[Seventh Place—Yu Xiaogang!]
[Douluo I Period]
Outside Shrek Academy.
The smug, confident look on Yu Xiaogang's face froze in an instant.
The color drained from his face at a visible rate, leaving him deathly pale.
The Pope's Order in his hand slipped to the ground with a crisp clatter, but no one paid it any mind.
How could this—
How could it be me?!
Across from him, the people from Spirit Hall stared blankly for a moment. Then their faces lit up with an absolutely fascinating range of expressions.
Their looks were a mixture of scorn and schadenfreude.
Especially the Cardinal leading them.
He looked at the Pope's Order at his feet, which Yu Xiaogang had just treated as a talisman, then at Yu Xiaogang's stricken, utterly devastated expression. The corners of his mouth rose uncontrollably.
"Pfft—"
He really couldn't help laughing out loud.
That laugh was like a needle, piercing the strange silence around them.
"Hahahahahaha!"
"A hypocrite! So he really is a hypocrite!"
"And here he was talking about His Holiness the Pope's intentions, and how we fools couldn't understand them! What a joke!"
"The way he was just pontificating, I really thought some immortal had descended!"
"So he's seventh on the Hypocrite Ranking—tsk, what an honor!"
The sharp jeers were like the cruelest blades, carving into Yu Xiaogang's heart, one cut at a time.
[Douluo II Period]
"Yu Xiaogang? That name sounds familiar..."
"Wasn't he the first love of the Spirit Hall Pope from the Sky Screen earlier?"
"That's not all. He was the teacher of the First Generation Shrek Seven Devils ten thousand years ago, and one of the founders of Shrek Academy. He was hailed as the foremost authority on Martial Soul Theory, and later generations respectfully called him 'Grandmaster.'"
"Right. I remember the books