Douluo Chat Group: They're All Addicted to Gossiping

[Li Yuan: Brothers, I have plenty, plenty. There are many more black-hearted melons like Yu Xiaogang. Today, let's start by talking about his plagiarism of theories.]

Li Yuan looked at the "popular demand" in the group chat and grinned.

Bibi Dong, oh Bibi Dong, since you insist on being stubborn, don't blame me for completely stripping away the dignity of that "white moonlight" in your heart.

[Li Yuan: Everyone, sit tight. Today's special session on the Master's dark history officially begins.]

[Li Yuan: As we all know, Yu Xiaogang's core theories—the 'Martial Soul Mimicry Theory', the 'Soul Ring Absorption Limit Theory', and so on—sound very high-end, don't they? In reality, most of them were cobbled together and plagiarized after being repackaged.]

[Li Yuan: Take a guess: how could a level 29 Soul Grand Master possibly research so many powerful spirit beasts and martial souls?]

[Richest Little Heiress of Heaven Dou: Could it be that he heard about them from others?]

[Big Cat in the Night: Could he have specifically asked someone for advice?]

[Li Yuan: Unfortunately, neither. In truth, most of his theories were stolen. When he was young, he relied on sponging off Bibi Dong to hang around Martial Soul Hall for a while. Bibi Dong begged Qian Xunji to grant Yu Xiaogang access to the library.]

[Viper-Hearted Big Sister: No way? Is it that melodramatic? I always thought his moral bottom line was low enough, but I never expected him to have started his career by sponging off a woman.]

[A Life of Bitterness and Solitude: I despise such people.]

[Li Yuan: The funniest part is his Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul. At least seven or eight of them have prototypes that can be found in the Library of Martial Soul Hall. He just repackaged them, gave them a new look, and had the audacity to claim they were the result of his own blood, sweat, and tears!]

[Li Yuan: What's even more disgusting is that he removed the key points, only copied the superficial fluff, and then added his own flawed interpretations.]

[Li Yuan: What is this like? It's like someone stealing vegetables from everyone else's garden, throwing them into a pot, and claiming it's a unique 'Imperial Feast' of his own creation, then demanding others award him a 'God of Cooking' certificate! Where is his shame?]

[Richest Little Heiress of Heaven Dou: Damn, so he's basically an academic tailor!]

[A Life of Bitterness and Solitude: Where is his shame? He really has no face left at all.]

[Big Cat in the Night: I was wondering why Yu Xiaogang's theories looked so familiar, but I couldn't place the source. Turns out they were all someone else's work, and the kicker is he didn't even copy them correctly.]

[Single Academy-Running Housewife: ...]

Liu Erlong remembered how she had been completely fooled by this set of "theories" back in the day, and her fists silently tightened.

[Child Without Parents: Hahahaha, I knew it! What kind of Master? He's just a plagiarism dog! (Schadenfreude)]

[Loves Eating Carrots: Tsk tsk tsk, Bibi Dong, is this the 'hard work' you were talking about?]

[Viper-Hearted Big Sister: Incredible. This is the first time I've seen someone fail even at copying answers. I seriously doubt Yu Xiaogang's intelligence; it might be on par with an adult Husky.]

[Richest Little Heiress of Heaven Dou: Don't say that, Huskies are actually quite smart.]

[Li Yuan: Knowing it was garbage, Martial Soul Hall still awarded him the title of Master. Would you say that was intentional, or just an oversight?]

[Yandere Mad Beauty of Martial Soul Hall: Nonsense, impossible, absolutely impossible! How could Xiaogang plagiarize? You can't just spout nonsense because he has a few rumors against him, can you?]

[Li Yuan: Whether he copied or not, why don't you go verify it yourself?]

Pope Palace.

Bibi Dong looked at Li Yuan's confident tone and then at the mockery filling the group chat. Her face turned pale, then green, and her heart began to waver.

Could Xiaogang's theories really be plagiarized?

No! Impossible! Absolutely impossible!

She had to verify it herself.

Bibi Dong ordered the guards outside the hall: "Come here! Investigate Yu Xiaogang's theories from back then thoroughly. Compare them with the archives in the Library of Martial Soul Hall and see if there are any plagiarized sections."

Within fifteen minutes, a Red Cardinal walked in carrying two thick stacks of books.

One stack contained the precious original texts from the Library of Martial Soul Hall, and the other was Yu Xiaogang's "blood, sweat, and tears" manuscript of the Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul.

Beads of cold sweat broke out on the Red Cardinal's forehead, and his voice trembled slightly:

"Your Holiness, after a careful comparison of Yu Xiaogang's theories, there are indeed traces of plagiarism."

"Moreover, most of it is just copied fluff, and he arbitrarily added his own erroneous viewpoints, making the originally exquisite theories seem neither fish nor fowl. It looks like..."

The Red Cardinal hesitated, not daring to continue.

Bibi Dong's face was so dark it could drip water. She snapped, "Like what? Speak!"

The Red Cardinal gritted his teeth and braced himself: "It... it looks like a pile of foul-smelling excrement that someone tried to cover up by sprinkling spices on it."

"I don't believe it. Are you lying to me?!"

Bibi Dong's expression was hideous. She snatched the two books from his hands and began to flip through them herself.

In the blink of an eye, she discovered numerous similarities.

