Bibi Dong: "You know to come back now?"

"What did you say?"

"Xiaogang, you aren't joking, are you?"

Upon hearing Yu Xiaogang's words, Flender exclaimed in shock, looking at his friend as if he were a lunatic.

Dai Mubai and the others were the same; they truly could not believe that anyone would voluntarily cripple their own Martial Soul.

"I am not joking!"

"Through Tang San's situation, I have already analyzed it: while a Martial Soul is a gift from the heavens, it is also a shackle!"

"As long as the Martial Soul remains within me, no matter how I cultivate, it is impossible to break through my shackles."

"But if the Martial Soul within me is destroyed, it will be a different story."

"The cultivation techniques here require an awakened Martial Soul to practice, but Tang San's Tang Sect techniques are different; one can cultivate them even without a Martial Soul."

Yu Xiaogang explained earnestly to Flender.

"Xiaogang, are you serious?"

Flender looked at Yu Xiaogang's expression with a complex gaze, finally realizing that Yu Xiaogang was indeed serious.

"Flender, I am serious."

"You know how much effort I have put in over these years to break through my shackles. Now that the opportunity is right before me, how could I give it up?" Yu Xiaogang said to Flender with reddened eyes.

"...Can you bear to kill Luo Sanpao?" Flender asked Yu Xiaogang another very realistic question.

Yu Xiaogang's Martial Soul was different from others.

His Martial Soul could not only be summoned independently, but it also possessed its own consciousness.

Luo Sanpao was no different from a pet.

"...I!"

Yu Xiaogang opened his mouth, his eyes flickering with hesitation at first, but they soon hardened: "I have already decided!"

He naturally had feelings for Luo Sanpao.

However, deep down, he was even more acutely aware that Luo Sanpao was his shame.

If he hadn't developed the malignant mutation of the Luo Sanpao Martial Soul, he wouldn't be in this position today.

If his Martial Soul hadn't mutated, he would be the Young Clan Master of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and in the future, the Clan Master himself.

With his intelligence, if his Martial Soul had been a normal Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon, he dared not imagine how powerful he would be today.

He might even have been a Titled Douluo by now.

If Tang Hao could achieve it, why couldn't he?

"Teacher!"

Just at this moment, Tang San also came out.

Tang San had been cultivating and only emerged after hearing the commotion outside; he never expected to hear that his teacher intended to cripple his Martial Soul.

"San!"

"A teacher for a day is a father for life!"

"Teacher promised to help you, and only by cultivating alongside you can I better assist you!"

Seeing Tang San, Yu Xiaogang smiled and spoke.

"Teacher!"

Hearing Yu Xiaogang's words, Tang San was deeply moved.

"Alright, Flender, help me cripple my Martial Soul!"

Yu Xiaogang turned his head back to look at Flender, his tone resolute.

"Fine, since you have decided, I will respect your choice."

Flender did not try to persuade him further and walked directly in front of Yu Xiaogang: "Then I am going to strike."

Hum--

Spirit power condensed in Flender's hands.

"Do it!"

Yu Xiaogang gritted his teeth and shouted.

Pfft~

Seeing Yu Xiaogang's persistence, Flender did not hesitate any longer. Just like Tang Hao had done that day, he slammed a fist into Yu Xiaogang's lower abdomen.

Immediately following, the spirit power condensed on his fist erupted, surging straight into Yu Xiaogang's dantian.

Once Flender located the Martial Soul within Yu Xiaogang's body, he unleashed all his spirit power onto Luo Sanpao.

"Ugh~"

Accompanied by a mournful cry, Luo Sanpao perished at the hands of Flender.

Pfft—!

Yu Xiaogang immediately spat out a mouthful of vital blood.

The disappearance of his Martial Soul was accompanied by the disappearance of his spirit rings.

Yu Xiaogang clearly felt that his own Soul Power Level had dropped from its original level 29 down to level 21.

Exactly the same as Tang San!

Master and disciple could now be considered companions in misfortune.

"Xiaogang, are you alright?"

Flender became worried at the sight.

"I'm fine..."

"It's always like this when a Martial Soul is crippled; I'll be fine after a good sleep..."

After struggling to say this, Yu Xiaogang's head lolled to the side, and he fell unconscious.

Lin Yue knew absolutely nothing about the fact that Tang San and Yu Xiaogang had their Martial Souls crippled.

He had no intention of paying attention to the Shrek group!

Ever since those immortal herbs were harvested clean by him, and the spirit beasts were all contained, Lin Yue no longer cared about what happened to Tang San.

In his view, without the immortal herbs and spirit beasts, there was no way Tang San would rise to power as he did in the original story.

Unless Tang San was truly as the conspiracy theories online suggested—that Tang San had been pulled from another world by the Asura God.

But if that were really the case, it would be useless for him to target Tang San now, so he simply chose to leave him be.

After the One-Punch Gold-Devouring Pangolin finished digging, Lin Yue successfully located the dragon remains of the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings.

After Lin Yue contained them, Gu Yuena saw them and asked Lin Yue to give her some time.

She could condense two god-level spirit bones from those two sets of dragon remains.

After digging up the remains of the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings, Lin Yue then went to the Star Dou Great Forest and dug up all the Life Gold beneath the Lake of Life into the Containment System.

Lin Yue left the Life Gold that Gu Yuena needed for her recovery untouched.

What he lacked now was not energy, but cultivation realm.

Lin Yue also consulted Gu Yuena.

To break through to the god level, besides inheriting a god position, the only other path was to create one's own god position.

Lin Yue also asked the system, but the Containment System only provided him with a powerful containment facility and did not offer god positions.

If he wanted to become a god, Lin Yue had to find a way himself.

Lin Yue did not know if what the system said was true, and he was somewhat skeptical.

The system could contain all spirit beasts at once; there was no reason it couldn't give him a god position.

It probably just didn't want things to be too easy for him!

He believed that if he truly encountered an unsolvable difficulty, the system would step in.

Before the system was willing to grant him a god position, he could only find a way on his own.

Between the two paths of inheriting a god position and creating his own, Lin Yue would definitely choose to create his own.

He didn't really want to put in the effort.

[Ding~ Warning: The host choosing to inherit a god position is highly likely to expose the existence of the system. Host, please be cautious.]

The moment this thought crossed Lin Yue's mind, the system issued a warning.

"..."

Lin Yue was speechless; it seemed he had no choice but to walk the path of creating his own god position.

That would require collecting the power of faith.

As Lin Yue pondered how to collect the power of faith in the future, he arrived back at the Martial Soul Hall without realizing it.

"Elder Lin Yue, you've finally returned!"

"His Holiness the Pope has given orders that you are to see her immediately upon your return!"

When the people of the Martial Soul Hall saw Lin Yue, they hurriedly stepped forward to speak to him.

"The Pope wants to see me?"

"Fine, I understand."

After acknowledging this, Lin Yue headed straight for the Pope Palace.

"Elder Lin Yue, so you finally remember to come back?"

The moment Bibi Dong saw Lin Yue, she launched into a barrage of questioning.