Martial Soul Hall is too evil!

"Trash?"

"Nonsense?"

Yu Xiaogang trembled violently, his lips turning purple and his eyes bloodshot.

He pointed rigidly at the sky screen, a wheezing sound emanating from his throat like a strangled duck.

One must know that the title of "Grandmaster" 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 dust with the most disdainful attitude!

"Pfft—!"

Spitting out another mouthful of blood, Yu Xiaogang's body swayed unsteadily.

"Slander!"

"This is blatant slander!"

He roared hysterically, his voice sharp and distorted, devoid of any remaining "Grandmaster" demeanor.

"This... this Qian Guwangyan is a remnant of the Martial Soul Hall! Of course he would belittle me! These are all lies they fabricated!"

"It's to strike at Shrek, to smear my reputation!"

Liu Erlong, watching his agony from the side, felt her heart ache and hurried forward to support him, saying urgently:

"Right! Xiaogang, don't get agitated! This must be a conspiracy by the Martial Soul Hall!"

"They are jealous of your talent, which is why they are using such despicable means to discredit you! You must not fall for their trap!"

Hearing this, Yu Xiaogang seemed to have grasped a lifeline.

He gripped Liu Erlong's arm tightly, nodding repeatedly like a madman:

"Right! Right! That's exactly it!"

"They can't stand to see me succeed, can't stand to see my theories flourish!"

"This Martial Soul Hall is truly wicked!"

Liu Erlong looked at his pained expression, feeling immense heartache, and chimed in as well:

"Exactly! Xiaogang, don't get worked up! This must be a trick by the Martial Soul Hall!"

"They couldn't have you, so they want to destroy you!!"

"Right! Right!"

Yu Xiaogang nodded repeatedly, as if doing so could convince himself and everyone else.

However, just as he found his excuse and prepared to continue denouncing the shamelessness of the Martial Soul Hall.

Above the sky, golden light swirled.

The scene shifted once again.

It was still in that secret archive of the Martial Soul Hall.

The young Qian Guwangyan seemed to have completely lost interest in Yu Xiaogang's "trash theories."

He tossed them aside casually and instead took a dust-covered jade slip from a bookshelf.

Engraved on the jade slip were several archaic characters.

[Secret Records of the Worship Hall]

[Douluo I Era]

When these words appeared, Qian Daoliu's brows in the Worship Hall twitched imperceptibly.

And in the Pope's Palace, Bibi Dong's pupils shrank sharply.

Within the sky screen.

Qian Guwangyan's expression became focused.

He slowly unfurled the jade slip, and a long-buried secret was exposed before everyone in both eras.

[File Number: XXXX]

[Subject: Saintess Bibi Dong once requested a gathering of several theoretical elders to conduct a one-year specialized study on "Luo Sanpao," the special martial soul resulting from the failed mutation of the "Radiant Sacred Dragon" martial soul.]

[Research Conclusion: Although the martial soul mutation failed, its original bloodline was not completely extinguished and still retains a glimmer of vitality. If one could use a pure dragon bloodline to stimulate it, there is a high probability of purifying the bloodline and recreating the form of the "Radiant Sacred Dragon"!]

[Optimal Spirit Ring Selection: Various sub-dragon and true dragon species of spirit beasts.]

[Sole Risk: The energy of dragon-type spirit rings is extremely domineering and violent; the absorption process involves inhuman pain, and there is a thirty percent risk of death. However, once successful, the martial soul will undergo a complete transformation.]

[After the research report was completed, Bibi Dong personally reviewed it and then sent someone to deliver it secretly to Yu Xiaogang.]

[Douluo I Era]

Seeing this, Yu Xiaogang's breath hitched sharply at Shrek Academy!

Flender and Liu Erlong widened their eyes, their faces filled with disbelief.

There was such a method?

They had never heard of it!

And Bibi Dong had actually sent the method over?!

However, the records on the sky screen continued to emerge.

[Time: Douluo Calendar Year xxx, Month x, Day x, after the messenger delivered the research report.]

[Target Yu Xiaogang, upon seeing the report, flew into a rage and threw it onto the ground.]

[The following is Yu Xiaogang's statement at the time:]

[Yu Xiaogang: Absurd! This is absolutely preposterous!]

[Yu Xiaogang: How overbearing are dragon-type spirit rings? You want me to absorb something like that? How could my martial soul possibly withstand it?]

[Yu Xiaogang: And a thirty percent risk of death? This isn't trying to help me; it's trying to kill me!]

[Subsequently, 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 blood-stained executioners pointing fingers at me!]

Immediately after, the next entry appeared.

[Time: Douluo Calendar Year xxx, Month x, Day x, Yu Xiaogang headed to the Soul Hunting Forest.]

[After entering the Soul Hunting Forest, target Yu Xiaogang cautiously avoided all powerful spirit beasts.]

[In the end, he chose the most docile... pig-type spirit beast.]

[The spirit skill obtained was... Fart...]

[After obtaining the spirit ring, target Yu Xiaogang was incredibly smug.]

[Yu Xiaogang: This is the spirit ring most suited to me!]

[Yu Xiaogang: Gentle, safe, and perfectly compatible with my martial soul!]

The record ended there.

Inside the archives, Qiangu Wangyan closed the jade slip, a sneer of utter mockery curling his lips.

["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 chance to revive a top-tier martial soul, content to associate himself with farts."]

["Fearful of risk, cowardly and afraid of death, yet delusional enough to try and prove he isn't trash using a theory full of holes."]

["Truly pathetic and laughable."]

The entire world seemed to have been pressed on mute.

[Douluo I Era]

Martial Soul City, Pope's Palace.

The fingers Bibi Dong used to grip her scepter turned slightly white from the force.

She hadn't expected that something she had done out of a moment of soft-heartedness back then would have records kept even in the Worship Hall!

Qian Daoliu... just how many trump cards do you have hidden that I don't know about?

An indescribable chill welled up from the bottom of her heart.

But immediately, her gaze shifted 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 of worthlessness.

She had risked angering Qian Daoliu, and even shaking her own position as Pope, to find him that one glimmer of hope.

Yet he... because he feared that mere thirty percent risk, treated it like worn-out shoes and discarded it like trash.

Ridiculous.

It was truly too ridiculous.

How could she have ever fallen for such a coward back then?

Shrek Academy.

Yu Xiaogang's face turned as pale as gold paper, his body swaying as he nearly collapsed to the ground.

If Qiangu Wangyan's evaluation of his theories earlier was an insult.

Then this ironclad secret record from the Worship Hall was tearing away the last shred of his dignity!

It exposed the deepest cowardice and incompetence within his heart, laying them bare for everyone to see in bloody detail!

He wanted to refute it.

But the records were so detailed that even the time and location of the secret envoy's reports, and every word he had spoken, were recorded without a single error.

This left him completely powerless to argue.

"Xiao... Xiaogang..."

Beside him, Liu Erlong opened her mouth, wanting to offer comfort, but found she could not utter a single word.

In her eyes, a trace of unfamiliarity and disappointment emerged, one she herself had not even noticed.

Flender's face, which always wore a shrewd, merchant-like smile, had also completely frozen, and the look in his eyes as he watched Yu Xiaogang became incredibly complex.