Three Years Later, Yu Xiaogang Ran Away

Three years later, at the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

Yu Xiaogang, who had just finished soaking in a medicinal bath, stood up from the wooden tub with a gloomy expression.

"Damn it, what the hell is going on?"

"Why still can't I break through to Level 30?"

Yu Xiaogang's face was filled with anger. As early as two and a half months ago, he had already cultivated to Level 29.

Just when he wanted to press on in one go, break through to Soul Elder before eighteen years old, and fulfill the vow he had made back then—"There are no useless martial souls, only useless soul masters; thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river, do not bully a poor youth"—

He discovered in horror that after reaching Level 29, no matter how he cultivated, he could no longer increase his soul power.

Not even by a sliver.

It was as if some bottleneck were restricting him.

Even the medicinal baths he relied on were useless now.

At first, he had only thought that after soaking in medicinal baths for over ten years, his body had developed drug resistance, and that he only needed to increase the dosage.

But none of it worked.

The resources he had consumed over these two and a half months were enough to compare with what other Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon disciples used in seven or eight years of cultivation.

But despite consuming so many resources, his cultivation had not improved in the slightest.

And all of those resources had been wasted by him.

Yu Xiaogang did not care about the massive consumption and waste of resources. He was the son of Thunder Douluo, the Clan Leader of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. No matter how much he consumed, it was only right.

But his soul power was stuck at the Level 29 bottleneck and could not improve—not even by the tiniest bit.

This was what he could not accept.

"Damn it, it's all because of this damned piglet martial soul. If I'd awakened the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon like Father and Eldest Brother, then with my hard work and theoretical knowledge, I would have been a Soul Ancestor or Soul King long ago."

When he thought of himself as the Second Young Master of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon, yet having his soul power stop at Level 29 for the rest of his life, his martial soul still a piglet, and both his soul skills being farts, Yu Xiaogang could not help but have eyes crimson red and breathing like an ox.

He was not afraid of being mocked. After all, he had already been mocked for so many years.

And those clansmen who mocked him were stronger than him in both talent and strength.

When they mocked him, there was nothing he could do about it.

What he truly feared was not being able to see any hope, being treated as trash from then on, and living an ordinary life.

"No, if this continues, even if I consume more cultivation resources, it'll be impossible for me to make any progress. The talent limitation brought by Innate Soul Power Half Level definitely isn't something that can be broken by consuming some cultivation resources. I have to go find Father."

Thinking of his father, Yu Yuanzhen, Yu Xiaogang felt a surge of emotion in his heart.

Because when everyone else had ridiculed him and mocked him, only his father had always stood firmly by his side, comforting him and encouraging him.

Yu Xiaogang placed all his hopes on Yu Yuanzhen.

But when he went to the great hall where Yu Yuanzhen was, he heard fierce discussion coming from inside.

"Sect Master, we can't keep going on like this. Yu Xiaogang has been using cultivation resources without restraint all these years, costing the sect a huge amount of funds. Not only that, for the past two or three months, he's taken the token you gave him and wantonly squandered the sect's stockpiled medicinal materials, to the point that the other disciples can barely maintain even their most basic medicinal baths."

"Exactly. Other disciples get medicinal baths two or three times a month at most. But him? He changes medicinal baths more often than bathwater. I said long ago, with Innate Soul Power Half Level, he should act like someone with Innate Soul Power Half Level. Wouldn't it be better for him to just be an ordinary person?"

"That's right. So many cultivation resources have been poured into him, yet there's still no sign of improvement in his cultivation. He's almost an adult, but he still hasn't even broken through to Soul Elder. In my view, he's simply not suited to being a soul master at all. If those resources had been given to outstanding sect disciples like Xiao Men and Xiao Jia, they would have broken through to Soul Ancestor long ago."

"Sect Master, I suggest that from today onward, all of Yu Xiaogang's cultivation resources be cut off."

"Seconded!"

"Seconded!"

Listening to the fierce protests of the Soul Douluo elders below, Yu Yuanzhen felt his head swell two sizes too big.

Of course he knew that Yu Xiaogang squandering the clan's cultivation resources so recklessly was wrong.

It had greatly harmed the clan's interests.

But what could he do?

Yu Xiaogang was his son. How many fathers did not feel heartache for their own child?

"Luomian, what do you think?"

Yu Yuanzhen looked at Yu Luomian, hoping that this younger brother of his, as Xiaogang's second uncle, would say something good for his nephew.

Yu Luomian had long since found this trash Yu Xiaogang an eyesore. In fact, this clan meeting had been secretly instigated by him, through several elders.

But Yu Xiaogang was his nephew, after all, and Yu Yuanzhen was his eldest brother. He was the true person in charge of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect.

He could not ruin his own image in front of Yu Yuanzhen. So he said tactfully, "Eldest Brother, I've seen all the effort that child Xiaogang has put in. I personally am also very willing to support him continuing to cultivate like this, but we can't focus on one thing and lose sight of another. In recent months, Xiaogang has indeed consumed a little too many resources."

He threw the subject back to Yu Yuanzhen again. After all that, he had only expressed his own view, saying something that was as good as saying nothing.

But outside the great hall, when Yu Xiaogang heard this, his heart leaped into his throat.

It was not that he cared about cultivation resources. After all, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon's cultivation resources no longer had any effect on him.

What he truly cared about was still his father's attitude toward him.

If even his father gave up on him, then he truly would no longer have any place in the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon.

"Fine. From now on, equip him with medicinal baths according to the standards of ordinary Direct Descendant Disciples."

In the end, Yu Yuanzhen still disappointed Yu Xiaogang.

Considering that continuing to waste cultivation resources on Yu Xiaogang would be unlikely to bring much improvement, since from ancient times until now, no one had ever heard of a soul master with Innate Soul Power Half Level breaking through to Level 30.

And he had also seen all of Yu Xiaogang's abnormal behavior over these Two and a Half Months.

The reason he had not stopped him and had allowed Yu Xiaogang to squander them was merely because he did not want to destroy this last shred of hope in his youngest son's heart.

"Father, do even you think I'm trash?"

As soon as Yu Yuanzhen finished speaking, with a bang, Yu Xiaogang somehow found the courage to shove open the doors of the Meeting Room and stared at Yu Yuanzhen in the highest seat with reddened eyes.

"Xiaogang, I... sigh."

Seeing Yu Xiaogang looking so utterly wronged, Yu Yuanzhen had the words on the tip of his tongue, but swallowed them back again. For a moment, he actually did not know how to begin.

"Impudent! Yu Xiaogang, this is the sect's Council Hall, a place only the sect master and elders may enter. What status do you have? Withdraw at once!"

The other elders sternly rebuked him.

Yu Xiaogang paid no attention to the elders' scolding. Seeing that his father still had no intention of speaking up for him, he was utterly disappointed. He turned and ran out without looking back.

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