By successfully provoking Liu Erlong, Tang San and Yu Xiaogang were beside themselves with joy. They exchanged a glance, barely managing to suppress their laughter, then hurriedly began describing the situation in vivid detail:
"Of course not. The whole of Heaven Dou City is talking about it. Everyone's up in arms.
"If you don't believe us, Teacher, you can ask any Soul Master.
"Wasn't Huang Tian the Soul Master Tournament champion? Before this year's qualifiers, the captains and vice-captains of the top five teams had already been made viscounts, while the other team members became barons.
"Emperor Xue Ye had promised long ago that whichever team won the final championship would have its members' titles raised by one additional rank: the captain would become an earl, and the team members, viscounts.
"An earl already held a very high rank, enough to govern a medium-sized or large city. Usually, only Soul Saints who were willing to serve the empire and had distinguished themselves in battle could hope to be granted that title.
"Yet after the tournament ended, perhaps to win Huang Tian over, they came up with some flimsy excuse that he had rendered a great service, and promoted him straight to marquis over everyone's objections.
"Xue Ye personally granted him a vast, fertile territory—two-fifths of an entire province. It was larger than any other marquis's land, not far short of the smallest duchy.
"Yet Huang Tian wasn't grateful in the least. He went and made a mess of everything, provoking fierce protests from countless people in his territory that proved impossible to suppress. The Soul Master World was abuzz with discussion, and some people went there to argue with him and help the people resist.
"He actually joined forces with Poison Douluo and killed every last one of them.
"Unfortunately,