"No, Xiaogang wouldn't be so heartless. He was just..."
Bibi Dong could not come up with anything to excuse Yu Xiaogang for a long while.
Facts spoke louder than words. As soon as Spirit Hall's article was published, Yu Xiaogang sent her a letter. Didn't that indirectly prove Qin Heng's thoughts that day? Xiaogang had been using her?
No matter how unwilling Bibi Dong was to admit it, she could not ignore the facts before her. Yet she still clung to a sliver of hope. Even if Yu Xiaogang had been using her, she believed he must have had at least some genuine feelings for her.
With that in mind, Bibi Dong decided to test him. She wrote Yu Xiaogang a very earnest reply, while also sending him a copy of the abridged version of the Wuji Technique that Spirit Hall planned to release across the continent.
Then, she ordered one of her trusted subordinates—a speed-type Soul Emperor whose Martial Soul was an Aurora Falcon—to make the trip. He was to deliver the letter and the technique to Notting City as quickly as possible, then observe Yu Xiaogang in secret for a time to see how he reacted upon receiving the letter and whether he would reply.
Bibi Dong waited for a week before that Soul Emperor returned. He gave her a detailed report of the scene when Yu Xiaogang received the technique.
Five days ago, the letter and technique had reached Yu Xiaogang. The moment he took the technique, he eagerly began flipping through it, while the letter Bibi Dong had written was tossed aside without a second glance.
It was not until two days later, after Yu Xiaogang completed the technique's first circulation cycle, that he discovered his Soul Power had increased. However, the effect was extremely weak.