Seeing the reactions of Feng Xiaodi and Ozka, Dugu Bo finally revealed a smile, and only then did he begin to speak to them about Yu Xiaogang.
"As for this Yu Xiaogang, calling him learned is a bit of a stretch! At most, one could say he has read quite a few books. But the thing is, he read them without understanding them, then randomly cherry-picked some content to compile this book you have in your hands, the Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul. The entire book is either talking nonsense or talking more nonsense. Aside from the nonsense, everything else is misleading and harmful! It's truly a scourge!"
Having said that.
Dugu Bo pointed to the data on soul ring absorption limits in the book and said, "Look here, it claims the limit for a martial soul's first soul ring is 423 years! I ask you, can the physical constitution of a Mouse martial soul and a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon martial soul be the same? Can the age of the soul rings they absorb be the same? If a Mouse soul master were to follow that 423-year limit, they would undoubtedly die!"
Feng Xiaodi's mouth twitched, his face full of disdain.
Ozka also speechless, retorted, "And there's this, classifying martial souls into Tool Martial Souls and Beast Martial Souls! May I ask, does my Sausage martial soul not deserve to be classified as Food-type? Do Plant-type martial souls not deserve to be categorized as Plant-type? Earlier it even said [Plant-type soul masters can absorb Beast-type soul rings, and Beast-type soul masters can absorb Plant-type soul rings]! Did he eat the words 'Plant-type' himself so quickly? And what about Elemental Martial Souls, Body Martial Souls, and Star Martial Souls? What are those supposed to be?"
Feng Xiaodi snatched the Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul book, flipped through it casually, and raged, "Damn it! What a piece of trash! If he had even an ounce of logic, he wouldn't write such nonsense!"
Ozka said speechlessly, "Should I just go and wash the Tiandou Empire in blood? I can't take it anymore! What is even going on? This can be called a 'Grandmaster'? Is he insulting our intelligence? Does he even know the meaning of the words 'core competency'?"
Feng Xiaodi continued, "I thought someone called a 'Grandmaster' would be incredibly impressive! And this is it? It's my fault! I completely overestimated this world! My fault!"
Ozka fumed, "Another... another... another huge blunder! From now on, if I ever jump to conclusions again, I'm a dog! Burn it all! Burn all this crap! Damn it!"
On the side, Xiao Wei didn't understand all this, but seeing that Ozka was in a bad mood, she became unhappy as well.
Seeing this, Dugu Bo thought to himself: That's right! This is the Immortal Court I yearn for! I must be right to pledge my loyalty to the Immortal Court! Phew~ As the first person in Douluo World No. 1 to defect to the Immortal Court, I have a real chance at becoming a god!
"By the way, what's the deal with your Immortal Court's Yu Xiaotie? I see you don't seem to think much of him."
Feng Xiaodi waved his hand, disgusted, "If you want to talk about Yu Xiaotie, he is also a legendary figure!"
"A legendary figure? In what way is he legendary?"
Dugu Bo asked, and Xiao Wei nearby also pricked up her ears to listen.
"It is said that when Yu Xiaotie awakened his martial soul, he also had innate half-level soul power! But his martial soul was an External Martial Soul that had never appeared in the entire Douluo Continent!"
Dugu Bo said in surprise, "The External Martial Soul Luo Sanpao! The Yu Xiaogang of our world also has the same External Martial Soul!"
"Oh~ there are quite a few similarities between these counterparts."
Sighing, Feng Xiaodi continued, "A few years later, Yu Xiaotie reached a bottleneck and came to Martial Soul Hall to seek knowledge. By the way, back then, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Family was still a sect, and Emperor Qingtian was the Pope of Martial Soul Hall. The uniqueness of Yu Xiaotie's External Martial Soul caught Emperor Qingtian's attention! So, Emperor Qingtian gave him guidance, telling him he had chosen the wrong soul rings for his martial soul and that his External Martial Soul had an extremely powerful bloodline! Unfortunately, Yu Xiaotie didn't believe it at all! He wouldn't listen to anyone's advice! He was even less willing to admit that the first two soul rings he chose for himself were wrong! In the end, he flew into a rage out of shame, and then he... he just got angry!"
