Herb. I feel my current state is excellent, and the bottleneck that troubled me for so many years has actually loosened at this moment. Give me another ten years, and I can step into the limit realm." Golden Crocodile Douluo said.
"Congratulations, Grandpa Sky Crocodile." Qian Renxue was genuinely happy for Sky Crocodile; in her previous life, it was also Sky Crocodile who had risked his life to save her.
Among the others, Lion Enshrined and Qingwan, who had both been at the ninety-seventh-rank realm for many years, advanced to rank 98, while the ninety-sixth-rank Light Feather Guardian progressed to rank 97. Furthermore, Spirit Hall added two new guardians, Qian Jun and Jiang Mo.
"Such good things—wasted on us a few old coots, wouldn't that be a bit inappropriate?" Sky Crocodile asked.
Qian Renxue said, "Even the most outstanding genius needs time to grow. After Tang San is born, his rise will take only a little over twenty years. We don't have much time left, so rather than waiting, we might as well strengthen our existing combat power."
After a while, Light Feather Guardian walked in leading a group of Soul Saints and Soul Douluos.
Among this group, many were familiar faces to Qian Renxue.
The Soul Saints included Ci Xue, Yu Long, Ling Yuan, and others. The Soul Douluos included Yue Guan, Gui Mei, Xiong Ju, Ying Lie, and others.
There were also two individuals from the Lower Four Sects: Hu Yan Zhen, the sect leader of the Elephant Armor Sect, and Tuoba Xi, the young sect leader of the Sacred Dragon Sect.
Among them, Hu Yan Zhen was a Quasi-Soul Douluo, needing only a single soul ring to become a Soul Douluo, while Tuoba Xi was even younger yet possessed higher talent, holding the strength of a rank-75 Soul Saint. In the original text, Tuoba Xi eventually promoted to Titled Douluo as well.
These individuals practically represented Spirit Hall's future Titled Douluo powerhouses, as well as the experts who would go toe-to-toe with the powerhouses of the Anti-Spirit Hall Alliance in Tang San's era.
Those who could cultivate to Titled Douluo possessed talents that almost represented the peak standard of an era, save for monsters like Tang San.
"Greetings to all the elders and guardians." The future Titled Douluos lined up side by side and knelt on one knee toward the powerhouses of the Worship Hall.
Qian Renxue stood at the front of the Worship Hall's ranks, stepped forward, and said:
"I have summoned you all here to bestow upon you a fortuitous opportunity."
With that, she used her soul power to lift the Immortal Herbs out of her soul tool, spreading them out one by one before the crowd.
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