She slammed the books shut and waved her hand in a fit of rage: "You may leave."

"Yes, yes, Your Holiness."

The Red Cardinal felt as if he had been granted a pardon. He scrambled out of the Pope Palace, his back already soaked with cold sweat.

He swore that when he went back tonight, he would resign.

Damn it, who said being transferred from a branch hall to the main hall as a cardinal was a good thing?

He had almost thought he wouldn't live to see tomorrow's sun.

Once the people left, Bibi Dong could no longer suppress the raging fury in her heart and swung her hand violently.

She swept all the documents, ornaments, and those two books that made her feel nauseated off the desk and onto the floor!

Everything shattered into pieces with a loud crash.

"Impossible! Impossible!"

"Xiaogang, how could you lie to me? How dare you lie to me?!!"

"I trusted you so much. I treated you as the only light in my dark life. I even turned against my teacher and stood against the entire Martial Soul Hall for your sake!"

"But what about you? What you gave me was nothing but a pile of plagiarized, dog-shit trash?!"

But no matter how Bibi Dong vented her emotions, it could not change the fact that Yu Xiaogang was a plagiarist.

At this moment, the belief that had supported her through life—that twisted love for Yu Xiaogang—completely collapsed.

"Hahahaha! Hahahaha!!!"

Bibi Dong looked up to the sky and laughed wildly, her laughter filled with a pathological madness.

"Deceive me, you all deceive me! Qian Xunji deceived me, Yu Xiaogang deceived me, the whole world is deceiving me!"

"Since that's the case... then all of you go to hell! I will destroy this continent, I will destroy the Martial Soul Hall, I will make all of you be buried with me, hahahaha!"

She had completely lost her mind.

Meanwhile.

Ghost finally received the letter from Qian Renxue. Upon opening the envelope and reading it, he was moved to the point of tears.

Heavens!

Young Mistress, you have finally remembered the two most loyal subordinates of your father!

Whenever Ghost thought about how he had been following Bibi Dong all these years, he felt like he was walking on eggshells every single day.

They did the most work, took the most abuse, yet received the fewest benefits; his heart was filled with resentment.

Without hesitation, he immediately wrote a reply expressing his loyalty and sent someone to rush it to the Crown Prince's Mansion.

That same evening, Ghost told Yue Guan about the matter.

Yue Guan's expression changed drastically: "Old Ghost, are you muddled? You dare to betray the Pope right under her nose?"

He knew Bibi Dong's methods all too well; she was someone who would kill without blinking an eye!

Ghost said indignantly: "So what if I'm muddled? Yue Guan, haven't you felt stifled all these years?"

"Why is it that even though we are both Elders, the two of us are always running around behind Bibi Dong's back, doing all the dirty and exhausting work, yet we haven't even managed to get a single Spirit Bone?"

"Look at those bastards in the Elder Hall. Their spirit power levels aren't even as high as ours, and yet?"

"Look at Ghost Leopard and Demon Bear; both of them have Spirit Bones! The ones who don't work are doing better than the ones who do. What kind of bullshit logic is that?"

Hearing this, Yue Guan didn't know what to say.

After all, he had harbored plenty of resentment over these many years as well.

In terms of pure strength, he didn't fear people like Ghost Leopard or Demon Bear among the Title Douluo, yet he still couldn't secure a Spirit Bone for himself.

Ghost patted his chest: "Look at this Spirit Bone on me. It was bestowed by the late Pope. We had only been in the Martial Soul Hall for three years back then."

Mentioning Qian Xunji, his eyes were filled with pride.

"Besides, Yue Guan, us defecting to the Young Mistress isn't considered betrayal."

Ghost looked toward the direction of the Worship Hall and lowered his voice: "The Young Mistress is, after all, the only granddaughter of that person... With our strength, we will eventually enter that place sooner or later. Adding flowers to a brocade is not as valuable as providing charcoal in the snow!"

Yue Guan naturally understood what Ghost meant.

The two of them were actually quite young for Title Douluo, not to mention that both of them possessed Innate Full Soul Power.

They wouldn't dare claim they could break through past level 97, but they were confident in reaching level 96.

Once they broke through to level 96, they could join the Worship Hall and become one of the supreme Worshipers of the Martial Soul Hall.

Yue Guan gritted his teeth and decided to go for it: "Fine, Old Ghost, you're right. We have to enter the Worship Hall sooner or later anyway, so we might as well pledge our loyalty to the Young Mistress now!"

"That's the spirit! We've done enough for Bibi Dong over all these years; we've fulfilled our duty. Besides, the oath we took before the Douluo Hall back then was to serve the Qian family, not her, Bibi Dong!"

After speaking, the two looked at each other and smiled, reaching a consensus.

Crown Prince's Mansion.

Qian Renxue was also excited to receive Ghost's reply. She had originally thought it would take some time to win over Ghost and Yue Guan, but who would have thought a single letter would make them pledge their loyalty?

This made her admire Li Yuan even more, and she couldn't wait to get on the Chat Group to ask Li Yuan for more advice.

Private chat interface.

[Child Without Parents: It's miraculous! Li Yuan, you were right. Ghost and Yue Guan really agreed to pledge their loyalty to me!]

[Child Without Parents: What do you think I should use to win them over? I don't want to rely solely on my father's bloodline; I want them to be truly convinced and devoted to me.]