The theory is plagiarized, dead people have nothing to do with me? The scumbag's bottom line!

Thinking of this, a chilling smile slowly spread across Bibi Dong's young and beautiful face.

She strode to the very front of the viewing platform, looking down at the stubborn piece of trash on the cross.

After the initial panic subsided, Yu Xiaogang found himself unharmed, and his courage instantly returned.

"What? Out of ideas? Trying to scare me with this kind of ghost story?"

He thought he had seen through Lin Feng's bluff, and his laughter grew even more arrogant.

"I'm telling you, it's no use! I, Yu Xiaogang, am upright and honest, and I'm not afraid of anything!"

Seeing his arrogant and unyielding attitude, Bibi Dong wasn't angry; she simply parted her red lips slightly.

"Yu Xiaogang".

Her voice wasn't loud, but it clearly reached the ears of everyone in the square.

I only have one question for you.

"Did you approach me in the first place because of the Spirit Hall's information?"

These words caused an uproar in the room!

No one expected that His Holiness the Pope would ask such a sensational question in public!

This scandal has instantly escalated from "academic fraud exposure" to "scumbag exposure"!

Yu Xiaogang was taken aback at first, then prepared to burst into laughter, his face showing anger at being wrongly accused.

"Fart!"

But as soon as those two words reached his lips, it felt as if an invisible hand was gripping his throat tightly!

The muscles in his face began to twitch uncontrollably, his features contorted, veins bulging on his forehead, and his expression was as if he had been constipated for three days and three nights without being able to defecate!

"I... I..."

He wanted to say "no".

But his mouth uttered a syllable that terrified even himself.

"Yes..."

"Yes!"

These two words struck Yu Xiaogang like two bolts of lightning from a clear sky, hitting him hard on the top of his head!

He was completely dumbfounded!

The audience was stunned!

Even Dai Tianfeng and the others on the viewing platform stared wide-eyed, their faces showing expressions of "Holy crap, this mouth can confess on its own."

"What... what am I saying?! Shut up! Shut up right now!" Yu Xiaogang roared inwardly.

However, his mouth had completely lost control, like a broken faucet, and began to frantically spew out the deepest, darkest, and dirtiest secrets of his heart!

"I approached you because of the Spirit Hall's information!"

"You are the Holy Maiden of the Spirit Hall. Once I get my hands on you, all those precious books in the Spirit Hall's library will be mine to read at will!"

"I, Yu Xiaogang, Martial Soul Mutation, and I'm stuck at level 29 my whole life. I'm not resigned to this! I want to rise above others! I want to become a superior person! You, Bibi Dong, are the best stepping stone for me!"

"I never liked you at all! From beginning to end, in my eyes you were just a tool! A tool for me to copy data!"

The words had barely left his mouth.

The square was initially deathly silent.

Then, it completely exploded!

"What?!"

"That beast!"

The crowd erupted in chaos!

Countless angry roars exploded from all directions!

"This is disgusting! How can such scum still have the nerve to live in this world?!"

"Kill him! Kill this beast!"

Anger spread like a plague among the crowd. The roars of hundreds of thousands of people merged into a terrifying sound wave that shook the entire square!

Some people were so angry that their eyes turned red, and they wished they could rush up and devour Yu Xiaogang alive!

Even worse, some people started taking off their shoes, preparing for another round of "garbage storm"!

Bibi Dong watched this scene with no expression on her face.

Those amethyst-like eyes were eerily calm, without the slightest ripple.

She continued asking questions as if examining a corpse.

"So your so-called 'Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul' were really developed by yourself?"

"Fart!"

Before his brain could even process it, Yu Xiaogang's mouth unleashed a thunderous roar!

"Research my ass!"

"That's something I cobbled together from your Spirit Hall's ancient texts!"

"I thought to myself, since your Spirit Hall keeps all this stuff hidden away, none of those idiots outside know about it! I can just copy some out, repackage it, and it'll be mine!"

"As it turns out, I made the right bet! Those commoner Soul Master were all like idiots, worshipping me like a god! Hahahaha! A bunch of fools!"

"What?!"

"He... he called us idiots?!"

"That bastard!"

The crowd's anger was reignited!

This time, it wasn't just anger, but more of a sense of shame and rage at being deceived and insulted!

"I swear I didn't believe your nonsense!"

"Give me back my brother's life!"

"Kill him! He must be killed!"

Roars rose and fell, and the entire square was on the verge of rioting!

The expressions on the faces of the hundreds of thousands of civilian Soul Master below the stage shifted from anger to shock, and then to numbness.

In the end, it turned into endless sorrow and raging fury!

They felt like a huge joke.

"What about the number of years the Soul Ring can absorb?" Bibi Dong's voice was completely flat, as if she were conducting an autopsy.

"It's plagiarized too!" Yu Xiaogang blurted out, his face filled with a desperate, reckless madness!

"I saw in an ancient book that the highest record was 423 years, so I just copied it down! Who the hell knew that that thing depended on physical fitness?"

"So what if a few people die? There have to be sacrifices for the advancement of theoretical research!"

"Besides, it's not me who died, so what does it have to do with me!"

"You--!"

"Brute!"

"I kill you!"

The crowd has completely spiraled out of control!

Countless people, their eyes red with rage, wished they could rush up and tear Yu Xiaogang to pieces!

"Puff--"

In the crowd, the burly man who had previously accused his daughter of a tragic death could no longer hold on, coughed up a mouthful of blood, and fainted.

The square echoed with deafening roars of anger.

Everyone was utterly enraged by these remarks that crossed the lowest lines of human morality!

The "Grandmaster" they once revered was, in the end, just a shameless swindler who treated them like fools and their loved ones' lives like dirt!

As the situation was about to spiral out of control, countless Spirit Hall guards trying to maintain order were struggling to hold back the angry crowd.

On the viewing platform, Bibi Dong slowly raised her hand.

He did not use his Soul Power, nor did he shout at them.

She simply raised her hand quietly.

Yet this simple action carries an invisible magic.

The square, which had been incredibly noisy, miraculously quieted down little by little.

Everyone instinctively turned their gaze to that stunningly beautiful figure.

Their eyes still burned with fierce anger, but within that anger, there was now a hint of "expectation."

They are waiting.

We await the young Pope to give them an explanation, and to bring justice to those innocent souls who perished tragically!

Bibi Dong's gaze slowly swept across the entire room.

She saw faces contorted with anger, eyes reddened with grief, and bodies trembling with despair.

Her voice, amplified by her Soul Power, clearly resonated throughout every corner of the plaza.

"I share your anger."

I understand your grief.

"But today, I brought him here not to let him accept a simple death."

"Instead, he should pay the most painful price in front of all those he deceived and hurt!"

Bibi Dong's gaze suddenly sharpened like a knife, fixing intently on the figure on the cross who was still clinging to life.

"Now, in the name of the Pope of the Spirit Hall, I hereby declare the final judgment upon the criminal Yu Xiaogang!"

"Firstly!"