"Flew into a rage out of shame, and then... got angry? That's it? Alright! And then what happened?" Dugu Bo asked, speechless.
"After he got angry, he left Martial Soul Hall! Later, his soul power level remained trapped at level 29, unable to break through the bottleneck! Much later, Emperor Qingtian made the martial arts cultivation techniques public to the entire continent, and Yu Xiaotie finally broke through the level 30 bottleneck! But he remained stubborn, adding soul rings to his martial soul that would suppress its evolution and growth. He became a classic negative example!"
Dugu Bo: "???"
Ozka added, "Later, when Emperor Qingtian was unifying the continent, the Blue Lightning Family wanted to remain neutral and stay out of it. But in the end, following Yu Xiaotie's alarmist advice, they joined the Star Luo Empire and swore to resist Martial Soul Hall to the death! Moreover, the young Yu Xiaotie even became the Imperial Preceptor of the Star Luo Empire because of this! He was the talk of the town for a while!"
Dugu Bo's eyes widened: "Imperial... Preceptor? Uh... did that Yu Xiaotie die in the end? Isn't it a waste for such a person to be alive?"
Speaking of this, Ozka's expression turned strange, and he sighed, "He's living just fine!"
"Ah?"
Dugu Bo was stunned and quickly asked, "Emperor Qingtian shouldn't be that soft-hearted, right? He could still spare his life? No way... I'm not intentionally doubting Emperor Qingtian, it's just..."
Ozka interrupted Dugu Bo's explanation and explained, "It's not what you think. Back then, when Emperor Qingtian's troops reached the Star Luo Empire, he said: 'Those who surrender will not be killed!' As it turned out, just when the Star Luo Empire was united and high in spirits, Yu Xiaotie was the first to activate the Star Luo defensive formation and took the lead in surrendering! The Star Luo Empire was defeated without a fight! So in the end... sigh~ Emperor Qingtian always keeps his word; if he says those who surrender won't be killed, they won't be killed!"
"Damn! Impressive!" Dugu Bo couldn't help but curse.
On the side, Xiao Wei said weakly, "Is it possible that the Yu Xiaotie you're talking about surrendered on purpose? War... kills a lot of people. In our village, many people were conscripted and never came back."
Ozka turned to look at Xiao Wei and explained gently, "If it were someone else, that might be possible! But Yu Xiaotie is just instinctively afraid of death! Back then, Emperor Qingtian split the Star Luo Empire's defensive formation with a single sword strike! Plus, the army of Title Douluo was pressing down on them! Yu Xiaotie was so scared he wet his pants, worried that the moment the city fell would be the day he died! That's why he backstabbed the Star Luo Empire! Later, the Blue Lightning Family suffered retaliation from the remnants of the Star Luo Empire because of Yu Xiaotie's actions! Seventy to eighty percent of the entire sect's population died! Because of this, his father, the Blue Lightning Douluo Yu Yuanzhen, committed suicide to apologize! But Yu Xiaotie? When the remnants of the Star Luo Empire were besieging the Blue Lightning Family, he secretly fled!"
"Oh~ I see. Yu Xiaotie is truly hateful! So bad!" Xiao Wei pouted, feeling indignant.
Feng Xiaodi summarized, "Self-righteous, stubborn, and opinionated! Arbitrary and dictatorial! And a coward who fears death, lacking any sense of responsibility! In the end, he harmed others and himself!"
Dugu Bo asked, "So what about now? How is Yu Xiaotie doing?"
"Heh~ speaking of legends, his life now is what you'd call legendary! He was taken back by the Blue Lightning Family, and he even got married and had children! It's said that he secretly has seven or eight lovers! He's living quite the comfortable life!"
Dugu Bo: "Ah?"
Feng Xiaodi shrugged and continued, "Our Immortal Court's marriage law is monogamy, but Yu Xiaotie is running a harem!"
"Why? How could the Blue Lightning Family still protect him? Provide him with food, drink, and entertainment? If it were me, I would have killed him long ago!"
"Sigh~ who told Emperor Qingtian that Yu Xiaotie's martial soul, Luo Sanpao, had an extremely powerful bloodline? If the Blue Lightning Family wants to rise again, they can't do without Luo Sanpao!"
"Uh... a stud! I see." Dugu Bo finally understood the Blue Lightning Family's choice and guessed, "I bet his life in the Blue Lightning Family isn't that pleasant! If I were the head of the Blue Lightning Family, I would definitely keep the child and get rid of the father! At the very least, I'd whip him every day to vent my anger!"
"Who knows. Forget it, let's not talk about Yu Xiaotie and Yu Xiaogang; both are freaks! One is trash, the other is even worse trash! Both are things that cause endless harm!"
Feng Xiaodi waved his hand, changing the subject, "By the way, Senior Dugu, I heard from the offerings that you are very familiar with Tang San?"
"Familiar enough." Mentioning Tang San, Dugu Bo still remembered being deceived by him. He was just waiting for the day he mastered the Vajra Indestructible Divine Skill he learned from Feng Xiaodi to go and settle the score with Tang Hao!
Dugu Bo didn't want to trouble Dugu Xue with personal grudges.
Besides, Dugu Bo already knew the Immortal Court's attitude toward counterparts: don't kill them if you don't have to!
But he, Dugu Bo, always repaid his debts! In his eyes: Tang San is already on the path to his own destruction!
Feng Xiaodi asked, "Then do you know where Tang San got his internal cultivation technique?"
"Internal cultivation technique?" Dugu Bo was a bit confused and asked, "Uh... are you asking about the relationship between Tang San and Martial Soul Hall, or the Tiandou Imperial Family? They shouldn't have any connection, right? Those two families took the Dao Scripture and the Yijin Jing; they shouldn't have given them to Tang San."
"I'm not talking about those two techniques! I'm talking about another one. Looking at Tang San's proficiency, he has been practicing it for at least several years! He might have even been practicing it before he awakened his martial soul!"
"Several years? Even before his martial soul awakened?" Dugu Bo frowned slightly, asking with suspicious uncertainty, "Do you mean to say that the internal cultivation technique Tang San practices is also the kind that can be cultivated even without soul power?"
"Mm!"
"That shouldn't be!" Dugu Bo shook his head and said, "In our Douluo World No. 1, we have never heard of such a martial arts technique! I can be considered one of the people standing at the very pinnacle of Douluo World No. 1, yet I have never heard of such a technique. Even when Martial Soul Hall wanted to recruit me back then, they never mentioned such a technique! If they had possessed such a technique, I might have joined Martial Soul Hall long ago!"
Feng Xiaodi asked in confusion, "Then this is strange... Could it be that the Clear Sky Sect in this world also has someone as brilliant and talented as Emperor Qingtian? And they created a martial arts technique, but kept it a secret, only allowing their own descendants to learn it!"
Hearing this, Dugu Bo nodded thoughtfully and agreed, "What you say makes some sense! In the last few days, I have pondered a lot about parallel worlds and believe that if Emperor Qingtian could create a technique, then someone in our world should be able to do it too! Of course, this person certainly cannot compare to Emperor Qingtian! Emperor Qingtian is unique! No one can compare to him!"
Dugu Bo was being very politically correct!
On the side, Ozka also chimed in, "Now that you mention it, I also think it makes sense! Douluo World No. 1 is not as powerful as we imagined, and I reckon it is not as mysterious as we thought! The technique Tang San practices must have been created by some genius! I remember that Tang Wan, the commander of the Immortal Court's expeditionary force, was originally the sect master of the Clear Sky Sect, and he was brilliant and talented in his youth! Therefore, it is not surprising that the counterpart of Commander Tang Wan in this world could create a technique! As for Tang San himself, he is only 13 years old, so he certainly couldn't have created a complete internal cultivation technique! Likewise, it definitely didn't come from another parallel world! It's not like there are others besides you, me, and the High Priest who have traveled over from parallel worlds with martial arts techniques, right? Impossible, absolutely impossible!"
Little did he know, Ozka had just denied another truth.
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